PMO Reshuffle: Nandini Paliwal shifted out to LBSNAA, Assam cadre officer Kavitha Padmanabhan to move to South Block

IN A minor bureaucratic reshuffle in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Nandini Paliwal, 2003 batch AGMUT cadre IAS, has been laterally shifted to Lal Bahadur Shashtri National Academy for Administration (LBSNAA) whereas Kavitha Padmanabhan, 2006 batch Assam cadre IAS presently working as deputy secretary in the DoPT, has been appointed as deputy secretary in the PMO. Ms Paliwal, 42, originally hails from…

Maha Reshuffle: 11 IAS transferred in Maharashtra; List Here

THE government of Maharashtra on Saturday transferred 11 IAS officers, an exercise which could safely be termed as a maha (big) reshuffle. The officers belong to a range of batches -- from 2004 to the seniors from 1985. Here below are the details of the officers and their new postings:

Mega Joint Secretary Level Reshuffle: IAS officers lead the pack; 12 non-IAS figure in the list

IN ONE of the major bureaucratic reshuffles at the level of union joint secretaries, the Centre has appointed 29 officers in new posts, some of them being laterally transferred from the posts they are currently holding. Yes, IAS officers are leading the pack, but there are as many as 12 non-IAS in the list, including officers from the services such as IRS-IT, IPS, IAAS, ICAS, IFoS, IPoS, Indian Defence Estates Service etc. Here below is the full list:

24 senior IIS officers transferred; reshuffle in DD (News), All India Radio, DAVP et al

IN A major administrative reshuffle in various organisations under the ministry of information and broadcasting on Friday, as many as 24 senior Indian Information Service (IIS) officers were transferred — the clear trend being the sending of some officers out of Delhi and bringing back others to New Delhi. All the officers are of the rank of director generals (DGs) and additional director generals (ADG) — the senior most positions in the IIS hierarchy. Here are the details of each of the 24 postings:

HARYANA IAS RESHUFFLE: Ashok Khemka transferred to dept of social justice; Rajni Sekhri Sibal, others transferred

IN A major administrative reshuffle at senior level in Haryana, the state government transferred 13 IAS officers including nine additional chief secretaries and three principal secretaries, the most notable being Ashok Khemka of 1991 batch who hogged the limelight during the UPA regime for canceling the mutation of the land deal between Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra and real estate major DLF. Khemka who is currently the principal secretary in the ministry of science and technology in Haryana government will now be…

IAS reshuffle in Chhattisgarh: 3 Bastar districts to get new collectors; 2005 batch IAS Mukesh Kumar brought into CM’s Office

Niharika Barik: Now posted as secretary, Gramodyog

IN A major reshuffle of bureaucrats in Chhattisgarh, Naxal-hit Bastar districts — Bastar, Narayanpur and Sukma— will get new district collectors. 2010 batch IAS Jai Prakash Maurya is appointed as the new Sukma collector whereas Topeshwar Verma will be new collector of Narayanpur district. Meanwhile, Mukesh Kumar, 2005 batch IAS and current collector of Rajnandgaon district, has been appointed as joint secretary to the Chief Minister's Office. Here are some of the major bureaucratic reshuffle in Chhattisgarh:

Yogi government in UP engineers 2nd major administrative reshuffle; who’s in, who’s out?

Yogi Adityanath 

IN THE second major administrative reshuffle by new Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh, as many as 41 IAS officers were transferred on Tuesday. The reshuffle included shunting out of vice chairman of Lucknow Development Authority Satyendra Singh while bestowing additional charge of the post of chairman of Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority and Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority to...

