| Ram Sewak Sharma | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1955 (age 56–57) |
| Occupation | Director General, UIDAI |
Ram Sewak Sharma (born 1955) is an Indian bureaucrat. He is the Director General of Unique Identification Authority of India(UIDAI), the organization responsible for issuing national Identification numbers to all Indian citizens.[1] He belongs to the 1978 batch of the Indian Administrative Service.
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Born in a small village of Uttar Pradesh, he completed his early education from schools near his village. He, thereafter joined University of Allahabad where he completed his bachelor of Science (BSc) in 1974. In 1976, he completed his masters in Mathematics from IIT, Kanpur.[2] Later, in 2000, he left and went for study, doing his Masters in Computer Science from University of California, Riverside.
Ram Sewak Sharma joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1978. In 1986, he wrote a program in DBASE, a programming language that would keep a record of all stolen firearms in the crime-prone district. As soon as a firearm would be found, the programme would run a search query among thousands of age-old records. Together, they impressed the state government, by solving 22 cases in just 30 days.[3]
Sharma has held posts in six state departments in the past seven years. He was transferred nine times in a span of six years in Jharkhand.[4]