Amit Agrawal Named CEO of UIDAI, Subodh Kumar Singh Appointed DG NTA

GG News Bureau

New Delhi, 12th June. As part of the Centre’s bureaucratic overhaul, senior IAS officers Amit Agrawal and Subodh Kumar Singh have been named as CEO of the Unique Identification Authority of India and director general of the National Testing Agency, respectively.

Agrawal (1993 batch) and Singh (1997 batch) are both Chhattisgarh cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officials.

Agrawal, additional secretary in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, has been appointed as the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Unique Identification Authority in the rank and pay of additional secretary to the Government of India, a Personnel Ministry order said.

Singh, who is currently additional secretary in the Department of Food and Public Distribution under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, has been named as the NTA’s director general, it said.

According to the order issued late Sunday night, Richa Sharma, additional secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, has been transferred to the Department of Food and Public Distribution to replace Singh.

Rashmi Chowdhary, who previously served as an additional secretary in the Department of Personnel and Training, has been named secretary of the Central Information Commission.

Shyam Jagannathan, who is currently the development commissioner of the Santa Cruz Exclusive Export Processing Zone in Mumbai’s Special Economic Zone, will now be the director general (shipping) in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping, and Waterways.

Senior bureaucrat Sanjeev Kumar Chadha will be additional secretary in the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Vumlunmang Vualnam will be additional secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs and Ramesh Krishnamurthi will be additional secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Employment, the order said.

In several central government departments, up to 13 senior officers have been appointed.

L S Changsan will be the additional secretary in the Department of Health and Family Welfare, R Anand in the Department of Land Resources, and Maninder Kaur Dwivedi in the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.

Dwivedi will also hold the additional charge of managing director in the Small Farmers’ Agri-Business Consortium, said the order.

Vipin Kumar, who is joint secretary in the Department of School Education and Literacy, has been appointed as additional secretary in the Department of School Education and Literacy.

Sunil Kumar Barnwal, who is currently joint secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs, will be additional secretary in the Department of Higher Education under the Ministry of Education.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has also approved in-situ upgradation of two officers to the level of additional secretary to the government of India by temporarily upgrading the post held by them.

Accordingly, Sanjay Sethi, chairperson of the JawaharLal Nehru Port Trust, Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, will now be in the rank and pay of additional secretary. Krishna Kumar Dwivedi, joint secretary in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, will be additional secretary in the same ministry, the order said.