The Appointment Committee of Cabinet has effected massive appointments and reshuffle (including in-situ promotion from Director to JS, lateral-shifting, repatriation) as follows: Arun Singhal (IAS:1987:UP) appointed as Jt Secretary, Department of Health & Family Welfare for a period of five years vice K C Samaria (IAS:1993:AM). Nikunja Kishore Sundaray (IAS:1987:OR) appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises for a period of five years by upgrading one post of Joint Development Commissioner (JDC) vice Ramesh Pandey in Development Commissioner (MSME). Dharitri Panda (ICAS:1987) appointed as Additional FA & Joint Secretary, Ministry of Defence (Finance) on lateral shift basis for a period up to 06 November 2019. She replaces Rajnish Kumar (IDAS:1984). Aramane Giridhar (IAS:1988:AP) appointed as Joint Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat for a period of five years vice Alok Tandon (IAS:1986:UP) V G Reddy (IRSSE:1985) appointed as Deputy Director General, UIDAI on lateral shift basis for a tenure ending 10 June 2020. He replaces Alok Chaturvedi (IAS:1985:IDAS) Dinesh Bisht (IPS:1987:BH), currently serving as Jt Secretary in Ministry of Monority Affairs repatriated to his parent cadre (Bihar) with immediate effect. Ali Raza Rizvi (IAS:1988:HP) appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Commerce on lateral shift basis for a period ending 30 Sept 2019 vice Ravi Capoor, lAS (AM:1986) Rajit Punhani (IAS:1991:BH) appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment on lateral shift basis for a period up to 07 October 2019 vice Dheeraj Kumar, lAS (TN:1993) R K Sinha (IDAS:1991) appointed as Additional Secretary (JS level), UPSC under Department of Personnel & Trainin vice R K Arora (IDAS:1990) Dilip Sharma (IRS IT:1992) appointed as Director General, Election Commission of India for a period of three years by  converting one CSS post vice P K Dash (IRS IT:1982) to a Non-CSS post. K C Samaria (IAS:1993:AM) appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Minority Affairs on lateral for period up to 27 July 2019 vice Dinesh Bist (IPS:1987:BH). Sanjay Kumar (IAS:1995:TG) appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation for a period of five years vice B K Agarwal, lAS (HP:1985). Lav Agarwal (IAS:1996:AP) appointed Joint Secretary, Department of Health & Family Welfare vice Anshu Prakash (IAS:1986:UT) who appointed as Additional Secretary, Dept of Heavy Industry on 14 July 2016. Ms Rakhee Gupta Bhandari (IAS:1997:PB) laterally shifted from Ministry of Home to Ministry of Minority Affairs for the balance period of her combined seven year central deputation tenure up to 30.04.2017. She replaces Rakesh Mohan (IA&AS:1987) in Minority Affairs. Suresh Kumar Vashist, lAS (OR:1998) appointed Joint Secretary, Department of Food & Public Distribution for a period up to 16 September 2019. He replaces Late Sri U K S Chauhan, a 1986 batch Kerala cadre IAS officer who passed away this year. V Sheshadri (IAS:1999:TG) in-situ promoted to Joint Secretary in Prime Minister's Office. For Sheshadri a JS post (vacant) was transferred from Dept of Atomic Energy to PMO. Brajendra Navnit (IAS:1999:TN) promoted, in-situ, to Joint Secretary in PMO for a tenure ending 02 July 2019. The post of Director is upgraded to JS. Syed Ali Murtaza Rizvi (