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.
The Ministry of Home Affairs,or simply the Home Ministry,is a ministry of the Government of India. It is mainly responsible for the maintenance of internal security and domestic policy. It is headed by Minister of Home Affairs.
Dharma Vira OBE,ICS was an Indian civil servant and politician who served as the governor of Punjab,Haryana,West Bengal and Karnataka. Vira also served as a Cabinet Secretary of the Government of India.
The Ministry of Finance is a ministry within the Government of India concerned with the economy of India,serving as the Treasury of India. In particular,it concerns itself with taxation,financial legislation,financial institutions,capital markets,centre and state finances,and the Union Budget.
Duvvuri Subbarao is an Indian economist,Central Banker,and retired IAS officer. He was the 22nd Governor of Reserve Bank of India,served under Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh. After stepping down from RBI,he was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow first at the National University of Singapore and later at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mamidipudi Venkatarangayya was a writer,scholar,and political scientist from Andhra Pradesh,India. He was a recipient of the Padma Bhushan in 1968 by the Indian Government.
Mohan Kanda is an Indian civil servant. He is an Indian Administrative Service officer of the 1968 batch. He retired as Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh in 2003. He also served as a Member of National Disaster Management Authority.
Public Sector Undertakings (Banks) are a major type of government-owned banks in India,where a majority stake (i.e.,more than 50%) is held by the Ministry of Finance (India) of the Government of India or State Ministry of Finance of various State Governments of India. The shares of these government-owned-banks are listed on stock exchanges. Their main objective is social welfare.
The Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS) is an Indian autonomous research institute,established in 1980 to facilitate research activity in Economics and Social Sciences. It is one of the twenty-four 'Research institutions of all-India character' recognised by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). It was a brainchild of B.P.R. Vithal,IAS (Retd).,a former Principal Secretary to the Government of Andhra Pradesh,Finance and Planning Department. The campus is situated at Begumpet,in Hyderabad.
Public Sector Undertakings (PSU) in India are government-owned entities in which at least 51% of stake is under the ownership of the Government of India or state governments.These type of firms can also be a joint venture of multiple PSUs. These entities perform commercial functions on behalf of the government. Depending on the level of government ownership,PSUs are officially classified into two categories:Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs),owned by the central government or other CPSUs;and State Public Sector Undertakings (SPSUs),owned by state governments. CPSU and SPSU is further classified into Strategic Sector and Non-Strategic Sector. Depending on their financial performance and progress,CPSUs are granted the status of Maharatna,Navaratna,and Miniratna.
Nuthakki Bhanu Prasad (1928-2013) was an Indian chemical engineer,bureaucrat and a former chairman of the Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC). He is credited with the design of the first Magnesium Plant in India in 1994 and was involved with the commissioning of Apsara research reactor,the first Indian atomic reactor. The Government of India honoured him in 1960,with the award of Padma Shri,the fourth highest Indian civilian award for his services to the nation.
India Development Foundation of Overseas Indians (IDF-OI) www.idfoi.nic.in is a not for profit Trust established in 2008 by Government of India with the approval of the Cabinet to serve as a credible institutional avenue to enable overseas Indians to engage in philanthropy to supplement India's social and development efforts. The New Delhi-based Trust is chaired by Sushma Swaraj,Minister for External Affairs and is exempt from the provisions of Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act,2010 (FCRA).
Thiruvengadam Lakshman Sankar (1928-2018) is an Indian energy expert,civil servant,corporate executive and the former head of Asian Energy Survey of the Asian Development Bank. He is a former chairman of the Andhra Pradesh Gas Power Corporation Limited and Transmission Corporation of Andhra Pradesh. Securing his MSc degree in physical chemistry from the University of Madras and MA degree in development economics from Wilson College,he entered the Indian Administrative Service where he held positions such as the Secretary of the Fuel Policy Committee from 1970 to 1975 and the Principal Secretary of the Working Group on Energy Policy from 1978 to 1979. In 2007,he headed a government committee,popularly known as the T. L. Shankar Committee,which proposed ways of reforming Indian coal sector. He is a non-executive chairman of KSK Energy Ventures and a United Nations adviser on Energy to the governments of Sri Lanka,Tanzania,Jamaica,North Korea and Bangladesh. He is a former board member of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation and a former member of the Integrated Energy Policy Committee of the Planning Commission of India. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan,in 2004,for his contributions to society. He passed on 26.12.2018 which was a tragic day for his family and people who had seen him work al these years. He had three sons - Ravi,Sachin and Nitin Sanker.
Mata Prasad is a retired Indian Administrative Service officer. He was one of the first people from the Scheduled Castes to become an IAS officer. He is a former chairman of the Union Public Service Commission of India. He served as the chief secretary of the state of Uttar Pradesh from June 1995 to October 1996,thus becoming the first Scheduled Caste officer to head the state bureaucracy. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan,in 2012,for his contributions to civil service.
Rajiv Gauba is a retired Indian civil servant who served as the Cabinet Secretary of India from 30 August 2019 till 30 August 2024. His tenure as Cabinet Secretary of India is the longest in history. He is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer belonging to the 1982 batch of Jharkhand cadre. Prior to his appointment as Cabinet Secretary,he was Home Secretary of India. His tenure as the Cabinet Secretary of India has been extended 4 times by 1 year durations by the Appointment Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) which is chaired by the Prime Minister of India
Rahul Prasad Bhatnagar is a retired 1983 batch IAS officer belonging to Uttar Pradesh cadre.
Dr. C. V. S. K. Sarma is an economist and a retired IAS officer with exceptional public service record. He served as an IAS officer from 1980 to 2013,and retired as the Agriculture Production Commissioner &Spl. Chief Secretary to Government,Agriculture &Coop. Department,Government of Andhra Pradesh. He was also the Vice Chancellor,A.P. Horticulture University before he retired.
Ajay Prakash Sawhney is a retired 1984 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre. He has served as the Secretary to the Government of India,at the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
Justice Arup Kumar Goswami is an Indian judge. He is the former chief justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court,Andhra Pradesh High Court and Sikkim High Court. He is a former judge of the Gauhati High Court.
Rajesh Khullar is an Indian bureaucrat and Chief Principal Secretary to Chief Minister,Haryana. Previously,he served as 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.
