Raghaw Sharan Pandey

R S Pandey
R S Pandey
Indian Politician (BJP) & Former Bureaucrat
Founder,Chairman and Managing Trustee, Valmiki Vikas Manch (VVM)
MLA, Bagaha, Bihar and Special Invitee Member, National Executive, BJP, 2015
Office Held
Chief Secretary, Government of Nagaland
In office
2000–2004
Secretary, Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
In office
2008–2010
Interlocutor, Naga Peace Talks
In office
2010–2013
Personal details
Born (1950-01-15) 15 January 1950
Champaran, Bihar
Nationality Indian
Political party Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse(s) Raka Pandey
Residence Bagaha, West Champaran/ Patna /New Delhi
Alma mater Patna University
Occupation Social Worker, Politician

R S Pandey is a politician and a former Indian Administrative Service officer (batch of 1972 and retired in 2010).[1][2] He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party[3] (BJP) since December 2013 and a special invitee member of the BJP National Executive since March 2015.[4] He has been a senior bureaucrat having held key positions across central and Nagaland state government administration.

In November 2015, he was elected as Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA), on a BJP party ticket, from the Bagaha assemble constituency in West Champaran district in Bihar. [5]

R. S. Pandey has been Secretary, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs,[6] Secretary, Ministry of Steel, and Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas in Government of India. He also held the position of Chief Secretary, Government of Nagaland.[7] After retirement on 31.1.2010, he was appointed, in February 2010 by the Government of India as the Interlocutor and Government of India Representative for Naga Peace Talks[8] (2010-2013). He is also the founder, chairperson and managing trustee of Valmiki Vikas Manch (VVM), an NGO which he founded in 2015 with the purpose of furthering socio-economic development particularly in the Champaran region in "Bihar".

Early life and career

Born to humble beginnings in a small village in Champaran district of Bihar on 15 January 1950, R. S. Pandey had a brilliant academic career. He went to college in MJK college, Bettiah; followed by Science College, Patna, and topped in several university examinations. In 1972, Mr. Pandey was selected to the Indian Administrative Service, and allotted the Nagaland Cadre[9] where he spent the early part of his career, thus starting a long association with the North East.

Assignments and positions

Education

R. S. Pandey was in charge of District Primary Education Program (DPEP) which was funded by multilateral and bilateral agencies, namely, the World Bank,[13] the European Commission, DFID, and UNICEF. In 1997, the World Bank President singled out DPEP as one program which had done exceptionally well and could serve as a model for other countries. The successful implementation of the program under R.S Pandey, later led to its being upgraded into the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, a flagship program for universalizing Elementary Education in India.

R. S. Pandey held an additional charge of Commissioner, Central School Organization, which is a national organization managing over a thousand Secondary and Senior Secondary schools across the country, for a period of six months (1998).

Chief Secretary, State of Nagaland

As the Chief Secretary,[14] R. S. Pandey initiated various reform measures including the law and order reform, financial sector reform and institutional reform to improve delivery and effectiveness of governmental programs (through enactment of Nagaland Communitization of Public Institutions and Services Act, 2002).

Communitization

During his tenure as Chief Secretary, Nagaland, R.S. Pandey was instrumental in conceptualizing an implementing a new form of governance, referred to as Communitisation. Communitisation dealt with the improvement of publicly delivered services such as education, health, electricity etc.[15] These reform measures led to significant improvements in service delivery including increase in power tariff collections, quality of health centres and fall in number of drop-outs from communitized elementary School. It was publicly lauded by the then Prime Minister Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee. R. S. Pandey also received various awards for this initiative.

Petroleum Ministry and The Energy Sector

R. S. Pandey was appointed as the Union Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas at a very crucial time.[16] Crude oil prices were at an all-time high of $140 per barrel,[17] with very critical implications on India’s energy security. His tenure saw India successfully work its way through its energy needs in this critical period. There was also a breakthrough in domestic oil and gas production during his tenure. The oil PSU strike was also witnessed during this period, and its firm handling won much praise for the Government.

Naga Peace Talks

Owing to his long experience with the North East, R. S. Pandey was charged with the responsibility of progressing a largely stalled negotiation with the NSCN(IM) (Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (Issac Muivah).[18] This was a very fruitful period of the talks, wherein a common agenda was drawn up and most key points were agreed upon.

Awards and recognition

Books authored

References

  1. ↑ "About us | Our guiding force - Promoters & Directors". Adhunikgroup.com.
  2. ↑ "Jyoti Mukul: Steely nerves will help". Business Standard. 6 July 2009.
  3. ↑ "Former union petroleum secretary Raghav Sharan Pandey joins BJP". Times Of India. 14 February 2014.
  4. ↑ "BJP says will win Bihar election, Lalu and Nitish's only aim is power". Business Standard. 17 July 2008.
  5. ↑ "Winning Candidate Raghav Sharan Pandey, Bagaha Live Bihar Election results, 2015". 11 November 2015.
  6. ↑ "Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs". Mpa.nic.in.
  7. ↑ "Nagaland chief secretary Raghaw Sharan Pandey". Rediff. 24 June 2008.
  8. ↑ "Naga peace talks : Pandey the new born politician". e-pao.net. 21 December 2013.
  9. ↑ "R S Pandey: Nerves of steel". Business Standard. 21 July 2008.
  10. ↑ "Resident Commissioner" (PDF). BSEindia.com.
  11. ↑ "Raghav Sharan appointed advisor to Nagaland Governor". Igovernment.in. 25 January 2008.
  12. ↑ "Oil India Limited". Oil-india.com.
  13. ↑ "Going to Scale with Education Reform: - World Bank" (PDF). World bank.org.
  14. ↑ "Former Nagaland chief secretary Raghaw Sharan Pandey". sify.com.
  15. ↑ "Communitization of Public Institutions and Services". newstrackindia.com. 24 June 2008.
  16. ↑ "Petroleum secy appointment raises eyebrows". Business Standard. 17 July 2008.
  17. ↑ "Oil settles at record high above $140". money.cnn.com. 27 June 2008.
  18. ↑ "RS Pandey appointed interlocutor for NSCN (IM) talks". Babusofindia.com. 12 February 2010.
  19. ↑ "RS Pandey get Excellence awards". indianexpress.com. 2 April 2007.
  20. ↑ "United Nations Public Service Award in 2008 at the UN Headquarters, New York" (PDF). unpan1.un.org.
  21. ↑ "Primary Education Reform" (PDF). World bank.org.
  22. ↑ "Perspectives in Disability and Rehabilitation". The Economic times. 2 August 2007.
  23. ↑ "Communitisation: The Third Way of Governance". Amazon.com.
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