Centre Re-Appoints Vijay Paul Sharma as Chairman of CACP

Centre Re-Appoints Vijay Paul Sharma as Chairman of CACP

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Category : Appointment/Resignation Published on: January 08 2022

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  • The Centre has reappointed Vijay Paul Sharma as chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) after he resigned in May last year at the end of his five-year term.
  • Sharma, a professor at the Centre for Management in Agriculture at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, was appointed CACP Chairman for the first time in June 2016.
  • The Commission for Agricultural Costs & Prices (CACP since 1985, earlier named as Agricultural Prices Commission) came into existence in January 1965
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