New Delhi: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Wednesday (November 4, 2026) promoted 26 Senior Grade officers of the Indian Information Service (IIS), Group B, to the Junior Time Scale Grade of IIS, Group A, on a regular basis. The order also specifies their new places of posting across various organisations and offices.
The promotions will take effect from the date the officers assume charge of their respective posts and will remain in force until further orders.
The order specifies the following present and new postings:
- Paritosh Dixit, M&CO, PIB, Bhopal, has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director (News), RNU: AIR, Bhopal.
- Janhavi Subhash Patel, Editor, DPD, Ahmedabad, has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director (News), DD News, New Delhi.
- Muhsin M, News Editor, DDK, Trivandrum, has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director (M&C), PIB, New Delhi.
- Chopade Mahesh Vasantrao, News Editor, RNU: AIR, Panaji, has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director (News), RNU: AIR, Panaji.
- Anand Saurabh, Assistant Editor, DAR&PG, New Delhi, has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director (News), NSD: AIR, New Delhi.
- Ch. Akshatha Bhat, News Editor, RNU: DDK, Bengaluru, with additional charge of CBC, FO, Shimoga, against a vacant post in CBC, RO, Bengaluru, has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director (News), RNU: DDK, Bengaluru, with additional charge of DPD Bengaluru on the strength of DPD Bengaluru.
- Abhishek Kumar, FPO, CBC, FO, Bhagalpur, has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director (M&C), PIB, New Delhi.
- Ishfaq Ahmad Shah, News Editor, RNU: AIR, Srinagar, has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director (News), NSD: AIR, New Delhi.
- Shalu Dubey, Editor, DPD, New Delhi, attached to the O/o PMO, has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director (M&C), PIB, New Delhi, to work in PMO.
- Shivanand Pandey, PRO, NCVET (on deputation).
- Shalini Awasthi, Field Exhibition Officer, CBC, New Delhi, has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director (M&C), PIB, New Delhi.
- Aparna Jigar Khunt (Ms. Aparna Ramesh Desai), Correspondent, AIR, Ahmedabad, has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director (News), RNU: DDK, Ahmedabad.
- Mahesh Kumar J, M&CO, PIB, New Delhi, on the JTS strength of NSD: AIR, New Delhi, has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director, DPD, New Delhi.
- Sundaram Chaurasia, M&CO, PIB, Lucknow, has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director (M&C), PIB, New Delhi.
- Aditya Shukla, working in PMO on the strength of AIR, New Delhi, has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director (M&C), PIB, New Delhi, to work in PMO.
- Shuchita Chaturvedi, Editor, DPD, New Delhi, has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director, EMMC, New Delhi, against an STS-level post.
- Itishree Singh Rathaur, News Editor, RNU: AIR, Cuttack, has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director, DPR (Def.), New Delhi.
- Shamila Kakkunath Yousaf, M&CO, PIB, Cochin, has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director (News), RNU: AIR, Kochi.
- Mahvish Rahman, News Editor, RNU, AIR, Ranchi, with additional charge of CBC, FO, Gumla, against a JTS-level post in NSD: AIR, New Delhi, has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director (M&C), PIB, Patna.
- Nihi Sharma, M&CO, PIB, New Delhi, has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director (M&C), PIB, New Delhi.
- Shruthi ST, FPO, CBC, FO, Mysore, she has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director (News), RNU: DDK, Mumbai.
- Srinivas Maankali, News Editor, RNU, AIR, Hyderabad, has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director (M&C), PIB, New Delhi.
- Azhagudurai A, Presently M&CO, PIB, Chennai, has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director (M&C), PIB, New Delhi.
- Anil Dutt Sharma, M&CO, PIB, Dehradun, on the strength of CBC, Nainital, he has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director (News), RNU: AIR, Dehradun, against an STS-strength post.
- Pusebozo Sophie, FPO, CBC, FO, Kohima, has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director (News), RNU: DDK, Aizawl.
- Kamal Kumar Prajapati, News Editor, NSD: AIR, New Delhi, has been transferred and appointed Assistant Director (News), NSD: AIR, New Delhi, on the STS strength.
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