ACC empanels 41 officers for Joint Secretary-level posts at Centre

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) on Tuesday (April 21, 2026) approved the empanelment of 41 officers from various services for appointment to Joint Secretary or equivalent posts in the Government of India.

This comes close on the heels of an earlier empanelment cleared on April 8, 2026, when 64 officers were approved for Joint Secretary-level posts.

The empanelled officers are from multiple services, including the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS), Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax), Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS), Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS), Indian Audit & Accounts Service (IA&AS), and the Central Secretariat Service (CSS).

The officers empanelled are as follows:

Indian Administrative Service (IAS):

1. Vikrant Pandey (IAS:2005:GJ)
2. Neha Bansal (IAS:2010:AGMUT)

Indian Police Service (IPS):

1. Vikas Kumar Arora (IPS:1998:HY)
2. Sajid Farid Shapoo (IPS:1998:MP)
3. Ratn Sanjay Katiya (IPS:1998:BH)
4. Deepak Kumar Kedia (IPS:1999:AM)
5. Tarun Kumar (IPS:2000:AM)
6. Praveen Kumar (IPS:2001:UP)
7. Najmul Hoda (IPS:2001:TN)
8. Sidhartha Shashni (IPS:2003:KL)
9. Amit Kumar Singh (IPS:2003:TN)
10. N Gnanasambandan (IPS:2004:AGMUT)
11. P Karunakaran (IPS:2004:AGMUT)
12. Sonal Mohan Agnihotri (IPS:2004:HP)
13. Irshad Wali (IPS:2004:MP)
14. C Mangeswari (IPS:2004:TN)

Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax):

1. Sheodan Singh Bhadoriya (IRS-IT:2000)
2. Krishna Gopal Goyal (IRS-IT:2003)
3. Neetika Bansal (IRS-IT:2003)
4. Vivek Sharma (IRS-IT:2003)
5. Bharat Bhushan Garg (IRS-IT:2004)
6. K C Selvamani (IRS-IT:2004)
7. Prajna Paramita (IRS-IT:2004)
8. Rishpal Bedi (IRS-IT:2004)

Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS):

1. Anurag Pateria (IRTS:2005)
2. M Yelvender Yadav (IRTS:2005)
3. Swarna Ramesh Babu (IRTS:2005)

Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS):

1. Deepa Kotnis (IRAS:1999)
2. Bikram Singh Gill (IRAS:2005)

Indian Audit & Accounts Service (IA&AS):

1. Satish Sethi (IA&AS:2000)
2. Shailesh Kumar Jakhotiya (IA&AS:2003)
3. Kartikaye Mathur (IA&AS:2004)

Central Secretariat Service (CSS):

1. Pavenash Kumar Sharma (SSGSL:2021)
2. Anita Tripathi (SSGSL:2020)
3. Ashish V Gawai (SSGSL:2020)
4. GS Chitra (SSGSL:2020)
5. Jitendra R Gaikwad (SSGSL:2020)
6. Shobana Pramod (SSGSL:2020)
7. Anandi Venkateshwaran (SSGSL:2021)
8. Jitender K Mehan (SSGSL:2021)
9. Kanwar M.S. Khalsa (SSGSL:2021)