New Delhi [India], August 19 (ANI): Ashok Kumar Singh, IAS, took over charge as Director General of Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) under the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Govt of India at its headquarters in New Delhi on Monday.

Ashok Kumar Singh is an IAS Officer of the 1999 batch of Kerala cadre. Earlier, he worked as a Principal Secretary, the Water Resources Department, Govt. of Kerala.

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He has vast experience in governance and management of District and State level organisations.

At the centre level, he has served as the Executive Director in the National Mission for Clean Ganga, as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Defence and as Director of Ministry of Finance in the Govt. of India also.

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Singh holds an M. Phil from National Defence College, New Delhi and is a Graduate in Mechanical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur. (ANI)

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