Delhi Chief Minister: Assumed Office (3 December 1998)

Smt. Sheila Dikshit, Born (31 March 1938). Smt. Sheila Dikshit, presents herself in the Assembly as a representative of the Gole Market constituency.Smt. Sheila Dikshit became the Chief Minister of the government of NCT of Delhi for the second time in the year 2003.

From the 1970s itself, Delhi Chief Minister was actively involved in the welfare of the Indian women. Being the chairperson of young Women's Association Sheila Dikshit provided major help in establishing two hostels for the working women of Delhi. 

From 1984 to 1989 Delhi Chief Minister, Smt. Sheila Dikshit represented the Kannauj Parliamentary Constituency and from 1986 to 1989 she was a minister of the Union Government. Serving as the President Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee the present day Delhi Chief Minister won the 1998 Assembly elections.

Political Career

During the period between 1984 and 1989, she represented Kannauj Parliamentary Constituency of Uttar Pradesh. As a member of Parliament, she served on the Estimates Committee of Lok Sabha. Dikshit also chaired the Implementation Committee for Commemoration of Forty Years of India's Independence and Jawaharlal Nehru centenary. She represented India at United Nations Commission on Status of Women for five years (1984–1989).
She has also served as a Union Minister during 1986–1989, first as the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and later as a Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office. She was shortlisted for the 2008 World Mayor award.[citation needed] As Chief Minister of Delhi, Dikshit was awarded the Best Chief Minister of India, by Journalist Association of India on 12 July 2008. In 2009, she was awarded Politician of the Year by NDTV.

Serving the Delhi Government Smt. Sheila Dikshit supervises the following departments as Chief Minister:

• art & culture
• administrative reforms
• water
• home department
• training & technical education
• public relations
• general administration departments
• environment, forest & wildlife department
• services department
• law & justice and legislative affairs
• higher education
• all other departments not allocated elsewhere
• vigilance department

Professional career

Dikshit became Chairperson of the Young Women's Association and was instrumental in setting up two of the most successful hostels for working women in Delhi during the 1970s. She later worked as executive secretary of the Garment Exporters Association

Contributions

She represented India on the U.N. Commission on Status of Women for five years (1984–89). In Uttar Pradesh, she and her 82 colleagues were jailed in August 1990 for 23 days by the state government when she led a movement against the atrocities being committed on women. Electrified by this, hundreds of thousands of citizens all over UP joined the movement and courted arrest. Earlier, in the early 1970s, she was chairperson of the Young Women's Association and was instrumental in the setting up two of most successful hostels for working women in Delhi.

She is also the Secretary of the Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust