Centre brings about major bureaucratic reshuffle: Prakash Rajpurohit made Dy Election Commissioner | Check complete list

The Centre appointed 2010-batch IAS officer Prakash Rajpurohit as Deputy Election Commissioner until April 8, 2030. Vivek Khare was named Joint Secretary at NTA as part of a wider reshuffle in which the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet cleared 27 civil servants for senior posts.

The Centre on Saturday appointed senior bureaucrat Prakash Rajpurohit as Deputy Election Commissioner as part of a wider reshuffle involving senior-level officials. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has cleared the appointments of 27 civil servants to joint secretary-level and equivalent positions as part of the administrative changes, according to PTI.

Rajpurohit, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from the Rajasthan cadre, will hold the position until April 8, 2030. He succeeds Sanjay Kumar, according to an order issued by the Personnel Ministry.

Meanwhile, Vivek Khare, an Indian Telecom Service (ITS) officer, has been appointed Joint Secretary at the National Testing Agency (NTA), the order said.

Who is Prakash Rajpurohit?

Prakash Rajpurohit is a 2010-batch IAS officer of the Rajasthan cadre. He reportedly holds a BTech degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi and belongs to Barmer, Rajasthan.

Who is Vivek Khare?

Vivek Khare is a 1996-batch ITS officer. He has been serving as Director at the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) since June 2019. Before joining the CVC, he worked as Director at the Election Commission of India (ECI).

Other key appointments in the bureaucratic reshuffle

Ravi Shankar, Chittaranjan Dash, P Manoj Kumar and Abhishek Bhagotia have been appointed Joint Secretaries in the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Mohammed Y Safirulla K and Ritu Sharma will take up Joint Secretary positions in the Department of Health and Family Welfare.

Varnali Deka, a 2009-batch IAS officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, has been appointed Joint Secretary at the National Health Authority (NHA), while Ashish Madhavrao More will serve as Additional Chief Executive Officer at the NHA at the Joint Secretary level.

Nikhil Varma has been appointed Additional Director General of Foreign Trade in Delhi.

The other appointments include Tanvi Sundriyal as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and Inderjeet Singh as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Culture, according to the order.

Senior IAS officer Tamboli Ayyaj Fakirbhai has been named Executive Director at the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) at the Joint Secretary level. Rajesh Malik will serve as Executive Director at the Food Corporation of India, while Navin Agarwal has been appointed Joint Secretary in the Department of Legal Affairs.

Brijesh Pandey will be Joint Secretary in the Department of Capital Development, M Ramachandrudu in the Ministry of Minority Affairs.

Sonia Pant will serve as Adviser at the Joint Secretary level in NITI Aayog.

Nitin Kumar has been appointed Additional Secretary at the Joint Secretary level in the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC).

C Muruganas will take up the post of Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, while Rajneesh Kumar Tomar has been named Chief Executive Officer of National Highways Logistics Management Ltd.

Nishtha Tiwari has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Development and Welfare Board for Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Communities under the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment.

Manisha Trighatia will serve as Joint Secretary in the Department of Urban Development, Avinash Jain in the Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, and Pawan Kumar at the National River Conservation Directorate. Anita Shah Akella has been appointed Joint Secretary at the National Commission for Women.

Govind Jaiswal to return to parent cadre

In a separate order dated October 9, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) approved the Department of Higher Education's proposal for the premature repatriation of Govind Jaiswal, who was serving as Joint Secretary in the department, to his parent cadre.

Jaiswal is a 2007-batch IAS officer of the AGMUT cadre, which comprises Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territories.

About the Author

Garvit Bhirani is a journalist based in Gurugram. He is a Deputy Chief Content Producer at LiveMint, where he covers national and international news stories, focusing on accuracy and compelling storytelling for readers. <br><br> With a total of six years of experience in journalism, he has previously worked with Vaco Binary Semantics for Google, taking on the role of news curation lead, and reported from the field on health, education, and agriculture stories for 101reporters and News9. He has also served as a content editor for entertainment and news media organisations. <br><br> Garvit holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism and mass communication from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University and Gurugram University, respectively. During college days, he joined India’s only non-profit student journalism network, where he anchored daily news updates and produced his own weekly show called ‘Data Fix’. <br><br> He was selected for the YES Foundation Media for Social Change Fellowship in Delhi, the Talking Data to the Fourth Pillar residential workshop, and the VOICE Fellowship in Pune. <br><br> He holds certificates in COVID-19-verification reporting, data journalism, food & agriculture, tech policy, media literacy and countering misinformation, and tackling election disinformation courses from Thomson Foundation, IndiaSpend, The Dialogue, US Mission in India, and AFP. <br><br> He can be reached on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/garvit-bhirani">LinkedIn</a> or on <a href="https://x.com/GarvitBhirani">@garvitbhirani</a> on X