Senior IAS officer termed as VC Punjabi University
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in/ Chandigarh
As per available information Punjab cadre senior IAS officer Ravneet Kaur is going to be as vice chancellor of Punjabi University, Patiala
Ravneet Kaur is an IAS of 1988 batch and presently posted as Additional Chief Secretary –cum-Financial Commissioner, Forest and Wild Life.
When contacted her, she said “ I don’t have any information about this.”
But sources confirmed that his name is cleared by the chancellor –Governor of Punjab VP Singh Bandore and the required notification will issue in the coming days.
Ravneet Kaur, an IAS officer of 1988 batch, has also worked as Principal Secretary in the Departments of Higher Education and Languages, Cabinet, Coordination and Parliamentary Affairs with Government of Punjab. Vice Chairperson and Managing Director of Punjab Communications Limited., Chairperson and Managing Director, Exim Bank; Chairperson and Managing Director of India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd., Additional Managing Director of Markfed, Managing Director, PSIDC; Managing Director, Punsup. She has also served in the Department of Financial Services, Department of Economic Affairs and Department of Disinvestment., Govt of India.
Ravneet Kaur became the first women when she was appointed as full time Chairperson and Managing Director (C&MD) of India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC), in 2018
She spent a year as a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow at Cornell University, USA and holds an MA in Economics and a M.Sc. in Public Economic Management from University of Birmingham, UK. She also served as a Consultant with International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington D.C.
November 25,2020
