Tracking Civil Services And Governance Since 2007

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Niti Aayog or Atithi Aayog?

WHEN I first heard the policy pronouncement of the new government that the Planning Commission was going to be abolished, I felt like...

Define the nuts and bolts
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Define the nuts and bolts

IN his first flush of governance reforms, the Prime Minister announced the abolition of the Planning Commission and its replacement with the National...

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From Planning to Transformation: An uphill task!

AT The Economic Times’ Global Business Summit in mid-January, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid out his Transformation Agenda in no uncertain terms. After...

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RECOGNISING EXCELLENCE

ADDITIONAL Secretary in the Union Coal Ministry AK Dubey proudly remembers an incident involving his friend and Kerala cadre colleague KM Abraham, now...

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Retired or re-tyred?

THERE was a time when government employees retired at 55 years of age. The received wisdom was that most people died at 50...

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Retirement blues and the ‘joy of doing nothing’!

Retirement Blues… FOR India’s civil servants there are two kinds of retirement—one, compulsory (at age 60) and two, voluntary (after 20/30 years of...

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To retire now or later?

THE little murmur about increase in the age of superannuation of Central government employees has been quashed for the time being by the...

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SEBI: Turning a blind eye

Recently, SEBI cracked down on India’s biggest realty company, DLF. It barred six of its top executives, including promoter-chairman KP Singh, from entering...