Laravel adds mysql in file path - laravel

Question

I am facing a weird issue with Laravel 5.5. I am working on my local xampp server and trying to execute LOAD DATA INFILE query in controller function. But I am getting error PDOException (HY000)
SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 29 File 'D:\xampp\mysql\data\uploads\RDMST.csv' not found (Errcode: 2 "No such file or directory")
Currently my csv file is located at public/uploads folder. I tried various path settings for filename like
$fileCsv = 'uploads/RDMST.csv';
$fileCsv = public_path().'/uploads/RDMST.csv';
But I am getting same error and please notice the error path shows mysql\data in path. I am not getting from where it is appending this two folders in path. When I echo public path , it displays this:
D:\xampp\htdocs\tax\public
So, can you please help how to use path for load file without appending this "mysql\data" in path?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Here is my complete controller function:
public function getCsv()
{
//echo public_path(); die;
//$fileCsv = public_path().'/uploads/RDMST.csv';
$fileCsv = 'uploads/RDMST.csv';
echo $query = "LOAD DATA INFILE '".$fileCsv."'
REPLACE
INTO TABLE tblreception
(year,
reception_number,
file_date,
file_time,
instrument_type,
#created_at,
#updated_at)
SET created_at=NOW(),updated_at=null";
DB::connection()->getPdo()->exec($query);
//return view('reception');
}
Can we not use csv file path?
Thanks