| Birth Place: | Sharif Nagar, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Birth Date: | 23 May 1967 |
| Office: | Special Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Planning |
| Term Start: | 23 October 2021 |
| Predecessor: | Rakesh Kumar Mishra |
| Alma Mater: | K.G.K Inter College and Allahabad University |
| Profession: | Civil servant |
| Children: | 2 |
| Term End: | 29 June 2024 |
Manoj Kumar Singh is an IAS officer He served as Special Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Planning from 23 October 2021 to 29 June 2024.
In 1997, he was selected as PCS officer after attaining 8th rank all over Uttar Pradesh and was promoted as 2012 batch IAS officer in 2019. He first joined as Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) in Udham Singh Nagar district.
He was posted as Registrar at Chaudhary Charan Singh University in 2014 by the state government.[1] After few months of his joining, he was at loggerhead with the University's Vice Chancellor, Vikram Chandra Goel a former DG rank IPS officer. VC relieved him from his post without getting any order from the state government. Later the government objected to it and ordered him to take back relieving order as it was out of his jurisdiction to do so. He replied that being a state university's VC he has autonomy from government and they can refer the matter to Chancellor/Governor of state. This tussle made students protest in the campus.[2] [3]
Later the Registrar appealed his decision to High Court where High Court reject VC's judgement and ordered Registrar to continue his duties.[4] VC then appealed to Supreme Court but couldn't get favourable judgement.[5] Post retirement of Vikram Chandra Goel from CCSU, the state government transferred Registrar as Joint Commissioner at UP Housing Development Board in Meerut.[6]
| Sr. No. | From | To | Position | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 December 1997 | 28 February 1998 | Probationer at UP ATI, Nainital | |
| 2 | 1 March 1998 | 7 November 1998 | SDM, Bijnor | |
| 3 | 8 November 1998 | 25 August 2000 | SDM, Udham Singh Nagar | |
| 4 | 26 August 2000 | 14 June 2005 | SDM, Bijnor | |
| 5 | 15 June 2005 | 2 July 2007 | SDM, Bulandshahr | |
| 6 | 3 July 2007 | 18 February 2009 | SDM, Hathras | |
| 7 | 19 February 2009 | 12 December 2009 | OSD, Aligarh Development Authority | |
| 8 | 13 December 2009 | 15 July 2011 | City Magistrate, Bareilly | |
| 9 | 16 July 2011 | 19 April 2012 | City Magistrate, Prayagraj | |
| 10 | 20 April 2012 | 14 May 2013 | ADM-E, Muzaffarnagar | |
| 11 | 15 May 2013 | 27 February 2014 | Secretary, Muzaffarnagar Development Authority | |
| 12 | 28 February 2014 | 28 July 2015 | Registrar, CCS University | |
| 13 | 29 July 2015 | 20 September 2015 | Joint Housing Commissioner, Meerut Zone | |
| 14 | 21 September 2015 | 27 May 2017 | ADM-E, Muzaffarnagar | |
| 15 | 28 May 2017 | 27 June 2019 | Municipal Commissioner, Meerut | |
| 16 | 27 June 2019 | 14 July 2020 | Municipal Commissioner, Jhansi | |
| 17 | 29 July 2020 | 8 June 2021 | Director, Agriculture Marketing & Foreign Trade | |
| 18 | 8 June 2021 | 23 October 2021 | Special Secretary & Director Tourism | |
| 19 | 23 October 2021 | 2 September 2023 | District Magistrate & Collector, Mahoba | |
| 20 | 2 September 2023 | Incumbent | Special Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Planning[7] |