Tracking Civil Services And Governance Since 2007

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Haryana’s hunt for Chief Secy

Who will be the new Chief Secretary of Haryana? Shakuntala Jakhu, the present Chief Secretary, will retire on November 30. It is likely...

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Driving force

The government seems to be sitting on a volcano and as is the norm with volcanoes, no one knows when it will blow....

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The Doordarshan circus

The Prasar Bharati Board is a hilarious arena to watch the great circus of its officers. It appears that Prakash Javadekar, the Minister...

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Senseless conventions

Administration of the human resource within the government is a complex web. The services, especially civil service officers, are explicitly managed by the...

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Khera and his kitchen garden

It is well known that the de facto boss of the Sheila Dikshit Government in Delhi was Pawan Khera. After sister Rama Dhawan,...

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High and dry

The move to disband the six-decade-old Planning Commission has created a furore among the 500-strong Indian Economic Service (IES) officers. Nobody has thought...

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Hush-Hush!

The corridors of the Women and Child Development Ministry currently have an eerie silence. An incident within has struck at its very foundation....

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Make my India

Everybody is anxiously waiting for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to open his magic box and solve the country’s problems once and for all....

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Who will be the Cab Sec?

By the end of October, the Narendra Modi government has to select a new Cabinet Secretary of India. If the current Cabinet Secretary–Ajit...

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Significantly insignificant

ADalit wrote the most important policy document of the nation, our Constitution. But 68 years on, there have been very few IAS officers...