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Lav Agarwal
Indian bureaucrat and engineer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lav Agarwal (born 18 February 1972) is an Indian bureaucrat and [1] He is an IAS officer in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, serving as an Additional Secretary. He served as a Joint Secretary till August 2022. Before his appointment to the Health Ministry in 2016, Agarwal served in various state governments.[2] He is regarded as the face of Government of India's fight against COVID-19 due to his media briefings before the Press Information Bureau in the National Media Centre on a daily basis.[3][4][5][6] On 24 August 2020, Agarwal recovered from COVID-19 after being diagnosed with the same on 14 August 2020.[7][8][9]
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![]() Agarwal in April 2020. | |||||||||||||||||
Born | (1972-02-18) 18 February 1972 (age 52) Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India | ||||||||||||||||
Education | B Tech in Mechanical Engineering | ||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | IIT Delhi | ||||||||||||||||
Occupation | Bureaucrat | ||||||||||||||||
Years active | 1997–present | ||||||||||||||||
Employer | Government of India | ||||||||||||||||
Known for | IAS officer leading India's media response to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. | ||||||||||||||||
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