Education
He did B.Tech in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (1983–1987) before drifting to Indian Administrative Service in 1989. In Indian Institute of Technology Delhi his thesis was on Natural Language Understanding.
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Rajesh Aggarwal
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He has held various positions including Secretary, Accounts and Tresauries, Finance Department, Government of Maharasthra, Secretary (ADF), Government of Maharashtra, Additional Chief Executive Officer, National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), Director, Election Commission of India, P.S. to MoS(Rural Development), Deputy Special Commissioner, Maharashtra Sadan, District Collector, Akola, Chief Executive Officer, Zilla Parishad, Jalgaon, Asstt. Collector, Dapoli (District Ratnagiri). 1991-1998 After joining Institute for Advanced Study he did few Information Technology Projects with the help from district National Informatics Centre Team.
2003-2007 During his stint as Election Commission of India, New Delhi he developed lot of Fuzzy Matching Techniques to dedupe the voter list, worked with large database (700 million voters and 500 million photographs) in more than a dozen Indian languages, executed Photo.
Rolls Project Voters Idaho with Photo he also convinced delimitation Commission to make new Assembly and Parliament boundaries using geographic information system or geographical information science Maps from Census of India. 2007-2009 He managed Internet Exchange of India where worked with a team to dramatically decreased Domestic Internet traffic packets going outside the country, increased the number of.IN domain names considerably and introduced forward looking policies in both the fields.
2009-2011 He was back in state government. he also got additional charge of two weeks in Social Justice department. Foreign a short time of span he was as Secretary Accounts and Treasuries his focus was on making Treasuries cheque-less going totally electronic on Receipts and Payment side.
2011-2015 He was appointed as an Information Technology Secretary of Maharashtra.
His tenure as Chief Information Officer of the state Government saw Maharashtra rising to the top of eGovernance in the Country it was number one in Unique Identification Authority of India as no of Civil Service Commission and electronic payment and receipts in the country and very strong in eTendering, eoffice, use of Cloud Internet Protocol version 6. State's eGov initiatives have bagged more than 100 National and International Awards in last two years. 2015-Present He has moved to Delhi in Government of India as Joint Secretary Financial Service and Mission Director of Flagship Initiative of Financial Inclusion (Prime Minister Jandhan Yojana).
He is also taken charge as acting CMD of National Informatics Centre.
