Satya Pal Singh takes charge as HRD Minister of State
Monday - September 4, 2017 5:58 pm ,
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Satya Pal Singh takes charge as HRD Minister of State
New Delhi Sep 4 (IANS) Former Indian Police Service officer Satya Pal Singh on Monday took office as the new Minister of State for Human Resource Development replacing Mahendra Singh Pandey.
Singh was among the nine persons inducted in the Union council of ministers on Sunday at a swearing-in ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan here.
A 1980-batch Indian Police Service officer Singh has been the Police Commissioner of Mumbai Pune and Nagpur and Additional Director General of Police Law and Order and Establishment Maharashtra.
After taking voluntary retirement from service Singh joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2014.
He is a Lok Sabha member from Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh.
--IANS
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