Sanjay Malhotra's appointment as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor indicates the government is comfortable on having a bureaucrat rather than a technocrat at the RBI's helm, economists said.

The Union government on Monday appointed revenue secretary Sanjay Malhotra as the next governor ... The Department of Financial Services (DFS) in the Ministry of Finance shortlists candidates ...

Sanjay Malhotra will replace Shaktikanta ... today A 1990-batch IAS officer of the Rajasthan cadre, Mr. Malhotra was the Revenue Secretary to the Government of India. Prior to that, he was working ...