Jugal Mohapatra

Jugal Mohapatra is the Chairman of NABARD Financial Services (NABFINS).

He has completed his post-graduate studies from the Delhi School of Economics and has a Master’s degree in Economics from Boston University.He joined the Indian Administrative Service (Odisha Cadre) in 1979. During his career in civil service spanning over 37 years, he has served as Secretary to the Chief Minister, Principal Secretary (Finance), Development Commissioner, and Chief Secretary in the Odisha Government. He served as Secretary in the Department of Fertilisers and Rural Development in the Government of India from 2014 to 2016.

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Managing public expenditure needs a digital boost

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her budget speech 2022, mentioned some significant reforms towards government procurement that have happened over the past few months. These are welcome developments in a landscape marked by State’s weak budget execution capacities. However, there needs to be a stronger push towards adopting public finance management reforms to enable the […]