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:

Know Your IAS: New LBSNAA director Sanjeev Chopra

Sanjeev Chopra, 1985 batch West Bengal cadre IAS, presently in the cadre, has been appointed as the new director of Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA). The vacancy arose as the present LBSNAA director, Upma Chawdhry, a 1983 batch IAS, was appointed as the new secretary of the department of youth affairs. Chopra, 57, originally hails from Punjab and was...

Names of 8 new GoI secretaries announced; LBSNAA director Upma Chawdhry and FCI CMD figure in the list

THE government on Saturday appointed eight senior officers at the rank of secretary or secretary-equivalent positions. Whereas director of Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Ms Upma Chawdhry, will be the new secretary in the department of youth affairs on December 31, another officer -- 1984 batch IAS, ABP Pandey, will take over as new revenue secretary at the end of this month when incumbent Hasmukh Adhia retires. Here below is the eight new appointments:

1985 batch IAS Ajay Kumar takes additional charge as defence secretary till Sep 13

Ajay Kumar, 1985 batch Kerala cadre IAS and presently the union secretary of defence production, has been given an additional charge of the post of defence secretary for the period between August 29 and September 13 when the incumbent defence secretary, Sanjay Mitra is on leave. Mitra is a 1982 batch West Bengal cadre IAS. Meanwhile, in an unrelated development, the government has repeatedly extended the last date of application for the post of financial adviser in the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), a quasi-judicial body that comes under the ministry of corporate affairs. The reasons for this acton are...

Gujarat cadre IAS Rajender Kumar laterally shifted from DoPT to PMO; IPS PS Purohit elevated as special director in IB

Rajender Kumar, 2004 batch Gujarat cadre IAS, presently a director in the department of personnel and training (DoPT), has been laterally shifted as director in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). His tenure will be till May 26, 2021, or until further order, a DoPT office memorandum issued on July 2, said. A graduate in Ayurvedic before getting selected as an IAS, Kumar was collector in Gujarat’s Rajkot and then Surat district before joining the…

IAS Inder Jit Singh appointed as new coal secretary; DEA joint secretary S Selvakumar “relieved”

Inder Jit Singh, 1985 batch Kerala cadre lAS and secretary (coordination) in Cabinet Secretariat, has been appointed as secretary in the ministry of coal. Meanwhile, S Selvakumar, 1997 batch Karnataka cadre IAS and joint secretary in the department of economic affairs (DEA), has been received, according to…

Who are the 19 newly-empanelled DG, DG-equivalent IPS officers? Full List

THE Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) last week approved the empanelment of the following Indian Police Service officers for appointment to Director General or Director General equivalent level posts at the Centre: 

9 joint secretary, additional secretary level officers given in-situ promotion; Full List

THE Appointment Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) on Wednesday approved in-situ upgradation of nine officers of the rank of additional secretaries and secretaries. Here below is the full list of nine officers and their new positions:

5 IAS officers of 1984, 1985 batches promoted as special secretaries; Full List

FIVE IAS officers, four of whom belonging to 1984 batch and one of the 1985 batch, got their promotion on Tuesday, as the competent authority approved the in-situ upgradation of the posts they held to the level of Special Secretary, with the immediate effect. The posts were upgraded temporarily. Here are the five new special secretaries:

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:

1985 Batch Reshuffle: Ajay Kumar appointed as defence production secy, Pradeep Singh Kharola is Air India’s new chief

New Air India chief Pradeep Singh Kharola 

IN A major bureaucratic reshuffle at the Centre, the government on Tuesday appointed 1985 batch IAS Ajay Kumar as secretary in the department of defence production, his batchmate and Bangalore metro chief Pradeep Singh Kharola as new Air India CMD before transferring Delhi chief secretary MM Kutty as additional secretary in the department of economic affairs. Here below are the details:

IRS (C and CE) officer Debi Prasad Dash nominated as India’s candidate for Deputy Secretary General, WCO

INDIA has nominated 1985 batch IRS (Customs and Central Excise) officer Debi Prasad Dash as the country’s official candidate for the post of Deputy Secretary General, World Customs Organisation (WCO). Dash is currently serving as the Director General of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), the premier agency tracking smuggling and black money. Only a couple of days ago, the finance minister Arun Jaitley released the…

3 IAS prematurely repatriated in 2 days; Santosh Mathew, Kalpana Awasthi sent back to cadres

THE government on Tuesday prematurely repatriated two IAS officers — A Santosh Mathew of 1985 batch Bihar cadre and Kalpana Awasthi, 1990 batch Uttar Pradesh cadre — to their parent cadres. Only on Monday, the ACC had approved the premature repatriation of Utpal Kumar Singh, 1986 batch Uttarakhand cadre IAS and additional secretary in the department of agriculture, cooperation and farmers’ welfare to his parent cadre. That means, in two days three senior IAS officers were prematurely repatriated to…

Additional secretary Ajay Kumar to address 62 promoted IAS officers today on Digital India at LBSNAA

Ajay Kumar, additional secretary in the ministry of electronics and IT and 1985 batch Kerala cadre IAS will deliver a lecture today on Digital India in Mussoorie-based Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA). The officer, a product of IIT Kanpur and PhD in business administration from the University of Minnesota, will address 62 promoted IAS officers currently undertaking...

An IPS vigilance director; disgruntled IAS officers and the Kerala CM; 10 things on officers-government friction

KERALA chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday said his government maintains a warm relationship with the IAS fraternity, in an apparent bid to normalize ties between the Kerala government and top administrators after IAS officers had threatened to take causal leave en-mass against what they called “abuse of power” by state's director of vigilance and anti-corruption bureau Jacob Thomas. The officers, however, called off their proposed strike on January 9 after chief minster Vijayan took a strong stand. As reported, there was a stand-off between state CM and state chief secretary as well. Here are 10 things to explain the government-IAS friction in Kerala:

PV Ramesh: This doctor-turned IAS is new CMD of Rural Electrification Corporation

PV Ramesh, a 1985 batch Andhra Pradesh cadre IAS, took over as Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Rural Electrification Corporation Limited (REC). A trained physician from the Christian medical college and hospital, Vellore, Ramesh was serving at his cadre as special chief secretary, environment, forest, science and technology and also…

UP Singh redesigned as DG of National Mission of Clean Ganga; 3 IAS got shunted out of this “jinxed” post

UP Singh, 1985 batch Odisha cadre IAS, has been re-designated as Director General in National Mission for Clean Ganga in the rank and pay of additional secretary of the government of India with retrospective effect from October 7, 2016, according to an order dated November 21, 2016. Singh was a powerful bureaucrat in the ministry of petroleum, where he first served as joint secretary and then additional secretary, before getting laterally shifted to…

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:

20 months of adhoc CMD in Oil India; New advt says, experience in oil sector only “desirable"

UP Singh, IAS

AFTER 20 months of running India’s second largest public sector explorer, Oil India Ltd (OIL), with an adhoc CMD, the government has issued a fresh advertisement looking for suitable candidates from Central Public Sector Enterprises, Group “A” services (joint secretary on a deputation) or officers from armed forces holding the rank of major general or above to fill up the post of chairman and managing director (CMD) currently being held by petroleum ministry’s additional secretary and 1985 batch Odisha cadre IAS Upendra Prasad Singh. Singh, considered to be the most powerful bureaucrat in the petroleum ministry because of his…