Government Announces Major Bureaucratic Reshuffle, Appoints 35 Officers to Key Positions

The Appointments Committee of the Union Cabinet has approved the postings of 35 officers from various all-India services in a significant administrative reshuffle. The officers, belonging to the IAS, IPS, IRSS, ITS, IRS, IES, and IRTS, have been assigned crucial roles across different ministries and departments.

Among the key appointments, IAS Madhup Vyas from the AGMUT cadre has been designated as the Deputy Election Commissioner for a tenure of five years. Other notable officers in the reshuffle include IAS Prasanna R, IAS Sushma Chauhan, IAS Prajakta L Verma, IAS Armstrong Pame, IAS Pradeep Kumar Jha, and IAS Isha, all of whom have been assigned significant responsibilities in the government.

Muktanand Agarwal, a 2008-batch IAS officer from Rajasthan, will now serve as the Chief Executive Officer of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana under the Department of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare for five years.

IAS officers Prasanna R. and Sushma Chauhan have been named joint secretaries in the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Kamala Kant Tripathy, a 1999-batch officer from the Indian Economic Service, has been appointed as a joint secretary in the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM), NITI Aayog, for five years.

IAS Prajakta L Verma will oversee administrative responsibilities as joint secretary in the Department of Atomic Energy, while IRSS Lakhpat Singh Choudhary has been assigned as joint secretary in the Ministry of Coal.

IAS Saket Kumar, from the 2009 Bihar cadre, will now be a joint secretary in the Department of Commerce.

ITS Satinder Kumar Bhalla has been appointed as the secretary of the North Eastern Council Secretariat.

Ajay Kumar, 1993 batch of IP&TA&FS, will take on the role of joint secretary in the Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare.

IAS Devesh Deval, a 2004-batch officer from Maharashtra, has been appointed as joint secretary in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries.

IAS Raghav Langer has been confirmed as the secretary of the National Medical Commission, and IAS Jyoti Yadav will be a joint secretary in the National Health Authority (NHA).

Prem Chandra Maurya, IRS IT, has been appointed as a joint secretary in the Ministry of Heavy Industries, while IAS Armstrong Pame will serve as joint secretary in the Department of Higher Education.

Samir Kumar, from the Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) has been named joint secretary at the National Human Rights Commission.

Additionally, IAS Pradeep Kumar Jha and IAS Isha have been appointed as joint secretaries in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.

Other appointments include the following names:

• IAS M Ramachandrudu (2009: BH) has been appointed as Director (Census Operations) (JS level), Bihar, in the Office of Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India, under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
• IAS T Mithra (2009: KL) has been appointed as Director (Census Operations) (JS level), Kerala, in the Office of Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India, under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
• IOFS Ashish Kumar (1996) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Investment & Public Asset Management.
• IDAS Satya Pratap Singh (IDAS: 2003) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Justice.
• IRS IT Vatsalya Saxena (1994), Chief Executive Officer (CEO) (JS level) of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), under the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, has been prematurely repatriated to his parent cadre.
• IAS Javvadi V Naga Subramanyam (2009: AM) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
• IRSEE Rajesh Kulhari (1996) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
• IRAS Mukta Shekhar (1994) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj.
• IPS Sushil Mansing Khopde (1995: BH) has been appointed as Additional Director General (JS level), Directorate General of Shipping, under the Ministry of Ports, Shipping & Waterways.
• IAS Venkatesapathy S (2009: KL) has been appointed as Joint Secretary (Shipping), Ministry of Ports, Shipping & Waterways.
• IAS Aditi Singh (2009: UP) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Rural Development.
• IFoS Prabhat Tyagi (1995: UT) has been appointed as CMD, National Scheduled Castes Finance & Development Corporation (NSFDC), under the Department of Social Justice & Empowerment.
• H Kam Suanthang (CSS) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC), under the Department of Social Justice & Empowerment.
• IAS Padmini Singla (2002: UT) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Textiles, for a tenure of five years.
• IFoS Anant Prakash Pandey (1999: HY) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
• IRTS Karan Singh (1999) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Water Resources, RD & GR.
• ITS Sanjeev Kumar Sharma (1990) has been appointed as Member Secretary (JS level),  National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), under the Ministry of Women & Child Development.
• IRTS Rajesh Kuihari (1996) has been appointed as Joint Secretary of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.