All posts tagged "Indian Civil Service"
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India expands external hires into senior jobs
India’s government is chipping away at the country’s rigid civil service hierarchy, with a new scheme for hiring external experts directly into senior roles normally preserved for the elite cadre
- Posted August 4, 2021
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Career highlights: civil service leaders share their proudest moments
From supporting victims of crime to developing future talent and nurturing authentic leadership – officials share their memorable work moments. Kate Hodge reports Sometimes in the melee of work, we
- Posted December 14, 2020
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Public leaders share their top priorities for civil service reform
From training to remuneration and culture change, senior officials from across the world discuss what’s on their agenda for change over the coming year This year was no ordinary year,
- Posted December 8, 2020
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Leaders’ picks: national civil service chiefs share ideas for tackling COVID-19
From supporting officials’ mental health to setting up a taskforce to tackle domestic violence, civil services around the world have responded to the novel coronavirus with new services and reforms.
- Posted December 2, 2020
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Indian external recruitment drive falters
The Indian government’s plan to bring outside specialists into senior civil service jobs, undermining the Indian Administrative Service’s (IAS’s) long-standing monopoly on leadership roles, has hit a roadblock. Or two.
- Posted January 1, 2019
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Indian anti-corruption drive raises fears of unequal treatment
The Indian government is moving to sweep incompetent and corrupt officials out of the civil service. But Abhimanyu Kumar hears concerns that unless elected politicians get the same treatment, civil
- Posted July 18, 2017
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Indian Supreme Court challenges former officials appointed as state governors
The practice of appointing former senior civil servants to Indian state governor positions is coming under pressure, after several former officials were accused of failing in their duty to act with
- Posted February 21, 2017
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India moves to protect retired officials from corruption probes
The Indian government is introducing amendments to an anti-corruption bill, in order to give retired civil servants the same protections from prosecution as serving officials. The move follows the suicides
- Posted November 8, 2016
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Indian officials challenge civil service leadership review
India’s elite Indian Administrative Service (IAS) has come under attack from other branches of the government services, many of which are unhappy with its leadership of a new committee established
- Posted October 17, 2016
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The future of India’s Civil Service
Tom Lloyd considers how the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) could affect India’s Civil Service When the Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP as it is more commonly known,
- Posted May 27, 2014