62 Joint Secretary Empanelled at the Centre | Indian Bureaucracy Exclusive
In a significant development in the Indian Bureaucracy, the Government of India has empanelled a large number of senior officers from various All India Services, Central Services, and Organized Group ‘A’ Services for holding the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent at the Centre. This empanelment reflects the Government’s continued emphasis on strengthening administrative leadership at senior levels by selecting experienced officers across diverse domains.
The empanelment includes officers from services such as the Indian Administrative Service, Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers, Indian Railway Traffic Service, Indian Economic Service, Indian Defence Accounts Service, Indian Forest Service and several other key services.
Officers from Indian Railway Services
A substantial number of officers from railway services have been empanelled, highlighting the importance of technical and operational expertise in governance.
From IRSME, the empanelled officers include:
- Shri Amit Saurastri (2001 batch, 2000 exam)
- Shri Jawahar Lal (1999 batch)
- Shri Sunil Kumar Sharma (1999 batch)
- Shri Rajneesh Kumar Tomar (1998 batch)
From IRTS, the following officers have been empanelled:
- Shri Dibbanjan Roy (2002 batch)
- Shri R Sudharshan (2002 batch)
- Shri Praveen Pandey (1996 batch)
- Shri Dharmendra Kumar (1998 batch)
- Ms Aashima Mehrotra (1999 batch)
- Shri Jyoti Prakash Mishra (1999 batch)
- Shri R Gopalakrishnan (1999 batch)
- Shri Amit Kumar Jain (2000 batch)
- Shri Swadesh Kumar Singh (2000 batch)
- Shri Shishir Somvanshi (2001 batch)
From other railway-related services:
- Shri Satya Narayan Meena (IRSSE, 2001 batch)
- Shri Dinesh Kumar Vashishtha (IRSSE/ITS)
- Shri Harpreet Singh Pruthi (IRSS, 1999 batch)
- Shri Santosh Kumar Mishra (IRSS, 2004 batch)
- Shri Amit Singh (IRSS, 2001 batch)
- Ms Kanwalpreet (IRSS, 2001 batch)
Officers from Economic, Accounts and Allied Services
From the Indian Economic Service (IES):
- Shri Sudhir Shyam (1999 batch)
- Ms Sonia Pant (2001 batch)
- Ms Archana Mayaram (2004 batch)
From IDAS:
- Ms V Yogitha (2002 batch)
- Shri Nabarun Dhar (2004 batch)
From other services:
- Shri S Salim Javed (IRAS, 2003 batch)
- Ms Srujani Mohanty (IRS IT, 1999 batch)
Officers from Engineering, Personnel and Defence Estates Services
From engineering and allied services:
- Shri Harsimran Singh (IRSE Civil, 2001 batch)
- Shri Amit Kumar (IRSE, 2003 batch)
- Shri Pervesh Kumar (IRSE, 2003 batch)
From other services:
- Shri S V R Chandra Sekhar (IDES, 2000 batch)
- Shri G Vijay Bhaskar (IDES, 1999 batch)
- Ms Yatri Dave Vitekar (IRPS, 2001 batch)
Officers from Indian Telecommunication Service (ITS)
A significant group of ITS officers empanelled includes:
- Shri M. Srinivasulu Reddy (1993 batch)
- Shri Mukesh Lal (1996 batch)
- Ms Prachish Khanna (1996 batch)
- Shri Rakesh S Desai (1996 batch)
- Shri Vijay Prakash (1996 batch)
- Shri Vivek Khare (1996 batch)
Officers from Indian Administrative Service (IAS)
A notable number of IAS officers across various cadres have also been empanelled, reflecting their administrative experience at the state and central levels.
These include:
- Ms Kajal (Uttar Pradesh, 2008 batch)
- Ms Saumya Agarwal (Uttar Pradesh, 2008 batch)
- Ms S Tejaswi Naik (Madhya Pradesh, 2009 batch)
- Shri Sumeet Kumar Jarangal (Punjab, 2009 batch)
- Shri A Muthu Kumar (Jharkhand, 2009 batch)
- Ms Gauri Parasher Joshi (Punjab, 2009 batch)
- Shri N Venkatesh (Tamil Nadu, 2009 batch)
- Ms Priyanka Das (Madhya Pradesh, 2009 batch)
- Shri Rathod Sandeep Rewaji (Tripura, 2009 batch)
- Shri Rohan Chand Thakur (Himachal Pradesh, 2009 batch)
- Shri Hrishikesh B Yashod (Uttar Pradesh, 2006 batch)
- Shri V Shanmugam (Uttarakhand, 2007 batch)
- Shri Gaurav Goyal (Rajasthan, 2006 batch)
- Shri Rajesh Prabhakar Patil (Odisha, 2005 batch)
Officers from Central Secretariat Service (CSS)
From CSS, the following officers have been empanelled:
- Shri D K Choudhary (SSGSL 2019)
- Shri S Gopal Krishna (SSGSL 2018)
- Shri G Muthuraja (SSGSL 2018)
Officers from Indian Forest Service (IFoS)
From IFoS, the empanelled officers include:
- Shri S Senthil Kumar (AGMUT, 1998 batch)
- Shri G Rajesh (Odisha, 2001 batch)
- Shri S Kulandivel (West Bengal, 2002 batch)
- Shri H Raja Mohan (Uttar Pradesh, 2001 batch)
- Ms Deepa D Nair (Tripura, 2001 batch)
- Ms Prachi Gangwar (Karnataka, 2003 batch)
Significance of the Empanelment
Empanelment for Joint Secretary-level positions is a crucial milestone in an officer’s career within the Government of India. Officers selected at this stage are considered for key policy-making and administrative roles at the Centre. They are entrusted with responsibilities such as policy formulation, program implementation, inter-ministerial coordination, and governance at the highest levels.
This diverse empanelment reflects the Government’s intent to bring together expertise from multiple domains—administrative, technical, financial, and environmental—into the decision-making framework. It also ensures that governance benefits from both field-level experience and specialized knowledge.
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