Best civil servants

From teaching at a government school, working as a peon in the Kerala Water Authority, and a clerk at a Gram Panchayat, he finally cracked the most coveted Union Public Service Commission exam.

When his father, retired Head Assistant of Tahasildar Office, Bijapur Shri SY Kembhavi, took a young Arunkumar to the Deputy Commissioner’s office in Karwar, Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka, a magnificent structure right on the beach, the class 4 student decided he would become a Deputy Commissioner one day.

Here are 10 amazing, brave, dedicated civil servants of India who have made us all extremely proud and done extra ordinary work for the country, some even losing their lives while performing their duty, but never taking the easy way out. We salute these true heroes.