_____________was appointed as the Director-General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in October 2018.
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The correct answer is Option 1 i.e. Shekhar Mande.
Dr. Shekhar C. Mande was appointed as the Director‑General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in October 2018. He also took on the role of Secretary, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research (DSIR), succeeding Dr. Girish Sahni, who retired in August 2018. A noted structural and computational biologist, Dr. Mande served as Director of the National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS) in Pune prior to his CSIR tenure. He is a fellow of all three major Indian scientific academies and received the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 2005.