CORRIDORS TREND 2017, PART 3: Five things you can’t afford to miss out

Young IAS officers participating in a fashion show

WHETHER it is the end of the red beacon era or the Prime Minister's repeated appeal to the bureaucrats to remain anonymous just like the "invisible" 4th lion of Ashoka Emblem, the corridors witnessed dozens of new trends and approaches. BoI here picks out 5 such interesting trends that you must not miss out:

CORRIDORS TREND 2017, PART 1: How non-IAS officers liberally chosen as GoI joint secretaries

IF YOU pick out the single major trend from the corridors of power in the year 2017, it will be the non-IAS officers being liberally given berths of joint secretaries in the union government, the posts which till recently were invariably under the control of the IAS officers. Does that mean the end of IAS supremacy in the Central government? It’s not, as additional secretaries and secretaries, the two senior-most ranks of the Government of India are fully dominated by the IAS. In BoI’s first part of the trend-spotting in 2017, here below are the reasons why and how IPS, IFoS and Group ‘A’ officers like IRS, IES, railway services etc. managed the coveted JS posts, making it the most prominent trend for 2017…