Kumud Bansal empanelled

Kumud Bansal has been empanelled to the rank of Secretary in Government of India.1969 batch Maharastra cadre IAS officer Ms Bansal is expected to get new posting in a month or two.

Atul Sinha to be Member-Secretary NCDT

Atul Sinha former Secretary North-Eastern States in Government of India is being appointed Member-Secretary of the National Commission for Denotified Tribes. He is retired 1968 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Shamsher Singh is Chief Secretary of Himachal Pradesh

Kanwar Shamsher Singh has been appointed new Chief Secretary of Himachal Pradesh.He is 1968 batch IAS officer.Present Chief Secretary Arvind Kaul has been moved to New Delhi as Adviser Tourism and Industries.

Jawed Usmani is back to UP

Jawed Usmani is back to the parent Uttar Pradesh cadre from deputation. 1978 batch IAS officer was posted in Indian embassy in Nepal.Grapevine has that he is being appointed Principal Secretary to the UP Chief Minister.

Jowel to be Director Culture

Roop Ram Jowel is joining the Government of India as Director Culture.He is 1986 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

Who is this IG in Punjab ?

Who is the IG rank officer of Punjab Cadre who is literally inaccessible to the general public and journalists covering Punjab throughout the day.However, rumour mill has it that if one can't catch him at his office or residence throughout the day then he can surely be disturbed for some help at a popular discotheque in Chandigarh in the wee hours of the night??

1979 batch IAS is PS in Chhattisgarh

1979 batch IAS officer S V Prabhat has been promoted to the rank of Principal Secretary in Chhattisgarh. His batchmate Sunil Kumar had aleady been promoted last year.

IAS changes in Haryana

Mrs G Anupama has been appointed Coordinator of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board in Delhi. Dr R B Langayan has been made Director and Joint Secretary Industries and Mines.

Who stopped Civil Aviation Policy ?

The Minister of civil Aviation who was supposed to present his revised Civil Aviation Policy in Parliament on Wednesday and allow Private Domestic carriers to fly international routes, was rudely stopped by dissensions within the NDA and his own party. The employee Unions of Air India petitioned all the Shiv Sena & Opposition M.Ps and Cabinet Ministers to stop this move. It has been widely believed that due to the political influence wielded by the Jet airways -Naresh goel group and Sahara Group that Certain Cabinet Ministers were pushing for a major reform in this sector to allow International routes to these 2 private airlines before the Polls.
The reason cited was domestic overcapacity of aircraft and airlines and International shortage and also the
huge losses of jet and Sahara. Yet Air India and Indian Airlines aircraft purchase plan was shelved.

Dr R G Nadadur is JS Space

Dr Raghunandan Gopalswamy Nadadur (1980 batch Karnataka Cadre) has been appointed Joint Secretary,
Department of Space headquartered at Bangalore. He is now Registrar of Cooperative Societies at Bangalore.
In his selection the Additional Secretary, Space, S K Das (1970 batch Karnataka Cadre) has played a big
role. When Das was the Deputy Commissioner South Kanara District in 1980's, Dr Nadadur was his
Assistant Commissioner.

IPS reshuffle in Punjab

There is major IPS reshuffle in Punjab. P. Lal becomes ADGP-cum-Commandant-General, Punjab Home Guards & Director, Civil Defence. Shashi Kant, on promotion, has been posted ADGP (Operations). Chander Shekhar, on promotion, becomes ADGP, Internal Vigilance Cell (IVC). J.P. Birdi goes as IGP, Border. S.K. Sharma is shifted as IGP, Zonal-II. S.M. Sharma becomes IGP, Provisioning & Modernisation. Rajinder Singh goes as IGP, Zonal-I. Mohd Mustafa will be the new IGP, Operations-I. The headquarters of Jyoti Trehan as IG, Operations-II, has been shifted from Chandigarh to Jalandhar. Rajan Gupta will be IGP, PAP, Jalandhar. S.S. Saini has been moved as IG, Economic Offences and Special Operations. G.D. Pandey will be IGP, Training & Traffic. Suresh Arora will be the IGP-cum-Director, Vigilance Bureau, Punjab, Chandigarh. H.S. Dhillon will be the new IGP, Litigation. Narinder Sharma has been posted as IGP Crime. Jasminder Singh, on promotion, becomes IGP, Computer & Telecommunications. S. Chattopadhyaya, on promotion, takes over as IGP, Commando. Dinkar Gupta becomes DIG, Ludhiana Range. R.P. Meena will be the new DIG, Jalandhar. Paramjit Singh Gill goes as DIG, Border Range, Amritsar. Gurdev Singh Sahota becomes DIG, Counter Intelligence, Rohit Choudhary will be the DIG, Economic Offences Wing.R.C. Singh becomes DIG, Administration. Jagdish Kumar Mittal, will be DIG, Intelligence-II. Kanwalljit Singh Pannu becomes DIG/PAP, Chandigarh. Nirmal Singh Dhillon goes to the Vigilance Bureau as a DIG. P.K. Sinha will be the Staff Officer to the DGP, Punjab, & In charge, Grievance Redressal Cell. Tejinder Pal Singh becomes Commandant, 9th Bn, PAP, Amritsar. Harinder Pal Singh Kang goes as SP/GRP, Patiala. Opinderjit Singh will be SP/Detective, Jalandhar and Sukhdev Singh Bhatti becomes SP/Detective, Hoshiarpur. Karamjit Singh goes as Zonal S.P./SB, CID, Ferozepore. Darshan Kumar has been posted as Asstt. Comdt., 75th Bn, PAP, Jalandhar. Mandeep Singh has been transferred as SP/Detective, Ludhiana. Bhupinderjit Singh Virk will be SP (Computers). Kewal Kumar goes as Asstt. Comdt., 5th IR Bn., Amritsar. Shamsher Jang Bahadur becomes SP/Hqrs., Tarn Taran. Rupinder Singh Bhullar has been transferred as SP, Vigilance Bureau. Narjinder Singh Sekhon is Asstt.Comdt., 36th Bn, PAP, Bahadurgarh. Bachan Singh Randhawa becomes SP (Detective), Batala. Amarjit Singh becomes SP (Spl. Investigation), Crime, while Gurpreet Singh Toor will be SP/Detective, Patiala. Inder Mohan Singh becomes SP/Hqrs., Sangrur. Dharam Singh becomes SP/Hqrs., Gurdaspur. Darshanjit Singh Dhindsa becomes SP (Operations), Patiala and Harjinder Singh becomes SP (Detective), Jagraon.

1988 batch IAS to get supertime scale in MP

1988 batch IAS officers in Madhya Pradesh are being given suppertime scale in a week or two.

WHISPERS ---- CORPORATE WORLD :--

Three crore for Chairmanship of BHEL ?

Grapevine has it that a senior officer of a PSU in South has offered Rs three crores for the post of Chairman cum Managing Director of the BHEL.

VRS of Jitendra Bhargava accepted

The Air India has accepted VRS of Jitendra Bhargava .He has however, been asked to stay on until the end of this financial year.

Ajit Tiwari is CMD Hindustan Shipyard Ltd

Rear Admiral (Retired ) Ajit Tiwari has taken over as CMD of the Public Sector Hinsuatan Shipyard Ltd..

Bharadwaj is Director of ABB

R N Bharadwaj has been appointed Director of the ABB.

Damodaran to continue with Addl charge of IDBI

CMD of the UTI M Damodaran will hold additional charge as CMD of IDBI till May 31.

Khandelwal appointed CMD of Dena Bank

Executive Director of the Bank Of Baroda A K Khandelwal has been appointed CMD of the Dena Bank.

( We said this on February 4 )