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Pranjal Patil, First Blind Woman IAS Officer Takes The Charge Of Sub-Collector At Thiruvananthpuram
It has been said that 'where there is a will, there is a way'. The same was proved by Pranjal Patil the woman who fought against all odds to become India's first woman blind IAS officer. In the year 2017, Patil secured the 127th rank in the UPSCE exam to break the glass ceiling. On Monday, she took the post of a 'Sub-Collector' in Thiruvananthpuram, Kerala. She was welcomed with a bouquet of flowers and laddoos by K. Gopalakrishnan, the District Collector and the other staff at the District Collectorate.
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31-years-old Patil says one should never be afraid of the odds and should never give up. "We will get that one breakthrough that we are hoping for," she said. Before being appointed as the 'Sub-Collector' at Thiruvananthpuram, she was assigned the role of assistant collector at the Ernakulam, Kerala in 2018, during her training period.
It was in the year 2016, she secured the 773rd rank in UPSCE but ironically, she was refused the job at Indian Railways due to her visual impairment. But she worked hard and re-appeared in the UPSCE the next year. It is then she secured a rank which helped her to qualify for IAS.
Patil
lost
her
eye-sight
at
a
young
age
of
8
due
to
retinal
detachment
but
this
didn't
shake
her
determination.
Her
office
assumption
was
termed
as
an
auspicious
moment
for
the
district
by
Biju
Prabhakar,
the
Special
Secretary,
Social
Justice.
K
Gopalakrishnan
asked
the
collectorate
staffs
to
help
and
assist
Patil
in
her
work.
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We too congratulate and wish her the best.
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