Who will be SEBI Chief ?

Who will be next Chief of the SEBI after D R Mehta ?. Will he be a professional or a bureaucrat ?.Nobody is sure as to whom the post would go. Currently names of half a dozen Secretaries in the Government of India and four professionals Ms Janki Ballabh, Ashok Lahri ,J Bhagwati and P N Venkatachalam are doing the round in the corridors of power.

D Mukherjee to return

D Mukherjee is being repatriated to the parent Tamil Nadu cadre in April. 1971 batch IPS officer Mukherjee is currently Joint Director in the CBI.

Berry to be new CMD New India Insurance !

R Berry is being appointed new CMD of New India Insurance Company. Berry who is currently General Manager in the same Company would replace K N Bhandari who is superannuating by February end.

Chhattisgarh looking for IAS officers

Chhattisgarh Government is looking for middle level IAS officers who are ready to come on deputation to Raipur.This newly carved out state is larger than Tamil Nadu and while Tamil Nadu has 329 IAS officers Chhatisgarh is having only 89.Interestingly some of the officers are handling four to five assignments on an average. Now this state would warmly welcome IAS officers from any cadre who would like to come -10 to 25 years of service and of course with good records .There is guarantee of one thing-decent assignment.

Prasad is new DGP Jharkhand

R R Prasad will be new DGP of Jharkhand. He would replace T P Sinha who is superannuating on Thursday.

Shailja Chandra is new Chief Secretary Delhi

Shailja Chandra has been appointed new Chief Secretary of Delhi. 1966 batch IAS officer Shailja Chandra is currently Secretary Indian System of Medicines in the Government of India. She would replace P S Bhatnagar who is retiring today.

Dora appointed DG CISF

Andhra Pradesh DGP H J Dora has been appointed new DG CISF. 1965 batch IPS officer Dora would replace Orissa cadre IPS officer B B Nanda who is retiring on Thursday.

Amarnathan to head BPR&D

L.C. Amarnathan has been appointed Chief of the Bureau of Police Research and Development .1967 batch IPS officer of Orissa cadre Amarnathan would replace V N Singh who is superannuating on Thursday.

N Chandrashekharan Nair promoted in Kerala

N Chandrashekharan Nair has been promoted to the rank of Additional Chief Secretary in Kerala. He is 1967 batch IAS officer.

Mooshary to be DG NSG

Kerala cadre IPS officer Mooshary has been appointed new DG of NSG.The post had fallen vacant following the repatriation of Rajgopalan to Tamil Nadu.

Joseph is new DGP Kerala

K J Joseph will be new DGP of Kerala. He would replace W J Dawson who is retiring on Thursday. Joseph is the senior most police officer in the state.

New SP of Kalahandi in Orissa

Sunita Kakran has been appointed new SP of Kalahandi in Orissa. She would replace Niranjan Nanda who is retiring on Thursday.

Deepak Khandekar to join GOI

Deepak Khandekar is being appointed Director Expenditure in the Ministry of Finance. 1985 batch IAS officer Khandekar is currently Director Budget in the Madhya Pradesh Government.

Hardeepak Singh gets extension

Hardeepak Singh .Member National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has been granted six months extension in his tenure. 1976 batch Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS officer Hardeepak Singh was to return to parent cadre this week after completion of his tenure.

AIIMS controversy and Baijendra Kumar

N. Baijendra Kumar. IAS (1985- Chhattisgarh Cadre) who is currently on deputation to GOI as Deputy Director (Administration), AIIMS is needlessly been dragged in to a controversy over allotment of an accommodation at AIIMS campus by its Director. The trivial issue of allotment of an innocuous house is being used by a group of individuals, who have access to some powerful people and media to create an atmosphere so as to ease out Mr. Kumar from AIIMS and bring person of their choice to this post.
Mr. Kumar, who held many important assignments successfully in MP, is known for his integrity and straightforward working. In his effort to streamline the murky manipulative working environment at AIIMS he had stepped in to the toes of some vested interest with in AIIMS who have been "king makers" through faculty politics at AIIMS. Kumar's efforts to curb corruption at AIIMS have yielded results through raids by CBI in some departments and he could expose the Medical Entrance Examination racket recently.
Though the house allotment is as per the rules of AIIMS, entitlement of the officer and at least five previous Deputy directors have been allotted the similar accommodation; these vested interests thought it as an emotive issue to settle score with the officer. They tried to blow it out of proportion and through media started mud -slinging against the officer. They were successful in intimidating the director to initiate repatriation of the officer. How ever, they failed to judge the goodwill of the officer at the institute. A sharp and unprecedented reaction from all section of the employees in favour of Mr. Baijendra Kumar has put these people in the defensive. The Faculty of AIIMS started a signature campaign supporting the officer and exposing the design of the " caucus". The Resident Doctors association, The Nurses Union, The officers association, karmachari unions, SC ST welfare association., and scores of other technical and non-technical associations are actively opposing any move to repatriate Mr. Kumar from the institute. Judging the mood of the entire institute in favour of the officer, it is difficult to say now whether the " vested interest " will be successful in victimising another honest officer for doing right things.