Central Bureau of Communications (CBC) chief Manish Desai will take over the government’s media outreach unit Press Information Bureau (PIB), the ministry of information and broadcasting said. He is  appointed as principal director general of PIB.

• A 1989 IIS officer, Desai took over the CBC last year. He will assume charge of PIB on the superannuation of Rajesh Malhotra, who has been at the helm of the media outreach unit since 2022 
• Desai has also worked as the CBC chief executive officer of the advertising and public communication arm of the Government of India.
• The work spans the entire spectrum of communication activities across print, electronic, outdoor, transit and new media. From November 2019 to January 2020, Desai was the director general of the Registrar of Newspapers of India (RNI).
• For six years, from 2012 to 2018, he served as additional director general (ADG) PIB. He has also served as the director general of the West Zone PIB in Mumbai.