L M Singhvi to be next President !

There are indications that former Indian High Commissioner to England,L M Singhvi will be the next President of India. He is likely to be consensus candidate.

Ghosh to be next GIC Chief !

P C Ghosh is being tipped to be the next Chairman of the public sector GIC .Present Chairman D Sengupta is due to retire this month end.

Kosalram to retire

The Secretary Urban Development in the Government of India, K Kosalram, is superannuating this month end. He is 1965 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Hemachandran joins NPA

A Hemachandran has joined the National Police Academy as Deputy Director. He is 1986 batch IPS officer of Kerala cadre.

Eapen is Director Commerce

K V Eapen has joined the Ministry of Commerce as Director. 1984 batch Assam-Meghalaya cadre IAS officer was Director (Vigilance) in the Department of Personnel prior to this new assignment.

Two IPS officers transferred from Delhi

Two UT cadre IPS officers R K Sharma and Satyendra K Garg have been transferred from Delhi. 1977 batch officer R K Sharma will now go to Lakshadeep while 1987 batch officer Garg will be posted in Andman -Nicobar.

Chatterjee is IG HRC Rajasthan

Bhasker Chatterjee has been appointed IG Rajasthan Human Rights Commission. 1978 batch IPS officer Chatterjee has been appointed on this newly created post of IG.

A. K. Sharma promoted

A. K. Sharma, IFS (1978) has been promoted as Chief Conservator of Forests and posted as MD, Gujarat Forest Development Corporation, Gujarat. Sharma is the recipient of Kirti Chakra for his exemplary work in Gir National Park in late 1980s.

New Chief of HPCL

Mahesh B Lal has taken over as the new Chairman-cum-Managing Director of the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. He was earlier serving as Director (Refineries) in BPCL.

IFS transfers in Gujarat
Government of Gujarat on Tuesday in a bold move promoted and transferred 52 officers. Some of them are ::
A K Sharma (1978) - MD, GSFDC Ltd. Rajeeva (1979) - CF (PIR), Gandhinagar C. N. Pandey (1980) - Director, GEER Foundation Dr. J. A. Khan (1980) - CF (R&WP) Vadodara Dr. H. S. Singh (1980) - CF (Territorial), Vadodara G. K. Sinha (1980) - CF (Territorial), Surat S. C. Srivastava (1983) - CF (PPME), Gandhinagar Dr. A. K. Saxena (1984) - GM, GSFDC, Gandhinagar Jagdish Prasad (1985) - CF (HQ), Gandhinagar M. M. Sharma (1985) - CF (SF), Mehsana D. B. Ande (1985) - CF, Kutch A. K. Verma (1986) - CF, Ahmedabad N. S. Yadav (1989) - DCF (T), Godhra B. P. Pati (1994) - DCF (T), Vyara
R. K. Sagoor (1995) - DCF (T), Valsad G. Yadaih (1987) - DCF (PPME), Gandhinagar M. V. Parmar (1993) - DCF (SF), Banaskantha U. D. Singh (1987) - DCF, Nadiad S. K. Mehta (1990) - DCF, Kutch (East) Dr. Jaypal Singh (1991) - DCF, Rajpipla (East) S. K. Chaturvedi (1986) - DCF & Asst. (Plan) to PCCF Franklin Khobang (1998) - DCF, Bari B. K. Sinha (1989) - DCF (PLO), Gandhinagar S. P. Sisodia (1991) - DCF (T), Bhavnagar

1971 batch IPS to be promoted as Special DG

Vasudev Dube is being promoted to the rank of Special DG in Chhattisgarh this month
. He is 1971 batch IPS officer.

IAS officer booked in Haryana

Haryana cadre 1985 batch IAS officer Sanjeev Kumar along with five others have been booked in textbook scam.

Zacharias is new VC Goa University.

Prof . P S Zacharias of the Andhra Pradesh has been appointed Vice Chancellor of Goa University for a period of five years.

Woman is Additional GM

For the first time in the history of Indian Railways a woman Vijay Laxmi Vishwanathan has been appointed Additional General Manager Southern Railway. Meanwhile Kamal Kishore Agrawal has taken over as General Manager of the Western Railway.