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IAS officer Daulat Desai Wants to Pursue New Things After Retirement

The senior bureaucrat, before being transferred to MEDD, was the collector of Kolhapur and had handled the 2019 floods that ravaged the western Maharashtra district.In his post, Desai had said, “Amidst mixed feelings, I inform you all that I have resigned and voluntarily stepped out of the so-called steel frame, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS), leaving behind all that power, security, status and prestige! Though striving for good health is the instant driver of this decision, it was quite depressing to lie dumped in the backyard, that too after accomplishing most challenging tenure as Collector and District Magistrate Kolhapur,” said Desai in the post.
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Daulat Desai, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer who gave a call about “no masks, no entry” during his stint at Kolhapur, resigned from the service and put up a long post on a social media platform on Monday stating it was “quite depressing to lie dumped in the backyard”.

The 2008-batch IAS officer working who was as joint director in the Medical Education and Drugs Department (MEDD) in Maharashtra, later clarified saying he decided to quit because he did not want to wait till retirement age as he does not believe in that concept and wanted to “pursue something new”. The officer also clarified the reference to a line from his post about feeling dumped in the backyard, saying he mentioned it as his previous posting at Kolhapur was a “happening place” while the recent posting was “relatively quiet”.

In his post, Desai said, “Amidst mixed feelings, I inform you all that I have resigned and voluntarily stepped out of the so-called steel frame, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS), leaving behind all that power, security, status, and prestige! Though striving for good health is the instant driver of this decision, it was quite depressing to lie dumped in the backyard, that too after accomplishing most challenging tenure as Collector and District Magistrate Kolhapur,” said Desai in the post.

“I was very fortunate to be one of the very few! It was a very satisfying and exciting journey full of surprises and successes,” the IAS officer said in his post adding that he never compromised if public interest was at stake.


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