It’s surprising that in the election year,
Karnataka government has assigned the job to administer the state to two
top-ranking women civil servants-Chief Secretary K Ratnaprabha and Director
General of Police Neelamani N Raju. K Ratnaprabha is a 1981-batch IAS officer
of the Karnataka cadre and will retire on March 31, 2018. She is the third
woman chief secretary of Karnataka after Teresa Bhattacharya (2000) and Malathi
Das (2006). She worked as deputy commissioner in Raichur and Bidar, apart from
serving in departments such as commerce and industry, communication and
transport. Ratnaprabha, originally belonging to Andhra Pradesh, did her
graduation in physics and chemistry before shifting her stream and completing
post-graduation in two subjects, English and Sociology. A month ago, 1983-batch
Indian Police Service officer Neelamani N Raju took over as DGP in the state.
Raju, who belongs to Roorkee in Uttarakhand, became the state’s first woman
director general and inspector general of police on October 31, breaking a
glass ceiling in the state police. She is a 1983 batch IPS officer and wife of
former IAS officer Narasimha Raju. She had a long career in Intelligence Bureau
where she moved up to the post of additional director. She was the recipient of
the President Police Medal for Distinguished Service in 2009. This 57-year-old
officer will be at the helm till January end, 2020.
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