UPSC: T Jacob appointed as the new Secretary

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UPSC appoints IAS Officer T Jacob as new Secretary. 

T Jacob, the new UPSC Secretary is a 1984 batch cadre officer from Tamil Nadu (TN).

The President of India Pranab Mukherjee appointed Professor David R Syiemlieh as the Chairman of the Union Public Commission (UPSC) in January.

 

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) appoints T Jacob a senior IAS Officer has the new secretary following the recent appointment of David Syiemlieh as the UPSC chairman by the President. He will also hold the rank in the Government of India as an Additional Secretary.

 

Professor David R Syiemlieh a member of the commission in Meghalayas was appointed as the UPSC President in January by the President Pranab Mukherjee. Professor David R Syiemlieh succeeded Alka Sirohi, a retired IAS Officers of the Madhya Pradesh Cadre.

 

T Jacob a 1984 batch cadre officer from Tamil Nadu was working as the Additional Secretary in the Department of Personnel and Training before being appointed as the new secretary of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).

 

An official order by the commission said that Amitabh Verma the chairman of Inland Waterway of India has been repatriated to his parent cadre Bihar with immediate effect and will continue to service in the new position until the further instructions. Verma is an IAS Officer from 1983 batch Union Territory Cadre. For now, Nutan Guha Biswas, the current Additional Secretary in the ministry of Women and Child Development have been appointed as the Chairperson of the Inland Waterways of India, Ministry of Shipping, in the rank of a Secretary.

 

While Vandita Sharma who is a member of Finance in the Atomic Energy/Earth Commission will be appointed the Additional Secretary and Financial Adviser in the Department of Space and will be replacing A Vijay Anand. Also, Bala Prasad on a compulsory wait has been appointed as the Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Panchayt Raj in place of the retired A K Goayal.

 

Vandita Sharma is an IAS Officer of 1986 batch Cadre of Karnataka, while Bala Prasad had worked as an Indian Forest Service Officer of the Manipur Cadre.

 

The government has also brought out a list of joint secretary-level vacancies till March 2017. Below given is the complete list of 32 vacancies:

1. ADGFT, D/o Commerce, Chennai 17. Joint Secretary, D/o Health and Family Welfare
2. ADGFT, D/o Commerce, Kolkata 18. Joint Secretary, M/o Home Affairs
3. DG (Information), Election Commission of India 19. Joint Secretary, M/o Road Transport and Highways
4. Dy. Election Commissioner, Election Commission of India 20. Adviser, NITI Aayog
5. Nominated Authority, M/o Coal 21. Joint Secretary, M/o Minority Affairs
6. Development Commissioner (Handicrafts), M/o Textiles 22. Director (Finance), NPCIL, D/o Atomic Energy, Mumbai
7. Joint Secretary, M/o New and Renewable Energy 23. CMD, ITDC, M/o Tourism
8. Joint Secretary, D/o Atomic Energy 24. Joint Secretary, D/o Rural Development
9. DDG, UIDAI, Delhi, D/o Electronics and Information Technology 25. Joint Secretary, M/o Human Resource Development
10. Joint Secretary, D/o Defence 26. Adviser, NITI Aayog
11. ED (Technical), M/o Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation 27. Joint Secretary, M/o Panchayati Raj
12. Joint Secretary, D/o Defence Production 28. Joint Secretary, M/o Information and Broadcasting
13. Member (Finance), DDA, M/o Urban Development 29. Joint Secretary, D/o Chemicals and Petrochemicals
14. Joint Secretary, M/o Home Affairs 30. Joint Secretary, D/o Financial Services
15. Joint Secretary, D/o Investment and Public Asset Management 31. Joint Director, LBSNAA, Mussoorie
16. Joint Secretary, D/o Animal Husbandry, Dairying & Fisheries 32. Joint Director, LBSNAA, Mussoorie

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