Jyoti Kumar Sinha Biography 
Jyoti Kumar Sinha is a retired IPS officer, who has served as secretary at the National Security Council Secretariat. Post retirement he has been providing education to children of the Mahadalit Musahar community, and his efforts were honoured by government of India in 2019 by felicitating him with Padma Shri. The Ex-RAW officer has been honoured for his efforts towards the field of educationHe is the son of Rai Bahadur Shri A.K. Sinha, who was the first Indian to become DIG of Police, Bihar in 1939 long before independence.
Musahar community has a literacy rate of just 3 per cent, and Jyoti started Shoshit Samadhan Kendra, an English medium residential school where 320 Musahar students are enrolled from classes 1 to 12. In 2005, Sinha founded the Shoshit Seva Sangh (SSS) to provide quality education to the Musahar children. He was 73 years old when he was honoured with Padma Shri.
Jyoti Kumar Sinha, shortly called J. K. Sinha was born in Patna, Bihar. His younger days were spent in Patna, where he completed his school and college education. He completed his schooling from St. Xavier's High School, Patna, and graduation in in History from Patna College. His father was a police officer, and following his father’s footsteps he also chose the same field. He is a Bihar cadre Indian Police Service officer of the 1967 batch. He served as Director General of Central Reserve Police Force and later as Member of the National Disaster Management Authority.
Post retirement Sinha has worked tirelessly since 2005 to provide education for Mahadalit Musahar community. When he started the school, only four children joined. Parents felt that it was a waste of time to send their children to school. Instead most children followed family tradition. Musahars are the lowest of the Mahadalit community living in Bihar and UP states and most of them work as bonded laborers. But now 320 Musahar students are enrolled in his school.
Published: February 19, 2019
Updated: February 19, 2019
