Shakuntala Doley Gamlin is a 1984-batch

Arunachal Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh (; ) is a States and union territories of India, state in northeast India. It was formed from the North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region, and India declared it as a state on 20 February 1987. Itanagar is its capital and la ...

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(AGMUT) cadre IAS officer. She served as Secretary, Dept. of Empowerment of Person With Disabilities, Govt. of India. She also served as Chief Secretary of

. She is the first lady IAS from North East to reach a Secretary level post in central ministry. She is the first female IAS officer from Mishing tribe of

Assam Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, nor ...

Early life and education

Gamlin was born on 23 March 1961. She hails from Assam and is the youngest of the seven children of former Assam MP,

Lalit Kumar Doley Lalit Kumar Doley (25 May 1927 – 16 March 1986) was an Indian politician and a leader of the Indian National Congress political party in Assam. The first to be elected as the president of Assam Pradesh Congress Committee among the Mishings ...

. She has done her Bachelor's in

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from

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. She did her Post Graduation in Sociology from

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Career

In her career spanning over 30 years, she has worked in several positions in both State and Union governments. Initially she was appointed Director of Tourism in

Andaman and Nicobar Islands The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India comprising 572 islands, of which only 38 are inhabited. The islands are grouped into two main clusters: the northern Andaman Islands and the southern Nicobar Islands, separated by a ...

. Starting from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh to the National Capital Territory of Delhi, Gamlin has worked in various capacities. She has also worked on Central deputation with the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and

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. In 1996 she was appointed the

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, since then she has held positions in various offices at Union and State level positions in Delhi. In January 2015 she was appointed Chairperson of Delhi Transco Limited. She has also been assigned the responsibilities of Principal Secretary (Power) and Principal Secretary (Industries), Government of NCT of Delhi, Chairperson of Indraprastha Power Generation Company Limited & Pragati Power Corporation Limited and CMD of Delhi Power Company Limited. On May 15, 2015 she was appointed the Chief Secretary by

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, which led to confrontation with

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led State Government. In the year 2002, she was a member of the Indian Delegation for the Eighth Session of the Conference of Parties for the

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Framework Convention on Climate Change. She has attended the training given by World Bank on Carbon Credit Calculations in clean energy products in

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. She has also been trained in Trade Policy and negotiation in

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. She has been selected as the head of the National Tobacco Control Program and

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Program.

Personal life

She is the daughter of former Assam MP,

, and was the wife of former

Chief Minister,

Jarbom Gamlin Jarbom Gamlin (16 April 1961 – 30 November 2014) was an Indian politician and a leader of the Indian National Congress political party in Arunachal Pradesh and briefly served as the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh. Early life Gamlin was b ...

who was an alumnus of St. Stephen's College,

New Delhi New Delhi (; ) is the Capital city, capital of India and a part of the Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the Government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Parliament ...

. Also the mother of Bomnee Gamlin who presently studies in 12th grade in Sanskriti School,

References

Living people Indian Administrative Service officers 1961 births {{ArunachalPradesh-politician-stub