Dr Sonali Ghosh, an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 2000 batch, on Tuesday (August 17) took charge as the Director of Delhi Zoo. Ramesh Pandey, an Indian Forest Service officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre of 1996 batch, has been appointed as the Inspector General- Forest under Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
Dr Ghosh, an IFS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre, is a wildlife enthusiast who has 23 years of work experience in the related field. Before taking up as the director of the National Zoological Park in the New Delhi, Ghosh worked as DIG at Central Zoo Authority and also served as the Director of Swacch Bharat Mission- one of government's flagship programmes.
Born into a family of Army personnel, Sonali Ghosh knew from an early age that she wished to be involved in forest and wildlife conservation. A topper of the Indian Forest Service batch of 2000-2003, she is armed with a slew of degrees including post-graduate degrees in forestry and wildlife science, a post-graduate diploma in Environmental Law from the National Law School of India, and another one in systems management. She has also won a doctorate in remote-sensing technology concerning habitat suitability for tigers in the Indo-Bhutan Manas landscape.
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