After the resignation of PCS officer and suspended Bareilly City Magistrate Alankar Agnihotri, another senior government officer in Uttar Pradesh has put in his papers, triggering fresh debate within bureaucratic circles.
According to the official order, Kiran Kaushal, a 2009 batch IAS officer, has been appointed Commissioner, Samagra Shiksha, a key post overseeing school education reforms in the state.
BRS working president KT Rama Rao alleged that Rizvi applied for VRS even after he had ten years of service left due to a tussle between chief minister Revanth Reddy’s son-in-law and excise minister Jupally Krishna Rao’s son over tenders.
The sweeping federal layoffs that have accompanied the continuing US government shutdown may appear at first glance to be an ideological crusade against bureaucracy.
He was addressing civil servants on the occasion of the 17th Civil Services Day at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi. He also conferred the Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Public Administration.
In a major reshuffle in the state's bureaucracy, Uttar Pradesh government has transferred 29 IAS officers with change in DMs of 14 districts and three Divisional Commissioners.
Former Union Minister and AICC J&K in-charge, Bharatsinh Solanki, slammed the BJP on Tuesday for having left the people of Jammu and Kashmir at the mercy of bureaucracy that has no contact with the common public.
The government has ordered BDOs to function as administrators of all the 4,892 panchayats whose term ended on 9 January.
A few bureaucrats were crossing their limits, which will not be tolerated, said Minister Vikramaditya Singh.
The Government can make decision-making transparent and make the bureaucracy responsible for the decisions taken by them, including decisions for not taking a decision. Another necessary reform could be streamlining the convoluted procedure to book delinquent officers, that makes action against bureaucrats virtually impossible. This would put the fear of God in bureaucrats, particularly lower-level functionaries, who are the first point of contact for citizens
