List of 11 Senior Appointments: Braj Raj Sharma appointed as secretary of border management; Rajni Sekhri Sibal to head the new department of fisheries

IAS and author of a book on cows appointed GoI secretary

THE Central government on Sunday afternoon announced the appointment of nine senior officers, most of whom being at the level of union secretaries. Jammu and Kashmir cadre IAS, Braj Raj Sharma, has been appointed as the new secretary of the department of border management, Haryana cadre IAS and incidentally the author of a book on cows, Rajni Sekhri Sibal, has been appointed as the secretary of the newly-created department of fisheries. Here below are the details of 11 new appointments:

New Postings for Senior Bureaucrats: 7 IAS, 2 IDAS, 1 Indian Audit and Accounts Service officer get new berths

IN A major reshuffle of senior bureaucrats mostly at the level of GoI secretary and additional secretary, the Central government on Thursday issued new appointment orders for seven IAS, two Indian Defence Accounts Service (IDAS) officers and one Indian Audit and Accounts Service officer, apart from giving in-situ promotion of two officers —Bala Prasad of Indian Forest Service and Satpal Chouhan of Indian Economic Service to the rank of union special secretary. Here below are 12 appointment orders:

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:

At least 3 union ministries have now adhoc secretaries; List here

ON FEBRUARY 1, three Central government departments should have had new secretaries, but the government instead decided bestow additional charge of the vacant posts to the secretaries in the allied ministry, albeit for the time being. As it stands today, three ministries viz. the ministry of parliamentary affairs, the ministry of statistics and programme implementation and the ministry of Panchayati Raj won’t have a full-time secretaries for the time being. The following are the three secretary level officers who were given additional charge of the vacant secretary-level posts with effect from February 1, and until further orders:

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:

5 new secretaries appointed; Siraj Hussain in agriculture, Jugal K Mohapatra in rural development

THE Centre on Thursday night announced the appointment of five new secretaries including Siraj Hussain as agriculture secretary and Jugal Kishore Mohapatra as new rural development secretary. Who are those five new secretaries, and what are their backgrounds? Read here:

Spot 1977 batch IAS officers getting secretary rank

THE 1977 batch IAS officers have a reason to rejoice. Finally, Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) has approved the elevation of 1977 batch officers to the rank of secretary or special secretary with effect from February 1, 2011.

The ACC has also directed the Organising Committee of Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010 to grant 1977 batch UP cadre IAS GC Chaturvedi, presently Special Director General (Finance and Accounts) in the Organising Committee, an appropriate rank and pay equivalent to the secretary to the government of India with effect from 1st February, 2011. An MSc in physics, Chaturvedi had earlier served as joint secretary in department of economic affairs and additional secretary in the banking division of finance ministry.

The ACC has also approved the following appointments on in-situ elevation basis, with effect from February 01, 2011, by temporarily upgrading the posts held by the officers:

a) Shekhar Agarwal, a 1977 batch UP cadre IAS as special secretary in department of ex-servicemen welfare under ministry of defence, in the rank and pay of secretary.

b) Alok Rawat, a 1977 batch Sikkim cadre IAS as secretary, UPSC in the rank and pay of secretary.

c) Naved Masood, a 1977 batch Manipur-Tripura cadre as special secretary and financial adviser in the department of health and family welfare in the rank and pay of secretary.

d) K Jose Cyriac, a 1977 batch Kerala cadre IAS as special secretary in department of revenue in the rank and pay of secretary.

e) Mohammad Haleem Khan, a 1977 batch UP cadre IAS as director general, CAPART, department of rural development in the rank and pay of secretary.

f) Sudhir Krishna, a 1977 batch Karnataka cadre IAS as special secretary in the ministry of Panchayati Raj in the rank and pay of secretary.

g) Rakesh Kacker, a 1977 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IAS as special secretary in the department of consumer affairs in the rank and pay of secretary.

h) Alok Perti, a 1977 batch Assam cadre IAS as special secretary in the ministry of coal, in the rank and pay of secretary.

i) Mrutyunjay Sarangi, a 1977 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IAS as special secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, in the rank and pay of secretary.

j) Pradeep Kumar Chaudhary, a 1977 batch Haryana cadre IAS as special secretary, department of commerce in the rank and pay of secretary.

