The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is the administrative arm of the All India Services of Government of India. Considered the premier most 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 may also be deployed to various public sector undertakings and international organizations.
Ajit Kumar Seth is an Indian civil servant who was the 30th Cabinet Secretary of the Republic of India. He is a 1974 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from Uttar Pradesh Cadre. Upon retirement from the post of Cabinet Secretary, Ajit Kumar Seth was appointed as Chairman of Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB).
Sharad Kumar is a former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, who is Vigilance Commissioner of the Central Vigilance Commission and former Director General (DG) of National Investigation Agency. On superannuation he was employed, in the same post, on contract for period of one year. As a contractor, he is not bound by the All India Service rule norms.
Vijay Singh is a former officer from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), 1970 batch, Madhya Pradesh Cadre. He was appointed Defence Secretary, in the Ministry of Defence, in August 2007. He succeeded Shekhar Dutt, IAS, of 1969 batch, who, on superannuation, was appointed as Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic and Defence related subjects in the National Security Council Secretariat, with rank and pay of Secretary to the Government of India, for a term of 2 years. In 2018, he was made chairman of Tata Advanced Systems and vice-chairman Tata Trusts.
Pradeep Kumar Sinha is a 1977 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, who was the 31st Cabinet Secretary of India. Prior to this appointment he served as the Power Secretary of India, and was the Shipping Secretary of India before that.
Ramesh Inder Singh is a former Indian civil servant and the incumbent Chief Information Commissioner of the state of Punjab. He was the Deputy Commissioner of Amritsar during the Operation Blue Star, the military action at the Golden Temple in 1984 and has served as the Chief Secretary of Punjab. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1986.
Deepak Singhal is a 1982 batch IAS of Uttar Pradesh cadre. In September 2016 he was appointed as Chairman of Uttar Pradesh Vigilance Commission and Administrative Tribunal. He was the Chief Secretary of Government of Uttar Pradesh from 7 July 2016 to 13 September 2016. He was replaced by Rahul Bhatnagar, the then Finance Commissioner & Principal Secretary and Addl. Resident Commissioner of Uttar Pradesh.
Gfiles award is an annual award presented to Civil Servants at the national level in India for extraordinary achievements in governance. This award is constituted by GFiles magazine, a national magazine on bureaucracy and governance. Winners are selected by the a jury comprising former senior bureaucrats and without the intervention of the government.
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.page 105, para 6.2.2[3]
Rajive Kumar is a retired 1981 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer belonging to the Uttar Pradesh cadre. Kumar is currently serving as the chairperson of the Uttar Pradesh Real Estate Regulatory Authority and previously served as the Chief Secretary of the Government of Uttar Pradesh, in addition to serving as Shipping Secretary of India.
Rajiv Gauba is an Indian civil servant serving as the current Cabinet Secretary of India since 2019. He is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer belonging 1982 batch of Jharkhand cadre. Prior to Cabinet Secretary, he served as Home Secretary of India.
Sunil Arora was the 23rd Chief Election Commissioner of India. He is also the chairman for Association of World Election Bodies(A-WEB). He is a retired 1980 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Rajasthan cadre. He also served as a secretary to the Government of India in two ministries.
Sanjay Mitra is a retired 1982 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of West Bengal cadre. He served as Defence Secretary of India, and prior to that as Union Road Transport and Highways Secretary, and the Chief Secretary of West Bengal. Mitra also served—on an acting basis—as the chairperson of the Defence Research and Development Organisation for a period of three months.
Durga Shanker Mishra is a 1984 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre. He is the current Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary of India. He is also the Chairman of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.
G. Mohan Kumar is a retired 1979 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre. He was the Defence Secretary of India from 2015 to 2017. He also served as the Defence Production Secretary of India and as the Steel Secretary of India.
Yudhvir Singh Malik is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre. Malik currently is the Road Transport and Highways Secretary of India.
Ajay Kumar is an IAS officer of 1985 batch. He is presently the Defence Secretary of India. He is an alumni of IIT Kanpur and University of Minnesota.
Anup Chandra Pandey is a retired 1984-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer belonging to the Uttar Pradesh cadre. He currently is the Election Commissioner of India. Pandey had also served as the Chief Secretary of the Government of Uttar Pradesh, in addition to serving as the Infrastructure and Industrial Development Commissioner of Uttar Pradesh, before retiring on 31 August 2019.
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.
Rajesh Khullar is an author and 1988 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Haryana cadre. He serves as Executive Director at the World Bank Group representing India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka. Previously, he was Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Haryana and Chairman of Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation.
