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Govt appoints 19 Joint Secretaries

The Government of India has appointed as many as 19 officers as Joint Secretary or equivalent across departments and ministries.

According to report, here’s the list:

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S.No. Name Appointed as Vice
01 Praveen Sinha (IPS:88:GJ) Addl Secy (JS), CVC Ms R Budharaju (IPS:89:OR)
02 Biswajit Kr Singh (IFS:89:JK) Commissioner, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (Dept of School Edu, HRD) G S Bothyal (CSS:83)
03 Sanjiv Kr Mittal (IAS:87:UP) JS, Dept of Electronics & IT Rajendra Kr (IAS:92:TN)
04 Prashant Kr (IAS:85:MP) JS, Rural Development R Subramanyam (IAS:85:AP)
05 Ms D M Dabral (IP&TA&FS) JS, School Edu & Literacy (HRD) Yogendra Tripathi (IAS:85:KN)
06 Sanjiv Kr (IAS:86:KN) JS, MoEF&CC M M Kutty (IAS:85:UT)
07 Dharam Pal (IAS:88:UT) JS, Fertilizer H L Samariya (IAS:85:TG)
08 Ndra Bhan Singh (IES:86) ADG (JS level) BIS Ms Alka Panda (IAS:83:OR)
09 Aniruddha Kr (IRS IT:87) JS, Power B N Sharma (IAS:85:RJ)
10 C P Goyal (IFS:86:UP) JS, Dept of Biotech S Raghavan (IFS:83:OR)
11 Ms Sunita H Khurana (CSS:96) Director (JS level), ISTM, DoPT Umesh Kr (CSS:91)
12 Vandana Gupta ((IP&TA&FS:90) JS, Women & Child Dev I S Chahal (IAS:89:MH)
13 Nikunj Bihari Dhal (IAS83:OR) JS, Mines Arun Kumar (IAS:83:AM)
14 Sanjay Prasad (IAS:95:UP) JS, Defence Production J R K Rao (IAS:85:BH)
15 Manoj Dwivedi (IAS:97:JK) JS, Commerce J K Dadoo (IAS:83:UT)
16 R K Gathwal (CSS:98) Addl Secy (JS level) UPSC Newly upgraded from Dir to JS level
17 Samir K Sinha (IAS:94:AM) JS, 7th CPC…extension till 31 Dec 2015
18 Prashant Goyal (IAS:93:UT) JS, Dept of Economic Affairs Rajat Bhargava (IAS:90:AP)
19 Rajat Bhargava (IAS:90:AP) JS, Water Resources, River Dev & Ganga Rejuvenation S K Mishra (IRS IT:84)
20 Iqbal Sigh Chahal (IAS:89:MH) Placed on compulsory wait (JS, Women & Child Development)

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