Gone are the days when civil servants would command respect necessarily attached with their position, filled with authority, conceit, power and of course the ‘Lal Batti’! Most of the breed believes in maintaining a safe distance deliberately from the commoners,but Nidhi Khare.
The IAS officer of 1992 batch has flown to her new assignment as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs in New Delhi after serving at State level in Personnel Department, Health Department and donning the glove of the spokesperson of Jharkhand Government, taking some fabulous memories back in her mind.
“We are Government servants and serving people is our job. But if I am remembered for my job after my departure from here then I am grateful to the people of the State. It is a kind of bonus of me,” says Nidhi Khare expressing her mind in a freewheeling chat with The Pioneer on Monday just before she handed over the charge of Principal Secretary of Health Department to Nitin Madan Kulkarni for her new stint at the Centre.