Know Your IAS: New LBSNAA director Sanjeev Chopra

Sanjeev Chopra, 1985 batch West Bengal cadre IAS, presently in the cadre, has been appointed as the new director of Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA). The vacancy arose as the present LBSNAA director, Upma Chawdhry, a 1983 batch IAS, was appointed as the new secretary of the department of youth affairs. Chopra, 57, originally hails from Punjab and was...

3 young IAS officers’ fascinating posts of their past

Sweta Agarwal, IAS

FROM West Bengal cadre IAS Sweta Agarwal's childhood fascinations for the Khaki uniform to an Andhra Pradesh cadre IAS, Gopalkrishna Ronanki’s struggle from a study room with no electricity to turn an IAS topper, the Facebook posts of many a young officer are a fascinating read. Here below are the gist of three such posts, courtesy to an open FB page, Humans of LBSNAA:

Names of 8 new GoI secretaries announced; LBSNAA director Upma Chawdhry and FCI CMD figure in the list

THE government on Saturday appointed eight senior officers at the rank of secretary or secretary-equivalent positions. Whereas director of Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Ms Upma Chawdhry, will be the new secretary in the department of youth affairs on December 31, another officer -- 1984 batch IAS, ABP Pandey, will take over as new revenue secretary at the end of this month when incumbent Hasmukh Adhia retires. Here below is the eight new appointments:

4 out of 5 newly-appointed joint secretaries are non-IAS; retired Patna HC chief justice is new CAT chief

THE government on Wednesday appointed five new joint secretaries, four of whom being non-IAS. NK Sudhansu, 2000 batch Maharashtra cadre lAS has been appointed as Professor (Economics), in LBSNAA, Mussoorie at the rank of a joint secretary. And then, Justice L Narasimha Reddy, retired chief justice of Patna High Court, has been appointed as new chairman of Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT). Here below are the details of the appointments:

Mussoorie to Delhi: 2016 batch IAS officers to join central ministries on July 2 as assistant secretaries

A section of Officer Trainees at LBSNAA in 2017

BY THE end of this month, the 2016 batch IAS officers who are presently ending their phase-II training at Mussoorie’s Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), will land up in the Central ministries and departments in New Delhi for a 13-week-long posting as assistant secretaries. They will begin their work on July 2. An assistant secretary receives a monthly salary in the bracket of…

Centre weighs in options to combine UPSC score with LBSNAA foundation score to allot IAS, IFS, IPS etc.; 10 Takeaways

UPSC Building

IF THE government has its way, securing good marks in UPSC-conducted civil services examinations may not ensure a service of your choice: IAS, IFS, IPS or IRS! The government last week wrote to the cadre controlling authorities to weigh in the possibility of selecting services for officer-trainees only after looking at the candidate’s combined score in the UPSC examination and the performance in the 3-month-long foundation course in the academy. Here are the 10 key takeaways of what this new rule is and what the rule, if implemented, would mean:

IAS officers will now be trained on Beti Bachao Beti Padhao at LBSNAA

THE ministry of women and child development is collaborating with Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie, to train IAS officers on a variety of issues including Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, gender budgeting etc. In a tweet recently, it said: “Ministry WCD to collaborate with #LBSNAA, Mussoorie, to impart training and sensitise IAS officers on issues pertaining to gender”. According to the ministry, the IAS  officers will be trained on 4 issues. Those are:

Action and Appointments: IFS Ajay Bisaria as India's high commissioner to Pak; IAS Manoj Ahuja as LBSNAA joint director

MANOJ Ahuja, 1990 batch Odisha cadre IAS, will be a new Joint Director (JS level) at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie in place of Tejveer Singh, 1994 batch Punjab cadre IAS, for a period of five years. Originally belonging to Punjab, Ahuja was allotted Odisha cadre after getting into IAS. A mechanical engineer-turned IAS, Ahuja is also an...

How civil servants reacted to PM’s LBSNAA visit; “Mussoorie days are the most memorable for any IAS official”

AS Prime Minister Narendra Modi spent a couple of days at Mussoorie’s Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) last week, a number of ministers and civil servants across seniority expressed their feedback; for many a civil servant it was more an occasion to refresh their fond memories in the campus when they were undergoing training. BoI here publishes some of the officers' reaction to PM’s visit to the academy where he spent a night and participated in a Yoga session among a series of other interactions:

“Anonymity is the biggest strength of the civil servants”, says PM Modi at day 2 in LBSNAA

PM at a Yoga session at LBSNAA

ANONYMITY is the biggest strength of the civil servants, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a gathering of officer trainees at LBSNAA, Mussoorie, on the second day of his visit to the IAS academy. PM compared the civil services to the fourth lion of the Ashoka Emblem, saying how the emblem remains…

