Lav Agrawal : Face of India’s fight against COVID-19

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If there is one bureaucrat , who has been thrown into the limelight in the wake of COVID outbreak and the resultant countrywide lockdown, it is Andhra cadre IAS Lav Agarwal (IAS:1996:AP), who is posted as a Joint Secretary in Union Health Ministry.

Agarwal has been putting out corona related information and facing media queries related to the COVID outbreak on a daily basis for weeks now.

Hailing from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, Agarwal did his B.Tech from IIT Delhi before joining the civil service. He worked in the education and health sector in Andhra Pradesh before being posted in the Centre. He was incharge of digital health, international health, and communicable diseases in the health ministry. Those who have worked with him say that his love for innovations and disruptive ideas is helping India in fighting the dreaded virus. One of the innovative approaches has been the caller tune to make millions of people aware of the symptoms of COVID.

According to an outside experts who worked with Agarwal in past, he has the ability to take inputs from others and he values every suggestion even from junior team member.