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Deepak Ashish Kaul is an officer of the Indian Communication Accounts & Finance Service of the Government of India presently working as Additional Director General Finance in Doordarshan, India's public service broadcaster. He was born in Hardoi district of Uttar Pradesh to Pandit Ishwar Nath Kaul and Smt Uma Kaul on 13th March 1972. His father was an advocate and his grandfather Pandit Tirjugi Nath Kaul was the Government pleader of the district of Hardoi and the Chairman of the Hardoi municipality who was awarded the titles of Rai Sahib and Rai Bahadur by the British government. Deepak Ashish Kaul completed his school education from the famous La Martiniere College, Lucknow and got his graduate and post graduate degrees in History from the Hindu College, University of Delhi. In the year 1995, Deepak Ashish Kaul cleared the civil services examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commmission and was alloted the Indian P&T Accounts and Finance Service (since renamed as Indian Communication Accounts & Finance Service) of the Government of India.

After completion of his professional training he worked in the Department of Posts of the Government of India. Subsequently, he worked in the Department of Telecommunications and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, a PSU of the Government of India. He also worked as Director Museums in the Ministry of Culture Government of India from 2011 to 2015. During this stint he worked immensely for the improvement of the museums controlled by the Government of India. He focussed on the skill development of the museum professionals by facilitating the signing of MoUs with leading world museums such as the British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate Museum, Louvre Museum, Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Almost 125 profesionals from various museums under the Ministry of Culture were trained in professional courses during this period. Also, under his active leadership a host of important and remarkable exhibitions were organized by the cultural institutions of the Ministry of Culture. A digital repository of the collections of 10 museums controlled by the Government of India was also established under his tutelage in technical collaboration with C-DAC (Centre for the development of Advanced Computing) for making the collections of these museums available online to public for their knowledge and enjoyment. This digital repository at the URL museumsofindia.gov.in presently showcases digital renditions with high resolution images of more than 1,25,000 artefacts of the chosen 10 Indian museums. These museums are: - Indian Museum, Kolkata, National Museum New Delhi, National Galleries of Modern Art at New Delhi, Bengaluru and Mumbai, Allahabad Museum Allahabad, Victoria Memorial Hall Kolkata, Salar Jung Museum Hyderabad, Nagarjunakond Museum and Goa Museum. The collections of these 10 museums were integrated in ′Jatan′, a custom made collections management software for maintaining a digital inventory. He also runs a facebook community page for museum enthusiasts worldwide.

Deepak Ashish Kaul lives in New Delhi with his wife and son.