This theory says Anil Goswami’s removal as home secretary is result of IAS-IPS friction

Goswami (right) with outgoing home secretary RK Singh after taking charge

IN THE last couple of days, a theory that has been doing the rounds in the corridors is as follows: Former home secretary and 1978 batch IAS Anil Goswami’s removal has its origin in IAS-IPS fault-line. According to the theory, Goswami, who as union home secretary made many an IPS unhappy, was in fact trapped, and his conversation with Saradha scam accused Matang Sinh got recorded, a CD of which was handed over to the…

Home Secretary Anil Goswami: How “Kaki” is India’s 3rd Most Powerful Bureaucrat

Inspecting a toilet as part of Clean India campaign

DAYS before Narendra Modi took charge as the Prime Minister of India, home secretary and 1978 batch IAS officer Anil Goswami had a chance to brief him about internal security. As the meeting proceeded, it appeared, Modi had already known quite a lot about this Jammu and Kashmir cadre officer who was divisional commissioner of Jammu, chief executive officer of Vaishno Devi Shrine Board (first CEO after it was taken over by the government in 1986) and principal secretary to the then chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. And that meeting itself cleared doubts that…

Bureaucrats on Clean India mode: Inspecting toilets, taking SwachhBharat pledge

AFTER BoI posted a government-released photo of union home secretary Anil Goswami inspecting a toilet in North Block in social media sites, (never before an IAS officer was photographed inside a toilet!), a number of readers alerted BoI about officers who clean their cabins themselves, and those routinely inspect office toilets. One of them was…