India's Top 10 Bureaucrats

8. Ashok Chawla:

Head of the anti-trust body -Competition Commission of India (CCI), Ashok Chawla is a Gujarat-cadre IAS bureaucrat of 1973 batch who was heading a committee on allocation, pricing and utilization of natural resources. He is one such bureaucrat who dares to take on India’s leading cement manufactures to the tune of 6,300 crore fines in June 2012 for fixing prices and going against the consumers.

9. Rahul Khullar:

Rahul Khullar is the current Chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India who was selected by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet. Prior to this position, he was the Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade. Khullar is a 1975 batch of the Indian Administrative Service and has earlier served as secretary to Dr Manmohan Singh when he was finance minister and carried out India’s first round of economic reforms in the early ‘90s.

10. Shivshankar Menon:

Shivshankar Menon is a top diplomat in India, presently serving as National Security Advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Before serving as the Foreign Secretary, he was Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan, and China. A significant milestone of his career was the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal, for which he worked so hard to convince Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) nations to get a clean waiver for nuclear supplies to India.

Also Read:
AAP's Victory: A Birth of New Indian Political Scenario
Young Girls Go Missing Every Year in IT Capital: Says KJ George