64 officers empanelled for Joint Secretary posts at Centre

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet on Wednesday (April 8, 2026) approved empanelment of 64 officers from various services for holding Joint Secretary-equivalent rank posts in Government of India.

They are;

Indian Administrative Service (IAS):

1. Rajesh Prabhakar Patil (IAS:2005:OD)
2. Gaurav Goyal (IAS:2006:RJ)
3. Hrishikesh B Yashod (IAS:2006:UP)
4. V Shanmugam (IAS:2007:UD)
5. Kajal (IAS:2008:UP)
6. Saumya Agarwal (IAS:2008:UP)
7. A Muthu Kumar (IAS:2009:JH)
8. Gauri Parasher Joshi (IAS:2009:PB)
9. N Venkatesh (IAS:2009:TN)
10. Priyanka Das (IAS:2009:MP)
11. Rathod Sandeep Rewaji (IAS:2009:TR)
12. Rohan Chand Thakur (IAS:2009:HP)
    13.S Tejaswi Naik (IAS:2009:MP)
13. Sumeet Kumar Jarangal (IAS:2009:PB)
14. Prakash Rajpurohit (IAS:2010:RJ)
15. Laya Madduri (IAS:2010:AM)

Indian Forest Service (IFoS):

1. S Senthil Kumar (IFoS:1998:AGMUT)
2. G Rajesh (IFoS:2001:OD)
3. H Raja Mohan (IFoS:2001:UP)
4. Deepa D Nair (IFoS:2001:TR)
5. S Kulandivel (IFoS:2002:WB)
6. Prachi Gangwar (IFoS:2003:KN)

Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax):

1. Srujani Mohanty (IRS-IT:1999)

Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS):

1. Praveen Pandey (IRTS:1996)
2. Dharmendra Kumar (IRTS:1998)
3. Aashima Mehrotra (IRTS:1999)
4. Jyoti Prakash Mishra (IRTS:1999)
5. R Gopalakrishnan (IRTS:1999)
6. Amit Kumar Jain (IRTS:2000)
7. Swadesh Kumar Singh (IRTS:2000)
8. Shishir Somvanshi (IRTS:2001)
9. Dibbanjan Roy (IRTS:2002)
10. R Sudharshan (IRTS:2002)

Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS):

1. S Salim Javed (IRAS:2003)

Indian Railway Stores Service (IRSS):

1. Harpreet Singh Pruthi (IRSS:1999)
2. Amit Singh (IRSS:2001)
3. Kanwalpreet (IRSS:2001)
4. Santosh Kumar Mishra (IRSS:2004)

Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers (IRSME):

1. Rajneesh Kumar Tomar (IRSME:1998)
2. Jawahar Lal (IRSME:1999)
3. Sunil Kumar Sharma (IRSME:1999)
4. Amit Saurastri (IRSME:2001)

Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineers (IRSSE):

1. Dinesh Kumar Vashishtha (IRSSE:2000)
2. Satya Narayan Meena (IRSSE:2001)

Indian Railway Service of Engineers (IRSE) (Civil):

1. Harsimran Singh (IRSE-Civil:2001)
2. Amit Kumar (IRSE-Civil:2003)
3. Pervesh Kumar (IRSE-Civil:2003)

Indian Railway Personnel Service (IRPS):

1. Yatri Dave Vitekar (IRPS:2001)

Indian Defence Accounts Service (IDAS):

1. V Yogitha (IDAS:2002)
2. Nabarun Dhar (IDAS:2004)

Indian Telecommunications Service (ITS):

1. M Srinivasulu Reddy (ITS:1993)
2. Mukesh Lal (ITS:1996)
3. Prachish Khanna (ITS:1996)
4. Rakesh S Desai (ITS:1996)
5. Vijay Prakash (ITS:1996)
6. Vivek Khare (ITS:1996)

Indian Defence Estate Service (IDES):

1. G Vijay Bhaskar (IDES:1999)
2. SVR Chandra Sekhar (IDES:2000)

Central Secretariat Service (CSS):

1. S Gopal Krishna (SSGSL:2018)
2. G Muthuraja (SSGSL:2018)
3. DK Choudhary (SSGSL:2019)

Indian Economic Service (IES):

1. Sudhir Shyam (IES:1999)
2. Sonia Pant (IES:2001)
3. Archana Mayaram (IES:2004)