15 Sep :The Appointment Committee of the Cabinet has approved the following appointments by in-situ upgradation of the officers in their present posts, with effect from 12th September, 2008 and until further orders:-
i. Shri Rahul Khullar, IAS(UT:75) as Special Secretary, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry;
ii. Smt.Sindhushree Khullar, IAS(UT:75) as Special Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance;
iii. Shri Rentala Chandrasekhar, IAS(AP:75) as Special Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology;
iv. Shri P.C. Chaturvedi, IAS(UP:75) as Director General, Employees State Insurance Corporation, Ministry of Labour and Employment in the rank and pay of Secretary;
v. Shri S.V. Ranganath, IAS(KN:75) as Special Secretary and Financial Adviser, Department of Space;
vi. Shri Jawahar Sircar, IAS (WB:75) as Special Secretary and Development Commissioner, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises;
vii. Smt. Anshu Vaish, IAS (MP:75) as Director General, Archaeological Survey of India, Ministry of Culture in the rank and pay of Secretary; viii. Smt. Rita Menon, IAS(UP:75) as Special Secretary, Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance;
ix. Shri Bhaskar Chatterjee, IAS(OR:75) as Principal Adviser, Planning Commission in the rank and pay of Secretary;
x. Shri Rudhra Gangadharan, IAS(KL:75) as Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in the rank and pay of Secretary;
xi. Smt. Jayati Chandra, IAS(UP:75) as Principal Adviser, Planning Commission in the rank and pay of Secretary;
xii. Shri Birendra Kumar Sinha, IAS(BH:75) as Director General, National Institute of Rural Development, Department of Rural Development, Ministry of Rural Development, in the rank and pay of Secretary;
xiii. Shri Subbaroyan Krishnan, IAS(UL:75) as Special Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment.
xiv. Shri Mukul Joshi, IAS(PB:75) as Advisor, Inter State Council Secretariat in the rank and pay of Secretary;
xv. Shri Rajiv Aggarwal, IAS(MH:75) as Managing Director, National Cooperatives Development Corporation, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture in the rank and pay of Secretary;
xvi. Shri Devender Kumar Sikri, IAS(GJ:75) as Registrar General of India, Ministry of Home Affairs in the rank and pay of Secretary;
xvii. Shri Vinay Kumar, IAS(KN:75) as Special Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs;
xviii. Smt. Neelam Nath, IAS(JH:75) as Special Secretary, Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare, Ministry of Defence;
xix. Shri Suraj Prakash Seth, IAS (BH:75) as Special Secretary, Ministry of Coal;
xx. Shri Harishankar Brahma, IAS(AP75) as Special Secretary, National Disaster Management Authority, Ministry of Home Affairs.
2. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has also approved the upgradation of Shri N.Bala Baskar, IAS(HY:75), presently Additional Secretary and Financial Adviser, Ministry of External Affairs as Principal Adviser, in the pay of Secretary with effect from 12th September, 2008 and until further orders.