Lok Sabha Poll- Bureaucrats View

MAHARASHTRA

BJP - SHIV SENA ALLIANCE - 21 (1999-28)
CONGRESS NCP ALLIANCE - 26 (1999-16)
OTHERS - 1 (1999-1 )

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TOTAL -------------------- 48

Is there a move to reduce retirement age ?

Will the new Government decrease the retirement age from 60 to 58 years ?Reports to this effect have started doing the round in the corridors of power.Infact,there is a pressure from the cadre to reduce the retirement age to get better grip on the newly promoted and recruited officers.

10,IPS officers to retire this month

Altogether 10 IPS officers are retiring this month end. They are Mssrs Shiv Kumar Chawdhury and Dr M Ponnanian (UT),Masood Ahmad and Ajit Singh (J&K),B Shamsudden and T Shasidharan (Kerala), A K Agrawal and R N Dahate (Maharashtra),K M Lal(Orissa) and Bakshi Ram (Punjab) .

Justice Mathur and Justice Thakkar to be Judges of SC !

According to informed sources Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court and Justice C K Thakkar Chief Justice of Bombay High Court are being appointed Judges of the Supreme Court .

Sharma to join CBI

Rahul Sharma is likely to join the CBI as SP. He is 1992 batch IPS officer of Gujarat cadre.

Who will be Major General ?

According to Defence Ministry sources there are over two dozen contenders for four posts of Major General in the Indian Army.Who are the luckey Brigediers?.

Joshi elected Vice President

N.K. Joshi, Director General of Forests and Special Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests, has been elected Vice Chairman of the Asia pacific Forestry Commission in its 20th Session.

Cyriac is back to Kerala

Chairman of MPEDA K Jose Cyriac is back to the parent Kerala cadre after completion of his deputation tenure. He is 1977 batch IAS officer.

A B Roy to get extension !

Grapevine has it that CVO of the IBP A B Roy is getting extension in his tenure.Tenure of Railways Service Officer Roy was to expire shortly.

Dr Gupta is VC of Ghasidas University

Principal of Sri Ram College of Commerce.Delhi Dr Johri Lal Gupta has been appointed Vice Chancellor of Guru Ghasidas University Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh.

P L Singh gets extension ?

Grapevine has it that Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has cleared three months extension to CBDT Chairman P L Singh onWednesday evening.

WHISPERS ---- CORPORATE WORLD :--

Differences between IOC Chairman and Petroleum Secretary ?

Reports of differences on certain issues between Petroleum Secretary B K Chaturvedi and Chairman of Indian Oil Corporation M S Ramachandran have started doing the round in the oil sector.

Narain Swamy takes over

ED of Punjab National Bank T S Narain Swamy has taken over as CMD of Andhra Bank on Wednesday.

42,vacancies of GM in BHEL

There are 42 vacancies of General Manager in the BHEL.Interview to fill up the vacancies will be held in the first week of May.

Priolkar is IPS President

Subodh Priolkar has been elected President of the Indian Pharmaceutical Association for a period of three years.T B Nair will be Executive Secretary.

Shenoy is DG IAM

Dilip Shenoy has been appointed Director General of the Society of Indian Automobile Manufactures.

Dr Reddy resigns

Dr Pratap Reddy has resigned from the Board of IDBI Bank.