Kasturi Gupta Menon is Secretary Child and Women Welfare

Ms Kasturi Gupta Menon is new Secretary Child and Women Welfare in Government of India. 1969 batch West Bengal cadre IAS officer Ms Menon has succeeded Dr R V Vaidyanath Ayyar who superannuated on July 31.Ms Menon who is currently Development Commissioner in Textile Ministry would assume charge today.

Ms Chitra Chopra promoted to Secretary rank

Establishment Officer in the Department of Personnel Ms Chitra Chopra has been appointed Secretary Backward Class Commission.She is 1969 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Dr Bose to head North-Eastern council

Madhya Pradesh cadre 1969 batch IAS officer Dr J L Bose has been promoted to the rank of Secretary in Government of India. He has been appointed Chief of North-Eastern Council with headquarters at Shillong.

Meenakshi Anand Chaudhry gets Secretary rank in GoI

Ms Meenakshi Anand Chaudhry has been promoted to the rank of Secretary in Government of India. 1969 batch Haryana cadre IAS officer Ms Chaudhry has been made Adviser in the Planning Commission.

Neena Ranjan promoted

Ms Neena Ranjan has been given Secretary rank in Government of India. 1969 batch UP cadre IAS officer Ms Neena Ranjan would continue to be in her present job as DG supplies and Disposal in the Ministry of Commerce.

Minhas is Special Secretary Agriculture

Additional Secretary Agriculture B S Minhas has been appointed Special Secretary in the same ministry. He is 1969 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre..

Mishra joins as OSD to DPM

Joint Secretary Finance Sanjiv Mishra has joined as OSD to Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani. He is 1972 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.

Additional Secretary level changes this week

Additional Secretary level changes are expected to take place in Government of India this week.

IPS reshuffle on cards in Andhra Pradesh

An IPS reshuffle at the ADG and DG level is expected to take place in Andhra Pradesh in a week or two.

Reward for loyalty

1966 batch retired IPS officer V K Malik has been appointed Member of the Himachal Pradesh Public Service Commission.Malik was the Additional DG Vigilance during the BJP regime and sat over the case against the present Chief Minister Vir Bhadra Singh who acknowledged this officers favour to him.

Rao is Staff Officer of UP CS

Hemant Rao has been appointed Staff Officer to the UP Chief Secretary. He is 1987 batch IAS officer. Meanwhile, Veeresh Kumar has been appointed Secretary Revenue.

P K Dash joins Commerce Ministry

Prasanna Kumar Dash has joined as Chief Executive Officer,Price Stabilisation Fund Scheme,NABARD,under the Department of Commerce at the level of Joint Secretary in Govt. of India.He is 1981 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Biswas retires

Chairman of the Central Pollution Control Board Dilip Biswas has retired.

Wadhera is new PFC Director

Shyam Wadhera is the new Director (Projects) of Power Finance Corporation. Prior to this Wadhera was ED NTPC.

Bhandari is Secretary Railway Board

R R Bhandari has taken over as new Secretary of the Railway Board.

Surinder Nath Committee Report

The Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) constituted a group, in December 2002, under the Chairmanship of Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Surinder Nath, former Chairman of the UPSC, to review and make recommendations with regard to present systems of performance appraisal, promotions and lateral movement in respect of the All India Services and other Group A services.Other members of the Committee were Mssrs A K Agrawal,Prodipto Ghosh, Prof. Vinaysheel Gautam and O P Agrawal.The report contains controversial recommendations pertaining to appraisal,promotions and empanelment of IAS, IPS and IFS officers and relationship between state governments and the respective cadre controlling authorities of these three services.
.Resident Editor of the Financial Express Rohit Bansal was the first to publish the excerpts of the report.Now the entire report is available on http://persmin.nic.in
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