Anoop Kumar Srivastava (IAS:1981:AM): Additional charge of Secretary, Department of Official Languages; vice: Girish Shankar (IAS:1982:BH) S M Vijayanand (IAS:1981:KL): Additional charge of Secretary, Department of Rural Development; vice: Jugal Kishore Mohapatra (IAS:1979:OR) Chandradeep Kumar Jha (ISS:2000): Appointed as Director, Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion  Praveen Karanth IRS (IT:2003): Appointed as Deputy Secretary, Department of Space, Bangalore  Anil Ranga (IOFS:1998): Appointed as Director, Department of Economic Affairs  Rajan Agrawal (IDSE:1984): Appointed as Director, Department of Agricultural Research & Education 07 IDAS officers (1994 batch) has been empanelled as Joint Secretary/ Joint Secretary equivalent in Government of India 04 IDAS officers (1995 batch) has been empanelled as Joint Secretary/Joint Secretary equivalent in Government of India