> From: Sivasankar Chander <[email protected]> > Some disturbing news - former Elcot MD Umashankar, who has also > given a talk at ILUG-C some years ago, seems to be in a spot of > trouble: > > http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_ias-officer-suspended-by-tamil-nadu-government_1413048 > > There were some earlier reports of lobbying by interested parties > to shunt him out of Elcot some years ago. He's perhaps one of the > few IAS officers around who is comfortable with tech and can > even program competently.
Sad. From what I gather, he lost his scheduled caste status because of his/family's conversion to Christianity and so lost the eligibility to the scheduled caste quota. Also, he made the mistake of going after Maran's TV networks. Regards, PK _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
