Rejig sees appointment of 12 secretaries, 27 additional secretaries

Chanchal Kumar, currently in the North-East region department, has moved to the I&B ministry, swapping places with Sanjay Jaju. Tuesday’s order includes the appointment of 12 secretaries and 27 additional secretary level officers.Rohit Kansal, a 1995 batch AGMUT cadre officer, has been appointed as the new Rural Development Secretary. Tourism Secretary Shrivatsa Krishna will be the new Minority Affairs Secretary, while UIDAI Chief Executive Bhuvnesh Kumar will take over as Tourism Secretary.Nagaland-cadre IAS officer Abhishek Singh, who has been promoted to the rank of Secretary, will take over as Director General of the National Testing Agency. 1991 batch IAS officer Nivedita Shukla Verma, currently Secretary, Chemicals and Petrochemicals, will take charge as Secretary, Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances. Punjab-cadre IAS officer Tejvir Singh will be the new Chemicals and Petrochemicals Secretary.UP cadre officer Narendra Bhushan was named the new secretary of the Department of Land Resources. Chandra Shekhar Kumar, current Minority Affairs Secretary, has been made the CEO of National Rainfed Area Authority.Tuesday’s order also mentioned that Bharat Harbanslal Kheda, a 1995 batch HP-cadre officer, has been appointed OSD in the MSME ministry, and he will take over as secretary on April 30.