Former IAS Officer Manoj Srivastava Dies Due To Covid-19

Patna: 1980 batch retired IAS officer Manoj Srivastava succumbed to the infection of Covid-19 at Patna AIIMS on Thursday. He was 65.

He was the founder secretary of the Disaster Management Department of Bihar who charted out effective strategies. Widely known as an upright people-friendly officer throughout his career right from the first posting as SDM to the rank of principal secretary, Manoj Srivastava remained popular as a tough taskmaster and uncompromising with the undue pressure from any corner.

He was credited for the facilitation of the world’s largest free food distribution during 2007 in Bihar floods under the UNDP Disaster Risk Management Project. The most erudite achievement associated with him was the research that he did on Naxalism in Bhojpur where he was serving as the DM.

He was an alumnus of the London School of Economics, Cambridge University of Cambridge, and Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi besides being a distinguished fellow of IIM, Ahmadabad.

He had retired from the Indian Administrative Services in 2016