Headlines
---6'th June 2001---
 

 

 

 

Bhanu to be Secretary to Assam CM

M G V K Bhanu will be Secretary to Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.He is 1985 batch IAS Officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre. Bhanu is currently on deputation to the Government of India. A request to relieve Bhanu has reached the Department of Personnel.
 

 


 



No charge to Advani

Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has refused to make Home Minister L K Advani as acting PM in his absence. This time there was tremendous pressure of the RSS to appoint Advaniji as acting Prime Minister.Operation of the of Atalji's knee is slated for tomorrow in Mumbai.
 

 

 

 

Now new panel for NPAI

 

 Now a fresh panel is being prepared for the post of Member -Secretary National Pharmaceutical Authority of India. The Ministry of Petro-Chemicals had rejected the earlier panel. Arun Jha a 1981 batch IAS officer of the Bihar cadre was number one in that panel.
 

 

 

 

 

 

IAS reshuffle in TamilNadu

A major IAS Reshuffle has taken place in the new Government led by Jayalalitha.New postings are as under:Dr Niranjan Mardi MD Chennai Water Supply Board,P Ram Mohan Rao MD TN Water Supply and Drainage Board, V Gunalan MD Civil Supllies Corporation,T Shanmuga Rajeshwaran Commissioner Municipal Corporation Chennai, K N Venkataramanan MD TN Housing Board,Qudsia Gandhi CMD Women Welfare Board,Dayanand Kataria Spl Secretary L &R Programme,Pradip Yadav Minorities WelfareJS,a m k Vishwanathan JS Planning,V Thangavelu JS Social Welfare,P Shiv Kumar Add. Secretary Transport, G Ramamurthy Dy Secretary Agriculture, K Ramalingam Add. Commissioner Land Administration, K Subramaniam Dy Secretary Revenue,A Sukumaran JS Water Supply Department,Shiv Das Meena JS IT, K Dhanavel JS Forest and Environment, D Chandrashekharan Add. Secretary Tamil Development,K Ganeshan Commissioner Agriculture Marketing, Dr N Sundaradevan Director Export Promotion Bureau,C P Singh MD TN Salt Corporation, K Elangoven Chairman Salt Corporation,G Santhanam CEO CMDA, Sandeep Saxena MD TN Magnesite Ltd. Salem,S Karuthiah Pandian Commissioner Tiruchi Corporation,S K Prabhakar MD Salem Starch,Harminder Singh MD TN Medical Services, D Kartikeyan Coimbatore Corporation Commissioner,P Shiv Kumar Secretary Tribal Welfare, M A Gaurishankar Secretary Industries,Raja Ram Shri Ram Secretary Personnel Training,D Rajendran Secretary Fisheries,Saiyad Munir Hoda Secretary Health,V Ramadoss Secretary Tourism and Information,T Pitchandi Secretary Rehabilitation,N Govindan Secretary Rural Development, M B Pranesh Secretary Agriculture, Mrs Girja Vaidyanathan Commissioner Archieves,Anuradha Khati Rajeevan Secretary Small Industries, V Palanichamy Secretary Forest and Environment, A Nagrajan Secretary Housing and Urban Development, M Kutralingam Secretary PWD, T S Sridhar Secretary Highways, Mohan Verghese Chunkath Secretary Higher Education, A Elangovan Secretary Transport, N Murugan Secretary Commercial Taxes and R Poornalingam Secretary Social Reforms.Besides about half a dozen officers close to the DMK regime have been made Commissioner Disciplinary Proceedings at different places.They are Ms T R Ramaswamy,K Ashok Vardhan Shetty,K Rajamanickam, V Irai Anbu, G Muthuswamy,N Narayanan, V Murthy and Mohammad Nasimuddin.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IPS Changes in TamilNadu

 

 Several IPS Officers in Tamil Nadu have been transferred. S P Mathur and S Ramani both ADG rank officers have been shifted. Mathaur will be ADG Vigilance Chennai and Ramani will be ADG Crime Branch Chennai.Three IGPs T Radhakrishnan, Sarabjeet Singh and R Natraj figure in the list.Two DIGs:
A Subramaniam and and Dr Mahaboob Alam have been promoted. Other Changes are: N Elangoven DIG Armed Police Chennai, Ashutosh Shukla Commissioner Tiruchi, K P Maghendhran DIG Madurai Range, K RadhaKrishnan DIG Training Chennai, I Raja DIG Salem Range,P C Lallawmsanga Commissioner Madurai,and S R Jangid Commissioner Tirchnelveli.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kerala DGP's appointment challenged

A senior Kerala IPS officer R P C Nair has challenged the appointment of R Padmanabhan as DGP .A petition regarding this had been filed before the Ernakulam Bench of the CAT.He has termed the appointment of Padmanabhan as erroneous and illegal.

  
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Surinder Kaur is new DAVP Chief

 

 Surinder Kaur who was looking after Publications Division in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has been appointed chief of DAVP. Present DAVP Chief Sahib Singh has been shifted to Field Publicity as DG. Suresh Chopra who was DG Field Publicity will now head Publications Division.Additional PIO N N Sharma has been made Regional Director DAVP replacing Bahadur Singh who has gone to the PIB in place of N N Sharma.