IFS officer Dr Sharad Singh Negi has been appointed as the Director General of Forests and special secretary to the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India. Negi will succeed IFS officer SS Garbyal upon his retirement on July 31 this year.
An IFS officer of the 1980-batch Himachal Pradesh cadre, Negi is presently posted as Additional Director General of Forests (Conservation) in the MoEF&CC. Earlier he had also served as the director of the Forest Research Institute and as vice chancellor of FRI (Deemed) university in Dehradun. A native of Pauri, Uttarakhand, Negi has done his schooling from Mussoorie and is also an alumnus of the DBS (PG) College in Dehradun.