Be a Deputy Commissioner for a day: this is how higher secondary level students were involved in administrative matters to motivate them to take up civil services in south Kashmir’s most militancy-affected district of Pulwama on Tuesday.
Deputy Commissioner Baseer-ul-Haq Choudhary, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, vacated his chair for an hour to allow several students to listen to the grievances of residents and think of possible solutions.
“It was unbelievable to don the role of a deputy commissioner. I acted as a DC for 10 minutes and heard public grievances,” Riffat Sarwar, a Class 12 student of the Higher Secondary School, Karimabad, said.
