First woman chief secretary of Madhya Pradesh dies at 96

Known for her image of a “strict administrator” in bureaucratic circles, the 1960-batch IAS officer, Buch had served the Chief Secretary of Madhya Pradesh from September 1991 to 1993.

By: Express News Service

1 min readBhopalUpdated: Jul 10, 2023 12:21 PM IST

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The first woman chief secretary of Madhya Pradesh, Nirmala Buch, died of a prolonged age-related illness here on Sunday. She was 96.

Known for her image of a “strict administrator” in bureaucratic circles, the 1960-batch IAS officer, Buch had served the Chief Secretary of Madhya Pradesh from September 1991 to 1993.

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She had also served as financial and education secretary from 1975-1977. Before that, Buch had served the Yojana Aayog (now NITI Ayog) and she did a pioneering role in framing of ‘gramin vikas’ and ‘panchayati raj’ system in MP.

In his condolence message , Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said her conscientiousness and administrative efficiency were amazing.

Buch’s husband Mahesh Neelkanth Buch, who was also an IAS officer, died in 2015.

Her son Vineet Buch lives in the United States.

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