Top advisors and aides to President Pranab Mukherjee are set to get plum posts by the end of the year. Pranab Mukherjee's term ends on July 25 2017, unless the BJP government allows him a second term. Here's who's up for reckoning...


Dr Thomas Mathews, who missed the position of chief of SEBI is likely to be posted as CEO of India Investment Fund.

Suresh Yadav OSD to President Mukherjee may be posted as technical assistant to Executive Director of India at the World Bank in Washington.


Rajnish, a close confidant and private secretary to Pranab Mukherjee may be the next Economic Counselor at the Indian High Commission in London.

-- Gayatri Issar Kumar, an IFS officer is being posted as Indian Ambassador in a South Asian Country.


-- Venu Rajamony, IFS, presently Press Secretary to the President of India may be posted as Indian Ambassador to UAE or South Korea.


-- Omita Paul, Secretary to President will have a new team of aides from 2017. She also brought in Ashok Mehta an IRS officer as private secretary to the president. More new faces at the junior level are also likely by 2017.