Personnel Secretary (India)

The Personnel Secretary, popularly called as Secretary (P), is the administrative head of the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) under Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions. This post is held by senior IAS officer of the rank of Secretary to Government of India. The current Personnel Secretary is S. Radha Chauhan, a 1988 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.[1]

Personnel Secretary of India
Kārmika Saciva
Incumbent
S. Radha Chauhan, IAS
since 3 May 2022
Department of Personnel and Training, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Reports to
SeatMinistry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
North Block, Cabinet Secretariat
Raisina Hill
New Delhi
AppointerAppointments Committee of the Cabinet
Formation1970; 54 years ago (1970)
Salary225,000 (US$2,800) monthly
Websitedopt.gov.in

As a Secretary to Government of India, the Personnel Secretary ranks 23rd on Indian Order of Precedence.[2][3][4][5]

Powers, responsibilities and postings edit

Personnel Secretary is the administrative head of DoPT, and is the principal adviser to the Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions on all matters of policy and administration within DoPT.[6]

The role of Personnel Secretary is as follows:[7]

Emolument, accommodation and perquisites edit

As the Personnel Secretary is of the rank of Secretary to Government of India, his/her salary is equivalent[8] to Chief Secretaries of State Governments and to Vice Chief of Army Staff/Commanders, in the rank of Lieutenant General and equivalent ranks in Indian Armed Forces.[8] The officer is also eligible for a diplomatic passport.

Personnel Secretary monthly pay and allowances
Base Salary as per 7th Pay Commission (Per month)Pay Matrix LevelSources
225,000 (US$2,800)Pay Level 17[9]

List of Personnel Secretaries edit

List of Union Personnel Secretaries[10]
S. No.NameAssumed officeDemitted office
1H. Lal1 August 19706 December 1970
2B B Lal6 December 197028 April 1971
3P. K. J. Menon15 September 19711 April 1972
4B. P. Bagchi7 September 197231 July 1975
5R. K. Trivedi1 August 197525 May 1977
6C. R. Krishnaswamy26 May 19772 June 1978
7Maheshwar Prasad3 June 19786 June 1980
8A. C. Bandopadhyay7 June 198026 July 1982
9U. C. Agarwal27 July 198224 February 1985
10K Ramanujan25 February 19857 July 1986
11P. P. Trivedi8 July 198629 February 1988
12Manish Bahl2 March 19882 January 1990
13M. Dandapani3 January 199017 July 1992
14N. R. Ranganathan5 August 199230 June 1995
15P. C. Hota14 July 199527 September 1996
16Arvind Verma30 September 199630 November 1998
17B. B. Tandon1 December 199813 June 2001
18A. K. Agarwal14 June 200130 November 2002
19S. S. Dawra2 December 200230 October 2003
20Arun Bhatnagar3 November 200329 June 2004
21A. N. Tiwari1 July 200426 December 2005
22Pratyush Sinha3 January 200631 July 2006
23L. K. Joshi1 August 200631 January 2007
24Satyanand Mishra1 February 20074 September 2008
25Rahul Sarin13 September 200831 August 2009
26Shantanu Consul1 September 200931 October 2010
27Alka Sirohi1 November 20103 January 2012
28P. K. Misra16 January 201230 June 2013
29S. K. Sarkar1 July 201331 July 2014
30Sanjay Kothari1 August 201430 June 2016
31BP Sharma1 July 201630 June 2017
32Ajay Mittal1 July 201728 February 2018
33C. Chandramouli1 March 201830 September 2020
33Deepak Khandekar25 January 202131 August 2021
34S. Radha Chauhan3 May 2022Incumbent

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "S. Radha Chauhan, IAS, appointed Secretary- DoPT". indianbureaucracy.com. 3 May 2022. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  2. ^ "Order of Precedence" (PDF). Rajya Sabha. President's Secretariat. July 26, 1979. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
  3. ^ "Table of Precedence" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. President's Secretariat. July 26, 1979. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 May 2014. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
  4. ^ "Table of Precedence". Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. President's Secretariat. Archived from the original on 28 April 2014. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
  5. ^ Maheshwari, S.R. (2000). Indian Administration (6th Edition). New Delhi: Orient Blackswan Private Ltd. ISBN 9788125019886.
  6. ^ "Central Secretariat Manual of Office Procedure - 14th Edition (2015)" (PDF). Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pension. p. 6. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  7. ^ Laxmikanth, M. (2014). Governance in India (2nd Edition). Noida: McGraw Hill Education. pp. 3.1–3.10. ISBN 978-9339204785.
  8. ^ a b "Army Pay Rules, 2017" (PDF). Ministry of Defence, Government of India. May 3, 2017. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
  9. ^ "Report of the 7th Central Pay Commission of India" (PDF). Seventh Central Pay Commission, Government of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 November 2015. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  10. ^ "Personnel Secretaries (Page 1)". Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India. Retrieved February 1, 2021.

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