Indian Economic Service

Profile

Dr. Mala Dutt

Date of Birth	:	22 Sep 1961
Gender	:	Female
Date of Entry into Service	:	26 Feb 1986
Date of Superannuation	:	30 Sep 2021
Mother Tongue	:	Hindi
Languages known	:	English, Bengali

Mode of Recruitment	:	Direct Recruitment
Present Grade	:	HAG
Date of entry into present Grade	:	21 Jul 2017
Present Posting	:	Ministry of Defence
Present Designation	:	Additional Secretary
Nature of post	:	Deputation
Domicile State	:	Delhi
Place of domicile	:	Delhi
		period of expiry of deputation
Detailed CV	:	View

Educational Qualifications

Degree	University/Institution	Subject/Subject of specialization	Year of passing/completion	Achievements
Graduation	University of Delhi, India	Economics (Honours)	1983	First Division
Post-Graduation	University of Delhi, India	Economics	1985	Second Division
M. Phil	University of Panjab, Chandigarh, India	Social Sciences	2007	First Division with Distinction
PhD	University of Delhi, India	Finance	2018	Cleared all examinations in first attempt
Post Doctoral

Diplomas / Certificate Courses	Post Graduate Diploma from Institute of Developing Economies Advanced School, Japan External Trade Organisation, Tokyo, Japan	Development Studies	1997
	Master's Diploma from Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, India	Public Administration	2007

Whether Study leave has been availed by the Officer	:	Yes
		Details regarding the course attended /Ph D completed during the period.
		Joined the PhD course in University of Delhi in December 2012. After undertaking course work and research work, submitted the Doctoral Thesis in May 2017, which was accepted by the University in January 2018 and the Degree awarded in November 2018. Title of the PhD Thesis is: 'Intra-Market and Cross-Market Information Linkages for the Equity, Commodity and Currency Markets: An Empirical Study.'

Details of Posting in IES

Grade	Designation	Place of Posting	Brief description of duties	Date	Total Time period	Category
JTS	Assistant Director	Department of Commerce	Undertook analysis of Foreign Trade Policy issues and Foreign Trade Statistics, the latter aimed at improving the reliability of compiled data and timeliness of data dissemination.	4 Apr 1988 - 13 May 1991	3 Years, 1 Months, 8 Days	Cadre
STS	Deputy Director	Department of Commerce	Dealt with review and reform of the Foreign Trade Policy with emphasis on export promotion and diversification, with import substitution. Also, administrative matters relating to the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics, Kolkata.	14 May 1991 - 9 Mar 1995	3 Years, 9 Months, 26 Days	Cadre
STS	Deputy Director	Department of Economic Affairs	Handled the formulation and review of policy relating to External Commercial Borrowings to ease liquidity for domestic industry. Also, derivative instruments for hedging foreign exchange fluctuations, besides issues regarding India's credit rat	10 Mar 1995 - 31 Mar 1997	2 Years, 22 Days	Cadre
JAG	Joint Director	Ministry of Surface Transport	Handled policy and planning relating to development of roads and road transport, including coordination with States to develop reliable road statistics.	1 Apr 1997 - 25 Sep 1997	5 Months, 24 Days	Cadre
NFSG	Deputy Secretary	Department of Revenue	Being Deputy Secretary Coordination, and later Director Coordination, handled all issues requiring coordination between various wings of the Department including CBDT, CBIC, CEIB, NCB and ED, apart from dealing with FATF matters.	25 Sep 1997 - 24 Oct 2002	5 Years, 30 Days	CSS Deputation
NFSG	Director	Department of Economic Affairs	Handled Cadre Management of the Indian Economic Service, involving all service matters such as appointments, transfers, postings, training, recruitment, promotions and cadre review, in consultation with DOPT, UPSC and Deptt. of Expenditure.	25 Oct 2002 - 19 Jul 2007	4 Years, 8 Months, 24 Days	Cadre
NFSG	Director	Cabinet Secretariat	Handled all matters pertaining to Committee of Secretaries as well as other issues relating to 22 Ministries of GOI, such as Min. of Finance, Min. of Commerce and Industry and Min. of Rural Development. Also, priority issues of 9 States and UTs.	19 Jul 2007 - 31 Jan 2012	4 Years, 6 Months, 14 Days	CSS Deputation
SAG	Adviser	Planning Commission (now NITI Aayog)	As Division Head, handled Plan schemes and Budget matters relating to Handloom and Handicrafts sectors as well as MHA, Min. of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Department of Justice. Also, administrative issues of UIDAI.	1 Feb 2012 - 30 Nov 2015	3 Years, 9 Months, 29 Days	Cadre
SAG	Adviser	Department of Economic Affairs	Handled Indian Economic Service Cadre as Division Head, dealing with all service matters, along with a special housing project for junior officers and a proposal for financial assistance for higher studies, in consultation with DOPT, UPSC and Min of UD.	1 Dec 2015 - 6 May 2018	2 Years, 5 Months, 4 Days	Cadre
HAG	Additional Secretary	Ministry of Defence	As Additional Secretary and Financial Adviser Acquisition, handling all finance related matters pertaining to capital procurements for all the three Indian Armed Forces as well as for the Indian Coast Guard, aimed at their rapid modernisation.	7 May 2018 - 29 Jun 2020 Till Date		CSS Deputation

