Multiple Senior IAS Officers Empaneled for GoI Secretary and Equivalent Roles

The Government of India has approved the empanelment of numerous senior IAS officers for top administrative roles.

Secretary and Secretary-Equivalent Empanelments (1995 Batch): Sixteen officers from the 1995 batch have been cleared to hold Secretary and Secretary-equivalent positions. This list includes:

• Keshav Chandra (AGMUT)

• Rohit Kansal (AGMUT)

• D Thara (Gujarat)

• Bharat Harbanslal Khera (HP)

• Satendra Singh (Jharkhand)

• T K Anil Kumar (Karnataka)

• Abhishek Singh (Nagaland)

• Sushil Kumar Lohani (Orissa)

• Dilip Kumar (Punjab)

• Jaspreet Talwar (Punjab)

• Sanjay Kumar (Telangana)

• M A Siddique (Tamil Nadu)

• Ashutosh Jindal (Tripura)

• Mritunjay Kumar Narayan (UP)

• Santosh Kumar Yadav (UP)

Additionally, 13 officers from the 1995 batch have been empaneled specifically for Secretary-equivalent posts, including Chandra Bhushan Kumar (AGMUT), H Rajesh Prasad (AGMUT), Sajjan Singh Yadav (AGMUT), Archana Varma (Assam-Meghalaya), Shakil P Ahammed (Assam-Meghalaya), B Rajender (Bihar), Rawther Dawood Nazeem (HP), M Maheshwar Rao (Karnataka), Radhika Rastogi (Maharashtra), Hitesh Kumar S Makwana (Tamil Nadu), R Jaya (Tamil Nadu), Bhuvnesh Kumar (UP), and Sanjay Prasad (UP).

Other Secretary Empanelments: Officers from other batches have also been empaneled as Secretary or equivalent:

• Keshav Kumar Pathak (1990, Bihar)

• S Gopalakrishnan (1991, Tamil Nadu)

• Surendra Kumar Bagde (1993, Maharashtra)

• Sanjay Lohiya (1994, Assam-Meghalaya)

• Anju Sharma (1991, Gujarat)

• Sanjay Rastogi (1991, Odisha)

• Aniruddhe Mukerjee (1993, MP)

• Alok Kumar II (1993, UP)

• Manisha Verma (1993, Maharashtra)

• Dushyant Nariala (1993, West Bengal)

• Alok Shekhar (1994, Punjab)

• Leena Johri (1994, UP)

Additional Secretary Empanelments: Sixteen IAS officers from the 2001 batch have been empaneled for Additional Secretary and equivalent roles, including Lokhande Prashant Sitaram, Mandeep K Bhandari, Sridhar Chiruvolu, Arti Kanwar, Vijay Nehra, R Selvam, Pankaj Yadav, Darpan Jain, Nipun Vinayak, and Prajakta L Verma.

Officers from various other batches cleared for Additional Secretary or equivalent include Dheeraj Sahu (1996), Debasish Prusty (2000), Anoop Kumar Agrawal (1993), Sarita Chauhan Chand (1999), Bhaskar Jyoti Sharma (1999), Shubha Sarma (1999), Kumar Rahul (2000), Sorabh Babu (2000), Ankita Mishra Bundela (2001), Jujjavarapu Balaji (2001), Siddharth Jain (2001), and Santanagopalan R (2001).