Manoj Ahuja new CBSE chief, Anurag Jain DDA vice-chairman

NEW DELHI: Senior IAS officer Manoj Ahuja has been appointed as the CBSE chairman and Anurag Jain, the vice-chairman of Delhi Development Authority (DDA), as part of a major bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Tuesday. Gujarat-cadre IAS officer (1989 batch) Katikithala Srinivas will be Additional Secretary and Establishment Officer, Department of Personnel and Training (DOPT). He is currently working in the same department. Vasudha Mishra, a 1987 batch IAS officer of Telangana cadre officer, will be the Secretary, Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), according to a Personnel Ministry order. Mishra is Special Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare.

As many as 19 officers have been appointed to the post of secretaries, additional secretaries and joint secretaries among others.

Ahuja, who will take over as the chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), is at present Special Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie. Ahuja, a 1990 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre, replaces Anita Karwal who was earlier appointed Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy. Jain, who will join the DDA as its vice-chief, is currently working in his cadre state Madhya Pradesh.

Shri Shiv Das Meena, Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, has been appointed as the Chairman, Central Pollution Control Board. Senior bureaucrats V Vidyavathi and Rajendra Kumar have been appointed as the Director Generals of Archaeological Survey of India and ESIC respectively, it said.