IAS

Who Is Savita Pradhan? Okay, imagine this. A little girl grows up in a small village in Madhya Pradesh — no big house, no fancy school, no connections. Her family works on farms and collects things from the forest just to eat. Now fast…

There is a particular kind of IAS officer who doesn't just occupy administrative chairs but visibly reshapes the systems they oversee. Ashwani Kumar is that kind of officer. Born in a small district of Uttar Pradesh, educated at one of…

There are bureaucrats who occupy positions, and then there are officers who define them. Shubhra Saxena belongs firmly to the latter category. An IAS officer from the 2009 batch of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, she has spent over a decade…