Rajendra Narayan Dash (R.N. Dash), presently founder chairman of CINEYATRA, is a retired IAS officer, born and educated in Orissa but served and settled down in Bihar. After a brilliant academic career in Orissa, he joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1962, served in Bihar during its most turbulent days, during which he held many important jobs and assignments such as the District Magistrate of Gaya and Patna Districts, Commissioner, Patna Division, Home secretary, Finance Secretary etc, and received many awards and commendations for his distinguished achievements before he retired in 1996 in the rank of a Secretary to Government of India / Chief Secretary.