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Dreams do, sometimes, come true

Doctor-turned-bureaucrat, Priyanka Shukla, has started a 'Dream 30' campaign in Jashpur district

Priyanka Shukla
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R Krishna Das
As a young doctor committed to serving the needy, she used to visit slums in Lucknow with suggestions and advice to inhabitants on how to safeguard their health. Despite telling a woman repeatedly not to drink water from a contaminated source, and seeing the woman ignore her advice before her very eyes, the young doctor asked why? Irritated, the unlettered woman replied: “who are you to advice? The collector?”
 
The doctor was quiet, but resolved to answer the question. She cleared the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) examination in 2009, becoming an officer in the Chhattisgarh cadre. The doctor-turned-bureaucrat, Priyanka