G Asok Kumar,Additional Secretary, took charge as the Director General of National Mission for Clean Ganga, Ministry of Jal Shakti on 1st January 2022, from Sh. Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, a 1987-batch IAS officer, who superannuated on 31-Dec.
A 1991-batch IAS officer belonging to the Telangana Cadre, Sh. G. Asok Kumar has made significant and diverse contribution to the Water and Sanitation Sector. As the Additional Secretary and Mission Director, National Water Mission (NWM) he was leading the successful JalShakti Abhiyan : CatchTheRain campaign launched by PM Modi on 22 March 2021 to conserve rainwater. He had also served NMCG as Executive Director (Projects) in 2019-20 period. As Mission Director, NWM, Asok Kumar took several innovative initiates such as “Water Talks”, Water Tech Talks”, “Sahi Fasal campaign” etc. Under his guidance, National Water Mission Awards were presented for the first time on 25th September, 2019. One of his major achievements as AS&MD, NWM was successful implementation of ‘Jal Shakti Abhiyan-CatchTheRain campsign” with the tagline, “ catch the rsin, Where it Falls, When it Falls’.
He is the recipient of “Jal Mitra” award from the Government of Andhra Pradesh, the first TEX (Telangana Excellence) Award from the Government of Telangana for Outstanding Work done in Public Administration and the Skoch award for public services, 2021.
Sh. Asok had earlier served at the Centre as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Civil Aviation. He has initiated/completed many infrastructure projects like the Outer Ring Road, Krishna Phase-2 Drinking Water Pipeline, Godavari Drinking Water Pipeline Project, etc. in Hyderabad.
G Asok Kumar Takes Charge as DG, NM G
