In a big move, the Appointment Committee of the Cabinet on Thursday cleared the empanelment of 27 IAS officers of different cadres of 1991 batch for the post of Secretary or Secretary Equivalent. Of them, there are nine woman officers. There are also 17 officers of them that have been selected for secretary and secretary-level posts, while ten have been cleared for posts equivalent to the level of secretaries.
The woman officers include Sumita Dawra (AP cadre), Rachna Shah (Kerala), V. Vidyavathi (Karnataka), Seema Jain (Punjab), Nivedita Shukla Verma (UP) and Debashree Mukherjee (UT) for the Secretary or Secretary Equivalent, a notification said here.
All the officers empanelled as Secretary or Secretary Equivalent are as follows :
Sumita Dawra (IAS:AP)
Anil Malik (IAS:HY)
Abhilaksh Likhi (IAS:HY)
Shailesh Kumar Singh (IAS:JH)
Rachna Shah (IAS:KL)
L K Atheeq (IAS:KN)
V Vidyavathi (IAS:KN)
Vandana Gurnani (IAS:KN)
Manoj Govil (IAS:MP)
Seema Jain (IAS:PB)
Sudhansh Pant (IAS:RJ)
N Muruganandam (IAS:TN)
Kamran Rizvi (IAS:UP)
Nivedita Shukla Verma (IAS:UP)
Amit Yadav (IAS:AGMUT)
Debashree Mukherjee (IAS:AGMUT)
Manoj Pant (IAS:AGMUT)
Officers empanelled as Secretary Equivalent are as follows :
Rajit Punhani (IAS:BH)
Renu Gonela Pillay (IAS:CG)
Jan E Alam (IAS:NL)
Anu Garg (IAS:OR)
Saurabh Garg (IAS:OR)
G Asok Kumar (IAS:TG)
S Gopalakrishnan (IAS:TN)
Supriya Sahu (IAS:TN)
T K Ramachandran (IAS:TN)
Krishna Gupta (IAS:WB)