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Ms. Vrinda Sarup is a retired IAS officer of the 1981 batch, who has served as secretary, to Govt of India in the Dept. of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Human Resources Development, and in the Dept. of Food and Public Distribution. Ms. Sarup has worked in the sector of Education for over 23 years both at the Central and State Govts, where she has experience both as an implementer and policymaker. She has been closely associated with the formulation and implementation of some of the most significant national programmes of the District Primary Education Programme and the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan for elementary education and the revised Vocational Education Programme at the secondary/senior secondary level.  She was Secretary in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Human Resource Development. Her key area of specialization has been in the Social Sector.

Dr. Hari Krishna Paliwal (IAS) is an esteemed officer of the Indian Administrative Services. Besides serving as District Magistrate in a number of districts in Uttar Pradesh, he held various important assignments in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh and Government of India, including that of Chief Secretary to the Government of Arunachal Pradesh. Presently he is an advisor to the Government of Arunachal Pradesh, holding the rank of a cabinet minister. He advises the government on major socio-economic and infrastructure development issues. Earlier, Paliwal was an advisor to Shri Rajnath Singh, when the latter was the union home minister. Dr. Paliwal served in the Indian Forest Service before joining the IAS. With Ph.D. in Botany from Delhi University and MBA from University of Queensland, Australia, he was a lecturer in Botany in Delhi and Garhwal University .He is an ardent nature lover and has authored a book on Ornamental Gardening.