Ashok Lavasa (IAS:1980:HY) Secretary, MEF&CC has been appointed Secretary, Department of Expenditure; vice: Ratan P Watal (IAS:1978:AP). Ajay Narayan Jha (IAS:1982:MN), Special Secretary, Department of Expenditure has been appointed Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change; vice: Ashok Lavasa (IAS:1980:HY) Ajay Mittal (IASL1982:HP) has been appointed I&B Secretary. Mittal will replace Sunil Arora (IAS:1980:RJ) after his retirement on April 30. Snehlata Srivastava (IAS:1982:MP) Special Secretary, Department of Financial Services has been appointed Secretary, Department of Justice; vice: Kusumjit Sidhu (IAS:1979:PB) Vijay Shankar Pandey (IAS:1979:UP) Secretary, Chemicals and Petrochemicals has been appointed Secretary, Department of Fertilizers; vice: Anuj Kumar Bishnoi (IAS:1981:UP) Anuj Kumar Bishnoi (IAS:1981:UP) Secretary, Department of Fertilizers has been appointed as Secretary, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals; vice: Vijay Shankar Pandey (IAS:1979:UP) Hem Kumar Pande (IAS:1982:WB), Secretary, Official Languages has been appointed Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs; vice: Chirravuri Viswanath (IAS:1981:AP) Chirravuri Viswanath (IAS:1981:AP) Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs appointed as Secretary, Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances Vice Devendra Chaudhary (IAS:1980:UP). Devendra Chaudhary (IAS:1980:UP) laterally appointed as Secretary, Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries; vice: Ashok Kumar Angurana (IAS:1980:JK). Angurana retiring on April 30. Susheel Kumar (IAS:1982:UP) Special Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change has been appointed Secretary (Boarder Management), MHA; vice: Anoop Kumar Srivastava (IAS:1981:AM) Anoop Kumar Srivastava (IAS:1981:AM) Secretary (Boarder Management), MHA has been appointed Secretary, Department of Official Languages; vice: Hem Kumar Pande (IAS:1982:WB) Jai Priye Prakash (IAS:1982:AM), Special Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat has been appointed as Secretary, Department of Pharmaceuticals; vice: Dr V K Subburaj (IAS:1980:TN) Prabhas Kumar Jha (IAS:1982:UP) Special Secretary & Financial Adviser, Dept of Food & Public Distribution has been appointed as Secretary, Parliamentary Affairs; vice: Afzal Amanullah (IAS:1979:BH) Leena Nair (IAS:1982:TN) Chairperson, MPEDA has been appointed as Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development vice: V Somasundaran (IAS:1979:KL). Ms Nair has been also appointed as OSD (Secretary level) in the same Ministry on newly created post Dr Wahab Uddin has been given the additional charge of Director, Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences till July 20, 2016. Air Marshal P P Khandekar has been appointed as Air Officer-in-Charge Maintenance, Air HQs, Delhi