5 Civil Servants to Watch Out For, 2018: Hasmukh Adhia, KD Tripathi, Amitabh Kant, Aman Singh and Vijay Gokhale

Hasmukh Adhia

HERE is the final list of BoI's 5 Civil Servants to Watch Out For in 2018. Topping the list is Hasmukh Adhia — an accountant, an IAS, a PhD in Yoga, union finance secretary and yes, one of the two key probables to be India’s next cabinet secretary this summer. In BoI’s series of 5 Civil Servants to Watch Out For, 2018, petroleum secretary Kapil Dev Tripathi is No 2. Tripathi is the other probable for the top bureaucrat’s post when incumbent Pradeep Kumar Sinha’s extended term ends on June 13. The other three civil servants to watch out for in 2018, who BoI had profiled in earlier posts, are:

5 Civil Servants to Watch Out For, 2018: At No 2 is next cabinet secretary probable Kapil Dev Tripathi

WHO will be the 32nd cabinet secretary of India? As incumbent Pradeep Kumar Sinha’s extended term ends on June 13 this year (he was originally appointed for two years and then granted one year of extension), speculations begin on who could be the next top bureaucrat in India. And if the government decides not to extend Sinha’s tenure any longer, as was the case of the then foreign secretary S Jaishankar, it’s the present petroleum secretary and 1980 batch IAS Kapil Dev Tripathi who could be the frontrunner for the top bureaucrat's post. As on June 13, Tripathi will be the…

5 Civil Servants to Watch Out For, 2018: At No 3 is an incredible bureaucrat — Amitabh Kant

MANY of his colleagues call him a “rockstar bureaucrat”; some say, “hero”. Amitabh Kant, the bureaucrat behind the creation of some of India’s memorable campaigns — Incredible India, Make-in-India etc. — continues to occupy the centerstage in the corridors of power, wielding immense influence in the affairs of the Central government. Yes, by the end of the next month, Kant’s two-year-term as the CEO of the government think-tank, NITI Aayog, will come to an end. But will it make it any difference? Will the government discontinue him? In BoI’s list of “5 Civil Servants to Watch Out For, 2018”, Amitabh Kant is No 3. The other two bureaucrats who BoI had already profiled were…

5 Civil Servants to Watch Out For, 2018: At No 4 is Chhattisgarh’s Strategist-in-Chief Aman Singh

WHETHER you are a staunch supporter of the BJP-run Chhattisgarh government or a fierce opponent to it, one thing you will agree in common: Aman Singh, a former Indian Revenue Service official and the principal secretary to chief minister Raman Singh is also the principal strategist of the state government. As the state will go for the crucial assembly poll later this year with the ruling party fighting 15 years of anti-incumbency, here’s the bureaucrat to watch out for. In BoI’s new list of “5 Civil Servants to Watch Out For, 2018”, Aman Singh is No 4, above new…

5 Civil Servants to Watch Out For, 2018: At No 5 is new foreign secretary Vijay Keshav Gokhale

ON THE first day of the new year 2018, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved the appointment of Vijay Keshav Gokhale, 1981 batch Indian Foreign Service officer and secretary (economic relations) in the ministry of external affairs, as the foreign secretary in place of Dr S Jaishankar, who is completing his tenure on January 28, 2018. In BoI’s new list of 5 Civil Servants to Watch Out For, 2018, Gokhale is No 5, with the remaining four to be named in the next few days. Gokhale, who as…