The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is the administrative arm of the All India Services of Government of India. The IAS is one of the three All India Services along with the Indian Police Service and Indian Forest Service. Members of these three services serve the Government of India as well as the individual states. IAS officers are also deployed to various government establishments such as constitutional bodies,staff and line agencies,auxiliary bodies,public sector undertakings,regulatory bodies,statutory bodies and autonomous bodies.
Rajasthan Administrative Service,popularly known as RAS,is a state civil service of state Rajasthan along with Rajasthan Accounts Service,Rajasthan Police Service and other services. The officers are included in the state cadre of civil service officers. RAS officers undergo two years training at HCM Rajasthan State Institute of Public Administration. Cadre controlling authority for this service is Department of Personnel,Government of Rajasthan. The head of this service is Chief Secretary.
Vinod Kumar Duggal is a retired Indian civil servant. Duggal served as Home Secretary in the Government of India from 2005 to 2007 in the government of Manmohan Singh. He belongs to the 1968 batch of IAS. On 23 December 2013 he was appointed governor of Manipur by President Pranab Mukherjee. He was also given the additional responsibility as Governor of Mizoram as the governor Kamla Beniwal was sacked on 8 August 2014.
Jawed Usmani is a retired IAS officer. He also served as the Chief Information Commissioner of Uttar Pradesh. He was the Chief Secretary to the Government of Uttar Pradesh from March 2012 to May 2014.
Vineet Joshi is currently Chief Secretary of Manipur. Previously,he served as Director-General of National Testing Agency (NTA),which is responsible for conducting entrance examinations in India. He also served as the resident commissioner of Manipur Government. IAS Vineet Joshi was re-appointed as the Chairman of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on February 14,2022,after which he was succeeded by IAS Nidhi Chhibber.
Barharia is a community development block and a town in the northern part of the Siwan District in the Indian state of Bihar. It is one of 13 blocks located in Siwan Subdivision. Barharia is surrounded by Manjha Block to the north,Siwan Block to the south,Goriakothi Block to the east,and Thawe Block to the north. Mirganj,Siwan,Barauli,and Gopalganj are nearby cities.
The Chief Secretary is the top-most executive official and senior-most civil servant of the state government. The Chief Secretary is the ex-officio head of the state Civil Services Board,the State Secretariat,the state cadre Indian Administrative Service and all civil services under the rules of business of the state government. The Chief Secretary acts as the principal advisor to the chief minister on all matters of state administration.
The 7th Central Pay Commission (7CPC),constituted in February 2014 the principles and structure of emoluments of all central government civilian employees including defence forces in India,submitted its report on 19 November 2015. 7CPC's recommendations affects the organization,rank structure,pay,allowances and pension,of 13,86,171 armed forces personnel. This helps A salary monitoring system is designed to determine and suggest needed changes to the salaries of government employees.page 105,para 6.2.2[3]
Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj is an Indian para-badminton player and the World No. 1 in men's singles. He won the silver medals at the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 games thus becoming the only Indian para-badminton player to win back to back medals at the Games.
Rajiv Gauba is a retired Indian civil servant who served as the Cabinet Secretary of India from 30 August 2019 till 30 August 2024. He is a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer belonging to the 1982 batch of Jharkhand cadre. Prior to his appointment as Cabinet Secretary,he was Home Secretary of India. His tenure as the Cabinet Secretary of India has been extended 4 times by 1 year durations by the Appointment Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) which is chaired by the Prime Minister of India
The Home Department is a department of Government of Bihar. It plays a key role in maintenance of administration in the state of Bihar. The department oversees the maintenance of law and order,prevention and control of crime,prosecution of criminals besides dealing with Fire Services and Prisons Administration. It is the nodal department for the State Secretariat Service and is also responsible for the functioning of State Police and Home Guards Services. The department is also the cadre controlling authority of Indian Police Service (IPS) and Bihar Police Service (BPS). The Chief Minister generally serves as the departmental minister,and the Principal Secretary (Home),an IAS officer,is the administrative head of the department.
Vijai Shankar Dubey is an Indian Administrative Service officer of 1966 cadre batch. He is the only IAS officer to have served as Chief Secretary of two states Bihar &Jharkhand.
Dr. Ajay Kumar is the former Defence Secretary of India. He is an Indian Administrative Service officer from the 1985 batch. Dr. Ajay Kumar is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and the University of Minnesota.
Aparajita Sarangi is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party and the incumbent Member of Parliament from Bhubaneswar. A former Odisha cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1994 batch,Sarangi quit her job and joined the BJP on 27 November 2018 to contest the 2019 Indian general election. She was fielded against Biju Janata Dal's Arup Patnaik.
Awanish Kumar Awasthi is a retired Indian Administrative Service officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre,from the 1987 batch.
Rajesh Bhushan is a retired officer of the Indian Administrative Service from the 1987 Bihar cadre.
Sanjay Bhatia is the Upa-Lokayukta of Maharashtra and current head of the Lokayukta. He is the former Chairman of Mumbai Port Trust and Indian Ports Association. He is an Indian Administrative Service officer of 1985 batch who has served at various levels of the state and central governments in India.
Presently,Saurabh Garg is Secretary to Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation,Govt. of India. IAS of the 1991 batch of the Odisha cadre.
Giridhar Aramane is a 1988–batch retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from Andhra Pradesh cadre who has served as the 39th Defence Secretary of India since 1 November 2022 till 31 October 2024.
Sanjay Kumar is a 1984-batch Indian Administrative Service officer and was the Chief Secretary of the Government of Maharashtra. He also served as Chairman of the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission.
