Haryana Assigns New Roles to Three IAS Officers, Raja Shekhar Vundru Named ACS Food and Transport
The Haryana government has assigned new responsibilities to three IAS officers.
The Haryana government has assigned new responsibilities to three IAS officers, with Dr Raja Shekhar Vundru appointed Additional Chief Secretary for Food and Consumer Affairs, with additional charge of the Transport department.
D Suresh has been named Principal Secretary for the Fisheries Department, while Shashwat Sangwan takes charge as Mission Director of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban), placing officers across departments spanning food security regulation, transport administration, agricultural fisheries, and urban sanitation infrastructure.
Vundru's dual charge, combining Food and Consumer Affairs with Transport, places him across two departments with substantial public-facing regulatory functions: food security and consumer protection enforcement on one side, and vehicle registration, permits, and road safety regulation on the other.
The Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) that Sangwan now oversees as Mission Director coordinates the state's implementation of the central government's urban sanitation and cleanliness scheme, a role carrying responsibility for tracking progress against mission targets and coordinating with urban local bodies across Haryana's cities and towns.
D Suresh's move to Fisheries places him in charge of a department with a comparatively smaller but still significant economic footprint within Haryana's broader agricultural sector, overseeing aquaculture development and fisherfolk welfare schemes specific to the state's inland water bodies.
Assigning additional charges to officers already holding substantive positions, as with Vundru's combined Food and Transport responsibility, is a common practice state governments use when balancing administrative workload against the available pool of senior officers eligible for such postings.
The appointment orders were issued through the Haryana government's Department of Personnel, which administers postings and additional charges for the state's IAS cadre officers.
