S N Sahai is Power Secy Pankaj Kumar to be UIDAI CEO

NEW DELHI .Senior IAS officer Shri Sanjeev Nandan Sahai was appointed as the new power secretary as part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Tuesday. Sahai, a 1986-batch IAS officer of union territories cadre, is at present special secretary in the Ministry of Power. He will take over as the power secretary after the retirement of incumbent Subhash Chandra Garg on October 31, a Personnel Ministry order said. Garg was removed as finance secretary before being posted as power secretary. He had sought voluntary retirement from service and it was granted. In other appointments, Pankaj Kumar, the additional secretary in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, will be the CEO of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which issues Aadhaar.

 

• According to the official order, Braj Raj Sharma, a 1984 batch IAS officer working as Secretary in the Home Ministry’s Department of Border Management, has been given the charge of SSC chairman.

 

• National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) chairman Nagendra Nath Sinha, 1987 batch Jharkhand cadre IAS officer, has been given the charge of Secretary, Department of Border Management, which falls under the Home Ministry.

 

• The 1985 batch IAS officer Sanjeev Gupta, who is Special Secretary at Inter-State Council Secretariat under the Home Ministry, has been elevated to the post of Secretary the Secretariat.

 

• Shri Braj Raj Sharma, IAS (JK:84), Secretary, Department of Border Management, Ministry of Home Affairs as Chairman, Staff Selection Commission in the rank and pay of Secretary . .

 

• Shri Sanjeev Gupta, IAS (HP:85), Special Secretary, Inter State Council Secretariat, Ministry of Home Affairs as Secretary, Inter State Council Secretariat.

 

• Shri Sailesh, IAS (AM:85), Secretary, Ministry of Minority Affairs as Secretary, Department of Public Enterprises, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.

 

• Shri Alok Tandon, IAS (UP:86), presently in the Cadre, as Secretary, Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances , will hold the additional charge of the post of Secretary, DOPPW.

 

• Shri Sanjeev Nandan Sahai, IAS (UT:86), Special Secretary, Ministry of Power as Secretary, Ministry of Power .

 

• Shri Pramod K,umar Das, IAS (MP:86), Special Secretary, Department of Expenditure, as Secretary, Ministry of Minority Affairs .

 

• Shri Tuhin Kanta Pandey, IAS (OR:87), presently in the Cadre, as Secretary, Department of Investment and Public Asset Management.

 

• Shri Rajesh Bhushan, IAS (BH:87), Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat as Secretary (Coordination), Cabinet Secretariat.

 

• The ACC has also approved in-situ upgradation of the following officers of 1987 batch to the level of Special Secretary in the rank and pay of Secretary to the Government of India, as a measure personal to them, by temporarily upgrading the posts held by them:

 

• Shri Arun Singhal, IAS (UP:87), Additional Secretary, DOHF as Special Secretary, Department of Health and Family Welfare.

 

• Shri V.P. Joy, IAS (KL:87), Director General of Hydrocarbons inthe rank and pay of Secretary.

 

• Shri Sunil Kumar, IAS (UP:87), Additional Secretary, DOC, as Special Secretary, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

 

• Shri Talleen Kumar, IAS (WB:87), Chief Executive Officer, Government e-Marketplace. Special Purpose Vehicle, MOCI as Chief Executive Officer,inthe rank and pay of Secretary.

 

• Shri Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, IAS (TG:87), Director General, National Mission for Clean Ganga, in the rank and pay of Secretary.

 

• Shri Pradip Kumar Tripathi, IAS (JK:87), Additional Secretary & Establishment Officer, DOPT as Special Secretary & Establishment Officer,DOPT.

 

• Shri Raj Kumar, IAS (GJ:87), Director General, Employees' State Insurance Corporation, in the rank and pay of Secretary.

 

• Shri Barun Mitra, IAS (MN:87), Additional Secretary, Department of Defence Production, as Special Secretary, DODefence Production. Defence.

 

• Shri Praveen Kumar, IAS (TN:87), Additional Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy as Special Secretary, MNRE.

 

• Shri Manoj Jhalani, IAS (MP:87), Additional Secretary, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare as Special Secretary in the same deptt.

 

• MS.Vasudha Mishra, IAS (TG:87), Additional Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare.

 

• Ms. Leena Nandan, IAS (UP:87), Additional Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways as Special Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.

 

• Shri Pravir Krishna, IAS (MP:87), Managing Director, Tribal Co-operative Marketing Development Federation of India Ltd.,in therank and pay of Secretary

 

• Others empanelled in the rank of secretary in the Central government include: Usha Sharma, Amir Subhani, Rajesh Bhushan, Lalnunmawia Chuaungo, Raj Kumar, Tarun Kapoor, Indu Shekhar Chaturvedi, Nagendra Nath Sinha, Pradip Kumar Tripathi and V P Joy.

 

• Some other names in the list of secretaries are: Manoj Jhalani, Pankaj Kumar, Rajesh Verma, Tuhin Kanta Pandey, Praveen Kumar, T V Somanathan, Sushil Kumar, Leena Nandan and Renuka Kumar.