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.
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.
Rajiv Mehrishi was born on 8 August 1955 in Rajasthan. He was the 13th Comptroller and Auditor General of India (C&AG) and Vice Chairman of the United Nations Panel of External Auditors. He is a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1978 batch belonging to the Rajasthan cadre.
Hasmukh Adhia,IAS is an Indian Banker and a 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 Standing Committee of Pandit Deendayal Energy University,Gandhinagar and Non-Executive Chairman of Bank of Baroda. A week after the government nominated him chairman of state-owned Bank of Baroda,he was appointed as the Chancellor of Central University of Gujarat.
Rajive Kumar is a retired 1981 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer belonging to the Uttar Pradesh cadre. Kumar served as the chairperson of the Uttar Pradesh Real Estate Regulatory Authority from 2018 to 2023 and previously served as the Chief Secretary of the Government of Uttar Pradesh,in addition to serving as Shipping 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.
Rahul Prasad Bhatnagar is a retired 1983 batch IAS officer belonging to Uttar Pradesh cadre.
D. Jagatheesa Pandian is an Indian civil servant from Nagercoil. He is the current Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. He previously served as IAS officer of Gujarat cadre and Chief Secretary of Gujarat.
Durga Shanker Mishra is a 1984 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre. He is the current Chief Secretary to Government of Uttar Pradesh. He was Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary and Chairman of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.
Shaktikanta Das is serving as the current &25th governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). He was earlier a member of the Fifteenth Finance Commission and India's Sherpa to the G20. Das is a retired 1980 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.
Ajay Bhushan Pandey is a 1984 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer belonging to the Maharashtra cadre. He is former Finance Secretary of India. He is also former chief executive officer (CEO) of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI),the nodal agency of Government of India responsible for implementing Aadhaar. He also worked as the chairman of Goods and Services Tax Network from September 2017 to March 2021. Currently,he is Chairman of National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA).
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.
Ashok Lavasa is a retired 1980 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of Haryana cadre and was one of the two Election Commissioners of India. He has also served as the Finance Secretary of India,Environment,Forests and Climate Change Secretary of India and Civil Aviation Secretary of India. He served as the Vice President of Asian Development Bank (ADB) from August 2020 to August 2023.
Anshu Prakash is a retired 1986 batch civil servant of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) cadre of Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre. He served as the Chief Secretary of Delhi from 4 December 2017 to 18 November 2018. He also served as secretary in the telecom department of the Ministry of Communications (India) from 1 August 2019 to 30 September 2021.
Ajay Narayan Jha(born 15 January 1959;IAST:Ajaya Nārāyaṇa Jhā) is a 1982 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Manipur cadre. He was the Finance Secretary of India for three months. He was appointed as the member of Fifteenth Finance Commission of India in place of Shaktikanta Das and served there till 26 November 2023. Thereafter,he was appointed as a member of Sixteenth Finance Commission on 1 January 2024.
Dr. Ajay Kumar is the former Defence Secretary of India and currently an advisor for electronics development projects. 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.
Rajesh Khullar is an Indian bureaucrat and Chief Principal Secretary to Chief Minister,Haryana. Previously,he was Executive Director at the World Bank Group representing India,Bangladesh,Bhutan,and Sri Lanka. Khullar is a retired 1988 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer.
Atanu Chakraborty is currently the chairperson of HDFC Bank,India's largest lender by market capitalization. He was appointed by the Reserve Bank of India in April 2021 on the board of bank. He is a retired 1985 batch officer of the Indian Administrative Service,of the Gujarat cadre,and has served as Economic Affairs Secretary of India till his retirement in April 2020. Chakraborty has also been in the energy sector At the central and state governments,his current role includes the chairmanship of start-up entities in Fintech.
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