There has been a second rejig of the bureaucrats in the PMO, after the exit of Tarun Bajaj and A.K.Sharma. Six joint secretaries have been assigned different verticals from A to P. They will now report to the Principal Secretary in the PMO P.K. Mishra, NSA Ajit Doval, Principal Advisor P.K. Sinha, and Advisors Bhaskar Khulbe and Amarjeet Sinha.
Dr Mishra heads vertical E and looks after personnel, vigilance, law and justice, anti-corruption unit (CBI), Cabinet secretariat, Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) and ACC files and monitoring. Joint Secretary V. Sheshadri will report to him for all these, but for matters related to Home, Sheshadri will report to advisor Bhaskar Khulbe.
Another key official in the PMO, is NSA Ajit Doval, who will look after external affairs, defence, NTRO and NSCS.
Out of six Joint Secretaries in the PMO, two are from IFS and four are IAS officers.
The six verticals are economy, finance, infrastructure, HR, governance, foreign and security, agriculture, rural, social, administration, monitoring etc.
IFS officer Gopal Baglay will handle science and technology, Aadhar, Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT), earth science, IT, communications and digital payments.
Second IFS, Radra Gaurav Shreshth gets external affairs, defence, NTRO, NSCS, Atomic Energy and space.
Joint Secretary Arvind Shrivastava will report to the Principal Advisor in the PMO, P.K. Sinha. Shrivastava will look after finance, economy, corporate affairs, commerce, heavy industries, MSME, Labour and employment, textiles and steels.
Another Joint Secretary, Shrikar Pardeshi has been allotted agriculture, social, welfare, administration and rural, PMO security and public wing (public relations). He will report to Bhaskar Khulbe for administration and PMO security, and to Amarjeet Sinha for remaining matters.
Officer on Special Duty (OSD) Hiren Joshi, who looks after publicity and Public Relations (PR), will report to Mr. Pardeshi.
Joint Secretary Rohit Yadav will handle infrastructure, governance which includes (parliament, parliamentary affairs and RTI), monitoring and coordination and resources.
In additions to these subjects, each of these officers has also been assigned the responsibility of a specific state.
