According to an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Singhal, a 1987-batch IAS of UP cadre, has now been appointed as Director General of the National Archives of India.
Minority affairs ministry has discontinued schemes such as Padho Pardesh, Naya Savera, Nai Udaan, Maulana Azad National Fellowship and a sizeable component of the Pre-Matric Scholarship