Dinesh Kumar Saxena
Jharkhand
Summary
A career civil servant in India with rich and varied work experience of more than two and half decades in State and Union Government of India. It has provided enormous opportunities to work at highly responsible, sensitive and challenging top government positions in social development sector and helped in developing leadership traits and problem-solving skills. Has long experience of program and project planning, implementation planning, program management, implementation and administration, resource management, up-scale capacity strengthening, monitoring and evaluation and public policy formulation. Has rich experience of working with communities in general and tribal communities in particular. Has worked extensively with Civil Societies, Non-Government Organizations and National and International Development Partners. Has very rich leadership experience in framing and implementing Externally Aided Projects, particularly in collaboration with the World Bank.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Chief Conservator of Forests
World Food Program, Government Of Jharkhand
08.2021 - Current
- Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
Director General, State Nutrition Mission, and Special Secretary to Government of Jharkhand
Government of Jharkhand
08.2017 - 08.2021
- Formulation of policy framework and developing strategy for alleviation of mal-nutrition in the State of Jharkhand;
- Providing leadership to the implementation of World Bank supported Tejaswini Project aimed at socio-economic empowerment of Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) in Jharkhand, the largest and the unique adolescent girls program globally;
- Capacity building of front line nutrition-workers in the State of Jharkhand;
- Implementation of Child Rights Protection Program in the State of Jharkhand
- Developed program models to be implemented in districts for Community based Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition in Children (CM-SAM) on the basis of evidence generated through multi locational pilots conducted in the State
- Developing nutrition leadership at sub-district levels to create mal-nutrition free geographies in the State devising area approach for alleviation of mal-nutrition in the State of Jharkhand
- Provided successful operational leadership to Tejaswini Project, the largest program intervention globally on socio-economic empowerment of adolescent girls
- Created a huge platform of Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) with 1.2 million girls participating in about 12800 versatile and multidimensional Youth Clubs, through very strong community mobilization
- Developed one of its unique kind of life skills curriculum including that on Health and Nutrition to be imparted to the AGYW to prepare them as change agents to break the inter-generational cycle of mal-nutrition
- More than 10,000 AGYW youth clubs were facilitated to create Sanitary-Pad Banks to bring a significant nutrition and health behavior change in about a million adolescent girls
- As a pioneer effort, developed the Bridge Education Curriculum to facilitate the 50,000 school drop-out AGYW to get secondary level education through NIOS (National Institute of Open Schooling) mediated system, as part of empowerment program
- Created mechanisms and processes to improve the institutional and non-institutional systems to ensure protection of rights of children in the State of Jharkhand
- Provided major push to achieve the SDG in the State through Tejaswini, Poshan Abhiyan and State Nutrition Mission
National Director, ICDS Systems Strengthening and Nutritional Improvement Project (ISSNIP)
Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), Government of India
04.2015 - 08.2017
- Providing implementation leadership to ISSNIP, an IDA-World Bank financed project, spread over 11 States in India;
- Got ISSNIP restructured to include Information and Communication Technology enabled Real Time Monitoring (ICT-RTM) of ICDS, Community Based Events (CBE) and Incremental Learning Approach (ILA) of capacity building of ICDS personnel
- Facilitated the development of ICDS Common Application Software (ICDS-CAS) in collaboration of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), as a tool for ICT-RTM
- Developed easy to use but extremely informative ILA training modules on child and women nutrition encompassing 21 thematic area
- Developed a comprehensive implementation strategy for ISSNIP and got the program rolled out successfully in participating States
- Prepared the design framework of National Nutrition Mission in India on the lines of ISSNIP in collaboration with the World Bank, which provided the edifice on which Poshan Abhiyan was developed
Special Secretary, Department of Planning
Government of Jharkhand
06.2013 - 11.2014
- Preparing Jharkhand State Annual Plan, and monitoring of its implementation
- Co-ordinated with all the State Government Departments, Finance Department, Planning Commission and related sectors to get the draft State Plan for Financial Year 2014-15 formulated
