kochi retired top civil servants are now testing their fortunes in keralas business realm three senior officials have recently dared to enter the states corporate world and joined various companies as independent directors the latest in this series is the appointment of v r rajiven former director general of kerala police who has joined gold loan company manappuram finance ltd as an independent director the company is expected to approve his appointment at the annual general meeting agm to be held on august 10 he also serves as chief executive officer at cochin kagaz part of chennaibased kgs group a few weeks ago aluvabased federal banks agm approved the appointment of former union cabinet secretary k m chandrasekhar as a director of the bank similarly k jayakumar former chief secretary to the state government and the current vicechancellor of thunchath ezhuthachan malayalam university has joined thrissurbased dhanlaxmi bank as a director in may the bureaucrats outside the banking industry include t balakrishnan former additional chief secretary of industries he is currently heading inkel a publicprivate partnership focusing on developing infrastructure for the manufacturing sector he is also the chairman and managing director of kerala high speed rail corporation ltd what makes the bureaucrats attractive to the companies is their long experience observed t n jayachandran former additional chief secretary of kerala government who served as a director of federal bank after his retirement the presence of bureaucrats would project the image of a company too he said my ips tag gave me access to the union government offices in delhi and i get patient hearing from government secretaries said p t nandakumar former assistant inspector general of kerala police he is now working as executive director of kgs aranmula international airport pvt ltd a fulltime job he accepted following his retirement four years ago civil service is highly procedure oriented while the private sector is result oriented in the private sector when you select somebody you give sufficient freedom to take decisions but in bureaucracy even the chief secretary cant do it opined nandakumar who served as the head of six government corporations including transformers and electricals kerala ltd and kerala financial corp apart from the operational freedom professionalism and the absence of political interference attract senior mandarins to the private sector in government it is the administration setup that runs the bureaucracy but in the private sector it is the management that runs the show nandakumar said