A Gujarat government official has claimed that he is Kalki, the tenth incarnation of Vishnu, and can't come to office because he is conducting a "penance" to "change the global conscience".

Thanks to his penance, the country is getting good rains, said Rameshchandra Fefar, superintending engineer with the Sardar Sarovar Punarvasvat Agency (SSPA), in reply to a show-cause notice served to him.

The show-cause notice rebukes Fefar for his attendance record. "You have remained highly erratic ever since you joined duty on September 22, 2017...you have remained absent without any authorization," the notice says. The notice goes on to say: "This kind of conduct is not befitting a government official. Your absence from duty has adversely impacted the working of rehabilitation which is in its final stages as you are not available for providing guidance to the subordinates." The notice asks for an explanation about the unauthorized absence in seven days. "Or action will be initiated against you under the prevalent rules," the notice says.

Fefar's bizarre reply have gone viral.

"Even if you don't believe, I am indeed the tenth incarnation of Lord Vishnu and I will prove it in coming days. I realised that I am Kalki Avatar when I was in my office in March 2010. Since then, I am having divine powers," Fefar said, speaking to media at his Rajkot house on Friday.

In his reply to the show-cause notice issued by the agency three days ago, Fefar, who is in his late 50s, stated he could not come to office as he is busy with penance.

"I am doing penance at home by entering into fifth dimension to change the global conscience....I can't do such penance sitting in office," the two-page reply said.

Because of his ongoing penance, India is getting good rainfall for the last 19 years, it claimed.

The SSPA should decide "whether it's more important for the agency to make me sit in the office and do time pass or do some concrete work to save the country from drought," he said, adding, "Just because I am Kalki Avatar, India got good rains."

As per the notice, Fefar attended his Vadodara office for only 16 days during the last eight months.

Fefar is one of the five or six superintending engineers of the agency, a post which is only one level junior to the top post of chief engineer in Gujarat. Fefar lives in the luxurious Ark bungalow in Rajkot in the posh Kalavad road. His wife registered a complain against him with the mahila police station in Rajkot in April 2017, alleging mental harassment. She said in her complaint that he called her and her son 'monsters'.

Fefar was earlier posted in Rajkot in the panchayat circle and was known to be frequently staying away from work.