Centre removes School Education Secretary Rina Ray

NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 15: In an unexpected move, Rina Ray, secretary in the Ministry of Human Resource Development’s, Department of School Education and Literacy, has been repatriated to her parent cadre, the Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory.

The Department of Personnel and Training announced on October 15 that Ray, a 1984-batch officer of the Indian Administrative Services, will be replaced by Amit Khare, secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Khare will hold “additional charge” of the post “till the appointment of a regular incumbent to the post or until further orders”.

Ray took charge as secretary, school education, in August 2018 but had been in the department for several years before that. The school education secretary is the senior-most bureaucrat overseeing lower education in the country.