As many as 15 officers has been appointed as Joint Secretary in Government of India. A glace: Ram Subhag Singh (IAS:1987:HP) has been appointed as Deputy Director General, UIDAI, chandigarh; vice: Ms Keshni Anand Arora (IAS:1983:HY) Sanjay Ambadas Chahande (IAS:1988:MH) has been appointed as Deputy Director General, UIDAI, Mumbai; vice: A B P Pandey (IAS:1984:MH) Sonia Sethi (IAS:1994:MH), Joint Secretary, Ministry of Culture has been appointed as Additional Director General for Foreign Trade, Mumbai under Dept of Commerce; vice: Kavita Gupta (IAS:1985:MH) Rajeev Ranjan (IAS:1989:MP) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Expenditure; vice: Girish Chandra Murmu (IAS:1985:GJ) Amar Nath (IAS:1994:UT) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas; vice: U P Singh (IAS:1985:OR) A V Patil (IAS:1998:TN) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Financial Services; vice: Alok Tandon (IAS:1986:UP) Vandana Gupta (IP&TA&FS:1990), Joint Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development has been laterally shifted as Joint Secretary, National Commission for Women; vice: Sunita H Khurana (CSS:1996) Vasundhara Sinha (IRS IT:1988) has been appointed as Deputy Director General, UIDAI, New Delhi; vice: Sumeet Jerath (IAS:1985:AM) Dakshita Das (IRAS:1986) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways; vice: Niraj Verma (IAS:1994:AM) Maushumi Rudra (IDAS:1992) has been appointed as Financial Adviser, Ntional Intelligence Grid; vice: Soma Roy Burman (ICAS:1986) Pankaj Kumar Mishra (IRS IT:1989) has been appointed as Director, Financial Intelligence Unit under Dept of Revenue; vice: Praveen Kumar Tiwari (IA&AS:1985) P N Ranjit Kumar (IPoS:1993) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Ayush; vice: Jitendra Sharma (IAS:1984:PB) Sanjeev Kumar Chadha (IFoS:1989:OR) has been appointed as Managing Director, National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited; vice: Ram Subhag Singh (IAS:1987:HP) Subir Mallick (IA&AS:1989) has been appointed as Additional FA and Joint Secretary, Ministry of Defence; vice: Raj Ganesh Viswanathan (IA&AS:1987) Anandrajan V (IRS IT:1988) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Defence; vice: Ashok Dongre (IAS:1987:TN)