Amitabh Rajan

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Amitabh Rajan
Chairman, Reserve Bank of India Services Board
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November 2018 - October 2022

Amitabh Rajan (born 1 January 1955) is an Indian Administrative Service officer of Maharashtra cadre and the former Home Secretary and Additional Chief Secretary of Maharashtra. He headed the Reserve Bank of India Services Board as its Chairman from 2018-2022, and was also an Independent Director in the Board of the State Trading Corporation of India. He has made significant contributions to the fields of Sociology, Economics, and Jurisprudence.

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Early life and education

Rajan holds a Bachelor of Arts in History, a Master of Arts (with Distinction) in Modern History and a Doctorate in Sociological Jurisprudence from Jawaharlal Nehru University. [1]

Career

Rajan started his civil service career by joining the Indian administrative service in 1979. As a career bureaucrat, he served the State Government of Maharashtra and the Government of India, in various capacities. With the Government of Maharashtra and Government of India, Rajan has held very senior positions in the areas of Internal Security, Finance, Power Sector Regulation, Corporate Governance and Investment Commission. He held the charge of the Additional Chief Secretary and the Home Secretary, Government of Maharashtra. [1] [2] [3] [4]

As Maharashtra's Home Secretary, Rajan headed "Operation X", the hanging of the terrorist Ajmal Kasab. [5] [6] [7] Rajan also gave sanction to prosecute Zabiuddin Ansari (aka Abu Jundal) in the Aurangabad Arms Haul Case, [8] [9] on the strength of which Abu Jundal was convicted to life imprisonment by the Special Court (MCOCA).

Rajan established the Maharashtra Police Establishment Board, and was responsible for the selection of various Police Commissioners and Director Generals in the State of Maharashtra, including two Police Commissioners of Mumbai, and Police Commissioners of Pune, Thane, etc. [10] [11]

He chaired several high-powered committees, including the committee setup to improve the low conviction rate in Maharashtra, which improved state-level conviction-rate in the next calendar year, [12] [13] [14] and the committee setup by the Bombay High Court to improve traffic congestion in Mumbai City. [15]

Rajan served as the Additional Secretary (Revenue) in the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance from 29 November 2011 to 13 March 2012. He also held the additional charge of Director Enforcement. [1] [16] [17] Prior to this, he served as the Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Personnel from 2010 to 2011. [18]

From 2006 to 2011, he served as the Principal Secretary and Investment Commissioner to the Government of Maharashtra, and was the Chairman and Managing Director of a National Finance and Development Corporation from 2001 to 2006. Prior to this, he has served the Government of India in various capacities, as the Secretary to the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission, the Director of Finance (Ministry of Social Justice), the Deputy Secretary (Home: Special), and District Magistrate for Jalgaon and Nanded districts in Maharashtra.

He has represented India in various international venues, including at the 2012 Ministerial Conference of Paris Pact, where he led the Indian delegation in the absence of the Union Finance Minister. He also led the Indian delegation at SAARC summits in Pakistan (1993) and Bangladesh (1992).

He has also held memberships in the Council of Administration, International Institute of Administrative Sciences, Brussels, the Governing Council of the Asian Group of Public Administration, Beijing, and the Commonwealth Association for Public Administration & Management, London. His biographical entry has been included in the INFA Annual Publication "India: Who’s Who" [19] since 2002, under the Finance category. He is also the Honorary President of The International Chamber of Professional Education and Industry

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Books, articles, interviews and talks

Rajan has written several books, including "Administrative Ethics: A Conceptual Framework", "Ethical Dimensions of Administrative Power", "Sociology of Human Rights" [22] and "Explorations in Local History and Literature". He has also authored over 15 research articles including the publications in Indian Journal of Public Administration: "Information Rights: A Jurisprudential Audit" [23] and "Jurisprudence of Children’s Rights", [24] and the publications in All India Reporter: "Evolution of Information Rights Jurisprudence", [25] and "Jurisprudential Strength of Children’s Rights". [26] As an authority on the Maharashtra Police, he was invited to write the introductory commentary on the book "The Maharashtra Police Act" by All India Reporter. [27]

Rajan has also written several articles in the field of Finance, including “The Institutional Identity of India’s NITI Aayog”, [28] “India’s Fourteenth Finance Commission: A SWOT-Analysis [29] ”, “Neoliberalism and After: Scope and Limits of Interest Group Representations in Public Finance Decisions”, [30] and "Techno-economic Aspects of Modernization of Police Forces in India". [31]

Rajan has given various invited talks -- "Techno-economic aspects of Modernization of Police Forces in India" (London), "Administrative Identity of Regulation in India" (International Congress of I.I.A.S., Lausanne, 2011), and "New Public Management Model: A Critique. Public Administration" (Leadership and Management Academy, Republic of South Africa, 2011) -- to name a few.

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Invited Talks and Public Lectures

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