- Facilitated the monitoring of implementation of programs and schemes in the State by the Development Commissioner, the Chief Secretary and the Chief Minister
Special Secretary, Department of Forests and Environment
Government of Jharkhand
08.2012 - 11.2013
- Examining Forests and Environment Policy matters, proposals submitted under Forest Conservation Act, proposals for plan schemes and HR issues of senior forest officers
- Formulated the State Plan for Forests and Environment Sector for Financial Year 2013-14 with about 40% enhanced budget outlay
- Streamlined the sanction process of plan schemes in an organized way and thereby facilitating availability of funds for implementation of programs well in time
- Critical and timely examination of proposals submitted by different user agencies for their smooth disposal
Director, Economics and Statistics
Government of Jharkhand
08.2012 - 06.2013
- Estimation of Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP), District Domestic Products (DDPs), State Income, Per Capita Income, Human Development Index etc for the State of Jharkhand
- Facilitated to prepare a mechanism for sourcing and retrieving information from Village, Panchayat, Block and District level, for creating an information warehouse at the State level, analysis of the pooled information and preparing the sound basis for the State Plan
- Conducted Economic Census in the State of Jharkhand
- Facilitated preparation of State Human Development Report and District Human Development Reports
- Streamlined the mechanism for Birth and Death Registration in the State and enhancing the registration percentage
Director Primary Education
Government of Jharkhand
04.2009 - 04.2012
- Policy formulation, program planning and implementation for facilitating quality elementary education to about 4.5 million children in 40 thousand odd schools in the State of Jharkhand
- Executive Head of three flagship programs of Government of India viz
- Sarv Siksha Abhiyan (SSA), Mid-Day-Meal Scheme (MDMS) and Saakshar Bharat
- Implementation of the provisions of Rights of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE) in the State
- Providing planned impetus to enhancing the Adult Literacy, particularly the female literacy, in the State
- Human resource management, 150000 odd teachers and officials
- Financial management of about $500m annually
Special Secretary to Government of Jharkhand, Cabinet Secretariat and Coordination Department
Government of Jharkhand
08.2008 - 12.2009
- Coordination between different departments of the State Government, with other State Governments and with Central Government
- Examining the policy proposals submitted by different departments of the State Government to be put up to the State Cabinet
- Preparation of the draft policy papers for the State Government
- Coordinated the monitoring by Chief Secretary, as a follow up of the decisions taken by a Committee of Secretaries constituted by Government of India, of the implementation of major Flagship Development Schemes in the State
Special Secretary to Government of Jharkhand, Social Welfare, Women and Child Development Department
Government of Jharkhand
05.2007 - 08.2008
- Providing regulatory support for the implementation of different programmes related to women and child development in the state of Jharkhand, particularly the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) that includes routine immunization, supplementary nutrition, early childhood education and health education
- Facilitating the formulation of women policy and child policy for the State
- Policy formulation for People with Disabilities
- Evolving strategy for a universal Village Health and Nutrition Day in all the villages of the state so that health, nutrition and sanitation services may be provided to the people at a single point simultaneously
- Financial Management of a budget of about $68 to $75 million
Joint Secretary to Government of Jharkhand, Department of Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare
Government of Jharkhand
03.2006 - 05.2007
- Implementation of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in the State of Jharkhand
- Financial Management of a budget of about $40 million
- Launching and roll-out of National Rural Health Mission in the State of Jharkhand
- Mapping of Public Health Care Facilities in the State and gap analysis for soft as well as hardware infrastructure therein
- GIS based location mapping for the Public Health Care Facility requirements based on population distribution norms in 4 districts of the State
- Initiation of the process of constitution of in the Public Health Care Facilities so that to ensure the decentralized decision making at the local level for the smooth functioning of the health facilities
- Hospital Management Societies in 317 facilities were constituted
