Former CS Punjab Vini Mahajan gets Central Govt Posting in major rejig of Secretary level at Centre ( List Attached )
New Delhi (27.12.2021): Modi government on Monday in a major bureaucratic reshuffle at the level of Secretary issued transfer/posting orders as under:
1. Ms Vini Mahajan (lAS:1987:PB) was appointed as Secretary, Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation under the Ministry of Jal Shakti. Presently, she is in the cadre(Punjab).
2. Ms. Leena Nandan (lAS:1987:UP) was appointed as Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change vice Rameshwar Prasad Gupta (lAS:1987:GJ)upon his superannuation on 31.12.2021. Presently, she is Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs.
3. Sanjay Kumar Singh (lAS:1987:MP) was appointed as Secretary, Ministry of Steel.
Presently he is Secretary, Department of Administrative Reforms & Public
Grievances and Department of Pensions & Pensioners Welfare.
4. Rohit Kumar Singh (lAS:1989:RJ) was appointed as Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs. He replaces Ms. Leena Nandan. Presently, he is working as Special Secretary, Ministry of Culture.
5. Manoj Joshi (lAS:1989:KL) was appointed as Officer on Special Duty, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs. He will take over as Secretary, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA) upon the superannuation of Durga Shanker Mishra this week.
Presently, he is working as Special Secretary, Ministry of Food Processing Industries.
6. V Srinivas (lAS:1989:RJ) was appointed as Secretary, Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DARPG) and Department of Pensions & Pensioners Welfare. He replaces Sanjay Kumar Singh (lAS:1987:MP). Currently, Srinivas is Special Secretary, DARPG.
7. Rajeev Ranjan (lAS:1989:MP) was appointed as Secretary, National Commission for Backward Classes in the rank & pay of Secretary to the Government of India.
Currently, he is Special Secretary, Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance.
8. Pankaj Jain (lAS:1990:AM) was appointed as Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas. Presently, he is Additional Secretary, Department of Financial Services,Ministry of Finance.
9. Bharat Lal (IFoS:1988:GJ) was appointed as Secretary to the Lokpal vice Brij Kumar Agarwal (Retd lAS:1985:HP) upon completion of his term of the contract (i.e.31.12.2021) till the date of his superannuation (i.e. 31.01.2022) and thereafter on a contract basis for a period of one year beyond the date of his superannuation on usual terms and conditions applicable to re-employed Central Government officers.
Currently, Lal is working as Additional Secretary, Department of Drinking Water &Sanitation, Ministry of Jal Shakti.
Further, as many as eight officers working in the rank of Additional Secretary were elevated (In-situ) as Special Secretary in the rank and pay of Secretary to th eGovernment of India. The list goes as follows:
• Sanjay Malhotra (lAS:1990:RJ), CMD, REC Ltd.
• Alkesh Kumar Sharma (lAS:1990:KL) as Special Secretary Cabinet Secretariat
• Raj Kumar Goyal (lAS:1990:JK), Special Secretary & Financial Advisor, Ministry of
External Affairs.
• Shashank Priya (IRS C&IT:1988), Special Secretary & Financial Advisor, Ministry of
Commerce & Industry.
• Manoj Ahuja (lAS:1990:OR), Chairman, Central Board of Secondary Education
(CBSE) under the Ministry of Education.
• Rajesh Kumar Chaudhry (IFS:1987:PB), Special Secretary, Department of Public
Enterprises, Ministry of Finance.
• Ms Annie George Mathew (IAAS:1988), Special Secretary, Department of
Expenditure, Ministry of Finance.
• Ms. Meera Swamp (IAAS:1988), Special Secretary and Financial Adviser,
Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance.
