Senior bureaucrat Alka Upadhyaya has been appointed as the chairperson of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) as part of a major bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Saturday.
The Health Ministry is urgently waiting to fill vacant posts of senior officers who will work with India's COVID-19 response team. It has raised concern about "acute stress" in the fight against COVID-19 due to these vacancies.
In a letter to Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan mentioned the names of the eight officers who have moved out of the ministry either on study leave or due to promotion or repatriation.
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