Know Your Babu: 10 things about Delhi’s new chief secretary Vijay Kumar Dev

Vijay Kumar Dev, 1987 batch IAS AGMUT cadre IAS officer, was appointed on Thursday as the new chief secretary of Delhi. He will succeed Anshu Prakash who was allegedly attacked by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislators at a meeting held in chief minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence in February this year, leading to a prolonged tussle between the AAP leaders and the IAS officers. Here below are 10 things you may like to know about Vijay Kumar Dev:

Powerful bureaucrat of erstwhile Manmohan Singh’s PMO — BVR Subrahmanyam to play key role in Kashmir

Dal Lake in the heart of Srinagar 

AFTER the BJP had walked out of the alliance in Jammu and Kashmir bringing down the Mehbooba Mufti government on Tuesday, the Governor’s rule was imposed in the troubled state. Interestingly, on the same day, i.e. Tuesday, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved "placing the services of BVR Subrahmanyam", a powerful bureaucrat in the erstwhile Manmohan Singh’s PMO "at the disposal of the government of Jammu and Kashmir", implying that this 1987 batch Chhattisgarh cadre IAS will now…

IPS officer Arun Kumar Ray appointed in Tea Board; another IPS finds his tenure getting curtailed

THE government on Tuesday appointed 1988 batch Odisha cadre IPS officer Arun Kumar Ray as deputy chairman in Tea Board, Kolkata. The IPS officer will hold the rank of a union joint secretary. According to the order approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, the police officer will have a tenure of 2 years, extendable upto 5 years. Meanwhile, the tenure of another IPS officer — 1987 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IPS Sudhir Kumar Saxena — has been curtailed. He has been serving as…

IRTS officer Ravinder Goyal prematurely repatriated from NITI Aayog; IPS Arvind Kumar gets 2-yr extension in ITBP

Ravinder Goyal, 1987 batch Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) officer and Adviser in NITI Aayog, has been prematurely repatriated to his parent cadre with imposition of extended cooling off condition. In another development, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the proposal of the ministry of home affairs for extension of deputation tenure Arvind Kumar, 1988 batch IPS officer and IG of ITBP for a period of…

HOME COMING: Gujarat cadre IAS Lalnunmawia Chuaungo gets inter-cadre deputation to Mizoram till retirement

THE government has allowed Lalnunmawia Chuaungo, 1987 batch Gujarat cadre IAS, for an inter-cadre deputation from Gujarat to the Mizoram segment of the AGMUT cadre till February 28, 2022, the date he retires. 56 years old  Chuaungo is a Mizo, and has been serving in Gujarat for three decades. A graduate in history, he can speak…

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:

Manoj Jhalani: Know more about the IAS who will anchor Ayushman Bharat, popularly called Modicare

Manoj Jhalani, 1987 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer and additional secretary in the ministry of health and family welfare, has been designated as the Mission Director of the Government of India’s ambitious health insurance programme, Ayushman Bharat. This assignment will be in addition to Jhalani’s role as the additional secretary in the ministry. Ayushman Bharat, popularly called ‘Modicare’, was a budget announcement that…

MHA’s proposal of extending deputation tenure of an IPS rejected; ACC upgrades CBI posts for supervision of VYAPAM and Ponzi Chit Fund Scam

THE Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) on Monday issued a series of orders and approvals, the key highlights being the rejection of a ministry of home affairs’ (MHA) proposal to extend the deputation of an IPS officer, and then the upgradation of two DIG level posts in the CBI for the officers who will be supervising the VYAPAM and Ponzi Chit Fund Scam cases. Here below are the details of the ACC orders.

Action and Appointments: IFS Ajay Bisaria as India's high commissioner to Pak; IAS Manoj Ahuja as LBSNAA joint director

MANOJ Ahuja, 1990 batch Odisha cadre IAS, will be a new Joint Director (JS level) at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie in place of Tejveer Singh, 1994 batch Punjab cadre IAS, for a period of five years. Originally belonging to Punjab, Ahuja was allotted Odisha cadre after getting into IAS. A mechanical engineer-turned IAS, Ahuja is also an...

1987 batch IAS Lalit Kumar Gupta prematurely repatriated to Tripura; 2007 batch IPS finds berth in environment ministry

THE Centre on Tuesday prematurely repatriated Lalit Kumar Gupta, 1987 batch Tripura cadre IAS and joint secretary in the department of youth affairs, to his parent cadre on grounds of availing promotion in the cadre. Also, Satyendra Kumar, 2007 batch Rajasthan cadre IPS officer, has been appointed as deputy secretary in the ministry of environment, forest and climate change. Meanwhile, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) on Tuesday approved…

