New Delhi: Ashok Kumar Singh has been appointed as the Director General of the Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) by the Central Government. He will be based at the corporation's headquarters in New Delhi, under the Ministry of Labour and Employment.

An IAS officer from the 1999 batch of the Kerala cadre, Singh brings a wealth of experience in both state and central government roles. His previous positions include Principal Secretary in Kerala's Water Resources Department, Executive Director of the National Mission for Clean Ganga, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Defence, and Director in the Ministry of Finance.

Singh holds an M.Phil from the National Defence College, New Delhi, and has a background in Mechanical Engineering, having graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. /BI