Anand Kumar (born 11 August 1961) is an Indian bureaucrat and the current Secretary of the

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) is a ministry of the Government of India, headed by current Union Cabinet Minister Raj Kumar Singh, that is mainly responsible for research and development, intellectual property protection, and ...

in the

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. He is an officer of the batch of 1984 from the

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...

cadre of Indian Administrative Service.

Education

Anand Kumar holds an M.Phil with Distinction from the University of Delhi and an MBA degree from the

University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = B ...

, Australia. He has also earned a bachelor's and master's degree in Zoology.

Career

Anand Kumar began his career in 1984 as a

district collector A District Collector-cum-District Magistrate (also known as Deputy Commissioner in some states) is an All India Service officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) cadre who is responsible for ''land revenue collection'', ''canal reven ...

and magistrate of Idukki and

Calicut Kozhikode (), also known in English as Calicut, is a city along the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala in India. It has a corporation limit population of 609,224 and a metropolitan population of more than 2 million, making it the second la ...

districts in

. During the Kuwait-Iraq war of 1990, Anand was assigned the duty of managing the relief camps on Iraq-Amman border and supervised the repatriation of Indians. Anand has served as a Deputy Election Commissioner in the Election Commission of India between 2004–06 and was responsible for conducting the historic Bihar Legislative Assembly elections in 2005. Before taking up his current role at the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India, Anand Kumar served as Joint Secretary at the

Ministry of Tourism The Minister of Tourism is the head of the governmental department that specializes in tourism, recreation and/or culture. The position exists in many different countries under several names: *Ministry of Tourism and Environment (Albania) * Minist ...

. He was also the Managing Director at National Highways Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) in 2014.

Awards and recognition

* National Award for e- Governance 2018- 2019 * SKOCH AWARD (National Significance) * Handel Emigration Formalities * Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kumar, Anand 1961 births Living people University of Queensland alumni Delhi University alumni