Question: On 25th October 2019, who assumed charge as the Secretary, Ministry of Minority Affairs?
(a) Pramod Kumar Das
(b) Vinod Kumar
(c) Rajneesh Jain
(d) Rahul Bisht
Answer: (a)
Related facts:
- On 25 October 2019, Pramod Kumar Das assumed charge as the Secretary, Ministry of Minority Affairs.
- He is a Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer of 1986 batch.
- Prior to this, he was serving as the Special Secretary, Department of Expenditure in the Ministry of Finance.
- Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is the current Union Minister of Minority Affairs and Kiren Rijiju is the Minister of State for Minority Affairs.
- Ministry of Minority Affairs was carved out of Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment and was created on 29th January, 2006
- It is the apex body for the central government’s regulatory and developmental programmes for the minority religious communities in India, which include Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Zoroastrians (Parsis) and Jains.
Links:
https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1589219
http://www.minorityaffairs.gov.in/about-us/about-ministry