New Delhi, Aug 01: Meenaxi A Choudhary, a 1969-batch IAS officer, was appointed principal adviser in the planning commission while B S Minhas, additional secretary in the department of agriculture and cooperation was upgraded as special secretary in six senior-level appointments announced today. Kasturi Gupta Menon, development commissioner (handlooms) in the textiles ministry has been made secretary in the department of women and child development succeeding R V V Ayyar who retired yesterday.


In the posts approved by the appointments committee of the Cabinet, Neena Ranjan, director general, supply and disposal has been promoted by temporarily upgrading her post to the level of secretary while Chitra Chopra, establishment officer and additional secretary in the department of personnel and training has been appointed secretary, National Commission for Backward Classes. J L Bose, presently in his Madhya Pradesh cadre, is the new secretary, north eastern council secretariat at Shillong.

Bureau Report