Parikipandla Narahari

Parikipandla Narahari (born 1 March 1975) is a District Collector of Gwalior. He has been Assistant Collector, Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Project Coordinator for Integrated Child Dev Scheme and CEO of Zila Panchayat. He have also authored the books named Who Owns Mhow? and The Making of Ladli Laxmi Yojna.

Early life
Parikipandla Narahari was born on 1 March 1975 in Karimnagar, city of Andhra Pradesh. He did his schooling from Indian Mission Secondary School at Basanth Nagar.

Career
Parikipandla Narahari studied mechanical engineering at Osmania University and got selected in Indian Engineering Services in 1999. Narahari later joined the Indian Administrative Service in 2001.

Helping people through Social Media
He started the revolution of social media by addressing citizen's grievances via Facebook and Twitter. When he was posted to Gwalior P. Narahari thought of using social media to interact with the public and ask for suggestions. He won an award from the Internet and Mobile Association of India for effective use of social media in the interest of common people. Almost 90 percent of the 1500 (and counting) problems, brought to his notice on social media websites, have already been addressed and he gets more than 30 complaints per day from his social networks. He has also managed to enroll 1.6 lakh voters with the Election Commission in less than a year by simply tweeting and uploading the procedure of getting a voter ID card.

Awards

 * 2005: Crisil Award 2005 for Excellence in Municipal Initiatives, as Municipal Commissioner Indore
 * 2011: Dainik Bhaskar Group's India Pride Awards, in the category of Impact Creator-Civil Servant