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Ravindra Kumar (born 10 April 1981; Hindi:रविन्द्र कुमार) is an ex-Seafarer, Administrator, Mountaineer and Author. He is 2011 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, who is the first and only Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of India to have climbed Mt. Everest twice.

Career
Ravindra Kumar was Born on 10th April 1981 in Begusarai District of Bihar, and studied An alumnus of Begusarai-based Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya he served for about a decade as Seafarer in European Shipping Company. As an IAS Officer, he served for about 9 years in various capacities in Government of Sikkim, Government of Uttar Pradesh & Government of India including District Magistrate of Farrukhabad District & Private Secretary to Union Minister of Drinking Water & Sanitation Sushree Uma Bharti Ji. Presently, he is posted as District Magistrate & Collector of District Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh. .currently he is posted as District Magistrate of Bulandshahr district. . He has authored a motivational book titled "Many Everests" in English and "Everest - Sapno ki udaan: Sifar se Shikhar tak" in the Hindi language.on the functioning of the human mind and its effect of positive visualisation, drawn from his experience of scaling Mount Everest.

Mount Everest climb
He has climbed Mt. Everest twice first from Nepal (South) route in 2013 and then from China (North) route in 2019. He becomes the first officer from Indian Administrative service to have done this.

Press Coverage

 * Begusarai: Mount Everest conqueror felicitated
 * UP cadre IAS officer scales Mt Everest for second time, dedicates it to Swachh Bharat mission
 * IAS officer scales Mount Everest, again
 * Ravindra Kumar: Know more about the IAS who scaled Mt. Everest twice


 * दो बार माउंट एवरेस्ट फतह करनेवाले देश के पहले IAS बने बिहार के रवींद्र कुमार
 * एवरेस्ट फतह करने वाले आईएएस अफसर ने हिमालय के शिखर से की जल संरक्षण की अपील
 * IAS Officer Scales Everest With A Message To Clean River Ganga
 * First IAS officer to scale Mt Everest pens motivational book
 * IAS officer honoured for climbing Mt Everest
 * Everest