Coronavirus: IAS officer Srijana Gummalla rejoins work with 1-month-old baby in Visakhapatnam
First Published Apr 13, 2020, 3:37 PM ISTVisakhapatnam: An IAS officer has come in for high praise by netizens for cancelling her maternity leave and rejoining work to serve during these difficult times, due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Srijana Gummalla, commissioner, Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC), is back to work with her one-month-old baby boy. On March 27, she tweeted that she is joining back. Srijana is a 2013 IAS batch officer. A Twitter user by name Chiguru Prashanth Kumar was the first to tweet a picture of Srijana, with her baby in the lap, attending a phone call at her office.