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Bureaucratic shuffle: R Subrahmanyam is Higher Education Secretary, Mukim Mines Dept Secretary
Ensemble of Government buildings on Rajpath in New Delhi, India (A. Savin/Wikimedia Commons)
The Centre has appointed senior IAS officer R Subrahmanyam as Secretary, Higher Education, while Anil Gopishankar Mukim has been appointed as the Mines Department Secretary.
The appointments were part of a major bureaucratic reshuffle effected on 28 February by the government, reported the Press Trust of India. According to an official order, Subrahmanyam, currently special secretary in Department of Higher Education, succeeds K K Sharma, who superannuated on 28 February.
Mukim, a 1985 batch IAS officer, is working in Gujarat and will take charge of Mines Department secretary from Arun Kumar, whose tenure ends on March 31.
The Personnel Ministry, which issued the orders, said Tarun Sridhar will be Secretary, Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries. He is currently posted in Himachal Pradesh.
Inder Jit Singh, additional secretary (coordination) in the Cabinet Secretariat, has been appointed Secretary (Coordination). P Raghvendra Rao will be Chemicals and Petrochemicals Secretary and Surendra Nath Tripathi will be Secretary, Parliamentary Affairs. Rao is currently in Haryana. Tripathi is special secretary and financial adviser in Ministry of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare.
C Chandramouli, who was instrumental in carrying out the census in 2011, has been appointed Secretary, Department of Personnel and Training. He is currently serving in Tamil Nadu. Rajiv Ranjan Mishra has been appointed as Director-General, National Mission for Clean Ganga. He is currently Additional Secretary in Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry.
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