She is a Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer of the 2019 batch. She secured AIR 5 within the 2018 UPSC Civil Providers Examination.
File picture: Srushti Deshmukh/Insta
IAS Srushti Deshmukh and his husband, IAS Nagarjuna B Gowda, are a preferred IAS couple amongst UPSC aspirants and civil providers circles. They’re usually praised for his or her transparency and engagement with youth. Nonetheless, this time, IAS Gowda has discovered himself on the centre of an argument over allegations of taking a Rs 10 crore bribe for decreasing a mining advantageous throughout his tenure as ADM in Harda district.
Who’s IAS Srushti Deshmukh? The place is she at the moment posted?
She is a Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer of the 2019 batch. She secured an All-India Rank(AIR) 5 within the 2018 UPSC Civil Providers Examination. IAS Srushti turned the highest feminine candidate within the UPSC CSE End result 2018. At present, she is posted as an Further District Justice of the Peace (ADM) in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh.
Who’s IAS Nagarjuna Gowda?
IAS Nagarjuna B Gowda can also be a 2019 batch MP cadre officer. He’s at the moment serving because the CEO of Khandwa District Panchayat. The IAS officer is well-known for his social media presence, motivational speeches, and authored books. A medical physician by schooling, he married IAS Srushti Deshmukh in 2022.
What’s the controversy round IAS Nagarjuna Gowda?
An RTI activist Anand Jat had accused Gowda of accepting a Rs 10 crore bribe to waive off a Rs 51 crore penalty imposed on PATH, a personal firm concerned within the Betul–Indore freeway development beneath the Bharatmala undertaking. Jat claimed the officer had unlawfully diminished the advantageous to Rs 4,000, a declare that shortly made headlines.
IAS Nagarjuna Gowda breaks silence on Rs 10 crore bribe allegations
IAS Gowda has firmly denied any wrongdoing, saying the choice was primarily based solely on accessible paperwork and court docket proceedings. “The advantageous was not imposed by the earlier ADM however solely a discover was issued. The ultimate listening to occurred earlier than I assumed workplace. The Tehsildar’s report was procedurally weak, the panchnama was unsubstantiated, and there was no concrete proof of mining,” he advised NBT.
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