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Young IAS officer Omprakash Choudhary has won the Prime Minister&#039;s award for excellence in public administration for his stellar work in education in Chattisgarh&#039;s Dantewada district, the scene of country&#039;s worst Naxal insurgency.
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&amp;quot;There have been threats to my life, but I have my priorities set on changing things. The local people are with me and the tide is surely turning,&amp;quot; Choudhary told ET on the sidelines of a function after being awarded by the Prime Minister. Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh, who was present in the audience, also acknowledged the efforts and congratulated the collector.
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Young IAS officer Omprakash Choudhary has won the Prime Minister&#039;s award for excellence in public administration for his stellar work in education in Chattisgarh&#039;s Dantewada district, the scene of country&#039;s worst Naxal insurgency.
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Young IAS officer Omprakash Choudhary has won the Prime Minister&#039;s award for excellence in public administration for his stellar work in education in Chattisgarh&#039;s Dantewada district, the scene of country&#039;s worst Naxal insurgency.


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Young IAS officer Omprakash Choudhary has won the Prime Minister&#039;s award for excellence in public administration for his stellar work in education in Chattisgarh&#039;s Dantewada district, the scene of country&#039;s worst Naxal insurgency.
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&amp;quot;There have been threats to my life, but I have my priorities set on changing things. The local people are with me and the tide is surely turning,&amp;quot; Choudhary told ET on the sidelines of a function after being awarded by the Prime Minister. Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh, who was present in the audience, also acknowledged the efforts and congratulated the collector.
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Chaudhary told ET that constant threats to his life has made him take adequate security, especially after his counterpart and former collector of Sukma district Alex Paul Menon was kidnapped by Maoist rebels. &amp;quot;I know that if I am kidnapped or harmed by Naxals, the area will surely go back 10 years as no officer will again have the morale to do something constructive for the people and locals will lose their faith in the government,&amp;quot; said Choudhary.
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Dantewada, ravaged by Maoist violence in the last decade, has one of the worst human development indicators in the country, with a literacy rate of just 33%. As many as 183 of the 615 villages in the district do not have electricity; 86 school buildings were blasted by the Maoists, cumulatively resulting in more than 18,600 children being rendered out of schools.
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&amp;quot;I decided that residential facilities must be provided to all out-of-school children. The Centre then sanctioned 500-seated residential campuses for this purpose at 53 different locations in the state. Twenty-one residential schools are under construction and 27 are operational. Over 1,000 students got themselves re-enrolled in these schools in 2011-12.
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Young IAS officer selected for PM's award for excellence in education -Aman Sharma

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