Prabhat Kumar is an Indian politician and retired civil servant. An

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officer of the 1963 batch, he served as the Cabinet Secretary between 1998 and 2000. Upon creation of the State of

Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south. It has an area of . ...

in November 2000, he was made the first

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Biography

Kumar was born and brought up in

Prayagraj Allahabad (), List of renamed Indian cities and states, officially known as Prayagraj, also known as Ilahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The other five cities were: Agra, Kanpur, Kanpur (Cawnpore), Lucknow, Meerut ...

, Uttar Pradesh. An Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1963 batch and Uttar Pradesh cadre, Kumar served as secretary to the

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before his appointment as the cabinet secretary.

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Living people 1940 births Governors of Jharkhand Cabinet Secretaries of India Indian Administrative Service officers {{Jharkhand-politician-stub