Sardana and Araha to be made Secretaries

Two 1968 batch IAS officers Charan Das Araha and M M Kumar Sardana are independently being appointed Secretaries in Government of India.. Araha and Sardana are currently Special Secretaries in Coal and Power respectively.

Rao to proceed on leave

Secretary Revenue in Government of India C Satyanarayan Rao is proceeding on leave from May 3. He is all set to take over as Chairman of the IRDA .

Laloo refuses to relieve Shrivastava !

Bihar Government is believed to have refused to relieve Bipin Bihari Shrivastava to join the Government of India. Name of 1978 batch IAS officer Shrivastava had been cleared by the Shipping Minister Shatrughna Sinha for the post of Joint Secretary.

J P Singh is back to Delhi

Pondicherry Police Chief J P Singh is back to Delhi. He is 1975 batch IPS officer of UT cadre.

Justice Mohapatra to be Chairman Orissa HRC

Justice D P Mohapatra has been appointed as new Chairman of the Orissa Human Rights Commission.

Razdan to get extension

Joint Secretary Power in Government of India Anil Razdan is going to continue at least for next three months. Tenure of 1973 batch Haryana cadre IAS officer Razdan had expired on April 28.Secretary Power has requested the Cabinet Secretary to allow Razdan to continue on the post for another three months.

Lahri is new Chief Secretary of Gujarat

Pravin Kanubhai Lahri is the new Chief Secretary of Gujarat. 1969 batch IAS officer Lahri has succeeded 1965 batch IAS officer G Subbarao who superannuated on Wednesday.

Hansukha is DGP of Rajasthan

V K Hansukha has taken over as the new DGP of Rajasthan. 1966 batch IPS officer Hanuskha has succeeded Shantanu Kumar who retired on Wednesday.

Singh promoted Marisamy is Bangalore Police Commissioner

1968 batch IPS officer M D Singh has been promoted to the rank of DG in Karnataka. He has been made Commandant General Home Guards and Civil Defence. 1972 batch IPS officer S Marisamy will be new Bangalore Police Commissioner.

Gupta is Director Commercial NTPC

R D Gupta has been appointed Director Commercial NTPC.

IAS changes in Karnataka

Ramalingam Ramaseshan has been appointed OSD Karnataka State Beverages Corporation.H Baskar will be ED Karnataka Watershed Development Society. M Madan Gopal has been made MD Karnataka Handloom Development Corporation Hubli.A K Monappa has been posted as Director Special Economic Programmes.E V Ramanna Reddy will be Commissioner Agriculture. Gangaram Baderiya, Srikant Walgud and S N Jayaram will be DCs of Kodagu, Bagalkot and Bellary districts respectively. Jawed Akhtar has been made Director IT and Bio-Technology. Rajendra Kumar Kataria has been posted as CEO Zila Parishad Belgaum.

IPS changes in Himachal Pradesh

1985 batch IPS officer J K Monga will be DIG Railway and Traffic. His batchmate Sanjay Kumar has been made DIG CID Simla. S P Kaushal has been appointed DIG central Range Mandi. R L Sood will be SP CID. Arvind Sharda has been made SP railway and Traffic. Devender Thakur will be Commandant Home Guards .

IPS officer is PSC member

Chaudhry Bakshi Ram has been appointed Member of the Punjab Public Service Commission. He is 1974 batch IPS officer.

IPS reshuffle in Karnataka

1968 batch IPS officer S K Banerjee has been appointed DG CoD Training. Two 1976 batch IPS officer N Achutha Rao and B N Nagraj have been promoted to the rank of ADG.while Rao will be ADG State Reserve Police Nagraj ADG Administration.1983 batch IPS officer Khaleel-Ur-Rehman on promotion has been made Additional Commandant General Home Guards.1989 batch IPS officer Sanjay Vir Singh has been promoted to the rank of DIG. He has been posted as DIG Civil Rights Enforcement.

1983 batch IRS promoted as CIT

Altogether 44,IRS officers belonging to 1983 batch have been promoted as Commissioner Income Tax. They are Mssrs M C Dube, B B Nanawati,A A Shankar, Seema Patra,Feroz Khan,D C Sreedhar,Asha Agrawal, Shishir Sinha,S K Das,V S Singh,Vinodanand Jha, K C Naredi,Kavita Jha, Vishvanath Jha,Neena Nigam, R K Gupta, Girish Chandorkar,B R Balakrishnan, S B Singh,Y R Saini, S P Jadhav,Sunita Puri, Pragati Kumar, P K Shukla, Binod Kumar, R N Jha, H Patidar, A Patra,S Shankaralingam, Vijay Kumar,T P Krishna Kumar, P K Das,Virendra Singh,B Murli Kumar, N S Dayan, Daya Shankar,G S Pawar, Kiran Babu,Surendraji Singh, Kusum Gopal Ingle, N P Singh, S C Sonkar,K R Das,V J Vinay Kumar and D V Singh.

Araha appointed Secretary Mines

Special Secretary Coal Charan Das Araha will be new Secretary Mines in Government of India. He is 1968 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Malhotra is new MD of FCI

V K Malhotra has been appointed new MD of the Food Corporation of India. He is 1970 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Naresh Chaturvedi is FA Industries

MD of the FCI Naresh Chaturvedi has been shifted to the Ministry of Industries as Additional Secretary and FA. He is 1970 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Laxmi Chand to replace Araha

Lakshmi Chand, IAS (UP:69) presently working as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Coal has been posted in place of i C.D. Arha by reverting the post of Special Secretary to the level of Addl. Secretary.