On Sunday, senior IAS officers Ananya Das, who is also the Sambalpur Collector, and Chanchal Rana, the Bolangir Collector, exchanged engagement rings at Das's residence in Sambalpur, as confirmed by sources present at the event.
The couple plans to get married within the next three months. Both officers had been previously married - Das to Koraput Collector Abdaal Akhtar and Rana to Rayagada Collector Swadha Dev Singh. However, they have decided to marry each other after their respective separations.
Das, a 2015 batch Gujarat cadre IAS officer, previously served as the commissioner of the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC), while Rana, a 2014 batch IAS officer and an alumnus of NIT Silchar, secured the seventh rank at the India level.
Interestingly, this news follows the media attention on the divorce of 2015 UPSC civil service examination topper Tina Dabi from IAS Athar Khan and her subsequent marriage to Pradeep Gawande, a 2013-batch IAS officer. Read the complete biography of Ananya Das.
