Indian Government Approves Bureaucratic Reshuffle

New Delhi, India - The Indian government approved a sweeping senior-level bureaucratic reshuffle on Tuesday, appointing several Indian Administrative Service officers to key positions as secretaries and additional secretaries across multiple ministries, effective immediately.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet endorsed the changes, which include Chanchal Kumar, a 1992-batch Bihar cadre officer currently serving as secretary in the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region, taking over as secretary in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. He replaces Sanjay Jaju, who will assume Kumar's previous role at the North Eastern Region ministry. Kumar previously held the position of principal secretary in the Bihar chief minister's office.

In another significant move, Vir Vikram Yadav, a 1996-batch Odisha cadre officer and current additional secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, has been appointed director general of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, succeeding Faiz Ahmed Kidwai. Kidwai, who assumed the DGCA role in January last year, moves to additional secretary in the Department of Personnel and Training. Yadav's appointment...