Annies Kanmani Joy is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 2012 batch, who has also worked as a nurse in Kerala. She made headlines for controlling the spread of coronavirus in Kodagu district of Karnataka during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. In 2020, she was promoted as the Deputy Commissioner of Kodagu district in Karnataka, India.
Wiki/Biography
Annies Kanmani Joy was born on Tuesday, April 23, 1985 (36 years old in 2021) in Pampakuda village, Ernakulam district, Kerala, India. Her star sign is Taurus. Annies received her education at Fatima Mata School and Mount Carmel School in Kottayam, Kerala, India. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2009 and interned for a year at Trivandrum Medical College, affiliated to Kerala University.
appearance
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Black
family
Parents and siblings
Annies Kanmani Joy’s father, Parappalil Joy, is a farmer. Her mother’s name is Leela. She has an elder sister named Elsa Aswathy Joy.
Husband and children
Annies Kanmani Joy is married to Stephen Mani, an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer and First Secretary at the Indian Embassy in Washington, DC, USA. Her daughter’s name is Apoorva.
Profession
In 2014, she was appointed as a junior level assistant commissioner in the Bidar division in Karnataka. In her initial years as an IAS officer in the Kodagu district of Karnataka, Aneth Kamani Joy rejected more than 500 applications to use local agricultural land for commercial purposes. The rejection was based on the recommendations of a team of 18 experts who visited the local area. The applications were made by local business enterprises with the aim of commercializing and expanding existing markets. In 2017, she was appointed as the CEO and deputy secretary of the Tumkur Panchayats department in Karnataka. In 2018, landslides occurred in the Kodagu district in southern Karnataka due to heavy rains and floods. Ten local villagers in Kogadu district died in the landslides. Annies Joy, the district’s deputy superintendent of police, along with then superintendent of police Suman D Penneker and then Zilla Panchayat CEO Lakshmi Priya, went to the landslide area in Thora to inspect and attend to the disaster. The ladies were honored for their on-the-ground visits and response in the aftermath of the landslide tragedy. Annies and her colleagues walked slowly and heavily, which is usually due to the deteriorating condition of the muddy roads. She was inspecting the area and keeping a close eye on the search and rescue operations for those who went missing during the landslide.
Annies Joy, the district’s inspector, was present along with the then superintendent of police Suman D Penneker and the then Zilla Panchayat chief executive officer Lakshmi Priya
Later, in September 2019, Annies Kanmani Joy announced in Kodagu district of Karnataka that idle government land would be given to landslide victims who lost their homes. As a result, Annies Kanmani Joy ordered the removal of unnecessary encroachments.
Deputy Commissioner Annies Kanmani Joy inspects the encroached land at Ghattadala in Kodagu
In 2019, Anis was promoted to deputy commissioner of Kodagu district in Karnataka, India.
Annies Kanmani Joy (left) is a 2012 batch IAS officer who took office as the new Deputy Commissioner of Kodagu in February 2019
In 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic hit India. In March 2020, as COVID-19 cases increased and spread to various states in India, Joy announced and implemented an early lockdown in the Kodagu district. Kodagu district began reporting COVID-19 cases, following which Aneth Joy ordered the closure of all tourist attractions in the area during the lockdown. This measure was taken much earlier than the announcement of a nationwide lockdown in India. During the pandemic lockdown, the Kodagu district in Karnataka followed strict containment protocols. Her district did not report any cases for 28 consecutive days. Aneth Kammani Joy has received national recognition for playing such a responsible role in Kodagu’s success in stopping the spread of COVID-19 cases. At the end of 2020, Aneth Kammani Joy banned the felling and transportation of timber and fought against the notorious timber mafia in Kodagu. In 2021, Aneth Kammani Joy officially took a leave of absence until the end of the year. She said in an interview that she will resume work at the end of 2021 and that the leave was to spend some time in the United States with her daughter and husband. She said,
My two years tenure as Deputy Commissioner of Kodagu has been a very successful one. I am grateful to everyone for their support and warmth. The wonderful memories of Kodagu will be cherished forever. I request a break. I am leaving here to spend time with my family and my daughter Apoorva. I will return to duty in a new role later this year.”
dispute
- In 2020, a journalist from Kaveri Times (a Kannada newspaper) wrote some articles against Anith and her work on post-lockdown rules. The articles were published in the May and June 2020 editions of the newspaper. Anith filed an FIR against Vasanth, a journalist and editor of Kaveri Times (a Kannada newspaper), and was subsequently criticized for the move.
Facts/Trivia
- Annies Joy stood 65th out of 85 candidates in the 2011 Civil Services Examination in the general category.
- As a child, Annies Joy was a bright student who aspired to become a doctor, but she was born into a very poor family and did not have enough money to buy educational books for her.
- Annies Kanmani Joy is the second nurse in India to become an IAS officer after Alice Vaz R, an IAS officer of the 2005 batch from West Bengal.
- Anis Kammani Joy had secured 580 rank in her first appearance for the civil services exam in 2010. In an interview, she revealed that she referred to her notes from the previous year’s exam and read up on current affairs while appearing for the UPSC exam for the second time.After being selected as an IAS, Joy attended training at the Indian Civil Accounts Service (ICAS) in Faridabad, Haryana.
- Anis spoke to a news channel after she passed the civil services exam in 2012. She said that her parents encouraged her to study hard and that she got the inspiration to join the Indian Civil Services from them. She explained that in her first attempt at the exam, she did not do well and only got a rank of 580. She told the media that she already knew she would do better in the second attempt and ended up getting a rank of 65 in 2012.
- Anis joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) after successfully qualifying for the second time with a rank of 65. She chose the subjects of Psychology and Malayalam Literature for the civil services examination.
- From 2012 to 2014, Anis trained as a junior at LBSNAA Mussoorie.
- In October 2020, Kodagu Deputy Commissioner Annies Kanmani Joy received WhatsApp videos and messages claiming that she was appreciated by the people of Kodagu district in Karnataka for helping and guiding the local people in managing and preventing the COVID-19 pandemic crisis in the region. However, Joy denied the claims and said:
The person in the video is not me. I have been receiving numerous messages about this since yesterday (Monday) but it is not me! I was told that the video was shared on a Facebook page and then downloaded and circulated on WhatsApp.”
- Anis passed the nursing exam but never joined and worked as a nurse.
- Annies Joy’s success story of rising from a nurse to an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer and from a poor village girl to a senior administrator in a region of India was reported by several prominent newspapers.
IAS Annies Kanmani Joy’s success story featured in newspaper article
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