Assam’s ACS Officer Rides Tractor to Plough 300 Bigha Land for Plantation on World Environment Day

She then worked as a journalist but later quit journalism to become an entrepreneur and then she studies to become  a civil servant.

Digital Desk: Dinchengfa Boruah, the Sub Divisional Officer (SDO Civil) at Dhansiri sub-division of Assam’s Golaghat district, has received accolades from people after photos of her driving a tractor and ploughing an agricultural land have gone viral.

According to sources, the young ACS officer went along with officers to inspect the 300 bigha land where one lakh saplings shall be planted on World Environment Day (June 5). The 2015 batch ACS officer Boruah was seen riding the tractor and driving it tilling the land with a harrow.

Dinchengfa, who is in her early 30s completed her Postgraduation from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Kolkata. She then worked as a journalist but later quit journalism to become an entrepreneur and then she studies to become  a civil servant.

Boruah, an academically bright student, belongs to the Ahom community in Assam and thus was allotted 27 per cent reservation in the state government jobs. However, she chose to apply in the open category and got through it.

Dinchengfa hit the headlines first when she gave up her reservation and applied in the open category and decided to get through based on merit and successfully did so.