TopicCivil servants

Topic: civil servants

‘Mamata’s trusted officers don’t retire’ — chief secretary joins list as industry body head

Madhuparna Das - 29 September, 2020

Rajiva Sinha, who has been made West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation chair, is latest civil servant to earn important post-retirement posting under Mamata govt.

RSS-backed IAS institute has been quietly grooming ‘nationalist’ civil servants since 1986

Sanya Dhingra - 16 September, 2020

In 2020 civil services exam, Samkalp Foundation has claimed a success rate of 61%. The institute with close ties to RSS claimed similar success in the last few years too.

Former IAS, IFS officers move SC in Sudarshan News case, seek ruling on scope of ‘hate speech’

Apoorva Mandhani - 14 September, 2020

The petitioners say accusations of dual loyalties towards members of any faith — and suggestions of treachery by virtue of belonging to that faith — constitute hate speech.

First mission of Modi’s Mission Karmayogi must be to not repeat mistakes of past reforms

Karnamadakala Rahul Sharma - 10 September, 2020

Mission Karmayogi departs from previous reforms, and goes beyond Group A and B officers to include the 89 per cent of public service workers in Group C.

Modi govt launches Karmayogi Yojana to transform civil servants into ‘experts’

Sanya Dhingra - 2 September, 2020

The govt plans to spend Rs 10.86 crore over 5 years on building civil servants’ skills, and the scheme will be supervised by a PM-headed council.

Nagaland civil servants hit out at IAS officers, call them ‘suitcase bureaucrats’

Sanya Dhingra - 28 July, 2020

Modi govt had pulled up Nagaland for appointing non-IAS officers as DCs, but state civil service association says it isn’t out of parochial or personal ambition.

Punjab CM’s chief principal secy ‘gives up’ position again, returns vehicles & relieves staff

Chitleen K Sethi - 22 July, 2020

This is the third time in 2 yrs that Suresh Kumar has given up his position, ‘upset’ over no progress in the 2017 HC case challenging his appointment as chief principal secretary.

Civil servant-parents of Delhi’s elite Sanskriti School want CAG audit after fee hike

Sanya Dhingra - 17 April, 2020

In a representation to Sanskriti School, parents have demanded an immediate rollback of the fee hike, which is ‘exorbitant for everyone’ and particularly ‘for honest civil servants’.

Yogi govt wont ‘defy tradition’, will hold Ayodhya Ram Navami Mela despite COVID-19 threat

ThePrint Team - 21 March, 2020

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Minister-IAS tiff grows in Rajasthan — another top civil servant defies his boss

Sanjay Bohra - 15 February, 2020

Ravi Shanker Srivastava, chairman of Rajasthan State Roadways Transport Corporation, stopped the tender process of e-buses, announced by the transport minister.

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