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Mr. Agrawala was born on October 16, 1955. Since May 2002, he has been the joint secretary to the GoI, Department of IT, Ministry of Communications and IT. Mr. Agrawala is in-charge of e-infrastructure in the Department of IT and in that capacity represents India in the Government Advisory Committee of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN). He is a vice chairman of GAC. Mr. Agrawala also serves on the Board of Telecom Infrastructure Manufacturing Company, ITI and National internet Exchange of India.
Mr Agrawala belongs to the 1978 batch of the IAS (Uttar Pradesh cadre). He holds a masters degrees in Public Administration, Development Economics and History and was a Mason Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA.
Mr. Agrawala has held various important U.P government positions. He has worked on various field organizations in districts and divisions of Uttar Pradesh. He has been associated with rural development for nearly 12 years of his service.
He took over as director of the then Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India in August 1991, and as director, Housing Division, Ministry of Urban Affairs and Employment, Government of India in July 1994. He was a member of the Indian delegation to the Habitat II City Summit, Istanbul. He then worked in the Administrative Training Institute, Nainital in the Decentralised Training for Urban Development Project, an Indo-Dutch collaboration with the Institute for Housing and Urban Development, Rotterdam.
From July 1998 to May 2002, he was secretary to the U.P government, in various departments, including the Department of Planning; the Department of Banking and Private Capital Investments; the Department of Externally Aided Projects, where he was responsible for five World Bank projects; the department of IT and Electronics, when India’s first private-sector IT university was set up; and the department of Small Scale Industries and Export Promotion.
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