Know Your Babu: Ashwani Lohani, the railway officer mandated to lead Air India's turnaround

NO bureaucrat’s appointment has made such a buzz in the recent time as did 1980 batch Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineering (IRSME) officer Ashwani Lohani’s appointment as chairman and managing director of Air India on Thursday. It was one of the top trends in social media for hours yesterday, and today all prominent dailies front-paged the news. The officer whose favourite book is “Turnaround Excellence” will now have a Herculean task ahead in turning around the ailing national airline that is surviving on a…

Full list of 48 officers empanelled as GoI joint secretary; Some belong to 1985 batch, some 1997!

IN THE last couple of days, the Central Government announced the empanelment of as many as 48 officers belonging to IAS, IPS, Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers, Indian Railway Personnel Service (IRPS) and Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers (IRSEE) as joint secretary to Government of India (GoI). And they belong to as old as 1985 batch and as new as 1997 batch. Significantly, as 17 officers belonging to 1985 batch Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers get empanelled as joint secretaries, many of their IAS batch-mates were appoined as GoI additional secretaries. Here is the full list of 48 newly-empanelled JS: