en.wikipedia.org Ajit Jogi (born 29 April 1946) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Mahasamund constituency of Chattisgarh and is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party. He was the first Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh between 2000 and 2003. Despite having suffered a severe spinal cord injury while campaigning during the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, he is presently the only elected Congress Member of Parliament from Chhattisgarh (Mahasamund). He studied Mechanical Engineering at the Maulana Azad College of Technology, Bhopal, winning the University Gold Medal in 1968. After having worked briefly as a lecturer at the Govt. Engineering College, Raipur, he took the nationwide examination conducted by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) and was selected for the Indian Police Service (IPS, 1968-70) and Indian Administrative Service (IAS, 1970-86). He holds the all-India Record for the longest serving District Magistrate & Collector (13 years), having served as collector of Sidhi, Shahdol, Raipur and Indore. At the behest of the then Prime Minister Late Mr Rajiv Gandhi, he resigned to take the plunge into politics and become Member of the Rajya Sabha (India's Upper House), where he served two terms (1986-92, 92-98). In 1998, he won the Raigarh seat after defeating the BJP state president and entered the Lok Sabha for the first time. He was the Congress Party's Chief Spokesperson and Whip- positions he held till he was elected ...
World Sikh NewsThe Art of Not WritingWorld Sikh News, CANo national newspaper covered the news. The SP was sent to work in the State Human Rights Commission. (Shubhranshu Choudhary is a founder-member of the Citizens Journalism initiative in Chhattisgarh, CGnet (www.cgnet.in) http://worldsikhnews.com/15%20April%202009/The%20Art%20of%20Not%20Writing.htm
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...Raman Singh has issued directives to the Health Department to soon start the recruitment process through state Public Service Commission. Approved posts included 319 posts for Ayurvedic doctors, 60 for Homeopathic and 20 for Yunani doctors. ''They were recruited...
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...it promised after a reserved category candidate in Chhattisgarh extensively used it to expose chinks in state Public Service Commission examinations. Information gathered by Varsha Dongre, who appeared in the 2003 state civil services examination conducted...
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...Governor K.M. Seth has suspended state Public Service Commission chairman Ashok Darbari, bringing the curtain down on a long-drawn battle between the official and the state government. Darbari, the seniormost Indian Police Service officer in Chhattisgarh and...
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