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Tracking – October 2017

Desh Deepak Verma : The1978 batch IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh Cadre has been appointed Secretary-General, Rajya Sabha. Sunil Arora : The1980...

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Tracking – September 2017

I V Subba Rao : The 1979 batch IAS officer of the Andhra Pradesh Cadre has been appointed as Secretary to the Vice-...

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Cover Story : Indian Administered Service Demolishing the dream of Sardar Patel

Lateral hiring may sound like an exciting concept, but it is a flawed one for several reasons. For one, it will destroy what...

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Cover Story : Is IAS self-destructing?

WRITING in the March 2011 issue of gfiles I had raised a poser whether there is hope for civil services to survive and...

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By the Way

By the way : Learning from the best

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is working to change the dynamics of the civil services of India. As many as 175 IAS officers of...

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By the way : Perplexed civil servants

There has been discussion in the civil services over the so-called 360 degree profiling that the Modi government has opted for where feedback...

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By the way : In Gupta’s defence

There is widespread anguish among serving and retired civil servants on the issue of a two-year jail term for retired coal secretary HC...

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By the way : Raids strike fear

Gone are the days when IAS officers were relaxed and convinced that nobody can dare to touch them. There have been income tax,...

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Tracking – June 2017

Rakesh Srivastava The 1981-batch IAS officer of the Rajasthan cadre has been appointed Secretary, Ministry of Women & Child Development. Leena Nair The...

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First 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....