The Centre appointed as many as 19 new Joint Secretary-level officers in various ministries as part of mid-level bureaucratic reshuffle, effected on Wednesday.
Sanjay Chadha, IRSME (1985) has been named Joint Secretary (JS), Department of Commerce, for a period of five years from the date of assumption of the charge of the post or until further orders, whichever is earlier, vice-assistant K Tripathy.
Anita Praveen is JS, Department of Commerce for a period of five years, vice Sumanta Chaudhuri; Ashok Dongre, is JS, Ministry of Defence for five years, vice Vikram Dev Dutt.
Mukesh Mittal, IRS, as JS, MHA for five years, G V Venugopala Sharma. Niharika Barik, IAS, as JS, Department of Food & Public Distribution for the balance period of her central deputation up to January 30, 2016, vice Ajai Saxena.
Dinesh Singh Bist, IPS, as JS, MHA, vice Yashpal Singh, JP Agarwal, CSS as Principal Commissioner, DDA under the Ministry of Urban Development up to November 30, 2019.
Tanuja Pande, IRAS, as Deputy Director General, UIDAI on internal shift of Alok Chaturvedi, IDAS to Bengaluru. Sudeep Jain, IAS, as Director General (Training), Election Commission of India, vice Ashish Srivastava.
The other appointments are, Sanjeev Sood, IRSEE, as Joint Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy up to May 9, 2017, vice PR Bhaviskar. Maneesh Garg, IAS, as JS, Department of School Education & Literacy, vice S. Radha Chauhan. Devesh Chaturvedi, IAS, as JS, Department of Personnel & Training, vice Debashri Mukherjee.