YEAR END SERIES: 10 Key Appointments of Bureaucrats in 2018

IT’S time to say goodbye to the year 2018. For Indian bureaucracy it was quite an uneven journey this year — from the IAS-AAP battle in Delhi to an unprecedented war within the CBI. But the year also saw a series of key appointments with wider implications. Here below are 10 such appointments: 

5 predictions for bureaucrats in 2016; will bureaucrats hesitate to come to Delhi?

Happy New Year. At the dawn of the Year 2016, it’s difficult to forecast how the year will turn out to be for India’s civil servants working both at the Centre and the states. Will they be a happier lot after receiving a new pay package? Will productivity of civil servants increase in 2016? Or, will more bureaucrats hesitate to come to Delhi? Here are 5 forecasts for corridors, not based on any astrological calculation, but on simple logic:

Bye Bye 2014: Extra Innings of India’s Babudom

FROM Netagiri Vs Babudom to seeking government permission to change an officer’s name, India’s corridors of power witnessed many a side-story during 2014. It was the year when a railway officer turns a driver on Delhi road and Mr Peon finds a berth in BoI Most Powerful Bureaucrats list. Read on:

Bureaucrats’ New Year Resolutions, 2014: Pure politics to simple wishes

FROM taking a resolution to free India from the Congress (#congressmuktbharat) to wishing the Indian Economy a great year, Indian bureaucrats have aired their best wishes in various social media platforms. BoI reproduces a few of those:

13 of 2013: Meet these bureaucrats who turned newsmakers of 2013

THERE is no death of newsmakers in India’s corridors of power. Here, a new issue, whether big or small, crops up everyday. BoI picks out 13 bureaucrats who hogged the limelight in 2013 for reasons as varied as taking on sand mafia, becoming ministers, scaling up the Mt. Everest, and wrapping a steel almirah with a four-metre-long cloth to fix corrupt politicians. Here are those 13 of 2013: