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BIODATA
1. NAME : Smt. Leena Mehendale, IAS (1974 -
2.. Date of birth :
3. Place of birth : Dharangaon, Dist
: Jalgaon,
4. EDUCATION :
· . M.Sc. Physics
-
· . M.Sc. Project Planning ,
· . LLB-I -
·
. Lecturer in Physics 1972-73,
5. PRESENT POSTING :
Jt. Secretary GOI, and ED PCRA (Petroleum Conservation Research Association ). 25.6.02 Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
6. OCCUPATION :
I joined Indian Administrative Service
in July, 1974,
The job experience is categorised as under : (for
details see Postings)
Revenue Administration
: land and forest management, law and order problems, natural
calamities, district and regional planning, employment guarantee, Regional coordination, protocol,
election. In general, working as a representative of
government in the concerned district or division.
Judicial work: The posts of Asstt. Collector, Urban Land Ceiling Authority, Collector,
Commissioner, Settlement Commissioner included working as a judiciary officer
under various Acts, such as , Land Revenue, Tenancy, Watan Abolition, Land Acquisition, Resettlement, Municipal
Act, Urban Land Ceiling, Departmental Enquiries, Cr.P.C,
IPC, Evidence Act and Bombay Police Act.
Development Administration: in the sector of agriculture, health,
education, animal husbandry, social welfare, watershed management, industrial
development, women welfare etc.
Industrial Development: involving small scale industries, project formulation, district and regional level coordination of banks, regional industral planning, employment guarantee schemes, IRDP.
Training : Held
educational/training jobs such as DS(Education), Director of Maharashtra State Administrative Training Institute
(YASHADA), Director, National Institute of Naturopathy and Vice Chancellor of
Open University, Nashik.
Women Affairs :i]
Worked for economic rehabilitation of Devdasis. (Ref.
Item 9 and 12) ii]
as Joint secretary to the National Commission for women.
7. EXPERTISE :
(a) Women’s issues
(b) Reforms in Administration and
System building;
(c) Rural Development including micro
credit
(d) Indian Mythology; &
(e) Ayurved.
8. HOBBIES :
Environment,
Ecology, Music, & Philosophy. Writing, popularising Science in Indian Languages, Simplification
and Computerisation of office procedures, Indian
System of medicines, Traveling.
9. SPECIAL WORK :
i) As Collector, Sangli
& MD, WMDC, I have successfully implemented a project for economic
rehabilitation of Deodasis (nearly 150 Deodasis were given vocational training, Production centre
and their own co-operative Society which is still running under the guidance of
WMDC from Sangli and Kolhapur
districts)
ii) As Commissioner, Nashik
and Settlement Commissioner, I have introduced complete office Computerisation, office systematisation
and simplification of office procedure.
iii) As Settlement Commissioner, I
introduced computerisation of land records and maps.
(iv) As first Director, NIN, I established a nation - wide network of
naturopaths and prepared many policy papers on naturopathy for the Deptt. Of Health.
10. FACULTY :
I am visiting faculty of YASHADA, IIPA
and other Training Organisation.
I give talks on AIR and TV.
11 LITERARY WORK :
I write on current topics,
administration, education, popular science, children’s literature I have nearly
300 articles and 5 books to my credit.
Special mention:
i)A series of 13 lectures on Atomic Physics on AIR.
ii) My
dessertation entitled “The Integrated Rural
Development Programme for Women in Developing Countries : What more can be done? (A case study from
iii) Status
Paper on “The Laws relating to land alienation to Scheduled Tribes” in
iv) Towards Liberalisation : Issues and
Challenges before Administration : IIPA 1996 - Competition essay.
v) New
Strategies in Education, 1986.
vi) Relooking at a Historical Irrigation Model of Dhule
District.
vii) Has
IAS become redundant - 1996.
viii)Prize
winning essays in Hindi for IIPA (1991 & 1993) on Issues in
Reservation Policy and Revamping Indian
Administration.
12. PREPARED FILMS :
Naturopathy
- Hindi - 30 minutes for NIN Pune.
Naturopathy - Hindi - 30 minutes for EMRC Pune.
Naturopathy - 5 Jingles - Water therapy,
Mud therapy, Sun therapy, Eye Care, Fasting.
Devdasi project for
WMDC. Parivartan - Marathi - 30 minutes
13. BOOKS:
i) Ye Ye Pawsa - (Marathi, short stories for children)
ii) Sona Denare Pakshi - (Marathi, Collection
of articles on birds)
iii) Nitya Leela - [Marathi, short stories translated from other
languages]
iv) Fir Varsha Aai - (Hindi, short stories for children)
v) Devdasi -
(Hindi, for rural, adult, neo-literate women)
14. EDITING:
i) Edited a monthly newsletter called Nisargopachar
Varta for NIN from Jan. 1992 to April, 1994.
ii) A monthly folder for improving the
internal efficiency and public interface in the office of Settlement Commissioner.
15. LANGUAGES:
Proficiency in Hindi,
Marathi, English. Can read, write
and speak Bengali,
Can read or follow - Sanskrit, Gujrati, Punjabi, Nepali, Maithili,
Oriya, Assamese, Bhojpuri, Ahirani
POSTINGS
(In reverse Order)
1. Joint Secretary to GoI and Executive Director, PCRA (Petroleum Conservation
Research Association)
25.6.02 onwards
Min. of Petroleum and Natural Gas
2. On leave,
and later, waiting for posting by govt. during which I undertook my private
study on
Spatial
analysis of Crime Against Women.
