Jharkhand cadre IAS Rajiv Gauba takes over as new cabinet secretary

New Delhi, August 30: Soon after getting appointed as the next Cabinet Secretary for a tenure of two years on August 21, Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba on Friday took over the position for the second after 2017.

 

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet had approved the appointment of Rajiv Gauba, IAS (JH:1982) as Cabinet Secretary with a tenure of two years from 30.08.2019 or until further orders, whichever was earlier.

 

 

The committee had also approved his appointment as Officer on Special Duty in the Cabinet Secretariat from the date of his assumption of charge till he takes over as Cabinet Secretary. 60 year old had also served as secretary in the union urban development ministry, additional secretary in the home ministry, looking after crucial left wing extremism division, among many other responsibilities.

Gauba has wide-ranging experience in senior positions at policy making and programme implementation in both central and state governments and in international organisations. Born in Punjab, he had graduated in physics from Patna University. He had also served in Jharkhand as the chief secretary for 15 months before returning to serve in the central government in 2016.

 

He represented India on the board of International Monetary Fund for four years. As the Union home secretary, he has been handling issues such as internal security, militancy in Jammu and Kashmir and the Northeast, Maoist problems in the central and east India besides other issues.

 

Gauba was the key architect of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act under which Jammu and Kashmir was recently divided into two union territories following the abrogation of the special status given to the state under Article 370 of the Constitution.