Arun Goel (IAS) Wiki, Age, Caste, Wife, Children, Family, Biography & More

Arun Goel is a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS Officer) in the 1985 batch of the Punjab cadre. On 19 November 2022, he was appointed as the Election Commissioner of India.

Wiki/Biography

Arun Goel was born on Friday, 7 December 1962 (age 60 years; as of 2022) in Punjab, India. His zodiac sign is Sagittarius. He passed B.A. (Maths) and M.Sc. (Maths) from Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, as a gold medalist. Thereafter, he obtained a PG Diploma in Development Economics from Churchill College, University of Cambridge, England. In 1985, he received the chancellor’s medal for excellence in academics (the highest honour) from the Governor of Punjab. ^[1]Supremo

Physical Appearance

Height (approx.): 5′ 9″

Eye Colour: Black

Hair Colour: Black

Family

Parents & Siblings

There is not much information available about his parents and siblings.

Wife & Children

Arun Goel is married.

In-Service Training

In 1989, Arun Goel started his in-service training as a development admin at the National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad, and trained there till 1990. From 1992 to 1993, he did his in-service training in Junior Level Programme at Administrative Training Institute, Mysore. In 1999, he started middle-level in-service training at Batches in the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. A year later, he did in-service training at Disaster Management in the Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi. Some of his other in-training services include Senior Level (1982-85) Batches in Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad (2002-2003), Ethical Leadership in  IC Centre for Governance (ICCG), Panchgani (2005-2006), Advanced Course on WTO in Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad (2006-2007), Negotiating Strategies & Public Private Partnership in Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (2009-2010), Governance and Social Policy in Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai (2012-2013), Improving Governance through Accountability in National Academy of Audit & Accounts, Shimla (2014-2015), Inner Engineering Leadership Programme in Isha (Foundation) Yoga Centre, Coimbatore (2015-2016), and Investigating Economic Crimes in Financial Markets in National Institute of Security Markets, Mumbai (2016-2017). Arun Goel did his domestic training in Personnel and General Administration at various locations including ASCI Hyderabad, ATI Mysore, IIM Bangalore, NIRD Hyderabad, and NIRD Hyderabad. He did his foreign training at Public Sector Management, USA, WTO Internal Trade & Development, Geneva, and CRISIS MGT., Commerce, United Kingdom. In 2013, Arun Goel did mid-level training ‘7th Round MCT Phase 5.’

Career

From 1 August 1987 to 1 June 1989, Arun Goel was posted as SDO (Civil). He has served many other major designations like:

• Additional Deputy Commissioner: District Admn/Land Revenue Mgmt & District Admn (1 June 1989-28 February 1991)
• Additional Deputy Commissioner: District Admn/Land Revenue Mgmt & District Admn (1 June 1989-30 June 1989)
• Chief Administrator: Urban Development/Urban Development (1 July 1989-28 February 1991)
• President: Municipal Administration/Urban Development (1 July 1989-28 February 1991)
• Jt Secy to Governor: Governor’s Sectt./Staff Officers (28 February 1991 to 22 September 1991)
• Jt Secy: General Administration/Personnel and General Administration (26 July 1992-30 July 1993)
• Deputy Commissioner, Bhatinda: District Admn/Land Revenue Mgmt & District Admn (1 August 1993-30 June 1994)
• Secretary, Punjab: State Agriculture Mktg Bd (PSAMB), Cadre (AIS) in Agricultural Marketing/Agriculture & Cooperation (30 June 1994- 31 October 1994)
• Managing Director, Chandigarh: Industries (31 October 1994-30 November 1995)
• Managing Director, Chandigarh: Tourism (31 October 1994-30 November 1995)
• Deputy Commissioner, Ludhiana: District Admn/Land Revenue Mgmt & District Admn (30 November 1995-31 December 1996)
• Managing Director: Public Distribution/Consumer Affairs, Food & PD (31 December 1996 -28 February 1997)
• Deputy Commissioner, Ludhiana: District Admn/Land Revenue Mgmt & District Admn (28 February 1997-31 January 1998)
• Deputy Commissioner, Ludhiana: District Admn/Land Revenue Mgmt & District Admn (31 January 1998-30 April 2000)
• Managing Director: Shipping/Transport (1 January 2000-31 January 2001)
• Managing Director, Warehousing Corporation Ltd., Punjab: Civil Supplies/Consumer Affairs, Food & PD (9 May 2000-31 January 2001)
• Managing Director, State Warehousing Corpn: Civil Supplies/Consumer Affairs, Food & PD (31 January 2001-07 December 2001)
• Managing Director: Shipping /Transport (31 January 2001-07 December 2001)
• Managing Director, State Warehousing Corpn: Civil Supplies/Consumer Affairs, Food & PD (19 January 2002-28 February 2002)
• Managing Director: Shipping /Transport (19 January 2002-28 February 2002)
• Secretary: Youth Affairs & Sports/Youth in Affairs & Sports (28 February 2002-31 May 2003)
• Managing Director, Small Ind & Export Corp Punjab: Industries (12 May 2003-14 June 2006)
• Secretary, Punjab: Finance (15 June 2006-15 March 2007)
• Director, Punjab: Disinvestment/Finance (15 June 2006-15 March 2007)
• Secretary, Housing & Urban Dev Deptt: Urban Development (15 March 2007-4 November 2009)
• Vice Chairman, Punjab Urban in Development Authority (PUDA): Urban Development/Urban Development (15 March 2007-4 November 2009)
• Principal Secy: Urban Housing/Urban Development (04 November 2009-14 December 2009)
• Secretary, Punjab, Urban Dev Authority (PUDA): Urban Development (4 November 2009-02 May 2011)
• Principal Secy, Power Deptt, Punjab: Power/Energy (14 December 2009-4 May 2011)
• Joint Secretary, Urban Dev, Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM): Centre, Urban Development (5 May 2011-28 June 2012)
• Joint Secretary, Finance: Centre, Revenue/Finance (28 June 2012-30 July 2015)
• Vice Chairman, Urban Dev: Centre, Urban Development (31 July 2015-31 October 2016)
• Additional Secy & F A: Centre, Labour/Labour & Employment (1 November 2016- 22 May 2018)
• Additional Secretary, Culture Centre: Cultural Affairs/Culture (22 May 2018-31 July 2018)
• Spl Secy, Culture: Centre, Cultural Affairs/Culture (1 August 2018-9 August 2018)
• Secretary, Culture: Centre, Cultural Affairs/Culture (10 August 2018-31 December 2019)
• Secretary, Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises, Heavy Industry, New Delhi: Centre, Heavy Industries/Industries (31 December 2019-31 December 2022)

On 18 November 2022, he voluntarily took retirement as the Secretary of the Ministry of Heavy Industries. He was replaced by Kamran Rizvi. His retirement was supposed to be held on 31 December 2022. On 19 November 2022, the President of India Droupadi Murmu appointed him as the Election Commissioner of India. As per the statement of the Union Law and Justice Ministry,

The President is pleased to appoint Shri Arun Goel, IAS (Retd.) (PB: 1985) as the Election Commissioner in the Election Commission with effect from the date he assumes the office.”

 

Since 15 May 2022, the position of one Election Commissioner in the three-member committee was vacant.