Karnataka IAS officer P. Manivannan was transferred Monday even as he led crucial Covid-19 relief efforts. He has now been posted as animal husbandry secretary.
India’s Covid-19 response is being led by civil servants, but the large number of bureaucratic orders on a daily basis have created chaos among businesses and the public.
CARUNA, a platform created by civil servants to assist the Covid-19 efforts, has suggested making work from a home a formal provision for govt employees.
The urgency of the Covid-19 pandemic has lent ever more importance to the office of the chief secretary, the highest administrative position in states.
The IAS officers were responsible for locking down the country block by block, and ensuring contact-tracing, supply of essential goods and checking hoarding.
Oberoi, who belonged to the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, retired in 2017. After his retirement, he kept his passion for the northeast alive through his camera.
Ashish Gupta, Brand Director for Skoda India, said while performance cars like the Octavia RS are not too cheap, ‘car buyers who know and love their cars find them to be far better bang for the buck’.
WhatsApp privacy policy case is among a string of matters involving practices like restrictive platform rules, pricing & billing policies, reflecting India’s tight scrutiny of market dominance.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
This is a tradition in Karnataka government. Intimidating and transferring competent officers who do not toe the line of polticians. Congress or BJP, it makes no difference which party is in power. During Siddharamaiah’s time, suicide of DK Ravi, IAS officer who was held in high regard by the public triggered almost state wide spontaneous public protest. Sangliana, who was seeen as an honest police officer iin late 1970s and early eighties was transferred very frequently, even to civil supplies department, though he was a police officer.
This is a tradition in Karnataka government. Intimidating and transferring competent officers who do not toe the line of polticians. Congress or BJP, it makes no difference which party is in power. During Siddharamaiah’s time, suicide of DK Ravi, IAS officer who was held in high regard by the public triggered almost state wide spontaneous public protest. Sangliana, who was seeen as an honest police officer iin late 1970s and early eighties was transferred very frequently, even to civil supplies department, though he was a police officer.