Lok Sabha Question No. 804 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-07-23
Subject: NIOS
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: PARESH RAWAL

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

## DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION & LITERACY

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 804 TO BE ANSWERED ON 23 rd  July, 2018

## NIOS

## 804. SHRI PARESH RAVAL:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  has  any  data  about  the  Regional  Director  send  from NIOS Head Quarter to the different States of the country; and
- (b) if so, the details thereof, State/ UT-wise?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

## (SHRI UPENDRA KUSHWAHA)

- (a) & (b):  The  National  Institute  of  Open  Schooling  (NIOS)  has  informed  that  it  has  a total  20  Regional  Centres  in  the  Country.  Officers  of  the  Rank  of  Assistant Director/  Deputy  Director/  Joint  Director  are  posted  as  Regional  Directors (RDs)/ Regional Director (RD)-In-charge to these Regional Centres. State/UT-wise details of the Regional Directors presently posted at different Regional  Centres of NIOS is placed at Annexure-I .

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## ANNEXURE - I

|   Sl. No. | State/UT         | Regional Centre   | Name & Designation of the officer posted as Regional Director   | Date since when posted   |
|-----------|------------------|-------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------|
|         1 | Delhi/NCR        | Delhi             | Shri S K Tanwar Joint Director/RD                               | 6.6.2018                 |
|         2 | Telangana        | Hyderabad         | Shri Anil Kumar Deputy Director/RD                              | 19.08.2011               |
|         3 | Andhra Pradesh   | Vishakhapatnam    | Shri V Santhanam Deputy Director/RD                             | 19.10.2016               |
|         4 | Assam            | Guwahati          | Dr. Piyush Prasad Assistant Director/RD-I/c                     | 26.03.2018               |
|         5 | Maharashtra      | Pune              | Dr. SaumyaRajan Assistant Director/RD-I/c                       | 29.6.2018                |
|         6 | Punjab           | Chandigarh        | ShriHardeep Singh Assistant Director/RD-I/c                     | 20.03.2017               |
|         7 | West Bengal      | Kolkata           | Dr. Rachna Bhatia Deputy Director/RD                            | 08.11.2016               |
|         8 | Odisha           | Bhubaneswar       | Dr. AditiRanjan Rout Deputy Director/RD                         | 04.06.2014               |
|         9 | Bihar            | Patna             | ShriParampreet Singh Deputy Director/RD                         | 12.06.2018               |
|        10 | Kerala           | Kochi             | Dr. Alok Kumar Gupta Assistant Director/RD-I/c                  | 22.12.2017               |
|        11 | Rajasthan        | Jaipur            | Shri K L Gupta Deputy Director/RD                               | 16.06.2014               |
|        12 | Madhya Pradesh   | Bhopal            | Shri V S Raveendran Deputy Director/RD                          | 22.12.2017               |
|        13 | Uttar Pradesh    | Allahabad         | Shri V Sathish Assistant Director/RD-Incharge                   | 06.06.2018               |
|        14 | Uttrakhand       | Dehradun          | Shri B C Raturi Assistant Director/RD-Incharge                  | 13.07.2018               |
|        15 | Gujarat          | Gandhi Nagar      | Dr. Rajeev Prasad Assistant Director/RD-Incharge                | 19.07.2016               |
|        16 | Karnataka        | Bengaluru         | Shri LMDV Prasad Assistant Director/RD-Incharge                 | 28.06.2018               |
|        17 | Chhattisgarh     | Raipur            | Shri A K Bhatta Deputy Director/RD                              | 05.01.2016               |
|        18 | Jharkhand        | Ranchi            | Dr. A K Singh Deputy Director/RD                                | 27.07.2015               |
|        19 | Tamil Nadu       | Chennai           | Shri P Ravi Deputy Director/RD                                  | 24.02.2014               |
|        20 | Himachal Pradesh | Dharamshala       | ShriSanjeev Kumar Deputy Director/RD                            | 04.06.2016               |

## STATE/UT-WISE  DETAILS  OF  THE  REGIONAL  DIRECTORS  POSTED  AT  DIFFERENT  REGIONAL CENTRES OF NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OPEN SCHOOLING (NIOS).