Former principal secretary to PM, Nripendra Misra made chairman of NMML executive council

Former principal secretary to Prime Minister, Nripendra Misra, has been appointed chairperson of executive council of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML), latest in a string of appointments in last six months.

In vember last year, government reconstituted NMML society removing Congress' Mallikarjun Kharge, Jairam Ramesh and Karan Singh as its members and inducting television journalist Rajat Sharma and man Prasoon Joshi among ors.

Culture Ministry sources confirmed that 74-year-old Misra, who quit as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Principal Secretary in August last year, has been appointed through a January 14 order.

A. Surya Prakash, chairperson of Prasar Bharati board, will be council's vice-chairperson, order states.

With Misra's appointment, reconstitution of both NMML society as well as NMML executive council, which takes important decisions pertaining to museum associated with India's first prime minister, is w complete.

According to an order issued in vember last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is president of NMML society and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh it's vice president.

Union ministers Amit Shah, Nirmala Sitharaman, Ramesh Pokhriyal, Prakash Javekar, V Muraleedharan and Prahl Singh Patel, ICCR chairman Vinay Sahsrabudhhe, Prasar Bharti chairman A. Surya Prakash, secretaries of Expenditure, Culture and Housing and Urban Affairs, are its members.

Besides, chairman of UGC, representative of Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial fund, Raghvendra Singh, director of NMML and journalist Rajat Sharma are also new members.

or members include Anirban Ganguly, policy researcher and author, Sachchinanda Joshi, Member Secretary, IGNCA, acemic Kapil Kapoor, Lokesh Chandra, Vedic and Buddhist scholar, Makarand Paranjape, acemic, writer Kishor Makwana, acemic Kamlesh Joshipura, researcher Rizwan Kri along with Rajya Sabha member Vinay Sahasrabuddhe and IGNCA Chairman Ram Bahur Rai.

main objective of newly reconstituted NMML would be to oversee building of museum of Prime Ministers of India.

Misra is a 1967-batch retired Indian ministrative Service (IAS) officer. Before serving as principal secretary to Prime Minister, Misra worked in several top positions including as chairperson of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), secretary, Telecom and secretary, Fertilizers.