THE MANIPUR authorities Sunday appointed Vineet Joshi, a 1992-batch state cadre IAS officer, as the brand new Chief Secretary of the violence-hit state, changing Rajesh Kumar, who was serving a six-month extension since final December.
Joshi, who was serving as Director Normal of the Nationwide Testing Company (NTA) underneath the Ministry of Schooling, reached Imphal on a particular flight on Sunday, a day after the Appointments Committee of the Union Cupboard permitted the Manipur authorities’s request to repatriate him to his guardian cadre.
Based on Joshi’s appointment order because the chief secretary, he may also function Manipur’s Chief Vigilance Commissioner and Principal Resident Commissioner of Manipur Bhawan in New Delhi.
Joshi beforehand served in Manipur because the principal secretary to Chief Minister N Biren Singh in March 2017. A 12 months later, he was posted in Delhi after being appointed as DG, NTA, which conducts entrance examinations, together with the CUET, JEE Predominant and NEET.
As a further secretary within the Schooling Ministry, Joshi was identified at Shastri Bhavan as an officer with a number of tasks. Aside from the NTA, he was dealing with the central universities, carefully concerned in giving form to the proposed Greater Schooling Fee of India, whereas additionally briefly serving because the appearing chairperson of the CBSE.
The primary editions of the CUET undergraduate and postgraduate had been held by the NTA led by Joshi.
Recognized for his calm manner, Joshi is fluent in languages spoken in Manipur. Many a time, he may very well be noticed at his workplace interacting with guests from Manipur of their language, which he picked throughout his earlier stints within the state.
In April 2018, at a farewell programme for Joshi, who was headed to Delhi to take cost as DG, NTA, the Manipur Chief Minister had lauded him as a “devoted, hardworking and brilliant officer whose absence would go away a void within the state’s administrative set-up”, based on an official assertion issued then.
The Chief Minister additionally expressed hope that Joshi would communicate with the state authorities to share his opinion and solutions once in a while, it stated.
A BTech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT-Kanpur, who later obtained a PhD from the Indian Institute of International Commerce, Joshi started his profession as a deputy secretary at Manipur’s Division of Youth Affairs and Sports activities.
On the Centre, other than the Schooling Ministry and its earlier avatar the Ministry of Human Useful resource Improvement, he served in numerous capacities within the Girls and Baby Improvement Ministry, Tradition Ministry, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports activities, and Ministry of Meals Processing Industries.