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: