Cabinet reshuffle at the Centre soon

Yet,another reshuffle in the Union cabinet is on the anvil.Buyoyed over successful tour to China Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee would reshuffle his cabinet after returning to India.Image of Atalji has been boosted further and thus, giving sleepless nights to his rivals abroad.Nevertheless,Trina Mool Congress(TMC)superwoman Mamta Banerjee's party would chug along as she would get the berth in Railways.Soft spoken Nitish Kumar would get the portfolio of Urban Welfare Ministry which is currently being held by newly appointed BJP's state chief to Karnataka Anant Kumar.Even,Mrs.Sumitra Mahajan Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas would be elevated.She would get independent charge of some important Ministry.Union Sports and Youth Welfare Minister Vikram Verma is expected to get the high profile ministry of Civil Aviation.

Will PMO have two power centres ?

Will the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) have two power centres from next month beginning? If one goes by recent developments in the PMO then answer to this question is simply "yes". Kamal Pandeji is there as the
Cabinet Secretary.From next month his batchmate Dr.S.Narayan would be there as the Officer on Special duty (OSD) in the PMO.At present he is Secretary in the PMO.Interestingly the order relating to Dr.S.Narayan's appointment in the PMO was issued while Deputy Prime Minister L.K.Advani as well as Ashok Saikia were away from the country.

Neena Singh selected by Harward University

Neena Singh has been selected as Mason Fellow with full scholarship at Kennedy School of Government, Harward University. She is 1989 batch IPS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.

Rita Singh to go abroad

Rita Singh (IAS, Uttar Pradesh, 1997) topper among ladies in her batch has secured admission for higher studies in the United States for various MBA and other Masters Programs. She has been selected to join Harward University soon.She has applied for extraordinary leave to proceed for higher studies. But it seems that the UP government does not want to clear her application in a hurry for various reasons.Her case may be referred to the to Government of India for cadre clearance permission.

Naveen Jindal & politics!

Is industrial tycoon of the Jindal group of industries Naveen Jindal, once again smitten by the bug of "politics"? This question would be answered in a few months.But,his cut outs and hoardings in Raipur have led to speculations that he would be pitted against former BJP Tourism Minister Braj Mohan Agrawal-a sitting MLA from Raipur.

Top Ten IPS of Punjab CM Amrinder Singh

1 A A Siddiqui
2 S K Sharma
3 Sanjeev Gupta
4 S S Virk
5 A P Pande
6 Siddhartha Chattopadhyay
7 H S Siddhu
8 Mohammad Mustafa
9 Narendra Pal Singh
10 Dr G S Aujla

Kohli to be Deputy Governor RBI !

CMD of the Punjab National Bank S S Kohli is now ahead in the race for the post of Deputy Governor Reserve Bank of India.

Muniappan is Chairman Banking Fraud Cell

Outgoing Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India G P Muniappan has taken over as Chairman of the Banking Fraud Cell.

Mohapatra is new CMD Gridco

Suresh Chandra Mohapatra has been appointed new Chairman of the Grid Corporation of Orissa (Gridco).He is 1986 batch IAS officer.

Sudha Rao is VC in Karnataka

K Sudha Rao is the new Vice Chancellor of Karnataka State Open University.

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This has a reference to news item in Whispers dated 25th June.
I think it is totally unreasonable to take the presence or otherwise of a SC person as a Secretary to Government of India to be a measure of 'pro-dalit nature'.Persons at the level of Secretary or a little below have long back lost their 'SC' tag for all practical purposes as they suffer no social indignities or practice of untouchability. Merely by having a couple of SC Secretaries does not make a government pro-dalit in terms of its actual implementation of field programmes, enforcement of SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act or such other social legislations.
The news item is misleading in my opinion.

Venu Gopal

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