Navin Kumar, IAS, Maharashtra An Evening with Talat Mahmood When we were at the Academy, you would recall, Talat Mahmood was invited to give us his songs one evening. He had come only for one hour. We were all very excited and were in the hall at 9.30 pm for the programme. He came […]
Mohammad Shafi Pandit, IAS, Jammu & Kashmir Promoting consumer resistance against exploitation by the traders About 85 per cent of Kashmiris eat non-vegetarian food. It is estimated that Jammu and Kashmir annually consume a whopping 51,000 tonnes of mutton worth Rs 2000 crore approximately, of which about half is imported from the neighbouring […]
Indira Misra, IAS, Chattisgarh It was the 4th of July, 1969, when I joined as an I A S. Probationer in the National Academy of Administration (later re-named as LBSNAA), at Mussoorie. It is an overwhelming experience, when over 300 faces from different parts of our country, and belonging to your own age […]
Krishna Mohan Sahni, IAS, AGMUT I came to the Academy (and to the IAS) after a couple of job opportunities in the private sector. Straight out of college, I was picked up as a management trainee by the then Sterling Shipping Company, Gladstone Lyall (in Calcutta) & the still British Mercantile Bank (in Bombay), […]
Mohammad Shafi Pandit, IAS, Jammu & Kashmir Being the very first person from Jammu and Kashmir State, belonging to the majority community of the state, who had made it to the mainstream Indian Administrative Service, as a direct recruit, way back in 1969, my friends and well-wishers have always been urging me, and repeatedly […]
B.P. Misra, IAS, AGMUT On my taking over as Chairman, New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), I started keeping a keen eye on the revenue intake, the leakages and the shortfalls. One area that immediately caught my attention was electricity supply. To my horror I found one major block not paying were Members of Parliament, […]
Hercharan Dhody, IFS4 Life of a diplomat taking him to various nooks and corners of this globe exposing him to diverse races, climes and cultures is unique. It is perhaps truer for an Indian diplomat. While in most Foreign Services there is some modicum of area specialization restricting movement of a diplomat outside […]
Ashok Jha, IAS, Andhra Pradesh Four score and ten years ago, the UPSC in active connivance and deep-rooted conspiracy with the Government of India, inflicted on this nation, the 1969 batch. The country is still to recover from that grave error that monumental Himalayan blunder! As I pen this nearly fifty years later, I’m struck […]
Anil Chowdhry, IPS, AGMUT When Mizoram was carved out as a Union Territory (UT) from Assam in 1972, my cadre was changed from Assam to UT, and I was transferred from Karimgunj in Cachhar district of Assam bordering Bangladesh to Lunglei, as Sub Divisional Police Officer in Mizoram, a narrow tongue of land of India […]
Adarsh Misra, IAS, AGMUT Apart from taking State wise stock of damage caused by the Tsunami of 2004, Planning Commission was tasked with designing the reconstruction and rehabilitation and I was asked to projectise and secure funds for the same. Lakhs of people had suffered loss of lives, limbs, livestock and land in the […]
