The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister on September 18 cleared approx 16 Jt Secretary level appointments as follows: (1) Anurag Agarwal (lAS:1990:PB) appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs for a period of 05 years vice Raj Kumar (lAS:1987:GJ); (2) Dr. Manohar Agnani (lAS:1993:MP) appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Health and Family Welfare for a tenure of five years vice Manoj Jhalani (lAS:1987:MP); (3) Ms. Ruchika Chaudhry Govil (IRS IT:1990)appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Steel for a priod of five years vice Syedain Abbasi (IAS:1989:AM); (4) Amit Sahai (IFoS:1987:AM) appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Defence Production for a tenure upto his superannuation on 31 May 2022 vice Ms. Kusum Singh (IRPS:1984); (5) Vijoy Kumar Singh (lAS:1990:PB) appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Personnel & Training vice Ms. Archana Verma (lAS:1995:AM); (6) Asit Singh (IRS IT:1990) appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Youth Affairs vice Lalit Kumar Gupta (lAS:1987:TR); (7) Anil Malik (lAS:1991:HY) appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs vice Hitesh Kumar S. Makwana (lAS:1995:TN); (8) Vivek Bhardwaj (lAS:1990:WB), Jt Secretary (GoI), laterally shifted from Ministry of Coal to Ministry of Home Affairs. (9) Ravinesh Kumar (IDAS:1994) appointed as Financial Advisor (JS level) in National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) under the Ministry of Home Affairs Ms A S Khatwani (ICAS:1991); (10) Sanjay Goel (IRTS:1991) appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology for a tenure upto his superannuation on 31 December 2020 vice Ramesh K.Sudhanshu (lAS:1997:UD); (11) Gopalakrishnan S. (IAS:1991:TN) appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology vice Rajiv Bansal (lAS:1998:NL); (12) Ms. Anuradha Thakur (lAS:1994:HP) appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Investment & Public Asset Management vice Manish Singh (IAS:1997:MP); (13) Rajiv Arora, (lAS:1987:HY), Joint Secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment, repatriated to his cadrestate of Haryana. (14) Ms. Kalpana Rajsinghot (IPoS:1992) appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment vice Rajiv Arora (lAS:1987:HY); (15) Ms. Manju Pandey (IPoS:1989) appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change vice Arun Kumar Mehta (IAS:1988:JK); (16) Dr. N. Saravana Kumar (lAS:2000:BH) appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Higher Education for a period ending 23 July 2019 vice Shashi Prakash Goyal (lAS:1989:UP); (17) Niranjan Kumar Sudhansu (lAS:2000:MH) appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Coal for a tenure ending 22 december 2019 vice Rameshwar Prasad Gupta, (lAS:1987:GJ); (18) S Suresh Kumar (lAS:20OO:AP) appointed as Additional CEO, GeM SPY (JS Level) under Department of Commerce for a tenure ending 23 July 2019.