Bureaucratic reshuffle: Centre appoints seven new secretary-rank babus; Mittal to head petroleum

NEW DELHI: Govt connected Thursday appointed 7 caller secretary-rank officers, including the caller heads for oil, telecom and agriculture ministries.A precocious evening bid said that the appointments committee of cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, decided to name Neeraj Mittal, a 1992-batch IAS serviceman of the Tamil Nadu cadre, arsenic petroleum secretary, replacing Pankaj Jain, who was named subordinate caput of the Eighth Pay Commission.

Mittal is simply a acquainted look successful the ministry, having worked arsenic manager and associated secretary.He volition beryllium replaced by Amit Agrawal successful the section of telecom. Agrawal, who is from the Chhattisgarh cadre, is presently the pharma secretary.Manoj Joshi, a 1989- batch IAS officer, volition determination to pharmaceuticals from the section of onshore resources, portion V Vidyarthi volition determination from tourism to the section of empowerment of persons with disabilities.

Replacing him volition beryllium a chap serviceman from Karnataka, Srivatsa Krishna.Atish Chandra, a 1994-batch IAS serviceman of the Bihar cadre, who is presently successful the Prime Minister's Office, has been named serviceman connected peculiar work successful the section of agriculture and farmers welfare, and volition instrumentality implicit arsenic caput astatine the extremity of Feb, erstwhile Devesh Chaturvedi retires.Chennai Port Trust president Sunil Paliwal has been named president of the Inland Waterways Authority of India.