Second innings: Retired IPS men outshine Indian Administrative Service

Having lived in the shadow of their counterparts in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) for years and often dubbed as their “poor cousins”, officers of the Indian Police Service (IPS) have never had it so good in landing influential positions in the government post retirement.

While West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland and Uttar Pradesh each have a retired IPS officer in the Raj Bhavan, several IPS officers have landed plum jobs in the government after retiring from service.

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Women grab top civil services ranks

Women on top was the verdict of the 2008 civil services examination. For the first time, the top three positions went to women.

In another first, a physically disabled candidate topped among men.Varinder Kumar Sharma is from Chandigarh.

Leading the pack was 30-year-old Shubhra Saxena from Ghaziabad. An IIT Roorkee graduate, Saxena is a teacher at an IAS coaching institute in Delhi.

“I did not always want to become a civil servant,” she said. “But four years in the IT industry were enough to make me see the futility of it all

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