Bureaucrats Magazine – Breaking News – Durga Shankar Mishra is the current Chief Secretary of the Government of Uttar Pradesh. He was born on December 4, 1961. He is a 1984 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from Uttar Pradesh.
Mishra has served in various key positions, including:
- Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary
- Chairman of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
UP chief secretary Durga Shankar Mishra gets another extension one -year…
Bureaucrats Magazine – DS Mishra gets one-year extension as UP chief secretary……..Mishra was repatriated to UP, his home and cadre state, only two-three days prior to his retirement from the service on December 31, 2021 and was appointed chief secretary with one-year extension, replacing RK Tiwari who was moved to the UPSRTC as its chairman
LUCKNOW Durga Shankar Mishra, a 1984 batch IAS officer, has got an extension of one year as the chief secretary of Uttar Pradesh, officials confirmed. The Centre communicated orders in this regard to the U.P. government here on Friday.
Bureaucrats Magazine – After 40 years, the most powerful bureaucrat of UP came to meet his professor who stopped him from going abroad…….DS Mishra: Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh Government, Durga Shankar Mishra i.e. DS Mishra is an engineering graduate from Kanpur IIT. Senior IAS DS Mishra has run the metro in record time in five cities of the country. He was once about to go abroad for a job before becoming a civil servant, but his professor stopped him to serve the country. Now this bureaucrat went to meet the same professor at his house…
- IAS Durga Shankar Mishra with Professor Rajaraman and Dharma Aunty.
Bureaucrats Magazine –IAS officer and Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh Durga Shankar Mishra (DS Mishra) is on Karnataka tour. The most powerful bureaucrat of Yogi government met his Guruji i.e. former college professor after a long time in the capital of the southern state. DS Mishra told that the then professor of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, V. Rajaraman, had advised him to serve the country instead of going abroad.
Bureaucrats Magazine –UP Government Chief Secretary DS Mishra, who was an alumnus of Kanpur IIT, went to Bengaluru, about 2000 kilometers away from Lucknow, and met his professor V. Rajaraman and his wife Dharma Aunty. He received the blessings of both.
Bureaucrats Magazine –Senior IAS Mishra said, “Prof. I took my first lesson of Computer Science from V. Rajaraman ji. He has a leading and important contribution in the development of computer education in the country.
Bureaucrats Magazine –His post-retirement one-year tenure as the chief secretary was ending on December 31 even as people were keenly speculating on whether Mishra will get an extension or the state will have a new CS in the New Year.
Bureaucrats Magazine –Mishra’s extension has also demolished hopes of a number of senior IAS officers of becoming the chief secretary as they well get superannuated in the meantime.
Bureaucrats Magazine –Additional chief secretary, appointment and personnel, Devesh Mishra has confirmed about the extension of DS Mishra. “Yes, he has got an extension as the chief secretary for more one year,” he said when contactedThis is probably for the first time in UP’s history when an IAS officer has got an extension twice after retirement from service.
Bureaucrats Magazine –Mishra was repatriated to UP, his home and cadre state, only two-three days prior to his retirement from the service on December 31, 2021 and was appointed chief secretary with one-year extension, replacing RK Tiwari who was moved to UP State Road Transport Corporation (UPSRTC) as its chairman.
Bureaucrats Magazine –Prior to his appointment as the CS last year, Mihra was posted as the secretary, housing and urban development, at the Centre and is believed to have earned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s confidence during his stint in the department. His extension, however, will dash the hopes of many officers of becoming the chief secretary as they will retire in the next one year.
Among the IAS officers who are due to retire from the coveted service in 2023 are Sanjiv Kumar Mittal of 1987 batch, Sunil Kumar (1987), Alok Kumar (1988), Navneet Sehgal (1988), Arvind Kumar (1988), Aradhana Shukla (1989), Prashant Trivedi (1989), Suresh Chandra (1989), Sanjay R Bhoosreddy (1989), Rajnish Gupta (1990) and K Ram Mohan Rao (1994).
