The government of India has empanelled 54 IAS officers of 1997 batch to be posted in the rank of Joint Secretary in Govt of India. Out of 76 officers in the batch 54 have found place on the empanelment list issued on March 16, 2015. State-wise list of IAS officers (1997 batch) empanelled as Jt Secretary (GoI) are as follows:- Andhra Pradesh (03)- Peeyush Kumar, Jamjam Syamala Rao, Ahmed Nadeem Bihar (02)- Santosh Kumar Mall, Ms A N Safeena Chhattisgarh (02)- Subodh Kumar Singh, Ms Niharika Barik Gujarat (05)- Ms Shahmeena Hussain, Manish Bhardwaj, Ms Sonal Mishra, Ashwini Kumar, Ramesh Chandra Meena Himachal Pradesh (02)- Subhasish Panda, Rajneesh Haryana (01)- Rakesh Gupta Jharkhand (01)- Sunil Kumar Barnwal Jammu & Kashmir (01)- Manoj Kumar Dwivedi Kerala (03)- Ms Sharmila Mary Joseph K, Rabindra Kr Agarwal, Shasidhar K Srinivas Karnataka (02)- S Selvakumar, Harsh Gupta Maharashtra (05)- Asheesh Sharma, Vijay Singhal, Eknath Rajaram Dawale, A L Jarhad, Harshdeep Shriram Kamble Madhya Pradesh (03)- Manish Singh, Sukh Veer Singh, Gulshan Bamra Manipur-Tripura (01)- Shantanu Orissa (03)- Sanjeeb Kumar Mishra, Sanjay Kumar Singh, Pramod Kumar Meherda Punjab (03)- Krishan Kumar, Veerendra Kr Meena, Ms Rakhee Gupta Bhandari Rajasthan (03)- Hemant Kr Gera, Ms Gayatri A Rathore, Rohit Kr Tamil Nadu (05)- Ashish Vachhani, Pankaj Kr Bansal, D Karthikeyan, Satyabrata Sahoo, Ms Beela Rajesh Uttarakhand (02)- Ramesh Kr Sudhanshu, Lalrinliana Fanai Uttar Pradesh (03)- Mahendra Prasad Agarwal, Hari Om, M K Shanmuga Sundaram AGMUT (03)- Sandeep Kumar, V Chandavelou, P Krishnamurthy West Bengal (01)- Rajeev Kumar