POLITICS

This is History ( 1007 )

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Guess the name ?

There was a quiz – who is this successful politician in the country who knows how to use, whom to use and for what to use ? Everybody who participated in the quiz named only one politician. Guess the name.

Most expensive election since Independence ?

There is a talk that 2019 Lok Sabha polls have been the most expensive since the Independence.

Perception growing that poll candidates should have 5 yrs ‘military training’

Some people have suggested that if five years of military training becomes mandatory to file nomination for Assembly and Lok Sabha elections, 80 per cent of the poll ticket aspirants will drop out of the race.

Vijay Shankar Pandey in the race for Ayodhya-Faizabad seat

A 1979 batch retired IAS officer, Vijay Shankar Pandey is in the fray from Ayodhya-Faizabad Lok Sabha seat on newly formed Lok Gathbandhan Party ticket in Uttar Pradesh.

DEBATE

Is ‘lateral entry’  in GoI a step in the right direction ?

Recruitment at Joint Secretary-rank posts through “lateral entry” mode, which means the appointment of specialists from outside, has left many a Civil Servants, specially IAS officers, jittery. They say that the newly appointed recruitees who are junior to them have been selected for a senior and responsible position which is bound to create hurdles in administration. How far the initiative, pegged by the Modi government as a civil service reform, a step in the right direction ?

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