March 19, 2024

Appointments


The Government of India appointed retired bureaucrat Navneet Sehgal as Chairperson of Prasar Bharati. The Prasar Bharati Chairman’s post has been vacant since A. Surya Prakash completed his tenure in February 2020. Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar, who is also the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, headed the selection panel for the post of Prasar Bharati Chairman. The chairperson of the Press Council of India and a nominee of the President complete the three-member panel. The post of the Prasar Bharati Chairman has a three-year tenure or until the person attains the age of 70 years. ABOUT PRASAR BHARATI Prasar Bharati is....Read More

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) recently approved the appointment of IAS officer Rajeev Kumar Mittal as the Director General of the National Mission for Clean Ganga under the Ministry of Jal Shakti (MoJS). He is a 1998 batch officer from the Maharashtra cadre.Read More

Senior bureaucrat Rahul Singh has been appointed chairperson of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). He succeeded Nidhi Chhibber, who has been appointed as Advisor to the Niti Aayog. Singh, a 1996-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Bihar cadre, is currently serving as the Additional Secretary in the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT).Read More

The government notified the appointment of ex-bureaucrats Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu as election commissioners. Prior to the new appointments, Election Commission of India only had Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar. Mr Sandhu and Mr Kumar are retired IAS officers of the 1988 batch. While Mr Sandhu is from the Uttarakhand cadre of IAS, Mr Kumar is from the Kerala cadre. Process A search committee led by the Law Minister prepares a shortlist. Then, a selection panel led by the Prime Minister and comprising the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha and a Union Minister makes the....Read More

Rajendra Prasad Goyal, who is presently serving as Director (Finance) of NHPC Limited, has been given additional of NHPC’s Chairman and Managing Director post. Goyal, who has been serving NHPC since November 18, 1988, brings over three decades of experience within the organization to his new role.Read More

Nayab Singh Saini has been appointed the new Chief Minister of Haryana, hours after his predecessor, senior BJP leader Manohar Lal Khattar, and the entire cabinet - including three members of Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala's JJP - stepped down. An influential figure within the OBC, or Other Backward Classes, community, Nayab Saini is the BJP's Lok Sabha MP from Kurukshetra.Read More

Shri Kishor Makwana assumed the charge of Chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) Shri Luv Kush Kumar also assumed the charge of Member of National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC). ABOUT NCSC The National Commission for Scheduled Castes is a constitutional body established with a view to provide safeguards against the exploitation of Scheduled Castes and Anglo Indian communities to promote and protect their social, educational, economic and cultural interests, special provisions were made in the Constitution. Article 338 of the Indian constitution deals with National Commission for Scheduled Castes. Under this, a Commissioner for Scheduled Castes and....Read More

IPS officer Anurag Agarwal has been appointed as the new head of Parliament security. Currently an inspector general in CRPF, the 1998-batch officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre has been appointed as joint secretary (security) for three years.Read More

The Centre appointed 1990 batch IPS officer, Daljit Singh Chaudhary as the director general (DG) of National Security Guard (NSG). Chaudhary, who is currently the DG of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), has been given the additional charge of heading the NSG. ABOUT NSG Also known as black cats, NSG is India’s counter terrorism force. It was founded on 16 October 1984, following Operation Blue Star, to combat terrorist activities and protect states against internal disturbances. It is a federal counter deployment force against terrorism and anti-hijacking operations. The force is trained to deal with specific situations and used only in....Read More

Former Supreme Court judge, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar, has been appointed as the Lokpal chairperson recently, one and half years after he retired from the apex court. Justice Khanwilkar retired from the Supreme Court in July 2022. Justice Khanwilkar’s appointment continues the controversial tradition of top post-retirement positions going to judges of the highest court of the country after retirement. Other members The Rashtrapati Bhavan has also announced the appointment of former high court judges Lingappa Narayana Swamy, Sanjay Yadav and Ritu Raj Awasthi as judicial members of the Lokpal. Non-judicial members Sushil Chandra, Pankaj Kumar and Ajay Tirkey were also....Read More

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