THE government on Monday appointed 17 new joint secretaries including three IAS from 2000 batch, apart from prematurely repatriating one officer. The appointments also saw a 1990 batch income-tax officer (IRS-IT), Ms Ruchika Chaudhry Govil, as the new joint secretary in the steel ministry, and an Indian Forest Service (IFoS) officer — Amit Sahai of 1987 batch — getting berth in the department of defence production as JS. Here are the details of the 18 appointments:
1. Anurag Agarwal, 1990 batch Punjab cadre IAS, has been appointed as joint secretary in the department of economic affairs (DEA) in place of Raj Kumar, 1987 batch Gujarat cadre IAS.
2. Dr Manohar Agnani, 1993 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS, has been appointed as joint secretary in the department of health in place of Manoj Jhalani, 1987 batch Madhya Pradesh IAS.
3. Ms Ruchika Chaudhry Govil, 1990 batch IRS-IT officer, has been appointed as joint secretary in the ministry of steel in place of Syedain Abbasi, 1989 batch UP cadre IAS.
4. Amit Sahai, 1987 batch Assam cadre Indian Forest Service (IFoS) officer, has been appointed as joint secretary in the department of defence production in place of Ms Kusum Singh, 1984 batch IRPS.
5. Vijoy Kumar Singh, 1990 batch Punjab cadre IAS, has been appointed as joint secretary in the department of personnel and training (DoPT) in place of Ms Archana Verma, 1995 batch Assam cadre IAS.
6. Asit Singh, 1990 batch IRS-IT officer, has been appointed as joint secretary in the department of youth affairs in place of Lalit Kumar Gupta, 1987 batch Tripura cadre IAS.
7. Anil Malik, 1991 batch Haryana cadre IAS, has been appointed as joint secretary in the ministry of home affairs in place of Hitesh Kumar S Makwana, 1995 batch Tamil Nadu cadre lAS.
8. Vivek Bhardwaj, 1990 batch West Bengal cadre IAS and joint secretary in coal ministry, has been appointed as joint secretary in the ministry of home affairs (MHA) on lateral shift basis.
9. Ravinesh Kumar, 1994 batch IDAS, has been appointed as financial advisor (JS level), NDMA under the ministry of home affairs in place of Ms. AS Khatwani, 1991 batch ICAS officer.
10. Sanjay Goel, 1991 batch IRTS officer, has been appointed as joint secretary in the ministry of electronics and information technology in place of Ramesh K Sudhanshu, 1997 batch UD cadre IAS.
11. Gopalakrishnan S, 1991 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IAS, has been appointed as joint secretary in the ministry of electronics and information technology in place of Rajiv Bansal, 1998 batch Nagaland cadre IAS.
12. Ms Anuradha Thakur, 1994 batch Himachal Pradesh cadre lAS, has been appointed as joint secretary in the department of investment and public asset management in place of Manish Singh, 1997 batch MP cadre IAS.
13. Ms Kalpana Rajsinghot, 1992 batch IPoS officer, has been appointed as joint secretary in the ministry of labour and employment in place of Rajiv Arora, 1987 batch Haryana cadre lAS.
14. Ms Manju Pandey, 1989 batch IPoS officer, has been appointed as joint secretary in the ministry of environment, forest and climate change in place of Arun Kumar Mehta, 1988 batch Jammu and Kashmir cadre IAS.
15. Dr N Saravana Kumar, 2000 batch Bihar cadre IAS, has been appointed as joint secretary in the department of higher education in place of Shashi Prakash Goyal, 1989 batch UP cadre IAS.
16. Niranjan Kumar Sudhansu, 2000 batch Maharashtra cadre IAS, has been appointed as joint secretary in the ministry of coal in place of Rameshwar Prasad Gupta, 1987 batch Gujarat cadre lAS.
17. S Suresh Kumar, 2000 batch Andhra Pradesh cadre IAS, has been appointed as additional CEO, GeM SPY (joint secretary level) under the department of commerce.
18. The government has prematurely repatriated Rajiv Arora, 1987 batch Haryana cadre IAS and joint secretary in the ministry of labour and employment, to his parent cadre.
It is a tragedy of government service that an IAS officer of 2000 batch is getting Joint Secretary while other services'officers of 1990 are still awaiting for JS empanelment.
ReplyDeleteGOI should make a rule that only IAS,IPS and IFS will get Joint Secretary posts in government of India.
It is really an unequal world. In India, only being an IAS matters.
It is truth. Reason is staffing of DOPT by IAS officers.
ReplyDeleteJai Ho, IAS Ji!
There has to be some system of parity in emapnelment for JS. Ok, keep IAS 2 years ahead; but keep it ahead only by 2 years and speed up empanelment in other services.
ReplyDeleteWhatever happened to Parity
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to the recruitment of NID directors? Is DOPT the cause of delay or is it still lying at PMO?
ReplyDeleteIAS are actually very insecure about their capacities so they dominate by means of Dopt empanelment,they are scared of technocrats and professionals of equivalent field.Only one examination is their tenacity
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