ndia's first visually-impaired IAS officer Pranjal Patil has taken charge as Thiruvananthapuram sub-collector. This is her second assignment since her appointment into service in 2018.
Pranjal was received by the office staff and district collector K Gopalakrishnan at his office in the state capital.
She said that she was excited to be working in Kerala and looked forward to the new assignment as sub collector. "We must never give up, we will get that one breakthrough that we are hoping for," she added.
Pranjal lost her vision at the age of 6. Hailing from Ulhasnagar, Maharashtra, she completed her postgraduation in internal relations from JNU. In 2016, she secured 773rd rank in the UPSC exam. Though she was eligible for various posts under IRS, she was not appointed because of her visual impairment.
Pranjal gave a second attempt in 2017 in which she secured 124th rank, easily qualifying for IAS.
Pranjal Patil, the young woman who became the country’s first visually challenged woman IAS officer, took over as Subcollector in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday.
“We should never be defeated, and never give up,” Ms. Patil, 31, who assumed charge in the presence of District Collector K. Gopalakrishnan and staff at the District Collectorate, said, adding that she felt “extremely glad and proud to be in Thiruvananthapuram.”
After securing the 124th rank in the 2017 Civil Services Exams, she had been posted as Assistant Collector in Ernakulam, Kerala, in 2018. Ms. Patil opted to spend her first day in Thiruvananthapuram familiarising herself with the new environment. The loss of vision at the age of six did not deter the youngster from Ulhasnagar, Maharashtra, from pursuing her Civil Services dream. In 2016, she cracked the Union Public Services Examination on her first attempt with a rank of 773. Ironically, she was refused a job in the Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS) on the grounds that she was visually challenged.
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