The Punjab govt on Friday appointed 1987-batch Punjab cadre IAS officer Vini Mahajan as the new Main Secretary, replacing Karan Avtar Singh. Mahajan gets to be the very first girl Main Secretary of the state.

1984 batch officer Karan Avtar Singh has been posted as Exclusive Chief Secretary of Governance Reforms.

The only Punjab cadre officer currently in the state who is empanelled to keep the position as Secretary with the govt of India, Mahajan was until now serving as Extra Main Secretary with the Investment Promotion, Industries and Commerce, Information and facts Technological know-how and Governance Reforms and Community Grievances.

Points about IAS Officer Vini Mahajan,  the very first lady Chief Secretary of Punjab

Vini Mahajan has been playing a important role in steering the condition government’s reaction to the Covid-19 disaster as Chairman of the Overall health Sector Reaction and Procurement Committee.

An economics graduate from Girl Shri Ram College, Delhi University, and a postgraduate from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta, she was pivotal in the state’s achievements in attracting over Rs 20,000 crore new investments each individual year throughout her tenure in Expenditure Marketing and Industries and Commerce department.

In reality, it was with her at the helm of the section that Punjab participated for the very first time in the Environment Financial Forum at Davos in 2019, and held a really successful Investor Summit, with concentration on MSMEs, in December 2019.

She served in the business office of then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from 2005-2012 and dealt with matters relating to finance, marketplace and commerce, telecom, IT, and many others.

She was part of the core group of the central authorities that put with each other India’s domestic response, in the course of and subsequent the 2008 world monetary disaster. She also participated in the international reaction via the G-20 system.