Dr. Pramod Kumar Mishra (

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: ; born 11 August 1948), often abbreviated P. K. Mishra, is a retired IAS officer of 1972 batch belonging to

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cadre and serves as the 13th and current Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India. Between 2001 and 2004, Mishra has also served as the principal secretary of Modi, when he was the

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Education

He did his M.A. in economics with a first class at the

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in 1972. He later did an M.A. in

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in 1990 and a Ph.D. in Economics/Development Studies from the

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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 Indian and

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

, member of the Gujarat Electricity Board, and as the district magistrate and collector of Mehsana and

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districts in the

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, and as the Union Agriculture Secretary, special secretary in Ministry of Home Affairs, additional secretary in Ministry of Urban Development, and as the member secretary of National Capital Region Planning Board 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

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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 IAS. 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 with effect from 31 May 2019. These appointments were designated to be co-terminous with the term of the Prime Minister. On 11 September 2019 PK Mishra was appointed as the sole Principal Secretary to the 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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mishra, Pramod Kumar Indian Administrative Service officers Living people Prime Minister's Office (India) 1948 births People from Odisha Principal secretaries to the prime minister of India Delhi School of Economics alumni Alumni of the University of Sussex