The post of Ms Tasneem Maajid Ganai (IAS:2004:JK) has been upgraded to the Director level in the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment.

The post of Rajender Kumar (IAS:2004:GJ) has been upgraded to the Director level in the Department of Personnel and Training.

The post of Ms Palka Sahni (IAS:2004:BH) has been upgraded to the Director level in the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion.

The post of Ms Shruti Singh (IAS:2004:PB) has been upgraded to the Director level in the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion.

The post of Manoj Kumar Singh (IAS:2009:BH) as Private Secretary to R K Singh, MoS Power has been upgraded to the Deputy Secretary level.

The Appointment Committee of the Cabinet has promoted Scientist ‘F’ including V Sivaramakrishnaiah to the grade of Scientist’G’.

Harinand Rai, Executive Director (ED), Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has been appinted as Director (Technical) in Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) for a period of five years.

B. Sriram, MD, SBI has been appointed as MD & CEO, IDBI Bank Limited for a period of three months.

As many as 17 IRS-IT officer have been promoted to the grade of Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax.

The officers are :

1. R.P Srivastava
2. Rakesh Mohan Garg
3. Sushil Kumar
4. Ashu Jain
5. Shyama Prasad Choudhary
6. Prabhash Shanker
7. Akhoury Abhay Shankar
8. Seema Khorana Patra
9. Asha Agarwal
10. Subrata Kumar Dash
11. Vinodanand Jha
12. Kavita Jha
13. Bishwanath Jah
14. Neena Nigam
15. Girish Chandorkar
16. B R Balakrishanan
17. Sunita Puri

Three IAS officers of 1987 batch have been promoted to the Rank of Additional Chief Secretary in Odisha.

They are :

1.Tuhin Kanta Panday : ACS, Finance.
2.Rajesh Verma : ACS, CM.
3.Raj Kumar Sharma : ACS, Steel and Mines.

while Nikunja Kishore Sundaray (IAS:1987) has been given proforma promotion.