Praveen Vaishtha (IAS:1991:BH) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs; vice: Rakesh Singh (IAS:1989:KN) Subhash Chandra (IFS:1988:UT) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Mines; vice: Naresh Kumar (IAS:1987:UT) Meera Swarup (IA&AS:1988) has been appointed as Joint Secretary and Financial Advisor, Department of Expenditure; vice: H P Rao (IA&AS:1981) R K Chaturvedi (IAS:1987:MP) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Implementation Cell, Seventh Pay Commission, Department of Expenditure Deepti Umashankar (IAS:1993) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat. (newly created post) Gopi Chandra Chhawaniya (ITS:1991) has been appointed as Director, Ministry of Home Affairs Anwar Hussain Shaik (IRTS:2000) has been appointed as Director, Department of Consumer Affairs Babu Lal Meena (IOFS:2005) has been appointed as Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs Kavitha Vaibhav Padmanabhan (IAS:2006:AM) has been appointed as Deputy Secretary, Department of Personnel and Training T V Ramachandran (IPS:1990:TN) has been appointed as Minister (Personnel), Embassy of India, Berlin Leena Nair (IAS:1982:TN) Chairperson, MPERDA has been given the additional charge of the post of Chairman, Coffee Board Anita Praveen (IAS:1989:TN) Joint Secretary, Department of Commerce has been given the additional charge of the post of Chief Executive Officer, Price Stabilization Fund Trust