3. Joint
Secretary, National Commission for Women, (Government of
The National Commission for
Women’s Act of 1990 is meant for stopping violence and discrimination against
women, carrying out necessary legal amendments for this purpose, carrying out
studies, giving policy guidelines for economic, social and political
empowerment of women, speedy redress to various types of grievances of women
and a proper treatment to Jail inmates.
As Joint Secretary I helped the Commission and the Member Secretary in
carrying out this mandate as also in routine administration. In addition, I
undertook tours throughout the country and looked after the complaints,
investigation and legal cell. I attended the UN meeting on CEDAW implementation.
4. Managing Director, Maharashtra State Farming
Corporation, Pune
9/97 to 7/98
The Maharashtra
State Farming Corporation holds 70,000 acres of land half of which is under sugercane. The MSFC
is thus, the biggest sugarcane grower in the whole
5. Settlement Commissioner,
6. Divisional Commissioner, Nashik 6/94 to 11/95 AND
Vice-Chancellor of Open University,
Nashik, 1/95 to 5/95
As Divisional Commissioner I was
supervising the work of four collectors, CEOs and regional officers of all the
departments of government in the division including such as DIG, Chief
Engineers (PWD) and irrigation, Director, Health services, etc. I was also Vice Chancellor of four district
planning and development councils. I
also worked as Vice Chancellor of Nashik Open
University for five months looking after the entire University administration,
curricular development, future projects etc.
7. Director, National Institute of
Naturopathy, GoI, Ministry of Health 12/90 to
4/94
Worked as Director of National Institute of Naturopathy, Government of
8. Addl. Director and Director YASHADA (State Institute
of Rural Development and Administrative Training Institute), Govt. of
Incharge of entire training for rural development for
government officers and NGOs and elected members of Panchayati
Raj system. Also looked after the administrative works of the institute first
as Additional Director and later as Director.
9. M.Sc. Student Under
Training in
10. Managing
Director, WMDC, (Western Maharashtra Development
Corporation 6/85 to 9/88
Incharge of planning and designing industrial policy, working for promotion for large, medium, small and tiny industries, implementation of EPP, PSI and sharing capital participation schemes for promotionof industries in 9 districts. Also ex-officio Member of the Regional Industrial Credit Policy of NABARD and other banks. Also incharge of entrepreneurship development activities. As Managing Director I was also looking after the commercial production of four prestigious owned ventures namely:
i)
ii) Abhijit Samaya Darshika - assembling HMT watches
iii)Chitali Distillery - then the largest
distillery in
iv) Devdasi rehabilitation project- for economic rehabilitation of 150 devadasis.
11.
Collector, Sangli, 1/84 to 6/85.
Entire revenue, magistrial and municipal administration of the Sangli distgrict. Also acted as Court under
various Acts. Ex-officio
Member-Secretary of
the district planning and development council and hence, responsible
for overall planning for the district and coordination among various district
level implementing agencies. Also ex-officio Joint Director, Industries, responsible for
promoting Industrial Development.
Also ex-officio Chairman of the District Rural Credit
Policy for the banks and for monitoring, the loan under IRDP. Also incharge of
entire planning and implementation of employment guarantee scheme under which
during lean seasons work force of nearly 80,000 unskilled labours
had to be supplied with work.
12. Chief Executive Officer, Aurgangabad , 4/81 to 3/82
Chief
Executive Officer, Sangli , 5/82 to 1/84
In charge of
all developmental activities to be implemented through the decentralised
pattern of village, taluka and district level elected
bodies. The functional areas were
agriculture, animal husbandry, education, health, family planning, social
welfare, IRDP, DPEP, Minor irrigation and Water Management and Road and
Building works in the district. Chairing
banker’s coordination on Rural credit.
13. Addl.
Collector, Urban Land Ceiling , 7/79 to 2/81,
Implementation of
14. Deputy
Secretary, Education, Government of
I was incharge of two new schemes which had
started just then namely
i)
Adult Education,
ii)
Non-formal education.
15.
Assistant Collector, Pune 8/76 to 8/78
To look
after entire revenue and magisterial work in the sub division and also work as
court under various Acts.
16.
Probationary IAS officer, 7/74 to 7/76
Getting training in various aspects of Administration at Mussorie and at District level (Pune),
ANNEXURE
1. Jt. Secretary
GOI, and ED PCRA (Petroleum Conservation Research Association
). 25.6.02 Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
2. On leave,
and later, waiting for posting by govt. during which I undertook my private
study on
Spatial analysis of Crime Against
Women.
3. Joint Secretary, National
Commission for Women,
4. Managing Director, Maharashtra State Farming Corporation, Pune 9/97 to 7/98
5. Settlement Commissioner,
6.
Divisional Commissioner, Nashik 6/94 to 11/95
AND
Vice-Chancellor of Open University, Nashik, 1/95
to 5/95
7. Director, National Institute
of Naturopathy, Govt. of
8. Addl. Director and Director YASHADA
(SIRD and Administrative Training Institute), Govt. of
9. M.Sc.
Student Under
10. Managing Director, WMDC, (Western Maharashtra Development Corporation) 6/85 to 9/88
11. Collector, Sangli,
1/84 to 6/85
12. Chief Executive Officer, Sangli ,
5/82 to 1/84
13. Chief Executive Officer, Aurgangabad ,
4/81 to 3/82
14. Addl. Collector, Urban Land Ceiling , 7/79 to 2/81
15. Deputy Secretary, Education,
Government of
16. Assistant Collector, Pune 8.76 to 8.78
17. Probationary IAS officer, 7/74 to
7/76