{"id":314984,"date":"2019-09-11T09:22:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T09:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314984"},"modified":"2019-09-11T09:22:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T09:22:53","slug":"dr-pk-mishra-takes-over-as-principal-secretary-to-prime-minister-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/dr-pk-mishra-takes-over-as-principal-secretary-to-prime-minister-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr PK Mishra takes over as Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314985 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/PK-mishra.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/PK-mishra.jpg 482w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/PK-mishra-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/PK-mishra-363x420.jpg 363w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dr Pramod Kumar Mishra has been appointed as\u00a0Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India. He has taken over charge on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dr Mishra has varied work experience in the management of programmes relating to\u00a0agriculture, disaster management,\u00a0power sector, infrastructure financing, and regulatory issues\u00a0and has an outstanding career profile comprising research, publications, policy formulation and programme\/project management, the release said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He has vast experience in policy making and administration and has handled major assignments such as Additional Pr. Secretary to the Prime Minister; Secretary, Agriculture and Cooperation, Government of India; Chairman, State Electricity Regulatory Commission and in the area of Disaster management. As Secretary Agriculture &amp; Cooperation, he was actively involved in path-breaking national initiatives such as the National Agriculture Development Programme (RKVY) and the National Food Security Mission (NFSM), it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As Additional Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister during 2014-19 Dr Mishra is credited with\u00a0introducing innovation and transformative changes in human resource management, particularly appointments to senior positions, it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">His international experience includes research and academic work for over four years at the Institute of Development Studies (UK), negotiation and execution of ADB and World Bank projects, member of the Governing Board of the International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and participation as expert\/resource person in several international conferences, the statement said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Recently, he was conferred with the United Nations SASAKAWA Award 2019, the most prestigious international award in disaster management, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Pramod Kumar Mishra has been appointed as\u00a0Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India. He has taken over charge on Wednesday. Dr Mishra has varied work experience in the management of programmes relating to\u00a0agriculture, disaster management,\u00a0power sector, infrastructure financing, and regulatory issues\u00a0and has an outstanding career profile comprising research, publications, policy formulation and programme\/project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[316,11793],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314984"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314986,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314984\/revisions\/314986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}