Senior bureaucrat Anurag Tripathy is CBSE Secretary
Q. Who has been appointed the CBSE secretary on 25th May 2017?- Published on 29 May 17a. Anurag Singh
b. Anurag Mehta
c. Anurag Tripathy
d. None of the above
ANSWER: Anurag Tripathy
Senior bureaucrat Anurag Tripathy was on 25 May 2017 appointed as the Secretary of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
Tripathy will serve the post for a period of five years.
Tripathy is a 1998 batch officer of Indian Railway personnel Service (IRPS).
CBSE: Know More- CBSE is a Board of Education for public and private schools under the Union Government.
- It affiliates all Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs), all Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs), private schools and the other schools that have been approved by the Union Government.
- It is responsible for conducting the final examinations for Class 10 and Class 12 every year.
- It is also responsible for conducting JEE(Main) examination for admission to undergraduate courses in engineering and architecture.
- It also conducts the NEET-UG (Undergraduate) examination for MBBS and BDS courses.