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 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.
The Assam Movement (1979–1985) was a popular uprising in Assam,India,that demanded the Government of India detect,disenfranchise and deport illegal aliens. Led by All Assam Students Union (AASU) and All Assam Gana Sangram Parishad (AAGSP) the movement defined a six-year period of sustained civil disobedience campaigns,political instability and widespread ethnic violence. The movement ended in 1985 with the Assam Accord.
Gauhati University also known as GU,is a collegiate public state university located in Guwahati,Assam,India. It was established on 26 January 1948 under the provisions of an Act enacted by the Assam Legislative Assembly and is the oldest university in Northeast India.
Ram D. Pradhan was an Indian Administrative Service officer,from the 1952 batch who served as Union Home Secretary and Governor of Arunachal Pradesh during the Rajiv Gandhi government. Pradhan played a major role in signing the Assam Accord and the Mizo Accord. He held Secretary-level positions at the international and national levels in the areas of commerce,defence and home. He was in service of the government of India for 36 years.
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.
General elections were held in India between 25 October 1951 and 21 February 1952. India attained independence on 15 August 1947 and set up an Election Commission two years later. In March 1950,Sukumar Sen was appointed as the first Chief Election Commissioner. A month later,the Indian Parliament passed the Representation of the People Act which provided the conduct for election for the Houses of Parliament and the Houses of Legislature for each state. It was conducted under the provisions of the Indian Constitution,which was adopted on 26 November 1949. Elections to most of the state legislatures took place simultaneously.
General elections were held in India in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May 2014 to elect the members of the 16th Lok Sabha. With 834 million registered voters,they were the largest-ever elections in the world until being surpassed by the 2019 elections. Around 23.1 million or 2.7% of the total eligible voters were aged 18–19 years. A total of 8,251 candidates contested the 543 elected Lok Sabha seats. The average election turnout over all nine phases was around 66.40%,the highest ever in the history of Indian general elections.
Veeravalli Sundaram Sampath served as 18th Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of the Election Commission of India from 2012 to 2015. He succeeded S. Y. Quraishi as the Chief Election Commissioner on 11 June 2012. Born on 16 January 1950,Sampath retired on 15 January 2015 when he attained 65 years of age.
The organisation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is based upon the Constitution of the BJP. The organisation of the BJP is strictly hierarchical,with the president being the highest authority in the party. The party is considered to be a cadre-based party that draws from the Hindutva-based ideology of its parent organisation,the RSS.
Nawab Mehdi Nawaz Jung was an Indian bureaucrat and was Secretary to the Executive Council during the Nizam rule. He also served as the Governor of Gujarat from 1960 to 1965.
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.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) is a constitutional body. It was established by the Constitution of India to conduct and regulate elections in the country. Article 324 of the Constitution provides that the power of superintendence,direction,and control of elections to parliament,state legislatures,the office of the president of India,and the office of vice-president of India shall be vested in the election commission. Thus,the Election Commission is an all-India body in the sense that it is common to both the Central government and the state governments.
The Assam Legislative Assembly Election of 2016 was held in two phases,on 4 and 11 April 2016,to elect members of the 126 constituencies in Assam,a state in North-eastern India. The overall voter turnout was 84.72%,which set a new record for Assam. The turnout was an increase from the 2011 Assembly election figure of 75%.
The Chief Secretary is the top-most executive official and senior-most civil servant of the state government. The Chief Secretary is the ex-officio head of the state Civil Services Board,the State Secretariat,the state cadre Indian Administrative Service and all civil services under the rules of business of the state government. The Chief Secretary acts as the principal advisor to the chief minister on all matters of state administration.
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.
Rajesh Kumar is an officer of the Indian Police Service (IPS) and a former Commissioner of Police,Kolkata. He is currently the Member-Secretary of the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB).
Nidigattu Sanjay,better known as N. Sanjay,is a Silver jubilee 1996-batch Regular Recruit (RR) Indian Police Service Officer belonging to Andhra Pradesh cadre. At present,Sanjay is the Chief of AP Criminal Investigation Department. He also holds full additional charges as Director-General of AP Disaster Response and Fire Services and as Director,AP Police Personnel and Training.
Ilapavuluri Venkata Subba Rao or Dr. I. V. Subba Rao is a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre and 1979 batch who has served at various positions in the Government of India and the Government of Andhra Pradesh. He worked as the Secretary to the Vice-President of India from August 2017 to August 2022.
Rajiv Kumar is a former Indian Administrative Service officer. On 15 May 2022,he assumed the charge as the 25th Chief Election Commissioner of India,succeeding Sushil Chandra.
