Vini Mahajan is new chief secretary of Punjab
Vini Mahajan has been appointed the new Chief Secretary of Punjab on Friday. Meanwhile, Karan Avtar Singh has been shifted as the Special Chief Secretary, Governance Reforms. Reportedly, he is retiring on August 31.
Vini Mahajan is the wife of Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) Dinkar Gupta. She is a 1987-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer. It is said to be the first time that any power couple will be serving simultaneously as the chief secretary and the DGP of a state.
In Punjab, she has served in various capacities, including MDPIDB and as the first Director Disinvestment. She was appointed as Chief Administrator of the new Anandpur Sahib Development Authority in 1997, and also CEO Anandpur Sahib Foundation, for the organisation for the tercentenary celebrations of the birth of the Khalsa held in 1999. She served as the Chairman of the Celebrations Committee for the 550 year celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev ji in 2019.
In 1995, she became the first woman officer to be posted as DC in Punjab, when she took over as DC Ropar, in which capacity she carried out a highly effective Total Literacy Campaign, for which Ropar received the National Literacy Award for best performance in the country.
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Vini Mahajan has received numerous academic awards, including the National Talent Search Scholarship. She was a Hubert Humphrey fellow based at American University in Washington DC in 2000 –2001. She could be the only student in the country who got admission to both IIT and AIIMS Delhi in 1982 after she finished her 12th grade from Modern School, New Delhi.
-PTC News
