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Present & Former Heads of PIB

Present Principal Director General (PrDG)

 

S. No.

Name

Period

Photo

From

To

1.     

Sh. Manish Desai

September, 2023

Till Date

Former Principal Director General

S. No.

Name

Period

Photo

From

To

1.     

Sh. Rajesh Malhotra

March, 2023

August, 2023

2.     

Sh. Satyendra Prakash

August, 2022

February, 2023

3.     

Sh. Jaideep Bhatnagar

March, 2021

 July, 2022

4.     

Sh. Kuldeep S. Dhatwalia

October, 2019

February, 2021

5.     

Sh. Sitanshu Kar

May, 2018

September, 2019

6.     

Sh. A. P. Frank Naronha

August, 2014

April, 2018

 

7.     

Smt. Neelam Kapur

April, 2009

August, 2014

8.     

Dr. Umakant Mishra

December, 2008

March, 2009

 

9.     

Smt. Deepak Sandhu

February, 2006

December, 2008

 

Former Principal Information Officers (PIOs)

 

S. No.

Name

Period

Photo

From

To

1.     

Smt. Deepak Sandhu

August, 2005

January, 2006

2.     

Dr. Shakuntala Mahawal

March, 2004 

July, 2005

 

3.     

Sh. Sahab Singh

November, 2002

February, 2004

 

4.     

Smt. N.J. Krishna

December, 1998

October, 2002

5.     

Sh. S. Narendra

February, 1992

December, 1998

6.     

Sh. I. Ramamohan Rao

June, 1985

January, 1992

 

7.     

Sh. U.C. Tiwari

April, 1982

May, 1985

8.     

Sh. Wilfred Lazarus

April, 1980

April, 1982

9.     

Sh. G.S. Bhargava

June, 1978

April, 1980

10.

Sh. L. Dayal

August, 1976

September, 1977

11.

Dr. A.R. Baji

December, 1974

August, 1976

 

12.

Sh. H. J. D’Penha

July 1971

June, 1974

13.

Sh. M.L. Bhardwaj

January, 1966

July, 1971

 

14.

Sh. L. R. Nair

May, 1963

January, 1966

 

15.

Sh. M.L. Bhardwaj

July, 1961

May, 1963

 

16.

Sh. T.R.V. Chari*

October, 1955

July, 1961

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17.

Sh. M.L. Bharadwaj

March, 1954

October, 1955

18.

Sh. B.L. Sharma

February, 1949

March, 1954

19.

Sh. A.S. Iyengar

October, 1946

December, 1948

20.

Sh. Pothan Joseph

July, 1945

October, 1946

21.

Sh. J. Natarajan*

January, 1942

July 1945

 

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22.

Sh. J Hennessy*

April, 1938

December, 1941

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* Photographs of these PIOs could not be located. If you are in possession of the same, please contribute by sending their photographs to jain.rajeev@nic.in (Web Information Manager PIB)

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