http://whispersinthecorridors.in/rss/rss.xml NEWS ON BEURAUCRACY AND POLITICS http://whispersinthecorridors.in/rss Station Director DDK Srinagar Dr Rafeeq Masoodi has been promoted to the post of Deputy Director General (DDG) Programmes. http://whispersinthecorridors.in/rss As many as five Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officers have been posted as Under Secretaries by the Central Board of Direct Taxes(CBDT). They are: Nikhil Verma OSD Delhi to INV-I, Sanjay Naraindra Bhatia OSD Delhi to A PAC-I, Ms. Meenakshi Vohra OSD Delhi to A PAC-II, R.K. Gupta OSD Delhi to ITA-II and Ashis C. Mohanty OSD Delhi to TPL-IV. http://whispersinthecorridors.in/rss T. Darlong, presently Deputy Chief of Mission in Embassy of India, Thimpu has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to Seychelles in succession to A.K. Nag. http://whispersinthecorridors.in/rss The Government of India (GOI) in the offer list has retained the name of U.K. Lal ADG with the MP government. He is an IPS officer of 1985 batch who belongs to the MP cadre. http://whispersinthecorridors.in/rss Raja Raja Varma is new PCCF Wildlife in Kerala. His order has been issued. He is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of 1978 batch who belongs to the Kerala cadre. http://whispersinthecorridors.in/rss Naveen Mahajan, District Magistrate and Collector of Jaipur has been given the dditional charge of Jaipur Divisional Commissioner. 1997 batch IAS officer Mahajan, who belongs to Rajasthan cadre, will continue to look after the additional charge till further orders. http://whispersinthecorridors.in/rss As many as 30 Dy.SPs have been elevated as SPs in Punjab. http://whispersinthecorridors.in/rss As many as 200 Inspectors of police will shortly be elevated as Dy.SPs. http://whispersinthecorridors.in/rss The Central Board of Excise Customs has transferred 121 officers of the grade of Additional / Joint Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise. http://whispersinthecorridors.in/rss Amitabh Chaudhary president of the Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA) is manager of the team India that has gone to play matches in West Indies (WI). He is an IPS officer of 1985 batch who belongs to Jharkhand cadre. This IPS officer is ADG to the Jharkhand government. http://whispersinthecorridors.in/rss As many as four IAS officers of the 2010 batch have been allocated Chhattisgarh cadre. They are:Saransh Mittal, Prakash Murayya, Kartikaye Goyal and Ranu Sahu.With this the cadre strength of IAS officers in Chhattisgarh has risen to 116. http://whispersinthecorridors.in/rss Chennai-based scientist Dr P Siva Kumar has been named the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO’s) Scientist Of The Year 2010. http://whispersinthecorridors.in/rss Former IAS officer Yudhvir Singh is likely to be appointed as a member of the Tax tribunal in Haryana. http://whispersinthecorridors.in/rss Brig. Konsam Himalaya Singh has become the first army officer from Manipur to get the rank of major general in the army. http://whispersinthecorridors.in/rss Rajdeep Singh, Senior Deputy Accountant General (Admn) in the office of Principal Accountant General (Audit), Haryana, Chandigarh has been transferred and posted as Senior Deputy Accountant General (Admn/AB) in the office of Principal Accountant General (Audit), Uttarakhand, Dehradun against an existing vacancy. http://whispersinthecorridors.in/rss Piyush Kumar Srivastava has joined the Government of India as Deputy Secretary DEA. He is a 1997 batch IAS officer who belongs to the Andhra Pradesh cadre. http://whispersinthecorridors.in/rss The higher administrative grade (HAG) appointments in the Railways would now be handled by the PMO since the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is these days holding temporary charge of Railways after Mamata Banerjee’s exit following the West Bengal assembly elections. This would include big-ticket projects, including the Rs 77,000- crore Dedicated Freight Corridor project, the high-speed rail link to Bangalore airport (Rs 6,900 crore) project, the Indo-Bangladesh rail link (Rs 251 crore) project and the Madhepura locomotive factory (Rs 1,290 crore) project. http://whispersinthecorridors.in/rss The name of 1975 batch IRAS officer S Chandrasekharan, has been cleared for the post of Secretary, Parliamentary Affairs.Presently, he is Additional Member Finance Railway Board. Previously he was Additional Secretary and Financial Advisor with the Defence Ministry. (We said this on May 31)