Employees have urged CM Yogi Adityanath to take over the department from Sharma, saying the minister had reneged on agreements with them and was pushing privatisation.
Sharma worked closely with Modi as an IAS till he joined BJP. Now, a minister in Yogi govt, with power & urban development portfolios, he has been facing flak over several incidents.
IAS officer who served as coal secretary says Sharma’s ‘persuasive skills were such that even principal secretary to PM started pushing me (Swarup) to decide in favour of the industrialist’.
Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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