Rahul Kumar is a 2011 batch IAS officer of Bihar
Cadre. He is widely regarded as one of the best officers of Bihar in the
contemporary times. The way he transformed the social life of Gopalganj
district is simply scintillating. He is getting accolades for his work to make
this rather a backward district into an open defecation free district.
Profile and Family of Rahul Kumar
Rahul Kumar is from Patna. He appeared in the UPSC
Civil Services Examination in 2010 and secured a rank of 36. He has
always been a hardworking and studious student. He had appeared in the CSE with
Literature and Hindi Language subjects. It should be mentioned here that the
plan of UPSC Civil Services Examination has now changed and candidates are
expected to select only one optional subject in the Mains Examination. It is
considered tough to crack CSE with Hindi and securing good rank. Rahul has
broken the myth for better.
Rahul is an OBC and hence through rooster system he
got the first preference for cadre. He got his home state Bihar and currently
determined to make some positive changes in the social life of the great land.
The Sage of Mid Day Meal in Gopalganj
Kalyanpur is a village in Gopalganj district. Here,
five women are employed as a cook. A cook named Sunita Devi is
a 36 year widow. She is quite poor and trying her best to educate her son
through this earning. However, a superstition got into the blood of villagers
because of some events in Kalyanpur. They thought that Sunita is the bad omen
because she is a widow. They barred her from cooking food. This was not about
loss of work and livelihood for the poor lady. It was about the stigma that she
is a bad omen.
Sunita met Rahul Kumar, the DM of Gopalganj, in the
Janta Darbar. Rahul heard her and assured support. Next week, Rahul went to
Kalyanpur and asked Sunita to cook. While she was cooking, he took lessons to students
of the school. Further, he talked to villagers in a very polite manner and then
firmly told them to keep away these types of anti-social and inhuman practices.
When Sunita completed cooking, he sat there and asked her to serve. She did the
same thing and Rahul ate entire plate in front of the villagers.
This may seem to be a very small or minor incident.
However, seeing it in the social set up of Gopalganj, it becomes quite
important. By this stroke, Rahul tried to remove stigma attached to a widow.
Rahul is an aspiring poet and planning to write a
book on Hindi poetry.
Needless to say, nation needs many IAS officers
like Rahul Kumar. He is justifying the tag attached with an IAS Officer – the
steel pillar of the nation.
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