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Jigme Namgyal appointed Secretary of Department of Education. Photo/Tenzin Jigme/CTA
Dharamshala: Mr Jigme Namgyal, Additional Secretary of the Department of Education, CTA has been appointed as the Secretary of the Department.
He is currently heading the administration section of the Department of Education and will be taking over the charge of the Secretary from September 3, 2020.
Mr. Jigmey Namgyal was born in 1978. Upon completion of his early education from CST Bir and high school from CST Dalhousie he has joined the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies at Sarnath (CIHTS), Varanasi for a degree course. He received his Acharya degree with first division in 2003 and gold medal in Shastri degree in 2000.
During his student days at CIHTS, Shri. Namgyal actively participated in a number of training programs, workshops, and seminars. He had also served in various student-run committees of the Institute.
In 2001, he was recruited for Tibetan civil service of the Central Tibetan Administration at Dharamsala and was accordingly appointed at the Department of Education on the rank of Under Secretary. With the change in the Administration (Kashag) in mid-2001, he was posted to the Kashag Secretariat as a Private Secretary (PS) to Sikyong (Formerly Kalon Tripa). During his long tenure at the Kashag Secretariat, he had the honor of working with Kalon Tripa Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche from 2001 to 2011 and with Dr. Lobsang Sangay from 2011 to 2016 as Under Secretary, Deputy Secretary and then on Joint Secretary in 2010. His work took him to different parts of the world attending national and international level conferences and meetings concerning Tibet and Tibetan people and on other various important issues. In August 2016 he was posted to the Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR) by virtue of his international exposure, where he served as Administrator until his promotion to the post of Additional Secretary in 2017. He is currently heading the administration section of the Department of Education and will be taking over the charge of the Secretary from September 3, 2020.