N C Saxena proceeds on leave

Senior most serving bureaucrat after Cabinet Secretary in the country N C Saxena has proceeded on long leave.1964 batch Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS Officer Saxena is currently Member in the Planning Commission.He is scheduled to retire in July next year.

Amar Bhushan to be promoted

Appointment of Y Harishankar as Secretary Security has paved the way of promotion for Amar Bhushan in the RAW.1967 batch IPS Officer who later joined the RAW services will now be promoted as Special Director.

Avtar Singh to join Defence Ministry

Avtar Singh is joining the Defence Ministry as a Deputy Secretary. He is 1987 batch IAS Officer of Haryana cadre.

IAS changes in Uttar Pradesh

About Half a dozen IAS Officers have been reshuffled in Uttar Pradesh. Secretary Finance V K Sharma has been shifted to Agra as Divisional Commissioner. Anand Mishra will be new Finance Secretary. Divisional Commissioner Agra Subodh Nath Jha has been made Secretary Planning.Harikrishna has been appointed Secretary Power in place of Ashok Khurana who has been made OSD Taj Express Highway.Secretary Transport R M Shrivastava has been transferred to the Boardof Secondary Education.S P Tripathi has been sent to Mahoba as District Collector. Alok Kumar Collector Mahoba has been brought back to the Secretariat as Special Secretary.

Wife of DIG commits suicide

Dolly Shukla wife of Varanasi Range DIG Police Surya Kumar Shukla committed suicide on Wednesday. Cause of the suicide was not known.

IAS reshuffle in Haryana

K K Khandelwal has been appointed Director and Special Secretary Rural Development Department. Dheera Khandelwal has been given additional charge of Backward Class Welfare. Sumita Mishra Singh has been appointed Secretary Power Commission.

Jain is new CJ Karnataka High Court

Justice Nagendra Kumar Jain Chief Justice of the Madras High Court has been transferred in the same capacity to Karnataka.

IPS transfers in Orissa

Over one dozen IPS Officers have been reshuffled in Orissa. DIG (Intelligence) S D Rajguru has been shifted to Administration.Three SP rank officers Ms Pradip Kapoor, R P Sharma and A K Upadhyaya have been promoted to the rank of DIG.Kapoor will be DIG (Intelligence) while R P Sharma and A K Upadhyaya have been made DIG CID and Planning respectively. AIG (Establishment) Sudhanshu Sarangi has been made SP Balasore.Puri SP Debasish Panigrahi has been shifted to Ganjam.Somedra Priyadarshi will be SP Puri.K C Pathak on promotion has been made SP Navrangpur.Rekha Lohani and Prahraj will be SP of Deogarh and Boudh respectively.Bipin Bihari Nayak has been posted as AIG (Planning).

Chhatwal is Director (Finance) NFL

Former Director Finance in the ITDC S C Chhatwal has taken over as Director (Finance) of National Fertilizers Ltd.(NFL).

Sharma promoted as APIO

A N Sharma ,Director Information in the Union Home Ministry has been promoted as Additional Principal Information Officer .He is an officer of Indian Information Service.With this promotion number of APIO's has risen to five.Other APIO's are Ms Swagat Ghosh, Kshipra Biswas,Bahadur Singh and P K Bandhopadhyay.