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Deepti Gaur Mukerjee appointed Higher Education Secretary
The government has appointed senior bureaucrat Deepti Gaur Mukerjee as the new Higher Education Secretary, The Economic Times reports citing an official order. She was previously the Secretary of the Ministry of…
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The government has appointed senior bureaucrat Deepti Gaur Mukerjee as the new Higher Education Secretary, The Economic Times reports citing an official order. She was previously the Secretary of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. At a recent conference on CSR for tribal development, she praised the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs for creating a collaborative platform and proposed an interactive digital portal to map government and corporate efforts. She urged involving communities from project design to implementation, prioritising tribal leadership and self-reliance.
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Some may dismiss this as just another bureaucratic shuffle, but Mukerjee's corporate affairs record and emphasis on community-led models signal a possible shift in education governance. The real test will be how she tackles the National Education Policy rollout and persistent faculty shortages in state universities. Her proposal for a digital CSR platform, if extended to education, could improve accountability. Will that happen, or will the files stay buried?
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com
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