Maintaining Status-Quo is allegedly the hall mark of bureaucracy. Ringing in transformation requires guts, ideas, out-of-the-box thinking and the ability to manage change, taking all the stakeholders along.
Asok Kumar, in all posts he held ,has tried to bring about some transformations, some of them have stood the test of time due to its high quality, quick execution and stakeholders participation.
The transformation brought in the lives of HIV+ people with the BeBold campaign; the revolutionary change in the lives of Jogin and Pothurajus in Nizamabad due to the social transformation he engineered that ended the historical burden of 700 years of “barbaric “practices; the elation brought in the lives of the “child labor” who were joined in schools and completed their formal education; the quality education given to the BC students in the 119 English Medium Residential schools started on a single day- 12 June 2017, are some examples of the soft transformations.
The hardcore physical transformations brought to the city of Hyderabad with its Outer Ring road and many flyovers, STPs planned and completed by Asok Kumar, the beautification of the cities of Nizamabad and Kadapa, constructions of many buildings like the RIMS in Kadapa, district hospital in Nizamabad, HMWSSB HQ buildings in Hyderabad, completion of Krishna Phase-II, starting of the Godavari drinking water projects in Hyderabad, piloting STPs Ganga basin cities under Namami Gange, all in a short-time period are examples of the Physical infrastructural transformations he could bring about.
He also made his office rooms, offices, and their premises modern and beautiful, as he believes in the need for a quality working environment to deliver quick, quality outputs.
Some of these are showcased here: