Shri Rajiv Gauba IAS (Jharkhand 1982) presently OSD in Home Ministry took charge as the Union Home Secretary after incumbent Shri Rajiv Mehrishi IAS retired from service.He will have a fixed two-year tenure. Shri Gauba had served as secretary in the Union urban development ministry before being appointed in the sensitive post.Earlier, he had worked in the home ministry as additional secretary, looking after crucial left wing extremism division, among many other responsibilities. Shri Gauba has wide-ranging experience in senior positions at policy making and programme implementation in both central and state governments and in international organisations.
Born in Punjab in 1958, Gauba had graduated in Physics from Patna University.He had served in Jharkhand as the chief secretary for 15 months before joining the central government last year.
Gauba has also served in the central government’s ministries of home, defence, finance and environment and forests in different positions.He represented India on the board of International Monetary Fund for four years.As the Union home secretary, he will be handling issues like internal security, militancy in Jammu and Kashmir and the Northeast, Maoist problems in the central and east India besides other issues.
IndianBureaucracy.com wishes Shri Rajiv Gauba the very best.