In a major reshuffle at the secretarial level of the Central government, senior IAS officer Aruna Sharma, will take charge as Secretary of Ministry of Steel, while Aruna Sundarajan will take over as Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information & Technology.

In other changes, Bhanu Pratap Sharma, Secretary, Department of Health and Family Welfare has been moved to the Department of Personnel and Training as Secretary.

AK Dubey, Special Secretary, Ministry of Coal will join the Department of Youth Affairs as Officer on Special Duty and will take charge as Secretary after the incumbent Rajiv Gupta retires.

Further, M Sathiavathy, Director General, Directorate General of Civil Aviation, has been moved to the Ministry of Labour and Employment as Officer on Special Duty. She will take charge as Secretary after the incumbent Shankar Agarwal retires.

Sathiavathy’s replacement in the Directorate General of Civil Aviation has not been announced.

Dinesh Singh, Special Secretary, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, has been moved to Department of Land Resources as Officer on Special Duty. Singh will take over as Secretary once the incumbent VS Madan retires.

Amarjit Singh, Special Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, has been made Officer on Special Duty in the same ministry where he would take over as Secretary once the incumbent Shashi Shekhar retires.

Rakesh Srivastava, a 1981 IAS from the Rajasthan Cadre, has been brought to the Centre in the post of the Secretary, National Commission for Backward Classes. Latha Krishna Rao, a 1982 batch IAS from the Karnataka cadre, has been brought to the Centre as Secretary, Department of Social Justice and Empowerment, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

C K Mishra, Additional Secretary, Department of Health and Family Welfare, will take charge as Secretary in the same Ministry as the incumbent Bhanu Prasad Sharma has been transferred to the Department of Personnel and Training.

NS Kang, Additional Secretary, Department of Health and Family Welfare, has been appointed as Secretary and Director General, National AIDS Control Organisation.

B K Prasad, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, has been transferred as Secretary, National Commission for Denotified, Nomadic & Semi-Nomadic Tribes.

Amarjeet Sinha, Additional Secretary, Department of Rural Development, has been appointed Secretary, Department of Rural Development.

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