Express News Service
PATNA: In a transfer to immortalise the educational brilliance {and professional} uprightness of late alumni Manoj Kumar Srivastava, a 1980 batch Bihar IAS officer, the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has instituted “Manoj Kumar Srivastava Memorial Gold Medal” to the topper of MA in Sociology programme.
Bihar-native Srivastava was a darling of the general public, whose switch from Bhojpur in 1988 as DM had sparked a mass public protest. He was identified all through his profession for his quick public grievances redressal means as an administrative officer, who by no means compromised together with his ethics, sincerity and dedication to the event of society.
Though he was an IAS officer, wherever he was posted as SDM and DM, his identify was sufficient to create concern amongst criminals. According to official sources,the “Manoj Kumar Srivastava Memorial Gold Medal” will likely be given to the topper in MA sociology from the batch of 2020-22 in JNU.
Srivastava was a pupil of MA Sociology in JNU from 1979. The memorial award will carry a certificates and a gold medal. The chairperson of CSSS program in JNU would be the nodal particular person for recommending the identify of topper for this award.
Late Srivastava’s son Saagar Srivastava expressed gratitude to the JNU and tweeted that he felt proud to share this details about the Medal instituted in the reminiscence and honour of his father. Manoj Kumar Srivastava died in 2020 because of coronavirus at Patna AIIMS, aged 65.
He was additionally the founder secretary of the Disaster Management Department of Bihar. He was additionally credited for the facilitation of the world’s largest free meals distribution throughout 2007 in Bihar floods underneath the UNDP Disaster Risk administration venture.
Srivastava has in his credit score additionally as probably the most erudite achievement analysis that he did on naxalism in Bhojpur whereas serving as DM there. He was additionally an alumnus of the London School of Economics in addition to being a distinguished fellow of IIM Ahmedabad. He was also referred to as a working encyclopaedia in the bureaucratic circle and had additionally studied in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US.
