New Delhi, July 3 -- Nearly a month after senior IAS officer Lokhande Prashant Sitaram was appointed as a full-time chairperson of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), the Centre on Thursday revised his post and assigned him the additional charge for the same post in the board, according to a government order. It added that he will also continue as additional secreatary in the Union home ministry. An order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT's) Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) said Lokhande, an IAS officer of the 2001 AGMUT cadre serving as additional secretary in the department of home of Union home ministry, will hold the additional charge "until appointment of regular incumbent to the post or until further orders, whichever is earlier." The July 2 order indicates that Lokhande will now oversee CBSE only as an interim arrangement. Lokhande has been serving as additional secretary in the home ministry since April 1, 2026. The change comes a month after the Centre carried out a sweeping overhaul of CBSE's top leadership amid the controversy surrounding the board's On-Screen Marking (OSM) system. On June 2, the government transferred then CBSE chairperson Rahul Singh to the agriculture ministry, prematurely repatriated secretary Himanshu Gupta to his parent cadre in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), appointed Lokhande as the new CBSE chief and named Varun Bhardwaj as secretary. The government also ordered a one-member inquiry headed by former Union secretary S Radha Chauhan to examine the procurement of services related to the OSM system following allegations of irregularities in the digital evaluation process....