Senior IAS officer Subodh Kumar Singh has been appointed as the director general of the National Testing Agency (NTA) as part of a bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre. NTA has a new Director General! Senior IAS Officer Subodh Kumar Singh has been appointed as the new NTA DG. The IAS officer will be replacing Vineet Joshi
Singh is currently additional secretary in the Department of Food and Public Distribution under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. Singh (1997 batch) is Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Chhattisgarh cadre and is currently additional secretary in the Department of Food and Public Distribution under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, has been named as the NTA’s director general, it said.
Richa Sharma, additional secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, has been moved to the Department of Food and Public Distribution to replace Singh, according to the order issued late Sunday night.
Senior bureaucrat Sanjeev Kumar Chadha will be additional secretary in the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Vumlunmang Vualnam will be additional secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs and Ramesh Krishnamurthi will be additional secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Employment, the order said.
Meanwhile, Vipin Kumar, who is joint secretary in the Department of School Education and Literacy, has been appointed as additional secretary in the Department of School Education and Literacy.
Sunil Kumar Barnwal, who is currently joint secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs, will be additional secretary in the Department of Higher Education under the Ministry of Education.
