Mata Prasad

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Mata Prasad
mata prasad ias
Personal details
BornUttar Pradesh, India
OccupationRetired IAS Officer
AwardsPadma Bhushan

Mata Prasad is a retired

Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to become an IAS officer.[1] He is a former chairman of the Union Public Service Commission of India.[2] He served as the chief secretary of the state of Uttar Pradesh from June 1995 to October 1996, thus becoming the first Scheduled Caste officer to head the state bureaucracy. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 2012, for his contributions to civil service.[3]

Biography

Born in the

Ministry of Human Resource Development, he headed the Department of Youth Affairs and served as a Joint Secretary, Additional Secretary and later, as a Secretary at the Ministry of Welfare, in charge of the Department of Personnel Training.[4]

It was during his tenure as the Secretary, he made news by becoming the subject of a power struggle between

Republic Day Honors list for the civilian award of the Padma Bhushan in 2012.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Pulled about". India Today. 15 January 1994. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Mata Prasad takes over as UPSC chairman". Times of India. 9 September 2003. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  4. ^ a b c "Profiles of Hon'ble Chairman and Members of the Commission". Union Public Service Commission. 2016. Archived from the original on 10 July 2007. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
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  6. ^ "Policy pariahs". Governance Now. 15 October 2013. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
  7. ^ Singh, Anand Raj (12 March 2015). "Mayawati may create new district to tame old foe". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 4 June 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
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  9. ^ "Mata Prasad Gets 1-Yr Extension". Business Standard. 6 January 1998. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
  10. ^ "With a Dalit yet to make it to the top of civil service, can Tina Dabi break the glass ceiling?". First Post. 24 May 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
  11. ^ "List of Former Chairmen of the Commission (since 1926)". Union Public Service Commission. 2016. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
  12. ^ "Board of Advisors". Sitapur Shiksha Sansthan. 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2016.

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