The State government has posted Anurag Tewari as the new Deputy Commissioner of Bidar district. The 2007 batch IAS officer is an electrical engineer from Lucknow University.
He has served as Assistant Commissioner of Madhugiri, Deputy Commissioner of Kodagu and Deputy Secretary (Finance) in Bengaluru earlier.
He replaces P.C. Jaffer, who has been posted as Special Project Director, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Bengaluru. Dr. Jaffer was responsible for several development programmes in the educationally backward district of Bidar. He invited resource persons from English and Foreign Languages University to train teachers from all the 1,350 government primary schools in teaching English. Over 4,000 SSLC students attended a bridge course before joining pre-university courses.
He convinced 50 private PUC colleges to admit over 900 poor and meritorious students from Kannada medium schools free of cost.
He organised an orientation and training programme for civil service aspirants. Three batches were trained in Bidar.
One batch was sent to New Delhi to be trained by professional institutions. His three year tenure saw average SSLC results in the district rise by 15 per cent. Projects like the indoor stadium and district science centre were completed under his supervision. Bidar’s ranking in the Sakala scheme, that monitors how fast files are cleared in government offices, moved up from 30 to 11 in 2014.
