Prakash Rajpurohit appointed Deputy Election Commissioner Vivek Khare as Joint Secretary of NTA

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Senior bureaucrat Prakash Rajpurohit has been appointed as Deputy Election Commissioner in a major bureaucratic reshuffle by the Center on Saturday (October 10, 2026).

Mr. Rajpurohit, a 2010 batch IAS officer of the Rajasthan cadre, has been appointed to the post till April 8, 2030 in place of Sanjay Kumar, according to an order issued by the Ministry of Personnel.

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Vivek Khare, a 1996-batch Indian Telecom chief, will be the joint secretary of the National Testing Agency (NTA), it said.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the appointment of 27 civil servants at the level of Joint Secretary and equivalent level.

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

Mohammed Y. Safirulla and Ritu Sharma will be joint secretaries in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Varnali Deka, a 2009-batch IAS head of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, has been appointed as joint secretary of the National Health Authority.

More Ashish Madhaorao to be next Director General (JS level), National Health Authority.

Nikhil Varma has been appointed as Additional Director General of Foreign Trade, Delhi; Tanvi Sundriyal as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs; and Inderjeet Singh as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Culture, the order said.

Senior IAS officer Tamboli Ayyaj Fakirbhai has been appointed as Executive Director (JS Level), Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India; Rajesh Malik as Managing Director of Food Corporation of India; and Navin Agarwal as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Legal Affairs.

Brijesh Pandey has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Capital Development Department; M Ramachandrudu as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Minority Affairs; and Sonia Pant to be Advisor (JS Level), NITI Aayog.

Nitin Kumar has been appointed as Additional Secretary (JS Level), Central Vigilance Commission; C Muruganas as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways; Rajneesh Kumar Tomar as Managing Director of National Highways Logistics Management Ltd; and Nishtha Tiwari as Director General, Development and Social Security Council for Designated Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Communities under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

Manisha Trighatia will be Joint Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development; Avinash Jain will be Joint Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation; Pawan Kumar will be Joint Secretary, National Directorate of River Conservation; and Anita Shah Akella to be Joint Secretary of the National Commission for Women.

In a separate order dated October 9, the ACC approved the higher education ministry’s proposal for early repatriation of Govind Jaiswal, joint secretary, higher education ministry, to its parent cadre.

Mr. Jaiswal is 2007 batch IAS officer AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territories)

Published – 10 October 2026 19:30 IST