Narendra Bhooshan Assumes Charge as MoEFCC Secretary

Narendra Bhooshan, an Indian Administrative Service officer of the 1992 batch from the Uttar Pradesh cadre, has taken over as Secretary of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, known in short as MoEFCC. He steps into the ministry's senior-most civil service post straight from the Ministry of Rural Development, where he was Secretary of the Department of Land Resources.

More than thirty years in service

The new Secretary brings over three decades of administrative work in the Union government as well as in state governments. His earlier charges have covered energy, infrastructure, industry, agriculture, urban development, finance and the management of land resources. That spread of subjects matters for a ministry whose files run from forest clearances and wildlife to climate negotiations and pollution control.

His years in the Uttar Pradesh cadre

In his home state he rose to Additional Chief Secretary with charge of Energy, Additional Energy Sources and Technical Education. Earlier he was Principal Secretary in a long line of departments, among them Public Works, Infrastructure and Industries Development, Information Technology and Electronics, Science and Technology, and Panchayati Raj. He also headed the Greater Noida Authority as its Chief Executive Officer. His district years were spent as District Magistrate of Mathura, of Firozabad and of Udham Singh Nagar, giving him field experience alongside the policy desks.

Assignments in the Union government

At the Centre he has worked as Deputy Director General of the Unique Identification Authority of India, as Mission Director for National Food Security Management, and as Joint Secretary in the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation. He was additionally posted as Officer on Special Duty in the India Trade Promotion Organisation, which functions under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

Academic background

He is a graduate in Electronics and holds a Master's degree in International Development Policy from Duke University in the United States. His professional training has included programmes on public finance, on infrastructure and on preparedness for a changing climate.