Rashmi Ramesh Doddamane Appointed Director, DARPG Under Central Staffing Scheme

Rashmi Ramesh Doddamane has been appointed Director at the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) in Delhi under the Central Staffing Scheme, for a tenure of five years. DARPG functions under the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and is the nodal department for administrative reform initiatives, public grievance redressal systems and the promotion of e-governance across Central ministries and state governments. A Director-level posting at the department involves direct handling of policy and monitoring work tied to these mandates. Doddamane is a 2012-batch officer of the Indian Postal, Telecommunication and Accounts and Finance Service (IP&TAFS). Officers from this service are typically drawn into Central Staffing Scheme postings after building experience in postal and telecom finance administration, a track that has fed into general administrative deputations at the Centre in recent years. The Central Staffing Scheme places officers from participating services into Central Secretariat posts on a fixed tenure basis, and a five-year term at DARPG places Doddamane at a department that has taken on a larger profile in recent years as the government has pushed grievance-redressal digitisation across ministries. Directors at DARPG typically oversee specific portfolios within the department's mandate, ranging from the Centralised Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System to state-level administrative reform coordination. The appointment takes effect for a five-year period under the Central Staffing Scheme, according to the order.