Surendra Singh, a mathematics post-graduate from Allahabad
University, had made up his mind to join the civil services early in his life.
India had won her independence only about six years before he went to the
university. The ability to contribute to nation building of the newly
independent country drew him to this decision. Other options, like joining the
corporate sector, did not appeal to him.
Moreover, his father Sumer Singh, an
engineer educated at Thomson College of Civil Engineering (now Indian Institute
of Technology, Roorkie), knew what the IAS stood for and was in favour of him
trying for the elite service. “All of us in the family agreed that I should try
to join the civil service,” the 1959-batch Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS, who in
August 1994 rose to be the Cabinet Secretary, the highest administrative post
in the country, recollects.
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