Senior bureaucrat Deepti Gaur Mukerjee has been appointed Secretary, Higher Education.
The higher education portfolio sits at the centre of several live policy files, including regulatory reform of universities, accreditation and the implementation of curricular and governance changes across institutions that answer to both central and State authorities.
Secretary-level appointments matter for continuity rather than direction: the office controls the pace at which approved policy is converted into rules, circulars and funding decisions.
