A legacy of service | The Indian Express

A legacy of service | The Indian Express

Written by Malovika Pawar |Updated: September 24, 2019 10:28:22 am

The writer is a former IAS officer

A legacy of service

B N Yugandhar was anti-hierarchical, an inspiration to young bureaucrats

His was a life of inveterate do-gooding, and being in a position of great power in the PMO meant that he could push initiatives faster and further.

“You know, looking back, you will not remember who the Cabinet Secretary was when you were a young officer, but you will always remember who your Director was at the Academy”. As I woke up to the sad news that B N Yugandhar was no more, I saw the truth in his words — born out of his two long stints in the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, where he was responsible for training the probationers and preparing them for the challenges that lay ahead.