Neeraj Mittal (born 17 December 1967,

Tamil Tamil may refer to: People, culture and language * Tamils, an ethno-linguistic group native to India, Sri Lanka, and some other parts of Asia **Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka ** Myanmar or Burmese Tamils, Tamil people of Ind ...

: நீரஜ் மித்தல்) is an

Indian Administrative Service The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is the Public administration, administrative arm of the All India Services of Government of India. The IAS is one of the three All India Services along with the Indian Police Service (IPS) and the Indian ...

of 1992

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cadre currently serving as the

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. He has previously served as Principal Secretary of Information Technology, Government of Tamil Nadu and as the Managing Director & CEO of Guidance Tamil Nadu. Prior to his brief stint as Senior Advisor at

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, he served as Joint Secretary of

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Education

Mittal is an

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

graduate from

IIT Kanpur The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT- Kanpur or IIT-K) is a public institute of technology located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. As an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), it was declared an Institute of National Importance by th ...

, holds an MBA degree from Cranfield University, UK and PhD in Economics/MIS from

Fisher College of Business The Fisher College of Business is the business school of Ohio State University, a public research university in Columbus, Ohio. Fisher's campus is located on the northern part of the university within a partially enclosed business campus adjac ...

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, and has several publications to his credit.

Career

During his IAS career Mittal has served in various key capacities for both the

and the

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. He has extensive experience in policy formulation and execution in e-Governance, Transport, Industrial promotion, Petroleum & Natural gas, Commerce & Industry, and Telecommunications and IT. He had served senior positions such as Director of

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, Director of

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, Commissioner of Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency. Mittal served as a Senior Advisor to Executive Director of

. He represented countries like India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan at the board of the

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. He was an active part of corporate governance, voice reform, project approvals and policy formulation of

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, IDA, IFC, and

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. From 2018 to 2019, Mittal was an

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at School of Public Policy,

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& taught “Managing change in a disruptive world” at Heinz School of Public Policy. He has also done extensive research on public policy issues at Center for Global Development, Washington DC during this period. He was previously MD & CEO of Guidance Tamil Nadu. He was a member of CDOT (Center for Development of Telematics) from 1989 to 1991.

Achievements

Mittal took initiatives and his recent engagements include Project Arrow in Department of Post, e-Biz project in

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, world’s largest Cash Transfer Program in LPG in India (PaHaL) and GiveItUp in

which leverage technology to simplify processes, improve efficiency, convenience, participation and transparency in Governance. One of his initiative, Project Lakshya, transparency portal that allowed real time visibility of 3 million LPG deliveries per day to LPG consumers received National E-Governance Award. Biz Buddy is such an initiative realized by Mittal. It is an industry help desk portal with three primary objectives: Streamlined redressal mechanism for timely resolution of industrial investor’s unsolved issues, Tracking and monitoring of investor issues in a real time manner and Improving Tamil Nadu's investment climate by enhancing the aftercare services provided to industrial investors.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mittal, Neeraj Indian Administrative Service officers Government of Tamil Nadu Living people 1967 births Ohio State University Fisher College of Business alumni Alumni of Cranfield University

Education

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