Draft:Avinash Kumar

Avinash Kumar is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Jharkhand Cadre.

Early life and education
Avinash Kumar was born at Muzaffarpur, Bihar to Tapeshwar Narain Thakur, an Electrical Engineer and Madhuri Bala, a lecturer in Hindi. He was brought up in Bokaro Steel City in present-day Jharkhand (then a part of Bihar), where he got his Matriculation and Intermediate degree from Kendriya Vidyalaya, No-1, Bokaro Steel City in 1984 and 1986 respectively. He entered IIT Kanpur in 1986 from where he got B. Tech degree in Electrical engineering in 1990.

Career
Avinash entered Indian Administrative Service in 1993. He worked as District Magistrate (DM) in many districts of Bihar and Jharkhand.

He is presently posted as Additional Chief Secretary, Power Department, Jharkhand Government, while having being given many other important charges along with.

Personal life
Avinash Kumar is married to Preeti Kumar, an associate professor in Ranchi College, Ranchi. His brother is Amitabh Thakur, an ex IPS officer and political activist from Lucknow while political and social activist Dr Nutan Thakur is his sister in law.