Priyanka Mary Francis IAS as Director, Karnataka Tourism.
Ms. Priyanka Mary Francis IAS has been appointed as the new
Director of Tourism in Karnataka, in place of Mr. B. Ramu IAS.
Prior to this Ms. Priyanka was served as the District
Collector of Uduppi District in Karnataka, a post which she handled with great
diligence and responsibility. Her name was hit headline when Priyanka and her
colleague Assistant Commissioner Shilpa Nag IAS were attacked by people from
the sand mafia during a mid night raid operation in Kundapur taluk,
Karnataka.
Ms. Priyanka a 2009 batch Indian Administrative Service
officer of Karnataka cadre started her civil service carrier as Assistant
Commissioner of Belgaum and later in
2012 she was promoted as
Commissioner of Belgaum City Corporation
and became the first lady Commissioner.
She took charge as CEO of Udupi Zilla Panchayat from November 17, 2015 and
later promoted as the Deputy Commissioner and District Collector of Udupi
District on February 23, 2017. Priyanka also
took several initiatives to promote tourism Uduppi district as a well known beach and hill destination in Karnataka.
Ms. Priyanka, a B.Tech (Electronics Instrumentation)
graduate, hailing from Trivandrum, quit her job in ISRO
in 2008 to pursue her dreams of becoming an IAS officer. A year later
she cracked the IAS exams by securing the 54th rank.