Sugathan to be JS Home

K S Sugathan is being tipped to be a Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs in Government of India. He is 1973 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.

Sharda Prasad to return to UP

Joint Secretary Home in Government of India Sharda Prasad is expected to return to the parent Uttar Pradesh cadre early next month. Tenure of 1981 batch IAS officer Sharda Prasad is coming to an end on July 30.

1977 batch IPS to be ADG in Tamil Nadu

1977 batch IPS officers are being promoted to the rank of ADG in Tamil Nadu next month.Mssrs K R Shyam Sundar,R N Sawani,P R Thapa, Vibhakar Sharma and P Thangrajan belong to this batch.

Who will be DGP Andhra Pradesh ?

Who will succeed Andhra Pradesh DGP P Ramulu who is superannuating on July 31 ?.Chances of 1967 batch IPS officer S R Sukumara are rated to be quite high but 1970 batch IPS officer M A Basith may emerge as the dark horse.

What Ankur Agrawal is doing these days ?

There is an information to CBEC Chief A K Singh that Ankur Agrawal, Indian Customs Service Officer of 1994 batch, who has recently completed the MBA from Harward, has set up a back office (BPO) company in India and is getting business from America.Is there any truth in this?

Sen to go for one year training

Debashis Sen(IAS, West Bengal:85)has been selected by GOI for a year's training at ENA, Paris.

Thy name is Prasar Bharti

Prasar Bharti CEO K S Sarma posted S L Kandhara as Station Director of the Bhopal Station of All India Radio only last month .Believe it or not without his knowledge Gulab Chandra was also posted as Station Director last week.Now who is the Station Director ?.

Sarabjit Singh to go abroad

Sarabjit Singh, senior most police officer in the country has been invited by the globally renowned Centre for International Documentation on Organised and Economic Crime ( CIDOEC) and Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London to be the South Asian voice at the 2003 Cambridge International Symposium at Jesus College, Cambridge from 7th to 14th September, 2003.In the past too Sarabjit had been invited at the prestigious 21st Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, 2002 at King's College London.He had the opportunity of representing India at the 70th General Assembly Session of Interpol in Budapest, Hungary 2001. Legendary London Police Commissioner, Sir John Stevens had also invited the 65 batch officer over an honorary visit to the New Scotland Yard Control Room.

Bagchee joins IIPA

Sandeep Bagchee has joined the IIPA. He is 1973 batch IAS officer of the Gujarat cadre.

IAS-IPS transfers likely in J&K

IAS and IPS changes are likely to take place in Jammu and Kashmir this week end.

Now Badal to expose Amrinder bureaucrats !

When the ICC Cricket World Cup began, it began with the slogan…It doesn't get bigger than this!Well the world cup is over way back but the fiercesome contest is still on.Only that the players and the playground have changed,but the slogan…remains the same. "It doesn't get bigger than this ever!"No it's not Bush and Saddam but our very own Amarinder Singh and Parkash Singh Badal. The only thing is that it still isn't clear till now who amongst Badal and Amarinder is the real Saddam?Here's a brief insight into the latest exchange of brickbats between the Akalis and the Amarinder Singh led Punjab bureaucracy. After a fiery witch hunting of the Akali supremo, Prakash Singh Badal and his family on serious corruption charges, the Badal clan has decided to hit back….This time directly targeting the bureaucracy working under the Congress led machinery.The most hard hitting allegations have been on the Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, S.K.Sinha and ADGP/Vigilance A.P.Pande.

Target 1: S.K.Sinha, P.S.to C.M: The Badals allege that the Amarinder Singh Government should first clean it's own collar and then grab hold of somebody else's.Both Parkash Singh and son ,Sukhbir allege that S.K.Sinha is guilty of irregular appointments of Naib-Tehsildars in Punjab amounting to serious corruption as the appointments were done against the then existing Government's orders.An inquiry by K.S.Janjuia (IAS, retd - 65 Batch) , the then Financial Commissioner - Revenue, Punjab held S.K.Sinha to be guilty of charges.

Target 2: A.P.Pande, ADGP/Vigilance - Badals allege that on the way to Fatehgarh Sahib on the Landran road lies a village Ban Majra in Ropar district.Now the largest farmhouse of the entire region,spread across
some 15-20 acres of land,allegedly belongs to A.P.Pande. The allegation is that how and from where A.P.Pande managed the sources and funds to buy such a huge farmhouse.His salary as a government official is limited and doesn't permit him to afford a farmhouse of that stature.

School for Son In Law? It is also alleged by the Akalis that around 3-4 acres of land on the Kharar -Banur road is being developed into a school for A.P.Pande's son in law.The Akalis are now questioning the seriousness of the anti-corruprion drive launched by Amarinder Singh and asking as to why Vigilance supremo,A.P.Pande has been spared at the first place. Badals have openly announced that it is quite a paradox that the Vigilance Chief , spearheading the anti corruption drive, has a serious land grabbing and corruption charge to face..

Target 3: S.P.Singh, Superintendent of Police - This police officer was primarily instrumental in heading most of the vigilance raids on the assets and properties of the Badal Clan. However, he finds himself in a property soup as the Akalis allege that Singh runs a sprawling, state of the art,luxurious hotel complex by the name of Bristol Resorts on the Zirakpur -Delhi highway. However, it is believed that since Singh had already come under the scanner once for the same property, he supposedly sold it to a trusted confidante of his and the transaction took place only on papers with real benefits still flowing into Singh's kitty.

Well charges by the Badal family are surely gory and intolerable and the question is not whether they are right or wrong but ..how political parties differing on ideologies hit back at each other making senior bureaucrats of the states as soft targets. No one can deny the fact that Pande, Sinha, Singh and all senior bureaucrats of Punjab have a role to play and a duty to do.But if, commitment to one's duty means facing flak from political bosses of the state then one would wonder what would happen to the moral of the upcoming,young bureaucrats of the state?

IAS changes in UP

G B Patnaik has been appointed Secretary Non-Conventional Energy.A Q Faruqee will be Secretary IT.

Suri to be DG CISF !

Former DGP of Jammu and Kashmir A K Suri, in all probability will be new DG CISF. 1969 batch IPS officer Suri has recently been empanelled to the rank of DG in Government of India.