Committee approves appointment of 35 bureaucrats, including Deputy Election Commissioner
New Delhi: The Appointments Committee of the Union Cabinet has approved the appointment of 35 officers from various all-India services, including IAS, IPS, IRSS, ITS, IRS, IES, and IRTS, to key administrative positions.
Madhup Vyas, an IAS officer from the AGMUT cadre, has been appointed as the Deputy Election Commissioner for a five-year term. Mukund Agarwal (IAS, 2008 batch, Rajasthan) will serve as the CEO of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana under the Department of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, also for five years.
IAS officers Prasanna R. and Sushma Chauhan have been designated as joint secretaries in the Ministry of Home Affairs. Kamala Kant Tripathy, a 1999-batch officer of the Indian Economic Service (IES), has been appointed joint secretary at the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM), NITI Aayog.
Prajakta L. Verma has been assigned as joint secretary in the Department of Atomic Energy, while Lakhpat Singh Choudhary will serve in the Ministry of Coal. Saket Kumar (IAS, 2009 batch, Bihar) has been named joint secretary in the Department of Commerce.
Other appointments include Satinder Kumar Bhalla as secretary of the North Eastern Council Secretariat, Ajay Kumar as joint secretary in the Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare, and Devesh Deval (IAS, 2004 batch, Maharashtra) as joint secretary in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries.
Raghav Langer has been confirmed as secretary of the National Medical Commission, and Jyoti Yadav will take charge as joint secretary in the National Health Authority (NHA). Prem Chandra Maurya has been appointed joint secretary in the Ministry of Heavy Industries, while Armstrong Pame will serve in the Department of Higher Education.
In addition, Samir Kumar from the Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) has been appointed joint secretary at the National Human Rights Commission. Pradeep Kumar Jha and Isha will assume roles as joint secretaries in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
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YouTube show row: Comedian Samay Raina records statement with Maharashtra Cyber
Mumbai, Mar 24 (PTI): Maharashtra Cyber on Monday recorded the statement of comedian Samay Raina in a case registered over objectionable remarks on his YouTube show, an official said.
Maharashtra Cyber, a cyber and information security division, is probing the case registered against podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia and others after he triggered a massive uproar with his crass remarks about parents and sex on Raina’s web show “India’s Got Latent”.
The agency had summoned Raina several times to record his statement in connection with the case, the official said.
He said Raina, who recently returned from abroad, appeared before the probe agency at its headquarters in Mhape and recorded his statement.
The comedian reached the office in the afternoon, recorded his statement for more than five hours, and left the premises at 6.45, the official said.
He said the agency had earlier recorded statements of Ranveer Allahbadia, Ashish Chanchlani, Apoorva Makhija and others.
Raina got into trouble after Allahbadia’s remarks on his now-deleted web show “India’s Got Latent” led to a massive furore in February, both online and offline, with multiple police complaints filed against the two and those involved with the show.