Mega IPS reshuffle in Gujarat; Ahmedabad Police Commissioner shifted to IB

GUJARAT government on Wednesday undertook a major police reshuffle, involving as many as 21 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers. The highlight of the IPS reshuffle, the first major one after Vijay Rupani took over as chief minister of the state replacing Anandiben Patel in August the year, is the transfer of Ahmedabad Police Commissioner and 1983 batch IPS Shivanand Jha to Intelligence Bureau, and then the shifting of Surat Police Commissioner and 1985 batch IPS Ashish Bhatia to CID (crime and Railways). Jha will be…

Administrative Reshuffle: Smita Nagaraj as DG in defence acquisition, Khurana as Staff Selection Commission chairman; Siddarth repatriated to West Bengal

ON TUESDAY, the government undertook a major administrative reshuffle appointing new additional secretaries, swapping roles of officers, upgrading posts etc. Here is the list of 15 new appointments:

Secretary Reshuffle: More about 16 new secretaries in DEA, revenue, I&B, tourism, sports etc.

THE Central government on Friday night undertook a major secretary-level reshuffle virtually changing the entire administrative set-up of the ministry of finance, and appointing new NHAI head and secretaries in ministries such as information and broadcasting, corporate affairs, tourism and sports. Here is the list of 16 new secretaries, their qualifications and date of retirement:

Midnight Reshuffle: 36 new additional secretaries appointed; water ministry to have a new mission director’s post

IN A mid-night senior bureaucratic reshuffle, the Centre announced appointment of 36 officers, all ranked additional secretaries to Government of India. Major appointments include 1985 batch Punjab cadre IAS Arun Goel as vice-chairman of Delhi Development Authority (DDA), 1985 batch Telangana cadre IAS Pushpa Subrahmanyam as Development Commissioner (Handicrafts) and 1985 batch Karnataka cadre IAS Yogendra Tripathy as CMD of Food Corporation of India (FCI). One Indian Economic Service officer and one Indian Revenue Service (IT) officer are the two non-IAS officers who have managed to get berths as additional secretaries. Here are the 36 appointments:

Govt effects secretary level reshuffle; new commerce, power and civil aviation secretaries appointed

Chanakya

IN A major administrative reshuffle involving secretaries of the Government of India, new appointments of the top bureaucrats were made for key ministries such as commerce, power and civil aviation. It was quite an overhaul as a number of secretaries were also laterally transferred from one ministry to another. Here are the key appointments and later shifts:

Mega JS Reshuffle: 13 new appointments including lateral shift at joint secretary level; Full List

IN YET another late night administrative reshuffle, the Central government on Monday announced the appointment and lateral shift of as many as 13 officers, all at the rank of joint secretaries, Government of India. Five out of 13 new JS are women. In one instance, an IPS officer RP Meena will now replace IAS, Maninder Singh, as joint secretary in the department of health research. Full list of the reshuffle here:

One Day Many Appointments: Centre effects major joint secretary level reshuffle; List of 11 officers

One Day Many Appointments

CONTINUING the new trend of One Day Many Appointments, the Centre on Friday night announced yet another major administrative reshuffle at the joint secretary level. Whereas some of the key JS appointments like Ashutosh Jindal in petroleum ministry and Rajesh Aggarwal in financial services department, are the hallmark of the reshuffle, there are a few cases where officers are shifted from high-profile posts to relatively insignificant departments. Following is the list of 11 such appointments:

After Maharashtra, 3 more states-- Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Punjab effect massive IAS reshuffle

ON WEDNESDAY, three states --- Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Punjab – effected massive administrative reshuffle of IAS officers. It was a pure coincidence that all those states, ruled by regional parties, chose to undertake the exercise on the same day. The move came just four days after Maharashtra witnessing a Maha reshuffle transferring as many as 42 IAS officers. In Andhra Pradesh where…

A to Z Bureaucrats Reshuffle: GS Sandhu out, Hasmukh Adhia in; Full List

IN THIRD mega reshuffle of bureaucrats after Modi Sarkar came to power in May this year, financial services secretary Gurdial Singh Sandhu who played a key role in recently rolled out Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, has been shifted out to a relatively insignificant post -- Chairman, National Authority for Chemical Weapons Convention. In his place, 1981 batch Gujarat cadre IAS Hasmukh Adhia was brought in to finance ministry. In this A to Z reshuffle, undertaken on November 3, a number of bureaucrats were appointed in key posts while some being shunted out to oblivion. Here are the changes:

