India's Top Bureaucrat: The Three Contenders

Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba will create history if he demits office in August when his term is to end.

History seems to be calling on the country's highest bureaucratic post.

Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba will create history if he demits office in August when his term is to end. The 1982 batch Jharkhand cadre officer will then be the longest-serving cabinet secretary of India. He will beat the record of his predecessor PK Sinha, who held the office for a little over four years.

The officers in the running to take over from Mr Gauba could also create history if Prime Minister Narendra Modi were to zero in on any of them.