After five years, India gets its new Home Secretary
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ August 14,2024
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Govind Mohan, IAS (SK:89), Secretary, Ministry of Culture as Officer on Special Duty in the Ministry of Home Affairs with immediate effect. The officer will take over as Home Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs vice Ajay Kumar Bhalla, IAS (AM: 84) on completion of his tenure on 22.08.2024.
Bhalla, a 1984-batch IAS officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, was appointed as Union Home Secretary in August 2019.\
Educational Attainments of Govind Mohan:
Post Graduate Diploma in Management, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
(July 1986–March 1988): The first year of study included mandatory courses in the areas
of Marketing, Finance and Accountancy, Economics, Mathematics & Statistics, and,
Organizational Behaviour. In the Second Year, apart from a few mandatory courses in
Business Policy, electives were selected evenly in the areas of economics, finance
(including public finance) and marketing.
Bachelor of Technology, Institute of Technology, Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi
(July 1982–March 1986): Specialized in general discipline of Electrical Engineering, with
electives in the area of Computer Software and Engineering. Inter-disciplinary programs
were also attended, with emphasis on courses in the fields of Civil Engineering, Mechanical
Engineering, and Electronics, Macroeconomics and Finance.
Indian School Certificate, St. Francis’ College, Lucknow (March 1982):
Subjects studied were Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, English and Hindi
