Centre shifts 42 IAS officers in mega rejig

NEW DELHI:In one of the biggest-ever appointments of top- and mid-level bureaucrats at the Centre, the government on Saturday issued orders for fresh posting, in-situ elevation, and lateral shift of 42 IAS officers across different departments. This is also perhaps for the first time that a long list of appointments, which consists of only IAS officers, has been issued, unlike in earlier instances when almost every list of appointment orders for additional secretary- and joint secretary-level posts included some non-IAS officers.
The six secretary level appointments include Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS Sanjay Bandopadhyay’s posting as chairman of Inland Waterways Authority of India; Jharkhand cadre IAS Sundeep Kumar Nayak’s appointment as director general of National Productivity Council; and Bihar cadre IAS Dharmendra S Gangwar as secretary of border management department in the home ministry. Tamil Nadu cadre IAS Anita Praveen has been appointed as special secretary in the food processing industries ministry, who will take over as secretary from January 1.