First Stirrings

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First Stirrings

First Stirrings : Man of Ideas

THANKS to his height, Naresh Chandra Saxena, born in Bareilly, got a head start in school. When his father, Krishan Swaroop Saxena, a...

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First Stirrings : Grassroots administrator

NOBODY in Bal Krishna Chaturvedi’s family ever had any doubts about him getting into Indian Administrative Service (IAS). The suspense was only about...

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First Stirrings : Upholder of uprightness

WITHIN three months from March to May in 2008, three IAS (Indian Administrative Service) officers took voluntary retirement from service (VRS) in Uttar...

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First Stirrings : Golden Girl

FOR Sudha Pillai, the former Member Secretary of the Planning Commission, the inspiration to join the civil services came quite early in life-in...

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Not yet tired

SURENDRA Singh, a mathematics post-graduate from Allahabad University, had made up his mind to join the civil services early in his life. India...

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First Stirrings : The fair administrator

WHEN Gopal Krishna Pillai (67) joined as Sub Collector in Kollam (then Quilon) in July 1974, his first job after passing out from...

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First Stirrings : Bringing a paradigm shift

ANIL Kumar Lakhina, a 1974-batch Maharashtra cadre IAS, could never imagine that a reorganisation-cum-clean up drive in Ahmednagar collectorate he carried out for...

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First Stirrings : Law in his blood

JUSTICE Vikas Shridhar Sirpurkar found his calling at an age when many youths find themselves at a crossroads. When the Maharashtra Bar Council...

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First Stirrings : Life of many hues

VIVEK Agnihotri was only 11 years old (born on August 25, 1945) when he completed middle school in 1956. His father, Narain Prasad,...

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First Stirrings : Perception and prejudice

WHEN Madhukar Gupta, an alumnus of Allahabad University, decided to appear for the civil services examination in 1970, he was only following a...