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, bureaucrat who served with the Indian Administrative Service and as a politician. 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. After retirement as the CEC, he contested the 1997 Indian presidential election and lost to K.R. Narayanan after which he unsuccessfully contested 1999 Gujarat assembly election from Gandhinagar constituency under Indian National Congress.
Edappadi Karuppa Palaniswami, often referred to by his initials E.P.S., is an Indian politician who is the current leader of opposition in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. He served as the 7th chief minister of Tamil Nadu, from 2017 to 2021. He has been the General Secretary of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) since 28 March 2023. Previously, Palaniswami has served as the interim general secretary (2022–23), joint co-ordinator (2017–22) and headquarters secretary (2016–22) of AIADMK.
S. Machendranathan IAS, who hails from Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu. After completing MBA from Cochin University he joined the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1977 and thereafter the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1979.
The Tamil Nadu Council of Ministers is the executive wing of the Government of Tamil Nadu and is headed by the State's Chief Minister M. K. Stalin, who is the head of government and leader of the state cabinet. The current state council of ministers were sworn in on 7 May 2021, following the 2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election. The term of every executive wing is for 5 years. The council of ministers are assisted by department secretaries attached to each ministry who are from the Tamil Nadu cadre of the IAS. The chief executive officer responsible for issuing orders on behalf of the Government is the Chief Secretary to the State Government, with Thiru. Shiv Das Meena being the current holder of that position.
Hasmukh Adhia, IAS is an Indian banker and a retired 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 the boards of State public sector undertakings Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Limited (GACL) (GACL) and Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation Ltd(GMDC), GIFT City, standing committee of Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar and former Non-Executive Chairman of Bank of Baroda.A week after the government nominated him chairman of state-owned Bank of Baroda where he served till 29 February 2024 ,he was appointed as the Chancellor of Central University of Gujarat. Also, he serves as Chief Advisor to Gujarat Chief Minister in CMO from 2022 onwards.
Dr. Palanivel Thiagarajan (PTR) is an Indian politician and the current Minister of Information Technology and Digital Services of Tamil Nadu. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election in 2016 and 2021 from Madurai Central.
Rajiv Gauba is a retired Indian civil servant who served as the Cabinet Secretary of India from 30 August 2019 till 30 August 2024. He is a retired 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.
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.
Subhash Chandra Garg is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre. He served as Economic Affairs Secretary and Finance Secretary of India. He has also served as an executive director in the World Bank.
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.
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. K. Vijayakarthikeyan is an Indian author, bureaucrat, civil servant and currently serving as the secretary of Tamil Nadu State Human Rights Commission. He served as the Collector of Tiruppur District in Tamil Nadu, Commissioner & Special Officer, Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation, Assistant Collector (Trainee) at Erode and Sub Collector at Kovilpatti before his appointment as Director for Tamil Nadu Institute of Urban Affairs Coimbatore City.
Neeraj Mittal is an Indian civil servant of Tamil Nadu cadre currently serving as the Secretary of Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications, Government of India. He has previously served as Principal Secretary of Information Technology, Government of Tamil Nadu and as the Managing Director & CEO of Guidance Tamil Nadu. Prior to his brief stint as Senior Advisor at World Bank Group, he served as Joint Secretary of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
Kandathil Mathew Abraham is an Indian bureaucrat and retired IAS officer, who is currently serving as Chief Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister of Kerala. He also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB) and Executive Vice Chairperson of Kerala Development and Innovation Strategic Council. He retired as the Chief Secretary of Kerala in December 2017. He belongs to the 1982 batch of IAS. He was instrumental in bringing out the Sahara Group Scam when he was a member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India.
V. Irai Anbu is a 1988 batch Indian Administrative Service officer, writer, educator, social activist, and motivational speaker. He is the former Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu Government.
Venkatramanan Anantha Nageswaran is an Indian economist and the 18th Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India. He served as the global chief investment officer at Bank Julius Baer in Switzerland after serving as its Head of Research for Asia. Prior to this, he worked for Credit Suisse in Switzerland and Singapore, and for the Union Bank of Switzerland. He has served as the Dean of IFMR Graduate School of Business, as a professor for graduate students at the Singapore Management University, and at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore & Indian Institute of Management Indore.
Gagandeep Singh Bedi is an Indian civil servant, currently serving as the Additional Chief Secretary to the Government of Tamil Nadu in India. He is known for his crisis management and relief work at Cuddalore during the Tsunami in December 2004, floods in 2015 and the restoration of peace in the aftermath of Thoothukudi violence in May 2018.
Arun Arya is a former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer and an international Senior Public Finance Adviser. Arun was an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer for 20 years where he held several high-ranking positions. Arun worked as the Senior Public Sector Management Specialist for the World Bank for 16 years; Senior Sector Adviser, Water and Sanitation, for the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) for 2 years; and, Senior Public Finance Adviser for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
