An IAS officer of 1976 batch, Rajen Habib Khwaja has appointed as the Director General of the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), Hyderabad.
Established in 1956 at the initiative of the government and the corporate sector, the Administrative Staff College of India (A S C I ), Hyderabad, has pioneered post-experience management education in India.
ASCI equips corporate managers, administrators, entrepreneurs and academicians with the skills to synthesize managerial theory and practice; and respond to the ever-increasing complexity of managerial issues confronting government, industrial enterprises and non-government organizations.
Mr. Khwaja, who superannuated in 2014 held key positions including Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministries of Tourism and Mines, and Chairman and Managing Director of Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL). He turned the loss making Public Sector Undertaking to a profit making company, which paid dividend after 37 years gap in 2003.
Khwaja has has lectured in World Bank (Washington D.C.), Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, and Trinity College, Dublin.
