The men who shaped India's economy
An applied statistician, he is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure. He founded the Indian Statistical Institute, and contributed to the design of large scale sample surveys.
Deconstructing Union Budget
Like every family, or a business venture, governments need a budget. A budget for any country is a road map for meeting its security needs, fulfill welfare commitments and lay down infrastructure.
Sandeep Silas: The unlikely peacenik
It is highly unlikely combination — a dyed-in-the-wool Government of India (GoI) bureaucrat who doubles up as peace activist. Meet Sandeep Silas, currently private secretary to Union minister of labour and employment Mallikarjun Kharge at Delhi.
Harsh Gupta: Stormy Petrel
As deputy collector (DC) of Bidar, Harsh Gupta was no less than a celebrity. As DC Chikkamagalur, tribals found a god sent savior in him.
Nidhi Kesarwani: Question of life and death
Serving in strife torn states is radically different from a posting in the Indian hinterland. There are many imponderables.
Krishan Kumar: Punjab’s Game Changer
If a poor illiterate villager in Punjab thinks the deputy commissioner made life easy for him, the government’s state objective of meeting peoples’ aspirations could be considered to have been achieved to a great degree.
P Manivannan: Mr Transparent
For the general populace, to meet an elected representative is a lot easier than meeting a top bureaucrat. At least the politician comes once every five years! With a few notable exceptions, meet 39-year-old IAS officer P Manivannan, who is trying to introduce a new transparency into proceedings.
R Gokul: The hero of Belekeri
In the pantheon of civil servants dominated by the IAS and IPS, Indian Forest Service (IFS) officers generally maintain a low profile. Rarely does their path cross politicians in the same way as it does with some other sections of the civil bureaucracy.
Umakant Umrao: Preserving water in villages
The civil service by training equips an officer to become a specialist in his or her area of posting. Like Umakant Umrao, a Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer, who has taken the science of water conservation to a new level and in a short span of time he has also succeeded in his efforts.
Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta: Policing and the milieu
Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta, IGP (T&AP) Assam, is a man of many parts. When not engaging militants in gun battles or tackling their threat calls, he is the nodal officer of ‘Project Ashwas’, an Assam Police project run for the benefit of children hit by terrorist violence.
Nazrul Islam: Maverick lone ranger in West Bengal
‘What can’t a man in uniform do’ is a common refrain when West Bengal cadre IPS officer Nazrul Islam is in question.
Somani Bora: Green credo
In the Ajay Devgun blockbuster ‘Apharan’, people take out a torchlight procession to block transfer of the superintendent of police (SP), deemed pro-people. Sonmani Bora is that kind of officer.
Samit Sharma: People’s bureaucrat
In Rajasthan, Samit Sharma is known as a common man’s civil servant. Such is his public image that when he was transferred as district magistrate (DM) Nagaur last year to Jaipur, the district rose in protest.
Amitabh Thakur: Cop with a difference
The young couple who got into the Nauchandi Express three-tier sleeper coach did so because there were no other seats available on the train. They assumed, incorrectly then, that the trip from Lucknow to Meerut would be short and enjoyable.
‘In intelligence, everyone has a price’
During his long stint in the IB, Maloy Krishna Dhar saw action first hand. An insider account of what India can do to secure herself
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
