The Govt of India has appointed as many as nineteen officers as Joint Secretary or equivalent across departments and ministries which include; 08 IAS officers, 01 IPS, 01 IES, 02 Indian Forest Service officers, 01 IRS IT officer, 02 IP&TA&FS officers and 02 CSS cadre officers; S.No. Name Appointed as Vice 01 Praveen Sinha (IPS:88:GJ) Addl Secy (JS), CVC Ms R Budharaju (IPS:89:OR) 02 Biswajit Kr Singh (IFS:89:JK) Commissioner, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (Dept of School Edu, HRD) G S Bothyal (CSS:83) 03 Sanjiv Kr Mittal (IAS:87:UP) JS, Dept of Electronics & IT Rajendra Kr (IAS:92:TN) 04 Prashant Kr (IAS:85:MP) JS, Rural Development R Subramanyam (IAS:85:AP) 05 Ms D M Dabral (IP&TA&FS) JS, School Edu & Literacy (HRD) Yogendra Tripathi (IAS:85:KN) 06 Sanjiv Kr (IAS:86:KN) JS, MoEF&CC M M Kutty (IAS:85:UT) 07 Dharam Pal (IAS:88:UT) JS, Fertilizer H L Samariya (IAS:85:TG) 08 Ndra Bhan Singh (IES:86) ADG (JS level) BIS Ms Alka Panda (IAS:83:OR) 09 Aniruddha Kr (IRS IT:87) JS, Power B N Sharma (IAS:85:RJ) 10 C P Goyal (IFS:86:UP) JS, Dept of Biotech S Raghavan (IFS:83:OR) 11 Ms Sunita H Khurana (CSS:96) Director (JS level), ISTM, DoPT Umesh Kr (CSS:91) 12 Vandana Gupta ((IP&TA&FS:90) JS, Women & Child Dev I S Chahal (IAS:89:MH) 13 Nikunj Bihari Dhal (IAS83:OR) JS, Mines Arun Kumar (IAS:83:AM) 14 Sanjay Prasad (IAS:95:UP) JS, Defence Production J R K Rao (IAS:85:BH) 15 Manoj Dwivedi (IAS:97:JK) JS, Commerce J K Dadoo (IAS:83:UT) 16   R K Gathwal (CSS:98) Addl Secy (JS level) UPSC Newly upgraded from Dir to JS level 17 Samir K Sinha (IAS:94:AM) JS, 7th CPC...extension till 31 Dec 2015