It has also cleared the appointment of three officers to form a team of new President Ram Nath Kovind, who will be sworn in on Tuesday.
In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, the Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC), headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has appointed 35 senior officials as Secretaries and Additional Secretaries in various central government departments. It has also cleared the appointment of three officers to form a team of new President Ram Nath Kovind, who will be sworn in on Tuesday.
Haryana-cadre 1978-batch IAS officer Sanjay Kothari, at present the Chairman of the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB), has been appointed as Secretary, and Gujarat-cadre Indian Forest Service officer Bharat Lal as Joint Secretary, to the President. Lal was the Resident Commissioner of Gujarat in New Delhi and is considered close to the PM. Journalist-turned-academic Ashok Malik, currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, was appointed as the Press Secretary to the President.
Other officers concerned were working either as Joint or Additional Secretaries. Usha Sharma, a 1985-batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre, has been appointed as Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), according to an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on Saturday. At present, she is the Additional Secretary in the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG). Telangana-cadre IAS officer Vasudha Mishra will be the new Additional Secretary in DARPG, in place of Sharma. Chief Vigilance Officer of the Delhi Development Authority, Manoj Kumar, will be Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
New roles
Haryana-cadre 1978-batch IAS officer Sanjay Kothari, at present the Chairman of PESB, has been appointed as Secretary
Gujarat-cadre IFS officer Bharat Lal is now Joint Secretary to Kovind.
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