Anugraha Narayan Das (IDAS:1991) has been appointed as Additional FA and Joint Secretary, Ministry of Defence (Finance); vice: Veena Prasad (IDAS:1982) Archana Agrawal (IAS:1990:UP) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Power; vice: Anil Kumar Singh (IAS:1995:UT) T K Manoj Kumar (IAS:1987:KL) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Food & Public Distribution; vice: Niharika Barik Singh (IAS:1997:CG) M L Srivastava (IFoS:1989:SK) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Culture; vice: Ms Shreya Guha (IAS:1994:RJ) Asheesh Sharma (IAS:1997:MH) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship; vice: Pawan Agarawal (IAS:1985:WB) Rajvir Singh (IA&AS:1991) has been appointed as Additional FA and Joint Secretary, Department of Sports; vice: V Venu (IAS:1990:KL) Anil Bahuguna (CSS:1998) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs; vice: Hussain Shaik (IRTS:2000) Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta (IPS:1988:AM) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Heavy Industry; vice: Ambuj Sharma (IAS:1983:TN) Mukesh Nigam (IRTS:1985) has been appointed as Additional DGFT, Department of Commerce; vice: Sumeet Jerath (IAS:1985:AM) Ms L Indumathy (CSS:1996) has been appointed as Secretary, BIFR, Department of Financial Services; vice: V P Bhardwaj (CSS:1980) M C Luther (CSS:2000) has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Personnel & Training on lateral shift basis from Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs; vice: Mukta Goel (ITS:1992) Ms S Radha Chauhan (IAS:1988:UP) has been appointed as President & CEO (Joint Secretary level), National e-Governance Divison under Department of Electronics & Information Technology Ashok Kumar Mehta IRS (C&CE:1987) has been appointed as Private Secretary to the President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee in the President's Secretariat (Director level) ACC has approved the extension of central deputation tenure of Dr N C Asthana (IPS:1986:KL) from 04 Feburary 2016 to the period upto 31 January 2017 S S Pendharkar (IDAS:1990) has been appointed as Central Vigillance Officer, Mazagon Dock Limited for the period upto January 2019