Whispers that turned louder

We carried the following items as early as on April 13,April 15 and April 27 ,2002

13 April 2002
Jaswant Singh to replace Yashwant Sinha ?

Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is likely to reshuffle his cabinet in May. There are indications that External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh will replace Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha. Name of Disinvestment Minister Arun Shourie is also doing the round for the post of Finance Minister. Yashwant Sinha may be shifted to Ministry of External Affairs .

15 April 2002
Will BJP President get Cabinet Berth ?

Will President of Bharatiya Janata Party Jana Krishnamoorthy be inducted in the Union Cabinet during next Cabinet reshuffle ?. Highly placed sources said that since there is no representation of BJP from TamilNadu,Jana was being given Cabinet rank in the next reshuffle.

27 April 2002
Will Venkaiah Naidu be next BJP Chief ?

There are strong reports that Union Rural Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu will be new BJP President. Chances of BJP President Jana Krishnamoorthy joining the Union Cabinet are bright.Though name of Union Parliametary Affairs and IT Minister Pramod Mahajan was in circulation, he is now out of the race. A major Cabinet reshuffle at the Centre is expected to take place in May.

Shatrughna Sinha to be Minister!

Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is believed to have decided to give a berth to Shatrughna Sinha during the next cabinet reshuffle at the Centre. A major cabinet reshuffle is expected to take place in May.

P K Banerjee to retire

Secretary rank officer in Government of India P K Banerjee is superannuating this month end. He is 1966 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Borah is Commissioner Raipur Municipal Corporation

In a bid to ensure good governance in urban areas, Chhattisgarh government has posted a young IAS officer as Commissioner, Raipur Municipal Corporation. Mr Sonmoni Borah, an IAS officer of the 1999 batch has taken over as the Commissioner of the Corporation.

Wasan is JD CBI

Navneet Rajan Wasan has been appointed Joint Director CBI to look after North Zone. Wasan is 1980 batch IPS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

A.K.Gupta advisor to MP Govt. in Delhi

A.K.Gupta who was so far President Board of Revenue (PBR) in Madhya Pradesh has been posted to Delhi. Gupta who belongs to 1967 batch would function as Advisor to the MP Government on Small Scale sector and Rural Development. Khushiram. Member MP Board of Revenue (Administration), would officiate as the PBR till the new incumbent was announced.

Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi is super CM in Punjab !

Can political secretary to Chief Minister of any State be more powerful than his mentor? Answer to this question is in affirmative if one goes by the popularity of Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi who is Political Secretary to Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amrinder Singh. Sodhi who is also a Congress MLA from Mandi Guru Harsahay seat is much sought after politician in Punjab.

Rakesh Mittal is President Uttranchal IPS Association

Rakesh Mittal has been elected President of the Uttranchal IPS Association. Anil Ratudi will be the Secretary and Ram Singh Meena,Ashok Kumar and Jeevan Chandra Pande Executive Members.

1987 batch to be Special DIG,s in Gujarat

Eight 1987 batch IPS officers in Gujarat Ms Sanjay Shrivastava,Arun Kumar Sharma, Kamlakar Oza, Pravin Gondia ,C R Parmar, D G Vanzara,N V Patel and U D Joshi are being promoted as Special DIGs soon.

IFS reshuffle in Madhya Pradesh

The state government here on Friday, shifted nearly three dozen IFS officers from one place to other. Accordingly, AS Dabas, Divisional Forest Officer, Sehore has been shifted to Indore, NS Dungliyal, DFO, Dewas has been shifted to Seoni, AB Gupta, DFO, Guna to DFO, Gwalior, RK Gupta, Deputy Conservator of Forest, on deputation to Chhindwara, BK Sharma, Deputy Conservator of Forest, Forest Development Corporation to DFO, Rewa, RD Mahla, DFO, West Chhindwara to Katni, RD Sharma, DFO, Katni to South Balaghat, PK Singh, DFO, Harda to West Chhindwara, PC Dubey, Chief Executive Officer, Morena to DFO, North Seoni, BB Singh, DFO, North Seoni to South Seoni and Satya- nand, DFO, South Seoni to DFO, Guna. Likewise, Ajit K Shrivastava has been shifted from DFO, Morena to North Sagar, Rajesh Kumar, DFO, North Sagar to South Chhindwara, BK Singh, South Chhindwara to Sehore, UK Sadbuddhi, DFO, Seoni to DFO, Dindori, L Krishnamurthy, DFO, Indore circle to Seoni cir- cle, PR Meena, CEO, Sheopur to Bhind, Alok Das, CEO, Betul to DFO, Ratlam, Mohanlal Meena, DFO, Badwaha, to DFO, Burhanpur, Shashi Malik, DFO, Burhanpur to Badwaha, Amitabh Agnihotri, CEO, Rajgarh to Director, Sanjay Gandhi National Forest, Sidhi, AK Verma, Director, Sanjay Gandhi National Forest Sidhi to Director, Madhav National Park, Shivpuri, Shubhranjan Sen, Director, Madhav National Park to Deputy Director, Pench National Park, Seoni and HK Jha, Deputy Conservator of Forest, to DFO, Dewas. Likewise, SK Singh, DFO, Gwalior has been shifted to DFO, Harda, Kamlesh Chaturvedi, DCF, Bhopal to DFO, Raisen, MK Agrawal, Deputy Conservator of Forest, on deputation of Madhya Pradesh state Forest Development Corporation to DFO, Raisen, MK Agrawal, DCF, Madhya Pradesh Forest Development Corporation to DFO, Panna, Ms Kamalika Mohanty, DCF, Ranger college, Balaghat to DC F, MPFDC, Jasveer Singh Chauhan, Shivpuri to Shyopur, Padam Singh, DFO, Betul to South Shahdol, RC Krishhamurthy, DFO, Umaria to Morena and Hariom Shankhwar, DFO, South Shahdol to DFO, Umaria.

Two new ED,s Power Finance Corporation

P K Bhargava and M K Goyal have been appointed Executive Directors of Power Finance Corporation(PFC).

Jyoti Rao to join next week

Uttranchal cadre 1970 batch IAS officer P Jyoti Rao is joining the Government of India as Additional Secretary and FA Agriculture next week..

Negi is MP IFS Association President

R S Negi has been elected President of the Madhya Pradesh Indian Forest Service Association.K S Reddy and R K Gupta will be Vice President and Secretary respectively.

When raising Tehelka had a negative effect.

Few days ago a Congress MLA decided to have an upper hand over the BJP by raising the `Tehelka' issue once again but no sooner had he started talking about the now-dead issue at a public meeting, some one from the crowd asked him about the secret behind his switch over from a scooter to the Tata Sumo. The poor MLA who had no answer as to where he got so much of money from had to eat a humble pie and cut his speech short.

Too many ADGs in Tamil Nadu

There is no dearth of ADGs in Tamil Nadu these days. There are as many as 29 of them in the state at present. Besides, the state has four DGs, 23 IGs and 36 DIGs.