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Amarjeet Sinha is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress, where he is coordinating the work of the Public Report on Secondary Education (PROSE).

From 2022-2024, he served as Member Public Enterprises Selection Board. He was earlier posted as Advisor to the Prime Minister (till July 2021), looking after the social sector and rural initiatives. An Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Officer of the Bihar Cadre of the 1983 batch, he retired in December 2019 as Secretary, Department of Rural Development, Government of India. He has 40 years of experience in Government, largely in the rural and social sector, and has played a major role in designing the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (India’s main programme for universal education), the National Rural Health Mission, in bringing about governance reforms in programmes for rural areas.