First Visually Impaired Woman IAS Is Thiruvananthapuram Sub-Collector | Read

Pranjal Patil, India's first visually impaired woman IAS officer, has taken over as the Sub-Collector of Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram. Ms Patil, 30, made history last year when she received her first appointment as Assistant Collector in Kerala's Ernakulam. "We should never be defeated. We should not give up. Because with all our efforts, we will definitely get that one breakthrough moment that we are waiting for," Ms Patil said while speaking to media on her first day at the office of Thiruvananthapuram's Sub Collector.