Vol. 6 | issue 7 | August 2012
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praveen kumar administrator, huda, Gurgaon
Man of the street
His
weird, out-of-the-box antics may be made fun of by some but the 2001
batch IAS officer also knows how to keep government officials on their
toes and solve the problems of the citizens.
by Narendra Kaushik
The
Administrator of Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) in Gurgaon,
Praveen Kumar, does not mind making a spectacle of himself if that
helps him defuse a difficult situation. He also does not mind doling out
corporal punishment to his corrupt juniors as, according to him, the
government machinery more often than not fails to take the latter to
task.
In
November last year, he beat himself with his own shoes when people in
Sikanderpur, a village in the millennium city on Mehrauli-Gurgaon road,
accused him of favouring a builder and obstructed his anti-encroachment
drive for several hours. A month later, he slapped Mukesh, a peon in his
department for being corrupt, and justified the act in court by
likening the beating to ‘a surgeon tearing the abdomen of a patient to
remove a tumour’. He justifies his beating of peon. “He was taking
money. I slapped him. It was a conscious decision.” When asked why he
did not initiate disciplinary action against him, he claims it is
difficult to find evidence.
His
weird, out-of-the-box antics may be made fun of by bureaucrats who
believe in going strictly by the book, or the media which ridicule his
behaviour to increase its TRPs, but one thing is sure: Kumar knows how
to create news. And going by his over ten-month record, the 2001-batch
Indian Administrative Officer (IAS) also knows how to keep the
government officials on their toes and solve the problems of the
citizens................READ MORE
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