Veenith Joshi to head CBSE

Updated on: Thursday, February 04, 2010

New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is set to get its chairman as a high level Cabinet committee is understood to have approved the appointment of Veenith Joshi for the post.

The Appointment Committee of Cabinet is learnt to have cleared the name of Joshi to head the premier board, which has been functioning without a full-time chief for over one year. Joshi is serving as in-charge chairman of the board since the retirement of Ashok Ganguly from the post in August 2008.

Joshi's name was recommended for the post by the Human Resource Development Ministry which held selection process for the CBSE top job for a third time. The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) had earlier rejected its recommendation of the name of Madhya Pradesh cadre IPS officer Pragyan Srivastava for the post. The ministry had recommended Srivastava's name for the post last year when Arjun Singh was the Human Resource Development minister.

The Human Resource Development Ministry again invited applications for the post last year. Joshi, who knows the subject very well and has been in CBSE since 2004, was selected by the ministry as the suitable candidate for the post.

The ministry had recommended his name to the DoPT in October last year. A 1992-batch IAS officer, Joshi belongs to Uttar Pradesh and comes from the Manipur-Tripura cadre. Joshi has done B.Tech in mechanical engineering from IIT Kanpur.

Veenith Joshi to head CBSE

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