Shri Girish Shankar IAS (BH 1982) presently posted as Secretary, Department of Official Language, Ministry of Home Affairs has been appointed as Secretary, Department of Heavy Industry, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises for a period of three months or till appointment of a regular incumbent to that post or till further orders.
Shri Girish Shankar is B.Sc.(Hons) and has done his PG Diploma in Business Administration.
He started his Indian bureaucracy career in 1982 as S D O . In his vast service career, he has been Under Secretary -Transport(1986-86), Joint Secretary- Finance (1988-89),Collector & D M – Rohtas (1989-90), Deoghar (1990-91), Collector & D M Dy Secretary (1991-91), MD -Urban Development (1996-98), Commissioner -Darbhanga (1998-99) ,Secretary- Cabinet Affairs(1999-2000),Secretary -Relief & Rehabilitation Dept (1999-2000) ,Secretary-Cabinet Affairs(2000-02), Principal Secretary- Panchayati Raj (2010-11) to name a few.
He has served in central cadre as Joint Secretary- Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution (2011-12) , Additional Secretary-Ministry of Tourism (2012-15), Special Secretary – Ministry of Tourism (2015-15) and Secretary- Ministry of Home Affairs, Department of Official Language(2015-16).
IndianBureaucracy.com wishes Shri Shankar the very best.
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