Centre Names J&K LG's Principal Secretary Mandeep Bhandari As New CBSE Chief, Appointment Follows OSM Row

New CBSE Chief:  The Centre has appointed a senior bureaucrat and 2001-batch AGMUT-cadre IAS officer,  Mandeep K Bhandari, as the new chairperson of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) under the Ministry of Education. He replaced interim chief Lokhande Prashant Sitaram, who was holding the additional charge of the post. His appointment follows the OSM row over the evaluation of the CBSE Class 12 answer sheets. Before this, Bhandari served as the Principal Secretary to the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. The appointment was among the senior-level appointments approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.