About Me
- Avinash Dharmadhikari
- A full time voluntary activist and a free-lance journalist for ten years, before joining IAS which resulted in the book, ‘Aswastha Dashakachi Diary’, based on the reflections of these visits. He then joined IAS in 1986. Past Postings: Sub-divisional officer, Phaltan; Officer on special duty for state’s Chief Secretary. Director, State Archives, Mumbai. CEO at Ratnagiri and Amaravati zilla parishads. Additional Collector, Pune. Director, Women and Child Welfare Dept, Maharashtra. District Collector, Raigad (Alibag). Deputy Secretary to Chief Minister, Maharashtra. While in service, initiated experiments in responsive administration: Field level functioning of government machinery to reorient the operations and methodologies in bureaucracy. Long-pending land disputes resolved speedily through reconciliatory measures, adopting revenue-court system. Active participation in literacy, globalization of education, women-farmers-consumer movements, water conservation, movements against corruption and superstitions. Implemented a special program for neo-literates so they do not re-lapse into illiteracy and was appreciated as a ‘model scheme’, by the National Literacy Mission.
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