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In North Bengal, Alipurduar DM treks to vaccinate people on Indo-Bhutan border. See videos

In North Bengal, Alipurduar DM treks to vaccinate people on Indo-Bhutan border. See videos

India Today
Sunday, June 20, 2021 09:54:20 AM UTC

Alipurduar DM Surendra Kumar Meena trekked through forests and hills to vaccinate people on the Indo-Bhutan border.

Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Officer Surendra Kumar Meena, District Magistrate & Collector, of the Alipurduar district, received a big round of applause from the internet for conducting a vaccination drive across several villages in North Bengal in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. In fact, Surendra Kumar Meena walked all the way by trekking through forests and hills to reach these remote villages. This is best thing you will watch today. He is Surender Kumar Meena. DM of Alipurduar, who trekked for the day through Forest & hills to reach a remote location on Bhutan border for vaccination drive. Such brings positive change. Kudos !! pic.twitter.com/oFP5C7jaAj We certainly need more officers like Shri Meena. We need such dedicated and passionate officers in administration in each corner of India. Great to know Meena sir is in Alipurduar. I hope he was ADM in Paschim Mednipur, WB. I have met him once .Kudos to your work Meena Sir Not all real life heroes wear uniform, some trek too to reach where he’s required to be Good Officers still exist in our country who work for public Kudos to Surender Kumar Meena & team. Praiseworthy! Speaking to IndiaToday.in, Surendra Kumar Meena said that along with his team, he trekked around 11kms to reach Adma, a remote village in the Buxa hills near the India-Bhutan border. Adma was their last stop. “We visited Adma, which is the most remote village of the district to vaccinate people. We walked all the way to Adma, covering 16-18 kms, from the nearby villages Pokhari, Toribari, Shegaon and Fulbati. Health workers in our team carried cold boxes containing Covid vaccines,” Surendra Kumar Meena told IndiaToday.in.
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