Joint Secretaries Sujit Kumar Bajpayee (Environment, Forest, and Climate Change), Saurabh Mishra (Ministry of Finance), Rajeev Saksena (Economic Affairs), Dinesh Dayanand Jagadale (New and Renewable Energy), Suman Prasad Singh (Road Transport and Highways), and Bhushan Kumar have all been given extensions (Ministry of Shipping). Eight private sector joint secretaries were appointed in September 2019 for a three-year term. They're "in Level 14 of the pay matrix as per the Seventh Central Pay Commission" and have been sent to various government agencies.