Shri P. S. Appu, IAS Former Chief Secretary, Bihar passes away
KUMAR ASHISH
Padma Bhushan awardee Shri P.S. Appu, former Chief Secretary of Bihar passed away today. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1951. He served under the Government of India for about 10 years in two spells. He worked in Bihar for 21 years. The posts held in Bihar included those of Collector of Darbhanga, Finance Secretary and Chief Secretary. He functioned as Land Reforms Commissioner in the Ministry of Agriculture and the Planning Commission from 1970 to 1975. In 1972, he created sensation by stating that lack of political will has been the primary cause behind the failure of land reform efforts. He voluntarily retired from service in 1982 while holding the post of Director of the National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie on finding that the then govt. was not willing to punish a trainee guilty of reprehensive conduct. That led to such an uproar in Parliament that the Prime Minister (Indira Gandhi) had to overrule the Home Minister (Swaran Singh) and announced dismissal of the guilty trainee officer from the IAS.
His personal blog: http://psappu.blogspot.in/2010_01_01_archive.html
Some other links related to him:
Rare Values, Rarest Insight – Revisiting Our Time with Shri P.S. Appu
http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=3657
Gujarat is burning: A Letter to the President by P.S. Appu, Rtd. IAS
http://www.pucl.org/Topics/Religion-communalism/2002/burning.htm
May his soul rest in the peace.
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Suman Kumar
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