Latest update (07:35 pm) Arun Kumar Sinha (IPS:1987:KL) appointed as Director, Special Protection Group. Nikunj Kumar Srivastava (IAS:1998:MP) appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Personnel & Training Gyanesh Bharti (IAS:1998:UT) appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Enviornment, Forest & Climate Change; vice: Sanjiv Kumar (IAS:1986:KN) S K Dev Verman (IAS:1988:MN) appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Minority Affairs; vice: Preeti Madan (IES:1981) Vikram Singh Gaur (IFS:1986:JH) appointed as Joint Secretary, NITI Aayog R K Sudhanshu (IAS:1997:UD) appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Electronics & Information Technology; vice: Ajay Kumar (IAS:1985:KL) Santosh D Vaidya (IAS:1998:UT) appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of New & Renewable Energy Vivek Joshi (IAS:1989:HY) appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Expenditure O P Chaudhary (IFS:1989:MP) appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Animal Husbandary, Dairying & Fisheries; vice: Rajni Sehri Sibal (IAS:1988:HY) S C Barmma (IPoS:1987) appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Justice; vice: A K Singh (IAS:1995:UT) Rakesh Kumar (IAS:1992:UD) appointed as Sr DDG, ICMR, Department of Health Research; vice: T S Jawahar (IAS:1990:TN) K Rajeshwar Rao (IAS:1988:TR) appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Health & Family Welfare; vice: Rakesh Kumar (IAS:1992:UL) H Sultan Mushathick posted as FA & CAO, Metro Railway, Kolkata Sukamal Chandra Basu, Arun Balakrishnan, Govind Bhikaji Parvatkar appointed as Non-official Independent Directors, Board of Shipping Corporation of India Limited. Rupa Sekhar Rai, Radhakrishna Menon, Krishna Das E appointed as Non-official Independent Directors, Board of Coachin Shipyard Limited Dr Shobha Waghmare, Sheila Sangwan appointed as Non-official Independent Directors, Board of Dredging Corporation of India Limited