Mr Bharat Lal is an Indian Forest Services officer of the Gujarat Cadre, 1988 Batch. He was the Additional Secretary to the President of India and had been the Gujarat government’s resident commissioner in Delhi from 2010 to 2014. He is currently the Additional Secretary (Water), Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation and the National Mission Director Jal Jeevan Mission, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Government of India