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The 47-year-old Additional Commissioner of Income Tax of Mumbai is a Shaurya Chakra awardee, for his bravery in an encounter with terrorists along the LoC in 2017.

The charismatic leadership and zeal of Dr Satyapal Singh Meena is making Rajasthan villages self-sufficient in sustainability, hygiene, and water conservation.

“If 10,000 people in India resort to food forestry today, it can save 50,000 people in the next few years."

"Neither do they have proper work, nor the resources to survive a lockdown," says IAS officer Swapnil Tembe. Join The Better India and civil servants like Swapnil Tembe in helping the hardest-hit section of the society.

This is the first time that the UPSC is extending this facility to candidates appearing for the Civil Service Examination (CSE). This facility to withdraw the application was first introduced in the Combined Engineering Services exam in 2019.

“Our financial strain was rising. Even getting the loans I had taken to ensure that the children get a good education was tough."

"Sanjay Kumar Singh's dedication to serve the poorest of the poor was uncompromising. He wanted to do something for the deprived. And the people loved him for it," says his father Ghanshyam Singh.

"The entire work was done through the hard work of the villagers and government officials, especially Collector Madam."

“It’s a huge responsibility and there are a lot of expectations that people have from this Act. But as a woman and a police officer, I am looking forward to the challenge.”

His battle for social justice truly began as a young #IAS officer in rural Andhra Pradesh during the late 1950s. He broke broke new ground by camping “only in the localities where Dalits, scheduled castes and scheduled tribes lived” when he went on tour to villages. #Respect #RIP