{"id":108631,"date":"2017-02-23T13:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T07:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=108631"},"modified":"2017-02-27T15:01:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T09:31:01","slug":"air-marshal-ajit-shankarrao-bhonsle-ms-sujata-mehta-appointed-members-upsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2017\/02\/23\/air-marshal-ajit-shankarrao-bhonsle-ms-sujata-mehta-appointed-members-upsc\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Marshal Ajit Shankarrao Bhonsle &#038; Ms. Sujata Mehta appointed Members, UPSC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"contentdiv\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"center\">\n<p>Air Marshal Ajit Shankarrao Bhonsle, AVSM, VSM took the oath of office and secrecy as Member, Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on 21st February, 2017. The oath was administered by Prof. David R. Syiemlieh, Chairman, UPSC. He was born on 15.02.1957. He has done M.Sc., MBA and M. Phil from National Defence Academy, Defence Services Staff College, College of Defence Management and National Institute of Defence Studies, Japan. He has rich and varied experience in Command and Staff appointments during the 39 years of service in the IAF. His forte is Flying Operations, Pre-commissioning Military Training &amp; Education, Infrastructure development, Counter Intelligence, Capacity Building of Training Institutions, Defence Civilian Personnel Management, Cyber Security and Aviation Safety. He is the recipient of two Presidential Awards, Vishisht Seva Medal and Ati Vishisht Seva Medal.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Sujata Mehta, IFS 1980, took the affirmation of office and secrecy as Member, Union Public Service Commission. The oath was administered by Chairman, UPSC. She was born on 30.03.1957. She has done Master of Philosophy in Political Science. She served in Indian Missions in Mascow, Dhaka and at United Nations in New York. She also served on deputation to the United Nations in Gaza and New York. She served as Ambassador to Spain and as Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva before returning to Headquarters in July, 2013 as Additional Secretary and later Special Secretary. She was appointed Secretary (ER) in Ministry of External Affairs in February, 2014 and has taken charge as Secretary (West) in the Ministry on January 11, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">Union Public Service Commission<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Marshal Ajit Shankarrao Bhonsle, AVSM, VSM took the oath of office and secrecy as Member, Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":96771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-appointments","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Air Marshal Ajit Shankarrao Bhonsle &amp; 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