Rohini Sindhuri is an Indian civil servant. She is an Indian Administrative Service officer of Karnataka cadre, from the 2009 batch. Rohini Sindhuri secured the 43rd rank in the UPSC exam. She has been working in various departments in her career as an IAS officer.
Early life
Rohini was born on 30 May 1984 in Telangana. She studied B. Tech., Chemical engineering. She has been selected as an IAS officer of the 2009 batch. Rohini married to Sudhir reddy, a Software Engineer from Andhra Pradesh and they have a son and a daughter. She is fluent in several languages, including Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and English.
Career
Rohini's first posting as a civil servant was as the assistant commissioner in Tumkur from 29 August 2011 to 31 August 2012. In the same period she was incharge Commissioner of the urban development department of Tumkur and continued in the post till 31 December 2012. As commissioner she had computerised tax collection at source, was able to take possession of 42 acres of corporation land at Ajjagondanahalli village which was pending since 2006, auctioned shops of the corporation which were lying vacant, generating revenue worth 10crore for the corporation, was instrumental in removal of encroachments on Horpete road, J.C.road and kyathsandra main roads. She is fondly remembered by Tumkur people for removing encroachments on M.G.Road and completing the road work in the busiest road of the district. She has then worked as the Director of Rural Development & Panchayat Raj Department, Self Employment Project, Bangalore from 10 August 2013 to 31 May 2014. The next she posted as the Chief Executive officer of the Mandya Zilla Panchayat where she worked for more than one year.
On 31 May 2014, Rohini posted as the CEO of Mandya ZP. Rohini launched a drive to provide individual toilets to 1.02 lakh households during 2014–15. And, since July last, it had constructed 1,00,000 individual toilets across the district which made the district No. 1 in the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in the state and 3rd in India. Rohini successfully utilised the Central government's grant of 65 crore for drinking water and by using this grant, Rohini and her team instituted 100 pure drinking water units across the district. Union government recognized this and provided 6 crore extra for the same purpose. As Mandya is an agricultural district growing mainly sugarcane and paddy, she started the program of identifying 100 farmers and educating them on Integrated farming practices and providing bank linkage to them to encourage sustainable farming practices. She also took a serious view of female foeticide in the district and organised the health department and ASHA workers in reporting such incidents and educating parents against this practice. In a first of its kind project in the State, as CEO of Mandya Zilla Panchayat she had launched a mobile app for downloading property documents which would help many people to get their property documents without running around offices
Munjaane programme:
She used to meet villagers early morning to promote to have individual toilets. This programme called Munjaane and it received good response and well appreciated.
Recognized by the central government
Rohini's performance in implementing the Swatcch Bharat Abhiyan in Mandya District, got recognized in the country and she got selected by the Union Government as one of the three resource persons to train DCs in New Delhi in 2015.
Rohini Sindhuri was posted as district collector of Hassan on July, 2017. Here she was first tasked with works of Mahamastakabhisheka, the ceremony of anointing the 57-foot monolithic statue of Bahubali at Shravanabelagola. Which she successfully conducted. In 2019 Hassan District stood first in SSLC results because of the importance she gave to education. In 2017 when she came to district it stood 31 in the state which was just 2 places above the last district.In two years she gave lot of importance to education sector. She also controlled the Sand mafia which was very prevalent in the district. She conducted many raid and confiscated lot of illegal equipments because of which she was transferred many times.
Spandana Online Portal :
She also launched Spandana, an online grievance redressal system which was first in the state on 1 January 2019. Here one can submit their grievances online easily by logging on to the portal to register their grievances. As the system helps in maintaining transparency, it becomes easy to assess the problems on priority and take necessary measures
Controversial Transfer
Rohini was issued a transfer in January 2018, just seven months into her job as the district collector of Hassan, after being appointed on July 2017. The transfer was due to the pressure from the local politician, then she approached the High Court, which directed to stall the transfer. Chief minister H D Kumaraswamy reappointed her as a Hassan DC.
