IAS officer Upma Chaudhary nominated as member of UN body

SHIMLA: IAS officer Upma Chaudhary has been nominated as a member of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration by Economics and social council (ECOSOC).

Chaudhary, a 1983 batch officer of Himachal cadre, is at present posted as director of Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA).She would be part of the 25-member committee responsible for providing policy advice and programmatic guidance to ECOSOC on issues related to governance and public administration, particularly implementation of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development, an official statement said.The committee would meet for its 17th session at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from April 23 to April 27, 2018, it said.