Occupation Civil servant
Writer Name Achyut Gokhale | Awards Padma Shri | |
Born 3 January 1946 India | ||
Achyut Madhav Gokhale is an Indian civil servant, writer and a former Secretary to the Government of India at the Ministry of Non Conventional Energy Sources, known for his contributions towards the government initiatives such as Village Development Boards and Jawahar Rozgar Yojana. He is an executive director of the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, a former Chief Secretary of the state of Nagaland and a former chairman of the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee of the Ministry of Environment and Forests. Born on 3 January 1946, Gokhale graduated in Physics from the University of Mumbai in 1965, entered the Indian Administrative Service in 1968 from the Nagaland cadre and served various government offices till his superannuation in January 2006. During his tenure with the Government of Nagaland, he is known to have launched a people's programme, Nagaland Empowerment of People through Economic Development (NEPED), which had reported success in getting the involvement of the people of Nagaland. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian award of Padma Shri in 1990.