Know Your Babu: New urban development secretary Rajiv Gauba and 3 of his batch-mate secretaries

Rajiv Gauba, a Punjabi from Bihar and 1982 batch Jharkhand cadre IAS will be the new urban development secretary from the end of this month when incumbent Madhusudan Prasad retires. Three of his batch mates, G Gurucharan, Hem Kumar Pande and Jitendra Shankar Mathur have also been appointed as union secretaries. Know more about these 4 Union secretaries:

How a DoPT mistake makes an IAS officer 10 years junior to his batch-mates

ALAS! West Bengal cadre IAS officer Hem Kumar Pande, currently working as additional secretary in the ministry of environment and forests, has become 10 years junior to his batch-mates! Just hold your breath. In a DoPT order duely…