IAS Tarun Kumar Pithode Appointed as Member Secretary of Air Quality Management Commission

New Delhi, October 14, 2025:  The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the appointment of Shri Tarun Kumar Pithode, IAS (MP:2009), as the new Member Secretary of the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) in the National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas.

The order, issued on October 13, 2025, formalizes Pithode’s leadership role in the critical statutory body responsible for formulating and implementing strategies to tackle severe air pollution in the Delhi-NCR region.

Shri Pithode, a 2009-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre, is currently serving as the Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change. His selection places him at the helm of air quality policy coordination across the national capital and surrounding states.

He has been appointed for an overall tenure of five years, or until further orders, up to September 8, 2029. Shri Pithode succeeds Shri Arvind Kumar Nautiyal, IRSME (1992), in this key position, and will assume the new role under the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change.