Govt accords 4 cases of inter-cadre deputation, extension of IAS; details below

THE government has approved an extension of inter cadre deputation tenure of Jayant Narlikar, 2003 batch Assam cadre IAS, from Assam-Meghalaya cadre to Uttar Pradesh cadre, for a further period of two years, till June 4, 2021. In another development, the government also extended inter cadre deputation tenure of Ms. Sonal Goel, 2008 batch Tripura cadre IAS from Tripura cadre to Haryana cadre for a further period of one year with effect from July 25, 2019, beyond the...

DoPT initiates action against 2010 batch IAS Shah Faesal for a Twitter post; Kashmiri IAS releases what he calls the “love letter” from his boss

Shah Faesal as an IAS trainee (File Photo)

THE department of personnel and training (DoPT) has requested the Jammu and Kashmir government to initiate action against 2010 batch Jammu and Kashmir cadre IAS officer Shah Faesal for violating the conduct rules by posting some materials in his verified Twitter account. DoPT in its letter said, the posts written by the IAS officer are prima-face in contravention to…

Action and Appointments: IFS Ajay Bisaria as India's high commissioner to Pak; IAS Manoj Ahuja as LBSNAA joint director

MANOJ Ahuja, 1990 batch Odisha cadre IAS, will be a new Joint Director (JS level) at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie in place of Tejveer Singh, 1994 batch Punjab cadre IAS, for a period of five years. Originally belonging to Punjab, Ahuja was allotted Odisha cadre after getting into IAS. A mechanical engineer-turned IAS, Ahuja is also an...

Karnataka MLA uses foul language against a woman forest service officer; “No upright officer will take such nonsense lying down”, she replies

“I will slap you and it will break your teeth…Don't you have any shame?” 

This is what an MLA from Karnataka Satish Reddy allegedly told deputy conservator of forests and 2010 batch Indian Forest Service (IFoS) officer Deepika Bajpai. After media reports were published about the use of foul language by the MLA, IAS Association took to Twitter to say: “Strongly condemned. Dignity and honour of officers can’t be compromised. Threatening officers on duty is unacceptable”. It’s not yet known how Indian Forest Service Association has reacted to the incident. The woman officer wrote in a social media site that “no upright officer will take such nonsense lying down”. In fact, the incident occurred at Kodichikkannahall area of Bengaluru that witnessed…

A Foot Soldier: IAS Jitendra Kumar Soni’s “Charan Paduka” is now a Rajasthan govt scheme

Jitendra Singh Soni, IAS

IT’S named Charan Paduka Scheme. Target? To provide shoes to the underprivileged school children. And the man who began this innovative way of empowering the under-privileged is a 2010 batch IAS — Jitendra Kumar Soni, the former district collector of Jalore, Rajasthan. Launched in January this year, the scheme has now been adapted by…

DoPT realizes its error; asks IAS Karuna Kumari to apply for deputation to Bihar only in Feb 2017

CENTRE’S personnel department, DoPT, has said that 2010 batch Assam-Meghalaya cadre IAS Dr (Ms) Karuna Kumari has to wait for one more year before applying for an inter-cadre deputation to her home cadre, Bihar, on compassionate grounds, after the department realized it had made a mistake earlier. The mistake is dated back to November 9, 2015 when a secretary-headed panel of the department inadvertently mentioned that the officer Ms Kumari was...

Officers who praised IPS Sangeeta Kalia’s courage and the one who calls her transfer a political decision

TV garb as the spat continued between IPS Kalia and minister Vij

A FEW IPS officers, the IPS association and a large number of common men and women took to social media sites on Saturday to support 2010 batch IPS officer Sangeeta Kalia who was transferred a day after a video clip of her public spat with Haryana health minister Anil Vij went viral. A few officers however indirectly supported minister Vij in this Neta-Vs-Babu saga. Before talking about who all supported the young IPS, and who were on the minister’s side, let’s first present here the excerpt of the spat in a public meeting that was held on Friday in Fatehabad, Haryana:

An IPS marries an IAS; applies for cadre transfer to Uttarakhand; MHA declines; IAS spouse makes fresh bids in DoPT, and…