PM on 2-day visit to LBSNAA, Mussoorie; Day 1 saw PM having a 4-hour-long interaction with officer trainees; 10 things to know

A section of the officer trainees while listening to the PM

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi spent close to four hours interacting with about 360 officer trainees at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie on Thursday. PM is at LBSNAA on a two-day visit. Here are the 10 developments of the PM’s day-1 of the LBSNAA visit:

Home minister Rajnath Singh reminds IAS officers that “ego is like a decimal…”, 5 highlights of his speech

HM interacting with some young IAS; LBSNAA director also seen

UNION home minister Rajnath Singh last week reminded the IAS officers that ego is like a decimal point which if added before a number reduces the value of that number. Singh said this while addressing the officer trainees of 92nd foundation course and participants of mid-career training programme for IAS officers (Phase-V) at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie. Here are the 5 key highlights of his speech at LBSNAA:

N Chandrababu Naidu addresses IAS, others at LBSNAA, Mussoorie; talks about Amaravati, happiness index

ANDHRA Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Monday talked about his state’s real-time governance model and methodology of governance that attaches importance to the people's happiness index. In fact, Andhra Pradesh is the second state in India after Madhya Pradesh to start a separate department on happiness. Naidu was addressing about 450 officers of All India Service and civil services at…

Additional secretary Ajay Kumar to address 62 promoted IAS officers today on Digital India at LBSNAA

Ajay Kumar, additional secretary in the ministry of electronics and IT and 1985 batch Kerala cadre IAS will deliver a lecture today on Digital India in Mussoorie-based Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA). The officer, a product of IIT Kanpur and PhD in business administration from the University of Minnesota, will address 62 promoted IAS officers currently undertaking...

It’s no longer “collector”, but “district development commissioner”: Minister Jitendra Singh

Outstanding performers of 2016 batch IAS probationers at LBSNAA

INDIAN Administrative Service (IAS) has come a long way since it reincarnated itself from its earlier "Avatar" of British "Indian Civil Services”, said union minister of state for personnel and PMO Jitendra Singh on Friday in Mussoorie while felicitating probationers for outstanding performance in different categories at the felicitation-cum-valedictory function of 2016 batch IAS probationers. The function was held at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie. The minister said, the district head is now the “district development commissioner” and not “collector”, as was…

Cabinet gives its nod to LBSNAA for capacity building of public officials of Namibia

UNION cabinet on Wednesday not only approved the release of an additional installment of dearness allowance (DA) to Central government employees and dearness relief (DR) to pensioners with effect from January 1, 2017, but gave its nod to the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie and…

19 secretary-ranked officers appointed, reshuffled; Upma Chaudhary is new LBSNAA director

THE Appointments Committee of the Cabinet on Wednesday approved the appointment-cum-reshuffle of 19 secretary level officials of the Central government. Coal secretary Anil Swarup will now be secretary, department of school education and Smt Upma Chaudhary, 1983 batch Himachal Pradesh cadre IAS, presently in the cadre will be the new director, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie. Here is the full list of 19 appointments:

2013, 2014 batches IAS to serve as assistant secretaries at Centre for 3 months beginning August

A section of officer trainees with President of India (File photo)

FOR three months, between August and October this year, about 200 IAS officers of 2013 and 2014 batches will be posted in Central government ministries and departments, mainly to give them a first-hand experience of the functioning in the Central government before they begin their administrative career in the states. This is the second year in a row when young IAS officers will work at the Centre on central deputation and not directly move to their states from LBSNAA —the Mussoorie-based IAS academy where the officers are being trained. “The officers of the 2014 batch on expiry of the phase-II training in LBSNAA on 29.07.2016 will be placed at...

No room for bigamous assistant directors at LBSNAA; …but read the language of draft rules

WHEN the government frames a new rule, it needs to be precise and immune to interpretations, but at times, the language used to explain that preciseness makes it hilarious. On Thursday, the DoPT uploaded in its website the draft recruitment rules for the post of assistant directors in Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie, wherein it had explained disqualification for bigamous officers. First, read how the draft rules are being framed: It says:

States to spend Rs 2.25 lakh for each promoted IAS for Sri Lanka visit, other domestic tours

Destination Sri Lanka (Photo Courtesy: Anton Croos) 

STATE governments of Delhi, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu will spend Rs 2.25 lakh for each of the promoted IAS officer who is undertaking a six-week-long induction programme that begins on July 27 at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie. As many as 36 state administrative officers from those four states will be imparted training under which a foreign visit (this time to…