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:

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…

7 additional secretaries appointed; Girish Chandra Murmu shifted to financial services dept; UP Singh to water resources

THE government on Thursday appointed seven additional secretaries in various ministries, four of whom being laterally shifted from one ministry to another. Significantly, all powerful additional secretary in petroleum ministry and 1985 batch Odisha cadre IAS UP Singh has been shifted to the water resources ministry whereas Gujarat cadre IAS Girish Chandra Murmu has been shifted from expenditure to financial services department. Here are the 7 additional secretaries:

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…