Dawra to be PESB Member !

Secretary Personnel S S Dawra is likely to be appointed Member of the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB).1967 batch Punjab cadre IAS officer Dawra is superannuating on October 31.One post of Member in the PESB has fallen vacant following the appointment of A K Agrawal as vice Chairman of CAT .

Samant to be Additional Secretary Water Resources

Dheer Chandra Samant is being appointed Additional Secretary Water Resources in Government of India. He is 1972 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Will Arah be Secretary Banking ?

Now the name of Charan Das Arah has started doing the round for the post of Secretary Banking.Will Finance Minister Jaswant Singh agree to the name of 1968 batch Andhra Pradesh cadre IAS officer Arah?.Will Chandra Babu Naidu succeed ?.

Will Mishra go ?

Is Jharkhand Chief Secretary A K Mishra on his way out ?Reports of the change of 1970 batch IAS officer Mishra are currently doing the round in the corridors of power.

M P Singh is Vice Chairman of CAT

M P Singh is joining the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) at Jabalpur as Vice Chairman. He is from the Central Secretaritat Service.

Will Baleshwar Rai be CS of Arunachal Pradesh ?

Grapevine has it that Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Labour Baleshwar Rai is being moved to Arunachal Pradesh as Chief Secretary.Sources in the Labour Ministry said that 1970 batch IAS officer Rai is not willing to go to Arunachal Pradesh.

Is AP bureaucracy corrupt ?

World Bank has taken a serious note of corruption,at bureaucratic level in World Bank funded projects of Andhra Pradesh.

Budget meeting today

First budget meeting is taking place in the North Block on Wednesday. All Secretaries including the outgoing B P Mishra will attend the meeting.Mishra is joining the IMF as ED.

Roy is new RC Himachal Pradesh

Sudripto Roy has taken over as new Resident Commissioner of Himachal Pradesh Government in New Delhi.He is 1978 batch IAS officer.The outgoing RC Renu Sahni Dhar has been made Principal Secretary Education in Himachal Pradesh.

Muktesh Chander promoted in Goa

Muktesh Chander has been promoted to the rank of DIG in Goa. He is 1988 batch IPS officer of UT cadre.

Lal is ADG Prosecution in Uttaranchal

Alok Behari Lal has been appointed Director Prosecution in Uttaranchal. He is 1975 batch IPS officer.

New Envoys

Prabhat Prakash Shukla will be new High Commissioner to Australia.Veena Sikri has been appointed next High Commissioner to Bangladesh.

IPS reshuffle in UP

C B Rai and Chabinath Singh will be new DIGs of Meerut and Moradabad respectively.K Satyanarain will now be SP Prosecution Varanasi.Sanjay Singhal has been shifted to PAC Aligarh.Akshya Kumar Singh has been moved to Meerut as SP Prosecution.Anil Kumar Agrawal will be SP EOW Kanpur.Piyush Mordia will go to Mirzapur in the PAC.Brijraj has been shifted to PAC Lucknow.Pankaj Kumar, R P Singh and Jai Prakash Singh will be new ASPs of Rai Barelley,Hardoi and Banda respectively.

WHISPERS ---- CORPORATE WORLD :--

Is the impact of Amar, Akbar & Anthony showing?

The Reliance group of industries has been slapped with a panelty charge of Rs.485 crore by the TRAI. In corridors of power it is a hot topic of discussion.Does imposition of the fine have anything to do with close proximity of bosses of the Reliance group with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav and particularly Amar Singh who heads UP Development Council?

Khandelwal to be CMD of Allahbad Bank ?

Now latest information says that ED of the Bank of Baroda A K Khandelwal is being appointed CMD of the Dena bank. Earlier; the name of Prakash Singh was in circulation this post.

Chandigarh is costliest city

Chandigarh is the costliest city in the country as per the data released by the Centre.

Dilip Modi is COAI Chairman

Dilip Modi is the new Chairman of the Cellular Operators Association.Anil Nayar was elected as the Vice Chairman.COAI has also elected its new executive council which includes K V P Bhaskar ,Narendra Gupta,D B Sehgal and Rajan Swaroop among others.