The Civil Services Board’s annual report to the Centre exposes systematic violation of the two-year minimum posting norm, with officers shifted in weeks.
Khandwa District Collector Rishav Gupta and District Panchayat CEO Dr Nagarjun B. Gowda have dismissed the row as fake and generated by confusion over portal.
Prakash took VRS in 2024 after he found himself without a posting in Naidu govt. He says he was also denied central deputation, reflecting on politicisation of Indian bureaucracy.
Since the formation of AAP govt in 2022, several senior officers have often been kept without postings for months, for reasons which have never been clearly spelt out.
Mundhe had faced 23 transfers in 20 years, but his Nagpur posting remains the most contentious, still causing headaches for the IAS officer five years later.
Decision on the petition could have far-reaching consequences on a practice that isn’t uncommon across the country, and has been a flashpoint between IAS and IPS officers.
We select individuals capable of becoming Formula One drivers. Then we give them rickety Maruti 800s on potholed roads and expect championship lap times.
Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
Coaching, as understood in Indian academic circles and job markets, is a deep-rooted malaise, which will be difficult to cure. It kills not only a sincere effort to succeed by fair-play, it corrupts the system in material as well as ethical terms. If you close coaching shops, they will arise in some other forms, because of a strong pull from aspirants and their parents and the lure of making big money and developing contacts in an easy way- by delivering lectures and selling study material.
Government must have a multi-pronged strategy to chech this menace. Reforms in testing methods are long overdue. Unfortunately, UPSC’s decadal committes too do not handle this aspect. In the name of reforms, some organizations dealing with big number of competitors have moved to compter-based/ online tests, but that only makes their task easy and does not filter for suitabilty, integrity and other desirable qualities.
Coaching, as understood in Indian academic circles and job markets, is a deep-rooted malaise, which will be difficult to cure. It kills not only a sincere effort to succeed by fair-play, it corrupts the system in material as well as ethical terms. If you close coaching shops, they will arise in some other forms, because of a strong pull from aspirants and their parents and the lure of making big money and developing contacts in an easy way- by delivering lectures and selling study material.
Government must have a multi-pronged strategy to chech this menace. Reforms in testing methods are long overdue. Unfortunately, UPSC’s decadal committes too do not handle this aspect. In the name of reforms, some organizations dealing with big number of competitors have moved to compter-based/ online tests, but that only makes their task easy and does not filter for suitabilty, integrity and other desirable qualities.