Tracking Civil Services And Governance Since 2007

Special Report

Labour
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Labour Law Reforms: A Lost Opportunity

Intending to replace 29 central labour laws, between 2019 and 2020 the central government rushed Four Labour Codes (FLC) through Parliament claiming that...

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Maya’s no friend of women

Women officers are noticeably sidelined in the Mayawati regime When Mayawati became the first Dalit woman to be Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh,...

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The real slumdog millionaire

UP touches the nadir of development but its CM’s personal and political fortunes soar The fact that the country’s 15th general election is...

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Winning Kalmadis and influencing Sharmas

Or, how Rs 430 crore earmarked for Commonwealth Games coverage has spawned an unholy nexus Prasar Bharati’s affairs had been on the simmer...

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New rules just new dandas for officers

Mayawati’s changes in police system add to IPS demoralization After the Nithari murders of children and the uncovering of Azamgarh’s link with terrorism...

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The man who flew too high

Rise, fall,…of a supercrat Like Icarus of yore, Shashank Shekhar Singh, the former pilot who took UP Chief Minister Mayawati’s Sarvajan Samaj programme...

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UP bureaucrats on auction

Despite Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati thundering, “The transfer business has come to an end” soon after assuming office on May 13 last...

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Gold rush in Chandigarh

After Haryana was carved out of Punjab in 1969, it was decided that the Union Territory of Chandigarh would draw 60 per cent...

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Gulf money, and the many faces it masks

The state needs bureaucratic initiative to steer out of the complications of change WHAT is the picture that unfolds when someone utters “Kerala”?...

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Destroying the LAW

●Raveena Singh (name changed) topped in MSc (Chemistry) and then reluctantly appeared in the Police Recruitment Examination of Uttar Pradesh on the insistence...