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Centre Appoints 20 Bureaucrats as Joint Secretaries

20 civil servants have been appointed to the rank of Joint Secretary. Some of them were also approved by the Appointment Committee of the Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Modi.
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In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, the central government appointed 20 civil servants to the rank of Joint Secretary. The Appointment Committee of the Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Modi, approved their transfer to Joint Secretary level posts.

IAS officer D. Senthil Pandiyan was appointed as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of AYUSH for a tenure of five years, replacing Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Roshan Jaggi.

Whereas, 1992 batch IRS officer, Nirupama Kotru was appointed as Joint Secretary and Financial Advisor in the Ministry of Coal for an overall tenure of five years in place of Reena Sinha Puri, a 1987-batch IRS officer.

1995-batch Indian Civil Accounts Service (ICAS) officer, Bhaskar Verma has been appointed as the Member Secretary, National Monuments Authority (NMA), Ministry of Culture, for five years replacing Navneet Soni.

The officers who got a green signal from the appointment committee were ily Pandeya for the Joint Secretary’s post in the Ministry of Culture; Mayank Tewari for the same post in the Department of Defence; Nazli Jafri Shayin in the Ministry of Defence (Finance); Indira Murthy in the Ministry of Earth Sciences; Bhuvnesh Kumar in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology; and Patibandla Ashok Babu in the Department of Health and Family Welfare.

Whereas, Manisha Sinha, Ashish Vachhan and Sandhya Bhullar were appointed as Joint Secretaries in the Department of Economic Affairs.

Jeetendra Singh has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Department of Heavy Industry; Sumant Singh in the Department of Home Affairs; Sanjiv Shankar in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting; Manoj Kumar in the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management; and Sonmoni Borah in the Department of Land Resources.

Indian Ordnance Factories Service (IOFS) officer Veena Tamta Bhatia has been appointed as the Additional Central Provident Fund Commissioner (HQ), EPFO, under the Ministry of Labour and Employment, while Central Secretariat Service (CCS) officer Som Dutt Sharma has been appointed as the Director in the Institute of Secretariat Training and Management under the Department of Personnel and Training.

IAS officer Sanjeeb Kumar Mishra has been appointed as Secretary-cum-Controller of Examination, National Recruitment Agency (NRA), under the Department of Personnel and Training for a tenure of five years.


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