Was Vineet Joshi the Education Secretary All Along?

The government’s order of 10 August 2026 appointing Deepti Gaur Mukerjee as Secretary, Department of Higher Education names her as the successor to Vineet Joshi, and not to Naresh Pal Gangwar, who had been appointed to the same post on 23 July. Because the fresh order is a partial modification of the 23 July order and vacates the higher education chair specifically in the name of Joshi, it raises a question the government has not addressed. If Deepti Mukerjee is replacing Vineet Joshi, was Gangwar’s appointment to higher education ever given effect, and who was actually running the department until this week?

Vineet Joshi, a 1992-batch IAS officer of the Manipur cadre, had led the Department of Higher Education since Janu

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