Dr Ayyar to join IIM Bangalore

Secretary Child and Women Welfare Dr R V Vaidyanath Ayyar is joining the IIM Bangalore as Senior Fellow next week. Dr Ayyar is superannuating on July 31.

Will lady IAS officer be Secretary Child Development ?

1969 batch lady IAS officer is being appointed Secretary Child and Women Welfare in Government of India in a couple of days. Names of Ms Meenakshi Anand Chaudhry, Sarita Prasad and Chitra Chopra are doing the round for this post.

Pandit is not joining GoI

Mohammad Shafi Pandit is not joining the Government of India as Chairman cum Managaing Director of the Rural Electrification .Posting of some other 1969 batch IAS officer is expected to be made this week. The post is equivalent to the rank of Secretary.

1972 batch IAS officer to be posted in UPSC

If sources in the Department of Personnel are to be believed an IAS officer of the 1972 batch would be posted in UPSC as Secretary. The post fell vacant following the appointment of Naveen Chawla as Special Secretary Forests and Environment,

Agrawal to be new Chief Secretary of Bihar ?

1969 batch IAS officer Narendra Kumar Agrawal is likely to be appointed as new Chief Secretary of Bihar . 1968 batch IAS officer K A Harihara Subramaniam is also in the run. The vacancy would arise on July 31, following the superannuation of 1966 batch IAS officer S N Biswas.

Saxena to join Settlement Commission

IRS officer Pradip Saxena is joining the Settlement Commission as a member.

Bhatt joins CAT Jabalpur

A K Bhatt has joined as Member Central Administrative Tribunal at Jabalpur. He is 1969 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Sankaran Ramkrishnan to go Afganistan

Sankaran Ramkrishnan is going to Afganistan as police adviser.1973 batch IPS officer of West Bengal cadre is currently Director BSF Academy Tekanpur.

Will Bhalla return to Nagaland ?

Will PS to Union Minister of State for Petroleum Sumita Mahajan, Devinder Kumar Bhalla return to the parent Nagaland cadre ?In fact,Ms Mahajan has sought the services of a new IAS officer.Bhalla has been relieved by the minister.

Yash reinstated in UP

CB-CID SP Amitabh Yash has been reinstated in UP.1996 batch IPS officer Yash had been suspended by Chief Minister Mayawati early this month.

Dugade to be ED Maharashtra Bank

General Manager of the Maharashtra Bank Dugade is being promoted as Executive Director this week.

ADG Police to be CE in Kashmir University

ADG rank police officer Masood Ahmad Chaudhry is being appointed Chief Executive of the Gulam Badshah University in Kashmir. He is 1978 batch IPS officer.

Will there be an acting CM in HP ?

Grapevine has it that Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh is proceeding to the United States for a cardiac treatment in about a month's time. Who then would take over the reigns of the state as the acting Chief Minister of the state? The tussle is between senior Congress leaders Kaul Singh and Ganguram Musafir. Traditionally , Chief ministers of Himachal have all been Rajputs and so is Thakur Singh. Thakur is also believed to be very well ,connected with the party high command in Delhi too. Meanwhile Musafir is the speaker of the assembly and is a senior politician too. However, sources say that Virbhadra is in a real dilemma over whom he should pass on the baton of responsibilities, if at all a need so arises??

Forum

ONE. State Government is competent to suspend an IAS officer for a limited period beyond which approval of
Government of India is necessary for the suspension to continue. It is not correct to say that IAS officer posted in the state under the State Government cannot be suspended by the State Government without prior permission or approval of the Central Government. TWO. Compulsory Wait is an internal mechanism available to the government including the Central Government to effect transfer of officers including IAS officers from one post/ department to other post/department on administrative ground. At times, though not frequently , compulsory wait becomes necessary.It is not that IAS officers do not know about it . In fact they must be applying this on
officers of other services working in the government.Nowhere it is mentioned that compulsory wait shall not be applicable to IAS officers. This compulsory wait period is treated as duty period and officers get full salary for the period. On the face of facts there is no stigma attached to compulsory wait.This being so there can be no valid objection to compulsory waiting of certain IAS officers posted in the Finance Ministry of Central Government in the process of shifting them to other post/department in the Government of India.

NB: If I am wrong the same may be pointed out through this web-page.I shall be grateful.

With Malice Towards None.

Krishna Prakash