IT’S a story about an IPS-IAS couple wanting to live together after their marriage but got it “denied” because of a maze of sarkari rules and procedures. Here it goes. Ram Chandra Rajquru, a 2013 batch IPS officer wanted to change his cadre from Bihar to Uttarakhand on the grounds of marriage to Uttarakhand cadre IAS Ms Ranjana. But in December 2014, the ministry of home affairs (MHA) declined the request of the IPS officer citing Bihar government’s denial to issue a no-objection certificate. But on Monday, a panel headed by DoPT secretary Saniav Kothari took up the case again as…

Day 6 of Missing Helicopter in Arunachal Pradesh: “Who cares if an IAS on duty goes missing in jungles of India’s Far East?”

TODAY (Sunday) is the Day 6 of a Pawan Hans helicopter going missing in Arunachal Pradesh with deputy commissioner of Tirap and 2010 batch IAS Kamlesh Joshi on board. The world moves on: Loggerheads in Parliament, heat on forthcoming Bihar polls, tension in LoC, iPhone-maker Foxconn’s proposed USD 5 billion-investment in Maharashtra, Swachh Bharat ranking of cities, and yes, England’s massive victory to wrest the Ashes. No one seems to have bothered about an IAS officer going missing. After all, the incident took place not in Delhi or Mumbai but in jungles of Arunachal Pradesh, the eastern-most state of North-east of India, or more appropriately of Far East of India? BoI wrote on Day 2 of the incident how…

Pawan Hans chopper with IAS Kamlesh Joshi on board goes missing in Tirap of Arunachal Pradesh

Kamlesh Joshi, IAS

A PAWAN HANS helicopter with deputy commissioner of Arunachal Pradesh’s Tirap district, Kamlesh Joshi on board went missing after taking off from the district headquarters Khonsa on Tuesday. Joshi, a 2010 batch AGMUT cadre IAS officer, joined as DC in this insurgency-infested district in June 2013. As this report is being written, as many as four choppers including two from…

3 IAS officers changed their names in 3 months; astrology or fashion?

A GOVERNMENT official recently wrote to BoI: “I know one officer whose name is TPVSS Rao. Strangely with every new posting he would become Sekhar Rao or SS Rao or TP Rao. We used to call him A to Z Rao." Jokes apart, changing one’s name or at least a part of it by senior officers has become somewhat routine, at least when three IAS officers since June this year got permission from the DoPT to do so. Last week, DoPT permitted one IAS officer named…

UP govt serves chargesheet to IAS Durga Shakti Nagpal; ball in Centre’s court

Time Up? UP IAS officers with CM after a friendly cricket match in Jan

IN YET another Sunday afternoon exercise, Uttar Pradesh government served a chargesheet to 2010 batch IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal who turned a national icon for taking on illegal sand mafia in Hindon and Yamuna river beds of West UP. Exactly a week ago, also a Sunday, Akhilesh Yadav government suspended the 28-year-old officer on the pretext of…

Who all support Durga Shakti Nagpal, the firebrand IAS taking sand mafia head-on

REQUESTING anonymity, a senior IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre told a section of media on Tuesday that suspended IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal would be charge-sheeted, and an inquiry could be ordered to find out whether she had any role in disturbing communal harmony. But more and more groups have come out in support of the 28-year-old IAS, as it appears that she was framed for her drive against the powerful sand mafia lobby in Western UP. Here are Durga supporters:

More about the 2010 batch “Durga IAS”, her education, marriage, cadre change

Durga Shakti Nagpal (left) along with some of her batch-mates

BUREAUCRATS in corridors of power in Delhi and elsewhere on Tuesday talked about a young woman IAS officer who a prominent newspaper described as “Durga IAS” after she had dared to take on notorious sand mafia of UP's Gautam Budh Nagar, adjoining the capital city of Delhi. As reported, 28-year-old Durga Shakti Nagpal is in the forefront of a fight against unauthorized dredging along Yamuna and Hindon rivers,  located in Western UP. BoI here gives a glimpse of Ms Nagpal, her educational background, her marriage and cadre change...