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Praveen Gedam

Dr Praveen Gedam is an Indian bureaucrat. He is a 2002 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of Maharashtra cadre.

Praveen Gedam
Praveen Gedam
NationalityIndian
EducationMBBS
Alma materGovernment Medical College, Nagpur
Occupation(s)Commissioner, Department of Agriculture, Govt Of Maharashtra
Years active2002 - present
OrganizationGovernment of India
Known forAyushman Bharat, National Health Authority
Notable workKumbh Mela Management, Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission

Dr Gedam served as Additional CEO of the National Health Authority.[1] He has been in charge of policy formulation, design, and implementation of flagship health care schemes of the Government of India (AB PM-JAY and ABDM). Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana–AB PMJAY is the world's largest government health insurance scheme, providing health cover to 540 million Indians. He is the first Mission Director of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) of India, which aims to revolutionize healthcare services for all citizens through digital highways.[1]

Early life and education

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He completed MBBS from Government Medical College, Nagpur.[2] In 2023, he graduated with a Master of Public Health from Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health as a Fulbright Scholar.

Career

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Govt of Maharashtra

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Dr Praveen Gedam joined the Indian Administrative Service in 2002 (Maharashtra cadre). He has held several important positions in his career and has earlier served the Government of Maharashtra in various capacities. He has served as Municipal Commissioner in Nashik[3] and Jalgoan[4] and District Collector in Solapur[3][5] and Osmanabad.[4] He has also held the positions of CEO of Zila Parishad,[4] Latur and Director of the Groundwater Surveys and Development Agency.[6] In 2016, he was appointed as the Transport Commissioner, in the Government of Maharashtra[7][8]

Govt of India

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In 2017, he was appointed as the Private Secretary to Hon'ble Union Cabinet Minister of Railways in the Government of India.[9]

In 2019, he joined National Health Authority as Deputy CEO.[10] Subsequently, he assumed office as Additional CEO, National Health Authority[11] and Mission Director, ABDM. He has been responsible for policy formulation, design, and implementation of Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) and steering Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), a flagship programme of Govt of India to establish an integrated digital health ecosystem in India.

Ayushman Bharat

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As the first Mission Director of India’s Digital Health Mission, Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission(ABDM), he formulated a policy that rather than promoting any specific digital tool, the government should promote innovation in the tech industry by reducing entry barriers and encouraging competition. To facilitate this, he designed and rolled out the platform for interoperability and started providing Health ID (ABHA number) to Indians. As of April 2023, more than 380 million[12] Health IDs have been provided which can be used for linking medical records. Around 600 digital health solutions in India are getting integrated into this system.

In addition to the ABDM, he was also instrumental to scale up Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) health insurance scheme which now crossed 45 million[13] in-patient treatments

Notable works

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Municipal Commissioner, Jalgaon

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While serving as Municipal Commissioner of Jalgaon, he discovered and exposed the Jalgaon housing scam, sometimes called the Jalgaon Gharkul scam (Marathi: जळगाव घरकुल घोटाळा) and filed a police complaint against Khandesh Builders and others with respect to the irregularities he saw after that company was awarded the housing contract. The financial scam involved illicit divertion of approximately ₹110 crore in loaned public municipal funds, that were earmarked for a 1996-initiated project for the building of over 11,000 units of subsidized housing to benefit the area's rural poor population, and to reduce the prevalence of slums. The incident is considered the largest known scam in the history of North Maharashtra.[14][15][16] A strong case framed by Dr Gedam led to the conviction of 54 persons including ministers and mayors.

Chief Executive Officer, Zilla Parishad Latur

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He is known for the turnaround in Maternal and Child Health indicators in Latur, one of the most backward districts of the state, due to targeted interventions, systematic medical check-ups and massive community mobilization exercises.[17]

District Collector, Osmanabad

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While serving as District Collector at Osmanabad, he not only plugged the loot at Tuljabhavani temple at Tuljapur but also helped the temple obtain an ISO certificate in the clean-up process. After he sensed that donations were pilfered on a massive scale, Dr Gedam used multiple direct and indirect methods at the famous temple, which led to astounding results. The income of the temple, which was hovering around Rs7 crore a year, some five to seven kgs of gold and 40-45 kg of silver, jumped four times to Rs 24 crore, excluding gold and silver donations. He also improved physical amenities including a modern darshan mandap, built three modern bhakt niwas (lodging) using traditional designs, developed gardens and improved roads.[18]

