New Delhi: (28.10.2025): The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has cleared the empanelment of 38 officers from various services, batches and cadres of Indian Telecommunications Service,  Indian Cost Accounts Service, Indian Ordnance Factory Service, Indian Post and Telecommunication Accounts and Finance Service, Indian Forest Service, Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax) and Indian Revenue Service (Customs & Indirect Taxes) for holding the Joint Secretary or equivalent rank posts in the Government of India. The move is expected to fill key positions across several government ministries and departments. The names of these officers are as follows:-

Indian Telecommunications Service (ITS)

1. Mukesh Kumar (1995)
2. Navneet Chouhan (1995)
3. Sandeep Bhardwaj (1995)
4. Thomas Varghese (1995)
5. V D Godhate (1995)
6. Shiv Ratan (1996)

Indian Cost Accounts Service (ICoAS)

1. G Venkatesh (1997)
2. Sanjay Kumar (1998)

Indian Ordnance Factory Service (IOFS)

1. Anurag Anand  (2002)
2. Ashish Kumar Gupta  (2002)
3. Deepika Lohia Aran (2002)
4. Gurjeet Singh Dhillon (2002)
5. Kulveer Singh Yadav (2002)
6. Naval Kishor (2002)
7. Ngachan Z (2002)
8. Rajiv Kumar (2002)
9. Vivek Virmani (2002)

Indian Post and Telecommunication Accounts and Finance Service (IP&TA&FS)

1. Sanjay Kumar (2003)

Indian Forest Service (IFoS)

1. Amit Verma (IFoS: 2005: UD)
2. Neha Verma (IFoS: 2005: UD)

Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax)

1. Aakash Dewangan  (IRS IT: 2005)
2. Anshuman Sharma  (IRS IT: 2005)
3. Anurag Sharma  (IRS IT: 2005)
4. J Saravanan (IRS IT: 2005)
5. Mukesh Kumar Jha (IRS IT: 2005)
6. Nikhil Varma (IRS IT: 2005)
7. Nishtha Tiwari (IRS IT: 2005)
8. Premanand J (IRS IT: 2005)
9. Rajat Kapoor (IRS IT: 2005)
10. Ramesha G (IRS IT: 2005)
11. Ritu Sharma (IRS IT: 2005)
12. Satya Pal Kumar (IRS IT: 2005)
13. Vipul Agarwal (IRS IT: 2005)

Indian Revenue Service (Customs & Indirect Taxes)

1. Arvind Saran (IRS C&IT: 2005)
2. Jayaprahasam S (IRS C&IT: 2005)
3. N Gandhikumar (IRS C&IT: 2005)
4. Pawan Kumar (IRS C&IT: 2005)
5. Santosh Kumar Mohanty (IRS C&IT: 2005)