Know Your Babu: Manipur cadre IAS AN Jha will be Union finance secretary for 3 months

AN Jha

THE Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) on Monday approved designating AN

Jha, 1982 batch Manipur cadre lAS and secretary in the department of expenditure, as the new finance secretary. Jha will be the finance secretary for  a little less than three months, as he will retire on January 31, 2019. Incumbent Hasmukh Adhia, a 1981 batch Gujarat cadre IAS, retired in the end of the last month. An alumnus of St. Stephens College of Delhi where he did his post-graduation in history before getting selected into IAS, Jha is the…

Railway electrical engineer appointed as director in higher education dept; Govt approves cadre change of 2016 batch IAS

Ms Smita Srivastava, 1997 batch Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers (IRSEE), has been appointed as director in the department of higher education. Her appointment will be for a period of five years under the Central Staffing Scheme. In another development, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the cadre change of 2016 batch Manipur cadre IAS...

3 IAS — T Jacob, Smita Nagaraj and Nikhilesh Jha — elevated as special secretary; More about them

THREE IAS officers of 1984 batch — T Jacob of Tamil Nadu cadre, Ms Smita Nagaraj, also of Tamil Nadu cadre and Nikhilesh Jha of Manipur cadre — were on Monday appointed as special secretary in the rank and pay of union secretary. According to the order issued on Monday, their posts would be upgraded in-situ as they were also empaneled as secretary-equivalent. Accordingly, T Jacob, the present secretary in Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), will now be a…

Amstrong Pame: Every Friday, this Manipur cadre IAS will have dinner with 10 students

DEPUTY commissioner of Manipur’s Tamenglong district and 2009 batch IAS Amstrong Pame has asked school authorities of his district to short-list students for having first-hand experiences of witnessing the functioning of the deputy commissioner’s office, apart from joining him at the dinner table once in a week at his official bungalow. According to a letter dated July 3 issued by his office, a group of 10 students ranging from Class V to X will be invited every Friday for dinner with DC. The letter further said how the students needed to be selected. First, here's the full text of the letter issued by the deputy commissioner’s office:

Manipur and Tripura will now be two separate cadres; defence secy RK Mathur allocated Tripura; Full List

RK Mathur, Tripura Cadre

DEFENCE secretary RK Mathur and corporate affairs secretary Naved Masood, both IAS batch-mates of 1977 batch, will no longer be from the same Manipur-Tripura cadre. The reason? The government has hived off the cadre for IAS, IPS and other all India services and re-allocated the officers to Manipur and Tripra cadres. Here is a complete list of IAS and IPS officers according to their new allocation: