Subhash Chandra Garg designated as finance secretary; IFoS officer Preet Pal Singh prematurely repatriated to Jammu and Kashmir

Subhash Chandra Garg

Subhash Chandra Garg, 1983 batch Rajasthan cadre lAS, presently union secretary in the department of economic affairs (DEA), was on Friday appointed as union finance secretary. Finance secretary is a designation bestowed upon the senior-most secretary among secretaries of all five departments that come under the ministry of finance. Garg will continue to look after the DEA. Prior to joining as the DEA secretary, Garg was living in Washington DC, serving as…

MP cadre IAS Julaniya appointed as sports secretary; Air India CMD PS Kharola to be new civil aviation secretary

IN A minor bureaucratic reshuffle at the Centre, sports secretary, Rahul Prasad Bhatnagar, has been transferred to the ministry of Panchayat Raj, and Air India CMD, Pradeep Singh Kharola, has been appointed as new civil aviation secretary. First, here below are four secretary-level reshuffle:

Textiles secretary Anant Kumar Singh shifted to dept of land resources; Arun Goel elevated as culture secretary

IN A minor secretary level reshuffle on Thursday, the government changed the ministries of two union secretaries — textiles secretary getting shifted to the department of land resources and secretary, culture, being posed as new textiles secretary. Meanwhile, a special secretary is elevated as union secretary in the ministry of culture. Here below are the details:

1983 batch IIS Sitanshu Kar is new GoI principal spokesman; retired Karnataka IAS Khuntia appointed IRDAI boss

1983 BATCH Indian Information Service officer Sitanshu Ranjan Kar is the new principal spokesperson of the Government of India and Director General of Press Information Bureau. The officer who had a 35 years long career and is mostly known for his decade-long innings as the spokesman of the ministry of defence, assumed office on Tuesday. After joining the IIS in 1983, Kar had first joined the…

Know About Indu Bhushan: ADB’s senior official, ex-Rajasthan cadre IAS and new CEO of Ayushman Bharat; 10 Things

IN YET another appointment of a successful former IAS officer being brought back to India to head a new government scheme, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) last week approved the appointment of Indu Bhushan as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ayushman Bharat National Health Protection Mission (ABNHPM). Bhushan’s appointment draws parallel to that of Parameswaran Iyer, a 1981 batch former Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS who had left a job in the World Bank to return to India and spearhead the Centre’s ambitious programme, Swachh Bharat Mission. 

Here are 10 things you may like to know about the new CEO, Indu Bhushan:

Senior IAS Rajeev Kapoor prematurely repatriated to UP; Who’s Kapoor, and what next for him?

Rajeev Kapoor, 1983 batch Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS and secretary in the department of chemicals and petrochemicals, was on Thursday prematurely repatriated to his parent cadre, Uttar Pradesh. What’s in store for him in the state? There’s no clarity on that, at the time of writing this piece, but here below is more about this officer — his home state, career graph, educational background and more:

7 more IAS of 1983, 1984, 1985 batches empanelled as GoI secretaries; 8 as secretary equivalent; Full List

THE government on Wednesday released an order of empaneling seven more IAS officers belonging to 1983, 1984 and 1985 batches as Union secretaries, and another eight officers as secretary equivalent. The officers belonging to these three batches are already posted as secretaries. Here is the list of the add-ons:

Days before retirement, 1983 batch IAS JK Dadoo repatriated to cadre; IAS Manoj Kumar Singh appointed PS to the Power Minister

THE government has prematurely repatriated JK Dadoo, 1983 batch AGMUT cadre IAS and additional secretary and financial adviser in the ministry of commerce and industry to his cadre with “immediate effect”. The order, however, does not mention the reason for his premature repatriation. But significantly, Dadoo will turn 60 on Sunday; so he will retire by the end of this month. He is an MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad and is also a...

2 WOMEN ON TOP: More about Karnataka’s new chief secretary K Ratnaprabha and DGP Neelamani N Raju

Ratnaprabha after being elevated as CS (Photo Courtesy: Twitter)

WITH 1981 batch IAS K Ratnaprabha’s appointment as the chief secretary of Karnataka, the state has two women officers at the top — chief secretary and director general of police (DGP). A month ago, 1983-batch Indian Police Service officer Neelamani N Raju took over as the DGP in the state. Here below are the 10 things that you may like to know about these two women officers.

