The Centre on Monday conducted a major reshuffle in bureaucracy by effecting transfers and posting of 22 Joint Secretaries.
Former private secretaries to President Pranab Mukherjee and the then Home Minister lK Advani, Pradeep Gupta and UKS Chauhan, respectively, are among four new Joint Secretaries appointed in Home Ministry. Besides them, TVSN Prasad and IPS officer Satyendra Garg are other newly-appointed Joint Secretaries in the Home Ministry.
Manoj Joshi, Joint Secretary in Department of Economic Affairs, has been shifted to Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in the same position. Abhay Damle, an Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax cadre), has been appointed as JS in Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways. Ravi Agrawal, also from the same service, has been appointed as JS in Department of Disinvestment.
IS Chahal, who was put on compulsory wait after he reportedly had a tiff with Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi, has been appointed as Joint Secretary in Ministry of Panchayati Raj.