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Additional Secretary (often abbreviated as AS, GoI or Union Additional Secretary or Additional Secretary to Government of India) is a post and a rank under the Central Staffing Scheme of the Government of India. [1] The authority for creation of this post solely rests with Cabinet of India. [2]
The organizational structure of a department of the Government of India. A secretary to the Government of India is the administrative head of a ministry or department and is the principal adviser to the minister-in charge on all matters of policy and administration within the ministry or department. [14] The role of a secretary is as follows:
Defence Secretary: Rajesh Kumar Singh,IAS 1 November 2024 [9] Foreign Secretary: Vikram Misri,IFS 15 July 2024 [10] Law Secretary: Vacant Secretary General, Lok Sabha: Utpal Kumar Singh, IAS 30 November 2020 Secretary General, Rajya Sabha: Pramod Chandra Mody, IRS (IT) 12 November 2021 [11] Secretary General, Supreme Court of India: Atul M ...
[a] Before the creation of post/rank of Additional secretary to the Government of India, Joint Secretary was the second highest post/rank in Indian Civil Service (British India). In 1937, the Central Secretariat contained only seven joint secretaries, [25] who were all members of the Imperial Civil Service. However, by 1946, the number had ...
Lav Agarwal (born 18 February 1972) is an Indian bureaucrat and [1] He is an IAS officer in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, serving as an Additional Secretary. He served as a Joint Secretary till August 2022. Before his appointment to the Health Ministry in 2016, Agarwal served in various state governments. [2]
The Principal Secretary to PM is the head of the Prime Minister's Office. He/she holds the rank and status of Cabinet Secretary to the Government of India. [5] Additionally, some prime ministers also appoint an additional principal secretary, who too holds the rank and status of Cabinet Secretary to the Government of India. [6]
Utpal Kumar Singh (born 29 July 1960 [1] [2]) is a 1986–batch retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Uttarakhand cadre [3] who is currently serving as the Secretary General of the Lok Sabha since 30 November 2020.
The only instance of an additional principal secretary being appointed was in May 2014, Pramod Kumar Misra, a retired 1972-batch Gujarat cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, was appointed by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet to serve as newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi's additional principal secretary.