Have they missed the bus ?

Grapevine has it that five 1970 batch IAS officers Mssrs Satish Chandra, A K Dube,Gautam Basu,D K Shankaran and Rani Jadhav have failed to get themselves empanelled to the rank of Secretary in Government of India. Do they figure in the original list and if so why did the Prime Minister not clear these names ?.

Mooshahary to be DG CRPF !

Ranjit Sekhar Mooshahary is all set to become new DG of the CRPF.1967 batch Kerala cadre IPS officer Moshahary is currently DG NSG. The post will fall vacant on January 31 following the superannuation of S C Chaubey.

Prem Kumar is empanelled

Ramunni Menon Premkumar has been empanelled to the rank of Secretary in Government of India. He is 1968 batch IAS officer of Maharastra cadre.

Lobbying for top post in Army

With the Prime Minister expected to make an announcement about an important Army Post, hectic lobbying has begun in the Army Circles. Grapevine has it that a Sikh Army Commander has hit the pedal full steam in order to be considered for the crucial army post.

IAS officer suspended in Jharkhand

Jharkhand Government has suspended Ms Mary Beena Kacchap .She is 1980 batch IAS officer.

Ramachandran is ACS in Uttaranchal

M Ramachandran has been promoted to the rank of ACS in Uttaranchal. He is 1972 batch IAS officer.

IPS changes in Mumbai this week !

A major IPS reshuffle is expected to take place in the Mumbai Police this week.

Chaubey to get assignment in Chhattisgarh

V S Chaubey is likely to get some assignment in the new Government. He is 1976 batch retired IPS officer.

Anshu Vaish is PS Tourism in MP

Ms Anshu Vaish has been appointed Principal Secretary Tourism,Culture and Social Welfare in Madhya Pradesh. She is 1975 batch IAS officer.

IPS officer dies in Punjab

Utpal Joshi has died. He was 1995 batch IPS officer of Punjab cadre.

Ashok Aggarwal to succeed Sharma as AG Haryana

Ashok Aggarwal would be the new Advocate General of Haryana. His predecessor Suryakant Sharma is slated to join the Punjab and Haryana High court as a Judge.

Forum

Raise the age

Honorable Sir, I would deem it a great favour, if you ,kindly endorse the following statements, reflecting the plights, of Indian youth.Implementation of these ideas will cetainly empower our democratic set-up by opening the opportunity of joining the Govt. in a rational manner and ensure transparency in our governance. 1. As the job opportunities in the Govt. Sector are being chased by so many seekers the present limit on age and chances is creating a lot of hardship for hapless youth community. 2. There is an imperative need for raising the age and chance limit. Enhancement of age and chance limit,will definitely help the late blossomers and those persons, who are in non governmental sectors , or are in the lower echelons of Govt. hierarchy , but harbour wishes to improve their career prospects by merit. 3. It will ensure , the, right to equality , the essence of the true democracy. When on one hand, talks are going on to introduce the scheme of the lateral entry in superior services which is just another form of much maligned patronage system also known as the spoils system ), then there is no justification in debarring those persons who have been preparing assiduously, but missed the entry,marginally, or are working in other sectors.Certainly it would make higher Govt. services more sensitive and experienced of the down to earth nitty-gritty of the problem of the masses. 4. It would impart a sense of positive direction and opportunities to the youth, who are in deep unrest and demoralised state owing to dwindling public job opportunities , and for the want of suitable and ample opportunites ,are prone to get allured by the subversive elements for their nefarious activities . 5. Various State Public Services Commissions have already schemes of higher age limits and chance limits . Hence in the true spirit of federalism, and in order to bring uniformity,all over the nation, the relaxation in chance and age restrictions for UPSC, SSC and other Central Services Recruitment Exams. is quite imperative. It is time a systemic correction is brought in place, so that aspiring youth must be ensured a clean scope of entry in government services. It is only because of scarce opprtunities , a conducive and enabling ambience for various recruitment scams to take place. With relaxed entry elligiblities, the designs of the recruitment scamsters will have no market.
6. As a precedence, the upper age limit for the candidates for UPSC- Civil Services Examination 1991, was raised to 33 yrs with usual relaxation for reserved categories. 7. The much oft repeated allibi for lowering the age and chance limits for increasing the efficiency in the governance is just a hypocrisy and have no rational basis. When a majority of Indian youth harbour the dream of serving the nation through the government service, then denying the opportunity is nothing short of criminal neglect of their inspiration. Even USA, the most adorable free market economy, has very liberal entry criterion, and plenty of public job opportunities. Even Our Management Institutes have no restriction on Chance and Age Limits.Then pursuing with such retictions in our public services is a vested interest to create a state of despair,to be exploited by crooked elements. Hence , in the present dismal scenario, being faced by Indian youths, a raise of 10 yrs and 10 chances is highly solicited for, and certainly with the introduction of this Scheme, our nation will usher in ,to a great era of hope and tranquility, and of course a Knowledge society wiil be paved in. It is hoped, that, by providing these opportunities to the Indian youth, the Govt. of India, would be granting the ever greatest new year gift to them. It must be introduced with the just declared Civil Services Examination 2004 notification. Thanking all the powers that be viz. President,Vice President, Prime Minister, Speaker of the Lok Sabha,All the Ministers, Chief Justice of India and other Supreme Court Judges,MPs,Governors and Chief Ministers of all the States, Chairman and Members of UPSC, Cabinet Secetary and Secretaries to the Govt. of India and Other High Officials, Leaders of all the Politcal Parties ,and everyone intersted in ensuring a sensitive, efficient and morally sound governance system,in anticipation. Yours faithfully, BIBEK KUMAR ANAND, TILKAMANJHI, JAWARIPUR,BHAGALPUR, BIHAR, INDIA PIN-812001 anand_bibek10@rediffmail.com & anand_bibek10@indiatimes.com

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Prakash Singh To take charge in March

ED of the Punjab and Sindh Bank Prakash Singh is all set to take over as CMD of the United Bank in March.

What a coincidence !

Both outgoing CMD's of BSNL and MTNL were from the same, Punjab Engineering College so are the current one V.P.Sinha (CMD - BSNL) as well as R.S.P.Sinha(CMD - MTNL) from the same college i.e. Bihar College of Engineering Patna.What a coincidence ?

Mrs Mascarenhas to leave Air India this month end !

The voluntary retirement application of Mrs.Aruna Mascarenhas is being processed by the Air India
Finance Dept She is now certain to leave Air India by the Month end, especially since certain power sources
were politely informed that the Dy.M.D.'s appointment would require PSEB & CCA clearance, which could not be arranged in a hurry.

Sardesai on SBI Board

A V Sardesai ED of the RBI has been nominated on the Central Board of the State Bank of India in place of Dr Rakesh Mohan.

Bhandari is CEO of Centurion Bank

Shailendra Bhandari MD of the Prundential-ICICI has been appointed CEO of the Centurion Bank.

Ramchandran heads Citibank cards biz

T R Ramchandran has taken over as head of the Citibank cards business manager in India.