Massive Shuffling : 38 Officers Appointed as Joint Secretaries

New Delhi, In a massive shuffling exercise of an unprecedented scale, many as 38 officers were appointed as joint secretaries at one go. In some cases, there were lateral shifts. In others, fresh appointments were made, in which officers serving as directors will soon join as joint secretaries, for the first time in the history of Indian bureaucracy.

There were also an unprecedented large number of cases where the officers on “compulsory wait” for their alleged proximity to the previous dispensation, have been appointed as JS. The list of 38 joint secretary-level appointments are as follows, with HRD Ministry getting most of them:

1. TVSN Prasad, 1988 batch Haryana cadre IAS, appointed joint secretary in

the Water resources, River Development and Ganga rejuvenation Ministry.

2. Varsha Joshi, 1995 batch UT cadre IAS, now Director, Census, appointed JS

in New and Renewable energy Ministry.

3. Satbir Silas Bedi, 1986 batch UT cadre IAS, appointed JS in the

Department of School Education and Literacy.

4. Surina Rajan, 1985 batch Haryana cadre IAS, appointed JS in department

of Defence.

5. Sandeep Pondrik, 1993 batch Bihar cadre IAS, appointed JS in the Ministry

of Petroleum and Natural Gas.

6. Hitesh Kumar S Makwana, 1995 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IAS, now on

compulsory wait in Shipping Ministry, appointed JS in the Union Home

Ministry.

7. Shashi Prakash Goyal, 1989 batch UP cadre IAS, appointed JS in the

Department of Higher Education.

8. Rakesh Ranjan, 1992 batch Manipur-Tripura cadre IAS, on compulsory wait

in the Ministry of Culture, appointed JS in the Department of Higher

Education.

9. Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, 1988 batch Uttarakhand cadre IAS, appointed JS in

the Department of Higher Education. He comes in the place of Jagmohan Singh

Raju, 1985 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IAS, now prematurely repatriated to his

cadre on June 30, 2014.

10. Urvilla Khati, 1986 batch IRPS officer and JS in the Ministry of Water

Resources, appointed as JS in the Ministry of Steel.

11. Amita Prasad, 1985 batch Karnataka cadre IAS, appointed JS in the

ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga rejuvenation.

12. Nisha Singh, 1987 batch Himachal Pradesh cadre and JS in UD Ministry,

appointed JS in the department of atomic energy.

13. Dilip Kumar, 1995 batch Punjab cadre IAS, on compulsory wait in the

Ministry of External Aaffairs, appointed JS in Union Home Ministry.

14. M Ariz Ahmmed, 1995 batch Assam cadre IAS, now a director in the

Department of School Education, appointed JS in the Department of

Pharmaceuticals.

15. Ashok Pal Singh, 1986 batch Indian Postal Service officer, now deputy

director in UIDAI, appointed JS in the Department of Disinvestment.

16. Himanshu Kumar, 1990 batch UP cadre IAS, appointed JS in the Department

of Defence.

17. Niranjan Kumar Singh, 1987 batch Gujarat cadre Indian Forest Service

officer, appointed JS in the Ministry of Mines.

18. Sudhansh Pant, 1991 batch Rajasthan cadre IAS, appointed JS in the

Department of Pharmaceuticals.

19. Chintamani Manohar Sane, 1993 batch Indian Audit and Accounts Service

officer, appointed JS (Finance) in Department of Space, Bengaluru.

20. UP Singh, 1985 batch Odisha cadre IAS, JS in Steel Ministry, appointed

JS in the Petroleum Ministry.

21. IS Chahal, 1989 batch Maharashtra cadre IAS, now JS in MHA, shifted as

JS to the Ministry of WCD 22. Arti Bhatnagar, 1990 batch IDAS officer, JS

(Security) in Cabinet Secretariat.

23. Manoj Kumar Singh, 1988 batch UP cadre IAS, appointed JS in the Ministry

of Environment, Forests and Climate Change.

24. Bharat Harbanslal Khera, 1995 batch Himachal Pradesh cadre IAS,

appointed JS, Department of Defence Production.

25. Guruprasad Mohapatra, 1986 batch Gujarat cadre IAS, appointed JS,

Department of Commerce.

26. Ali Raza Rizvi, 1988 batch Himachal Pradesh cadre IAS, appointed JS in

the Department of Health and Family Welfare.

27. Gopal Krishna Dwivedi, 1993 batch Andhra Pradesh cadre IAS, now on

compulsory wait in the Ministry of Commerce, appointed JS in the Union Home

Ministry.

28. Manisha Prasad Panwar, 1990 batch Uttarakhand cadre IAS, appointed JS in

the Ministry of WCD.

29. Heera Lal Samariya, 1985 batch Andhra Pradesh cadre IAS, appointed JS in

the Department of Fertilizer.

30. Ranjit Punhani, 1991 batch Bihar cadre IAS, appointed JS in the Union

Home Ministry.

31. RA Rajeev, 1987 batch Maharashtra cadre IAS, appointed JS (Finance) in

the Department of Atomic Energy, Mumbai.

32. J Rama Krishna Rao, 1985 batch Bihar cadre IAS, appointed as JS in the

Department of Defence Production.

33. Sudhir Kumar, a CSS officer, appointed JS (Administration) in CBDT under

the Department of Revenue.

34. Praveen Prakash, 1994 batch Andhra Pradesh cadre IAS, new JS in

Department of Higher Education, shifted to UD Ministry JS.

35. Rakesh Kumar Singh, 1989 batch Kerala cadre IAS, JS in Petroleum

Ministry, shifted to Department of Agriculture and Cooperation as JS.

36. Uday Singh Kumawat, 1993 batch Bihar cadre IAS, on compulsory wait in

Agriculture Ministry, appointed JS in Department of Revenue.

37. Anil Kumar Singh, 1995 batch UT cadre IAS, presently on compulsory wait

in the ministry of youth affairs and sports, has been appointed as joint

secretary in the ministry of power.

38. G Anupama, 1991 batch Haryana cadre IAS, on compulsory wait in Culture Ministry,

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