Dinesh Sharma, now Secretary to Chhattisgarh Assembly Speaker Dr Charan Das Mahant, has been appointed as Secretary in the Chhattisgarh Assembly.
After the formation of Chhattisgarh, it is for the first time a state resident officer has been appointed to the top seat in the Assembly, an official communication said.
Sharma hails from Janjgir-Champa district. He has worked with Speaker Dr Mahant in different capacities apart from the present post.
He had worked as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Mahant when he was the Home and Commerce Minister in undivided Madhya Pradesh and later as Union Minister of State for Agriculture in the UPA government.
Sharma has also been looking after the Assembly Research Magazine ‘Vidyaan’, publications, library, conferences, Assembly members’ facilities, financial committees and other branches of the House.
MLAs greeted Sharma on his elevation as Secretary.
Sharma completed his school education in Bilaspur and did his Post Graduation from Barkatullah University, Bhopal. He joined the Madhya Pradesh Assembly as a Gazetted Officer Category 2.
As he hailed from Janjgir-Champa, he was transferred to Chhattisgarh. He is grandson of late Chhattisgarhi literary figure Paleshwar Sharma and son of late Krishna Kumar Sharma.