Gujarat IAS Ananya Das transferred to Odisha on grounds of marriage to Muhammed Abdaal Akhtar

Ananya Das, 2015 batch Gujarat cadre IAS, has been transferred from Gujarat cadre to Odisha cadre on grounds of marriage to Muhammed Abdaal Akhtar, 2015 batch Odisha cadre IAS. Ananya, 28, originally belongs to Assam, according to DoPT records. In her social media handle, she calls herself an IAS officer, semi-voracious bookworm, amateur painter and the last but not the least an…

Babu Marriage: Gargi Jain transferred to Gujarat cadre on grounds of marriage to Vishal Gupta; 4 railway officers empanelled as JS

Jain, Gupta (Photo Courtesy: Couple's personal wedding site) 

Gargi Jain, 2015 batch Karnataka cadre IAS officer, has been transferred from Karnataka cadre to Gujarat cadre on the ground of marriage to Vishal Gupta, 2012 batch Gujarat cadre IAS. The couple was married almost a year ago, at a venue in Rajasthan’s Alwar. “It all started over a cold coffee and a 3 minutes activa ride,” Ms Jain wrote in a website launched ahead of the wedding, narrating how the couple first met and got attracted to each other. “A phone call by me started with a doubt about urban SHGs ends in a 'Yes, I love you' message from him on my…

Gujarat cadre IAS Rajender Kumar laterally shifted from DoPT to PMO; IPS PS Purohit elevated as special director in IB

Rajender Kumar, 2004 batch Gujarat cadre IAS, presently a director in the department of personnel and training (DoPT), has been laterally shifted as director in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). His tenure will be till May 26, 2021, or until further order, a DoPT office memorandum issued on July 2, said. A graduate in Ayurvedic before getting selected as an IAS, Kumar was collector in Gujarat’s Rajkot and then Surat district before joining the…

HOME COMING: Gujarat cadre IAS Lalnunmawia Chuaungo gets inter-cadre deputation to Mizoram till retirement

THE government has allowed Lalnunmawia Chuaungo, 1987 batch Gujarat cadre IAS, for an inter-cadre deputation from Gujarat to the Mizoram segment of the AGMUT cadre till February 28, 2022, the date he retires. 56 years old  Chuaungo is a Mizo, and has been serving in Gujarat for three decades. A graduate in history, he can speak…

Ex-Gujarat cadre IAS PK Pujari appointed chairman, CERC; Govt declines extension of railway officer Urvilla Khati in steel ministry

Ex-GUJARAT cadre IAS and former power secretary Pradeep Kumar Pujari, 60, will be the new chairman of Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC). The ACC while approving  his appointment on Tuesday said, he would get a tenure of three years or until he attains the age of 65 years, or until further orders. Originally belonging to Odisha, Pujari is a postgraduate in economics and was the secretary, NRI affairs, in the Government of Gujarat, among handling other posts. Between March and May, 2017, he also handled the post of union telecom secretary. Meanwhile, the ACC has declined the proposal of...

Know Your IAS: World Bank’s new executive director and 1988 batch IAS S Aparna

S Aparna, a 1988 batch IAS officer and principal secretary to Gujarat chief minister, will be the new executive director in the World Bank representing India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka. She will be replacing SC Garg. Ms Aparna will get a tenure of three years in America’s Washington DC. An M.Sc and M.Phil in zoology before getting into IAS, she later completed her MBA from…

Know Your Babu: DoPT’s new joint secretary Srinivas Ramaswamy Katikithala

Srinivas Ramaswamy Katikithala, 1989 batch Gujarat cadre IAS, has been appointed as joint secretary in the department of personnel and training (DoPT). An LLM in constitutional law,  Katikithala was a principal secretary-ranked officer in Gujarat government before the appointments committee of the cabinet approved his new assignment in DoPT, Delhi. Here are 10 things about Katikithala:

Gujarat gets its first woman top cop; Geetha Johari appointed new DGP; 10 things about her

SENIOR most IPS officer in Gujarat — Ms Geetha Johari — was on Tuesday appointed as the new Director General of Police (DGP) after her predecessor PP Pandey had to step down from the top cop’s job, following a petition in the Supreme Court. Here are the 10 things you may like to know about the state’s first woman top cop:

Mega IPS reshuffle in Gujarat; Ahmedabad Police Commissioner shifted to IB

GUJARAT government on Wednesday undertook a major police reshuffle, involving as many as 21 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers. The highlight of the IPS reshuffle, the first major one after Vijay Rupani took over as chief minister of the state replacing Anandiben Patel in August the year, is the transfer of Ahmedabad Police Commissioner and 1983 batch IPS Shivanand Jha to Intelligence Bureau, and then the shifting of Surat Police Commissioner and 1985 batch IPS Ashish Bhatia to CID (crime and Railways). Jha will be…

More about D Thara, the new MD of Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation

Ahmedabad Municipal Commissioner and 1995 batch Gujarat cadre IAS Ms D Thara has been appointed as the new Managing Director of the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC), in a major bureaucratic reshuffle that witnessed transfer of 30 other officers as well. Originally hailing from Tamil Nadu, Thara has experiences in working in various cities of Gujarat such as…

