Arun Kshetrapal, chairman of National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) will retire from service today. Kshetrapal is a 68th batch IAS officer of MP cadre.

He took over as chairman NPPA in September 2002 and has been instrumental in seeing the office of NPPA shifted from a crowded place in Jhandevalen to the present spacious office located in Jai Singh Road in the heart of the city.

Before joining NPPA, Kshetrapal was additional secretary, National Security Council Secretariat.

The new chairman of NPPA is expected to be Vinay Bansal presently serving as additional secretary in the Ministry of Commerce.