Director, Groundwater Surveys and Development Agency

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As Director, GSDA, he implemented the Solar Dual Pump Water Supply Scheme. It helped provide round-the year tap water pumped without the use of electricity in 10,000 villages in 82 Naxal affected districts of Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.[6]

District Collector, Solapur

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As District Collector of Solapur, Maharashtra, he devised a strategy and came up with Sand Mining Approval and Tracking system (SMAT) to curb illegal sand mining.[19] The system has been adopted across India[20] as the National Sustainable Sand Mining Guidelines.[21][22]

Municipal Commissioner, Nashik

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He was entrusted with the responsibility of managing Nashik[23][24] Kumbh Mela 2015 which saw a footfall of 20 million people - one of the largest events in the world. With data and technology driven approach, he executed projects worth Rs 1150 crore to provide infrastructure and services to these people resulting in an incident-free event without a single missing person, epidemic, mishap, injury, or death - the first ever. He presented the success story at the UNDRR and MIT Cambridge.

Transport Commissioner, Maharashtra

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As Transport Commissioner of Maharashtra, he led digitization of processes in all 50 Regional Transport Office (RTO) offices in the state. He also framed rules for and regularized app based taxi services like Ola and Uber.

References

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  1. ^ a b "NHA | Official website Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission". abdm.gov.in. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
  2. ^ "GMC alumni to celebrate Platinum Jubilee today". www.thehitavada.com. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
  3. ^ a b "Praveen Gedam is new civic body chief | Nashik News - Times of India". The Times of India. TNN. Nov 6, 2014. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
  4. ^ a b c Staff (2006-05-10). "Maharashtra Govt transfers 11 IAS officers, Latur gets new Collector". oneindia.com. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
  5. ^ "Mira Bhayander gets new civic commissioner | Mumbai News - Times of India". The Times of India. TNN. Jan 25, 2013. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
  6. ^ a b Neha Madaan (Oct 9, 2012). "Pune body to help Naxal-hit villages get water | Pune News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
  7. ^ Press Trust of India (30 July 2016). "Praveen Gedam new transport commissioner". Business Standard.
  8. ^ "Praveen Gedam new transport commissioner". The Siasat Daily. 30 July 2016.
  9. ^ Somit Sen (Nov 14, 2017). "Maharashtra transport commissioner appointed as PS to railway minister | Mumbai News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
  10. ^ "Praveen N Gedam IAS appointed Dy CEO- National Health Authority | Indian Bureaucracy is an Exclusive News Portal". IndianBureaucracy.com. 26 July 2019.
  11. ^ "Gedam appointed Additional CEO, NHA". IndianMandarins. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
  12. ^ "ABDM-Insights". dashboard.abdm.gov.in. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
  13. ^ "PMJAY dashboard". National Health Authority.
  14. ^ "Former housing minister jailed in 29 crore scam". Mumbai Mirror. Mar 12, 2012. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
  15. ^ "Two former Maharashtra ministers convicted in Rs 110-crore Jalgaon housing scam case". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
  16. ^ Santosh Sonawane (Sep 1, 2019). "Two former Maha ministers among 48 convicted in multi-crore housing scam | Nashik News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
  17. ^ indianhealthcarecp. "Dr. Praveen Gedam". Retrieved 2022-05-09.
  18. ^ "Moneylife Foundation". www.mlfoundation.in. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
  19. ^ "The Courage To Fight for Change". Moneylife NEWS & VIEWS. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
  20. ^ "Government launches Sand Mining Framework to check illegal extraction". The Economic Times. 2018-03-20. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
  21. ^ "Illegal sand miners in India make ₹1,611-cr profit every year: Australian film". Hindustan Times. 2017-04-16. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
  22. ^ Moneylife Digital Team (2 February 2016). "Centre's guidelines on sand mining are based on the model developed by Dr Praveen Gedam, keynote speaker at Moneylife Foundation's 6th Anniversary". Moneylife.
  23. ^ "Nashik's Municipal Commissioner taught NDTV a lesson they'll never forget". 2015-07-18. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
  24. ^ Center, Author Tata. "MIT innovations at Kumbh Mela – MIT Tata Center". Retrieved 2023-05-02. {{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)
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