Secretary to the Government of India

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Member of| Committee of Secretaries on Administration
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Appointer| Appointments Committee of the Cabinet
Term length| No term length[dead link][1][2]
Term extendable
Formation| 1930; 94 years ago (1930)
Succession| 23rd (on the Indian order of precedence.)
Salary| ₹225,000 (US$2,800) monthly[3][4]
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Secretary to the Government of India, often abbreviated as Secretary, GoI, or simply as Secretary, is a post and a rank under the Central Staffing Scheme of the Government of India.[5] The authority for the creation of this post solely rests with the Union Council of Ministers.[6]

The position holder is generally a career civil servant, mostly from the Indian Administrative Service,[3][7][8][9][10][11] and a government official of high seniority.

Secretary is either from All India Services (deputation; on tenure, after empanelment) or Central Civil Services (Group A; on empanelment). All promotions and appointments to this rank and post are directly made by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.

In the structure of the Indian government,[12][13][14] a secretary is the administrative head of a ministry or department,[15][16] and is equivalent to chief secretaries or additional chief secretaries of state governments and Vice Chief of the Army Staff, General Officers Commanding in Chief of Army Commands, and their equivalents in the Indian Armed Forces,[17] and are listed as such on the Indian order of precedence, ranking twenty-third.[18][19][20][21]

## History[edit]

C. H. Bhabha with a Secretary and a few Joint Secretaries to the Government of India in 1947.

In mid-1930s, the Central Secretariat contained only twenty-nine secretaries,[22] who were all members of the Indian Civil Service. The salary for a member of this rank and post was fixed at ₹48,000 (equivalent to ₹12 million or US$150,000 in 2023) annum in the 1930s.[22] As per warrant or precedence of 1905,[23] secretaries to the Government of India was listed together with joint secretaries to the Government of India and were ranked above the rank of chief secretaries of provincial governments.[23]

N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar had once suggested "[a] secretary should not be immersed in files and burdened with routine. It is essential that he should have time to grasp the overall picture, size up the problems facing the government in the field allotted to his charge, and think and plan ahead. All these are his proper functions and must be efficiently performed. Failure to make adequate provision in this respect cannot be compensated by a mere increase in the establishment under his control."[24]

The Administrative Reforms Commission visualised the role of secretary, primarily as one of a "coordinator, policy guide, reviewer, and evaluator."[24]

## Powers, responsibilities and postings[edit]

The organizational structure of a department of the Government of India.

A secretary to the Government of India is the administrative head of a ministry or department and is the principal adviser to the minister-in charge on all matters of policy and administration within the ministry or department.[16]

The role of a secretary is as follows:

* To act as the administrative head of the ministry or department. The responsibility in this regard is complete and undivided.[15]
* To act as the chief adviser to the minister on all aspects of policy and administrative affairs.[15]
* To represent the ministry or department before the Public Accounts Committee of the Parliament of India.[15]

The prime minister-led Appointments Committee of the Cabinet is the final authority on posting and transfer of officers of secretary level.[25] Secretaries report to their ministerial cabinet minister and to the prime minister.[citation needed]

## Position[edit]

In the Indian government, secretaries are the head of the ministries of the government and hold positions such as Finance Secretary, Defence Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary, Chairperson of the Railway Board and members of the Railway Board and Telecom Commission.

According to the report of the Seventh Central Pay Commission of India, seventy-one out of ninety-one secretaries to the Government of India are from the Indian Administrative Service.[3]

## Emolument, accommodation and prequisites[edit]

An Indian diplomatic passport and an official generally issued to Secretaries to the Government of India.

All secretaries to the Government of India are eligible for a diplomatic passport. Secretaries are allotted either type-VII or type-VIII bungalows in areas like New Moti Bagh and Lutyens' across Delhi by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs' Directorate of Estates.[26][27][28]

The salary and emolument in this rank is equivalent[17] to chief secretaries of state governments and to Vice Chief of the Army Staff, General Officers Commanding in Chief of Army Commands, and their equivalents, in the Indian Armed Forces, which is to say Level 17 of the Central Pay Matrix.[17]

Secretary to the Government of India monthly pay and allowances  Base salary as per the Seventh Pay Commission | Pay matrix level  | Sources

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₹225,000 (US$2,800) per month | Pay level 17  | [3][4]

## List of current secretaries to the Government of India[edit]

Secretaries to the Government of India[29] Office or Ministry  | Designation  | Name of secretary  | Background  | Batch

