Rajesh Bhushan (IAS:1987:BH) has been given the additional charge of Secretary (Security) in the Cabinet Secretariat, who is the administrative head of Special Protection Group guarding the prime minister and former PMs. He is presently posted as Secretary Coordination in the Cabinet Secretariat.
A K Jain gets addl. charge of Secretary, Ministry of Mines
Anil Kumar Jain (IAS:1986:MP), Secretary, Ministry of Coal has been given additional charge of Secretary, Ministry of Mines from November 02, 2019 to November 13, 2019 during the period of absence on leave of Anil Gopishankar Mukim (IAS:1985:GJ).
A K Panda gets addl charge of Secretary, D/o Health & Family Welfare
Arun Kumar Panda (IAS:1984:OR), Secretary, M/o MSME has been given additional charge of the post of Secretary, Department of Health & Family Welfare from November 01, 2019 to November 24, 2019 during the period of absence on leave of Ms. Preeti Sudan (IAS:1983:AP).
R K Mathur sworn-in as LG of Ladakh
Former defence secretary Radha Krishna Mathur (Retd. IAS:1977:TR), on Thursday, sworn-in as the first Lt. Governor of Union Territory of Ladakh. He was administered the oath of office by Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court Gita Mittal at a function at Tisuru.
G C Murmu sworn-in as LG of Jammu and Kashmir
Girish Chandra Murmu (IAS:1985:GJ) on Thursday took oath as the first Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. He was administered the Oath of Office and Secrecy by Justice Gita Mittal, Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court, at a function held at the Raj Bhavan.
The warrant of appointment of Murmu, a 1985 batch IAS officer from Gujarat, was read out by Chief Secretary B V R Subrahmanyam.
M K Gupta and Raj Kumar appointed as MD of LIC
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved the appointment of Mukesh Kumar Gupta and Raj Kumar as Managing Director of insurance behemoth LIC. Presently, they are working as Executive Directors in LIC. The Banks Board Bureau (BBB) had recommended their names after interviewing seven officials in August, 2019.
In addition to Chairman, LIC has four Managing Directors. The appointment is done against the vacancy created by retirement of B Venugopal and Hemant Bhargava in May and July, respectively.
In March, the government had appointed MR Kumar as the chairman of LIC, and TC Suseel Kumar and Vipin Anand were appointed as managing directors.
S K Chadha gets extension as MD, NAFED
The tenure of Sanjeev Kumar Chadha (IFS:1989:OR), Managing Director, National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd. (NAFED) under Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare has been extended for a period of two years beyond 25.11.2019 or until further orders.
R P Mandal appointed as Chief Secretary, Chhattisgarh
R P Mandal (IAS:1987:CG) was on Thursday appointed as Chief Secretary in the Chhattishgarh government. The appointment of Mandal came following the retirement of Sunil Kujur (IAS:1986:CG) from service today. Mondal will have a brief tenure of seventeen months as State Chief Secretary.
He is presently posted as Additional Chief Secretary Panchayat and Rural Development with additional charge of Development Commissioner and Director General Thakur Pyarelal Panchayat and Rural Development Institute (SIRD), Raipur as well as Forest department.
3 IAS officers posted as SDOs in Haryana
The Haryana government on Wednesday posted three IAS officers of 2017 batch as sub-divisional officers (SDOs) of various sub-division in the state.
The names of the officers and their postings are as follows:
- Sunil Gupta : SDO (Civil), Samalkha.
- Swapnil Ravindra Patil : SDO (Civil), Ganaur.
- Vishram Kumar Meena : SDO (Civil), Mahendragarh.
Satendra Kumar Gomasta selected as Director(Technical), CMPDIL
Satendra Kumar Gomasta has been selected to the post of Director(Technical), Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Ltd. (CMPDIL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on October 30, 2019. He is currently serving as General Manager, Northern Coalfields Ltd..
The following 09 applicants were interviewed in the selection meeting :
- Dipankar Bhattacharjee, General Manager, Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Ltd (CMPDIL)
- Sukumar Dalapati, General Manager, Eastern Coalfields Limited
- Ishwardas Zankyant, General Manager, Western Coalfields Ltd.
- Vishnu Kumar Gupta, General Manager, Western Coalfields Ltd.
- Narayan Dash, General Manager, Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd.
- Satendra Kumar Gomasta, General Manager, Northern Coalfields Ltd.
- Rakesh Sharma, General Manager, Mineral Exploration Corporation Limited
- Suresh Chandra Suman, Chief General Manager, NLC India Limited
- Jagdish Chandra Mazumdar, Chief General Manager, NLC India Limited