- Election-cum-Selection of about 27000 ASHA, as envisaged in the NRHM policy guidelines, by Village Health Committees facilitated by the civil society organizations and their capacity building
- Development of 5 years District Health Action Plans (DHAPs) through consultative process with the communities, community leaders and different stake holders including the service providers
- These District Health Action Plans contained GIS based strategic infrastructure planning and specific plans for comprehensive service delivery and efficient monitoring
- Innovative implementation of Janani Suraksha Yojana that provided for ensuring ANC Check-ups of the pregnant women and complete immunization of the child
- More than 300,000 pregnant women were brought under JSY in the very first year of its implementation
- Development of Sarv Swasthya Yojana, the model of health care service delivery through Public-Private-Partnership
- System of requirement based decentralized system of drug procurement was put in place by instituting a rate contract for major 78 drugs on the basis of World Bank procurement guidelines
Joint Secretary to Government of Jharkhand, Director Horticulture, Jharkhand Department of Agriculture
Government of Jharkhand
10.2003 - 03.2006
- Development of the Annual State Plans for the Agriculture Sector in the State of Jharkhand and provide policy support for its implementation
- Financial management of about $20million annually
- Introduced the cluster approach with multi layer cropping technology aimed at better income returns to the farmers
- Developed the public-private-partnership model to establish the 5 Plant Resource Centers in the State for providing backward and forward linkages to entrepreneurs in the field of commercial floriculture to create sustainable livelihood avenues
- Conceptualized the vegetable seed production by farmers’ self help groups
- Conceptualized the National Horticulture Mission – a Government of India sponsored integrated horticulture development scheme - in the State of Jharkhand and developed the integrated area specific plan for 10 districts of the State after a broad base consultation with technical institutions, NGOs and other development partners
- Raised $7.0m from Government of India for the implementation of this plan during 2005-06
- Facilitated the development of cluster based multicropping bankable projects in the horticulture sector with technical cropping inputs form Indian Council of Agriculture Research and Cost structure inputs from National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
- Developed the financing pattern for such projects providing finance from Government of Jharkhand, Commercial and rural banks and from group of entrepreneurs on a sharing basis
Officer on Special Duty to Government of Jharkhand, Water Resource Development Department
Government of Jharkhand
06.2001 - 10.2003
- Conducting the 3rd Minor Irrigation Census in the State of Jharkhand
- Examining the inter vigilance cases of WRDD
- Financial management of about $0.5m annually
- As Census Commissioner, conducted the minor irrigation census in all the 22 districts of the State of Jharkhand to generate the statistical data on different aspects of minor irrigation including minor irrigation potential created, potential utilized etc
- With reference to different agricultural crops and with respect to villages, community blocks, districts and the whole State
- This helped in providing the improved agriculture technologies to the irrigated crop area to increase the productivity and production in the State
Deputy Conservator of Forests, Latehar Forest Division
Government of Jharkhand
11.1998 - 06.2001
- Management of natural Forest Resource spread over an area of 1100 Sq Kilometers
- Livelihood creation for the forest dwelling communities
- Organized the reclamation of 300 ha of degraded forest with the involvement of local communities
- Conceptualized the community inclusive models of natural resource management, developed the innovative community participatory plan for protection of natural forests from forest fires and implemented it successfully to bring a paradigm shift in the policy of forest protection from fires
- Developed Community and area specific development micro plans, to be funded by World Food Program, UN, for creating livelihood avenues for the communities and ensuring proper natural resource management
- Developed permanent hi-tech nurseries in the area affected by naxal extremism
- These nurseries with capacity of producing over 0.5 million plants annually, created reservoir of planting material and helped easing the tense situation prevailed in the area previously by means of providing sustainable livelihood to the local communities
- Organized the local youths into voluntary groups highly sensitive to the natural resource conservation
Education
Ph.D. - Bio Technology
IARI New Delhi
01-1994
PGDPHN - Public Health Nutrition
PHFI
01.2013
PGEXP (MBA) - Operations Management
IIM Ranchi
01-2015
Master of Science - Forestry
FRI
Dehradun01-1997
Master of Science - Plant Breeding and Genetics
G.B.P.A.&T.
