Development Commissioner Cum Additional Chief Secretary Water Resources at Government of Odisha | Alumnus LSR, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Completed 32 years in the IAS this September…… from a young SubCollector in Jharsuguda…to two years in Kalahandi…. To districts as Collector: Bargarh and Sambalpur…and now Development Commissioner and ACS! A long journey… but really really meaningful and fulfilling. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Happy to share that the state of Odisha got second position in the state category in GoI’s National Water Awards 23!! Congratulations to the team!! 👏👏👏
Great meeting my first boss (when I had joined as Subcollector Jharsuguda and he was my first Collector of then undivided Sambalpur district) Mr S N Tripathi, now the Director Indian Institute of Public Administration. Have learnt a lot from him! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Little Payal - that little girl from Bolangir who made my portrait when I met her a month back is back in her orphanage - now with artificial limbs; and adequate practice to use them. Touchwood! God bless!
Kudos to her spirit & to the ARC at Bhubaneswar that helped her
Back to where it all began – 28 years ago, my days as Collector Bargarh flood back as I revisit Nrusinghanath Temple with these two bright young juniors. Sharing stories and reliving memories, a journey that never fades.
@Kunal__chavan
@snehaias
Enjoyed delicious Odia cuisine including Sambalpur’s famous dessert ‘Sarsatiya’…. In the refurbished Rani Ki Bakhri, Sambalpur now housing OTDC’s Nimantran restaurant
Interesting discussions at the University of California, Berkeley, USA - with MoU signed. Great opportunity for our students, faculty and researchers. A beautiful campus!!
Stayed in Swabhiman Anchal (erstwhile cutoff area) in Malkangiri for the night. Something that was unimaginable until a few years back.
#Malkangiri
#SwabhimanAnchal
#SETU
Feel honoured to be felicitated by the Hon'ble CM, Odisha!
While lauding efforts of Department of Water Resources in being second best in the country in water conservation and management,
#National
Water Awards, he advised us to be a role model for others.
Visited the upcoming ‘Anand Van’ - the garden of happiness in Bhubaneswar- countless old and new trees, medicinal plants, water bodies being developed within, anthills, butterflies…. Indeed gave lots of happiness!
Gangadhar Meher Lift Irrigation Project inaugurated in Bargarh, Odisha!!! Will cover 63000 acres through 3100 kms of underground pipelines.
As ex-Collector Bargarh this achievement makes me double happy
Interacting with Odia diaspora, potential investors, tour operators and others at a well attended Odisha Divas in Dubai to celebrate the state initiative for first direct flight from Bhubaneswar to Dubai.
Direct flights from Bhubaneswar to Singapore and Bangkok on 3rd June’23!
San Francisco (Sunday): So good to plant sapling at the proposed Jagannath Cultural and Educational Centre,Bay area and see the enthusiasm of the local Odia community!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
It was wonderful to interact with Mr Bill Gates on his trip to Odisha on 28.2.24 as he saw the transformation in some low income neighbourhoods in Bhubaneswar through community participation ……
From Bolangir- Inspected Suktel Irrigation Project today with EIC WR and other senior officers. The dam and spillway will be completed soon to start impounding of water this year. 🤞🤞🤞
Visited deep bore well in Malkangiri district. Happy to see them growing groundnut and sunflowers. Look who is giving emotional support to parents as they guard the crops?
#DeepBoreWells
#Malkangiri
Giving away prizes to some of the ‘Times Power Women’ yesterday along with the very gorgeous Rakulpreet Singh. Congratulations to all the winners!
#WomenEmpowerment
Hon'ble Vice-President, Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar conferred prizes to winners in various categories at the 4th National Water Awards ceremony in New Delhi today.
@MoJSDoWRRDGR
So good to interact today with the members of Pani Panchayats (Water User Associations) of Odisha as we celebrated the Pani Panchayat fortnight! There are 39000 PPs; one third of Executive Committee members being women…..
#Participatory
irrigation management
#women
for water
With correct mindset and right intentions you can bring about transformation……you can actually be the change you want to see.
Speaking virtually to the students on the occasion of induction of new MBA batch 2023-25 of IIM Sambalpur; with 320 students with 60% female students
Happy to share that, Baitarani left canal of Anandpur Barrage was inaugurated by Hon’ble CM, linking Bidyadharpur Barrage to Anandpur barrage. It will provide irrigation to fresh ayacut and will also stabilise the ayacut of Hathgad project.
One hour flight from Bhubaneswar to Kalahandi!!! Takes me down memory lane when as the young SDM of Bhawanipatna Kalahandi one traveled for 9-10 hours to reach the state capital. Assuring greater connectivity in future…
CM
@Naveen_Odisha
flagged off the first scheduled flight service to Utkela Airport in
#Kalahandi
district at Biju Patnaik International Airport in
#Bhubaneswar
. The 9-seater aircraft is operated by
@IndiaoneA
in the Bhubaneswar-Utkela route for which the travel time will be 1
Happy to share: Multidimensional Poverty in Odisha declined from 29.34% in 2015-16 to 15.68% in 2019-21; a decline of 13.66 percentage points - as per latest report of NITI.
Means 62.6 lakh people brought out of dimensional poverty!
Odisha among states with sharpest declines.
Teamwork!! Four departments- Finance, IT, P&C and Revenue and Disaster Management come together for this World Bank project on State Capability and Resilient Growth….meeting with the World Bank representatives.
So proud of Team Odisha - winning prize for Best Pavilion at India
@indiatradefair
International Trade Fair 23!! Our culture, millets, Karuna silk, handicrafts , SHG products, display etc were appreciated by all… 👍🏼👍🏼
@OLICLTD
projects at Lahunipara Block in Sundargarh brought prosperity to farmers. With round the clock availability of water, the farmers grew multiple crops and enhanced their livelihood. The farmers thank the Govt for the initiative.
@CMO_Odisha
@OdishaWater
@IPR_Odisha
So happy to be part of the inaugural flight to Dubai… the excitement of Odia diaspora was heartwarming as this much needed direct connectivity will boost investments and tourism into Odisha while making travel so much more convenient for all members of our ‘Odisha Parivaar’.