Bureaucratic rejig: 36 new Additional Secretaries appointed

NEW DELHI: Gujarat cadre IAS officer GC Murmu, who is tipped to be next Director of Enforcement Directorate (ED), was among 36 Joint Secretaries who have been promoted as Additional Secretaries in different central government ministries as part of a major senior level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the government on Wednesday.

Murmu, a 1985-batch IAS officer, has been made Additional Secretary in Department of Expenditure by upgrading the post of Joint Secretary held by him, an order issued by Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) said. He is likely to be appointed as ED Director, a post which is vacant for about an year now.

Arun Goel, Joint Secretary (JS) in Department of Revenue, has been appointed as Vice Chairman of Delhi Development Authority.

Yogendra Tripathy has been appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of Food Corporation of India (FCI). Tripathy is presently working as JS in Department of School Education. Deepak Kumar, a 1984-batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre, has been appointed as Director General, Employees’ State Insurance Corporation.

IRS officer PK Dash, who was working as Director General in Election Commission, has been appointed as Additional Secretary (AS) and Financial Adviser (FA) in Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, it said.

Senior IAS officer Nikhilesh Jha has been appointed as Mission Director, National Water Mission under the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.

Jha is presently serving in his cadre-Manipur.

Preeti Madan, an Indian Economic Service officer, working as JS in Ministry of Minority Affairs is new Member Secretary in National Commission for Women.