Indian Economic Service

Profile

Mr. Gopal Prasad

Date of Birth	:	1 Aug 1974
Gender	:	Male
Date of Entry into Service	:	30 Aug 2001
Date of Superannuation	:	31 Jul 2034
Mother Tongue	:	Hindi
Languages known	:	English, Bengali & Marathi

Mode of Recruitment	:	Direct Recruitment
Present Grade	:	SAG
Date of entry into present Grade	:	5 Sep 2020
Present Posting	:	Department of Atomic Energy
Present Designation	:	Adviser
Nature of post	:	Deputation
Domicile State	:	Jharkhand
Place of domicile	:	Ranchi
		period of expiry of deputation 5 Jul 2027

Educational Qualifications

Degree	University/Institution	Subject/Subject of specialization	Year of passing/completion	Achievements
Graduation	ST. XAVIER'S COLEGE, RANCHI	ECONOMICS HONS.	1994	66 percent IST CLASS
Post-Graduation	GOKHALE INSTITUTE OF POLITICS & ECONOMICS, PUNE	M.A ECONOMICS	1997	B+ GRADE, 2ND CLASS
M. Phil
PhD
Post Doctoral

Whether Study leave has been availed by the Officer

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No

Details of Posting in IES

Grade	Designation	Place of Posting	Brief description of duties	Date	Total Time period	Category
STS	Research Officer	PLANNING COMMISSION	Worked as Research officer in Plan Coordination division dealing with formulation of plan budget, central schemes, annual plan discussion, cordination with central ministries and departments for plan assistance, etc. On promotion to Senior Research officer in 2006, i was posted in office of EAC to PM, where i worked on many policy issues. Subsequently i also worked in Bihar State Task Force for about a year and worked on policy areas pertaining to developmental issues in Bihar	1 Sep 2003 - 30 Dec 2007	4 Years, 3 Months, 29 Days	Cadre
STS	Deputy Director	MINISTRY OF HOUSING & URBAN POVERTY ALLEVIATION	Worked as Deputy Director in handling flagship scheme of JNNURM, Succesfully implemented its two critical mission components namely IHSDP and BSUP across states in India	31 Dec 2007 - 11 Mar 2010	2 Years, 2 Months, 10 Days	Cadre
STS	Deputy Director	MINISTRY OF RAILWAY, RAILWAY BOARD	As Deputy Director, I dealt with project appraisal of 6 zonal railways namely, laying of new lines, doubling of lines, electrification, guage conversion, sidings etc. Out of 29 projects appraised, 10 projects were included in Rail Budget 2011 to 2012	12 Mar 2010 - 13 Jun 2011	1 Years, 3 Months, 1 Days	Cadre
STS	Deputy Secretary	DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND PROMOTION	As Deputy Secretary, i was involved from begining in formulating National Manufacturing Policy, 2011. Monitored its implementation in States seeking in principle approval for setting up NIMZs, Coordinated with Ministries including Group of Ministers and PMO	14 Jun 2011 - 13 Aug 2015	4 Years, 2 Months	CSS Deputation
JAG	Director	MINISTRY OF FINANCE	As Director FCD and Plan Finance 1 in Department of Expenditure, I dealt with handling implemetation of 14th Finance Commission recommendations in terms of releasing grants in aid and other dispensation like fixing gross borrowing limit of States, granting permission to States for open market borowing, Food credit, formulating quantum of assistance under NDRF SDRF to states on account of natural disaster, formulating guidelines for providing assistance under NDRF and SDRF etc	14 Aug 2015 - 3 Jan 2018	2 Years, 4 Months, 21 Days	Cadre
NFSG	Director	FIFTEENTH FINANCE COMMISSION OF INDIA	As Director in XV Finance Commission, I worked as Director Administration, set up office premises including arranging all necessary infrastructure logistics in Jawahr Vyapar Bhawan, Janpath, helped Secretary of the Commission to recruit officers and staff, arranged in liasion with State Governments for official touring of the Commission to States, involved in preparation of the draft chapters pertaining to State Public Financeof the Report and publication of the full Report of the XV Finance Commission	4 Jan 2018 - 15 Sep 2020	2 Years, 8 Months, 11 Days	Other Deputation Others
SAG	Economic Adviser	MINISTRY OF LABOUR & EMPLOYMENT	As Economic Adviser, I was entrusted with the primary task of formulating Draft Rules under OSH and WC Code, 2021, successfully completed formulating the Rules, entrusted to look after Central Labour Service Cadre management, Central Industrial Tribunal administrative matters etc Handled as additional charge of DDG Employment, Parliament matters, Raj Bhasa, Chief Information and Technology officer, etc Discharged all duties assigned by Secretary, Labour successfully	16 Sep 2020 - 5 Jul 2022	1 Years, 9 Months, 18 Days	Cadre
SAG	Adviser	HEAVY WATER BOARD	As Internal Financial Adviser in Heavy Water Board in Department of Atomic Energy, my main role is to render financial advice to Chief Executive of the Board by scrutinizing financial matters, the whole of finance and accounting including monitoring of audit and capital projects comes under my charge, various works like formulating budget proposals, monitoring of expenditure, audit paras,concurrence for financial sanctions, financial progress of capital projects,award of works, procurement, services etc are done under my charge as Head of Finance and Accounts Division in the Board	6 Jul 2022 - 08 Aug 2023 Till Date		CSS Deputation

Personal/Study Leave (if any)

:

No study leave availed

Training

Details of In Service training (Both Domestic and Foreign whether debarred from foreign training, if so, the details thereof) attended by the officer sponsored by the cadre.

Year	Name of the training course	Name of Institute	Venue	Period of Training (in weeks)
2007	IMF TRAINING ON FISCAL AND MONETARY POLICY	IMF	SINGAPORE	2 weeks
2008	MACROECONOMIC DIAGNOSTICS	IMF	PUNE	2 weeks
0	Mid Career Training in IES	IIM	Lucknow	6 weeks
0	Local Body Public Finance and Policy	Duke University	USA	4 weeks

Details of Training Programme attended by the officer sponsored by the Ministry/Department in which they were posted

Year

Name of the training course

Name of Institute

Venue

Period of Training
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Any specific area or subject where the officer would prefer to be trained, for current assignment and for long term career progression.

Training for Current assignment	:	none
Training for Long term Career Progression	:	Public Policy and Financial Administration

Publication & Awards

Please mention contributions, if any, like publication of articles in journals/ publication of books/paper presentations in seminars or workshops or conferences by the officer during the tenure in IES.

Nature of Activity	Name	Topic	Description	Year of publication
Article in Journal/Newspapers	Yojana	EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT: A TREND ANALYSIS		2007

Specialization

Area of specialization of the officer	Grade	No. of years of specialization gained
Planning	JTS,STS	2 Years
Research, Data processing & Analysis	JTS,STS	3 Years
Commerce & Industry	JAG,NFSG	4 Years
Public Finance	NFSG	5 Years
Labour Economics	SAG	2 Years
Urban Development	STS	2 Years
Transport	STS	1 Years

Specific area of interest/field of work where the officer would prefer to be placed.
Energy, Environment, Trade, Health Economics, Tourism

Subject/Area or topic preferred by the officer to deliver a lecture, whenever required.
Commerce & Industry, Public Finance, Labour Economics, Any other

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