By Jonali Buragohain

Ask any young IAS officer and she or he would tell you how they looked forward with great anticipation and some trepidation to their first posting after probation. This is the time they get to put all the knowledge they had acquired during their training period into action and gather a diverse range of experiences that would further hone their administrative skills.

2021 batch IAS officer Srishti Singh, too, approached her first posting in Assam’s Bilasipara sub-divison in Dhubri district as the District Election Officer with the same energy and enthusiasm. Only two and a half months were left for the parliamentary elections 2024 and she was all charged up to discharge her duties in this biggest exercise of democracy. That her district is not the regular kind, being full of inaccessible char (riverine) areas, added to the barrage of challenges.

To tackle the limited access to these silt-laden areas in the remote basins of the mighty Brahmaputra river, Ms. Singh, improvised on the poll monitoring system and came up with a ‘boat cell’ for the char areas. In an exclusive conversation with Indian Masterminds, the AIR 78 rank holder in CSE 2020 detailed the initiative.

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