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Hi, I tried to collect all the present Directors, Chairman, Presidents of the various Governmant organizations/Institutions and others from various blogs/communities/newspaper/magazines to put them at one place. Will Update as and when I get updated myself!!!

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Cabinet Sectetary – KM Chandrasekhar (BK Chaturvedi , Kamal Pande and TR Prasad are the former Secretaries)

Principal Sectretary - KA Nair

Attorney General of India – Milon Banerjee (G Ramaswamy, Ashok K Desai and Soli S Banerjee are some of the previous Attorney Generals)

Solicitor General of India – GE Vahanvati (former is Harish V Salve)

RBI Governor – YV Reddy
RBI Deputy Governors – Dr. Rakesh MohanShri, V. Leeladhar, Smt. S. Gopinath and Smt. Usha Thorat

Chief Justice of India – KG Balakrishnan (YK Sabharwal, RC Lahoti, Rajendra Babu, VN Khare, GB Pattanaik are the previous CJIs)

Comptroller and Auditor General of India - Vijayendar N Kaul

Foreign Secretary – Shivshankor Menon (Shyam Saran is the former FS)
National Security Advisor - MK Narayanan
National Scientific Advisor - R Chidambaram
Principal Secretary to the PM - TKA Nair
Additional Sectretary - Pulok Chatterjee
Joint Secretaries - Jawed Usmani, R Gopalakrishnan, Sujatha Mehta, Sanjay Mitra and Vini Mahajan
Private Secretaries to PM - BVR Subramanyam, Jaideep Sarkar
Media Advisor - Dr Sanjay Baru
Central Public Information Officer - Kamal Dayani
Chairman, VI Pay Commission - BN Sri Krishna
Chairman, National Human Rights Commission - Justice Rajendra Babu

Chief of the Army – JJ Singh
Chief of the Air Staff – Fali H Major (previously SP Tyagi)
Chief of the Naval Staff – Suresh Mehta (Arun Mehta is the former Chief)
Chief of Integrated Defence Staff – Vice Admiral Raman Puri
Strategic Forces Command – Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar (AD Joshi is the former Commander)
Coast Guard Chief - Rustom Farmooze Contractor

Chief Vigilance Officer – Pratyush Sinha
Chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) - Ashok Chaturvedi (the former chief is PKH Thaparan)

Commerce Secretary – GK Pillai – also the chairman of Board of Approvals, SEZ
Home Secretary – Madhukar Gupta (previously VK Duggal)
Petroleum Secretary - MS Srinivasan
Power Secretary - Anil Razdan
Chemicals Secretary - Satwant Reddy

Chairman, Economic Credits Gaurantee Corporation – Christy Fernandes

Director of SDSC (Satish Dhavan Space Center) – Annamalai (K Narayana is the former Director)
Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre – BN Suresh
Chairman, ISRO – G Madhavan Nair
Director, Chadrayan Project - C Annadurai
Director, Liquid Propulsion System, ISRO - RV Perumal
Project Director, PSLV - N Narayanamurthi
Chairman, Antrix Corporation, the commercial wing of ISRO - KR Sridhar Murthi

President, Supreme Court Bar Association – PH Parekah ( former MN Krishnamani )
Chairman, All India Bar Association – Adish C Agarwalia
Vice Chairman, All India Bar Association – S Prabhakaran
President of Bar Association of India - Fali S Nariman
President, Indian Law Firms - Lait Bhasin
General Secretary, All India Forward Bloc - Debender Biswas


Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes – MH Kherwala
Chairman, Union Grants Commission – Sukhadao Torat

Chairman, Railway Board - JP Batra
Chairman, UPSC - Gurbachan Jagat

Director, Central Forensic Sciene Labaratory – SK Shukla
Director, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune – BN Goswami
Director, Indian Institute of Public Administration – PL Sanjeeva Reddy
Director, National Institute of Nutrition – B Sesi Kiran
President, Indian People’s Theatre Association – AK Haugal
Director, National Institute of Advanced Sciences – K Kasturirangan
Chairman, Center for Economic and Social Studies, Hyd – Ch Hanumantha Rao
Director, Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology - Lalji Singh

Head of IPCC - Rajender K Pachuri

President, Indian Semiconductor Association – Poornima Shenoy
Chairman, Indian Semiconductor Association – Rajendra Kumar Khare

President, Indian History Congress - Suvira Jaiswal
Chairman, Indian Council of Historical Research - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya (previous - DN Tripathi)

Director General, ICRISAT – William Dar
Director General, Indian Council for Agricultural Research - Mangala Rai
Director General, Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technologies (CAPART) - VS Rao
Director General, Indian Council for Medical Research - Nirmala Ganguly (Belgaum)
Director, NCERT – Krishna Kumar
Chairman, Prasar Bharti - MV Kamath
Chairman, PCI – GN Ray
Director General - Export Promotion Council for EOUs and SEZs - LB Singhal
Chairman, Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board - L Mansingh
LK Singhvi and Bhagwat Singh Negi are the other two members of this board.

Chairman, Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanams (TTD) – B Karunakara Reddy

President, Indian Science Congress – R Ramamurthy (Former president is Harsha Gupta)

Director, Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority – D Swaroop

Director, All India Audits and Accounts Association – Gowtham Pramnick

MD, NCDEX - PH Ravi Kumar
MD, NMCE - Kailash Gupta

Ambassador to Japan – HK Singh
Ambassador to S Korea – N Parthasarathy
Indian High Commissioner, Dhaka – Ranjan Chakraborthy (Veena Sikri is the former High Commissioner)

Chairman, Central Adoption Research Agency - under the ministry of Woman and Child Development - JK Mittal

Director, Akshaya - The Kerala e-Governance Initiative - TK Manzoor

More to come....stay glued