k) Ms Vilasini Ramachandran, a 1977 batch Gujarat cadre IAS as special secretary, department of expenditure in the rank and pay of secretary.

l) Arun Kumar Mathur, a 1977 batch UT cadre IAS, as Director (Enforcement), Department of Revenue, ministry of finance in the rank and pay of secretary.

m) Radha Krishna Mathur, a 1977 batch Manipur-Tripura cadre IAS as special secretary, department of defence in the rank and pay of secretary.

n) Gireesh B Pradhan, a 1977 batch Maharashtra cadre IAS as special secretary in the ministry of power in the rank and pay of secretary.

o) Shumsher K Sheriff, a 1977 batch UT cadre IAS, as secretary, to the Vice President of India, in the rank and pay of secretary.

p) Ajay Bhattacharya, a 1977 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IAS, as Administrator, Universal Services Obligatioin Fund, department of telecommunications in the rank and pay of secretary.

q) Ms Loretta Mary Vas, a 1977 batch UP cadre IAS, as special secretary, department of economic affairs in the rank and pay of secretary.

r) Vishwapati Trivedi, a 1977 batch MP cadre IAS as special secretary and financial adviser in ministry of home affairs in the rank and pay of secretary.

s) Pradeep Kumar Sinha, a 1977 batch UP cadre IAS as special secretary and financial adviser in the ministry of petroleum and natural gas in the rank and pay of secretary.

t) Dileep Raj S Chaudhary, a 1977 batch MP cadre IAS as special secretary, ministry of home affairs in the rank and pay of secretary.

u) Sharad Gupta, a 1977 batch Assam cadre IAS, as Duirector General, Bureau of Indian Standards, department of consumer affairs in the rank and pay of secretary.

v) Prasanna Kumar Pradhan, a 1977 batch West Bengal cadre IAS as special secretary, department of health and family welfare in the rank and pay of secretary.

w) Amarjit Singh Lamba, a 1977 batch West Bengal cadre IAS, as special secretary and financial adviser, department of agriculture and cooperation in the rank and pay of secretary.

x) Ms Sangita Gairola, a 1977 batch Rajasthan cadre IAS, as special secretary in ministry of social justice and empowerment in the rank and pay of secretary.

y) NC Vasudevan, a 1977 batch Orissa cadre IAS as Director General, National Productivity Council, DIPP, in the rank and pay of secretary.

z) Ashok Thakur, a 1977 batch Himachal Pradesh cadre IAS as special secretary, department of higher education in the rank and pay of secretary.

z1) Jayant M Mauskar, a 1977 batch Assam cadre IAS, as special secretary in the ministry of environment and forests in the pay of secretary.

z2) Chinmay Basu, a 1977 batch Orissa cadre IAS as special secretary in the department of land resources in the pay of secretary.

z3) Sundaram Krishna, a 1977 batch Punjab cadre IAS, as special secretary in the department of defence in the pay of secretary. 

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Know Your Babu: New defence secretary Pradeep Kumar

THE wait is finally over. Pradeep Kumar, a 1972 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre and presently secretary, department of defence production under the ministry of defence will be India’s next defence secretary. He would take over from Vijay Singh, a 1970 batch MP cadre IAS who is due to superannuate on July 31, 2009. Mr Kumar will have a tenure of two years from the date of taking over the charge of the post. babu blogger in a post dated June 20, 2009, said that Mr Kumar is “believed to be the front-runner for the post thanks to his experiences in defence department for sometime now.”

Know Your Babu Name : Pradeep Kumar, Cadre: Haryana cadre IAS Batch: 1972 Educational Qualifications Masters in Economics Major Postings a) Joint Secretary in the ministry of heavy industries & public enterprises, New Delhi from September 20, 1997 to September 11, 2002 b) Resident Commissioner, Haryana Bhavan, New Delhi (From April, 10, 2003 to December 19, 2003) c) Additional secretary, Mines & Minerals, Coal (From December 19, 2003 to June 23, 2006) d) Chairman, National Highways Auth of India (NHAI), (From October 4,2006 to July 30, 2007) e) Secretary, department of disinvestment, Ministry of Finance (From July 30, 2007 to August 1, 2008) f) Secretary, defence production (From February 2, 2008 till now) Foreign degree MSc in economics and social science, from UK (1986)