Personal/Study Leave (if any)

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Study leave availed for one year from 1.12.2014 to 30.11.2015.

Training

Details of In Service training (Both Domestic and Foreign whether debarred from foreign training, if so, the details thereof) attended by the officer sponsored by the cadre.

Year	Name of the training course	Name of Institute	Venue	Period of Training (in weeks)
1997	Development Experience of Japan and the Newly Industrializing Economies	Institute of Developing Economies Advanced School, Japan External Trade Organisation	Tokyo, Japan	24
2011	Mid Career Training Programme	Indian Institute of Management	Lucknow, UP, India	6
2019	Value of the Public Good	Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California Berkeley	Berkeley, California, USA	1

Details of Training Programme attended by the officer sponsored by the Ministry/Department in which they were posted

Year	Name of the training course	Name of Institute	Venue	Period of Training (in weeks)
2001	Financial Programming and Policies	IMF Institute	Washington D.C. USA	2
2007	Advanced Professional Programme In Public Administration	Indian Institute of Public Administration	New Delhi	36

Any specific area or subject where the officer would prefer to be trained, for current assignment and for long term career progression.

Training for Current assignment	:	International practices in procurement and audit
Training for Long term Career Progression	:	Financial appraisal and risk management

Publication & Awards

Please mention contributions, if any, like publication of articles in journals/ publication of books/paper presentations in seminars or workshops or conferences by the officer during the tenure in IES.

Nature of Activity	Name	Topic	Description	Year of publication
Article in Journal/Newspapers	Decision Journal of IIM, Kolkata	Domestic and International Information Linkages between NSE Nifty Spot and Futures Markets.	It examines linkages in terms of price discovery and risk hedging between the National Stock Exchange (NSE)’s Nifty spot and futures in India and Nifty futures traded on international stock exchanges, based on daily data of stock prices in these exchanges from August 2008 to March 2015, with the objective of determining factors that could help the Indian stock markets to further strengthen and achieve a dominant position in trading volumes vis. a vis. counterpart markets abroad.	2016

Specialization

Area of specialization of the officer	Grade	No. of years of specialization gained
Economic Regulation	STS,NFSG,SAG,HAG	18 Years
Research, Data processing & Analysis	JTS,STS,JAG,NFSG,SAG	15 Years
Financial Markets	STS,NFSG,SAG	15 Years
Commerce & Industry	JTS,STS,NFSG	11 Years
Capital Markets	STS,NFSG,SAG	10 Years
Any other (Economic / Financial / Personnel Administration)	STS,JAG,NFSG,SAG,HAG	25 Years

Specific area of interest/field of work where the officer would prefer to be placed.
Economic Regulation, Financial Markets, Commerce & Industry, Capital Markets

Subject/Area or topic preferred by the officer to deliver a lecture, whenever required.
Economic Regulation, Financial Markets

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