Abhishek Jain: IAS officer and world champion in typewriting; “Typewriter is an extension of my body”

“And talking of typing contests, these days the name of a certain 13-year-old boy (Abhishek Jain) keeps popping up”, ---Blitz, August 17, 1991
“While most of the world was preparing for Atlanta (Olympics), Abhishek Jain was going for the gold in Germany – as the fastest typist in the world” --`TIME’ magazine, USA, August 26, 1996
This Abhishek Jain is a 2002 batch Himachal Pradesh cadre IAS and is currently working as collector in Una district. But for most of his friends and colleagues, he is more a three-time world typing champion than an administrator. His typing speed? 135 words per minute! Jain hails from…

Amit Gupta in Limca Book of Records: How this UP IAS turns frequent transfers into a lifelong asset

FOR civil servants, one of the easy punishments being crafted by political leadership, is frequent transfers. We have all heard about many victims, most notable being Ashok Khemka of Haryana cadre, just to mention one. But meet this 2000 batch Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS -- Amit Gupta who turned this liability of frequent transfers into a lifetime asset. Limca Book of Records, the annual reference book that documents human and natural world records, has issued a certificate to Gupta for his record of…