The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, on December 20, approved the appointment of 11 individuals as Presiding Officers for various Debt Recovery Tribunals (DRTs). They will serve a tenure of four years or until reaching the age of 70, whichever comes earlier.

Below are the appointments city-wise:

Chennai

DRT-2: Chandrashekhar U, a former District Judge and Senior Faculty Member at the Karnataa Judicial Academy.

DRT-3: SV Gowramma - advocate and former Presiding Officer of DRT-2, Bengaluru.

Coimbatore

DRT: N Somasundaar - advocate and former Presiding Officer of DRT-1, Ernakulam.

Bengaluru

DRT-2: T Rajesh - advocate and former Presiding Officer of DRT-2, Chennai.

Aurangabad

DRT: Jhamman Ram Chauhan - a former District and Sessions Judge from the Haryana Superior Judicial Service.

Mumbai

DRT-1: Sreekala Suresh - former Judge of the Family Court under the Kerala High Court’s Judicial Department.

DRT-2: Harish Kumar Kaushik - former Principal Judge of the Family Court in Madhya Pradesh.

Ahmedabad

DRT-2: Pankaj Kumar Upadhyay - former Additional District Judge from the Uttar Pradesh Higher Judicial Service.

Lucknow

DRT: Pravas Kumar Singh - former Principal District Judge from the Jharkhand Superior Judicial Service.

Jaipur

DRT: Vimal Gupta - advocate and former Presiding Officer of DRT, Aurangabad.

Ranchi

DRT: Vinod Kumar Srivastava - former District Judge from the Uttar Pradesh Higher Judicial Service.