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Saturday, November 2, 2024
TopicBureaucrats

Topic: bureaucrats

India’s smug civil service officers can learn lot from politicians during Covid: IRS officer

Bureaucrats often take pride in appearing cold, distant and unapproachable. Such traits don’t work in a pandemic.

How Yogi’s ‘Super DMs’ and ‘Team 11’ are a bigger problem than caste of SPs and DMs

Uttar Pradesh has a law and order problem. Not just caste, blame Yogi Adityanath’s new posts that were created because of his own shortcomings.

NEP 2020 is a good document but its real job will be to weed civil servants out of academia

The education policies of 1968 and 1986 were also excellent and visionary, but could not be implemented due to political and bureaucratic resistance.

India Inc loves retired bureaucrats. Modi govt can stop the stink with cooling-off period

Former CVC K.V. Chowdary’s joining Reliance Industries as an independent director highlights the need for urgent reforms in Indian bureaucracy.

71 ex-bureaucrats write to PM against prosecution of 4 former officials in INX Media case

The retired civil servants also expressed concern over 'selective targeting' of retired and serving officers which included 4 finance ministry officials.

New portal for PM Modi to track appointments, transfers & postings of senior IAS officers

The portal will allow Modi to have direct access to who is being appointed where, the posts lying vacant, who can be placed where and who is retiring.

Modi govt looking to split DoPT into 2 departments to train its civil servants better

Govt is exploring idea of having separate departments handle personnel matters and training, which could help coordinate training of officials across the country.

PMs come and go but these PMO officials have prospered — under Vajpayee, Manmohan & Modi

A number of civil servants in Modi govt have held significant positions either under PM Vajpayee or during the Congress govt of Manmohan Singh.

Much before Modi govt crackdown on IRS officers, Yogi’s UP punished 600 officials for graft

Yogi govt took action against 401 officials, retired 201 in its first year; another 400 under scanner; crackdown likely on 'corrupt ministers' too.

Modi govt reshuffles senior-level bureaucrats across central govt departments

About 10 additional secretaries were appointed to various departments in the reshuffle that comes amid the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.

On Camera

As a Hindu Canadian, I am deeply hurt by cancellation of Diwali. My community is now sidelined

Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

Indian firms sanctioned by US didn’t violate laws, says MEA. Hyderabad firm that supplied to Army on list

Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.