P. S. Appu
Appu (1929 – 28 March 2012) was an Indian civil servant who retired as the director of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA).[1] Appu started his career as a member of the Bihar cadre of Indian Administrative Service in 1951.While on deputation from the state to the federal government, he served as the Land Reforms Commissioner in the Ministry of Agriculture and the Planning Commission from 1970 to 1975.He opted for voluntarily retirement from service in 1982 while holding the post of Director of LBSNAA.[2] He became Chief Secretary of Bihar but left for a lower paid job in the Government of India when he found that the conditions he had stipulated for functioning effectively were not being observed by the political executive.