Dipak Chatterjee is new commerce secretary
New Delhi: In A major bureaucratic reshuffle involving 19 top officials in the key economic ministries, Mr Dipak Chatterjee has been shifted from mines to commerce as secretary.

Planning Commission advisor SS Boparai has been appointed as secretary in the Plan panel in place of Ajit Kumar who retires on 31 January. Chatterjee replaces Prabir Sengupta who also retires on the same day.

Tariff Commission chairman AK Kundra will take over as the mines secretary in place of Chatterjee. Additional secretary in the revenue department GC Srivastava has been promoted to take charge from Kundra.

Special secretary in charge of Wrold Trade Organisation Nripendra Misra has been appointed as fertiliser secretary in place of Ashok Pahwa, who is superannuating on 31 January.

National Productivity Council director-general AK Goswami has been appointed as secretary in the department of drinking water supply. Inland Waterways Authority of India chairman BN Jha will succeed Goswami.

Special secretary, Central Relief Commissioner in the farm ministry, Ashok Pradhan will have dual charge of secretary in the small scale industries ministry as also agro and rural industries ministry. He replaces Vishwanath Anand, who also retires on 31 January.

Rajiv Srivastava has been appointed chairman of the Inland Waterways Authority in place of BN Jha. Krishna Bhatnagar has been appointed as adviser in the Planning Commission in place of Boparai. PK Mohanty has also been appointed as adviser in the Plan panel in the rank of secretary. Binoo Sen, at present posted in Madhya Pradesh, has been appointed as special secretary and the Central Relief Commissioner in the place of Pradhan.
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