Five IPS officers to retire

Five IPS officers Mssrs Dr S Krishnamurthy (Karnataka), T Singaravel,B N Mishra and S D Pardhi (Maharastra) and Shantanu Kumar (Rajasthan) are retiring this month end.

IPS officer is back

1986 batch officer, Siddhartha Chattopadhyaya, posted as the DIG Faridkot range is back from the U.S.It is learnt that Chattopadhyaya had been sent by Punjab Chief Minister Amrinder Singh with some specific purpose.

Dev to be new ED BHEL ?

P T Dev is likely to be posted as new Executive Director of the Bhopal Unit of the BHEL. He is currently posted in the Corporate office.

Bhagat gets stay

The CAT has stayed the transfer of Station Director Doordarshan Kendra Patna J S Bhagat.

Bank official resigns

General Manager of the Punjab and Sindh Bank Ajit Duggal has put in his papers.

No for Takkar

Government of India is reported to have said "No" to the proposal of the Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Syed Ahmad for the appointment of former bureaucrat R K Takkar as the Governor of the state.

IAS losing sheen ?

Gone are the days when the Indian Administrative Service officers used to be held in high esteem. Today the majority people do not have the same opinion about the IAS. The difference may be of ones perception but all in all, everyone agrees that it is not the same old IAS which used to be known for its uprightness.
The above conclusions are derived on the basis of the opinions that were received during the latest debate on the whispersinthecorridors.com. the topic of the debate was - Has Indian Administrative Service (IAS) turned Indian Boneless Service (IBS).
The response was startling. Not even a single respondent had the same old high opinion about the IAS who are by and large supposed to decide the course of action the country takes for the well being of its people. The IAS, because of the wide spectrum of its activities, was designed to help in policy formulation and its subsequent implementation.
But from 1967 onwards when defections became the rule in order to capture power, these Services have been viewed by the politicians as instruments to influence their opponents, help in bribing them and assist in coercing them with the result that now one can only mourn the passing of the IAS.
Thus, while some suggest that the services in question be renamed Indian Adjusting Service, others feel that it be designated Indian Apna Service or even
Heavenly Abode Service (HAS).
"You term it 'Boneless' (IBS), they find it 'Meaty' (IMS). In these days when each tooth is an aching tooth and every bone is a bone of contention who would like to have such a long column of small pieces of bones just to encase a thin thread. See the maintenance cost ? See the phrases of the times, flexibility, elasticity, resilience et all. A service that does adjust to the tunes of times is doomed.
A Service with a spine would have withstood the onslaught of the politicians and continue to function according to law and the norms of propriety. A Service with a skeleton would have had the framework to enable it to withstand shocks and pressures. Even a cockroach with a carapace would have been able to avoid being crushed. However, considering the degree of supineness to which the IAS has reduced itself one finds that it has lost first its spine, then its skeleton and now even its carapace.
And the main reason behind the IAS losing its sheen, according to the respondents are, decrease in standard; Submissive to politicians and their stoops and indulgence in undue favourism for lust for money.
The Darwinian theory of evolution consists of a rising curve from invertebrates to vertebrates, from carapace to skeleton, from ape to man. In India on the other hand the premier Civil Service exhibits a downward curve in the evolution cycle from the Indian Civil Service (ICS) to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and now the Indian Boneless Service (IBS).
Is it surprising then that such a Service can only be called the IBS ? One can only mourn the passing of the IAS and bemoan the arrival of the IBS on the Indian administrative scene.

Khandelwal and Mishra to be Governors

Senior BJP leaders Pyarelal Khandelwal and Kailashpati Tripathi are likely to be appointed Governors of Punjab and Rajasthan respectively.