Chief Course Director

Sh. S. Bal Shekar, former Secretary General of Lok Sabha, has 33 years of experience in the administrative, executive, legislative and committee services of the Indian Parliament.

His responsibilities included serving as Chief of Protocol and heading the Conference Branch, which involved event management and travel to various countries on conference duty as Secretary to Parliamentary delegations.

Sh. Bal Shekar holds an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Madras, in which he secured a First Division.

He has advised the Hon'ble Speaker and the Lok Sabha on various matters of parliamentary practice and procedure.

As head of the Lok Sabha Secretariat, he handled the administrative work of a Secretariat of approximately 3,000 employees.

He has been a permanent faculty member of the Bureau of Parliamentary Studies and Training, an institution under Lok Sabha that trains Members of Parliament, Speakers and parliamentary officers from various countries.