2 IAS, 1 IFoS officers given extension of inter-cadre deputation tenure; full details

INTER-CADRE deputation tenure of Virendra Singh, a 2006 batch Maharashtra cadre IAS, from Maharashtra cadre to Rajasthan cadre, has been extended for a period of three years on personal grounds. Singh originally belongs to Rajasthan, according to DoPT records. He is a product of Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Meanwhile, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has...

PMO Reshuffle: Nandini Paliwal shifted out to LBSNAA, Assam cadre officer Kavitha Padmanabhan to move to South Block

IN A minor bureaucratic reshuffle in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Nandini Paliwal, 2003 batch AGMUT cadre IAS, has been laterally shifted to Lal Bahadur Shashtri National Academy for Administration (LBSNAA) whereas Kavitha Padmanabhan, 2006 batch Assam cadre IAS presently working as deputy secretary in the DoPT, has been appointed as deputy secretary in the PMO. Ms Paliwal, 42, originally hails from…

A Flight to New York: Tripura cadre IPS Thirugnana Sambandan appointed in permanent mission of India in UN

Thirugnana Sambandan, 2006 batch Tripura cadre IPS officer, has been appointed as the first secretary at the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations in New York. The  38-year-old IPS officer has been chosen for this post that comes the ministry of external affairs. Sambandan will get a tenure of…

Failure to submit immovable property returns by Jan 31 would result in denial of vigilance clearance: DoPT letter cautions IAS officers

THE Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has written letters to GoI secretaries and state chief secretaries reminding all IAS officers that they must submit their annual Immovable Property Returns by January 31, with a note of caution that the failure to submit the returns on time “would result in denial of vigilance clearance”. The annual returns should include all immovable properties as on…

IPS association bats for arrested IPS R Rajamarthandan in a unique case where the complainant is also an IPS

IPS officers’ association is miffed at the way 2006 batch IPS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre — R Rajamarthandan was suspended and arrested on the charge of giving away “classified” information to an RTI applicant. The Association said, the "action taken against him (the IPS officer) is disproportionately high and harsher than the usual response in such cases”. The IPS officer, who was working as the special superintendent of police (SSP) in the CID and had also handled probe in a number of sensitive cases including much-talked about Louis Berger bribery case, was charged with…

What happened to IAS Mona Sreenivas’ extension of deputation? And Parshant Goyal’s request for Punjab?

A PANEL headed by DoPT secretary Saniay Kothari has sought clarifications in writing from Haryana cadre IAS couple, A Mona Sreenivas and A Sreenivas, before taking a call on the wife’s request for extension of deputation tenure in AGMUT for two more years. Mona Sreenivas is a 2006 batch Haryana cadre IAS whereas her husband, now on deputation in Telangana is a 2004 batch Haryana IAS. The panel took up the case as Mona Sreenivas requested for extension of deputation period for a further period of two years beyond July 11, 2016 on personal grounds. But her husband A Sreenivas also…

Who is Pranjal Yadav, the IAS who refused Narendra Modi rally in Varanasi?

Pranjal Yadav

VARANASI district magistrate and 2006 batch IAS Pranjal Yadav faced unprecedented attack in social media sites on Thursday as the BJP brass launched simultaneous protests in Delhi and Varanasi, describing the 34-year-old officer as “delinquent” and “biased”, and demanding Election Commission of India to transfer the officer immediately. Yadav who refused Narendra Modi,…

Young IAS R Sudhan raises fund from his batch-mates for a cause in a NE district

Women dancing in Manipur's Ukhrul district

A YOUNG Manipur-Tripura cadre IAS officer R Sudhan has begun to collect Rs 500 from each of his 89 batch-mates. This officer of 2006 batch, currently serving as deputy commissioner in Manipur’s Ukhrul district, has adopted this unique fund-raising method…

Alex Paul was kidnapped on a day PM spent time with thousands of bureaucrats

PM with an award winning bureaucrat on April 21

THE day Alex Paul Menon, a 2006 batch IAS, was kidnapped by Naxals from Majhipara village in Maoist-infested Chhattisgarh district, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh was incidentally addressing hundreds of bureaucrats in New Delhi. The occasion was the annual Civil Services Day. While showering praise on bureaucrats, Prime Minister said Indian civil servants would rank “among the best in the world”. “They have done excellent work. They have delivered results in the face of adversity,” he said.

But as Alex Paul Menon incident has demonstrated, the adversities for young officers serving in Naxal-hit areas...