The Personnel Secretary (ISO: Kārmik Saciv) 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 Rachna Shah , a 1991 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.
As a Secretary to Government of India, the Personnel Secretary ranks 23rd on Indian Order of Precedence.
Powers, responsibilities and postings 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.
The role of Personnel Secretary is as follows: To act as the administrative head of DoPT. The responsibility in this regard is complete and undivided. To act as the chief adviser to the Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions on all aspects of policy and administrative affairs. To represent DoPT before the Public Accounts Committee of the Parliament of India.
Emolument, accommodation and perquisites As the Personnel Secretary is of the rank of Secretary to Government of India, his/her salary is equivalent 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. The officer is also eligible for a diplomatic passport. +Personnel Secretary monthly pay and allowancesBase Salary as per 7th Pay Commission (Per month)Pay Matrix LevelSourcesPay Level 17
List of Personnel Secretaries +List of Union Personnel SecretariesS. No.NameAssumed officeDemitted office1H. Lal Mukherjee1 August 19706 December 19702B B Lal Bhargav6 December 197028 April 19713P. K. J. Menon15 September 19711 April 19724B. P. Bagchi7 September 197231 July 19755R. K. Trivedi1 August 197525 May 19776C. R. Krishnaswamy26 May 19772 June 19787Maheshwar Prasad3 June 19786 June 19808A. C. Bandopadhyay7 June 198026 July 19829U. C. Agarwal27 July 198224 February 198510K Ramanujan25 February 19857 July 198611P. P. Trivedi8 July 198629 February 198812Manish Bahl2 March 19882 January 199013M. Dandapani3 January 199017 July 199214N. R. Ranganathan5 August 199230 June 199515P. C. Hota14 July 199527 September 199616Arvind Verma30 September 199630 November 199817B. B. Tandon1 December 199813 June 200118A. K. Agarwal14 June 200130 November 200219S. S. Dawra2 December 200230 October 200320Arun Bhatnagar3 November 200329 June 200421A. N. Tiwari1 July 200426 December 200522Pratyush Sinha3 January 200631 July 200623L. K. Joshi1 August 200631 January 200724Satyanand Mishra1 February 20074 September 200825Rahul Sarin13 September 200831 August 200926Shantanu Consul1 September 200931 October 201027Alka Sirohi1 November 20103 January 201228P. K. Misra16 January 201230 June 201329S. K. Sarkar1 July 201331 July 201430Sanjay Kothari1 August 201430 June 201631BP Sharma1 July 201630 June 201732Ajay Mittal1 July 201728 February 201833C. Chandramouli1 March 201830 September 202033Deepak Khandekar25 January 202131 August 202134S. Radha Chauhan3 May 202230 June 202435Vivek Joshi19 August 202431 October 202436Rachna Shah26 December 2024Incumbent
See also Cabinet Secretary of India Home Secretary of India Foreign Secretary of India Defence Secretary of India Finance Secretary of India
References
External links DoPT Official website