Amit Shah forms a team of 16 IAS & IPS officers to deal with J&K issues

Amit Shah, Minister of Home Affairs (MHA) is reported to have constituted a team of 16 officials to deal with key issues like security in Jammu and Kashmir and National Register of Citizens (NRC). The officers comprises of both the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and Indian Police Service (IPS) including two Secretaries, three are Special Secretaries, three Additional Secretaries and eight Joint Secretaries. Members of this team include Secretaries of Official Language and Border Management, Shailesh and B R Sharma respectively. Special Secretary, Internal Security, AP Maheshwari, Special Secretary and Financial Advisor Bhupendra Singh, Special Secretary, Centre-State, Satpal Chouhan, Additional Secretary, Jammu and Kashmir, Gyanesh Kumar, Additional Secretary, Union Territories, Govind Mohan and Additional Secretary, PM, Vivek Bhardwaj. Joint Secretary, Women Safety (with additional charge of Internal Security-II), Punya Salila Srivastava Joint Secretary, Border Management-II, Nidhi Khare, Joint Secretary, Left-Wing Extremism, Praveen Vashista, Joint Secretary, Northeast, Satyendra Garg, Joint Secretary, Foreigners, Anil Malik, Joint Secretary, Border Management-I, A V Dharma Reddy, Joint Secretary, Police-I and Police-II, Amitabha Kharkwal and Joint Secretary, Internal Security-I, SCL Das are among others in the team of 16 officials and Saket Kumar, Amit Shah’s private secretary will also be part of the team.