IAS hero

“My position as an IAS officer gives me the opportunity to work in issues that need to be addressed urgently. I feel that the opportunities that my children can get should also be given to rural children who come from a less privileged background."

"We operated this machinery in two shifts and completed the work in six months. Interestingly, we spent less than Rs 10 crore in the entire process!”

Residents of the Rahata village had to use makeshift rafts, built using empty oil cans and ropes, and use oars made from timber, to get to Arajpuri.

No, this is not a mistake. Ankur has indeed scored one mark above the total marks, and the best part is that Jeffrey Frankel, a renowned international macroeconomist, signed on this report card, validating this outstanding result.

Unwilling to be stifled by red-tapism, these 10 dedicated civil servants went above and beyond their duty in 2018 to change India for the better.

Pame was appointed as an Election Observer in the Lunglei district of Mizoram. Here, he met Lalrindika, a young boy born with a cleft palate. Lalrindika hails from the remote village of Zehtat, and his family is not very well off.

One of the things that irked the district collector was that the bathrooms did not have doors. The girls were also made to change in the hall as opposed to in bathrooms or private rooms.

We frequently hear ideologues using the moral appeal of this project to argue for an economic restructuring of the society. These approaches make little sense because they do not recognise that apart from being economically inefficient and thus an obstacle both to economic growth and social development, child labour is also a moral evil.

“We realised that although the government has so many welfare programs to offer, the end users are not aware of a majority of them… In rural parts access to internet and connectivity is a huge problem. Moreover, not everybody is tech-savvy to log on to the website.”