Senior IAS officer Aruna Sharma has been appointed as Steel Secretary as part of a major top-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected today by the government.
A total of 15 new Secretaries have been appointed in various central government ministries.
The portfolios of Sharma and Aruna Sundararajan, who is Steel Secretary, have been
swapped. Aruna Sharma will now be Steel Secretary and Sundarajan will be Secretary,
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, an order issued by Department of
Personnel and Training said.
Both are 1982 batch IAS officers.
B K Prasad, who conducted an inquiry into the missing files relating to alleged fake
encounter of Ishrat Jahan, has been appointed as Secretary, National Commission for
Denotified, Nomadic and Seminomadic Tribes for two years.
Prasad was given twomonth extension, till this monthend, beyond his superannuation. He was due to retire on May 31.
Gujaratcadre IAS officer Amarjit Singh has been named as new Secretary Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga
Rejuvenation. He will take over as Officer on Special Duty in the same ministry with immediate effect, it said.
Singh, who is presently Special Secretary in the Ministry, would take over as Secretary on superannuation of the present incumbent
Shashi Shekhar, the order said.
M, Sathiavathy, Director General Civil Aviation (DGCA), has been named as Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment. She has been
appointed as Officer on Special Duty in the Labour Ministry with immediate effect.
Sathiavathy will take over as Secretary in the Labour Ministry on superannuation of the present incumbent Shankar Agarwal, the order
said, without mentioning the name of new DGCA.
Health Secretary Bhanu Pratap Sharma has been appointed Secretary, Department of Personnel and Training. IAS officer C K Mishra will
be new Secretary in Department of Health and Family Welfare in place of Sharma.
Mishra is presently Additional Secretary in the Health Ministry.
Source: ET