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Kochi metro also faced that similar problem. All of Kerala was stuck up in terms of land acquisition because of the unavailability of the routes. Explaining in brief about the work he has undertaken in Kerala, the IAS officer told CH, “In 2014, January 1, the Central Government had introduced a new land acquisition act.
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Soon, he went on to become the first collector from Kochi to receive the Best Collector Award! Source: Twitter/Swamv39.Īnd for a good reason too. He reasoned that if the public cannot have good roads, they should not be made to pay money for damaged roads either. When the National Highway Authority refused to take any positive steps about the pothole issue, the IAS officer simply shut the toll. Sustained interaction with district collectors during the Literacy Movement (Arivoli Iyakkam) in the villages of Kerala made him realise that the IAS was his true calling. Coming from a family of police officers, Rajamanikyam wanted to work for the benefit of the country. Rajamanikyam was an academically gifted youngster, but even though he was a gold medalist at the university, he knew that he was not meant to take up a cushy engineering job. However, Rajamanikyam failed the subject-he preferred this option to cheating and copying the answers that were right in front of him!Īfter completing his Class 12 from the same school, he went on to pursue further studies and even acquired an MTech degree, although he mentions that it was due to family pressure. During the English exam, their teacher, out of sympathy, had written down the correct answers on the blackboard. The school was a non-English medium school, and the students were finding it difficult to score well in the subject. An incident from when Rajamanikyam was a student in Class 3, is a great example of his upright nature.