Sanjay Mitra (civil servant)

Sanjay Mitra (born 6 May 1959) is a retired 1982 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of West Bengal cadre. He served as Defence Secretary of India, and prior to that as Union Road Transport and Highways Secretary, and the Chief Secretary of West Bengal. Mitra also served—on an acting basis—as the chairperson of the Defence Research and Development Organisation for a period of three months.

Sanjay Mitra
Mitra addressing a press conference in November 2016
38th Defence Secretary of India
In office
25 May 2017 – 23 August 2019
Preceded byG. Mohan Kumar
Succeeded byAjay Kumar
Chairman of the Defence Research and Development Organisation[1]
Acting
In office
29 May 2018 – 25 August 2018[2]
Preceded byS Christopher
Succeeded byG. Satheesh Reddy
Road Transport and Highways Secretary of India
In office
1 January 2016 – 10 May 2017
Preceded byVijay Chibber
Succeeded byRajive Kumar (acting)
Yudhvir Malik
Chief Secretary of West Bengal
In office
30 September 2012 – 27 December 2015
Preceded bySamar Ghosh
Succeeded byBasudev Banerjee
Personal details
Born
Sanjay Mitra

(1959-05-06) 6 May 1959
Delhi, India
NationalityIndian
Alma materJohn F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
OccupationIAS officer
ProfessionCivil servant

Education

Mitra holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in physics,[3][4] a postgraduate degree in economics,[3][4] and a Master of Public Administration in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.[3][4]

Career

Mitra has served in various positions for both the Government of India and the Government of West Bengal,[3][4] such as the Chief Secretary of West Bengal, Principal Secretary (Health and Family Welfare), chairman and managing director of the Grid Corporation of Odisha, chairperson and managing director of the Orissa Thermal Power Corporation (on deputation to Odisha cadre), resident commissioner of West Bengal and as the district magistrate and collector of the North 24 Parganas district in the West Bengal government,[3][4] and as the Union Road Transport Secretary, joint secretary in the Prime Minister's Office and as a deputy secretary in the Ministry of Rural Development in the Indian government.[3][4]

Mitra also served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme.[3]

Chief Secretary of West Bengal

Mitra was appointed as the Chief Secretary of West Bengal by the Chief Minister of West Bengal in September 2012.[3][5][6][7] He assumed the office of the chief secretary of the state on 30 September 2012 and demitted it on 27 December 2015, after being the state's top bureaucrat for three years.[3]

Road Transport and Highway Secretary
Mitra (right) in a press conference with Minister of Defence, Nirmala Sitharaman

Mitra was appointed as the Union Road Transport and Highways Secretary by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) in December 2015,[3][8][9] he assumed the office on 1 January 2016 and demitted it on 10 May 2017.[3]

Defence Secretary

Mitra was appointed as the Union Defence Secretary by the ACC in May 2017,[3][10][11][12] succeeding G. Mohan Kumar. Mitra served as an officer on special duty, in the rank of secretary, till Kumar's retirement, he formally took charge on 25 May 2017.[3][4]

Mitra retired on 23 August 2019, and was succeeded by Ajay Kumar.[13][14]

References
  1. "Dr G. Satheesh Reddy, Secretary, Department of Defence R&D and Chairman, DRDO". Defence Research & Development Organisation. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  2. "G. Satheesh Reddy appointed as new DRDO chairman". 25 August 2018.
  3. "Sanjay Mitra - Executive Sheet". Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  4. "Sanjay Mitra Takes Over as the New Defence Secretary". Press Information Bureau of India. 25 May 2017. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  5. "Sanjay Mitra Bengal's new Chief Secretary". Business Standard. Kolkata. 1 October 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  6. "Sanjay Mitra is new Bengal Chief Secretary". The Hindu. Kolkata. 1 October 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  7. "Sanjay Mitra takes over as Bengal`s new Chief Secretary". Zee News. Kolkata. 30 September 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  8. Sharma, Aman (29 December 2015). "West Bengal Chief Secretary Sanjay Mitra is new Roads Secretary". The Economic Times. New Delhi. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  9. "Sanjay Mitra is new secretary of road transport, highways". Hindustan Times. 29 December 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  10. Ahuja, Rajesh (10 May 2017). "West Bengal cadre IAS officer Sanjay Mitra to be next defence secretary". Hindustan Times. New Delhi. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  11. "Sanjay Mitra appointed as new Defense Secretary". New Delhi. 10 May 2017. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  12. "Central government departments get new secretaries, Sanjay Mitra gets Defence". The Economic Times. 11 May 2017. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  13. "ACC appointments". Press Information Bureau, Government of India. 21 August 2019.
  14. @SpokespersonMoD (23 August 2019). "Defence Secretary @drajaykumar_ias felicitating his predecessor Shri Sanjay Mitra at his farewell in New Delhi, today" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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