Kaimur DM wins accolades

PATNA: Kaimur district magistrate Dr. Nawal Kishore Choudhary won accolades from unexpected quarters.
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora not only lauded Choudhary’s endeavour for voters awareness campaign despite being infected with coronavirus but also suggested the chief electoral officer (CEO) of Bihar H R Srinivasa to make the 2013 batch IAS officer, state’s icon of voters’ awareness programme.
“A medical degree holder, Choudhary has set an example for those who got infected with the virus and are scared to go to the polling booths to exercise their franchise, ” Arora said.
The CEC along with other officials was on his three-day visit to the state to assess the preparedness for the assembly polls scheduled to be held in three phases from October 28 to November 7
Choudhary said that he was detected Covid positive on September 1. “I remained in home isolation and followed the doctor’s advice. Despite being in home isolation, I tried to ensure that essential work didn’t get affected,” the DM said, adding that he resumed work soon after his test reports came negative.
Incidentally, only 27 active cases of Covid-19 were found in Kaimur district, which shares its border with Uttar Pradesh. Of the 3011 tests conducted on Wednesday, no positive case was found in the district. “The test reports showed zero in Kaimur district yesterday,” he told this newspaper over the phone.
A native of Sitamarhi in Bihar, Choudhary did his MBBS and MS from PMCH and also worked as neurosurgeon at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi.
The Kaimur district administration has also launched the ‘Har Ghar Dastak’ campaign to motivate the electors to participate in the ‘jantantra ka maha parv’ besides SVEEP, a flagship programme of the EC for voters education, spreading voter awareness and promote voter literary in the country.