Odisha-born bureaucrat Pramod Kumar Mishra has been reappointed as the Additional Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet \has approved his appointment with effect from May 31. His appointment will be co-terminus with the term of the PM or until further orders, whichever is earlier.
During the term of his office, he will be assigned the rank of a “Cabinet Minister in the Table of Precedence”.
Mishra is known as most trusted bureaucrat of Modi. He has also been given the charge as Ex-Officio Mission Director of the ambitious National Mission for Clean Ganga. He served as Principal Secretary to Modi between 2001 and 2004 during his tenure as Chief Minister of Gujarat. Mishra played a pivotal role in the metamorphosis of Modi from an RSS Pracharak to the Chief Minister.
He was later picked up by Modi as Chairman of the Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission for a five-year term just after a day of his retirement in 2008.
As Secretary in the Unin Ministry of Agriculture between December 1, 2006 and August 31, 2008 under Sharad Pawar, Mishra was credited with the implementation of the National
Agriculture Development Programme and the National Food Security Mission. During his tenure, the production of food grains reached record levels and there was a substantial increase in the agricultural GDP.
He later served as Member Secretary in the National Capital Region Planning Board and Secretary of the National Disaster Management Authority.