Senior IAS officer Aruna Sundarajan
has taken charge as Secretary in Ministry of Steel. She is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Kerala
cadre, and her previous assignment was Administrator, Universal Service
Obligation Fund under Department of Telecommunications. She has been appointed
in place of Rakesh
Singh, who superannuated on
September 30, 2015.
Ms Sundararajan has over three decades of
experience in a variety of leadership roles in the Central Government and Kerala State
. Important positions she has held include the Country Head of the Global E
schools Initiative of the UN, Mission
Director, Rajiv
AwasYojana under JNNURM, and CEO of the prestigious Common Service Centre Project under the
National E-Governance Project, Government of India. Ms Sundararajan
was instrumental in establishing the IT department of Kerala , the Kochi
Infopark, and in initiating the SMART City project, Kochi. She is no stranger to Kochi having started her career as Secretary
of the GCDA. Ms Sundararajan was honoured as one of the
top professional women achievers by India Today in 2009 and by Forbes Business
Magazine in Aug 2012.
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