For Sudha Pillai, the former Member Secretary of the Planning
Commission, the inspiration to join the civil services came quite early in
life-in fact, when she was not even ten years of age.Sudha Khanna (Pillai after
marriage) met Sarla Grewal, India’s second woman IAS officer, when she was
barely eight-year-old. Grewal, then Director of Public Instruction (commonly
known as DPI), had come for an annual day function in her Senior Modern School,
Chandigarh. She handed over the prize-The Hungry Strones, a book by
Rabindranath Tagore-to her. With the prize, it seems, Grewal also gave Sudha
Khanna inspiration to be a civil servant. “There I decided to be an IAS,” she
recollects, with the incident still etched in her memory.
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