Shri N. Gulzar, IAS (1999) - Appointment to the post of Director in the Department of Personnel... New Delhi

GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH  ABSTRACT
I.A.S. – Shri N. Gulzar, IAS (1999) - Appointment to the post of Director in the Department of Personnel & Training under the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, New Delhi – Relief - Orders – Issued.

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GENERAL ADMINISTRATION (SC.A) DEPARTMENT
G.O.RT.No. 4078 Dated:16.12.2014.
 Read the following:-
1. From Sri N. Gulzar, IAS (1999), Letter dated 16.06.2014.
2. State Govt. Letter No.459/SC.A/A1/2014, Genl. Admn. (Spl.A) Dept., Dt:14.07.2014.
3. From the Establishment Officer, Ministry of Personnel, P.G. and Pensions, Dept. of Personnel and Training, New Delhi wireless Message No.06/27/2014-EO(MM-I), Dt:20.11.2014. 
Order:-

In pursuance of the orders issued by the Government of India in the  reference 3rd read above, the services of Shri N. Gulzar, IAS (1999), who is waiting for posting, are placed at the disposal of Government of India for appointment to the post of Director in the Department of Personnel and Training under the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, New Delhi at the level of Director /equivalent at Centre.

2. The Member of Service is hereby relieved from the Andhra Pradesh Cadre with immediate effect, so as to enable him to take up his new assignment.

(BY ORDER AND IN THE NAME OF THE GOVERNOR OF ANDHRA PRADESH)  I.Y.R. KRISHNA RAO
CHIEF SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT 
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Used IT to overhaul governance and deliver results in state power firm and Vijayawada. He was already half-way through his B.Tech in chemical engineering at IIT-Madras, when Natrajan Gulzar, now District Magistrate, Hyderabad, realised that the great American dream was not for him. He wanted to stay in India, and becoming an ias officer was the only way his family would reconcile to the loss of the dollar dream. And so it was. The son of a mathematics professor and a Hindi teacher, he got through to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1999. But it wasn't till 2005 when Gulzar, who gets his name "because my mother likes Hindi poetry," did a programme on infrastructure in a market economy from Harvard University, that he saw the light. On his return, he took charge as Commissioner of the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation and prepared a blueprint to provide every street with potable water and sewage lines, and every slum with liveable amenities. "Vijayawada will be the first city in the country to have all facilities, including water, power and sewage lines, on all its streets and in every slum," he says. The effort took three years; projects have been sanctioned and depending on how it is driven, the work can be completed in three to five years for Rs.1,400 crore.

1,400 crore rupees will be spent on civic facilities in Vijayawada

A great believer in the power of IT, he transformed the Andhra Pradesh Eastern Power Distribution Company, in his capacity as its CMD in 2009. He improved the work ethos with the introduction of software that tracks the workflow of individuals. "This lowered the transmission and distribution losses from 9.5 to 7.9 per cent," says the 36-year-old. The software is now being used by three other power distribution companies in Andhra Pradesh.

"He's an effective administrator who makes citizen-friendly interventions. He demonstrated it amply in his stint in the state power distribution company."

Suthirtha Bhattacharya, Principal Secretary, Energy, Andhra Pradesh

Gulzar points out that last mile challenges, like getting a teacher to teach and medical staff to deliver health services to the people, are huge. "IT has great potential in tackling such issues but we have not paid attention to it so far," he says. He adds: "A young officer thinks he has arrived the day he joins the IAS and that there is nothing more to learn. But this is not the way." The Paul Krugman follower feels that training inputs have to be reworked at the LBS National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, to enable administrators freedom in their work. He is convinced that only through IT can good governance be delivered.

Source from Indiatoday