Jagdish Sonkar, IAS: Profile, Family and Details

Jagdish Sonkar is an IAS Officer of 2013 batch of Chhattisgarh cadre. Before becoming an IAS officer, he was a practicing doctor. He had become a star at the start of his career as a Civil Servant. Apart from performing his official duty which was loaded with heavy responsibilities owing to development administration issues of Maoists hit areas, he used to see poor patients free of cost. 

In this context, it was really shocking for people known to him that Jagdish has fallen so much and has become such an insensitive creature while visiting a nutrition health center that he put up his foot on the bed while interacting with the mother of a baby patient. Does he consider his duty as a part of benevolent despotism or enlightened despotism? He was severely criticized for this sort of arrogance. However, to his credit, he had later apologized for this immoral act. 

Jagdish Sonkar, IAS, treating a patient

Profile of Jagdish Sonkar

Jagdish was born on 30 December, 1980. His father is quite rich and never compromised with the education of Jagdish and other children. Further, being an affluent member of ‘reserved category’ Jagdish was always getting undue privilege from the Indian state, like thousands of other privileged people of India.

He is rich and was never required to work hard to become something special in his life. He got admission into the Mahatma Gandhi College, Indore and did MBBS. There was nothing he could have done after getting this degree. He started to prepare for Civil Services. He was free of any tension or something like that as he was always aware of ‘reservation factor’. There was no problem of age and number of attempts for him.

He cracked the exam in 2012 and got All India Rank of 459 with just 782 marks in the Main examination and only 171 in Interview. But, as you might know, there is nothing to worry about in India if you are rich and belong to reserved category. With such a low rank, he got prestigious IAS. Poor candidates belonging to General category with far better rank couldn’t get IAS, as there need to be some special treatment for these so called down trodden people who have already gotten MBBS degree.

Visiting a Hospital

While working as an SDO, Mr. Jagdish decided to show poor people that he is not just an IAS officer, but also a qualified doctor. He visited a government run hospital for ‘inspection’. And, how he inspected the hospital can be seen in the following picture.

Jagdish Sonkar, IAS

Isn’t it inhuman? Why do bureaucrats still consider themselves as worthy of special treatment? But, more problematic is the issue of reservation. If you keep on selecting these types of illiterates – literacy is comparative and he is definitely illiterate among other poor general category candidates – you are going to find these types of morons as bureaucrats. This scum holds an MMBS degree and doesn't understand that his posture may lead to infection to the baby. His attitude as an IAS officer is quite arrogant and behaving like a king. By the way, next time, if he plans to go to IIM on study leave and will appear for CAT, the Constitution of India will make him again eligible for reservation. 

IAS Association has severely criticized this officer. Some stern disciplinary action may be taken against this emotionless and uncultured officer who needs to send back to Mussorie to let him understand the difference between service and job.

Apology

Social media is a cruel world. It can decimate the aura of any person in no time. This arrogant and uncivilized officer should have learnt the power of social media. He had to tender an apology on the Facebook Page. Going through the apology, the link of which is shared by a user in the comment section, you will notice that he is completely insincere. He wrote few lines, taking a cew from Arvind Kejriwal, to gain sympathy.