Ram Sewak Sharma

Ram Sewak Sharma
Born 1955 (age 5960)
Occupation Secretary, Deity, M/o Communications & Info Tech, Govt of India]

Ram Sewak Sharma (born 1955) is an Indian bureaucrat. He is the Secretary, D/o Electronics and Information Technology,M/o Communications & Info Tech, Govt of India.[1] He belongs to the 1978 batch of the Indian Administrative Service.

Early life

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.

Career

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]

Awards

Positions

References

  1. PRESMIN (May 8, 2014). "Executive Record Sheet Generator- Indian Administrative Service". PRESMIN (Delhi). Retrieved May 8, 2014.
  2. Jain, Akshai (January 1, 2010). "Ram Sewak Sharma | A different drummer". Mint. Retrieved April 1, 2013.
  3. Julka, Harsimran (July 20, 2010). "UID will give mobile identity to people". The Economic Times. Retrieved April 1, 2013.
  4. http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090716/main7.htm
  5. http://www.iitkalumni.org/NewsDetail.asp?id=376