P.C.
HOTA TAKES OVER AS CHAIRMAN, UPSC
Shri P.C. Hota today took over
as Chairman, Union Public Service Commission. The oath of office
and secrecy was administered to Shri P.C. Hota by the outgoing
Chairman, Lt. Gen. Surinder Nath. All the Members and senior officers
of the Commission were present on this
occasion.
Shri P.C. Hota had joined
the Commission as a Member on 27th September, 1996.
Shri Hota is the 21st Chairman of the Commission since
its inception in the year 1926. He belongs to the 1962 Batch of
the Indian Administrative service of the Orissa Cadre. Before
joining the Commission as a Member, Shri Hota was secretary to
Government of India in the department of Personnel & Training.
Shri P.C. Hota was born
in a village in Puri District of Orissa on 9th September,
1938. An alumnus of Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, he did his B.A.
(Hons.) in History in 1957 and M.A. in Political Science in 1959.
He got a first class both in his BA (Hons.) from the Utkal University
and the MA from the University of Allahabad (1957-59). Shri Hota
had a brief stint from 1959-1962 as Lecturer in the Post-graduate
Department of Political Science in the Uttkal University. He joined
the Indian Administrative Service on 21st May 1962
and was allotted to the Orissa Cadre. During his illustrious career,
he held several important positions in different Departments of
the Government of Orissa. A fellow of the British Council and
senior fellow at the Sloan School, M.I.T., Boston, USA, he also
held several important positions in the Government of India as
well. He was Additional secretary in UPSC from 1984 to 1989 and
was Member Secretary of Dr. Satish Chandra Committee for Review
of the Scheme of Civil Services Examination (1988). In 1990, he
became Additional secretary, Ministry of Labour and in 1993, he
became Secretary, Ministry of parliamentary Affairs.
Shri Hota had led the Indian
delegation to the International Labour Conference in Geneva in
May 1991 and was also a Member of the Indian delegation to the
meeting of the Asian Productivity Council at Bangkok (1991). As
Secretary, Department of Personnel & Training, he led the
Indian delegation to the Eastern Regional Organization of Public
Administration at Tokyo and was also a Member of the Indian delegation
to the International Anti-Corruption Conference at Beijing in
1995. In 2001, he led a delegation of the UPSC to Singapore and
Australia to study and report on the scheme of selection to public
services in those countries.
