D.K RAVI - IAS OFFICER

Doddakoppalu Kariyappa Ravi  commonly known as D.K Ravi. He was an Indian Administrative Service officer of Karnataka, from the 2009 batch. He was born on 10th June 1979 in Doddakoppalu village, Kunigal Taluk of tumkur district , Karnataka. He was from an agricultural family. He was a son of Kariyappa and Gowramma. He had two siblings; brother Ramesh and sister Bharathi.

 

EDUCATION

D.K Ravi was graduated from the university of Agricultural sciences,Bangalore. He then pursued his post-graduation course in Zoology from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. Before entering into civil service he worked as a sub inspector of Excise  for over a year and a half. He cleared the 2008 UPSC Civil Services Examination with an all India rank of 34.  He was trained at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, form August 2009 - August 2011. He was allotted his home state cadre of Karnataka.

 

CAREER

As Assistant Commissioner in Gulbarga

D.K Ravi's was first posting as a civil servant was as the assistant commissioner in Gulbarga from August 2011 -December 2012. He also served as the Deputy Commissioner of Kolar district Karnataka from August 2013 - October 2014. He was known for his work in ridding encroachments and exposing sand mafia in the district during his tenure.

As Deputy Commissioner Of Kolar District

D.K Ravi was Deputy commissioner of the Kolar district from august, 2013 to October, 2014. D.K Ravi became almost a public figure due to his functioning as a pro people administrator. He launched innovative reforms like conducting of Revenue and Podi adalats. Podi adalats went on to being getting recognized and implemented in other districts by the state government.He also took many bold steps to protect encroachment on government lands, including tanks, the main water source in the region and had ensured the checks on quality of building materials of public property like roads, during his tenure at Kolar. Subsequently, he was transferred out of this position in october, 2014, allegedly due to pressure from vested interests involved in land grabbing and illegal sand mining. His popularity among people of Kolar was evidenced when large number of people staged protests, following his transfer orders as deputy commissioner.

As Additional Commissioner Of Commercial Taxes(Enforcement)

D.K Ravi was posted as the Additional Commissioner of Commercial Taxes (Enforcement) on 29 October 2014 in Bangalore. Following this, he prepared a list of top-50 tax defaulters and set a target of Rs1000 crore (US$160 million) tax collection from the tax evading defaulters. He began raids in Bangalore and expanded to places across Karnataka raiding well-known business groups such as Embassy, Rajesh Exports, Shubh Jewellers, RMZ Institution, Prestige Group, Raheja Developers and Mantri Developers, and had reportedly collected over Rs138 crore (US$22 million) in the first two weeks.Following this, he allegedly received threat calls from the defaulters.

Death

On 16 March 2015, D.K Ravi was found hanging at his residence in Tavarekere locality of Bangalore. He had gone to office from Nagarbhavi, Bangalore, on 16 March 2015, the house of his in-laws and returned to his residential apartment in Bangalore's Tavarekere locality at 11:30 a.m. His family found him hanging by the ceiling fan in his bedroom of their apartment at 6:30 p.m., when they rushed home after he would not return phone calls made during the day. Following the news reaching the Bangalore police, Police commissioner M. N. Reddi said that forensic and medical evidence hinted the death was prima facie a case of suicide. Autospy on his body was conducted on the morning of 17 March at Victoria Hospital  in Bangalore, following which it was shifted to his in-laws house in Nagarbhavi.