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Interim budget allocates over Rs 240 crore for civil servants’ training in India & abroad

PTI - 1 February, 2019

The money has been allocated to the Department of Personnel and Training for augmenting necessary infrastructure for the same. New Delhi: Over Rs 240 crore...

Below a civil servant’s dignity to apply for a post-retirement job: Former IAS Anil Swarup

ThePrint Team - 26 January, 2019

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

Unethical for IAS officers to join politics ahead of polls or do they make for good netas?

ThePrint Team - 3 December, 2018

Senior Odisha-cadre IAS officer Aparajita Sarangi, who had sought voluntary retirement in September, joined the BJP last week. Joining the party just before the...

More & more IAS & IPS officers are retiring early to join politics – just before elections

Sanya Dhingra - 3 December, 2018

While many ex-bureaucrats & diplomats have succeeded in politics before, this phenomenon of joining parties just before elections has grown in recent times.

User-friendly doormats to safe players: The many types of public servants in India

Anil Swarup - 21 October, 2018

It's a tragedy that inefficiency and non-accountability overtake many at incredibly fast pace after the initial grand entry.

One of India’s oldest IAS officers says civil servants today need to be more patient

Sanya Dhingra - 25 September, 2018

Sardar Saran Singh, 95, speaks about how things have changed for the civil service in the 71 years since independence.

Good intentions, bad HR practice: Inducting civil service aspirants into the armed forces

Manvendra Singh - 17 March, 2018

If the armed forces are restructured on modern lines, it will enable them to undertake the complex multiple tasks that is expected of them, with lesser manpower.

Our Indian Feudal Service

Shekhar Gupta - 21 December, 2013

The Devyani Khobragade case is complex as it involves 3 tricky factors: class, caste and caste. This, because in caste hierarchy of sarkar-i-hind, the highest caste of all is the Indian Foreign Service.

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ThePrint Team - 28 May, 2021

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What Jack Ma’s increasing public appearances tell about China’s changing stance on businesses

Aadil Brar - 29 June, 2022

The easing of the tech crackdown signifies that Xi is trying to make space for other political ideas, including the revival pro-market approach.

MP para teachers scheme showed India struggled with contract service. Apply that to Agnipath

29 June, 2022

On Maharashtra, BJP only concerned with three Gs. Gujarat, Guwahati and Goa—connect the dots

29 June, 2022

Economy

Mukesh Ambani’s daughter Isha Ambani to be named chair of Reliance retail

P. R. Sanjai - 29 June, 2022

Isha Ambani, the current director of Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd., is expected to be announced as the chair as early as Wednesday.

Topic: civil servants

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YourTurn

Guidelines for YourTurn submissions

Opinion

What Jack Ma’s increasing public appearances tell about China’s changing stance on businesses

MP para teachers scheme showed India struggled with contract service. Apply that to Agnipath

On Maharashtra, BJP only concerned with three Gs. Gujarat, Guwahati and Goa—connect the dots

Economy

Mukesh Ambani’s daughter Isha Ambani to be named chair of Reliance retail

Defence

Almost 4,000 enrol for IAF’s Agnipath recruitment scheme on day 1 of online registrations

National Interest

With Agnipath, Modi govt’s shock & awe doctrine may have misfired a vital reform, yet again

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