Neeraj Mittal (born 17 December 1967,

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: நீரஜ் மித்தல்) is serving as the Principal Secretary of Information Technology Department,

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. He is an

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(IAS) officer belonging to the 1992

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cadre. He served as the Managing Director & CEO of

Guidance Tamil Nadu Guidance Tamil Nadu (formerly Tamil Nadu Industrial Guidance and Export Promotion Bureau) is the investment promotion agency of the Government of Tamil Nadu. It is constituted to reach out to prospective investors and make them invest in the sta ...

. Prior to his stint as

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, he served as

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Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MOP&NG) is a ministry of the government of India responsible for the exploration, production, refining, distribution, marketing, import, export, and conservation of petroleum, natural gas, petroleum ...

Education

Neeraj Mittal is an

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

graduate from

IIT Kanpur The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) Hindi: भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान कानपुर) is a public institute of technology located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was ...

, holds an

MBA degree A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...

from Cranfield University, UK and PhD in Economics/MIS from

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. He has several publications to his credit.

Career

During his

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career, Dr. Mittal has served in various key capacities for both the

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and the

. He has extensive experience in policy formulation and execution in e-Governance, Transport, Industrial promotion, Petroleum & Natural gas, Commerce & Industry, and Telecommunications and IT. He had served senior positions such as Director of

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, Director of

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, Commissioner of Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency. Mittal served as a

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. He represented countries like India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan at the board of the

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. He was an active part of corporate governance, voice reform, project approvals and policy formulation of

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, IFC, and

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. From 2018 to 2019, Mittal was an

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at School of Public Policy,

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& taught “Managing change in a disruptive world” at Heinz School of Public Policy. He has also done extensive research on public policy issues at Center for Global Development, Washington DC during this period. He is currently MD & CEO of Guidance Tamil Nadu; Tamil Nadu’s nodal agency for investment promotion and single window facilitation.

Achievements

Mittal took initiatives and his recent engagements include Project Arrow in Department of Post, e-Biz project in

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, world’s largest Cash Transfer Program in LPG in India (PaHaL) and GiveItUp in

which leverage technology to simplify processes, improve efficiency, convenience, participation and transparency in Governance. One of his initiative, Project Lakshya, transparency portal that allowed real time visibility of 3 million LPG deliveries per day to LPG consumers received National E-Governance Award. Biz Buddy is such an initiative realized by Mittal. It is an industry help desk portal with three primary objectives: Streamlined redressal mechanism for timely resolution of industrial investor’s unsolved issues, Tracking and monitoring of investor issues in a real time manner and Improving Tamil Nadu's investment climate by enhancing the aftercare services provided to industrial investors.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mittal, Neeraj Indian Administrative Service officers Government of Tamil Nadu Living people 1967 births Ohio State University Fisher College of Business alumni Alumni of Cranfield University

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