Roman Saini who quit IAS to turn an entrepreneur is now in "Forbes 30 Under 30" list

Roman Saini, a doctor-turned IAS officer, surprised many when he decided to quit IAS in January 2016 to be a full-time entrepreneur and tutor. Now, 26-year-old Saini, along with two other co-founders of Unacademy — Gaurav Munjal, 27, and Hemesh Singh, 25, have been recognised in Forbes' prestigious 30 Under 30, a list of Indians below 30 years of old and those who are "shaping new India”. Saini, who has a medical degree from New Delhi's AIIMS, and the one who left the administrative service only after two years as assistant collector in Jabalpur, now finds his name in the Forbes list along with celebrities such as...

44 CBEC officials selected for Presidential Awards, GST Council JS Shashank Priya to be awarded; Full List

AS MANY as 44 employees of the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) department including GST Council joint secretary Shashank Priya, Additional Director General in  Directorate General of Vigilance (DGoV) Ms Neeta Lall Butalia, down to two drivers and a head havaldar have been selected today on the eve of the Republic Day, for Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificate for specially distinguished record of service. The officials have been selected on the basis of their…

TEX Awards: First of its kind awards for IAS, IPS, IFS by Telangana govt; List of awardees

ON THE 71st Independence Day, IAS officers belonging to Telangana cadre were given Telangana Excellence (TEX) Awards-2017, the first of its kind initiative by a state government to recognize achievements by the officers belonging to All India Services. Altogether 16 civil servants including one Indian Forest Service and 2 IPS officers were awarded, according to reports. Here below are the details of some of the awardees:

Former GoI secretary Prof Prajapati Trivedi and his public administration award from ASPA

Prajapati Trivedi, an academic who served as secretary to the performance management department under cabinet secretariat during the UPA regime, has received the International Public Administration Award from the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA). The award, considered prestigious in the field of public administration, is given to an individual who holds citizenship in a nation other than the USA; lives and works mainly outside America and contributes significantly to the field of public administration as a scholar, practitioner or both, as demonstrated by publications, awards and honours etc. Prof. Trivedi is currently a…

Why retired IAS SK Panda is given Louis Pasteur Award — the "Nobel Prize" in sericulture, silk industry

SK Panda

LAST month, former union textile secretary and 1980 batch Manipur-Tripura cadre retired IAS Sanjay Kumar Panda received a unique recognition — Louis Pasteur Award for the year 2016, an award considered as the Nobel Prize in sericulture and silk industry. Panda was given the award during the 24th International Congress on Sericulture and Silk Industry held last month in Thailand’s capital city of Bangkok. Panda, who did his post-graduation in chemistry before getting into IAS, actually took sericulture on a mission mode so much so that it was for his study on mulberry sericulture that he was awarded PhD in economics by Odisha’s Utkal University. In fact, Louis Pasteur was a…

Abandoned by her family, Sonwati gets her new home at Bidhuna police station; DGP to reward cops

FOR the last few days, this photo of an old lady named Sonwati has been in circulation in social media. Her home? Bidhuna police station, Auraiya district, Uttar Pradesh. Yes, you have read it right. For the last six months, Septuagenarian Sonwati has been residing in the police station after she was dislodged by her family members from…

Sahitya Academi Row: Those who “manufactured” a protest included a Rajasthan bureaucrat too!

Poet and Officer

MEET this bureaucrat who is among 33 writers who had returned their awards in the last few weeks to protest what they term a growing intolerance under Narendra Modi government at the Centre. Eminent poet Ambika Dutt Chaturvedi who is also a Rajasthan Administrative Service (RAS) officer won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2013 for his contribution to the Rajasthani literature. And this 59-year-old writer-officer too announced that he would be…

India’s deputy chief of mission in Saudi Arabia Sibi George gets 3rd SK Singh Award

Sibi George, 1993 batch IFS and deputy chief of mission of Indian embassy in Saudi Arabia, received the 3rd S.K. Singh Award for Excellence in Indian Foreign Service presented in New Delhi on Thursday. But unlike the previous years of this award function, neither the Congress president Sonia Gandhi nor vice-president Rahul Gandhi was present on the occasion, understandably due to…

Service at the Risk of Life: Full list of 40 customs and central excise officers winning Presidential Award

Full dress rehearsal for Republic Day Parade-2014

ON THE eve of the Republic Day, the government has announced the names of 40 officers of the Customs and Central Excise Department, selected for the Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificate. Whether it’s catching of smugglers of contrabands and narcotics drugs or detection of tax evasion and trade-based money laundering, these officers…

FM presents Presidential Awards to revenue officials; list includes officials from CBEC, DRI and High Commission of London

ON THE eve of the Republic Day, Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee presented the Presidential Awards to the officers of the Customs and Central Excise and Directorate of Enforcement for exceptionally meritorious service.

While appreciating their role, Mukherjee gave a few lessons to revenue officials. “As our country strives to become a global economic power in a constantly changing world, the guardians of economic frontiers and revenue officials would need to be efficient and friendly with those who comply with the law. They would need to be equally vigilant and swift in dealing with those who hoodwink the system for their personal gains,” FM said. (In picture: FM with the winners in New Delhi)

Whereas Satish Hari Kulkarni, Inspector, Customs Commissionerate of Pune won the award for exceptionally meritorious service rendered at the risk of life, New Delhi-based Additional Director General Debi Prasad Dash and Commissioner (Central Excise), Central Board of Excise and Customs Ajay Jain won awards for specially distinguished record of service.

The other officers who also won Presidential award of appreciation certificate include Navneet Goel, Director (Drawback), CBEC, MK Singh, First Secretary (Trade), High Commission of India, London, Subhagata Kumar, Additional Director, Directorate General of Systems and Data Management, New Delhi, Sunil Tated, Additional Director, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Suresh Kumar, Additional Commissioner, Customs Air Cargo Complex, Bangaluru, Manish Kumar Sinha, Additional Commissioner, Central Excise Commissionerate, Pune-III, SD Chand, Deputy Director, Directorate General of Valuation, Mumbai, R Ravikumar, Deputy Director, Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence, Chennai, SM Mani, Assistant Director, Directorate of Enforcement, Zonal office, Chennai, Dharmvir Singh, Officer on Special Duty, TRU, CBEC, New Delhi, G Gururaghavendran, Superintendent, Directorate General of Systems and Data Management, Chennai, VS Syed Mohammed, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Regional Unit, Cochin, Jayaraj PG Nair, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Zonal Unit, Mumbai, Surinder Singh Dangi, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Zonal Unit, Ahmedabad, I Ramalingeswara Rao, Superintendent, Central Excise Commissionerate, Vishakhapatnam-II, Prabir Kumar Bhadra, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Sub-Regional Unit, Berhampore, KC Meena, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence, Regional Unit, Jaipur, Manish Immanuel, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence, Regional Unit, Ludhiana, Bijender Singh Yadav, Superintendent, Central Excise Commissionerate, Delhi-III to name a few.

IAS officers’ wives celebrate winter carnival

Members of IAS Officers Wives Association, or IASOWA gathered in New Delhi’s Chanakyapuri on Saturday to celebrate the annual winter carnival with much extravaganza of fun and frolic. According to reports, thousands of people thronged the venue that saw setting up of 70 stalls. The sunny morning made everyone spirited. Significantly, it raised funds for Prerna School meant for children of daily wage earners and Thyagraj Stitching and Computer Training Centre for the needy, both of which are being run by IASOWA.