1983 batch IAS empanelment delayed

Empanelment of the 1983 batch IAS officers to the rank of Joint Secretary in the Government of India has been delayed. Now empanelment is expected to take place only in March.

Who will be Director Enforcement ?

Who will be next Director Enforcement ?. Meeting to discuss names is expected to take place in a couple of days.

Post of Special Secretary abolished

Post of Special Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture in Government of India has been down graded to the rank of Additional Secretary. The post was earlier held by present Secretary Agriculture Mohan Kanda.

Tokyo post is still lying vacant

Post of Min (Econ),EOI ,Tokyo in the Department of Economic Affairshas been lying vacant for the last five months. The post fell vacant following the completion of tenure of 1976 batch Kerala cadre IAS officerS Sundareshan.Earlier the name of Assam-Meghalaya cadre 1979 batch IAS officer Anup Kumar Thakur was in circulation for the post.

Gogoi gets extension

CMD of the Air India J N Gogoi has been granted three months extension. His term was coming to an end on January 31.

IAS officers to retire this month

They are Mssrs:-Rajendra P Rai (UT),S K Swaminathan (AP).Chandra Mohan Jha ,Ram Bahadur (Bihar),G Subba Rao and Prabhat K Ghosh (Gujarat),M A Qureshi (J&K),Sandip Kumar Hajra(Karnataka),Arun Kumar (Chhattisgarh),C L Adme(Madhya Pradesh),Sheikh Habibullah and V A Deshpande (Maharastra),Krishna Arya (Manipur-Tripura),Bhagban Chandra Das(Orissa),Y S Ratra (Punjab),Om Prakash Bihari (Rajasthan)Pravin Chandra Sharma ,Ram Bharose BhaskarNarendra Nath Pande, Umesh Chandra Kiran and Brijendra Singh (Uttar Pradesh),Chandra Shekhar Samal Ujjawal Kanti Roy,Ajit Kumar Das,and T V Venkataraman (West Bengal).

IAS changes in Punjab

Dr Swarn Singh will be Secretary Medical Education. H I S Grewal has been appointed Special Secretary Planning. Phulwant Singh Siddhu has been made Special Secretary Energy and Irrigation.

JS rank to 10 IAS officers in Haryana

Haryana Government on Thursday accorded Joint Secretary rank to ten IAS officers.

Arvind Pande is Director HDFC Bank

Outgoing Chairman of the Steel Authority of India (SAIL)Arvind Pande has been appointed Director of the HDFC Bank.

Mangotra is new JS to the President

1978 batch Manipur-Tripura cadre IAS officer A K Mangotra is the new Joint Secretary to the President of India. Mangotra has succeeded 1977 batch UT cadre IAS officer S K Sherrif who has joined the ADB.

Bezbaruah appointed Ombudsman

M P Bezbaruah has been appointed Ombudsman for Delhi,Haryana and J&K. He is retired 1964 batch Assam-Meghalaya cadre IAS officer.

Pandey is back to Jharkhand

D K Pande is back to the parent Jharkhand cadre from Central deputation.1984 batch IPS officer has been posted in the PHQ.

Money for whom ?

The forces in Airport Security Zone at Orissa were recently amazed to see a bag full of Indian currency notes which a state Minister was carrying with him while boarding a Delhi bound flight. The Minister was later allowed to go leaving behind the mystery of so much cash. For whom was it meant for afterall ?