New Delhi, Dec 24 (ANI): Former Home Secretary Vinod Kumar Duggal was appointed as governor of Manipur.
"The President of India has been pleased to appoint Vinod Kumar Duggal to be the governor of Manipur with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office," a Rashtrapati Bhawan statement said here.
Being the first IAS officer from Union Territory cadre, 68-year-old Duggal of 1968 batch was Home Secretary from March 2005 to April one, 2007.
A 1968-batch IAS officer, Duggal has never been without a job, managing to bag one post-retirement assignment after another. He is presently member, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). He had retired in 2007 as Former Home Secretary and was appointed as a member of the commission on Centre-State Relations immediately after.
At the time of his appointment as the Governor of Manipur, VK Duggal was serving as a Member of the National Disaster Management Authority in the rank and status of Union Minister of State, Duggal was in charge of relief operations after the natural disaster that had struck Uttrakhand and Orissa rece
During his active service of over 47 years in Government of India, he had his posting in the North East as an Army officer, District Magistrate in Mizoram, Secretary to the Lt. Governor of Delhi, Advisor to Governor of Punjab/Administrator U.T. Chandigarh, Municipal Commissioner of Delhi from 1996 to 2000, Special Secretary in the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources and Department of Drinking Water Supply and Union Home Secretary.
"The President of India has been pleased to appoint Vinod Kumar Duggal to be the governor of Manipur with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office," a Rashtrapati Bhawan statement said here.
A 1968-batch IAS officer, Duggal has never been without a job, managing to bag one post-retirement assignment after another. He is presently member, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). He had retired in 2007 as Former Home Secretary and was appointed as a member of the commission on Centre-State Relations immediately after.
At the time of his appointment as the Governor of Manipur, VK Duggal was serving as a Member of the National Disaster Management Authority in the rank and status of Union Minister of State, Duggal was in charge of relief operations after the natural disaster that had struck Uttrakhand and Orissa rece
During his active service of over 47 years in Government of India, he had his posting in the North East as an Army officer, District Magistrate in Mizoram, Secretary to the Lt. Governor of Delhi, Advisor to Governor of Punjab/Administrator U.T. Chandigarh, Municipal Commissioner of Delhi from 1996 to 2000, Special Secretary in the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources and Department of Drinking Water Supply and Union Home Secretary.
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