A 2010 batch IAS officer Amit Kumar took the charge of DC, Palamu on Friday. The young IAS officer had got his training here in Palamu some four to five years back which he mentioned during his first interaction with media persons here.
“ My days in Palamu would definitely help me to run this district,” he said.
However, he said in lighter vein, “Earlier people here used to send SMS. Now it is WhatsApp. We have moved and so Palamu has also.”
A trainee IAS officer Divyanshu Jha was present during Amit Kumar’s interaction with media persons.
On being asked as to how his administration would meet the crisis of drinking water here, the new DC said, “ This problem here is really serious. On Saturday there is a meeting on this issue fixed by my predecessor K Srinivasan. I will see what can be done to mitigate the sufferings of the populace here.”
On the prevailing fragility of communal amity where too Palamu is no exception this young IAS officer said, “Cooperation of the masses will help us to maintain amity and harmony here.”
Kumar’s thrust is on deliverance as he said there are still places in Palamu where our reach is poor and here we are to ensure that deliverance takes placeas only then youths in remote areas who have joined the band wagon of others (read extremism) will return to the main stay of the country.