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President's Secretariat  | Secretary to the President | Rajesh Verma  | IAS officer  | 1987[a]
Vice President's Secretariat  | Secretary to the Vice President | Sunil Kumar Gupta  | 1987[a]
Prime Minister's Office | Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister | P.K. Mishra | 1972[a]
1986
Supreme Court Registry Office  | Secretary General of Supreme Court of India  | Shri Atul M. Kurhekar  | Legal Service Officer  | —
Parliament's Secretariat  | Secretary General of Rajya Sabha  | Pramod Kumar Mody  | IAS officer  | —
Secretary General of Rajya Sabha  | Utpal Kumar Singh  | —
Cabinet Secretariat | Cabinet Secretary[b] | Rajiv Gauba | 1982
Secretary (Coordination)  | Pradip Kumar Tripathi  | 1987
Secretary (R&AW)  | Ravi Sinha | IPS officer  | 1988
Secretary (Security)  | Swagat Das[30] | 1987
Agriculture and Farmers Welfare | Secretary (Agriculture and Farmers Welfare)  | Manoj Ahuja  | IAS officer  | 1990
Secretary (Agricultural Research and Education)  | Himanshu Pathak | Scientist | —
Atomic Energy | Secretary (Atomic Energy) and chairperson of the Atomic Energy Commission | Ajit Kumar Mohanty[31] | Scientist | —
AYUSH | Secretary (AYUSH)  | Rajesh Kotecha
Chemicals and Fertilizers | Secretary (Chemicals and Petrochemicals)  | Nivedita Shukla Verma  | IAS officer  | 1991
Secretary (Fertilizers)  | Rajat Kumar Mishra  | 1992
Secretary (Pharmaceuticals)  | Arunish Chawla  | 1992
Civil Aviation | Secretary (Civil Aviation)  | Vumlunmang Vualnam[32] | 1992
Coal | Secretary (Coal)  | Amrit Lal Meena | 1989
Commerce and Industry | Secretary (Commerce)  | Sunil Barthwal  | 1989
Secretary (Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade)  | Rajesh Kumar Singh  | 1989
Communications | Secretary (Posts)  | Vineet Pandey  | IPoS officer  | 1986
Secretary to (Telecommunications) and chairperson, Telecoms Commission | Neeraj Mittal[32] | IAS officer  | 1992
Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution | Secretary (Consumer Affairs)  | Nidhi Khare  | 1992
Secretary (Food and Public Distribution)  | Sanjeev Chopra  | 1990
Co-operation | Secretary (Co-operation)  | Ashish Kumar Bhutani  | 1992
Corporate Affairs | Secretary (Corporate Affairs)  | Manoj Govil  | 1991
Culture | Secretary (Culture)  | Govind Mohan  | 1989
Defence | Defence Secretary | Giridhar Armane | 1988
Secretary (Defence Production)
Secretary (Defence Research and Development) and chairperson, DRDO | Samir V. Kamath  | Scientist | —
Secretary (Ex-Servicemen Welfare)  | Niten Chandra | IAS officer  | 1990
Secretary (Department of Military Affairs) and Chief of Defence Staff | General Anil Chauhan | Indian Armed Forces officer  | —
Development of North Eastern Region | Secretary (Development of North Eastern Region)  | Chanchal Kumar[33] | IAS officer  | 1992
Earth Sciences | Secretary (Earth Sciences) and chairman, Earth Sciences Commission  | M. Ravichandran  | Scientist | —
Education | Secretary (Higher Education)  | K. Sanjay Murthy  | IAS officer  | 1989
Secretary (School Education and Literacy)  | Sanjay Kumar  | 1990
Electronics and Information Technology | Secretary (Electronics and Information Technology)  | S Krishnan[32] | 1989
Environment, Forest and Climate Change | Secretary (Environment, Forest and Climate Change)  | Leena Nandan  | 1987
External Affairs | Foreign Secretary | Vinay Mohan Kwatra | IFS officer  | 1984
Secretary (East)  | Jaideep Mazumdar  | 1989
Secretary (West)  | Pavan Kapoor  | 1990
Secretary (CPV & OIA)  | Muktesh Kumar Pardeshi  | 1991
Secretary (Economic Relations)  | Dammu Ravi  | 1989
Finance | Finance Secretary
Secretary (Expenditure)  | T. V. Somanathan | IAS officer  | 1987
Secretary (Economic Affairs)  | Ajay Seth  | 1987
Secretary (Public Enterprises)  | Ali Raza Rizvi  | 1988
Revenue Secretary | Sanjay Malhotra  | 1990
Secretary (Investment and Public Asset Management)  | Tuhin Kanti Pandey  | 1987
Secretary (Financial Services)  | Vivek Joshi  | 1989
Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying | Secretary (Animal Husbandry and Dairying)  | Alka Upadhyaya  | 1990
Secretary (Fisheries)  | Dr. Abhilaksh Likhi  | 1991
Food Processing Industries | Secretary (Food Processing Industries)  | Anita Praveen  | 1989
Health and Family Welfare | Secretary to (Health and Family Welfare)  | Apurva Chandra  | 1988
Secretary (Health Research)  | Dr. Rajiv Bahl  | Scientist | —
Heavy Industries | Secretary (Heavy Industry)  | Kamran Rizvi  | IAS officer  | 1991
Home Affairs | Secretary  | Ajay Kumar Bhalla | 1984
Secretary (Official Language)  | Ansuli Arya  | 1989
Secretary (Border Management)  | Raj Kumar Goyal  | 1990
Secretary (Inter-State Council Secretariat)  | K

. Moses Chalai

| IAS Officer  | 1990
Housing and Urban Affairs | Secretary (Housing and Urban Affairs)  | Vacant  | IAS officer  |
Information and Broadcasting | Secretary (Information and Broadcasting)  | Sanjay Jaju  | 1992
Jal Shakti | Secretary (Drinking Water and Sanitation)  | Vini Mahajan  | 1987
Secretary (Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation)  | Debashree Mukherjee[34] | 1991
Labour and Employment | Secretary (Labour and Employment)  | Sumita Dawra  | 1991
Law and Justice | Secretary (Justice)  | S. K. G. Rahate  |
Secretary (Legal Affairs)  | Vacant
Secretary (Legislative)  | Dr. Rajiv Mani  | Legal Service Officer  | –
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises | Secretary (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises)  | Subhas Chandra Lal Das  | IAS officer  | 1992
Mines | Secretary (Mines)  | VL Kantha Rao  | 1992
Minority Affairs | Secretary (Minority Affairs)  | Katikithala Srinivas[32] | 1989
New and Renewable Energy | Secretary (New and Renewable Energy)  | Bhupendra Singh Bhalla  | 1990
NITI Aayog (Planning Commission)  | Chief Executive Officer and ex officio Secretary  | BVR Subrahmanyam | 1987
Panchayati Raj | Secretary (Panchayati Raj)  | Vivek Bhardwaj  | 1990
Parliamentary Affairs | Secretary (Parliamentary Affairs)  | Umang Narula[32] | 1989
Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions | Secretary (Personnel and Training)  | S Radha Chauhan  | 1988
Secretary (Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances)  | V. Srinivas  | 1989
Secretary (Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare)
Petroleum and Natural Gas | Secretary (Petroleum and Natural Gas)  | Pankaj Jain  | 1990
Ports, Shipping and Waterways | Secretary (Ports, Shipping and Waterways)  | T K Ramachandran | 1991
Power | Secretary (Power)  | Pankaj Agarwal  | 1992
Ministry of Railway (Railway Board)  | Chairperson, Railway Board and ex-officio Principal Secretary  | Jaya Varma Sinha | IRTS | 1988
Road Transport and Highways | Secretary (Road Transport and Highways)  | Anuraj Jain  | IAS officer  | 1989
Rural Development | Secretary (Land Resources)  | Manoj Joshi  | 1989
Secretary (Rural Development)  | Shailesh Kumar Singh  | 1991
Science and Technology | Secretary (Biotechnology)  | Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale | Scientist | —
Secretary (Science and Technology)  | Abhay Karandikar[35]
Secretary (Scientific and Industrial Research)  | N. Kalaiselvi
Skill Development and Entrepreneurship | Secretary (Skill Development and Entrepreneurship)  | Atul Kumar Tiwari  | IAS officer  | 1990
Social Justice and Empowerment | Secretary (Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities)  | Rajesh Aggarwal  | 1989
Secretary (Social Justice and Empowerment)  | Saurabh Garg  | 1991
Statistics and Programme Implementation | Secretary (Statistics and Programme Implementation)  | G. P. Samanta[36] | Scientist | —
Space | Secretary (Space) and Chairperson of ISRO | S. Somanath | —
Steel | Secretary (Steel)  | Nagendra Nath Sinha  | IAS officer  | 1987
Textiles | Secretary (Textiles)  | Rachna Shah  | 1991
Tourism | Secretary (Tourism)  | V. Vidyavathi  | 1991
Tribal Affairs | Secretary (Tribal Affairs)  | Vibhu Nayar  | 1990
Women and Child Development | Secretary (Women and Child Development)  | Anil Malik  | 1991
Youth Affairs and Sports | Secretary (Sports)  | Sujata Chaturvedi  | 1989
Secretary (Youth Affairs)  | Meeta R Lochan  | 1990
Notes

1. ^ a b c Retired
2. ^ Cabinet Secretary is not a secretary rank position but the highest level of empanelment in the Government of India is at secretary rank.

## Reforms[edit]

Media articles and others have argued in favour of lateral entrants being recruited to this rank/post to infuse fresh energy and thinking into an insular, complacent and archaic bureaucracy.[37][38][39][40]

Non-IAS civil services have complained to the Government of India because of lack of empanelment in the rank/post of secretary on numerous occasions.[3][7][8][9][10][11]

## See also[edit]

* Federal Secretary

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