ROHINI Sindhuri Dasari, an 2009-batch IAS officer of the Karnataka
cadre, may have inadvertently joined a growing list of powerful women officers
of Karnataka, including D Rope and Sonia Narang, who not only broke through the
glass ceiling but also made a mark by standing up to the senior bureaucracy and
politicians, when they came in the way of good work. The young Deputy
Commissioner of Hassan district is going up against the government for
transferring her prematurely. She believes short tenures come in the way of
development. But there’s more to the story. The fight appears to be basically
about the sanctioning of a tender worth Rs 11.75 crore by a local politician
and minister in the State, A Manju, to his favourite. Manju, along with other
Congress leaders, has complained against Dasari in the past too. But the rift
between the two deepened over the tender for the construction of a viewer’s
gallery atop Vindhyagiri for the Mahamastakabhisheka event in February. While
Manju had insisted on handing over the work to Karnataka Road Development
Corporation Ltd, Dasari had decided to hand it over to the Public Works
Department. This is not the first time she has been a victim of a premature
transfer. Her transfer from Mandya, where she was posted as Zilla Panchayat
CEO, was rather sudden too. Several like- minded individuals and organisations
had written to the Chief Minister to revoke her transfer in the interest of the
district’s development. The Congress which is fighting an electoral battle with
the BJP apparently does not have time to listen to the upright officer.
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