Career
He is an executive director of the Mississippi Swaminathan Research Foundation, a former Chief Secretary of the state of Nagaland and a former chairman of the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee pf the Ministry of Environment and Forests. Born on 3 January 1946, Gokhale graduated in Physics from the University of Mumbai in 1965, entered the Indian Administrative Service in 1968 from the Nagaland cadre and served various government offices till his superannuation on January 2006. During his tenure with the Government of Nagaland, he is known to have launched a people"s programme, Nagaland Empowerment of People through Economic Development (NEPED), which had reported success in getting the involvement of the people of Nagaland.
