Govt Approves Empanelment Of 38 Officers For Joint Secretary Posts

The empanelment includes officers from batches ranging between 1995 and 2005, belonging to services such as IRS (Income Tax), IRS (Customs & Indirect Taxes), Indian Forest Service, Indian Ordnance Factories Service (IOFS), Indian Post & Telecommunication Accounts and Financial Services (IP&TAFS), Indian Cost Accounts Service (ICoAS), and ITS.

Notably, the move to empanel officers reflects the government’s continued focus on strengthening administrative leadership across ministries and departments, and these officers are expected to fill key positions across several government ministries and departments.

Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax):

Aakash Dewangan (IRS IT: 2005), Anshuman Sharma (IRS IT: 2005), Anurag Sharma (IRS IT: 2005), J Saravanan (IRS IT: 2005), Mukesh Kumar Jha (IRS IT: 2005), Nikhil Varma (IRS IT: 2005), Nishtha Tiwari (IRS IT: 2005), Premanand J (IRS IT: 2005), Rajat Kapoor (IRS IT: 2005), Ramesha G (IRS IT: 2005), Ritu Sharma (IRS IT: 2005), Satya Pal Kumar (IRS IT: 2005) and Vipul Agarwal (IRS IT: 2005)

Indian Revenue Service (Customs & Indirect Taxes):

Arvind Saran (IRS C&IT: 2005), Jayaprahasam S (IRS C&IT: 2005), N Gandhikumar (IRS C&IT: 2005), Pawan Kumar (IRS C&IT: 2005) and Santosh Kumar Mohanty (IRS C&IT: 2005)

Indian Telecommunications Service (ITS):

Mukesh Kumar (1995), Navneet Chouhan (1995), Sandeep Bhardwaj (1995), Thomas Varghese (1995), VD Godhate (1995), Shiv Ratan (1996), Indian Cost Accounts Service (ICoAS), G Venkatesh (1997), and Sanjay Kumar (1998).

Indian Ordnance Factory Service (IOFS):

Anurag Anand (2002), Ashish Kumar Gupta (2002), Deepika Lohia Aran (2002), Gurjeet Singh Dhillon (2002), Kulveer Singh Yadav (2002), Naval Kishor (2002), Ngachan Z (2002), Rajiv Kumar (2002), and Vivek Virmani (2002).

Indian Post & Telecommunication Accounts and Finance Service (IP&TAFS):

Sanjay Kumar (2003)

Indian Forest Service (IFoS):

Amit Verma (IFoS: 2005: UD) and Neha Verma (IFoS: 2005: UD)

Crucial Step

The decision of the government underscores that the empanelment for Joint Secretary and equivalent posts is a crucial step in the career progression of central government officers, as these officers, in these roles, are often posted in key ministries and departments, handling policy formulation, administration, and implementation of critical government programmes.

This also reflects the government’s continued focus on placing experienced officers with expertise across administrative, financial, and technical domains in leadership roles. This also marks an important milestone in the officers’ professional career, as it will enable them to influence administration and policy-making.