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.
Naresh Chandra was a 1956 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre who served as the Cabinet Secretary of India,Defence Secretary of India,Home Secretary of India,Water Resources Secretary of India and Indian Ambassador to the United States. He was awarded India's second highest civilian honour the Padma Vibhushan for civil service in 2007.
Najeeb Jung is a retired Indian Administrative Service officer who served as the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Delhi from July 2013 to December 2016. He previously served as the 13th Vice-Chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islamia from 2009 to 2013.
Manish Sisodia is an Indian politician,journalist and former social activist who served as the first Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi from 2015 to 2023. He represents the Patparganj constituency in Delhi Legislative Assembly since 2015 and had also represented the constituency from 2013 to 2014. He was in judicial custody on corruption charges in the major Delhi liquor scam between February 2023 and August 2024. He received bail from the Supreme Court of India on 9 August 2024,which according to him was a "victory for honesty and truth",in the face of a vindictive witchhunt by an insecure dispensation empowered by its caged parrots He is one of the founding members of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and a member of its National Executive Committee.
Lalit Kumar Doley was an Indian politician and a leader of the Indian National Congress political party in Assam.
Raj Kumar Singh is a former Indian bureaucrat and former Union Cabinet Minister in the Government of India. He was the Member of the Indian Parliament for Arrah,Bihar,from May 2014 to 4 June 2024. Singh is a 1975 batch Bihar cadre Indian Administrative Service officer and former Home Secretary of India.
Nripendra Misra is an Indian bureaucrat and civil servant. An Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1967 batch from the Uttar Pradesh cadre,he served as the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India,Narendra Modi from 2014 to 2019. He earlier served as the chairperson of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India,as the Telecom Secretary of India and the Fertilizers Secretary of India. He was awarded India's third highest civilian award the Padma Bhushan in 2021. His son Saket Misra is a nominated Member of Legislative Council in Government of Uttar Pradesh since April 2023.
Hasmukh Adhia,IAS is an Indian banker and a retired civil servant. He is one of the key persons behind the architecture and roll-out of the Goods and Services Tax &Demonetization scheme announced in 2016. He is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1981 Gujarat cadre batch who served as Finance Secretary and Revenue Secretary of State. He previously served in several capacities for the Indian and Gujarat governments,including as Financial Services Secretary. He is the present Chairman of the boards of State public sector undertakings Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Limited (GACL) (GACL) and Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation Ltd(GMDC),GIFT City,standing committee of Pandit Deendayal Energy University,Gandhinagar and former Non-Executive Chairman of Bank of Baroda.A week after the government nominated him chairman of state-owned Bank of Baroda where he served till 29 February 2024,he was appointed as the Chancellor of Central University of Gujarat. Also,he serves as Chief Advisor to Gujarat Chief Minister in CMO from 2022 onwards.
Shakuntala Doley Gamlin is a 1984-batch Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre IAS officer. She served as Secretary,Dept. of Empowerment of Person With Disabilities,Govt. of India. She also served as Chief Secretary of Arunachal Pradesh. She is the first lady IAS from North East to reach a Secretary level post in central ministry. She is the first female IAS officer from Mishing tribe of Assam.
Radha Krishna Mathur is a retired Indian IAS officer and Indian bureaucrat,who served as the 1st Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh from 2019 to 2023. He retired as the Chief Information Commissioner of India (CIC) in November 2018. Mathur had retired as the India's Defence Secretary,two years after being appointed to the post on 25 May 2013. He was also the Defence Production Secretary of India,Micro,Small and Medium Enterprises Secretary of India and the Chief Secretary of Tripura.
Pramod Kumar Mishra,often abbreviated P. K. Mishra,is the 13th and current Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India. He is a 1972-batch Indian Administrative Service officer belonging to Gujarat cadre. Between 2001 and 2004,Mishra has also served as the principal secretary of Modi,when he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat.
Government of NCT of Delhi versus Union of India & Another [C. A. No. 2357 of 2017] is a civil appeal heard before the Supreme Court of India by a five-judge constitution bench of the court. The case was filed as an appeal to an August 2016 verdict of the Delhi High Court that ruled that the lieutenant governor of Delhi exercised "complete control of all matters regarding National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi",and was heard by the Supreme Court in November and December 2017.
Dr. Ajay Kumar is the former Defence Secretary of India. He is a retired Indian Administrative Service officer from the 1985 batch. Dr. Ajay Kumar is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and the University of Minnesota.
The Seventh Legislative Assembly of Delhi was constituted on 16 February 2020 after the 2020 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections were concluded earlier on 8 February 2020 and the results were announced on 11 February 2020. It is the legislative arm of the Government of Delhi.
The Third Kejriwal cabinet is the Council of Ministers in Delhi Legislative Assembly headed by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Kewal Kumar Sharma is a 1983-batch retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Arunachal Pradesh,Goa,Mizoram and Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre. In November 2018,he was appointed as advisor to the governor of Jammu and Kashmir,Satya Pal Malik. Following the creation of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir,he was appointed advisor to lieutenant governors Girish Chandra Murmu and Manoj Sinha. In February 2020,he was appointed as the chairperson of the JK Board of Technical Education. On October 30,2020 he resigned as advisor to the lieutenant governor and was appointed election commissioner of the union territory. Sharma has also served as advisor to the administrator od Chandigarh,chief secretary of Goa and Delhi after which he moved to the Union HRD Ministry where he served as Secretary Higher Education,Govt. of India.
Rajesh Khullar is a high-ranking Indian official and Chief Principal Secretary to Chief Minister,Haryana. Previously,he served on the board of the World Bank Group as India,Bangladesh,Bhutan,and Sri Lanka's representative. Khullar belongs to the IAS,India’s elite civil service,tasked with commanding policy,governance,and administration nationwide.
Vinai Kumar Saxena is an Indian former business executive who is currently serving as the 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Delhi since 2022. He previously served as chairman of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC).
The Delhi Liquor Scam is a political scandal concerning the Delhi Government,which paved its way through the introduction of Delhi's Excise Policy from 2021 to 2022. This policy brought in private firms and enterprise companies into the retail liquor sectors. The allegations involve favouring the owners and shareholders of private sectors,waivers and reduction of license fee and creation of numerous licenses to all the new incoming enterprises,and bribery. The Excise policy 2021–22 created by the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP),projected it as a reform in the excise and retail liquor sector,thereby boosting the revenue by Rs 9,500 crores. This policy mainly focused on moving out the retail sector,and making way to large private sectors and firms. The policy was structured by a group of ministers from the cabinet,and the draft was approved and accepted by the government in March 2021.
