Senior IAS officer Saurabh Vijay appointed as new UIDAI CEO

Senior bureaucrat Saurabh Vijay has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Unique Identification Authority of India, the central agency responsible for Aadhaar operations.

The decision was approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC). Vijay, a 1998-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Maharashtra cadre, is currently serving in his home cadre state.

As per an official order issued by the Personnel Ministry, he will take charge in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary to the Government of India.

In other key appointments, Gujarat-cadre IAS officer Manish Bhardwaj has been appointed as Adviser in the Inter State Council Secretariat under the Ministry of Home Affairs. He was earlier serving as Secretary in the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).

Following his transfer, Nilkanth S. Avhad, a 1999-batch IAS officer from the Punjab cadre, has been named as the new Secretary of NDMA.

Additionally, his cadre colleague Priyank Bharti has been appointed as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) and will also hold additional charge as Director General of the National Informatics Centre (NIC).

Separately, Richa Misra from the Indian Defence Accounts Service (IDAS) has been appointed as Additional Secretary in the Department of Consumer Affairs.

These appointments reflect a broader administrative reshuffle across key government departments.