Vinod Kumar Duggal (born 26 November 1944) is a retired Indian

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. Duggal served as

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in the Government of India from 2005 to 2007 in the government of Manmohan Singh. He belongs to the 1968 batch of

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. On 23 December 2013 he was appointed governor of Manipur by President

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. He was also given the additional responsibility as Governor of

Mizoram Mizoram () is a state in Northeast India, with Aizawl as its seat of government and capital city. The name of the state is derived from "Mizo people, Mizo", the endonym, self-described name of the native inhabitants, and "Ram", which in the Mizo ...

as the governor Kamla Beniwal was sacked on 8 August 2014.

Early life

Vinod Duggal went to

National Defence Academy The National Defence Academy (NDA) is the joint defence service training institute of the Indian Armed Forces, where cadets of the three services i.e. the Indian Army, the Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force train together before they go on ...

and later appeared for civil services. He served as a short service commission officer in the Indian Army.

Career

Vinod Duggal also worked as a Secretary, Water Resources, in 2005. In 2009, he was appointed a member-secretary of the

Srikrishna committee on Telangana Srikrishna Committee on Telangana or the Committee for Consultations on the Situation in Andhra Pradesh (CCSAP) is a committee headed by former chief justice B. N. Srikrishna to look into the demand for separate statehood for Telangana or keep ...

. He served in the

Municipal Corporation of Delhi Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is the municipal corporation that governs most of Delhi, India. The MCD is among the largest municipal bodies in the world providing civic services to an estimated population of more than 11 million citiz ...

as commissioner between 1996–2000.https://supremo.nic.in/ERSheetHtml.aspx?OffIDErhtml=5400&PageId= He served as the Sri Krishna Committee member to look into the demand of Telangana state. He is also a member of the Justice Punchhi Commission on Centre-State relations.

References

External links

High Court Judgement on 'undemocratic secrete 8th chapter of Srikrishna committee'

Full Text of Secret Note of Chapter 8 of Srikrishna committee
{{DEFAULTSORT:Duggal, Vinod Kumar Indian Administrative Service officers Indian Home Secretaries Living people 1944 births People from Sialkot Governors of Mizoram