Vinod Kumar Duggal (born 26 November 1944) is a retired Indian

civil servant The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil service personnel hired rather than elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership. A civil service offic ...

. Duggal served as

Home Secretary The secretary of state for the Home Department, more commonly known as the home secretary, is a senior minister of the Crown in the Government of the United Kingdom and the head of the Home Office. The position is a Great Office of State, maki ...

in the Government of India from 2005 to 2007 in the government of Manmohan Singh. He belongs to the 1968 batch of IAS. On 23 December 2013 he was appointed governor of Manipur by President

Pranab Mukherjee Pranab Kumar Mukherjee ( ; born, 11 December 1935 – 31 August 2020) was an Indian statesman who served as the president of India from 2012 until 2017. He was the first person from West Bengal to hold the post of President of India. In a pol ...

. He was also given the additional responsibility as Governor of

Mizoram Mizoram is a states and union territories of India, state in northeastern India, with Aizawl as its Capital city, capital and largest city. It shares 722-kilometres (449 miles) of international borders with Bangladesh to the west, and Myanmar t ...

as the governor Kamla Beniwal was sacked on 8 August 2014.

Early life

Vinod Duggal went to

National Defence Academy The National Defence Academy (NDA) is the joint defence service training institute of the Indian Armed Forces. Here, cadets of the Indian Army, Indian Navy, and Indian Air Force train together before they go on to their respective service a ...

and later appeared for civil services. He served as a short service commission officer in the Indian Army.

Career

Vinod Duggal also worked as a Secretary, Water Resources, in 2005. In 2009, he was appointed a member-secretary of the

Srikrishna committee on Telangana Srikrishna Committee on Telangana or the Committee for Consultations on the Situation in Andhra Pradesh (CCSAP) is a committee headed by Justice B. N. Srikrishna (Former Judge of Supreme Court of India and Chief justice of the Kerala High Court ...

. He served in the

Municipal Corporation of Delhi Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD; ISO: ''Dillī Nagara Nigama'') is the municipal corporation that governs most of Delhi, India. The MCD is among the largest municipal bodies in the world providing civic services to a population of about 20 ...

as commissioner between 1996 and 2000.https://supremo.nic.in/ERSheetHtml.aspx?OffIDErhtml=5400&PageId= He served as the Sri Krishna Committee member to look into the demand of Telangana state. He is also a member of the Justice Punchhi Commission on Centre-State relations.

References

External links

High Court Judgement on 'undemocratic secrete 8th chapter of Srikrishna committee'

Full Text of Secret Note of Chapter 8 of Srikrishna committee
{{DEFAULTSORT:Duggal, Vinod Kumar Indian Administrative Service officers Indian Home Secretaries Living people 1944 births People from Sialkot Governors of Mizoram