“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…

Corruption in Senior Bureaucracy: A free-wheeling commentary by an anonymous IAS officer

A THOROUGH data mining of the past corruption cases of senior bureaucrats stored in agencies such as Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) will reveal some kind of a pattern of corruption by senior bureaucrats in the government, both at the Centre and the states. But an IAS officer claiming to have 10 years of experience revealed a lot early this week while answering a question on Quora, a popular question-answer website. The question was — what is the lifestyle of an IAS officer? The post, seen so far by over 2.3 lakh visitors, went viral in social media sites on Monday. There, the officer mentioned about…