By Our Staff Reporter
Dehradun, 22 Mar: Senior IRS officer of 1996 batch Deepankar Aron is among the 22 senior bureaucrats posted as Joint Secretaries at the Centre by the Modi Government.
In a significant bureaucratic shakeup, the central government has appointed twenty-two joint secretaries across different departments. The government has claimed that this is intended to bring fresh perspectives and expertise into key roles within the government machinery. The appointed officers belong to various Civil Services cadres like the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS), Indian Revenue Service (IRS), and Indian Postal Service (IPoS).
It may be recalled that IRS Officer Deepankar Aron is a 1996 batch C&IT batch officer who has spent considerable time in Uttarakhand having served here as Commissioner, CGST, before being posted in Lucknow and then, again, posted here as Commissioner Appeals (GST) in Dehradun. Now he has been posted as Joint Secretary to Government of India in the Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals. It is worth noting that Aron is a keen photographer, traveller and writer. He has contributed articles to Garhwal Post also.
The Personnel Ministry issued an order detailing the appointments. Among the notable appointments, Deepankar Aron has been designated as the joint secretary of the Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals. Harish Kumar Vashisth will serve as the joint Director-General of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, while Siddharth Mahajan takes up the role of joint secretary in the Department of Commerce. Others include IAS Siddharth Mahajan, Anand Madhukar, Swati Meena Naik, Ravi Shankar, Gulzar N, Manoj Kumar Jain, Pushpendra Rajput, Saurabh Jain, Mihir Kumar, Parthasarathi Gurrala, Abhijit Sinha, Vipul Aggarwal, Jagannath Srinivasan, Alok Mishra, Bhaskar Choradia, Sanjay Pandey, Kunal Satyarthi, Mahabir Prasad, Ajeet Kumar and Sarwesh Kumar Arya.
