Smita Sabharwal

Background

Smita was born in West Bengal. Her father, a retired Army officer, Colonel Pranab Das, served in the Indian Army.

Education

She later graduated in Commerce from Saint Francis Degree College.

Career

She is popularly known as “Peoples Officer”.She is the first lady Institute for Advanced Study officer to be appointed to the Chief Minister’ General’ s Office. Most of her schooling was done in various parts of the country. The last couple of years of school education was from Saint Ann’s, Maredpally, Hyderabad.

She is one of the youngest to have cracked the Union Public Service Commission exam securing All India 4th rank and opted for the Institute for Advanced Study . After completing the administrative training in Lal Bahadur Sastry, National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, she was trained in Adilabad district in her probationary days.

Her first independent charge was as Sub Collector, Madanapally, Chittoor which let her gain hands-on experience in Land Revenue Management & District Administration. Thereafter she worked in Rural Development sector as Project Director, DRDA, Kadapa.

In April, 2011 she took charge as District Collector, Karimnagar district where she made significant contribution in the Health and Education sector. The health initiative to improve institutional deliveries in the public sector popularly known as “Ammalalana” was started and successfully implemented in the district and today serves as a role model for many health initiatives of ‘high risk pregnancy management targeting, International Migration Review and MMR’ in NRHM of Government of India.

This initiative was also nominated as one of the best initiatives for Prime Minister’s award for excellence in public administration.

With the help of Public Representatives, Karimnagar Town underwent a facelift in the form of wider roads, scientifically planned traffic junctions, Business-stops, Toilets and other public utilities. Karimnagar district was awarded the best district in Prime Minister"s 20 Point Programme for 2012-2013. She also served as District Collector of Medak during the General Elections 2014 and successfully conducted free and fair polls registering a high polling turn out.

She is known popularly as people’s officer and is known to use latest developments in technology to her advantage, especially in implementing Government Programmes on field

Monitoring of Government doctors through skype has completely changed the scenario in the public health sector. Performance monitoring of Government schools through specially designed software has made Karimnagar & Medak Districts stand top in the state during her tenure.

Achievements

• Indian Express Devi Award - 2015, for Innovation and Dynamism e-India (e-Health Category) Government Digital Initiative – 2013 Chief Minister’s Award for best district in 20 Point Flagship Programme in 2011-2012. Chief Minister’s Award for best district in 20 Point Flagship Programme in 2012-2013. Recipient of “Platinum Award” worth Rs.10.00 Lakhs under District Category sponsored by Information Technology & Communication Department for the best e-Governance initiatives taken up in the district for the year 2012-2013. Nominated for Prime Minister’s award under individual category for excellence in public administration in best district initiative “Ammalalana” programme from erstwhile united Government of Andhra Pradesh.

Connections

partnership:

Municipal Commissioner, Warangal