Mugdha Sinha, IAS
Director General Tourism
Government of India
Government of India
Mugdha Sinha is a 1999 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Rajasthan
cadre with 25 years of experience in Public Policy and International Trade Negotiations.
She has recently moved on elevation as the Director General (Tourism), Government of India. Before this, she was heading the GLAM Division as the Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Culture where she conceived and successfully organized three back-to-back Mega Events, all in 2023. She has been conferred with the Raja Kakil Dev Sawai Jaipur Award 2024 for her pioneering work in Culture.
She has recently moved on elevation as the Director General (Tourism), Government of India. Before this, she was heading the GLAM Division as the Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Culture where she conceived and successfully organized three back-to-back Mega Events, all in 2023. She has been conferred with the Raja Kakil Dev Sawai Jaipur Award 2024 for her pioneering work in Culture.
She has also been at the helm of Culture, and Science & Technology in the State of Rajasthan,
as the Director General of Jawahar Kala Kendra (JKK), Jaipur. During the pandemic, due to her
creative convergence with Science and Technology, she pioneered the concept of Astro Night
Sky Tourism which became a rage not only in Rajasthan but has inspired other States and
private players to launch similar endeavors across India, leading to the declaration of Hanle as
the country's first Dark Sky Reserve.
She is an alumnus of Lady Shri Ram College (LSR), Jawahar Lal Nehru University (JNU) and the Goldman School of Public Policy University of Berkeley, USA, where she won the prestigious annual BAAS Business School Start-Up Challenge. A recipient of the Ford Foundation Scholarship, NET-JRF Fellowship, she was awarded the Manorama Desai Award for the Best Student in History and the Principal's Award for Promoting the Academic Ethos of the College. In 2020, she was declared the ELSA Changemaker of the Year and entered the LSR Hall of Fame as its Distinguished Alumni.
Mugdha is an avid reader and a prolific writer. Her varied interests range from public policy to literature, economics and art history. Her epigrammatic "POSTCARD POEMS" in English on love, loss, longing and learnings has been published by Red River and Vani Publications has brought out a debut collection of her Hindi poems titled "Kya Kahun Maln, Main Kaun Hun", both released in 2023.
As a civil servant, her only aspiration is to make the interface with the government a pleasant experience for the citizens.
She is an alumnus of Lady Shri Ram College (LSR), Jawahar Lal Nehru University (JNU) and the Goldman School of Public Policy University of Berkeley, USA, where she won the prestigious annual BAAS Business School Start-Up Challenge. A recipient of the Ford Foundation Scholarship, NET-JRF Fellowship, she was awarded the Manorama Desai Award for the Best Student in History and the Principal's Award for Promoting the Academic Ethos of the College. In 2020, she was declared the ELSA Changemaker of the Year and entered the LSR Hall of Fame as its Distinguished Alumni.
Mugdha is an avid reader and a prolific writer. Her varied interests range from public policy to literature, economics and art history. Her epigrammatic "POSTCARD POEMS" in English on love, loss, longing and learnings has been published by Red River and Vani Publications has brought out a debut collection of her Hindi poems titled "Kya Kahun Maln, Main Kaun Hun", both released in 2023.
As a civil servant, her only aspiration is to make the interface with the government a pleasant experience for the citizens.