India, Aug. 11 -- Senior IAS officer Deepti Gaur Mukerjee has been appointed as the new Secretary of the Department of Higher Education under the Ministry of Education. The appointment was announced by the Centre late on Monday night as part of a major bureaucratic reshuffle. She replaces Vineet Joshi, who shifted to the Ministry of Panchayati Raj last month.

Born on February 3, 1969, in Uttar Pradesh, Mukerjee is a 1993-batch IAS officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre. Before her new appointment, she served as Secretary in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and earlier headed the National Health Authority as its CEO. She has also held several administrative positions in Madhya Pradesh, including in the state's education department. Mukerjee...