Higher Education Secretary

New Delhi (Gurpreet Singh): The Central Government has executed a major senior-level bureaucratic reshuffle within the Ministry of Education, transferring Higher Education Secretary Vineet Joshi amid sustained public and political protests over alleged irregularities in the NEET-UG examination. According to an official order issued by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, 1994-batch IAS officer Naresh Pal Gangwar has been appointed as the new Secretary of the Department of Higher Education, stepping into the role as administrative scrutiny over national competitive tests continues to intensify across the country. Vineet Joshi, a 1992-batch IAS officer of the Manipur cadre who previously headed…