Rajiv Gauba (born 15 August 1959; IAST: Rājīva Gaubā) is an Indian civil servant serving as the current Cabinet Secretary of India since 2019. He is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer belonging 1982 batch of Jharkhand (erstwhile Bihar) cadre. Prior to Cabinet Secretary, he served as Home Secretary of India.
Education
Gauba has a graduate degree and is a gold medallist in physics (BSc) from Patna University.
Career
Gauba has served in various positions for the Government of India, the Government of Bihar and the Government of Jharkhand, including as the Chief Secretary of Jharkhand, Resident Commissioner of Jharkhand, and as the district magistrate and collector of Gaya, Nalanda and Muzzaffarpur districts—before the bifurcation of Bihar—in the Jharkhand government, and as the Union Home Secretary, Union Urban Development Secretary, additional secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs, additional secretary in the Ministry of Communications, joint secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and as the private secretary to the Minister of Defence in the Indian government.
Gauba also served as an adviser to an executive director in the International Monetary Fund.
Chief Secretary of Jharkhand
Gauba was appointed the Chief Secretary of the Government of Jharkhand by the Chief Minister of Jharkhand on 20 January 2015. Gauba demitted the office of chief secretary when he was appointed as a secretary in the Government of India.
Urban Development Secretary
Gauba (centre-right), as the Urban Development Secretary, with the Minister of Urban Development, Venkaiah Naidu (centre-left) and the French Minister of Transport, Fisheries and Maritime Affairs (minister of state-rank), Alain Vidalies (left)
Gauba was appointed as the Union Urban Development Secretary by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) on 1 April 2016.
Home Secretary of India
Gauba with the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs of Myanmar, Aung Thu in October 2018
Gauba was appointed as the Union Home Secretary by the ACC on 22 June 2017, succeeding Rajiv Mehrishi. He served as an officer on special duty in the rank of secretary, till Mehrishi’s retirement, he formally took charge on 31 August 2017.
Gauba was appointed as Cabinet Secretary in August 2019. He handed over charge of Home Secretary to Ajay Kumar Bhalla (IAS) on 22 August 2019.
Cabinet Secretary of India
Gauba took office of Cabinet Secretary from Pradeep Kumar Sinha on 30 August 2019.