Recent Appointments in India

POSTS/DEPTT.	PERSONS
Foreign Secretary	§  Subrahmanyam Jaishankar took over as foreign secretary §  Replaces Sujatha Singh
New Governers	§  KK Paul - Uttarakhand’s new governor. §  Aziz Qureshi - 15th Governor of Mizoram §  Kalyan Singh - took oath as Governor of Himachal Pradesh §  K K Paul - sworn in as sixth Governor of Uttarakhand
NITI AAYOG	§  National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog. §  Chairman Narendra Modi §  Vice Chairman: Free market  economist Arvind Panagariya §  CEO: Ms.  Sindhushree Khullar (IAS) §  Fulltime Members: Economist Bibek Debroy and former DRDO Chief V K Saraswat.
Air India	§  CMD Rohit Nandan (10 months extension)
DRDO	§  Chief Avinash Chander asked to step down. §  Defense Secretary RK Mathur is holding the charge of DRDO (30-Jan-2015).
BSNL	§  Anupam Shrivastava became new CMD
EC	§  Hari Shankar Brahma, became the 19th Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India. He is an Assamese IAS officer from Andhra Pradesh cadre. §  He replaced V S Sampath
Censor Board	§  Pahlaj Nihalani became new chief §  Leela Samson resigned after her decision against Dera Sachcha Sauda chief Gurmit Ram Rahim’s movie “Messanger of God” (MSG) was overturned by the appellate board.
Prasar Bharati	§  Chairman Arkalgud Suryaprakash
ISRO	§  A.S.Kiran Kumar replaced K.Radhakrishnan as the new ISRO Chief.
TCA Anant	§  Chief statistician of India.
Railway board	§  New chairman A.K. Mittal.