Collector-cum-District Magistrate,also known as Deputy Commissioner in some regions,is an administrative officer in the governance and management of a district in India. As a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS),the District Magistrate plays a role in maintaining law and order,overseeing development initiatives,overseeing revenue administration,and ensuring effective implementation of government policies within the district. The District Magistrate comes under the general supervision of divisional commissioners. India has 766 districts as of 2023.
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.
Vidya Charan Shukla was an Indian politician whose political career spanned six decades. He was predominantly a member of the Indian National Congress,but also had spells in Jan Morcha,Janata Dal,Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya),Nationalist Congress Party and Bharatiya Janata Party. He was known as a close associate of Indira Gandhi.
Ekkadu Srinivasan Lakshmi Narasimhan is an Indian former civil servant and politician who served as the first Governor of Telangana. He assumed office of the Governor of Andhra Pradesh on 28 December 2009 until 23 July 2019,making him the longest-serving governor of the state. Later he took on 2 June 2014 as the 1st Governor of Telangana as additional charge. A retired Indian Police Service officer,he previously served as the Director of the Intelligence Bureau from February 2005 to December 2006. He also served as the Governor of Chhattisgarh from 2007 to 2009. Narasimhan served as governor for 12 years making him the longest-serving governor in India.
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.
Motilal Vora was an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress (INC). He served as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. He was born in Nimbi Jodha,Jodhpur State,British India. He was also Governor of Uttar Pradesh from 1993 to 1996.
Prakash Chandra Sethi was an Indian National Congress politician who served as Minister of Home Affairs (1982–84) and as the 8th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh (1972–75).
Raja Nareshchandra Singh,was ruler of Sarangarh state in Raigarh District,Chhattisgarh. He also served as Chief Minister of undivided Madhya Pradesh.
Balmiki Prasad Singh was the 14th Governor of Sikkim,India. He is a retired IAS officer and has written books and articles relating to Indian culture,in particular the culture of North-East India. Among his prominent books are Bahudha and the post 9/11 World and The problem of change:a study of North East India.
Charan Das Mahant is an Indian politician from Indian National Congress who serves as the Speaker of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly. He was the member of the Indian Parliament,representing Korba constituency. He is the former Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing.
Sarla Grewal was the second female Indian Administrative Service officer in India,when she joined IAS in 1952. She was the Governor of Madhya Pradesh (1989–1990). She was the principal secretary for Rajiv Gandhi.
Parikipandla Narahari also known as P. Narahari is an Indian civil servant employed by the Indian Administrative Services and author. According to Tehelka,Narahari,in his capacity as District collector of Gwalior,is one of India's few civil servants to use social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook to interact with citizenry to solve their problems. The issues citizens of Gwalior raise on Narahari's wall were automatically directed to concerned departments. The Better India recognized Narahari as 10 most inspiring IAS officers of the year 2017. Narahari is one among of those rare professional officers to be credited as Publicity Advisor to three successive governments of different parties.
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.
Vijay Dutt Shridhar is an Indian journalist,writer and the founder of Madhav Sapre Museum of Newspapers and Research Institute. He was honored by the Government of India,in 2012,with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri.
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.
Om Prakash Rawat is a retired 1977 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre who served as 22nd Chief Election Commissioner of India. He has also served as one of the two Election Commissioners of India and the Public Enterprise Secretary of India.
J. Satyanarayana is a retired 1977 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre. Satyanarayana is the former Chairman of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI),the nodal agency of Government of India for implementing Aadhaar. He also served as the Communications and Information Technology Secretary of India.
Ajay Kumar is a retired officer of the Indian Administrative Service,of the batch of 1985. He served as the Defence Secretary of India. He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and the University of Minnesota and was awarded separate two fellowships by the University of Minnesota.
Rakhee Gupta Bhandari is an IAS officer from the 1997 batch of the Punjab Cadre who has held various important positions in the Centre as well as the State Government.
India 
