Headlines --2 & 3rd June 2001--- Pahwa is not wanted ! Krishna Swamy to be new Vice Chief IPS officer tops in MBA Arora new DIG Ludhiana Changes in IT Department Pande takes over as MD BSP IT transfers CMD quits Promotion of four SBI officials Disinvestment of Air India imminent DD official's imprisonment suspended New Northern Railway GM

 

 

 

	Pahwa is not wanted !   Union Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister S S Dhindsa is keen to have a new Secretary.The Minister has requested Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to change his Secretary Ashok Pahwa a Haryana cadre IAS Officer. Dhindsa wants services of N N Khanna who is currently Secretary Sports and Youth Welfare. Will Prime Minister oblige Dhindsa?.

 

 

	Krishna Swamy to be new Vice Chief The Government has appointed S Krishna Swamy as the new Vice-Chief of the Air Staff. He will take over new assignment in December.

 

 

 

	lIPS officer tops in MBA   An Additional Director General of Police in Madhya Pradesh Swaraj Puri has topped in the MBA examinations from the Indore University.He is 1969 batch IPS Officer and currently looking after Narcotics Bureau.

 

 

 

 

 

	Arora new DIG Ludhiana Suresh Arora will be new DIG Police Ludhiana. He was earlier DIG Jullandhar.Single transfer order was issued on Friday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

	Changes in IT Department   A major reshuffle has taken place in the Income-Tax Department. According to Finance Ministry sources 10 Commissioners of Income Tax have been transferred and 73 Commissioners have been promoted as Chief Commissioners at different places. Several new posts have also been created in the country.

 

 

 

 

 

 

	Pande takes over as MD BSP Suresh Pande Director Operations in the Steel Authority of India Ltd has taken over as the Managing Director of Bokaro Steel Plant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

	IT transfers   S C Grover has taken over as chief IT Commissioner in Amritsar. He would also be looking after J&K and Bhatinda.Chief Commissioner IT Kolkata D N S Sinha has been shifted to Nagpur in the same capacity.Subrata Das will replace Sinha in Kolkata

 

 

 

 

	CMD quits   Chairman and Managing Director of the Public Sector Madras Fertilisers Ltd N Y Mahajan has resigned. U S Jha has been appointed acting CMD .

 

 

 

 

	Promotion of four SBI officials   Four Chief General Managers in the State Bank of India are being appointed Deputy Managing Directors.They are: C Bhattacharya CGM Personal Banking,N K Puri CGM Foreign Affairs, N Sadasivan CGM Mumbai Circle and S Krishnan CGM Corporate Accounts Group.

 

 

	Disinvestment of Air India imminent   Disinvestment of the Air India is certain.All the formalities are expected to be completed within two months. Tata's are all set to buy the Air India.Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is said to have Okayed the deal.

 

 

 

 

	DD official's imprisonment suspended   The Banglore High Court has suspended four years rigorous imprisonment awarded by the CBI court to Ms Kamla Hemmige . She was Programme Executive in the Banglore Doordarshan Kendra and was charged corruption.

 

 

 

 

 

 

	New Northern Railway GM   Sampat Dashrathi has taken over as the new General Manager of Northern Railway.He joined Railways in 1964.He has replaced S P Mehta after his superannuation.