ACC Empanels 28 Senior IAS Officers for Additional Secretary-Level Posts at Centre

ACC approves empanelment of 28 senior IAS officers for appointment as Additional Secretary or equivalent level posts in the Central Government.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet on Saturday (February 28, 2025) approved the empanelment of 28 IAS senior officers from various batches and cadres for appointment as Additional Secretary or Additional Secretary-equivalent posts at the central government.

The officers empanelled are:

Secretary/Secretary Equivalent posts:

  1. Dheeraj Sahu (IAS:1996:UP)
  2. Debasish Prusty (IAS:2000:RJ)
  3. Lokhande Prashant Sitaram (IAS:2001:AGMUT)
  4. Mandeep K Bhandari (IAS:2001:AGMUT)
  5. Sridhar Chiruvolu (IAS:2001:BH)
  6. Arti Kanwar (IAS:2001:GJ)
  7. Vijay Nehra (IAS:2001:GJ)
  8. R Selvam (IAS:2001:HP)
  9. Pankaj Yadav (IAS:2001:HY)
  10. Darpan Jain (IAS:2001:KN)
  11. Nipun Vinayak (IAS:2001:MH)
  12. Prajakta L Verma (IAS:2001:MH)
  13. Shrikar Keshav Pardeshi (IAS:2001:MH)
  14. Vijayalakshmi Prasanna Bidari (IAS:2001:MH)
  15. Nidhi Mani Tripathi (IAS:2001:MN)
  16. Dodda Venkata Swamy (IAS:2001:OR)
  17. Priyank Bharti (IAS:2001:PB)
  18. Neetu Kumari Prasad (IAS:2001:TG)

Secretary Equivalent posts:

  1. Anoop Kumar Agrawal (IAS:1993:WB)
  2. Sarita Chauhan Chand (IAS:1999:AGMUT)
  3. Bhaskar Jyoti Sharma (IAS:1999:OR)
  4. Shubha Sarma (IAS:1999:OR)
  5. Kumar Rahul (IAS:2000:PB)
  6. Sorabh Babu (IAS:2000:UP)
  7. Ankita Mishra Bundela (IAS:2001:AGMUT)
  8. Jujjavarapu Balaji (IAS:2001:AM)
  9. Siddharth Jain (IAS:2001:AP)
  10. Santhanagopalan R (IAS:2001:OR)