Lavasa, a 1980-batch Haryana cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, will succeed Ratan P. Watal on his superannuation on April 30.
According to the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC), the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT), Ajay Narayan Jha, Special Secretary, Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, will succeed Lavasa as Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
Ajay Mittal has been appointed as Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, as a aubsitute for Sunil Arora on his superannuation on April 30.
Snehlata Shrivastava, Special Secretary, Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, has been appointed as Secretary, Department of Justice, Ministry of Law and Justice, vice Kusumjit Sidhu on her superannuation on April 30.
Vijay Shankar Pandey, Secretary, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers, has been appointed as Secretary, Department of Fertilisers, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers.
Pandey will succeed Anuj Kumar Bishnoi, who has been appointed as Secretary, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers, while Bishnoi will replace Pandey, who will move as Secretary, Department of Fertilisers, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers.
Anuj Kumar Elishnoi, Secretary, Department of Fertilisers, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers has been appointed as Secretary, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers vice Vijay Shankar Pandey on his appointment as Secretary, Department of Fertilisers, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers.
Hem Kumar Pander, Secretary, Department of Official Language, Ministry of Home Affairs will be Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution vice Chirravuri Viswanath on his appointment as Secretary, Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances and Department of Pensions and Pensioners' Welfare, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions.
Chirravun Viswanath, Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution has been appointed as Secretary, Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances and Department of Pensions and Pensioners' Welfare, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, vice Devendra Chaudhary, on his appointment as Secretary, Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
Devendra Chaudhary, Secretary, Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances and Department of Pensions and Pensioners' Welfare, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, has been appointed as Secretary, Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, vice Ashok Kumar Angurana on his superannuation on April 30.
Susheel Kumar, Special Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, has been appointed as Secretary, Border Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, vice Anoop Kumar Srivastava on his appointment as Secretary, Department of Official Language, Ministry of Home Affairs.
Anoop Kumar Srivastava, Secretary, Border Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, will be Secretary, Department of Official Language, Ministry of Home Affairs, vice Hem Kumar Pande, on his appointment as Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
Jai Priye Prakash, Special Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, has been appointed as Secretary, Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers, vice Dr. V.K. Subburaj, on his superannuation on May 31.
Prabhas Kumar Jha, Special Secretary and Financial Adviser, Department of Food and Public Distribution, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, as Secretary, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, vice Afzal Amanullah on his superannuation on May 31.
The Appointments Committee has also approved creation of a post of Officer on Special Duty (Secretary level) in the Ministry of Women and Child Development by shifting one vacant post of Director in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment to the Ministry of Women and Child Development and upgrading that post for the period till May 31.
It has also approved appointment of Leena Nair, Chairperson, Marine Products Exports Development Authority (MPEDA), under Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce, and Industry as OSD in the Ministry of Women and Child Development with immediate effect in the rank and pay of Secretary; and appointment of Leena Nair as Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development vice V. Somasundaran on his superannuation on may 31.
-Source ANI