Anindita Mitra: A Role Model & Woman of Substance
By Amrit Pal Singh Brar
Chandigarh, 5 June 2019: “Competence is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort”. These words truly match with the persona of bold and beautiful Anindita Mitra an IAS officer of the 2007 batch of Punjab cadre. She has come up as a bureaucrat who needs no introduction. Excellence is not an act for her, but a habit.
Excellence is not an act for Anindita, but a habit
After leaving a positive mark and noteworthy footprints of good governance and responsive administration as DC of Nawanshahr and Hoshiarpur, Anindita is continuing with her good performance as Director of Food, Civil Supply and Consumer Affairs besides Director of Information & Public Relations.
After taking over as Director of Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs, she took number of decisions which streamlined the functioning of the department.
She has been instrumental in initiating policies, which has not only saved hundreds of crores rupees of the state exchequer, but also earned applauses from the government of India for initiating such good measures. “It is a substantial amount which has been saved” says a senior officer, who is privy to these developments. He said “Earlier, It was a burden of Rs 1400 crore on the state exchequer, which has been brought down to just 400 crores owing to the new policies framed by the department”. She is one of the architects of the new policies approved by the government, disclosed the senior officer.
“She had burnt the midnight oil to get prepared and put into operation these policy changes” said another officer of the department. He said “Her day begins at 6 am in the morning, when messages start pouring in on our cell phones and it ends in meetings, sometimes till 9 pm late nights”. Her top agenda is always, how to implement the decisions at the earliest, he said.
Anindita Mitra has also streamlined the internal functioning of the department of Information and Public Relation. Time schedules have been fixed for each task. “Regular monitoring is taking place to analyze the performance for achieving fixed goals under the action plan” disclosed one senior officer of the DIPR office.
A Wonderful Role Model & Woman of Substance
One senior woman officer in the secretariat told APS Brar that “Though she is little bit erratic by nature, one day she is friendly and next day she may ignore you, but she is one of the best and a wonderful role model”. She is self-reliant, ambitious and pursues her goals with passion. A woman who attains power with her own efforts and makes her identity in the society is surely a woman of substance, added the senior woman officer.
Answering a remark of Author APS Brar, Anindita said “Excellence is not a destination; it’s a continuous journey that never ends”. (Author can be contacted at amritbrar2012@gmail.com 9814313405)
