Retired civil servant from Rajasthan I.C. Srivastava has been unanimously elected chairperson of Transparency International India (TII), a voluntary civil society group seeking to promote transparent and ethical governance and eradicate corruption in public life in the country.
Mr. Srivastava, who retired from Rajasthan cadre of the Indian Administrative Service in 2003, had authored the State’s first Citizen's Charter in the Food and Civil Supplies Department in 1998 and the second in the Revenue Department in 1999.
Considered a governance specialist, Mr. Srivastava also accomplished the long-pending amalgamation, under the Company Law, of two public sector undertakings dealing with minerals as their common chairperson. He has authored four books on governance
At a meeting of the newly-elected TII Board members in New Delhi on Saturday, academician Madhu Bhlla and retired IAS officer V. Balasubramanian were elected vice-chairpersons, while former Chief Engineer of Damodar Valley Corporation, A.K. Jain, was appointed treasurer.
