Maj-Gen Atul Kaushik is HPPEIRC chairman

Shimla, August 13

Maj-Gen Atul Kaushik (retd) has been appointed Chairman of the Himachal Pradesh Private Educational Institutions Regulatory Commission (HPPEIRC).

Maj-Gen Kaushik, who hails from Nahan, has held various important positions during his career in the Army. He will replace Dr KK Katoch, whose term as Chairman got over recently. Prof Kamaljit Singh from the law faculty of HP University has been appointed member of the commission. The post of member fell vacant on the completion of SP Katyal’s tenure recently. The BJP regime chose to appoint a retired Army officer and an educationist on the two posts for which several retired IAS, IPS, IFS officers had applied.