Director General Archives to attend Sir Syed Day as Guest of Honour
Aligarh : Aligarh Muslim University has invited Mr Chandan Sinha, the Director General of Archives, National Archives of India, Ministry of Culture, as a Guest of Honour of the Sir Syed Day celeberations slated for October 17.
He will zero in on the seminal contribution of Sir Syed in preserving archival material and editing the historical texts and share experiences, strategies and insights with the AMU community.
The Sir Syed Day Guest of Honour, Mr Sinha, IAS, is currently the custodian of non-current records of all Ministries, Departments, and agencies of the Government in the National Archives of India, which is one of the biggest archival repositories in South Asia with a vast corpus of public, private, oriental, cartographic and microfilms records constituting an invaluable source of information for scholars-administrators and users of archives.
Mr Sinha is the author of ‘Kindling of an Insurrection: Notes from Junglemahals’ (Routledge India 2012) which provides a gripping account of the lives of people in Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal and ‘Public Sector Reforms in India: New Role of the District Officer’ (Sage Publications 2007), a book bringing into perspective the processes and impact of public sector reforms.
Before joining as the Director General of Archives, National Archives of India in 2019; Mr Sinha served as the Principal State Editor, District Gazetteers and Ex Officio Additional Chief Secretary in Kolkata for the Government of West Bengal.
In West Bengal, he has also served as the Director General and Ex Officio Principal Secretary, Administrative Training Institute, Kolkata; Additional Director General and Ex Official Principal Secretary, Administrative Training Institute; Principal Secretary, Departments of Environment and Forest; Principal Secretary to Governor, West Bengal; State Mission Director, National Rural Health Mission, Department of Health and Family Welfare and Special Secretary, Department of Power and Renewable Energy.
Mr Sinha has master’s degrees in Public Administration from Syracuse University – Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the University of South Carolina-Columbia.
He is an English (honours) graduate from the prestigious St Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.