List of New Appointments in India 2016


• National Institution for Transforming India (Niti Aayog) : Narendra Modi, Chairman
• Lok Sabha, Speaker : Mrs. Sumitra Mahajan
• Lok Sabha, Secretary-General : T. K. Viswanathan
• Rajya Sabha, Chairman : Mohammad Hamid Ansari
• Rajya Sabha, Deputy Chairman : P. J. Kurien
• Rajya Sabha, Leader of House : Arun Jaitley
• Rajya Sabha, Leader of Opposition : Ghulam Nabi Azad
• Rajya Sabha, Secretary-General : Shumsher K. Sheriff
• National Institution for Transforming India (Niti Aayog) : Arvind Panagariya, Vice-Chairman
• Chief Election Commissioner : Syed Nasim Zaidi
• Election Commissioner : Achal Kumar Jyoti 
• Chief Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) : K. V. Chowdary
• Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) : R. K. Mathur
• Comptroller and Auditor-General of India : Shashi Kant Sharma
• National Human Right Commission (NHRC) : Justice K. G. Balakrishnan, Chairperson
• Cabinet Secretary : Pradeep Kumar Sinha
• Principal Secretary to Prime Minister : Nripendra Misra
• National Commission for Backward Classes : Justice V. Eshwaraiah, Chairman
• National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) : Ms. Shanta Sinha, Chairperson
• National Commission for Scheduled Castes : Dr. P. L. Punia, Chairman
• National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) : Dr.Rameshwar Oraon, Chairman
• Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) : Deepak Gupta, Chairman
• National Commission on Farmers (NCF) : Dr. M. S. Swaminathan, Chairman
• National Security Adviser and Special Adviser to PM (Internal Security) : Ajit Kumar Doval
• National Investigation Agency (NIA) : Sharad Kumar, Director-General
• Railway Board : A. K. Mital, Chairman
• Intelligence Bureau (IB) : Dineshwar Sharma, Director
• Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) : Anil Kumar Sinha, Director
• Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) : Rajinder Khanna, Director
• National Security Guard (NSG) : Jayanto Narayan Choudhury, Director-General
• Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) : Prakash Mishra, Director-General
• Border Security Force (BSF) : Devendra Kumar Pathak, Director-General
• Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) : Arvind Ranjan, Director-General
• Railway Protection Force. (RPF) : P. K. Mehta, Director-General
• Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) : Krishna Chaudhary, Director-General
• Sashastra Seema Bal : B. D. Sharma, Director-General
• Indian Coast Guard : Vice-Admiral Anurag G. Thapliyal, Director-General
• Defence Intelligence Agency : Lt. Gen. Avtar Singh, Director-General
• University Grants Commission (UGC) : Prof. Ved Prakash, Chairman
• Defence Research and Development Organisation. (DRDO) : Dr. S. Christopher, Director-General
• Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government : Dr. R. Chidambaram
• Space Commission and ISRO : A. S. Kiran Kumar, Chairman
• Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Dept. of Atomic Energy : Ratan Kumar Sinha, Chairman
• National Commission for Minorities : Naseem Ahmad, Chairperson
• Staff Selection Commission (SSC) : Amitava Bhattacharya, Chairman
• Indian Council of Medical Research : Dr. Vishwa Mohan Katoch, Director-General
• India and Census Commissioner : C. Chandramouli, Registrar-General
• Law Commission of India : Justice Ajit Prakash Shah, Chairman
• Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) : Dr. B. N. Suresh, President
• National Forest Commission : Justice (Retd.) B. N. Kirpal, Chairman
• National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) : T. Nanda Kumar, Chairperson
• Border Roads Organisation : Lt. General AT Parnaik, Director-General
• Reserve Bank of India (RBI) : Dr. Raghuram Rajan, Governor
• Press Council of India : Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad, Chairman
• Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) : Ravindra Pisharody, Chairman
• Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) : R. K. Tewari, Chairman
• Central Board of Excise and Customs : Mrs. J.M. Shanti Sundharam, Chairman
• Competition Commission of India : Ashok Chawla
• Central Administrative Tribunal : Justice Syed Rafat Alam, Chairman

• National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) : R.S.T. Sai, CMD
• Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) : Dinesh K. Sarraf, CMD
• GAIL : B. C. Tripathi, CMD
• Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) : S. Behuria, Chairman
• Oil India Ltd : Sunil Kumar Srivastava, CMD
• Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) : Dr. Satbir Bedi, Chairperson
• Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) : U. K. Sinha, Chairman
• National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) : Dr. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala, Chairman
• State Bank of India (SBI) : Smt. Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairman 
• Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) : M. S. Raghavan, Chairman
• Company Law Board : Justice Dilip Raosaheb Deshmukh, Chairman
• India's Permanent Representative to UN : Asoke Kumar Mukerji
• Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) : S. K. Roy, Chairman
• Central Water Commission : Ashwin Pandya, Chairman
• National Commission for Women : Ms. Lalitha Kumarmangalam, Chairperson
• 14th Finance Commission : Dr. Y. V. Reddy, Chairman
• National Statistical Commission : Dr. Pronob Sen, Chairman
• Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) : Pahlaj Nihalani, Chairperson
• Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) : Dr. Rakesh Tewari, Director-General
• Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) : Harshavardhan Neotia, President
• Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) : Ram Sevak Sharma, Chairman
• Enforcement Directorate : Dr. Rajan Katoch, Director
• Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) : R. V. Verma, Chairman
• Bhabha Atomic Research Centre : Dr. Sekhar Basu, Director
• Indian Olympic Association : N. Ramachandran, President
• National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) : Prof. B.K.Tripathi, Acting Director
• Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) : Sumit Mazumder, President
• Prasar Bharti Board : Dr. A. Surya Prakash, Chairman
• Investment Commission : Ratan Tata, Chairman
• Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) : Jagmohan Dalmiya, President
• International Cricket Council (ICC) : Mr. Zaheer Abbas, President
• NASSCOM : B V R Mohan Reddy, Chairman
• National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) : Ramesh Sippy, Chairman
• Children's Film Society : Mukesh Khanna, Chairman
• United News of India : Ravindra Kumar, Chairman
• Press Trust of India (PTI) : Mahendra Mohan Gupta, Chairman
• Indian Newspaper Society (INS) : Kiran B. Vadodaria, President
• The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) : Sunil Kanoria, President

                      Indian States and Union Territories

                                      INDIAN STATES
[Capital, Area, Population (Census 2001 final figures), Principal Languages]

Andhra Pradesh—Capital : Hyderabad; Area : 2,75,068 sq. km; Population : 76,210,007; Languages : Telugu and Urdu; Districts : 23.

Arunachal Pradesh—Capital : Itanagar; Area : 83,743 sq. km; Population : 1,097,968; Language : Tribal dialects, inaugurated as the 24th State of the Indian Union on Feb. 20, 1986; Districts : 16.

Asom—Capital : Dispur (about 6 km from Guwahati); Area : 78,438 sq. km; Population : 26,655,528; Languages : Assamese and Bengali; Districts : 27.

Bihar—Capital : Patna; Area : 94,163 sq.km; Population : 82,998,509; Language : Hindi; Districts : 38.

Chhattisgarh (Nov. 1, 2000)—Capital : Raipur; Area : 1,36,034 sq. km; Population : 20,833,803; Language : Hindi; Districts : 18.

Goa—Capital : Panji; Area : 3,702 sq. km; Population : 1,347,668; Languages : Marathi, Konkani; Districts : 2.

Gujarat—Capital : Gandhinagar; Area : 1,96,024 sq. km; Population : 50,671,017; Language : Gujarati; Districts : 26.

Haryana—Capital : Chandigarh; Area : 44,212 sq. km; Population : 21,144,564; Language : Hindi; Districts : 21.

Himachal Pradesh—Capital : Shimla; Area : 55,673 sq. km; Population : 6,077,900; Languages : Hindi and Pahari; Districts : 12.

Jammu and Kashmir—Capital : Srinagar (Summer), Jammu (Winter); Area : 2,22,236 sq. km (including area under illegal occupation of Pakistan and China); Population : 10,143,700; Languages : Kashmiri, Dogri, Urdu, Ladakhi, Balti, Dardi and Pahari; Districts : 15 (Four districts are under the illegal occupation of Pakistan).

Jharkhand (Nov. 15, 2000)—Capital : Ranchi; Area : 79,714 sq. km; Population : 26,945,829; Language : Hindi; Districts : 24.

Karnataka—Capital : Bangalore; Area : 1,91,791 sq. km; Population : 52,850,562; Language : Kannada; Districts : 30.

Kerala—Capital : Thiruvananthapuram; Area : 38,863 sq. km; Population : 31,841,374; Language : Malyalam; Districts : 14.

Madhya Pradesh—Capital : Bhopal; Area : 3,08,252 sq. km; Population : 60,348,023; Language : Hindi; Districts : 50.

Maharashtra—Capital : Mumbai; Area : 3,07,713 sq. km; Population : 96,878,627; Language : Marathi; Districts : 35.

Manipur—Capital : Imphal; Area : 22,327 sq. km; Population : 2,293,896 ; Language : Manipuri; Districts : 9.

Meghalaya—Capital : Shillong; Area : 22,429 sq. km; Population : 2,318,822; Languages : Khasi Jantia and Garo; Districts : 7.

Mizoram—Capital : Aizawl; Area : 21,081 sq. km; Population : 888,573; Languages : Mizo and English; Districts : 8 (inaugurated as the 23rd State of the Indian Union on Feb. 20, 1986).

Nagaland—Capital : Kohima; Area : 16,579 sq. km; Population : 1,990,036; Languages : Naga, Assamese and English; Districts : 11.

Orissa—Capital : Bhubaneshwar; Area : 1,55,707 sq. km; Population : 36,804,660; Language : Oriya; Districts : 30.

Punjab—Capital : Chandigarh; Area : 50,362 sq. km; Population : 24,358,999; Language : Punjabi; Districts : 20.

Rajasthan—Capital : Jaipur; Area : 3,42,239 sq. km; Population : 56,507,188; Languages : Rajasthani and Hindi; Districts : 33.

Sikkim—Capital : Gangtok; Area : 7,096 sq. km; Population : 540,851; Languages : Sikkimese and Gorkhali; [Sikkim was integrated with India as the 22nd State of the Union by the Constitution (36th Amendment) Act. May 16, 1975]; Districts : 4.

Tamil Nadu—Capital : Chennai (Madras); Area : 1,30,058 sq. km; Population : 62,405,679; Language : Tamil; Districts : 31.

Tripura—Capital : Agartala; Area : 10,491•69 sq. km; Population : 3,199,203; Languages : Bengali, Tripuri and Manipuri; Districts : 4.

Uttar Pradesh—Capital : Lucknow; Area : 2,40,928 sq. km; Population : 166,197,921; Languages : Hindi; Districts : 71.

Uttarakhand (Nov. 8-9, 2000)—Capital : DehradArea : 53,483 sq. km; Population : 8,489,349; Language : Hindi; Districts : 13.

West Bengal—Capital : Kolkata; Area : 88,752 sq. km; Population : 80,176,197; Language : Bengali; Districts : 19.

                     
                                UNION TERRITORIES

Andman and Nicobar Islands—Headquarter : Port Blair; Area : 8,249 sq. km; Population : 356,152; Languages : Mixed Indian languages besides Andamanese spoken by the original inhabitants; Districts : 3.

Chandigarh—Headquarter : Chandigarh; Area : 114 sq. km; Population : 900,635; Languages : Punjabi and Hindi.

Dadra and Nagar Haveli—Headquarter : Silvassa; Area : 491 sq. km; Population : 220,490; Languages : Gujarati, Varli, Marathi, Dhogia, Konkani and Hindi.

Delhi* —Headquarter : Delhi; Area : 1,483 sq. km; Population : 13,850,507; Languages : Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu.

Daman and Diu—Headquarter : Panaji; Area : 112 sq. km; Population : 158,204; Language : Gujarati; Districts : 2.

Lakshadweep Islands—Headquarter : Kavaratti; Area : 32 sq. km; Population : 60,650; Islands : 10 inhabited.

Puducherry—Headquarter : Pondicherry; Area : 479 sq. km; Population : 974,345; Languages : Tamil and French; Districts : 4.

* Delhi now enjoys the special or separate status as National Capital Territory of Delhi.
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