Talk:Raju Narayanaswamy

He has held several posts including District Collector of five districts, Director of Fisheries and of Collegiate Education, Managing Director, Marketfed and Commissioner in Civil Supplies Department of Kerala before being removed allegedly for trying to expose corruption. His Anti-Corruption Campaign started from the very first day of his Service, which earned him flaks from Political Bosses and led to 20 transfers in last 22 years. He had to pay huge price for his War against Corruption. He was made to go on forced leave as managing director of the state Marketing Federation (MARKETFED) after refusing to play ball with the chairman, a senior politician. He was shunted to sinecure assignments, even posted to work under junior officers.

As District Collector, Trichur, he single-handedly widened the Pattalom Road and the Inner Ring Road.

Once he refused permission to a real-estate businessman to fill up a large paddy farm — it would have deluged some 50 poor village homes nearby with waste from the adjacent government hospital.

In his district it was a practice to collect crores of rupees for earthen bunds meant for poor farmers, but which were never constructed. A bill for rupees 8 crores came up before Narayanaswamy. He inspected the bund. He found it very weak and said that he will pass the bill after the rainy season to ensure that the bund served the purpose. As expected the earthen bund was too weak to stand the rain and it disappeared in the rain. But he created a lot of enemies for saving 8 crores public money.

After the V. S. Achuthanandan led LDF government came into power in Kerala, Narayana Swamy was appointed as the collector of Idukki district When Kerala Chief Minister V. S. Achuthanandan wanted encroachers in Munnar driven out, Narayanaswamy was one of the CM’s three handpicked men. Even senior CPM leaders objected to his choice, but VS stood his ground. During his investigations, he inquired into an alleged illegal land deal by the son and daughter of the then public works minister T. U. Kuruvilla who had to resign over the issue. It was the first time in the history of the country that a Minister had to resign on the report of an IAS officer.He also proceeded against the former minister P. J. Joseph and his relatives regarding their alleged illegal landholdings.

In 2007, Kerala Public Works Minister T U Kuruvilla was forced to resign following an Investigation by Raju Narayana Swamy. Kuruvilla’s children had taken Rs 6.5 crore from an NRI businessman promising to sell him some prime land, soon suspected to have encroached. The sale did not happen, the NRI went public while Kuruvila maintained everything was above board. Narayanaswamy, the then Idukki District Collector, probed the land the Minister’s children were to sell: he reported that a good part of the land they purveyed was government land, some suspected benami. Kuruvila could only agree to quit. He also proceeded against a former minister P. J. Joseph and his relatives regarding their alleged illegal landholdings. “In my service life I have always fought corruption. We could be sidelined but officers should not get demoralized. The public applause we get for taking strong stand on issues is what keeps us going’’ says Raju. Since 2007 he has been shunted to various insignificant posts and has thereafter been consistently been picked up by the Election Commission of India for 26 election duties in 16 States across the country. During the 2012 Uttar Pradesh election, he was roll observer for all the six districts in Kanpur division. He was the Agriculture Production Commissioner and Principal Secretary of Kerala state government. Now, Raju Narayana Swamy has been appointed as the Principal Secretary of Personnel & Administrative Reforms Department, Government of Kerala.

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