Shilpa Prabhakar Satish Explained

Shilpa Prabhakar Satish I.A.S  Collector and District Magistrate, is an officer of the Indian administrative service. She is the 215th collector and the first women collector of Tirunelveli district. She took charge of her office in May 2018, and is known for her bats for Anganwadi, a rural childcare centre in India and to set an example for the public she admitted her 3-year-old daughter to Anganwadi which was welcomed by the people all over India.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Early life

Shilpa Prabhakar Satish was born in Karnataka on 30 August 1981 and graduated in Law from Bangalore University and she had scored 46th rank in the All India UPSC (union public service commission) examination.

Career as civil servant

• She was the Assistant Collector in Tiruchirapalli district in 2010
• Sub Collector for Tirupattur subdivision of Vellore district between 2011 and 2014
• Deputy Commissioner (Education) at Chennai Corporation for a year
• Executive Vice Chairperson for Industries Guidance and Export Promotion Bureau, Industries department Chennai
• District Collector of Thirunelveli from May 2018 https://tirunelveli.nic.in/collector-profile/

Awards

• Shilpa Prabhakar Satish in the year 2019 received the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board's ‘Special Award for Effective Implementation of Plastic Ban’ from Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami in Chennai on Thursday. ^[6]
• In 2019 received Digital transformation award^[7]

References

1. News: Tirunelveli Collector Sets Precedent by Sending Daughter to Anganwadi Centre . News18 . 9 January 2019.
2. News: Tamil Nadu Collector Puts Daughter In Anganwadi, Not Private School . NDTV.com . 9 January 2019.
3. News: Prabhakar satish . Shilpa . Tirunelveli collector skips Private school . www.thenewsminute.com . 9 January 2019.
4. News: Karthikeyan . S. . Tamil Nadu collector wins hearts after choosing state-run Anganwadi centre over private school for daughter . www.timesnownews.com . 10 January 2019 . en.
5. News: Water tank: Tirunelveli collector climbs atop water tank to check cleanliness. The Times of India . 25 August 2018 . en.
6. News: Collector receives award . The Hindu . 13 June 2019 . en-IN.
7. News: Tirunelveli district admin bags digital transformation award 2019 . The Times of India . 7 November 2019 . en.