There is some mix-up here. Alban Couto was an IAS officer from the Bihar Cadre, if I'm not mistaken. FN
On Wed, 1 Sept 2021 at 06:26, Roland Francis <roland.fran...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ron Noronha was appointed and did take the position of the first Civil > Administrator of Goa when the military government of Gen K P Candeth handed > over operational responsibilities to Civil Rule from Military Rule to him > in June 1962 until Goa’s first election in 1963. I don’t know for how long > Noronha was in that office. > > Although the Indian Govt was sensitive to and in favour of putting Goans > in control at that stage, they chose an expat (Hyderabad-based) Goan > already in Indian Govt service rather than a resident Goan who like Alban > Couto was quite capable of taking over reins but who came with senior > Portuguese administration (what at that time would be) baggage. Only later > did they absorb Couto into the IAS and give him the first Goa Development > Commissioner position followed by other senior Indian posts. > > By the way much after independence and when the IAS was created resulting > in a senior All-India Service with both leftover ICS and newly minted IAS > together, the ICS fellows got much more respect and senior positions > trumping the new babus. > > Roland. > Toronto. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- September 2021 | Frederick Noronha. 784 Saligao 403511 Goa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa | M (after 2pm) +91 9822122436 Twitter @fn 1 2 3 4 | ---------------------------------------- 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | <fredericknoron...@gmail.com>fredericknoron...@gmail.com <https://youtube.com/c/frederickfnnoronha> 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 | Books. Words. Photos. Wikipedia. Networks. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 | PHOTOS: https://flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/ <https://youtube.com/c/frederickfnnoronha> 26 27 28 29 30 | VIDEOS: https://youtube.com/c/frederickfnnoronha ------------------------------------------------------------------- ᐧ