Shri Rajendra Narendra Nimje an IAS officer currently working as a District Collector & Magistrate of Khammam district, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, India has been serving the nation since 1994.

He takes pride in joining Indian Administrative Services, which is premiere civil service in the country. He has done his graduation in ‘Electronics & Power’ Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Nagpur and thereafter post graduation in Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. He also has obtained Post Graduate degrees in Journalism and Law and diplomas in Business management and German Language from Nagpur University, India. He was a Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University for 2003-04

His greatest strength has always been Application of Information & Communication, which helped him to deal with various administrative challenges. As an Administrator he used ICT solutions to solve problems for masses. He always took series of initiatives in all his assignments.

HIS MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS

STANFORD UNIVERSITY: DIGITAL VISION FELLOW 2003-04
In Stanford University as a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow, he worked on a project called ‘e-Immunization’ which aims to increase immunization coverage in developing countries. He was successful in demonstrative the concept by designing prototype followed by field tests. The project also bagged the prestigious ‘Social-e-Challenge’ award for Social Entrepreneurship for the year 2003-04 organized by Stanford University.

DISTRICT COLLECTOR & MAGISTRATE, KHAMMAM, INDIA (From September 2004 till date)

He is presently working as District Collector & Magistrate of Khammam district in Andhra Pradesh, India heading 85 departments with 12000+ employees which covers a whole gamut of administration right from Health and Education, agriculture, irrigation, women and child development to Youth empowerment, horticulture, sericulture, fisheries, revenue, police, rural development etc. The population of Khammam district is 2.6 Millions.

After coming back from Stanford, he bought an IT revolution by taking up major IT initiatives that are first of its kind. Some of them are:

1. Parishkruthi - means Grievance redressal. This connects Heads of the Departments on fibre to the voiceless petitioners with a front end of Citizen Facilitation Centers thereby increasing the speed and accountability of the administration. The project is giving good yield since past one year in the District. More than 11000 requests are lodged and monitored on the system. This project is heading to redefine the Government.

2. e-Immunization aims to increase immunization coverage in Khammam through information technology. The pilot is launched on March 9th, 2005 in Tirumalayapalem PHC of the Khammam District. European Commission funded this pilot through its Sector improvement program. A full scale pilot is also on cards and funding agencies are coming forward for collaboration. The project received National Silver Icon award 2006 in 9th e-Governance Conference held at Kochi on Feb 2- 4, 2006. e-Immunization also bagged the prestigious Social-e-Challenge award 2004 from Stanford University.

3. Health Call Center - Emergency handling in rural area is a big challenge. Though Govt. has islands of infrastructure it fails to deliver. HCC shares resources from pubic and private sector and utilize them effectively by blending it with Call Center professionalism. Accidents, obstructed labor, snake bites, etc are being catered by tracking the calls and contacting the layers of medical administration in real time including the private sector by a call center team through a specially designed software. The project is funded by European Commission through its Sector Improvement Program and maintained by Rotary International, Khammam Chapter. The project received National Bronze Icon award 2006 in 9th e-Governance Conference held at Kochi on Feb 2- 4, 2006

4. Giri Pragna means enriching tribal knowledge has launched in September 2005 in 50 school complexes in the Khammam district. Giri Pragna provides computer education and computer aided education to 10,000 tribal children from class 6 to class 10 in remotest areas of the district. It also provides training to all the teachers in school complexes on computer education and computer teaching to the students. 200 computers and servers and furniture along with telugu language CAL CDs and a computer education contract for 3 years ensures the sustainability. Giri-Pragna prepares the tribal students for harnessing the opportunities of broadband revolution.

5. Building Internal Efficiency: Fibre optic connectivity is provided to most of the departments at Khammam making the transactions very fast for citizens and for the Govt. internal functioning. File Monitoring System ensures online processing of office files for collectorate making it one of the efficient offices in the State. An online meetings module ensures booking of collector’s time slot for meeting without circulation of file. It ensures uploading of agenda and downloading of minutes making best out of the meeting. Ensures follow up. www.khammam.com is the mouthpiece of the district keeps the information exchange easy for Govt. offices and NGO and citizens mostly NRIs are in touch with khammam with this portal.

6. National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is being implemented in AP since April 1st 2006 and the software which covers all aspects of the scheme is being developed by Tata Consultancy Services company for which inputs are provided by me and the Khammam district is chosen as pilot in the country.

7. Jawahar Knowledge Centers - partnered
This provides opportunity to young engineering final year girl students to get real life projects. The software industry gets benefit as they get experienced hands and saves on training cost. The students get immediate jobs than waiting for internship. Govt. gets benefit in shape of the projects, which can be deployed immediately.

We provided opportunity to over 100 Students this year taking up 15 projects of immediate interest to the administration.