YEAR END SERIES: 10 Key Appointments of Bureaucrats in 2018

IT’S time to say goodbye to the year 2018. For Indian bureaucracy it was quite an uneven journey this year — from the IAS-AAP battle in Delhi to an unprecedented war within the CBI. But the year also saw a series of key appointments with wider implications. Here below are 10 such appointments: 

Diplomat Pankaj Saran appointed as deputy NSA; defence secretary is temporary head of DRDO

Pankaj Saran, 1982 batch Indian Foreign Service officer, was on Tuesday appointed as the deputy National Security Adviser (Dy NSA) for a period of two years on a deputation basis initially till the date of his retirement, i.e. November 30, 2018, and thereafter on a re-employment contract basis. Saran is presently the ambassador to Russia. Earlier, he was a joint secretary in Manmohan Singh’s PMO. With his appointment, there will be two deputy NSAs, the other being…