Bureaucratic reshuffle: NHAI gets new chief

New Delhi, December 4

The government on Saturday effected a bureaucratic revamp, appointing Additional Secretary, Rural Development, Alka Upadhyay the chairperson of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). Upadhyay is a 1990-batch IAS officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Dharmendra Gangwar, Additional Secretary and Financial Adviser, Health Ministry, will be the Secretary, Department of Border Management.

Sundeep Nayak is Director General, National Productivity Council, stated an order by the personnel ministry.

Sanjay Bandopadhyay, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, has been appointed chairman, Inland Waterways Authority of India.

Upma Srivastava, a 1988-batch IAS officer of the Sikkim cadre, will be the Secretary, National Commission for Scheduled Castes, while Juthika Patankar, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development has been posted as the Secretary, Central Information Commission.

Amit Yadav, Director General, Directorate General of Foreign Trade, has been posted as the Additional Secretary, Department of Commerce, while Ashish Srivastava, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development, goes as the Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat.

Anita Praveen, Special Secretary, Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications, has been named Special Secretary, Ministry of Food Processing Industries, and will take charge after incumbent Pushpa Subramanyam superannuates next month. — TNS