Centre Reshuffles Senior Bureaucrats, Amit Negi Made Additional Secretary

The Centre has implemented a significant top-level reshuffle, appointing senior IAS officer Amit Singh Negi as additional secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). Mr. Negi, a 1999-batch IAS officer of the Uttarakhand cadre, is currently the joint secretary in the Department of Expenditure under the Union Ministry of Finance.

Key Appointments

Prime Minister’s Office (PMO): Amit Singh Negi appointed as additional secretary.

Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO): Samir Ashwin Vakil appointed as director.

Election Commission of India: Maneesh Garg, Sanjay Kumar, and Ajeet Kumar appointed as deputy election commissioners.

Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT): Manisha Saxena appointed as additional secretary; Mugdha Sinha to take over as director general (tourism).

Union Ministry of Home Affairs: Ashutosh Agnihotri and Niraj Kumar Bansod appointed as additional secretary and joint secretary, respectively.

Union Ministry of Commerce & Industry: Ajay Bhadoo appointed as additional secretary.

Union Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change: Amandeep Garg appointed as additional secretary.

Employees’ State Insurance Corporation: Ashok Kumar Singh appointed as director general.

Khadi and Village Industries Commission: Vatsalya Saxena appointed as CEO.

NITI Aayog: Nidhi Chhibber appointed as additional secretary.

Union Ministry of Rural Development: TK Anil Kumar appointed as additional secretary; Caralyn Khongwar Deshmukh appointed as additional secretary.

Union Ministry of Cooperation: Rabindra Kumar Agarwal appointed as additional secretary.

Union Ministry of Road Transport & Highways: Puneet Agarwal appointed as additional secretary and financial advisor.

Department of Telecommunications: N Gulzar appointed as additional secretary.

Tribal Co-operative Marketing Development Federation of India: Ashish Chatterjee appointed as managing director.

Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances: Puneet Yadav appointed as additional secretary.

Cabinet Secretariat: Nila Mohanan appointed as joint secretary.

Department of Defence: Pawan Kumar Sharma appointed as joint secretary.

Department of Economic Affairs: Alok Tiwari appointed as joint secretary.

Department of Military Affairs: Kumar Ravi Kant Singh appointed as joint secretary.

National eGovernance Division (NeGD): Nand Kumarum appointed as CEO.

Department of Health & Family Welfare: Latha Ganapathy and Nikhil Gajraj appointed as joint secretaries; V Kiran Gopal appointed as joint secretary in the National Health Authority.

Capacity Building Commission: V Lalithalakshmi appointed as secretary with additional charge of CEO, Karmayogi Bharat.

Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India: Sunil Kumar appointed as additional registrar general.

Census Operations: P Bala Kiran, Pooja Pandey, and Sheetal Verma appointed as directors in Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh & Meghalaya, and Uttar Pradesh, respectively.

Department of Petroleum & Natural Gas: Vinod Seshan appointed as joint secretary.

Department of Revenue: Naval Kishore Ram appointed as joint secretary.