Former IAS officer Saman Shekhar received a job offer from the World Bank after quitting the civil services, but he had other plans. Former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Saman Shekhar left the civil services to work towards improving the quality of education in his hometown in Madhya Pradesh. Shekhar, who had been a bureaucrat for over 20 years, had to give up all the perks, including his lavish government bungalow.