By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: “Today I completed 32 years of service as an Indian Administrative Service officer. I thank the Govt, the people of our state, my colleagues and well-wishers and social media friends and critics, NGOs, CSOs and Media in my journey,” Development Commissioner and SRC Pradeep Jena tweeted@PradeepJenaIAS.
Jena is presently Development Commissioner, Additional Chief Secretary RD , Special Relief Commissioner and MD of Odisha State Disaster Mitigation Authority.
32 years in IAS service, Jena never compromised his basic principle of team work spirit and timely intervention into issues relating to either administration or general public.
The 1988 batch IAS officer earned huge praise during last several natural disaster , most known, 1999 super cyclone.