Mr. Ravindra Kumar , CDO Sitapur District |
Mr. Ravindra Kumar is an ex-Seafarer, I.A.S. Officer, Mountaineer, Author & a person with deep interest in Social Services. He is the first IAS Officer as well as first Seafarer of India to climb Mt. Everest. He has also written a book ‘Many Everests’, which has tremendous capacity to change people’s life by teaching them a positive way of life and giving them a miraculous tool to success called ‘Advanced Positive Visualization’. In short span of his life, he was awarded with “Sikkim Khel Ratna Award” by the Government of Sikkim and “Vishesh Khel Samman” by the government of Bihar and many more accolades.
EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
He
was born and brought-up in a farmer’s family in a remote village in Begusarai
District of Bihar. He attended a number of different schools as he moved up
through his education including Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Begusarai and
Jawahar Vidya Mandir, Ranchi. He completed his 10+2 education as well as
cleared Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Entrance Examination in the year
1999 but he decided to take shipping as career and so, joined Training Ship
Chanakya (Mumbai). From there, he got Graduation Degree in Nautical Science in
the year 2002 and joined an Italian Shipping Company ‘Finaval Spa’.
JOB IN SHIPPING
After graduated from T.S. Chanakya, Mumbai, he worked in
Shipping (Merchant Navy) in a company called Pentagon Marine Service from 2002
to 2008 continuously, during which he was promoted to the rank of Chief Officer
in 2007, a managerial rank officer on ship. But in 2009, discontinued his job
and came to New Delhi to prepare for civil services examination. His love for
sea attracted him to come back to ship even during civil services examination
preparation and he used to go to ship for few months after writing mains
examination. His last sail was in 2011 after declaration of final result and
his selection in civil services examination. During his job at sea, he
travelled across all the oceans of the world and also visited all the
continents except Antarctica. Working with Europeans gave him good experience
in Human Resource Management. Later, the zeal to serve the people of his own
country motivated him to quit the job in shipping and join civil service. So,
he joined Indian Administrative Service in 2011 after clearing civil services
examination.
INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES
He belongs to Indian Administrative Services of 2011 Batch.
Initially, he was allotted Sikkim State as his cadre, where he worked in the
state as Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) of Namchi Sub-Division of South Sikkim
from August 2013 to February 2014 and then as Sub-Divisional Magistrate of
Soreng Sub-Division of West Sikkim till May 2014. Then he came to New Delhi in
June 2014 to work with “Minister of State for Rural Development, Panchayati
Raj, Drinking Water & Sanitation, Government of India” “Sri Upendra
Kushwaha” as his Interim Private Secretary and worked there for a short period
of about three weeks. He came back to Sikkim, when the proposal for his
appointment as Private Secretary was not approved by the Government due to some
reason. For next three months, he worked as Director of Indian Himalayan Centre
for Adventure and Eco-tourism (IHCAE), an Institute of Adventure Tourism under
ministry of Tourism, Government of Sikkim before getting transferred as
Additional District Magistrate of North District of Sikkim, where he worked
till May 2016. In May 2016, his cadre was transferred from Sikkim to Uttar
Pradesh, where he is posted currently as Chief Development Officer (CDO) of
Sitapur District.
ADVENTURE ACTIVITIES
Other than mountaineering, he has been keenly interested and has
taken part in many other sports and adventure activities like bungee jumping,
flying fox, para sailing, SCUBA diving, skin diving, horse riding, river
rafting etc. in the past. He is also “Black Belt in Karate” which he had
achieved during his college days in Mumbai. He has also been a good swimmer in
the past and has won many prizes in different styles of swimming during his
college days.
MOTIVATIONAL SPEECHES
Mr. Ravindra Kumar is fond of jogging, doing yoga and meditation,
playing chess and giving motivational speeches. He won many prizes in speech
competition during his student life. After returning from Mt. Everest, he has
been giving motivational speeches at many platforms to motivate the youth of
the country to come forward and to rise high in life. He has given lectures in
some of India’s top training institutions like I.A.S. Training Academy LBSNAA
at Mussoorie, National Academy of Customs, Excise and Narcotics (NACEN) at
Faridabad etc. He has also motivated thousands of youths during State Youth
Festival in Bihar, where Government of Bihar invited him.
SOCIAL
SERVICES
Other
than sports and adventure activities, he has been actively contributing in the
field of social welfare and has taken many initiatives in the past to help poor
and helpless people. For example: He organized voluntary fund contribution
campaign on Facebook and collected and handed over Five Lakhs & Seventy
Thousands Rupees to help the aggrieved family of two students, who lost their
life after getting selected into Civil Services Examination. While undergoing
training in I.A.S. Academy Mussoorie; he organised many blood donation camps to
collect blood, which would be used in emergency to save life of many people who
need it on urgent basis. He also organized many health camps for poor children
in the vicinity and collected fund worth One Lakh & Twenty Six Thousands
Rupees to support the higher education of children of poor staffs employed in
I.A.S. Academy Mussoorie.
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