Laxmi Ratan to be Member CAT

Chairman of the Tariff Commission Laxmi Ratan is being appointed Member of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT).He is 1967 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Raghvendra Singh promoted in Finance Ministry

PS to Union Finance Minister Jaswant Singh ,West Bengal cadre 1983 batch IAS officer Raghvendra Singh has been promoted to the rank of Joint Secretary.Now he would work as an OSD to the Minister.

Reshuffle in BSF

M K Razdan will now be DIG (G) BSF headquarters ,Delhi. R C Saxena will be DIG Krishnagar in West Bengal.Ramesh Chandra will be DIG Kolkata.

Srinivas to go to IMF next week

V Srinivas OSD to Union Finance Minister Jaswant Singh is going to IMF next week as Executive Assistant to the ED. He is 1989 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Will new Chief Secretary be nominee of BJP ?

Grapevine has it that one Secretary of the Government of India is going as Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh . Names of Mssrs B K Chaturvedi, Sushil Tripathi and Rajeev Ratan Shah are doing the round .Bureaucratic circles do not rule out the possibility of the appointment of 1967 batch IAS officer Akhand Pratap Singh with six months extension.However,1970 batch IAS officer Shambhu Nath may be the dark horse.

Who will be new Chief Secretary of Uttaranchal ?

Who will succeed Madhukar Gupta as Chief Secretary in Uttaranchal? Answer of this question in names of 1970 batch IAS officer Ms P Jyoti Rao or 1971 batch IAS officer Dr Raghunandan Singh Tolia and no one else.Gupta is joining the Government of India as Additional Secretary Mines in the second week of next month.

Four IPS officers to retire this month

Four IPS officers in the country are retiring by this month end. They are Mssrs K Seetharama Rao (AP), Maniram (Gujarat),G C Chawanekar (Maharashtra) and Som Nath Shekhar (Rajasthan).

Dutta gets CS rank in Bihar

1970 batch IAS officer J K Dutta has been promoted to the rank of Chief Secretary in Bihar. He has been made CMD IFC.

Why did Virender Singh fly to Delhi ?

Why did Advisor to Administrator, Chandigarh Administration, Virender Singh fly directly to Delhi from Srinagar after representing the Union Territory at the high profile convention of Chief Ministers and other Union leaders at Srinagar?Has his successor been spotted and cleared on file by the Deputy Prime Minister? If yes, then can Gogia Pasha, the ace magician of the Chandigarh Administration cast a magical spell on the entire process, all in the favour of the suave bureaucrat, Virender.

Lakhanpal to join GoI and Maini to return !

A little bird tells us that K.R.Lakhanpal is now more than keen to go to Delhi on a GOI deputation while at the same time Jivtesh Singh Maini, Resident Financial Commissioner for the Punjab Government in Delhi, is immensely eager to return back to Punjab and take the place of K.R.Lakhanpal.Grapevine has it that Maini fell out of favour with the former Congress Government led by Beant Singh and also with Beant Singh's family after the former CM passed away.Rumour mill has it that Maini's previous stay in Punjab was shrouded by a controversy relating to purchase of state aircraft.One hopes this bureaucrat manages to fly high this time and also ground safely in Punjab.By the way, there are some vested individuals who are fiddling with the integrity of the two dedicated officers by spreading a rumour campaign that Maini's desire to return to Punjab is fuelled by a slander campaign against K R Lakhanpal?However, whether CM Amarinder Singh is willing to adjust Maini back remains to be seen.

Lalka to be DG Uttar Pradesh ?

Mahendra Lalka 1967 batch IPS officer is likely to be appointed new DGP of Uttar Pradesh.Name of 1968 batch IPS officer P S Vara Prasad is also in circulation .Prasad had returned to the state only last month from the National Police Academy, Hyderabad.

Khirwar to join CBI

Sandeep Khirwar is joining the CBI as SP. He is 1995 batch IPS officer of Haryana cadre.

IAS changes in Bihar

B B Shrivastava will be Secretary Animal Husbandry.Girish Shankar has been appointed Secretary Secondary and Higher Education.Shakil Ahmad has been made Commissioner Food. Shilish Kumar will be Deputy Development Commissioner Nawada.

Gangadeen Yadav to be Secretary to CM UP ?

Gangadeen Yadav is likely to be appointed as Secretary to UP chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav. He is 1983 batch IAS officer.

IPS officer to join BJP in MP

Panna Lal is joining the BJP tomorrow in the presence of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.1974 batch IPS officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre had recently resigned from the service.

D P Singh shifted to Defence Ministry

Additional Secretary and FA Steel in Government of India, D P Singh has been appointed Additional Secretary (Procurement) in the Ministry of Defence by downgrading the vacant post of Special Secretary (Procurement). He is 1970 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.

DG Doordarshan is now Additional Secretary Steel

DG Doordarshan S Y Qureshi has been appointed Additional Secretary and FA Steel in Government of India. He is 1971 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.