Lav Agarwal | |||||||||||||||
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 Agarwal in April 2020. | |||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 February 1972 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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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]
References[edit]
- ^ "Lav Agarwal". Supremo, Government of India. Single User Platform Related To Employees Online. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
- ^ Bhattacharjee, Sumit (28 May 2019). "Will SIT report now be made public?". The Hindu. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
- ^ "Lav Agarwal, face of Centre's fight against coronavirus, tests COVID-19 positive". Moneycontrol.
- ^ "Lav Agarwal, face of Modi govt's Covid fight, himself tests positive for coronavirus". theprint.in. 14 August 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
- ^ Joshi, Manas (14 August 2020). "Lav Agarwal, face of Health Ministry's Covid briefings found positive for coronavirus". www.indiatvnews.com.
- ^ "Coronavirus: Health ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal tests positive, will be in home isolation". Scroll.in.
- ^ "করোনা জয়ী লব আগরওয়াল, কাল থেকেই ফের যোগ দিচ্ছেন কাজে | sangbadpratidin". m.sangbadpratidin.in.
- ^ Sharma, Milan (24 August 2020). "Man at centre of Covid briefings Lav Agarwal recovers from coronavirus, to resume work from tomorrow". India Today.
- ^ Ghosh, Abantika (25 August 2020). "Lav Agarwal is back at work but spate of Covid cases in health ministry, new orders issued".
External links[edit]
Media related to Lav Agarwal at Wikimedia Commons
