Tanushree Debbarma Explained

Tanushree Debbarma
Office:Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
Deputy Director General
Term Start:Dec 2021
Term End:Present
Office1:Science, Technology and Environment Department Government of Tripura
Title1:Secretary
Term Start1:Jul 2021
Term End1:Dec 2021
Office2:Revenue Department Government of Tripura
Title2:Secretary
Term Start2:Mar 2020
Term End2:Dec 2020
Office3:Finance Department Government of Tripura
Title3:Secretary
Term Start3:Jan 2020
Term End3:Oct 2020
Office4:Tribal Welfare and Elementary Education Government of Tripura
Title4:Director
Term Start4:Jun 2019
Term End4:Dec 2019
Office5:KUIDFC (Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development and Finance Corp. Ltd)
Title5:Joint Managing Director
Term Start5:Dec 2016
Term End5:Sep 2018
Office6:Information Technology and BiotechnologyGovernment of Karnataka
Title6:Director
Term Start6:Jun 2014
Term End6:Dec 2016
Office7:District Administration, Khowai, Government of Tripura
Title7:District Magistrate and Collector
Term Start7:Dec 2011
Term End7:May 2014
Alma Mater:IIT Delhi
Blank1:Religion
Data1:Hinduism

Tanushree Debbarma is the first woman Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer in Tripura, India. She was the first woman from Tripura to pass the IAS exam.[1] She secured fourth place in the civil service examination in the ST category in 2006. She studied at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and received an offer from a multi-national IT firm but turned it down to prepare for the Civil Services Examination IAS exam.

Debbarma was in the Government of Karnataka until 2020 as the Director of Tribal Welfare with additional roles of Director of Elementary Education and State Project Director, National Education Mission (Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan). She has now been transferred and appointed secretary to the Government of Tripura.[2]

She now holds the additional posts of Secretary of Industries and Commerce (Information and Technology) and member of Tripura Sales Tax Tribunal and VAT Tribunal in the state administration of Tripura.[3] During the COVID-19 Pandemic lockdown, she was one of the officials from the Government of Tripura engaged in bringing back people stranded in other states.[4]

References

  1. News: 24 January 2017. 5 women from Tripura who are making it big at the international arena!. The Northeast Today. 25 March 2021.
  2. News: 27 January 2020. Tanushree Debbarma IAS transferred as Secretary to Tripura Govt. Indian Bureaucracy. 25 March 2021.
    - Web site: Smt. Tanusree DebBarma, IAS. Government of Tripura Revenue Departmen. 2020.
  3. News: 17 April 2020. Tanushree Debbarma took charge of Revenue. Tripura Chronicle. 25 March 2021.
  4. News: 4 May 2020. Tripura govt engages 7 officials to bring back people stranded in other states. Northeast Now. 25 March 2021.