Year End Special: Corridor’s 5 women newsmakers of 2014

Ruchira Kamboj

WHEN the preparation for Narendra Modi’s swearing-in as the 15th Prime Minister of India began, the ministry of external affairs directed one of its diplomats, Ruchira Kamboj, to take the first flight from Paris. Kamboj who had just joined as India’s permanent representative to UNESCO, was to oversee the protocol arrangements of the foreign dignitaries to be present during the oath-taking ceremony. Here are the five women bureaucrats who turned newsmakers in 2014:

Bandana Preyashi appointed as Ravi Shankar Prasad’s PS: Why many in Siwan called her “sir”?

Bandana Preyashi, 2003 batch IAS and the one who is considered a hard taskmaster among Bihar bureaucrats, has been appointed as private secretary to minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in the department of legal affairs. Preyashi, 40, who as Barh sub-divisional officer hogged the limelight for locking the foodgrain godown of don-turned-JD (U) MLA Anant Singh alias Chhote Sarkar, continued to remain a news-maker in the state where young civil servants…