Who will succeed Rakesh Asthana? Gujarat IPS association to name its president soon

Rakesh Asthana, IPS

ON MAY 5 and 6, senior police officers of Gujarat will attend a workshop at the Directorate of Forensic Science (DFS), Gandhinagar, and if media reports turn correct,  the police officers will also discuss who could be the successor of Rakesh Asthana as the president of IPS Association, Gujarat. The need to fill up the post of the state IPS Association chief arose when Asthana resigned after…

IAS, IPS couple choose Gujarat as common cadre; Govt may bend rules to ensure they live together

THE Central government is likely to bend existing rules to give the post-marriage life of IAS officer P Parthiban and IPS officer Ms Nisha Parthiban a happy ending. As BoI had written on a post dated February 5, cadre change of the officers— 2011 batch AGMUT cadre IAS P Parthiban and 2011 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IPS Nisha Parthiban— could not be done under existing policies of inter-cadre transfers on the grounds of marriage. But in a DoPT secretary-chaired meeting held on April 13, it was decided that the panel will…

3 ex-IAS get Padma awards: Gopalaswami, Vasudevan (posthumous), Rajaraman; but all belong to Tamil Nadu

Gopalaswami (File photo)

THE names of three former civil servants -- ex-Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami, former GoI secretary R Vasudevan (posthumous) and former secretary to Tamil Nadu government PV Rajaraman – have figured in the list of Padma award winners this year, as announced by the government on the eve of the Republic Day. Incidentally, all the three former officers happen to be from Tamil Nadu. Among them, Gopalaswami was…

Hasmukh Adhia: Accountant, IAS, PhD in Yoga and new financial services secretary

MANY may still remember prime minister Narendra Modi’s photo at a yoga session with Gujarat bureaucrats when he was the state chief minister and key driver in a programme called Karmayogi Abhiyan, which was meant for transforming Gujarat bureaucrats into Karmayogis by imparting training. The training included working skill, pranayam and yoga. And one of the key bureaucrats who had impressed the then chief minister was 1981 batch IAS Dr Hasmukh Adhia. Now Adhia, who has a degree in accountancy and PhD in Yoga, has been appointed as secretary in the department of financial services. He is also a…

Whispers in Corridors: Gujarat cadre IAS Gauri Kumar tipped to be skill development secretary

LABOUR secretary and 1979 batch Gujarat cadre IAS Gauri Kumar is believed to be the front-runner for the post of secretary in the newly-created department of skill development. With the cabinet secretary giving the final touch of the power of the new department including modalities of taking out…

Know Your Babu: Centre handpicks Gujarat cadre IAS Rajesh Kishore as NHRC Secretary General

THE Centre has selected Gujarat cadre IAS of 1980 batch, Rajesh Kishore, to head National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) headed by prime minister Narendra Modi on Thursday approved Kishore’s appointment as secretary general of NHRC. Kishore, an additional chief secretary handling…

K for Kuniyil, K for Kailashnathan: The KK who will play the key role in Narendra Modi’s PMO, if…

NOVEMBER, 2010. Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi was on a two-day visit to Kerala. He first landed up at Kochi, and then visited Thrissur in a helicopter to attend a function. Mind it. It was not a political rally, but the marriage ceremony of daughter of one of his most trusted bureaucrats, Kuniyil Kailashnathan, or KK, as he is known to his friends and colleagues. And if Modi becomes India’s next prime minister, something that will be known only on May 16, it’s KK…

YSR Congress nominates Gujarat IAS Devarapalli Kishore Rao from Bapatla in Seemandhra

Jagan Reddy in a rally

A GUJARAT cadre IAS officer Devarapalli Kishore Rao will be YSR Congress party nominee for Bapatla (SC) Lok Sabha seat that falls in Seemandhra region of Andhra Pradesh, according to latest reports. Rao, an officer of 1980 batch who resigned in December last year and had served mandatory 3-month-long notice period, considers himself retired though the government of Gujarat has not actually…

How Modi finally spotted Sanjay Gupta; ex-IAS now launches a news channel

SANJAY Raghunath Prasad Gupta, former Gujarat cadre IAS of 1985 batch left the service in 2002 when he was reportedly side-lined by Narendra Modi regime. But Modi later realized it was a mistake. Gupta who joined Adani Group as CEO and then set up his own luxury hotels called Cambay, was brought back for a government project by Modi almost a decade later. Gupta, 49, is now the…

Vibrant Gujarat-2013: Know more about backroom boy Maheshwar Sahu, IAS

Sahu (right) with chief minister Narendra Modi

DAYS before Gujarat staging its mega investors’ summit, Vibrant Gujarat-2013, BoI takes a close look at the bureaucrat of the moment: Maheshwar Sahu, a 1980 batch Gujarat cadre IAS and principal secretary in industries and mines departments of the state. For the last couple of years, captains of Indian industries and MNC honchos have …