FIRST STIRRINGS Anil Kumar Lakhina
Bringing a paradigm shift
PHOTOS: RAVI BATRA
His reorganisation-cumclean up drive in Ahmednagar in 1982, lead to what is known as Lakhina model. This made him a role model for the country’s governance machinery.
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NIL Kumar Lakhina, a 1974batch Maharashtra cadre IAS, could never imagine that a reorganisation-cum-clean up drive in Ahmednagar collectorate he carried out for nine months in 1982, would lead to coinage of appellations like ‘Lakhina experiment’, ‘Lakhina Pattern’ and ‘Lakhina model’. He never thought that the drive would make him a role model for the entire governance machinery in the
country, from Jammu & Kashmir to Kerala and right up to the top of the executive pyramid—Prime Minister of India—and even fetch him a Padma Shri from the President of India. According to Lakhina, his limited purpose in initiating the drive was to improve the responsiveness of the government to the requests and needs of members of the public and to make the district administration under him people-oriented and corruption-free.
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