The surname Al-Zaidi (Az-Zaidi) can denote one or both of the following:
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.
Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan was an Indian civil servant and bureaucrat who served with the Indian Administrative Service. After serving in various positions in Madras and in various ministries of the Central Government,he served as the 18th Cabinet Secretary of India in 1989. He was appointed the 10th Chief Election Commissioner of India (1990–96) and became known for his electoral reforms. He won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for government service in 1996.
The All India Services (AIS) comprises three civil services in India common to the centre and state governments,which includes the Indian Administrative Service (IAS),the Indian Police Service (IPS),and the Indian Forest Service (IFS). Civil servants recruited through All India Services by the central government are assigned to different state government cadres. Some civil servants may,later in their career,also serve the centre on deputation. Officers of these three services comply to the All India Services Rules relating to pay,conduct,leave,various allowances etc.
Syed Ali Jawad Zaidi was an Indian Urdu poet,scholar,and author of over 80 books in several languages. He was also an Indian independence activist,lawyer and later,a civil servant,but is best known for his work in Urdu literature.
Sukumar Sen was an Indian civil servant who was the 1st Chief Election Commissioner of India,serving from 21 March 1950 to 19 December 1958. Under his leadership,the Election Commission successfully administered and oversaw independent India's first two general elections,in 1951–52 and in 1957. He also served as first Chief Election Commissioner in Sudan in 1953.
Alphons Joseph Kannanthanam or K. J. Alphons is an Indian civil servant,advocate,and politician from Kerala. He was Union Minister of State for Culture,and Tourism during first Modi ministry under Government of Narendra Modi. He also held charge for Electronics and Information Technology.
The Pakistan Administrative Service,or PAS is an elite cadre of the Civil Services of Pakistan. The Pakistan Administrative Service over the years has emerged as the most consolidated and developed post-colonial institution in Pakistan,with the PAS officers of Grade 22 often seen as stronger than the federal government ministers. The service of PAS is generalist in nature and officers are assigned to different departments all across Pakistan during the course of their careers. Almost all of the country's highest-profile positions such as the Federal Secretaries,the provincial Chief Secretaries,and chairmen of top-heavy organizations like the National Highway Authority,Trading Corporation of Pakistan and State Life Insurance Corporation usually belong to the Pakistan Administrative Service.
Harishankar Brahma served as 19th Chief Election Commissioner of India. He is a retired I.A.S. officer of the 1975 batch of the Andhra Pradesh cadre.
Fursatganj Airport or Fursatganj Airfield is an under-construction domestic airport and functional airfield at Fursatganj of Amethi district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
P.S. Appu was an Indian civil servant who retired as the director of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA).
Jawed Usmani is a retired IAS officer. He also served as the Chief Information Commissioner of Uttar Pradesh. He was the Chief Secretary to the Government of Uttar Pradesh from March 2012 to May 2014.
Joint Secretary to the Government of India is a post under the Central Staffing Scheme and the third highest non-political executive rank in the Government of India. The authority for creation of this post solely rests with the Cabinet of India.
National Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Programme (NERPAP) is voter registration project of the Election Commission of India. It will link the Elector's Photo Identity Card (EPIC) with the Aadhaar number of the registered voter. It aims to create an error-free voter identification system in India,especially by removing duplications. The project was launched on 3 March 2015.
K. Padmanabhaiah is a retired Indian civil servant and a former Home Secretary of India. He is the chairman of the Court of Governors of the Administrative Staff College of India,and has headed many government committees such as the Committee on Police Reforms (2000),the Committee on Reorganization of the Services Selection Board,and the committee to Review the working of National Institute of Urban Management. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan,in 2008,for his contributions to Indian civil service.
Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad is a retired Bangladeshi civil servant and former Chief Election Commissioner of Bangladesh.
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.
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.
Anup Chandra Pandey is a retired 1984-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer belonging to the Uttar Pradesh cadre. He served as 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. He was Member,National Green Tribunal Oversight Committee,U.P before joining Election Commission.
Aparajita Sarangi is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party and the incumbent Member of Parliament from Bhubaneswar. A former Odisha cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1994 batch,Sarangi quit her job and joined the BJP on 27 November 2018 to contest the 2019 Indian general election. She was fielded against Biju Janata Dal's Arup Patnaik.
