Manoj Kumar Chauhan

Manoj Kumar Singh (born 23 May 1967) is a 2012 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre & is currently the Special Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Planning in the Uttar Pradesh government.

Career In 1997, he was selected as PCS officer after attaining 8th rank all over Uttar Pradesh and was promoted as 2012 batch IAS officer in 2019. He first joined as Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) in Udham Singh Nagar district.

He was posted as Registrar at Chaudhary Charan Singh University in 2014 by the state government. After few months of his joining, he was at loggerhead with the University's Vice Chancellor, Vikram Chandra Goel a former DG rank IPS officer. VC relieved him from his post without getting any order from the state government. Later the government objected to it and ordered him to take back relieving order as it was out of his jurisdiction to do so. He replied that being a state university's VC he has autonomy from government and they can refer the matter to Chancellor/Governor of state. This tussle made students protest in the campus.

Later the Registrar appealed his decision to High Court where High Court reject VC's judgement and ordered Registrar to continue his duties. VC then appealed to Supreme Court but couldn't get favourable judgement. Post retirement of Vikram Chandra Goel from CCSU, the state government transferred Registrar as Joint Commissioner at UP Housing Development Board in Meerut.

Posts held

Sr. No. From To Position 1 7 December 1997 28 February 1998 Probationer at UP ATI, Nainital 2 1 March 1998 7 November 1998 SDM, Bijnor 3 8 November 1998 25 August 2000 SDM, Udham Singh Nagar 4 26 August 2000 14 June 2005 SDM, Bijnor 5 15 June 2005 2 July 2007 SDM, Bulandshahr 6 3 July 2007 18 February 2009 SDM, Hathras 7 19 February 2009 12 December 2009 OSD, Aligarh Development Authority 8 13 December 2009 15 July 2011 City Magistrate, Bareilly 9 16 July 2011 19 April 2012 City Magistrate, Prayagraj 10 20 April 2012 14 May 2013 ADM-E, Muzaffarnagar 11 15 May 2013 27 February 2014 Secretary, Muzaffarnagar Development Authority 12 28 February 2014 28 July 2015 Registrar, CCS University 13 29 July 2015 20 September 2015 Joint Housing Commissioner, Meerut Zone 14 21 September 2015 27 May 2017 ADM-E, Muzaffarnagar 15 28 May 2017 27 June 2019 Municipal Commissioner, Meerut 16 27 June 2019 14 July 2020 Municipal Commissioner, Jhansi 17 29 July 2020 8 June 2021 Director, Agriculture Marketing & Foreign Trade 18 8 June 2021 23 October 2021 Special Secretary & Director Tourism 19 23 October 2021 2 September 2023 District Magistrate & Collector, Mahoba 20 2 September 2023 Incumbent Special Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Planning