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Deepti Gaur Mukerjee was appointed Secretary of the Department of Higher Education on August 10, 2026.
She is a 1993-batch IAS officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre and holds a Master's degree in Economics from JNU.
She succeeds Vineet Joshi, who moved to the Ministry of Panchayati Raj in July 2026.
She had served as Secretary in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs since August 2024.
The order was issued by the Department of Personnel and Training as part of a wider senior-level reshuffle.
The Indian Administrative Service is one of the All India Services, provided for under Article 312 of the Constitution, which allows Parliament to create services common to the Union and the States. Officers are recruited centrally through the Civil Services Examination conducted by the UPSC, but each is allotted a state cadre — Madhya Pradesh in this case — and moves between state and central deputation over a career.
Simple Analogy: A single national recruitment feeding into state-level postings, with officers rotating to the Centre on deputation for senior assignments.
General Awareness > Current Affairs > Appointments
GS Paper II > Polity > All India Services and Civil Services
The President is elected by an electoral college, while the Governor is:
Answer: Appointed by the President
Empowers Parliament, on a Rajya Sabha resolution supported by two-thirds of members present and voting, to create All India Services common to the Union and the States.
Department of Personnel and Training — the central personnel management department, which issues senior appointment orders.
The state to which an All India Service officer is allotted at recruitment and to which they return between central deputations.