The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) on Tuesday approved empanelment of 20 IAS officers of 1992-Batch as Additional Secretary and equivalent to Additional Secretary level post at the Centre.
The list includes Arunish Chawla (Bihar cadre) currently on deputation with World Bank, Nidhi Khare (Jharkhand cadre) currently Joint Secretary – Ministry of Home Affairs, Shaleen Kabra (Jammu-Kashmir cadre) currently Principal Secretary – Industries and Commerce Department, Bipul Pathak (Jammu-Kashmir cadre) currently Principal Secretary – Lt Governor, K Ellangovan (Kerala cadre) currently Principal Secretary – Industries, Kerala, Sanjeev Kaushik (Kerala cadre) currently Chairman and MD – KFC and Rakesh Ranjan (Manipur cadre) currently Principal Secretary – Chief Minister, Finance Department, Imphal.
The list also includes Neelam Shammi Rao (Madhya Pradesh cadre) currently Principal Secretary – Food and Civil Supplies Department, Vumlunmang Vualnam (Manipur cadre) currently Principal Secretary – Health, Social Welfare, Imphal, Vineet Joshi (Manipur cadre) currently DG – Ministry of HRD (NTA), V L Kantha Rao (Madhya Pradesh cadre) currently Chief Electoral Officer and E/o Principal Secretary – Law and Legislative Department, Madhya Pradesh, Rajendra Kumar (Tamil Nadu cadre) currently Principal Secretary/ Industries Commissioner and Director – Industries and Commerce, Chennai, Shashi Ranjan Kumar (Tripura cadre) currently Principal Secretary – Public Works, IT, Tripura, Narendra Bhooshan (Uttar Pradesh cadre) currently CEO – Greater Noida Authority, Gautam Budh Nagar and Subhas Chandra Lal Das (AGMUT) currently Joint Secretary – MHA, Delhi.
Whereas 5 officers have been empanelled as equivalent to Additional Secretary level post of which the list includes V Venu (Kerala cadre) currently Principal Secretary – Revenue and Disaster Management Department, Kerala, Sanjay Kumar (Nagaland cadre) currently Joint Secretary – Ministry of HRD, Department of School Education and Literacy, Government of India, New Delhi, K Gopal (Tamil Nadu cadre) currently Principal Secretary – Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development and Fisheries Department, Chennai, Anurag Srivastava (Uttar Pradesh cadre) currently Principal Secretary – Uttar Pradesh Secretariat, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department, Lucknow and Ashwani Kumar (AGMUT) currently Chief Secretary – Puducherry.
