S. R. Sankaran: Compassion Turned Into a Budget Line
He built the ring-fenced plans that move money to the poorest, then declined the Padma Bhushan. The cleanest example in the syllabus for compassion towards the weaker sections.
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Shanmugam Manjunath: The Officer Who Went Back
He sealed two petrol pumps for adulteration, watched a fine settle the matter, and went back anyway. What Manjunath teaches about integrity, enforcement and the limits of deterrence.
Satyendra Dubey: The Letter That Was Not Kept Secret
He asked the Prime Minister’s Office to keep his name secret. It did not. What Satyendra Dubey’s case teaches about probity, moral courage and whistleblower protection in India.
Ethics in Action: What Tukaram Mundhe’s Food Safety Drive Teaches About Probity
A 2005-batch IAS officer with 25 transfers now runs Maharashtra’s FDA. What his enforcement drive shows about probity, impartiality and deterrence, and the three points where a critical GS Paper IV answer must push back.
Common Mistakes, and What This Library Has Argued
Chapter 26 · Ethics Case Studies · Part 5 The mistakes that cost marks most reliably, and what this whole library has been building toward. Chapter 26 · Ethics Case StudiesPart 1 · The...
Case Studies: Competing Goods
Chapter 26 · Ethics Case Studies · Part 4 Genuine dilemmas, where both courses have a real claim and the answer must name what is being given up. Chapter 26 · Ethics Case StudiesPart...
Case Studies: Discrimination and Dignity
Chapter 26 · Ethics Case Studies · Part 3 Cases where the wrong is done to a person rather than to a process, and where the officer’s duty is protection rather than neutrality. Chapter...
Case Studies: Pressure From Above
Chapter 26 · Ethics Case Studies · Part 2 Four cases in which authority is used improperly, from the corrupt superior to the instruction that is lawful and wrong. Chapter 26 · Ethics Case...
How to Answer an Ethics Case Study
Chapter 26 · Ethics Case Studies · Part 1 A method for unseen cases that works under time pressure, and the single classification that decides how the whole answer should be written. Chapter 26...
Fighting Corruption: What Actually Works
Chapter 25 · Corruption · Part 4 What has actually reduced corruption, what has not, and what an individual officer can do inside a system he did not design. Chapter 25 · CorruptionPart 1...
