IAS officers must prioritise field visits. Experiencing firsthand how villagers live, and understanding their problems face-to-face, is what makes an admin not just efficient, but also meaningful
Telangana CM, Revanth Reddy, has urged district collectors to spend, at least, ten days every month, on field visits. If collectors actually “dirtied their hands”, CM held, welfare impact could well exceed that of hundreds of crores spent on development schemes.