Babus rejig: V P Joy appointed Provident Fund Commissioner

NEW DELHI: Senior IAS officer V P Joy has been appointed as Central Provident Fund Commmissioner in Employees' Provident Fund Organisation ( EPFO) as part of mid-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected today.

As many as seven new Joint Secretaries have been appointed to different central government ministries. Of these, three are from Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and remaining from other Group A services.

Joy, a 1987-batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre, has been appointed for two-year tenure in place of K K Jalan, according to an order issued by Department of Personnel and Training.

Besides him, Sanjay Singh has been appointed Administrator in Universal Service Obligation Fund (USFO), which provides widespread and non-discriminatory access to quality Information Communication Technology services at affordable prices to people in rural and remote areas, under Telecom Ministry.

Anuradha Joshi, an Indian Post and Telecommunication Accounts and Finance Service officer, has been appointed as Controller and Joint Secretary in National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO)--a technical intelligence agency under the National Security Adviser in the Prime Minister's Office.

IAS officer Sameer Kumar Khare has been appointed as Joint Secretary in Department of Economic Affairs. IRS officer Shefali Shah and Indian Civil Accounts Service officer Padma Lochan Sahu have been appointed as Joint Secretaries in Culture Ministry, it said.

Indian Forest Service officer Bipin Behari has been appointed as Joint Secretary in Department of Official Language for five years, the order said.