Sanjay Mitra (civil servant)

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Sanjay Mitra
S Christopher
Succeeded byG. Satheesh Reddy
Road Transport and Highways Secretary of India
In office
1 January 2016 – 10 May 2017
Preceded byVijay Chibber
Succeeded byRajive Kumar (acting)
Yudhvir Malik
Chief Secretary of West Bengal
In office
30 September 2012 – 27 December 2015
Preceded bySamar Ghosh
Succeeded byBasudev Banerjee
Personal details
Born
Sanjay Mitra

(1959-05-06) 6 May 1959 (age 64)
Civil servant

Sanjay Mitra (born 6 May 1959) is a retired 1982 batch

Chief Secretary of West Bengal. Mitra also served—on an acting basis—as the chairperson of the Defence Research and Development Organisation
for a period of three months.

Education

Mitra holds

John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.[3][4]

Career

Mitra has served in various positions for both the

district magistrate and collector of the North 24 Parganas district in the West Bengal government,[3][4] and as the Union Road Transport Secretary, joint secretary in the Prime Minister's Office and as a deputy secretary in the Ministry of Rural Development in the Indian government.[3][4]

Mitra also served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme.[3]

Chief Secretary of West Bengal

Mitra was appointed as the

Chief Minister of West Bengal in September 2012.[3][5][6][7] He assumed the office of the chief secretary of the state on 30 September 2012 and demitted it on 27 December 2015, after being the state's top bureaucrat for three years.[3]

Road Transport and Highway Secretary

Mitra (right) in a press conference with Minister of Defence, Nirmala Sitharaman

Mitra was appointed as the

Union Road Transport and Highways Secretary by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) in December 2015,[3][8][9] he assumed the office on 1 January 2016 and demitted it on 10 May 2017.[3]

Defence Secretary

Mitra was appointed as the Union Defence Secretary by the ACC in May 2017,[3][10][11][12] succeeding G. Mohan Kumar. Mitra served as an officer on special duty, in the rank of secretary, till Kumar's retirement, he formally took charge on 25 May 2017.[3][4]

Mitra retired on 23 August 2019, and was succeeded by Ajay Kumar.[13][14]

Post Retirement

After retiring from the IAS, Mitra became a professor of practice at the School of Public Policy at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.[15]

References

  1. ^ "Dr G. Satheesh Reddy, Secretary, Department of Defence R&D and Chairman, DRDO". Defence Research & Development Organisation. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  2. ^ Gurung, Shaurya Karanbir (25 August 2018). "G. Satheesh Reddy appointed as new DRDO chairman". The Economic Times.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Sanjay Mitra - Executive Sheet". Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  4. ^
    Press Information Bureau of India
    . 25 May 2017. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  5. ^ "Sanjay Mitra Bengal's new Chief Secretary". Business Standard. Kolkata. Press Trust of India. 1 October 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  6. ^ "Sanjay Mitra is new Bengal Chief Secretary". The Hindu. Kolkata. 1 October 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  7. ^ "Sanjay Mitra takes over as Bengal's new Chief Secretary". Zee News. Kolkata. 30 September 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  8. ^ Sharma, Aman (29 December 2015). "West Bengal Chief Secretary Sanjay Mitra is new Roads Secretary". The Economic Times. New Delhi. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  9. ^ "Sanjay Mitra is new secretary of road transport, highways". Hindustan Times. 29 December 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  10. ^ Ahuja, Rajesh (10 May 2017). "West Bengal cadre IAS officer Sanjay Mitra to be next defence secretary". Hindustan Times. New Delhi. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  11. ^ "Sanjay Mitra appointed as new Defense Secretary". New Delhi. 10 May 2017. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  12. ^ "Central government departments get new secretaries, Sanjay Mitra gets Defence". The Economic Times. 11 May 2017. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  13. ^ "ACC appointments". Press Information Bureau, Government of India. 21 August 2019.
  14. ^ @SpokespersonMoD (23 August 2019). "Defence Secretary @drajaykumar_ias felicitating his predecessor Shri Sanjay Mitra at his farewell in New Delhi, today" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  15. ^ Agrawal, Akash (1 May 2021). "Sanjay Mitra's Profile, School of Public Policy".

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