Indian Bureaucracy News
Four IPS officers have been inducted into the ‘hard-core’ of Intelligence Bureau (IB). The officers are: Dipanker Trivedi of Gujarat cadre; Ms Amrita Dash of Odisha cadre; Ake Ravi Krishna of AP cadre and Ms. Veena Bharti of HP cadre.
After the appointment of Raghvendra Singh, a low profile soft-spoken and gentle Principal Secretary to MP Chief Minister Dr Mohan Yadav, the MP bureaucracy is now feeling tension free and relaxed.
Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba is scheduled to retire on August 30, 2024. He was appointed to the country’s top bureaucratic post for two years in 2019 and since then his services to the post have been extended thrice, thus making him the longest-serving Cabinet Secretary (five years). He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of…
At present there are acting DGPs in several states West Bengal, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and Punjab. Incidentally, now one acting Chief Secretary is also in Madhya Pradesh. A new rising trend in India.
Ms. Shubha Thakur, Joint Secretary, Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare has been appointed in-situ as Additional Secretary, Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare. She is a 1989 batch CSS officer.
Ms. Tripti Gurha has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development. She is a 1993 batch IRTS officer.
Sanjeev Kumar Jindal has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Home, Ministry of Home Affairs. He is a 1989 batch CSS officer.
Bharat Harbanslal Khera presently in the cadre has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution. He is a 1995 batch IAS officer of HP cadre.
Senior IAS officer Samir Kumar Sinha has been appointed as Additional Secretary and Director General (Acquisition) in the Defence Ministry, as part of a bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre.Sinha, a 1994-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, is currently working in his Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
Who will succeed A C Pandey in EC? In the corridors of power it is said that this time a woman may be appointed as Member EC. Modi is for 33 per cent women reservation. Earlier, Rama Devi had been Member EC for fifteen days.