Ajit Raizada

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Dr. Ajit Raizada is an Indian author, poet and administrator. He is an officer of the 1970 batch of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS).

After a career of 37 years, Ajit Raizada retired from the IAS in 2007. In October 2010, he was appointed as the 4th State Election Commissioner.[1] of the Madhya Pradesh State Election Commission for a period of three years. Starting from January 2014, he served as the Independent External Monitor for Mormugao Port Trust (Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways) for a period of 4 years.

Ajit Raizada lives in Bhopal and spends time writing and teaching[2]. Post retirement, he has also served as Chairman, Jan Shikshan Sansthan (Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship), Raipur and Member Executive Committee, India Rural Cultural Centre, New Delhi.

Family

Ajit Raizada was born in Sitapur (born August 17, 1947), Uttar Pradesh to a civil servant and a homemaker. He is married to Dr. Seema Raizada, a Professor of English and a Shakespeare scholar[3]. Dr. Seema Raizada is also the Founder of Club Literati[4], a platform for writers and artists[5][6][7]. Club Literati has hosted authors such as Ashok Banker[8], Sushmita Mukherjee[9] and Anthony de Sa (civil servant)[10]

Education

Dr. Raizada is a graduate in History from St. John's College, Agra, Agra and an M.A. in Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology (Gold Medal) from University of Allahabad|Allahabad University.

He obtained a Ph.D. from Barkatullah University, Bhopal and a D.Litt. from Vikram University, Ujjain in Political Science. He also attended University of Glasgow under the Colombo Plan and was awarded a Post Graduate Diploma in Development Policy.

Career

Dr. Raizada joined the IAS in 1970 in the West Bengal cadre and moved to the Madhya Pradesh cadre in 1979. His roles in general administration include Collector and District Magistrate of Rajgarh[11] and Ujjain[12] Districts, Commissioner of Rewa Division and Additional Chief Secretary, Home department.

Dr. Raizada has served in several development focused departments as Director, Commissioner, Secretary and Principal Secretary including Tribal Area Development, Planning & Statistics, Panchayat & Rural Development, Social Welfare, Women & Child Development and the Madhya Pradesh Human Rights Commission.

He authored several of his works while serving as Commissioner Archaeology, Archives and Museums. As Principal Secretary Culture, he was closely involved in the rejuvenation of Bharat Bhavan[13], a leading national multi-arts complex and the organization of millennium celebrations of the Khajuraho Dance Festival which was inaugurated by the then President of India, K. R. Narayanan.

He has also served as Commissioner and Principal Secretary in departments of Higher Education, Science & Technology, Manpower Planning (Technical Education and Employment), State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO)[14] as well as the Chairman of the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board.

He was closely involved in the setting up of two leading bodies of education in the state – Indian Institute of Management, Indore where he served as member of its first Board of Governors[15] and Rajiv Gandhi Technological University, a common University for all technical education institutes in Madhya Pradesh.

Literary Contributions

Dr. Raizada is an author/editor of 8 published works across the fields of History, Numismatic and Political Science[16]. His books are referenced at leading Universities and institutions including the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, National Library of Australia[17] and the Library of Congress[18]. In 1992, he authored a collection of poems titled, ‘Hashiye Par Aadmi’ and is currently working on translating select Shakespeare's sonnets|Shakespeare’s Sonnets from English to Urdu in the Devanagari script.

