Pradip Baijal to retire

Secretary Disinvestment in the Government of India, Pradip Baijal, is superannuating this month end. He is 1966 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

All's not well in Finance Ministry !

Grapevine has it that the Union Finance Minister, Jaswant Singh, and his Secretary are not putting on well. Does one needs not go into the details ?

Chaubey to be JS Finance Commission

Joint Secretary - Expenditure in the Government of India, Rajiv Nayan Chaubey, is being shifted to the 12th Finance Commission. He is 1981 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Khulu empanelled

Khekuto Khulu has been empanelled to the rank of Joint Secretary in the Government of India. He is 1982 batch IAS officer of Nagaland cadre.

Sahai to go Princeton

S N Sahai, Director in the PMO has been admitted to Princeton for MPP Programme. He is 1986 batch IAS officer of AGMUT cadre.

GoI goes by alphabetical order !

Appointment of AK Agarwal as Member-PESB, leaving behind three strong contenders for the post, namely - Bandhopadhyaya (S), Bagchi( D P ) and Buch( M N ), has made the bureaucrats to think that the GoI was going by the alphabetical order.

CSB meeting not held

The scheduled CSB meeting, slated for Monday, could not materialise. What could be the reason behind ?

IAS changes in Orissa

Arunadaya Swain will be the new Additional Secretary - Home. Durga Charan Das has been appointed Additional Secretary - GAD. while Bishnu Sethi has been given additional charge of Panchayati Raj.

IAS reshuffle in Assam

T R Dey will be new Commissioner and Secretary Finance.B K Chakraborty has been made Commissioner Taxes.M C Sahu has been appointed Director P&RD.C R Kalita has been shifted to the Khadi Industries as CEO. K C Samria,S K Sinha,Archna Verma and B N Das will be new DCs of Nalbari, Kamrup Rural, Gopalpara and Tinsukia respectively.

Several changes in media

There have been several changes in the Electronic Media in the past few days. While several Journalists have shifted frm one channel to another, many have ven preferred to leave these channels. Take for instance the case of Raj Kumar Keswani who has left the NDTV's MP and Chhattisgarh bureau to join Dainik Bhaskar as an Editor at Indore. Bobby Nair in kerala too has deserted the NDTV to head a news paper there as its Resident Editor. Other reshuffling includes shifting of Punya Prasun Bajpai from Aaj Tak to NDTV, Ashok Singhal from Zee to NDTV, Nidhi Kulpati from Zee to NDTV, Narendra Pal Singh from Aaj Tak to NDTV as Coordinator, Gauri Datta Gupta from Zee to NDTV. Besides, if Prakash Kumar and Umesh Kumawat have shifted to Star, Prabhat Shunglu too has joined its North-East Bureau while Rahul has joined Aaj Tak.Three ETV Staffers Mssrs V V P Sharma, Rakesh Tripathi and Abhijit have joined Aaj Tak.Ratan Bharadwaj is also reported to have resigned from ETV.

Baleshwar Rai is back to Delhi

Baleshwar Rai has finally joined the Labour Ministry in Government of India as Additional Secretary. He is 1970 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.