UPSC celebrates 100 years: ‘Civil servants are context specialists. We connect the dots’: Sanjeev Chopra, former director of LBSNAA

On October 1 this year, the UPSC will enter its centenary year. UPSC Essentials magazine, which has also completed two years of guiding and informing civil services aspirants, marks the occasion with a special conversation in its Expert Talk series featuring Dr. Sanjeev Chopra — a veteran civil servant whose career spans policy-making, training, and administrative reform. An IAS officer of the 1985 batch, he is also a former Director of the prestigious Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie.

A distinguished figure in Indian public administration, Dr Chopra offers an unflinching look at the evolving demands of civil services, the importance of initiatives like Pratibha Setu , and why every aspirant must consider professional stability before chasing