Mega IAS Reshuffle: Finance Secretary Mayaram shifted as tourism secretary; Anil Swarup coal secretary, Mehrishi DEA secretary

THE day the elections in Maharashtra and Haryana got over, Centre engineered yet another major bureaucratic reshuffle in less than a month, shifting out finance secretary Arvind Mayaram and water resources secretary Alok Rawat, and appointing cabinet secretariat additional secretary Anil Swarup as the new coal secretary. Only on September 23, a mega bureaucratic reshuffle took place. (Read: Reshuffle on Super Tuesday). Mayaram, who was close to former finance minister P Chidambaram and has been working quite closely with incumbent Arun Jaitley as well, has now been appointed as…

Know Your Babu: Revenue secretary and 1980 batch IAS Shaktikanta Das

Shaktikanta Das

THE post of union revenue secretary may not wield lots of power as two powerful boards under him, CBDT for direct taxes and CBEC for excise and customs, both manned by IRS officers, often overshadow the position of the lonely IAS at the top. Yet, Gujarat cadre IAS Rajiv Takru’s shifting out of the North Block for an apparently less significant post of secretary in the department of North Eastern Region (DoNER) coupled with 1980 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IAS Shaktikanta Das’ elevation as the new revenue secretary can be considered as the first…

Second administrative reshuffle in UP in just 3 days; 36 more IAS transferred

Chief Secy Ranjan

IN YET another major administrative reshuffle in Uttar Pradesh, chief minister Akhilesh Singh Yadav on Tuesday transferred 36 IAS officers. The massive administrative overhaul has been significant as the state government, under fire after Badaun rape case and also massive electoral defeat for the ruling party in Lok Sabha poll, had shifted 66 IAS officers and 42 IPS officers only on Saturday. Here are a few officers and their new posting:

Vishwapati Trivedi is new mining secretary; Anita Choudhary on compulsory wait

Choudhary: Compulsory Wait

IN A major bureaucratic reshuffle at the Centre, the government has replaced mining secretary Subrahmanyam Vijay Kumar with home ministry’s Vishwapati Trivedi. Further, Ms Anita Choudhary, a 1976 batch Haryana cadre IAS has been placed on compulsory wait in the department of land resources under the ministry of rural development.

Here are the big ticket changes:

a) Subrahmanyam Vijay Kumar, a 1976 batch Himachal Pradesh cadre IAS, presently secretary in the ministry of mines has been appointed as secretary in the department of land resources under the ministry of rural development.

b) Vishwapati Trivedi, a 1977 batch MP cadre IAS, presently special secretary and financial adviser in the ministry of home affairs, has been appointed as secretary in the ministry of mines.

c) Anita Choudhary, a 1976 batch Haryana cadre IAS currently secretary in the department of land resources has been placed on compulsory wait in the department of land resources in ministry of rural development.

d) Parvez Dewan, a 1977 batch Jammu and Kashmir cadre IAS, has been appointed as secretary in ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs in place of A Didar Singh, a 1976 batch Punjab cadre IAS who has retired.

e) N Ravi Shankar, a 1980 batch Uttarakhand cadre IAS, presently additional secretary in the department of information technology, has been appointed as Administrator, Universal Services Obligation Fund in department of telecommunications (DoT), in the rank and pay of additional secretary in place of Ajay Bhatacharya, a 1977 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IAS.

f) Anil Swarup, a 1981 batch UP cadre IAS, has been appointed as additional secretary in the ministry of labour and employment with effect from October 3, 2011, by temporarily upgrading the post of joint secretary held by the officer.

g) Bhanu Pratap Sharma, a 1981 batch Bihar cadre IAS, presently joint secretary in the ministry of minority affairs, has been appointed as Establishment Officer and additional secretary in the department of personnel and training in place of IV Subba Rao, a 1979 batch Andhra Pradesh cadre IAS.

Also Read

Anita Choudhary in male bastion

Who is Subrahmanyam Vijay Kumar?