Asok Kumar G.
Former Indian Administrative Service Officer
Asok Kumar G. is a former Indian Administrative Service officer (1991 batch, Telangana cadre) with over three decades of leadership in public policy, large-scale program delivery, and institutional reform across environment, water, infrastructure, and social sectors. As Special Secretary and Director General of the National Mission for Clean Ganga, he led the transformation of Namami Gange into a globally benchmarked river restoration mission — recognised by the United Nations as one of the top 10 “World Eco-Restoration Flagships” for its effectiveness in reversing environmental degradation through science-led planning and community participation. His work combined policy design, regulatory alignment, financing mechanisms, digital monitoring systems, and decentralized governance to move India’s river rejuvenation agenda from fragmented interventions to a coordinated, basin-level public mission.
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T. K. Raghavendra
Retd. Education Officer, Karnataka
T. K. Raghavendra brings over three decades of distinguished leadership across teacher education, school quality reform, policy design, and system-level academic strengthening in Karnataka and at the national level. He has served in senior roles including Senior Lecturer at DIET, Program Officer at KSQAAC, and Block Education Officer, where he led large-scale quality initiatives, developed state and national training frameworks, and directly contributed to improving learning outcomes including guiding his block to achieve second place in Karnataka’s SSLC results. His work spans curriculum reform, accreditation standards, school leadership development, and the design of evidence-based academic interventions aligned with NEP 2020.
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