P. N. Haksar

P. N. Haksar
Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission
In office 4 January 1975 – 31 May 1977
Prime Minister	Indira Gandhi
1st Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India
In office 6 December 1971 – 28 February 1973
Prime Minister	Indira Gandhi
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	V. Shankar
2nd Secretary to the Prime Minister of India
In office 1967 – 5 December 1971
Preceded by	Lakshmi Kant Jha
Succeeded by	Office temporarily abolished
Personal details
Born	Parmeshwar Narayan Haksar (1913-09-04)September 4, 1913 Gujranwala, Punjab, British India (present-day Punjab, Pakistan)
Died	November 25, 1998(1998-11-25) (aged 85) New Delhi, Delhi, India
Spouse	Urmila Sapru
Children	Nandita Haksar, Anamika Haksar

Parmeshwar Narayan Haksar (4 September 1913 – 25 November 1998) was an Indian bureaucrat and diplomat, best known for his two-year stint as Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's principal secretary (1971–73). In that role, Haksar was the chief strategist and policy adviser behind Gandhi's early years and her establishment of strong authority in the 1970s. After this he was appointed deputy chairman of the Planning Commission and then the first-ever chancellor of New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University.

An advocate of centralisation and socialism, he was a Kashmiri Pandit who became Gandhi's closest confidant in her inner coterie of bureaucrats, the so-called "Kashmiri mafia". Before this, Haksar was a diplomat of the Indian Foreign Service, who served as India's ambassador to Austria and Nigeria.