User:Pthakur46/sandbox

Priyadarshi Thakur 'Khayal'

Important positions held in the Government of Rajasthan

SDO, Ajmer; Deputy Secretary (Personnel); Deputy Secretary (Home); District Magistrate, Dungarpur, Tonk, Pali Nagar; Divisional Commissioner, Ajmer; Director of Industries; Special Secretary of Planning and Finance Departments; Commissioner, Commercial  Taxes; Principal Secretary (Education).

Important positions held in the Government of India

* Joint Secretary (Education), Ministry of Human Resource Development, 1990-95

* Managing Director, National Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Federation of India (NAFED), 1999-2002

* Additional Secretary & Financial Advisor, Ministry of External Affairs, 2002-2004

* Chairman, Tariff Commission, 2004-2005

* Secretary to the Government of India, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, 2005-2006

* Director General, International Centre for Promotion of Enterprises (ICPE), Ljubljana (Slovenia) – An inter-governmental international organization, 2006-2008

Has traveled to USA, UK, various countries of Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America in connection with official work including several trips to Japan in connection with UN sponsored seminars on various aspects of education.

Expertise in the field of Education

Of the 42 years in Public Service, he has spent more than 15 years in the field of Education. He started my career as a Lecturer of History in Delhi University in the late 60's. In 1970, he got selected in the Indian Administrative Service and was allotted to the Rajasthan cadre. He went on to serve in senior positions both in the Central Government and the State Government of Rajasthan dealing with responsibilities relating to all aspects of Education. Rounded off his career with the revitalization of the International Center for Promotion of Enterprises, Ljubljana, Slovenia (ICPE), which, among other activities, also conducts an international MBA program accredited by the European Foundation of Management Development (EFMD).

His contribution in the field of effective implementation of innovative projects for Universalisation of Primary Education (UPE) in Rajasthan was specially noted when the World Bank invited me to their HRD Week in Washington DC in March, 1999 to make a presentation on the Shikshakarmi Project (SKP) of Rajasthan.

Earlier, the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), with whose assistance SKP was being implemented, had requested to lead a team of teachers and educational administrators for observing innovations in the field of UPE in Kenya and Colombia.

While serving as Joint Secretary to Government of India in the Department of Education, he developed deep insight into introduction of computer literacy and environmental concerns in the school curricula, reform in secondary education evaluation system, administration of language development institutions and the Central Universities etc. He also officiated as the chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) for more than a year and over-saw the introduction of several pedagogic and evaluation system reforms.