New Delhi: with more than a dozen secretaries, including health, aviation, power, And Water, Due to his retirement between June and September, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet appointed his successors to the higher post.,Shuffle at the bureaucratic level late on Tuesday night.
Sudhansh Pant, 1991,Batch Rajasthan Cadre IAS Officer, Will take charge as the new health secretary after Rajesh Bhushan in 1987-batch Bihar Cadre IAS Officer, Retiring on 31st July. Pant, currently the Shipping Secretary, has been appointed as One Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the Ministry of Health in the rank and pay of Secretary to the Government of India.
TK Ramachandran, 1981 batch Tamil Nadu Cadre IAS, A new shipping secretary has been appointed in Pant’s place. Ramachandran is currently the chairman Did Chidambaranar Port Trust.
Chanchal Kumar, 1992,Batch Bihar Cadre IAS, Rajeev Bansal will take over as the Aviation Secretary after he retires on August 31. Kumar, who is currently the Managing Director of the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited, an agency under the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, is mandated to build roads and tunnels in difficult mountainous terrain in the country.I North-East and Jammu and Kashmir, will join as OSD After Bansal retires, he will take over as Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation, on August 1.
Pankaj Agarwal, 1992,Batch Madhya Pradesh Cadre IAS, OSD has been appointed and will take over as Power Secretary succeeding incumbent Alok Kumar, Retiring on 30 June. Agarwal is currently posted as Additional Secretary and Director General (Acquisition) in the Ministry of Defence.
Debashree Mukherjee, 1991,Batch AGMUT (Assam, Goa, Mizoram, and all union territories), will take over as secretary of Water Resources Department, River Development, and Ganga Rejuvenation in the Ministry of Jal Shakti after Pankaj Kumar retired on September 30. Mukherjee is currently Special Secretary in the same ministry.
The government has also appointed Bharat Lal, a retired Indian Forest Service officer of the Gujarat cadre., as director general Did National Human Rights Commission for a period of one year in place of Devendra Kumar Singh, who retires on June 30. Considered close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Lal is currently the Director General of the National Center for Good Governance.
Among other officers who will take over as Secretary after the incumbent retires Is Nivedita Shukla Verma, 1991,Batch Uttar Pradesh Cadre IAS. Verma will take over as Secretary Did Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, After the incumbent, Arun Baroka, Retiring on 31st August.
Rajat Kumar Mishra, 1992,IAS of Rajasthan cadre batch will take over as secretary Did Department of Fertilizers, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, and 1992,Batch UT Cadre, IAS Subhash Chandra Lal Das will take over as Secretary Did Micro Ministries, and medium enterprises.
Also, Renu Gonella Pillai has been made the secretary. Did National Commission for Scheduled Castes, a body under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. He will take over from Upma Srivastava, Retiring on 31st July.
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