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Usha Padhee First Woman DG Of Bureau of Civil Aviation Security

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New Delhi:29/8/20:Odisha cadre IAS Usha Padhee has become the first woman officer to be appointed as the DG of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security.

With this new appointment, Smt. Usha Padhee became the first woman and third IAS officer to have been appointed to the post. She is a 1996-batch IAS officer, has been on Central Deputation since July 2015. She has been serving as the Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Civil Aviation.

Padhee is an alumnus of Gulbarga University, Karnataka, from where she has pursued Civil Engineering. She has served as sub-collector of Baliguda, Kandhamal.

She was also the additional project director (watershed) of District Rural Development Agency, Kalahandi, and then additional district magistrate of Balangir. She has also been collector and district magistrate of Nabarangpur, Koraput, and Dhenkanal Districts.

Rakesh Asthana, who was earlier serving as Bureau of Civil Aviation Security’s DG, was recently posted as the DG of BSF.

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Ashok Palit has completed his graduation from Upendranath College Soro, Balasore and post graduation from Utkal University in Odia Language and literture.. He has also carved out a niche for himself as a scribe of eminence after joining the profession in 1988. He is also an independent media production professional. He brings loads of experience to Advanced Media, Ashok Palit as a cineaste has been active in film criticism for over three decades. As a film society activist, he soared to eminence for his profound commitment to the art film appreciation and aesthetics of cinema. His mode of discourse is often erudite but always lucid and comprehensible marked by a perfect acumen so rare in the field. A film aesthete with an immense fond of critical sensibilities, he wrote about growth and development of odia cinema in New Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and Screen. He has been working as an Editor for Cine Samaya from 2002-2004.. He had made solid contribution on cinema in many odia Dailies and weekly such as Samaj, Prajatantra, Dharatri, Samaya, Satabadi, and weekly Samaya.
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