TopicHC Gupta

Topic: HC Gupta

Bureaucrats should not be punished in retrospect for decisions

Vaidyanathan Subramanian - September 3, 2022

The Government should encourage decision making, assure and protect the officers from bonafide errors, writes Vaidyanathan Subramanian.

Remember a convicted ‘non-guilty’ IAS officer, HC Gupta, when fretting over stalled economic reforms

Shekhar Gupta - August 20, 2022

The 2010-13 season of scandal-mongering still casts a shadow on Indian politics, and the victims are those at the lowest end of the decision-making chain.

‘Shakespearean tragedy’— why IAS fraternity is rallying behind ‘coal scam’ convict HC Gupta

+TFP Moushumi Das Gupta - August 13, 2022

Former coal secretary H.C. Gupta, a 1971-batch IAS officer, was this week given 3-year jail term in the latest among a string of ‘Coalgate' cases dating back to UPA era.

‘No malafide intention’: How CBI’s case against former coal secretary HC Gupta fell apart

Apoorva Mandhani - August 31, 2019

CBI levelled several charges against H.C. Gupta in a corruption case related to the allocation of a Chhattisgarh-based coal block, but couldn’t prove any.

IAS Association activates idle welfare fund to help colleagues fight coal scam taint

Sanya Dhingra - December 7, 2018

The IAS Association has thrown its weight behind former coal secretary H.C. Gupta and two others convicted in the coal block allocation scam.

The dreaded, dead law under which three IAS officers have been convicted in coal scam

Sanya Dhingra - December 5, 2018

Government servants have lashed out at the conviction of IAS officer H.C. Gupta and two others under Section 13(1)(d)(iii) of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

Coal scam convict HC Gupta’s son wants to be an ‘upright’ IAS officer just like his father

Sanya Dhingra - December 4, 2018

HC Gupta’s son Sarthak says his father’s legal tribulations over the coal scam have been ‘disheartening’, but he is driven to enter the IAS.

India needs Reforms 2.0 to save both bureaucracy and good IAS officers like H.C. Gupta

Nitin Pai - December 4, 2018

Hope that the judiciary wakes up to the travesty of convicting good civil servants like H.C. Gupta.

H.C. Gupta’s conviction in coal scam case will force IAS officers to play safe

Anil Swarup - December 3, 2018

Despite being castigated and pilloried over the years, India’s IAS officers have performed well.

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Why worry about water or jobs? In New Bharat, everybody wants to be an influencer

Shruti Vyas - August 2, 2025

In a country where unemployment is at a historic high, the national anxiety isn’t about jobs — it’s about reach. Aspirations have shifted from employment to engagement, from careers to content.