New Delhi (06.11.2023): The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved a major reshuffle of IAS, IRS officers in the rank of Additional Secretary. Four officers have been in-situ upgraded as Additional Secretaries. The name of these officers are as follows;
- Anurag Agarwal (IAS: 1990: PB) has been appointed as Additional Secretary & Financial Advisor, Ministry of External Affairs.
- Rupinder Brar (IRS IT: 1990) has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Coal.
- Deepti Gaur Mukerjee (IAS: 1993: MP) has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Health & Family Welfare.
- Pallavi Jain Govil (IAS: 1994: MP) has been appointed as Director General of Hydrocarbons, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural.
- Sudeep Jain (IAS :1994: TN) has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Ministry of New & Renewable Energy.
- Amit Kumar Ghosh (IAS :1994: UP) has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Social Justice & Empowerment.
- Niraj Verma (IAS: 1994: AM) has been appointed as Administrator, Universal Service Obligation Fund, Department of Telecommunications in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary.
- Abhishek Singh (IAS :1995: NL) has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Ministry or Electronics & Information Technology. The officer will continue to hold the additional charge of the post of Chief Executive Officer, Karmayogi Bharat.
- Shakil P Ahamed (IAS :1995: AM) has been appointed as Additional Secretary & Financial Advisor, Ministry of Textiles.
- Hitesh Kumar S Makwana (IAS: 1995: TN) has been appointed as Surveyor General of India, Survey of India, Department of Science & Technology in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary by keeping the Recruitment Rules for the post in abeyance.
- Gitanjali Gupta (IAS: 1996: UT) has been appointed as Additional Secretary, NITI Aayog.
- Caralyn Khongwar Deshmukh (IAS: 1996: MP) has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Rural Development.
- Ritvik Ranjanam Pandey (IAS :1998: KN) has been appointed as Officer on Special Duty for Advance Cell of 16th Finance Commission, Department of Economic Affairs in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary by temporarily upgrading a vacant post of Deputy Secretary/Director in the Department
- Rajeev Kumar Mital (IAS: 1998: MH) has been appointed as Additional Secretary & Financial Advisor, Department or Atomic Energy.
- Srikant Nagulapalli (IAS :1998: AP) has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Power.
- Rahul Sharma (IAS :1998: JH) has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat.
- Manmeet Kaur Nanda (IAS :2000: WB) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat.
Officers upgraded in-situ to Additional Secretary rank are as follows:
- Aneeta C Meshram (IAS :1996: UP) has been upgraded and appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Fertilizers.
- Pankaj Kumar Bansal (IAS: 1997: TN) has been upgraded and appointed as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Cooperation.
- Vishal Chauhan (IAS: 1998: SK) has been appointed as Member (Admin), National Highways Authority of India in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary.
- Akash Tripathi (IAS: 1998: MP) has been appointed as CEO, MyGov, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology in the rank and pay or Additional Secretary.
