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First Stirrings
First StirringsPerennial Reformist
NARENDRA Kumar was born on July 10, 1957, in Delhi’s Karol Bagh, in a family deep into poverty. His father Late Lila Ram...
First StirringsNo Sir
IT was peer pressure that brought Rita Sinha—than Rita Kudwa—into Indian Administrative Service (IAS). She was pursuing masters in geography from Punjab University...
Haryana 51 YearsAn affair to remember
THE idea of a career in the administrative services was not mine. I was barely 13 years old and about to give my...
First StirringsPower to Serve
IT was Allahabad’s infectious pull for civil services that put Sharda Prasad, son of unlettered farmer parents in Alampur Geria village of Fatehpur...
First StirringsCourage of conviction
IT was a taunt and better prospects of growth and emoluments that brought Kamal Krishna Sinha into Indian Administrative Service (IAS). Otherwise Sinha,...
First StirringsTax Man
IT was peer pressure and ease of doing studies which brought Triloki Nath Pandey, son of Chandra Nath Pandey, an accounts officer in...
First StirringsLessons of Life
IT was a house and family commitments that more or less brought Vinod Vaish into civil services. Son of Nihal Chand Vaish, a...
First StirringsFirst Stirrings : Quick response
ATUL Chaturvedi, 66, was born in a family of civil servants. His father, PN Chaturvedi, was a PCS who was coopted into IAS....
First StirringsFirst 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...
First StirringsFirst 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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