CBSE chairperson Anita Karwal appointed as secretary, school education

NEW DELHI: The chairperson of the Central Board of Secondary Education, Anita Karwal, has been appointed secretary, department of school education and literacy, in the Ministry of Human Resource Development. She will be the third IAS officer to hold the post of secretary, school education, in less than one year.

The Central Government also moved the chairperson of the National Council for Teacher Education, Satbir Bedi, to the Central Information Commission, Department of Personnel and Training, as secretary. The NCTE is an autonomous body under the MHRD.

The transfers were announced on April 26 by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.

Karwal is from the Gujarat cadre of the Indian Administrative Service’s 1988 batch. The MHRD has seen several changes in the past year. The present secretary for higher education, Amit Khare, had been moved to school education from another ministry in October. In December, he took charge of higher education as well.

Bedi is a 1986-batch IAS officer of the Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territories cadre.

Karwal was appointed CBSE-chief in September 2017 and Bedi had taken charge of the NCTE, which regulates teacher training in the country, in November, 2018.

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