Senior IAS officer Deepti Gaur Mukerjee has been appointed the new Higher Education Secretary in a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle. She succeeds Vineet Joshi amid the NEET controversy. Pallavi Jain Govil will replace Mukerjee as Corporate Affairs Secretary, while Sunil Paliwal takes charge of Youth Affairs.
New Delhi: Senior bureaucrat Deepti Gaur Mukerjee has been appointed as the new Higher Education Secretary, as part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Monday.
She succeeds Vineet Joshi, who was appointed last month as the Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj.
Incidentally, Naresh Pal Gangwar, Secretary, Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, was also named as the Higher Education Secretary, in place of Joshi.
In a partial modification of its July 23 order, the Personnel Ministry announced late on Monday night that the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved Mukerjee's appointment as the new Higher Education Secretary.
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