Rajasthan government has appointed 7 trainee IAS officers of 2025 batch as Assistant Collectors as part of their field training in district administration.
Among the young officers, Vibhor Bhardwaj has been assigned Jaipur district while Utkarsh Yadav would be looking after Kota.
Manu Garg has been asked to join Bikaner while Manimala N. would head to Udaipur. Similarly Alok Singh has been assigned Bharatpur district and Arnav Anand Gupta has been posted as Assistant Collector in Ajmer district. Umesh Kumar Meena has been assigned Jodhpur district.
District training
A principal cornerstone of district training has been “learning by seeing”. Subsequently, around 25-30 weeks are allocated for a series of attachments with district-level offices. This is generally prescribed by the State Government under the supervision of the District Collector who plays an important mentoring role during district training.
The principal offices and officers, where Trainees are attached, include Collectorate, Zila Parishad, SDM and Tehsildar offices, subordinate revenue officials, SSP, District & Session Judge, DFO, CMO, Engineers of the line departments, Municipal Corporation/ Council, BDPO, etc.
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