Modi administration carries out reshuffle in top bureaucracy

July 28, 2016 05:54 pm | Updated 07:26 pm IST - Ahmedabad

In a large scale reshuffle in the top bureaucracy, the Modi administration has appointed and reshuffled 15 senior IAS officials as secretaries in various departments and ministries. The appointments committee of the cabinet (ACC) headed by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi cleared the appointments after which the orders were issued by the department of personnel.

Health secretary Bhanu Pratap Sharma has been appointed as new Secretary, Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) to fill the vacancy after Sanjay Kothari retired last month. The 1981 batch Bihar cadre IAS officer Sharma earlier served as Establishment Officer (EO) in the DoPT before he was elevated as secretary health in January 2015.

Gujarat cadre IAS Dr. Amarjit Singh, currently Special Secretary in the Ministry of Water Resources and River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, will take over as Secretary in the same ministry after superannuation of Shashi Shekhar, who is set to superannuate at the end of this month. Dr. Singh is 1982 batch IAS from Gujarat and has been in the Ministry of Water Resources for several years now.

Similarly, Dinesh Singh, currently Special Secretary, Statistics and Programme Implementation, will take over as secretary, Department of Land Resources while A.K. Dubey, special secretary ministry of coal, has been appointed as secretary department of youth affairs.

Information Technology and Electronics Secretary Aruna Sharma has been shifted to the Ministry of Steel as Secretary while incumbent from the ministry Aruna Sundararajan has been sent in the Ministry of Information Technology and Electronics. Both are from the 1982 batch, belonging to the Madhya Pradesh and the Kerala cadre respectively.

M. Sathyavathy, director general civil aviation, has been appointed as new Secretary, Labour and Employment in place of Shankar Agarwal who is retiring at the end of this month.

Karnataka cadre IAS of 1982 batch Latha Krishna Rao has been appointed as Secretary, Social Justice and Empowerment while Rakesh Srivastav from Rajasthan cadre has been made Secretary, National Commission for Backward Classes.

Both Rao and Srivastav are currently working in their respective states.

Besides the officers from 1981 and 1982 batch, five officers from the next batch 1983 have also been elevated as secretary after 42 officials belonging to the batch were empanelled as secretary or equivalent by the DoPT two weeks back.

Among the 1983 batch officials, Rajiv Kapoor, director general of Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration has been upgraded to the same post, making it a secretary-level position. Current additional secretary in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare C.K. Mishra is new Health Secretary.

Amarjeet Sinha, Additional Secretary, Rural Development has been appointed as Secretary, Rural Development. It may be noted that Sinha was earlier in the ministry of HRD but had opted transfer as he had not got along with the then HRD minister Smriti Irani, known for her temperament.

The Home Ministry Additional Secretary B.K. Prasad, who probed the missing files of the Ishrat Jahan encounter case, has been appointed as Secretary, National Commission for Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic tribes for two years, a post-retirement job because he retired in May 2016 and was given two months extension.

Another Additional Secretary from the Ministry of Health N.S. Kang has been made Secretary and Director General of National AIDS Control Organization.

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