Shri Pankaj Agarwal, IAS

Secretary, Ministry of Power, Government of India

Shri Pankaj Agarwal has been Secretary, Ministry of Power, Government of India, since 1 July 2023. Prior to this, he was Additional Secretary and Director General (Acquisition), Ministry of Defence, Government of India since January, 2022. He was Additional Secretary and Joint Secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat from 2019 to 2022.

Before this, he has held various important portfolios in the Government of Madhya Pradesh. Amongst them, he was Principal Secretary, Public Health Engineering, Water Resources, Narmada Valley Development, and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the State Government of Madhya Pradesh.

He belongs to the Indian Administrative Service of the 1992 batch and has extensive experience in Health, Industry, Infrastructure, and Finance over a 29-year career. He studied Civil Engineering at IIT Roorkee, followed by a Master of Technology in Construction Management at IIT Delhi and a Master’s in Public Management at the National University of Singapore.

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