Centre Empanels 53 Officers for Joint Secretary Posts, Largest Share from IRS & Railways

53 Officers Cleared for Joint Secretary-Level Posts in Govt of India; IRS, IRSS Dominate List

Big Bureaucratic Move: 53 Officers Empanelled as Joint Secretary / Joint Secretary Equivalent in Centre

In a major bureaucratic exercise, the Central Government has empanelled 53 officers for appointment to Joint Secretary / Joint Secretary-equivalent level posts in the Government of India.

The empanelled officers belong to various Group-A Central Services including Indian Revenue Service (Customs & Indirect Taxes) and Income Tax, Indian Railway Services, Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Indian Civil Accounts Service, Indian Statistical Service, Indian Economic Service, Indian Telecommunications Service and Indian Trade Service.

The largest chunk of the list comprises 10 officers from IRS (Customs & Indirect Taxes) of 2006 batch and 10 officers from Indian Telecommunications Service of 1997 batch, followed by 6 officers from IRS (Income Tax) and 5 officers from Indian Railway Stores Service. The list also includes officers from IRSE, IRSME, IRAS, IRSEE, IRPS, IA&AS, ICAS, ISS, IES and ITrS.

IRS (Customs & Indirect Taxes) – 10 officers (2006 Batch):
Akshay Joshi, Arvind Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Gaurav Singh, Gautam Wahi, K Kalimuthu, K Padmavathy, Kotraswamy M, P Vinitha Sekhar, Senthil Nathan S

IRS (Income Tax) – 6 officers (2006 Batch):
Abhishek Kumar, Kalpana Singh, Priyanka Singh, Richa Rastogi, Rukmani Attri, Surabhi Sharma

IRSE (Civil) – 1 officer:
Rajiv Kumar Tanwar (2004)

IRSS – 5 officers:
Sanjeev Verma (2003), Akash Deep (2006), Ankur Srivastava (2006), Dilip Gupta (2006), Rajendra Solanki (2006)

IRSME – 4 officers (2006 Batch):
Kapil Jambhulkar, Shoorvir Singh Chauhan, Tarun Kumar, Vivek Varshney

IRAS – 3 officers (2006 Batch):
Mohammad Faisal, Prateek Kumar Singh, Pratima Tripathi

IRSEE – 1 officer:
Santosh Kumar Rajula (2006)

IRPS – 2 officers:
Timothy Tajonang Gonmei (2001), Ravi Kumar (2006)

IA&AS – 2 officers (2006 Batch):
Deepna Gokulram, Priya Parikh

ICAS – 1 officer:
Anjana Vashishtha (2005)

ISS – 5 officers:
Raj Kumar Gautam (2001), Akhilesh Kumar (2006), Kanishk Kant Srivastava (2006), Kedar Nath Verma (2006), Rajeev Kumar (2006)

IES – 1 officer:
Rose Mary K. Abraham (2006)

ITS – 10 officers (1997 Batch):
Ashok Kumar, Mehul R Joshi, Neeraj Naruka, Rakesh Shrivastava, Ritu Pande, Sandeep Arya, Sumit Mishra, Vijay Agarwal, Y Sreenivasa Rao, Yashwant Kumar

ITrS – 2 officers:
Rakesh Kumar (2005), Lokesh H D (2006)