Rohit Kumar Singh is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1989 batch, Rajasthan cadre. He currently works as a Member in the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission.
After graduating in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Banaras Hindu University (BHU), he completed Masters in Computer Engineering from Clarkson University, New York, USA before joining the IAS. Subsequently, he obtained Masters in Public Administration (MPA) from Harvard University, USA. At IIT BHU, he received the Director’s Outstanding Merit Award in 1982 & 1983; and the Distinguished Alumnus Award in December 2021. At Harvard, he was honored as Lucius N. Littaeur Fellow 2004 for outstanding academic performance and commitment to public service.
He has provided leadership at the middle and senior levels in Govt of India & in the state of Rajasthan across departments e.g. Consumer Affairs, National Highways, Medical & Health, Home, Information Technology, Finance, Commercial Taxes, Urban Infrastructure Development, Road Transport, Rural Development, Culture and Information & Public Relations. He led the initiative of reviving Public Private Partnerships (PPP) in National Highways via key policy interventions like the Hybrid Annuity Model through appropriate risk allocation among the public and private partners. He also successfully led the initiative of asset recycling of public funded national highways (Toll Operate Transfer Model) that resulted in one of the largest FDI in the highways sector amounting to USD 1.5 billion, one of the first successful asset monetization in India. As Additional Chief Secretary of the Department of Medical, Health & Family Welfare in Rajasthan, during the first wave of Covid-19 in the year 2020, he developed and deployed the Bhilwara Model of “ruthless containment” to successfully manage the Covid upsurge in the rural and urban hot spots across Rajasthan.
He joined as Secretary to the Govt of India, Dept of Consumer Affairs in 2021 where he worked towards containing food inflation while striking a delicate balance between the interest of the farmers and the consumers. He facilitated computerization, video conferencing, and e-filing across National, State, and District Consumer Dispute Redressal Commissions (Consumer Courts), greatly reducing pendency.
An avid reader, he also frequently writes columns for prominent national newspapers on a variety of issues ranging from Economy, Governance, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Health, Infrastructure and Public Private Partnerships.