76 IAS officers of 1987, 1988 batches empaneled as GoI additional secretary; Full List

THE Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) on Tuesday approved the empanelment of as many as 39 IAS officers of 1987 batch and 37 IAS officers of 1988 batch as additional secretary or additional secretary equivalent in Government of India. The officers include BVR Subrahmanyam of Chhattisgarh cadre and Vini Mahajan of Punjab cadre — two of the most influential bureaucrats of Manmohan Singh’s PMO. Here is the complete list of 76 IAS officers and their cadres:

Bihar government is contemplating to hand over paper leak case to CBI to appease anger of senior IAS officers

WITH IAS officers’ revolt in Bihar against the arrest of their colleague and 1987 batch IAS Sudhir Kumar getting louder every passing day, the state government has been contemplating to hand over the case to the CBI as it could appease the anger of the top bureaucrats running the state administration. The revolt of the top bureaucrats in the state was palpable after the IAS officers decided not to take any verbal instructions from any higher office, including the office of the chief minister. And then on Sunday, about 50 IAS officers were seen…

Bihar IAS Sudhir Kumar arrested in a paper leak scam; IAS Association slams arrest, calls Kumar “honest and sincere”

BIHAR branch of IAS Officer’s Association has said, it is “deeply angered and anguished” at the late-night arrest of 1987 batch IAS and chairman of Bihar Staff Selection Commission Sudhir Kumar, demanding that the case be transferred to the CBI for the sake of justice, independence and fair play. Kumar was arrested on Friday at Hazaribagh in neighbouring Jharkhand by the state-government-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) in connection with a case of…

46 officers of Indian Ordnance Factory Service and 8 IDAS get empanelled as GoI joint secretary; Full list

THE government on Wednesday released the list of as many as 46 officers of Indian Ordnance Factory Service (IOFS) belonging to 1986 and 1987 batches. But the question remains whether such a large number of officers would actually get appointed in various Central ministries. These officers are about 10 years older than the young joint secretaries belonging to IAS. Meanwhile, eight officers belonging to Indian Defence Accounts Service (IDAS) of 1992 batch were also empanelled. Here is full list of 54 newly empanelled JS:

How to mentor a Deputy CM: IAS Sudhir Kumar appointed as principal secretary to Tejashwi’s dept

Sudhir Kumar, 2nd from right (file photo)

Sudhir Kumar, a 1982 batch Bihar cadre IAS and the one who as OSD to Lalu Prasad helped the Bihar politician taking credit of Indian Railways’ turnaround between 2004-2009, was on Wednesday given a new assignment – Bihar’s principal secretary of the road construction department, one of the three departments being handled by Lalu Prasad’s younger son and state’s deputy chief minister Tejashwi Prasad Yadav. Meanwhile, Sudhir Kumar who is set to retire on March next year, has been elevated the rank of a…

IPS officer Rajan appointed in High Commission of India in London; reshuffle at additional secretary ranks

AHEAD of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s departure to US, a number of appointments, three of which were at the level of additional secretary, were approved on Tuesday by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) chaired by the Prime Minister. The government on Tuesday also approved 1987 batch IPS AS Ranjan’s appointment in the High Commission of India in London for a period of three years. Here are a few key appointments:

Know Your Babu: India’s solar bureaucrat and Himachal IAS Tarun Kapoor

DURING RE-Invest 2015, the first renewable energy global investors meet, held recently in New Delhi, a joint secretary-ranked officer Varsha Joshi tweeted about her fellow JS, Tarun Kapoor, like this: “The man who has been driving solar in India- Joint Secy Tarun Kapoor- in a session on solar rooftops #ReInvest2015”. Kapoor, a 1987 batch IAS officer belonging to Himachal Pradesh cadre, has been serving in…

50 Income-Tax officers empanelled as GoI joint secretaries; Full List

ON MONDAY, as many as 50 IRS (Income-Tax) officers of 1987 batch were empanelled as joint secretaries to Government of India. Here is the full list:

Know Your Babu: 2 new cabinet secretariat JS, Tuhin Kant Pandey and Deepti Umashankar

Deepti Umashankar, IAS

CABINET secretariat has recently got two new faces, 1987 batch Odisha cadre IAS Tuhin Kant Pandey, currently in Planning Commission and 1993 batch Haryana cadre IAS Deepti Umashankar, now in DoPT. One is an MBA from a UK school, and the other knows French! Let’s know more about these two officers: Pandey and Umashankar.

Diplomat Ruchira Kamboj called from Paris to oversee protocol duties at Narendra Modi’s mega swearing-in

Ruchira Kamboj: Redefining Protocols?

A FEW days ago, diplomat Ruchira Kamboj took a flight from Paris to New Delhi on an official duty. Kamboj, the topper of 1987 IFS batch, was the chief of protocol, the first woman officer to hold that position, before getting shifted to Paris as India’s Permanent Representative to UNESCO replacing 1979 batch IAS Vinay Sheel Oberoi. But what will be Kamboj’s new assignment for coming Monday? The suave and sophisticated diplomat is given the charge to monitor the…