1983 batch IPS Neelmani Raju becomes Karnataka's first ever woman top cop

Neelamani N Raju, 1983 batch IPS officer, was on Tuesday appointed as the Director General of Police (DGP) of Karnataka, thereby becoming the first ever woman police chief in the state. She succeeds RK Dutta, who served as the DGP for 10 months, before retiring on Tuesday, ending speculations that he might get a three months long extension. IPS Association took to Twitter to say:

2 premature repatriations including one of home minister’s PS; also 1 extension, 1 additional charge

A DAY before the Diwali, the Central government issued a number of orders including two premature repatriations, one extension of Central deputation tenure and bestowing of additional charge of the post of a Union secretary. The one of the repatriations was that of the private secretary of union home minister Rajnath Singh. Here below are the details of the 4 orders:

5 senior IPS officers including CEO of NATGRID, DG of CISF and NSG granted apex pay scale

FIVE senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officers, all belonging to 1983 batch, have been granted the apex scale of pay, i.e. the salary of a Government of India secretary or Rs 2.25 lakh per month, apart from the usual perks. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) on Thursday approved the grant of apex scale to all those five officers with a director general rank. The five officers are:

Govt appoints 1983 batch IPS Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar as new CRPF DG; CBI joint director Shankhabrata Bagchi prematurely repatriated

Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar

THE government on Wednesday appointed 1983 batch Uttar Pradesh cadre IPS Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar as Director General, Central Reserve Police Force, from the date of joining the post. Bhatnagar will have a tenure till December 31, 2019 i.e. the date of his superannuation. The appointment came a couple of days after the deadly Maoist attack on a CRPF team in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district that left 25 of its men martyred, leaving many critics to ask why…

Know Your Bureaucrat: New mines secretary and 1983 batch IAS Arun Kumar

ARUN KUMAR, 1983 batch Assam cadre IAS, has been appointed as the new secretary of the ministry of mines. Kumar, currently a special secretary in the ministry of social justice and empowerment will take up the post on superannuation of the present incumbent Balvender Kumar, 1981 batch UP cadre IAS. Kumar, haling from Uttar Pradesh did engineering before he was…

Navdeep Singh Suri: Know more about India's new ambassador to UAE

THE government on Monday appointed Navdeep Singh Suri, 1983 batch lFS officer and India’s current high commissioner to Australia, as the next ambassador to United Arab Emirates (UAE). That Suri knows Arabic language, will be a bonus in discharging his duties in this Arab country. Here are 10 things you may like to know about this senior diplomat:

Know more about UP’s new chief secretary — Rahul Prasad Bhatnagar

UTTAR Pradesh has a new chief secretary — 1983 batch IAS Rahul Prasad Bhatnagar. State chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday appointed Bhatnagar as the state’s top bureaucrat after he had removed 1982-batch IAS officer Deepak Singhal from the post. Singhal is believed to be close to CM’s uncle and minister Shivpal Singh Yadav with whom CM’s relations have deteriorated over the last three months. Setting aside the politics within the Yadav family, BoI here talks about the new man at the helm of bureaucracy in Uttar Pradesh, the state that’s going for polls early next year. Hailing from Delhi, Bhatnagar…

Secretary empanelled 1983 batch IAS officers given special secretary rank; Bhaskar Khulbe is now Secretary to PM

Bhaskar Khulbe (Photo Courtesy: Twitter)

ALL 1983 batch IAS officers who were already empanelled as union secretaries, are now designated as special secretaries with effect from July 29, 2016, by temporarily upgrading the posts held by the officers. According to rules, the moment the senior-most officer of the batch is appointed as secretary, all her batch mates empanelled as secretaries, get elevated to the rank of a special secretary. Special secretaries have the same rank as secretaries and receive the same salary as that of a secretary. Here are the newly elevated officers:

Secretary Reshuffle: Health secretary BP Sharma shifted to DoPT; water resources ministry to virtually have 2 sectaries for next 5 months

THE Central government on Thursday had a major round of secretary-level reshuffle, the key highlight being appointing would-be secretaries as Officer-on Special Duty in the ministry where the incumbent secretaries have a tenure of one to five months months. For example, the secretary of the ministry of water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation Shashi Shekhar will retire only on December 31, 2016, but 1982 batch Gujarat cadre IAS Dr Amarjit Singh is asked to immediately join the ministry as OSD with a direction that he will take over as secretary once the incumbent retires. Also, this round of reshuffle heralds the appointment of 1983 batch IAS who were empaneled as secretaries only recently. Here are the new postings:

31 IAS officers of 1983 batch empanelled as union secretary; 11 others as secretary equivalent

THE Centre on Monday empanelled 31 IAS officers of 1983 batch for the post of Union secretary and another 11 IAS of the same batch as secretary-equivalent. Further, the government empanelled five  IAS officers of 1985 batch and one from 1986 batch as additional secretary. Here are the names of all officers empanelled as secretary, secretary-equivalent and additional secretary. Full List below:

More about 5 IAS officers empaneled as GoI additional secretaries

THE Appointments Committee of the Cabinet on Monday approved the empanelment of five IAS officers as additional secretaries or additional secretary-equivalent in government of India. Three of the officers belong to 1983 batch, i.e. they are late in getting empaneled, as 1985 batch IAS were already empaneled and appointed as additional secretaries in various union ministries. Here are the five new additional secretary-ranked officers, their educational qualifications and date of retirement: