1 IAS, 1 IRS-IT officers appointed in DEA; 2 other officers prematurely repatriated

THE government has appointed two officers, an IAS and an IRS-IT, as deputy secretary in the department of economic affairs (DEA). Also, a 1985 batch IAS and another belonging to Indian Defence Service of Engineers, have been prematurely repatriated. Here below are the details:

Subhash Chandra Garg designated as finance secretary; IFoS officer Preet Pal Singh prematurely repatriated to Jammu and Kashmir

Subhash Chandra Garg

Subhash Chandra Garg, 1983 batch Rajasthan cadre lAS, presently union secretary in the department of economic affairs (DEA), was on Friday appointed as union finance secretary. Finance secretary is a designation bestowed upon the senior-most secretary among secretaries of all five departments that come under the ministry of finance. Garg will continue to look after the DEA. Prior to joining as the DEA secretary, Garg was living in Washington DC, serving as…

CBI’s DSP transferred to Port Blair; Kerala cadre IFoS officer prematurely repatriated

Deputy Superintendent of Police in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), AK Bassi, has been transferred to the anti-corruption bureau in Port Blair in the Andaman Islands. Bassi, who was the investigative officer of the CBI special director, Rakesh Asthana, in a bribery case, was asked to join his new post immediately in “public interest”, according to an order issued by the administrative section of the investigative agency. The other officers who were also transferred included…

CVC director prematurely repatriated; deputation tenure of ex-PM Vajpayee’s secretary extended

Kundan Singh, 1990 batch Indian Ordnance Factory Service (IOFS) officer and director in Central Vigilance Commission, has been prematurely repatriated to his parent cadre. In a DoPT notification issued on Thursday, it was clearly mentioned that the premature repatriation of the officer is on the grounds of

IRDA’s JS-ranked executive director prematurely repatriated

THE government has prematurely repatriated Maruthi Prasad Tangirala, a 1990 batch Indian Post and Telecommunications Finance and Accounts Service officer and executive director (joint secretary level) in Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI), Hyderabad, on personal grounds with the imposition of extended cooling off conditions. Also, Indian Revenue Service officer, Ramesh Chander, has been prematurely repatriated from the post of…

PMO’s Shrikar Keshav Pardeshi elevated as JS; IAS Dinesh Arora is new Dy CEO of National Health Agency

Dr Shrikar Keshav Pardeshi, 2001 batch Maharashtra cadre IAS and present director in Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has been elevated as the joint secretary in the PMO. Pardeshi will be in the PMO till April 9, 2020, according to a DoPT order issued on August 1. Originally belonging to Maharashtra, he did his masters in preventive and social medicine before cracking IAS in 2001. He was allotted the home cadre. He has been in the PMO since...

1 IAS, 1 IDSE officer prematurely repatriated; 1994 batch IFS Rudrendra Tandon is India’s ambassador to ASEAN

Ms Sigy Thomas Vaidhyan, 2002 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IAS officer and director of NITI Aayog, has been prematurely repatriated to her parent cadre on personal ground. Ms Vaidyan is a director in the NITI Aayog. In the DoPT’s list of new orders dated June 4, she is however shown as an officer belonging to the Planning Commission (kindly see the photo) though in the actual order, she is mentioned as…

NHAI chairman Deepak Kumar prematurely repatriated; is Kumar the new Bihar chief secretary?

Deepak Kumar

IN A major bureaucratic reshuffle, the government on Wednesday prematurely repatriated chairman of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and 1984 batch Bihar cadre IAS, Deepak Kumar, to his parent cadre with “immediate effect”. By the same order, Kumar was replaced by Yudhvir Singh Malik, who will hold the NHAI chairman’s post in addition to…

Civil aviation secretary Rajiv Nayan Choubey to continue holding post of environment secretary till May 20; UP cadre IAS from Rajasthan prematurely repatriated

CIVIL aviation secretary and 1981 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IAS Rajiv Nayan Choubey will continue to hold the additional assignment of the post of the secretary in the ministry of environment, forest and climate change till May 20, 2018, as incumbent CK Mishra is on leave. Mishra is a 1983 batch IAS. The competent authority on Monday approved the…

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…

B Purushartha, IAS officer and PS to MoS Housing Hardeep Puri, prematurely repatriated

B Purushartha, 2002 batch Punjab cadre IAS and private secretary to minister of state (independent charge) for housing and urban affairs Hardeep Singh Puri, has been prematurely repatriated to his parent cadre, Punjab. The government has also extended the deputation tenure of Manu Tentiwal, 2003 batch Indian Revenue Service (IT) as...

2 IAS, 1 IRS-IT officer prematurely repatriated; cabinet secretariat’s Meera Mohanty gets extension

TWO IAS officers of Manipur-Tripura cadre, Devesh Deval and Rakesh Ranjan, and Indian Revenue Service-Income Tax officer Ajay Kumar, have been prematurely repatriated to their parent cadres. An then there's a one-year extension for Meera Mohanty, deputy secretary in the cabinet secretariat. Here below are the details:

Senior IAS Rajeev Kapoor prematurely repatriated to UP; Who’s Kapoor, and what next for him?

Rajeev Kapoor, 1983 batch Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS and secretary in the department of chemicals and petrochemicals, was on Thursday prematurely repatriated to his parent cadre, Uttar Pradesh. What’s in store for him in the state? There’s no clarity on that, at the time of writing this piece, but here below is more about this officer — his home state, career graph, educational background and more:

Government prematurely repatriates 2 officers back to Railways; orders say, the move is for “promotion”

THE government this week prematurely repatriated two railway officers back to their cadres in Indian Railways. The orders, however, mentioned it clearly that their premature repatriation was meant for facilitating them to avail promotion in Railways. For example, one of the officers — Tripti Gurha will now be the executive director, statistics and economics, in the Railway Board. Here are the orders of premature repatriation of two Indian Railway officers:

3 IAS prematurely repatriated in 2 days; Santosh Mathew, Kalpana Awasthi sent back to cadres

THE government on Tuesday prematurely repatriated two IAS officers — A Santosh Mathew of 1985 batch Bihar cadre and Kalpana Awasthi, 1990 batch Uttar Pradesh cadre — to their parent cadres. Only on Monday, the ACC had approved the premature repatriation of Utpal Kumar Singh, 1986 batch Uttarakhand cadre IAS and additional secretary in the department of agriculture, cooperation and farmers’ welfare to his parent cadre. That means, in two days three senior IAS officers were prematurely repatriated to…

Kashmir interlocutor and retired IPS Dineshwar Sharma given cabinet secretary's rank; IAS Utpal Kumar Singh prematurely repatriated to Uttarakhand

Dineshwar Sharma (right) with home minister Rajnath Singh

THE CENTRAL government on Monday appointed former Intelligence Bureau chief and 1979 batch retired IPS Dineshwar Sharma as the interlocutor in Kashmir, bestowing on him the rank of a cabinet secretary, the topmost rank in Indian bureaucracy. As home minister Rajnath Singh had announced, Sharma as the representative of Government of India would initiate and carry forward a dialogue with the elected representatives, various organisations and other individuals concerned in Jammu and Kashmir. By giving the rank of the cabinet secretary, the government clearly wanted to…

2 premature repatriations including one of home minister’s PS; also 1 extension, 1 additional charge

A DAY before the Diwali, the Central government issued a number of orders including two premature repatriations, one extension of Central deputation tenure and bestowing of additional charge of the post of a Union secretary. The one of the repatriations was that of the private secretary of union home minister Rajnath Singh. Here below are the details of the 4 orders:

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…

4 IAS repatriated to Bihar; 1 IAS allowed to change name; and another gets nod for cadre change on grounds of marriage

THE government on Wednesday decided to repatriate four Bihar cadre IAS officers, two of them — Sunil Kumar Singh of 1983 batch and Dr Subhas Sharma of 1984 batch — being very senior, as their batch mates are already union secretaries. The repatriation order approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, came in less than a month after the change of government in Patna with chief minister Nitish Kumar deciding to junk its ally RJD and partnering with its old ally, the BJP. The two other IAS officers who were also repatriated to Bihar on Wednesday were…

Tenure curtailed for Khadi and Village Industries Commission CEO, two other senior officers

THE government has curtailed the tenure of Anshu Sinha, 1999 batch Maharashtra cadre IAS and CEO of Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) barely five months after she was brought into Mumbai to head the Commission. Two other officers whose current tenure is also curtailed are 1988 batch Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS Manoj Kumar Singh and 1996 batch Indian Audit and Account Service officer Shanti Priya Sarela. Ms Sinha took charge of KVIC only on February 1 this year, and her tenure was up to January 29, 2019, according to her appointments order. She took charge just after the KVIC was mired around the controversy of replacing…