The Central government on Tuesday (September 9, 2025) empanelled Tarun Kumar Pithode (IAS:2009:MP) for holding the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent at the Centre.
A Madhya Pradesh cadre officer, Pithode is presently on Central deputation, serving as Director in the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEF&CC) since September 2024.
This empanelment comes after the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) cleared the names of 16 IAS officers of the 2009 batch on February 10, 2025, for Joint Secretary-level posts. Later, on March 24, 2025, four more officers from the same batch were empanelled.
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