Literary genres Title Publisher
History and

Numismatics

Art, Archaeology and History of Ratlam[19] Sharada Publishing House, New Delhi
Ujjayinī[20] Directorate of Archaeology & Museums, Government of Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal
Heritage of Shajapur[21] Sharada Publishing House, New Delhi
Bharatiya Sikhon Ka Itihas[22] Sharada Publishing House, New Delhi
Indaura : Indore[23] Directorate of Archaeology & Museums, Government of Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal
Political Science and

Human Rights

Mahila Utpidan: Samasya aur Samadhan[24] Madhya Pradesh Hindi Granth Akadami, Bhopal
Policy The Indian Ocean Politics[25] Sharada Publishing House, New Delhi
Tribal Development in Madhya Pradesh : A Planning Perspective[26] Inter-India Publications, New Delhi
Poetry Hashiye Par Aadmi Parimal Prakashan, Prayagraj

References

  1. ↑ "Madhya Pradesh State Election Commission". www.google.com. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  2. ↑ "Prior to the environment of education in the house - IAS Raizada".
  3. ↑ "The Problem Plays of Shakespeare: Double Vision in Character and Action by Seema Raizada: New Hardcover (1994) | Books in my Basket". www.abebooks.com. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  4. ↑ "It's a birthday party for Club Literati! - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  5. ↑ "Bhopal: Club Literati organises session to pay tributes Sean Connery". Free Press Journal. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  6. ↑ "MP IAS Officers' Assn launches book 'The Steel Frame:-A history of the IAS'". www.thehitavada.com. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  7. ↑ Bhatt, Neha. "Meet the 17-year-old student behind Bhopal's two-month-long Agatha Christie Crime Festival". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  8. ↑ "2015 Events – Club Literati". Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  9. ↑ "Bhopal: 'Baanjh' anthology of stories on childless women". Free Press Journal. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  10. ↑ "2021 Events – Club Literati". Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  11. ↑ "Collector Directory | District Rajgarh, Government of Madhya Pradesh | India". Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  12. ↑ "DM List | District Ujjain, Government of Madhya Pradesh | India". Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  13. ↑ August 17, N. K. Singh; August 17, 1998 ISSUE DATE; March 29, 1998UPDATED; Ist, 2013 18:06. "Bharat Bhavan seeks Madhya Pradesh govt's intervention to save it from slow death". India Today. Retrieved 2022-04-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. ↑ "CEO Madhya Pradesh". ceomadhyapradesh.nic.in. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  15. ↑ "Memorandum of Association - IIM Indore" (PDF).
  16. ↑ "WorldCat Identities - Raizada, Ajit 1947-".
  17. ↑ "Search Results | National Library of Australia". catalogue.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  18. ↑ "Search results for Ajit Raizada". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  19. ↑ Raizada, Ajit; Upadhyaya, Madan Mohan; Misra, Om Prakash; District Archaeological Association, Ratlam; Seminar on Art, Archaeology, and history of Ratlam, eds. (1992). Art, archaeology, and history of Ratlam. Delhi: Sharada Prakashan. ISBN 978-81-85320-14-4. OCLC 28183862.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
  20. ↑ Raizada, Ajit (1992). Heritage of Shajapur. India: Sharada Pub. House. ISBN 8185616094.
  21. ↑ Raizada, Ajit; Chauhan, D. S.; Misra, Om Prakash; District Archaeological Association, Shajapur, eds. (1992). Heritage of Shajapur (in enghin). Delhi: Sharada Pub. House. ISBN 978-81-85616-09-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  22. ↑ Raizada, Ajit. Bharatiya Sikhon Ka Itihas. India: Sharada Publishing House, New Delhi.
  23. ↑ Raizada, Ajit (1992). Indaura (in Hindi). India: Bhopāla : Purātattva evaṃ Saṅgrahālaya.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  24. ↑ Raizada, Ajit; Madhyapradeśa Hindī Grantha Akādamī; Mānava Adhikāra Āyoga (Bhopal, India), eds. (2000). Mahilā utpīṛana: samasyā aura samādhāna (Saṃskaraṇa 1 ed.). Bhopāla: Madhyapradeśa Hindī Grantha Akādamī.
  25. ↑ Raizada, Ajit (1994). The Indian ocean politics. Delhi: Sharada Pub. House. ISBN 978-81-85616-19-3.
  26. ↑ Raizada, Ajit (1984). Tribal development in Madhya Pradesh: a planning perspective. Tribal studies of India series. New Delhi: Inter-India Publications.

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