{"id":306299,"date":"2018-11-29T13:25:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T13:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306299"},"modified":"2018-11-29T13:29:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T13:29:46","slug":"arvind-saxena-sworn-in-as-upsc-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/arvind-saxena-sworn-in-as-upsc-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Arvind Saxena sworn in as UPSC chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306303 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/saxena-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/saxena-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/saxena-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/saxena.jpg 436w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Arvind Saxena was sworn in as the Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Oath of Office and Secrecy was administered by Prof Pradeep Kumar Joshi, senior most Member of the Commission, at a ceremony in New Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A student of Civil Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering and M Tech in Systems Management from IIT, New Delhi, Saxena was selected for the Civil Services and joined the Indian Postal Service in 1978.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In 1988, he left the Indian Postal Service to join the Research and Analysis Wing of the Cabinet Secretariat, where he specialised in the study of strategic developments in neighbouring countries, including Nepal, China and Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Saxena is a recipient of awards for Meritorious Services (2005) and Distinguished Services (2012), conferred by the Prime Minister, in recognition of his exemplary work and unblemished service record in the Research and Analysis Wing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arvind Saxena was sworn in as the Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Thursday. The Oath of Office and Secrecy was administered by Prof Pradeep Kumar Joshi, senior most Member of the Commission, at a ceremony in New Delhi. A student of Civil Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering and M Tech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[9993,9995,9994],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306305,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306299\/revisions\/306305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}