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Govt's six major appointments to handle commercial activities in US, China
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SME Times News Bureau | 05 Jun, 2020
To augment commercial links with countries like US, China, the
Philippines, Switzerland and Belgium amid ongoing Covid-19 crisis, the
Centre on Thursday approved six major appointments to foreign posts for a
period of three years.
The appointees include two senior Indian
Administrative Service (IAS) officers who have been working with the
Prime Minister's Office for long.
Senior bureaucrat Brajendra
Navnit and young IAS officer Rajeev Topno, who are among the six, have
been currently working with the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and have
been given tasks to achieve success in their field as expected by the
government.
The others are Ravi Kota, Lekhan Thakkar, H. Atheli, Anwar Hussain Shaik, and N. Ashok Kumar.
Brajendra
Navnit, a 1999 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IAS officer, has been chosen as
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the WTO, Geneva. The
Joint Secretary-level post is under the Commerce Ministry. Navnit was
last year given an extension in service as Joint Secretary in the PMO.
He was appointed as Joint Secretary in PMO in a massive mid-level
reshuffle in 2016. Before that, he was then working as Director in PMO.
Topno, a 1996 batch Gujarat cadre IAS officer, has been
appointed Senior Advisor to the ED, World Bank, Washington DC. The post,
also at Joint Secretary level, is under the Department of Economic
Affairs. The 46-year-old officer is currently working as a Director to
the Prime Minister's office. He was appointed private secretary to the
Prime Minister on July 16, 2014.
Kota, a 1993 batch Assam Cadre
IAS officer, has been appointed as Minister (Economic) in the Indian
Embassy in Washington DC. The Joint Secretary-level post is under the
Department of Economic Affairs.
Takkar, a Central Secretariat
Service official, has been appointed Counsellor (Economic) in the Indian
Embassy in Beijing. The Director-level post is under the Department of
Economic Affairs.
Atheli, a 2000 batch Indian Civil Accounts
Service officer, has been appointed Advisor to the ED, Asian
Development Bank, Manila. The Director-level post isunder the Department
of Economic Affairs.
Shaik, a 2000 batch Indian Railway Traffic
Service official, has been appointed Counsellor in the Permanent
Mission of India to the WTO, Geneva. The Director-level post is under
the Department of Commerce.
Ashok Kumar, a 2004 batch Manipur
cadre IAS officer, has been appointed Advisor (Industry and Engineering)
in the Indian Embassy in Brussels. It is also a Director-level post
under the Department of Commerce.
The Appointments Committee of
the Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved the
appointments to foreign or captive posts under the Department of
Economic Affairs and Department of Commerce for a period of three years
for the date of assumption of charge or until further orders, whichever
is earlier, said a Ministry of Personnel order.
As per the
subject to the condition, the diplomatic equation of Kota, Thakkar,
Navnit, Shaik and Kumar will not be upgraded during the course of their
posting abroad due to any reason, such as revision of pay scale from the
prospective or retrospective date, earning of annual increment (s) and
promotion in parent cadre, said a memorandum issued by the Ministry.
The
order has been circulated to the Secretaries of the Departments of
Economic Affairs and Commerce. A similar copy has been forwarded to the
PMO, Cabinet Secretary, Secretary, External Affairs, and other
departments concerned. This seems India's plan to kick-start exports once the country emerges from the shadows of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The
task for these officers includes cutting down import dependence,
especially from China, by focussing aggressively on substitution while
improving safety compliance and quality goods to gain global market
share and boost commercial activities with the US, Philippines,
Switzerland and Belgium, said sources.
The move comes as India is
mapping out post novel coronavirus pandemic plans to boost India's
economy as well as making it self dependent. The Commerce and Industry
Ministry is mulling setting up groups to draw up strategies for sectors
where China has vacated space and countries are looking to diversify
suppliers.
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