Senior bureaucrat Deepti Gaur Mukerjee has been appointed as the new Higher Education Secretary following a major bureaucratic reshuffle by the Centre on 10th August. She will succeed Vineet Joshi, who was appointed Secretary in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj last month.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved Deepti’s appointment in a partial modification of its July 23 order, the Personnel Ministry said on 10th August night. The move comes amid the controversy surrounding the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) paper leak.
A 1993-batch Indian Administrative Service officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre, Deepti is currently serving as Corporate Affairs Secretary. In the earlier order, Naresh Pal Gangwar, Secretary of the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, had been appointed as Higher Education Secretary in place of Joshi.
Key Highlights:
- Deepti has been appointed as the new Higher Education Secretary
- Pallavi Jain Govil will take charge as the new Corporate Affairs Secretary
- Archana Varma will replace V L Kantha Rao as Water Resources Secretary
Following the latest changes, Youth Affairs Secretary Pallavi Jain Govil will be the new Corporate Affairs Secretary in place of Deepti. Sunil Paliwal, Chairman of the Inland Waterways Authority of India, has been appointed Youth Affairs Secretary in place of Govil, while Sushil Kumar Lohani, Officer on Special Duty in the Cabinet Secretariat, will succeed Paliwal as Chairman of the Inland Waterways Authority of India.
In another change, V L Kantha Rao, Secretary in the Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, has been appointed Officer on Special Duty in the Department of Official Language in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
He will take over as Secretary in the Department of Official Language after the retirement of incumbent Ansuli Arya at the end of next month. Senior bureaucrat Archana Varma, a 1995 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre and currently Mission Director of the National Water Mission, will replace Kantha as Secretary in the Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.
The reshuffle includes Deepti's move to the Higher Education Department, changes in the Corporate Affairs and Youth Affairs ministries, a new chairman for the Inland Waterways Authority of India, and fresh appointments in the departments of Official Language and Water Resources.
The latest reshuffle brings several senior IAS officers into key administrative positions across education, corporate affairs, youth affairs and water resources. The changes are aimed at ensuring continuity in governance while strengthening leadership in important departments and institutions.
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