Vinod Duggal
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Vinod Kumar Duggal is an Indian civil servant. He served as Home Secretary
Home Secretary
The Secretary of State for the Home Department, commonly known as the Home Secretary, is the minister in charge of the Home Office of the United Kingdom, and one of the country's four Great Offices of State...

. He belongs to the 1968 batch of IAS
Indian Administrative Service
The Indian Administrative Service is the administrative civil service of the Government of India. It is one of the three All India Services....

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Career

Vinod Duggal also worked as a Secretary, Water Resources, in 2005.
In 2009, he was appointed as a member-secretary of the Srikrishna committee on Telangana
Srikrishna committee on Telangana
Srikrishna committee on Telangana or Committee for consultations on the situation in Andhra Pradesh is a committee headed by former chief justice B. N. Srikrishna to look into the demand for separate statehood for Telangana or keep the state united in the present form, Andhra Pradesh...

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He is also a member of the Justice Punchhi Commission on Centre-State relations.

Controversies

He served as the Sri Krishna Committee member to look into the demand of Telangana state Srikrishna committee on Telangana
Srikrishna committee on Telangana
Srikrishna committee on Telangana or Committee for consultations on the situation in Andhra Pradesh is a committee headed by former chief justice B. N. Srikrishna to look into the demand for separate statehood for Telangana or keep the state united in the present form, Andhra Pradesh...

. His role in the committee report has become controversial as he prepared a secret 8th chapter beyond the terms and conditions that was assigned to this committee, the 8th chapter recommends un-democratic
ways to the Government of India to weaken the Telangana movement; like media management, sensiting Congress Leaders who are pro-Telangana, weakening the leaders and Parties who are active in Telangana agitation, booking false cases on Osmania University students, and recommending the type of bullets to be used to fire at agitating students. The AP High court took serious exception to this report http://hc.ap.nic.in/orders/wp_1569_2011.html. There are serious allegations that VK Duggal colluded with Seemandhra politicians to give false report on Telangana, this is evident from his attending the private parties hosted by Seeemandhra politicians even during the process of writing report on Telangana http://www.simplytelangana.com/2010/11/10/skc-members-losing-their-credibility-with-telanganites/
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