Bureaucratic Reshuffle

In a major bureaucratic reshuffle in the Assam government, Ravi Kota is set to be the new Chief Secretary of the state.Dr. Ravi Kota, a 1993-batch IAS officer, is posted as the Additional Chief Secretary to the Government of Assam, Home & Political (including Passport, Prisons etc).In a notification issued by the Personnel (A) department of the Assam government said "Dr. Ravi Kota, IAS is appointed as Chief Secretary to the Government of Assam with effect from the date of superannuation of Paban Borthakur, IAS Chief Secretary to the Assam government on 31/12/2024.""Till then Dr. Kota will serve as the Additional Chief Secretary to the Government of Assam, Industries, Commerce & Public Enterprises with additional charge of Additional Chief Secretary of Finance department, OSD in the office of Chief Secretary", the government notification stated further.Dr Krishna Kumar Dwivedi, Principal Secretary of Personnel and Power (E) department & Chairman, APDCL (Additional ...

Senior IAS officers Sunil Barthwal and Vivek Bharadwaj have been named as the Commerce and Mines Secretary, respectively, as part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected on Thursday. Barthwal, a 1989-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Bihar cadre, is currently Secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment. He has been appointed as Officer on Special Duty in the Department of Commerce with immediate effect, an order issued by the Personnel Ministry said. Barthwal will take over as the Commerce Secretary succeeding B V R Subrahmanyam, who superannuates on September 30, it said. Subrahmanyam, a 1987-batch IAS officer of Chhattisgarh cadre, has been appointed as Chairman & Managing Director, India Trade Promotion Organization on contract basis for a period of two years in the rank and pay of Secretary to the Government of India upon his superannuation. Arti Ahuja, Secretary, Department of Chemicals and Petro-Chemicals, will be Labour and Employment Secretary .

Days after the national capital got a new Lieutenant Governor in Vinai Kumar Saxena, the Delhi government on Monday effected a major bureaucratic reshuffle involving 40 officers.

Rajaraman will take over the charge from Anshu Prakash who is due to superannuate on September 30

Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijal transferred and posted ten IAS officers in a bureaucratic reshuffle, appointing Food and Civil Supplies Secretary Ankita Mishra Bundela as his secretary.

Keshav Chandra has been appointed as the Director of Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO)

While Mahesh Kumar Agarwal, ADGP (Operations) has been given the charge of the new commissioner for Greater Chennai Police

Tarun Bajaj, who takes over as Economic Affairs Secretary this week, is the latest in a string of bureaucrats who have worked closely with Narendra Modi in the past

The decision was taken on Sunday by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) chaired by the Prime Minister

Chief Electoral Officer Rajat Kumar has been posted as Principal Secretary to Irrigation and Command Area Development Department

Of the total officers, thirteen are from IAS and the rest from other services like IRS, IFoS and CSS, among others

IAS officers Piyush Goel and Nidhi Khare will be joint secretaries in the Home Ministry for five years

Senior bureaucrat Rajiv Kumar appointed as DFS secretary

Those denied promotions are feeling demoralised and thinking of returning to their home states

Aruna Sundararajan will be new telecom secretary; Ajay Kumar Bhalla will be the new power secretary

Ashok Lavasa, the government's finance secretary, could be the next defence secretary, after incumbent G Mohan Kumar finishes his tenure this month. This, coupled with economic affairs secretary Shaktikanta Das' retirement, again in late May, will trigger a bureaucratic reshuffle and could lead to Hasmukh Adhia, revenue secretary, becoming the finance secretary, this newspaper has learnt.Lavasa, a 1980 batch Indian Administrative Service Officer, has been expenditure secretary since April 2016. He was officially named finance secretary (the term given to the seniormost of secretaries handling the economy) two months later. Senior officials said there have been discussions in the highest echelons on moving Lavasa to defence.The secretaries of home and defence can be given a two-year l extension beyond their scheduled retirement date. Mohan Kumar was made defence secretary in May 2015 for two years, on the day of his retirement. Rajiv Mehrishi, home secretary, was also given the post ..

Of the total bureaucrats, only 6 are from Indian Administrative Service

This new appointment under the human resource development ministry comes soon after Smriti Irani was replaced by Prakash Javadekar as its minister