Pantnagar, India01.1988
B.Sc. Ag & AH - Agriculture
G.B.P.A.&T.
Pantnagar, India01.1985
Skills
- Leadership Skills
- Problem Solving Skills
- Team Coordination and Motivation
- Integrity and Commitment
- Inclusive in Approach
- Analytic Aptitude
- Stakeholders Coordination
- Policy Formulation
- Project and Program Planning
- Program Implementation Planning
- Financial Planning and Management
- Scaled Up Program Implementation
- Developing Specific Monitoring systems
- Capacity Building and Strengthening
- Human Resource Management
- Community Engagement and Mobilization
Accomplishments
- Ph.D., 1994, Biotechnology, IARI, New Delhi
- PGDPHN, 2013, Public Health Nutrition, PHFI, New Delhi
- PGEXP (MBA), 2015, Operations Management, IIM, Ranchi
- M.Sc., 1988, Plant Breeding and Genetics, G.B.P.A.&T. Pantnagar
- M.Sc., 1997, Forestry, FRI, Dehradun
- B.Sc. Ag & AH, 1985, Agriculture, G.B.P.A.&T. Pantnagar
Organization
State Nutrition Mission, Government of Jharkhand
Personal Information
Title: Director General
Training
- LBS National Academy of Administration, Mussorie, Foundation Course
- IG National Forests Academy, Dehradun, Professional Course
Corevaluesandcompetencies
- Leadership Skills
- Problem Solving Skills
- Team Coordination and Motivation
- Integrity and Commitment
- Inclusive in Approach
- Analytic Aptitude
- Stakeholders Coordination
- Policy Formulation
- Project and Program Planning
- Program Implementation Planning
- Financial Planning and Management
- Scaled Up Program Implementation
- Developing Specific Monitoring systems
- Capacity Building and Strengthening
- Human Resource Management
- Community Engagement and Mobilization
Professional Trainings
- LBS National Academy of Administration, Mussorie: Foundation Course
- IG National Forests Academy, Dehradun: Professional Course
Timeline
Chief Conservator of Forests
World Food Program, Government Of Jharkhand
08.2021 - Current
Director General, State Nutrition Mission, and Special Secretary to Government of Jharkhand
Government of Jharkhand
08.2017 - 08.2021
National Director, ICDS Systems Strengthening and Nutritional Improvement Project (ISSNIP)
Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), Government of India
04.2015 - 08.2017
Special Secretary, Department of Planning
Government of Jharkhand
06.2013 - 11.2014
Special Secretary, Department of Forests and Environment
Government of Jharkhand
08.2012 - 11.2013
Director, Economics and Statistics
Government of Jharkhand
08.2012 - 06.2013
Director Primary Education
Government of Jharkhand
04.2009 - 04.2012
Special Secretary to Government of Jharkhand, Cabinet Secretariat and Coordination Department
Government of Jharkhand
08.2008 - 12.2009
Special Secretary to Government of Jharkhand, Social Welfare, Women and Child Development Department
Government of Jharkhand
05.2007 - 08.2008
Joint Secretary to Government of Jharkhand, Department of Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare
Government of Jharkhand
03.2006 - 05.2007
Joint Secretary to Government of Jharkhand, Director Horticulture, Jharkhand Department of Agriculture
Government of Jharkhand
10.2003 - 03.2006
Officer on Special Duty to Government of Jharkhand, Water Resource Development Department
Government of Jharkhand
06.2001 - 10.2003
Deputy Conservator of Forests, Latehar Forest Division
Government of Jharkhand
11.1998 - 06.2001
Ph.D. - Bio Technology
IARI New Delhi
PGDPHN - Public Health Nutrition
PHFI
PGEXP (MBA) - Operations Management
IIM Ranchi
Master of Science - Forestry
FRI
Master of Science - Plant Breeding and Genetics
G.B.P.A.&T.
B.Sc. Ag & AH - Agriculture
G.B.P.A.&T.
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