Smt. Monika S. Garg
Additional Chief Secretary,
Government of Uttar Pradesh, INDIA.
Smt. Monika S Garg
is an IAS officer of the 1989 batch.
She has worked in the education sector for about 14 years, at top policy level positions including Additional Chief Secretary / Principal Secretary of technical education, higher education, pre- school education and school education and Director General of NIFT. She has spearheaded major reforms to introduce multidisciplinary curriculum and skill training, with special focus on employment-oriented education, by leveraging technology effectively. In Uttar Pradesh, she has formulated policies to promote an ecosystem for research and innovation by facilitating academia - industry connect in technical and higher education sectors.
In her various roles, she has shown great flair at integrating traditional knowledge like khadi, handloom and handicraft with modern subjects like fashion studies, artifical intelligence and other emerging technologies, keeping pace with the evolving educational landscape. She has written extensively on these subjects, and her newspaper columns on the same are much loved.
The project 'AI Literacy for All' is her brainchild.