Bio

R S Sharma is currently the Secretary to Government of India in the Department of Electronics and Information Technology. Prior to this assignment he has worked as Chief Secretary to the State Government of Jharkhand (India). His other assignments include Director General & Mission Director of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) where he was responsible for overall implementation of this ambitious and challenging project undertaken by the Government of India for providing Unique Identification to all its Residents. Before his posting with UIDAI, he worked with the Government of Jharkhand as Principal Secretary of the Departments of Science and Technology, Drinking Water & Sanitation, Information Technology (IT), Rural Development and Human Resources Development. He has been responsible for implementing a number of Projects relating to ICT Infrastructure, Process Re-engineering and Service Delivery in Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode.