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So, Rigzin Samphel, the then DM of Bahraich, ahead of the monsoon, began talking to villagers.
The toilet revolution began in under the then district magistrate Rigzin Samphel....
From Ladakh Royalty to Serving UP’s Poorest. Meet India’s ‘Hardest Working’ IAS Officer
India has some of the most hardworking bureaucrats (IAS, IPS, etc) in the world.
Besides their own personal capacity, this is as much a product of the administrative system they operate under.
Back in 2008, The Economist had published a scathing indictment of this very administrative system. Among the bureaucrats its spoke to was Rigzin Samphel, the District Magistrate of Jalaun, Uttar Pradesh, which spans 564 villages and over 1.4 million people.
Working 16 hours a day, seven days a week, Samphel told the publication that he spent more than 60% of his time addressing individual complaints, while the rest goes in ensuring that the 65 governments departments under his authority in this district function properly, maintain law and order, collect revenue, conduct elections and oversee massive welfare and development projects.
Although the publication got some part of its