Kumar Alok

Kumar Alok is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1990 batch and presently working as Principle Secretary to the Chief Minister, Tripura. An M. Tech from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, in Aeronautical Engineering, he is a social development professional with wide-ranging experience in various social sectors. He has long and rich experience in sanitation and hygiene promotion at the national level in India as well as in an international agency--UNICEF. He played a key role in designing and scaling up of India's national rural sanitation programme while working as Director, Rural sanitation in the Department of Drinking Water Supply in the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. He was responsible for initiating a large number of innovations in 'Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC)'- the flagship rural sanitation programme in India, including designing and operationalizing the innovative incentive scheme, Nirmal Gram Puraskar and an effective online monitoring system for TSC. These innovations were instrumental in revamping and rejuvenating the rural sanitation programme in India. He has alos worked as Deputy Director General in charge of Technology at the Unique Identification Authority of India.Read moreRead less