Ashutosh
Agnihotri may be young in age, but what he has achieved as DC in some
Assam districts would make any seasoned officer proud
by Amarjyoti Borah
The people
have great expectations from me. I have to put in more effort to
perform better and live up to their expectations”, says 38-year-old
Ashutosh Agnihotri, a 1999 batch Assam-Meghalaya cadre IAS officer who
is creating ripples as the Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Kamrup Metro
district of Assam. In just a decade of service and 13 postings, he has
done many things that others may not even have dreamt of.
Agnihotri
is a confirmed workaholic and man of action — for a man who has almost
just started, he has managed to create an enviable reputation that
follows him wherever he goes. The people of Dibrugarh and Nalbari, where
he was DC before shifting to Kamrup, remember him as a ‘down to earth’
bureaucrat and common man’s DC. An innovative architect of
administrative reforms, Agnihotri, who hails from Uttar Pradesh, is
winning the hearts and minds of the people of Assam.
Strangely, the very things that make him popular
with people invariably land him into trouble, though he may not intend
things to happen that way. He is a man who never gives up even when it’s
an uneven fight against bigger odds. Though he has paid a price for his
crusade against corruption, Agnihotri is determined to take the fight
to the finish....READMORE
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