Tracking Civil Services And Governance Since 2007
- Cover Story
- Governance
- Global Scan
- Corruption
- State Scan
First Stirrings
First StirringsFirst Stirrings : ‘They could not accept a Secretary questioning orders’
THIS is the most incredible story of KK Jaiswal, an honest and straight-forward bureaucrat, who was so desperate without official accommodation that he...
First StirringsFirst Stirrings : Facing up to crises
Uttar Pradesh is a very big State. In my opinion, the State needs to be divided into more manageable areas of administration-Western UP,...
First StirringsFirst Stirrings : Service above all
ALL his life he has been like a sailor on a ship called destiny, which invariably called at the right ports. A structural...
First StirringsFirst Stirrings : The Unusual Bureaucrat
Her name, Rasheda Hussain, itself is loaded with meaning. Rasheda is derived from Rashid—one of the 99 names of Allah meaning “The Guide”...
First Stirrings‘You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching’
FINDING an unusual retired woman civil servant proved to be a challenge. Some have achieved high visibility but I needed a compelling story,...
First Stirrings‘EVMs have solved many problems’
MY village Aladinpur did not have a school for higher studies, I had to walk up to Tarn Taran, a small town close...
First StirringsLeaving the past to predict the future
WHEN it comes to unusual retired civil servants, Om Narain Vaid outdoes most. A topper of the 1968 batch of the IAS and...
First StirringsI had never heard of the IAS
The farmer’s son who rose to the highest echelons of the civil service recalls a career spanning 36 years I’m a self-made person...
First Stirrings‘It is easy to reinvent yourself’
My father’s family came to India from Saudi Arabia in 1840 and my mother’s with the Mughals in the 1520s. We have a...
First StirringsThe ‘czar’ of Bharat Bhawan
I was born in a lower-middle-class family. My father was a Deputy Registrar of Sagar University. My uncle was in the civil service...
- Governance
