Lal Bahadur Shastri was an Indian politician and statesman who served as the second prime minister of India from 1964 to 1966. He previously served as the sixth home minister of India from 1961 to 1963.
The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is the administrative arm of the All India Services of Government of India. Considered the premier civil service of India, the IAS is one of the three arms of the All India Services along with the Indian Police Service and the 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 & line agencies, auxiliary bodies, public sector undertakings, regulatory bodies, statutory bodies and autonomous bodies.
Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin, often referred to by his initials as M. K. Stalin, is an Indian politician serving as the 8th and current Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. The son of the former Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, Stalin has been the president of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party since 28 August 2018. He served as the 45th Mayor of Chennai from 1996 to 2002 and 1st Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu from 2009 to 2011. Stalin was placed 24th on the list of India's Most Powerful Personalities in 2022 by The Indian Express.
The Indian Forest Service (IFS) is one of the three All India Services of the Government of India. The other two All India Services being the Indian Administrative Service and the Indian Police Service. It was constituted in the year 1966 under the All India Services Act, 1951, by the Government of India.
A Assistant Collector cum Sub Divisional Magistrate (also known as Assistant Commissioner or Sub Divisional Officer or Sub Collector) is an union civil service officer of the Indian Administrative Service cadre or a provincial civil service officer of the State Administrative Service cadre responsible for land revenue collection, canal revenue collection and law and order maintenance in a particular sub-district, depending on a state's government structure. Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) is a government official responsible for overseeing administrative and legal matters within a specific sub-division of a district, exercising executive, revenue, and magisterial powers. Additionally, Indian Administrative Service officers selected from UPSC or State Public Services Commission also serve as AC&SDM in their training period. They are also known as Assistant Collector cum Sub Divisional Magistrate or Assistant Commissioner or Sub Divisional Officer (Civil) or Revenue Divisional Officer several Indian states. Each district is divided into revenue sub-districts. It is empowered by Collector cum District Magistrate. All revenue sub divisions or revenue divisions are under the charge of Sub Collector cum Sub Divisional Magistrate.
Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) is a civil service training institute on public policy and public administration in Musoorie, Uttarakhand in India. The academy's main purpose is to train civil servants of the IAS cadre and also conduct the Foundation Course of Group-A Central Civil Services. After completion of training, the trainee officers of IAS cadre are awarded an MA from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. It has been functioning under the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions since 1985.
Rajesh B Lakhoni is the CMD of Tamil Nadu Electricity Board and TANGEDCO, and chairman of TANTRANSCO in place of Pankaj Kumar Bansal, changed from the position of Principal Secretary/Commissioner of Archives and Historical Research Department. He was previously the Principal Secretary to Government, Housing and Urban Development Department. An IAS officer who formerly acted as the collector of Theni district and then he was changed to Kanyakumari district to seek good acts for the district after the Tsunami attack. He replaced M P Vijayakumar to take up the position of Corporation Commissioner in Chennai.
Yerra Srilakshmi is an officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). Srilakshmi was former Andhra Pradesh Secretary for Industries (including).Telangana government gave her the posting order on October 7, 2016, appointing as Chief Secretary of State Government Institutions, despite previous allegations and pending investigations for various involvement in controversial decisions, on approval by AP govt. She got the Special Chief Secretary post. In Dec'2020 she shifted from Telangana cadre to Andhra Pradesh cadre, albeit with questions asked about her previous involvement in various corruption issues and even being jailed for the same, being only let out on grounds of 'ill health'. She was posted as Secretary Municipal administration and urban development.
Nripendra Misra is a retired 1967 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from the Uttar Pradesh cadre who served as Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi from 2014 to 2019. He has also served as the chairperson of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Telecom Secretary of India and Fertilizers Secretary of India. He was awarded India's third highest civilian award the Padma Bhushan in 2021.
The Tamil Nadu Civil Service is the state administrative civil service cadre in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is now known as Tamil Nadu Administrative Service (TNAS)(தமிழ்நாடு நிர்வாக சேவை). Recruitment for the service is based on the results of an annual combined competitive examination.
Smita Sabharwal is an Indian Administrative Service officer of 2001 batch belonging to Telangana cadre. She is popularly known as The People’s Officer for addressing citizen issues by involving people. She is the first lady IAS Officer to be appointed to the Chief Minister's Office. She is presently working as, Secretary to CM, Government of Telangana and holds additional charge as Secretary, Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Department.
Supriya Sahu, born on 27 July 1968, is a high-ranking Indian bureaucrat belonging to the 1991 batch of the Indian Administrative Service. Presently, she holds the position of Additional Chief Secretary to the Government in the Department of Environment, Climate Change, and Forests. Previously, she also assumed additional responsibilities as Principal Secretary-cum-Managing Director of The Tamil Nadu Small Tea Growers' Industrial Cooperative Tea Factories' Federation Limited (INDCOSERVE), Coonoor. Before that, Sahu served as the Director-General of Doordarshan from July 2016 to September 2017. Additionally, she was elected as the Co-Vice President of the Asian Broadcasting Union during the 55th General Assembly of ABU.
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 Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India is the senior-most bureaucrat in, and the administrative head of, the Prime Minister's Office. The officeholder is generally a civil servant, commonly from the Indian Administrative Service and occasionally from the Indian Foreign Service. The post is considered one of the most influential in the Indian civil services, and some principal secretaries are considered more powerful and influential than senior government ministers.
Israel Jebasingh is an Indian educator and a former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer who served in West Bengal. He is currently the director of the Officers IAS Academy, Chennai.
T. V. Anupama is an Indian Administrative Service officer. She served as the 43rd District collector of Thrissur. In 2010, Anupama secured fourth rank in the Civil Services Examination. She is known for her bold steps against politically powerful people. She served as district collector of Alappuzha district in 2017. She became Director of Scheduled tribes Development Department, Government of Kerala on 2 September 2021.TV Anupama currently appointed as Land and Revenue commissioner on 24 November 2022.She is also given additional charges of Disaster Management Commissioner and Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project Manager.
Anil Swarup is an Indian author and retired Indian Administrative Service officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre and 1981 batch. Mr.Swarup in his 38 years of career has served in various capacities and later went on to become the Secretary to the Government of India.
Sreedhanya Suresh is an Indian Administrative Service officer. She is the First Tribal Woman from Kerala to have cleared Civil Services Examination conducted by Union Public Service Commission, India. She secured an all India Rank of 410 in the 2018 UPSC Civil Services Examination. She is currently serving as Sub Collector and Revenue Divisional Officer of Perinthalmanna.
B.V.R Subramaniyam is a retired 1988-batch Chhattisgarh cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer who was empaneled as a secretary in the central government and is experienced with conflict zone administration. He is former Principal Secretary Finance department of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. He took over from Subarmanyam on 20 June 2020 following the collapse of the PDP-BJP coalition government. He has previously served in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) under both Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi. He has been instrumental in containing insurgency in Chhattisgarh in the 2010s. In February 2023, he has taken charge as 4th CEO of NITI Aayog.
Usha Sharma is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer who is currently serving as the Chief Secretary of Rajasthan, having assumed the office in 2020. She is the second woman to hold this post, after Shri. Niranjan Kumar Arya. Sharma is CP Joshi(Speaker, Rajasthan Legislative Assembly) sister-in-law.
