Not a occupation bureaucrat, Mr Saxena is the first corporate administrator to be decided on for the put up. Since 2015 he has been chairman of the state-owned Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), which sells cotton attire and different home-grown shopper items underneath the Khadi logo.

He is credited with primary reforms on the corporate, rising its source of revenue through 248 in keeping with cent and producing employment for 40 lakh folks, in line with information company ANI. It used to be all over his tenure, that KVIC clocked a turnover of Rs 1.15 lakh crore in 2021-22 – a report for the corporate and India’s Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sector.

He additionally had a broom with controversy on the corporate when it used to be accused of changing Independence icon Mahatma Gandhi with Prime Minister Narendra Modi because the 2017 face of the emblem. “He (PM Modi) is khadi’s largest logo ambassador,” Mr Saxena had advised the media then, protecting the transfer.

Mr Saxena graduated from Kanpur University in 1981 and began his occupation in 1984 as an Assistant Officer with the commercial conglomerate JK Group in Rajasthan. He rose during the ranks within the corporate, heading primary divisions.

Since 2015, he has been nominated to a number of prestigious committees and panels together with the National Committee to Commemorate the seventy fifth anniversary of India’s Independence, the Padma Awards Selection Committee, and “Member of University Court” of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).