Tracking Civil Services And Governance Since 2007
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By the WayMaharashtra’s rich and powerful sugarcane lobby has had its way. The pro-farmer Chairman of the Commission of Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), T...
Big Boss‘Regulation of the steel sector should be the last resort’
Raghav Sharan Pandey, belonging to the 1972 IAS batch from Nagaland, is from Champaran, Bihar. After securing the second position in the BSc...
DefenceSwishing the IP wand won’t do
ARECENT media report stated that the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) had started encouraging all government agencies to adopt an Integrity Pact (IP) to...
By the WayGarland a cow,win an election Avinash Mishra , a 1979-batch Indian Forest Service officer of the AGMUT cadre and Resident Commissioner of Delhi’s...
First StirringsIn the line of duty
My first contact with an IAS officer took place when I was in Class X, in 1953. The officer was SR Das, 1949...
MilestonesRooting for trees
As Principal Secretary, Forest, VN Garg found himself unable to come to terms with the fact that Uttar Pradesh had only 9 per...
Bric a Bracapplication to supplication
The height of seva IF you want to please Lalu Prasad Yadav, you’ve got to be meticulous. Sukhbir Singh, General Manager of North...
Global ScanNew CHECKER BOARDS
MANY factors go into the formulation of the foreign policy of a country. As a determining principle, foreign policy cannot be foreign to...
MilestonesMan of the forest
THE real battle to save the forests around Shimla town began after the Shimla Municipal Corporation transferred about 1,800 hectares of forest land...
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