athar aamir khan

The Union Cabinet has introduced a bill to raise the minimum age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years. Here are four initiatives by IAS officers, local communities and civil society that show us how this can be done better.

Fighting child marriage, transforming schools, generating employment, making healthcare accessible — it has been a year of hard efforts. And as the year comes to an end, we would like to draw special attention to 10 such officers and their efforts, who have done all they could do, to make India better.

For the General Studies Paper Khan relied heavily on two newspapers –The Hindu and The Indian Express. “Normally, aspirants make notes of various news items in notebooks but I made notes on sheets of paper.”

Remember 2015 UPSC topper Athar Aamir Khan from Jammu and Kashmir? He is now brewing a silent revolution against child marriage and revamping govt schools in Bhilwara!