'IAS' Ditches Government For Coding Job In USA

Last week, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) took the unusual step of removing from service a Maharashtra cadre IAS officer, L V Nilesh, who has been on unauthorised leave for over a decade and is now working with software giant Microsoft in the United States.
In its order on July 9, the DoPT said the 1991-batch officer
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