Centre effects a major reshuffle at Additional Secretary level

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) on Monday (06.11.2023) gave its approval for a significant reshuffle of IAS and IRS officers holding the rank of Additional Secretary. As part of this reshuffle, four officers have been in-situ promoted to the position of Additional Secretaries.

The name of these officers are as follows;

1. Anurag Agarwal (IAS:1990:PB) has been appointed as Additional Secretary & Financial Advisor, Ministry of External Affairs. Presently, he is serving in the cadre. He will replace Vibhu Nayar (IAS:1990:TN) upon his appointment as OSD, Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
2. Rupinder Brar (IRS-IT:1990) has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Coal. Presently, she is serving in the cadre
3. Deepti Gaur Mukerjee (IAS:1993:MP) has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Health & Family Welfare. Presently, she is serving in the cadre
4. Pallavi Jain Govil (IAS:1994:MP) has been appointed as Director General of Hydrocarbons, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary. Presently, she is serving in the cadre.
5. Sudeep Jain (IAS:1994:TN) has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Ministry of New & Renewable Energy. Presently, he is serving in the cadre
6. Amit Kumar Ghosh (IAS:1994:UP) has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Social Justice & Empowerment.
7. Niraj Verma (IAS:1994:AM) has been appointed as Administrator, Universal Service Obligation Fund, Department of Telecommunications in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary.
8. Abhishek Singh (IAS:1995:NL) has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology. The officer will continue to hold the additional charge of the post of Chief Executive Officer, Karmayogi Bharat.
9. Shakil P Ahamed (IAS:1995:AM) has been appointed as Additional Secretary & Financial Advisor, Ministry of Textiles. Presently, he is serving in the cadre.
10. Hitesh Kumar S Makwana (IAS:1995:TN) has been appointed as Surveyor General of India, Survey of India, Department of Science & Technology in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary by keeping the Recruitment Rules for the post in abeyance. Presently, he is serving as Additional Secretary, Department of Home, Ministry of Home Affairs.
11. Gitanjali Gupta (IAS:1996:AGMUT) has been appointed as Additional Secretary, NITI Aayog. Presently, he is serving as Managing Director, Tribal Co-operative Marketing Development Federation of India, Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
12. Caralyn Khongwar Deshmukh (IAS:1996:MP) has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Rural Development. Presently, he is serving in the cadre.
13. Ritvik Ranjanam Pandey (IAS:1998:KN) has been appointed as Officer on Special Duty for Advance Cell of 16th Finance Commission, Department of Economic Affairs in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary by temporarily upgrading a vacant post of Deputy Secretary/Director in the Department
14. Rajeev Kumar Mital (IAS:1998:MH) has been appointed as Additional Secretary & Financial Advisor, Department or Atomic Energy. Presently, he is serving in the cadre.
15. Srikant Nagulapalli (IAS:1998:AP) has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Power. Presently, he is serving as Joint Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat.
16. Rahul Sharma (IAS:1998:JH), Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Ayush, has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat.
17. Manmeet Kaur Nanda (IAS:2000:WB), Joint Secretary in the Department for Promotion of Industry & Internal Trade (DPIIT), has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat.

Officers upgraded in-situ to Additional Secretary rank are as follows:

1. Aneeta C Meshram (IAS:1996:UP) has been upgraded and appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Fertilizers.
2. Pankaj Kumar Bansal (IAS:1997:TN) has been upgraded and appointed as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Cooperation.
3. Vishal Chauhan (IAS:1998:SK) has been appointed as Member (Admin), National Highways Authority of India in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary.
4. Akash Tripathi (IAS:1998:MP) has been appointed as CEO, MyGov, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary.