Lok Sabha Poll - Bureaucrats View :

ASSAM

CONGRESS -------- 7
BJP ----------------- 4
CPIM --------------- 1
OTHERS ----------- 2
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TOTAL ------------ 14
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Prem Kumar to be Chief Secretary of Maharashtra !

Chairman of the Food Corporation of India R M Premkumar is being tipped to be new Chief Secretary of Maharashtra. 1968 batch IAS officer Premkumar in all probability would succeed A M Nimbalkar whose extended tenure is coming to an end on May 31.

Pondicherry Chief Secretary on way out ?

Pondicherry Chief Secretary R Padmanabhan is on his way out. Search is on for the successor. He is 1973 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Will Nair go after Lok Sabha polls ?

Grapevine has it that Rajasthan Chief Secretary R K Nair is being changed after the Lok Sabha polls. He is 1968 batch IAS officer.

V K Mittal to be officiating CS of UP !

V K Mittal is likely to be appointed officiating Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh on May 1.He is 1968 batch IAS officer. 1967 batch IAS officer V K Diwan who is currently Chief Secretary is superannuating on April 30.

B R Lal is DGP of Haryana

B R Lal is the new DGP of Haryana. He is superannuating on May 31.

Different rules for different people !

It is rumoured in bureaucratic circles that A.K.Jha (IAS, Bihar, 1989) managed to get permission without the mandatory cooling off period for a new assignment, at World Bank, immediately after completing three year tenure there at ED office?

A unique PR exercise

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti met all the lady journalists of Bhopal .Never in the past such a PR exercise was seen in Madhya Pradesh.Credit for this exercise does not go to official machinery but to Atul Jain Adviser to the Chief Minister .

Rajan Kohli goes

Executive President of the Hindustan Times Rajan Kohli is reported to have quit the organization.

PM says no extension ?

Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has categorically said that extension in service to any official would not be granted till the formation of new Government.

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Post of IA Dy MD to be abolished

Grapevine has it that the post of Deputy Managing Director of the Indian Airlines is being abolished.The post was last held by V Kashyap.

Moosa Raza is President of ISA

Former Steel Secretary in Government of India Moosa Raza has been appointed President of Indian Steel Alliance. He is retired 1960 batch IAS officer.