Pramod Kumar Mishra (

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: ; born 11 August 1948), often abbreviated P. K. Mishra, is the 13th and current

principal secretary to the Prime Minister of India The Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India (PS to the PM) is the senior-most bureaucrat in, and the administrative head of, the Prime Minister's Office. The officeholder is generally a civil servant, commonly from the Indian Adminis ...

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. He is a 1972 batch

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officer belonging to Gujarat cadre. During 2001–2004, Mishra has also served as the principal secretary to Narendra Modi, when he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat.

Education

Pramod Kumar Mishra has graduate,

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and PhD degrees in

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. He also has a

degree in

development economics Development economics is a branch of economics which deals with economic aspects of the development process in low- and middle- income countries. Its focus is not only on methods of promoting economic development, economic growth and structural ...

. He is a graduate of the Delhi School of Economics.

Career

On 11 September 2019, he was appointed as the principal secretary of the Prime Minister of India. Apart from serving as the Additional Principal Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office, Mishra has served in various key positions for both

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and

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governments, such as the Additional Chief Secretary (Revenue), Principal Secretary (Agriculture and Cooperation),

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to the

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, member of the Gujarat Electricity Board, and as the

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and

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districts in the

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, and as the Union Agriculture Secretary, special secretary in

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, additional secretary in

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, and as the member secretary of

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in the

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. After his retirement from the Indian Administrative Service, Mishra was appointed the chairman of Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission by the

. His term as the chairman of commission came to an end on 11 August 2013, when he attained the age of 65.

Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister

After the election of

as the

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, Mishra was appointed as the Additional Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India, in the rank and status of

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, the

's topmost bureaucrat, and was deemed to have been re-employed into the

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. During his tenure as additional principal secretary, Mishra has been considered to be one of the best bureaucrats in India. On 11 June 2019, Mishra was re-appointed as Additional Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved his appointment along with the re-appointment of Principal Secretary

Nripendra Misra Nripendra Misra (born 8March 1945) is a retired 1967 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from the Uttar Pradesh cadre who served as Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi from 2014 to 2019. He has also served ...

with effect from 31 May 2019. These appointments were designated to be co-terminus with the term of the Prime Minister. On 11 September 2019 PK Mishra was appointed as a principal secretary of Prime Minister of India.

Awards

* United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on 17 May 2019 conferred the Sasakawa Award 2019 for Disaster Risk Reduction.

References

External links

Executive record sheet as maintained by the Department of Personnel and Training of Government of India
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