Achyut Madhav Gokhale Explained

Achyut Madhav Gokhale
Birth Date:3 January 1946
Birth Place:India
Death Place:Pune
Occupation:IAS officer
Employer:Government of India
Organization:Indian Administrative Service
Alma Mater:University of Mumbai
Awards:Padma Shri

Achyut Madhav Gokhale (3 January 1946 – 18 April 2021) was an Indian civil servant (former Indian Administrative Service officer), writer and a former Secretary to the Government of India at the Ministry of Non Conventional Energy Sources, known for his contributions towards the government initiatives such as Village Development Boards and Jawahar Rozgar Yojana.[1]

Biography

He was an executive director of the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, a former Chief Secretary of the state of Nagaland[2] and a former chairman of the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee of the Ministry of Environment and Forests.[3] Born on 3 January 1946, Gokhale graduated with a degree in physics from the University of Mumbai in 1965, entered the Indian Administrative Service in 1968 from the Nagaland cadre and served various government offices until his superannuation in January 2006.[4] During his tenure with the Government of Nagaland, he is known to have launched a people's programme, Nagaland Empowerment of People through Economic Development (NEPED), which had reported success in getting the involvement of the people of Nagaland.[5] The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian award of Padma Shri in 1990.[6]

Gokhale died on 18 April 2021, aged 75, due to COVID-19.[7]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Foreword by Padmashree Achyut Gokhale . Aneesh Books . 2015 . 24 September 2015.
  2. Web site: Nagaland ex-CS Gokhale visits Bamboo Resource Center . Web India 123 . 5 November 2013 . 25 September 2015.
  3. Web site: India gives go-ahead to GM crops . New Scientist . 28 March 2002 . 25 September 2015.
  4. Web site: Change Makers profile . Change Makers . 2015 . 25 September 2015.
  5. Web site: Nagas revere this bureaucrat from the mainland . India Together . 23 May 2009 . 24 September 2015.
  6. Web site: Padma Awards . Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India . 2015 . 21 July 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf . 15 October 2015 .
  7. Web site: Former Nagaland chief secretary AM Gokhale passes away; Neiphiu Rio condoles his demise. Northeast Now News. 18 April 2021. 18 April 2021.