If we can worship uneducated politicians for doing corruption n looting us from years then obviously he deserves this respect for doing his job. I hope other useless IAS officers who enter this field in the name of making impact at a grass root level will learn something.
No disrespect to Tukaram Mundhe, staying upright in a corrupt setup takes insane grit. But when an officer gets hero-worshipped just for doing what he’s paid to do, it shows how rock-bottom the work ethic in our public administration really is.