Finally the list of 1978 IAS officers as Secretaries to Government of India - is out.

Speculations were ripe that list was pruned twice and the third time-the total number of promotees were reduced from 41 to 37.

UPA2 personnel policy has been under criticism-as senior bureaucrats have now become disgruntled as promotions and postings to the top slot are increasingly becoming political.Many officers have to wait for more than six months to one year to get their turn, but by that time some get superannuated. UPA2 personnel policy is a constipated commented a former Cabinet Secretary.  Prime Minister Office also getting into internal squabbles of IAS officers of that particular batch.

In UPA2 the promotions as Secretaries to Government of India has become an exercise like Union Cabinet reshuffle.

The official list of 1978 IAS as Secretaries to Government of India

F.No.35/7/2011-E0(SM-I)

Department of Personnel & Training
0/o Establishment Officer

Date : 09/11/2011
Information Note

The following IAS officers have been empanelled for
appointment to Secretary and Secretary equivalent posts in the Centre:

Secretary/Secretary equivalent:

S. No. Name Cadre Batch DOB
1. Madhav Lal JK 1977 04..06.1955
2. Jawed Usmani UP 1978 09.01.1956
3. Saurabh Chandra UP 1978 11.04.1955
4. Gokul Chandra Pati OR 1978 15.11.1955
5. Arvind Mayaram RJ 1978 13.10.1955
6. Prem Narain UP 1978 07.12.1954
7. Rakesh Singh PB 1978 08.09.1955
8. Anoop Mishra UP 1978 16.05.1955
9. S K Srivastava AM 1978 20.10.1954
10. S R Rao GJ 1978 09.01.1954
11. Sudhir Kumar UP 1978 31.05.1955
12. Anil Goswami JK 1978 14.01.1955
13. Pankaj Agarwal UP 1978 16.10.1955
14. Rajiv Mehrishi RJ 1978 08.08.1955
15. R Parasuram MP 1978 24.03.1953
16. Stuti Narain Kackar UP 1978 19.12.1954
17. Pankaj Jain JK 1978 02.09.1954
18. Sanjay Kothari HY 1978 24.06.1956
19. Vivek Rae UT 1978 20.02.1954
20. R Bhattacharya AP 1978 06.12.1954
21. Desh Deepak Verma UP 1978 26.06.1953
22. Lakshmi Venkatachalam KN 1978 25.09.1953
23. A K Mangotra MT 1978 25.06.1953
24. V Chhiber MT 1978 12.12.1955
25. Ram Sewak Sharma JH 1978 01.10.1955
26. Sudhir Mittal PB 1978 11.11.1953
27. Rahul Asthana MH 1978 18.02.1953
28. Bipin Bihari Srivastava BH 1978 02.11.1953
29. K N Desiraju UL 1978 11.05.1955
30. Gop Bandhu Pattanaik UP 1978 07.03.1953
31. M F Faroogui TN 1978 28.06.1954
32. K N Srivastava KN 1978 01.01.1954
33. Ashish Bahuguna RJ 1978 16.02.1955
34. A P Joshi KN 1978 09.09.1953
35. V Rajagopalan UP 1978 01.09.1954
36. P Panneervel GJ 1978 17.09.1953
37. Uttam Kumar Sangma JH 1978 21.04.1954'

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Secretary equivalent:

S.No. Name Cadre Batch DOB

1. V. Venkatachalam UP 1977 02.04.1952
2. P Prabhakaran KL 1978 09.03.1952
3. K Jayakumar KL 1978 06.10.1952
4 R C Mishra MT 1978 24.11.1952
5. M M Srivastava GJ 1978 23.07.1952
6. Virendra Narayan Gaur NL 1978 28.02.1952
7. Subha Kirti Majumdar BH 1978 18.08.1952
8. R Chandramohan UT 1978 27.10.1952