Secretary level changes on cards

Secretary level changes are expected to take place in Government of India in a couple of days.

RAW officer missing ?

A Joint Secretary level RAW officer is reported to have been missing for the last three weeks.

Maheshwari to go Andman !

K K Maheshwari is being shifted to Andman and Nicobar as IGP.He is 1980 batch IPS officer of UT cadre.

Is a bureaucrat having Villa in London ?

A report has reached to the new Government that a senior bureaucrat considered close to former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has bought a big Villa in Chapman Cresent Wandsworth in London.

Krishna Saini to be PS to Chaidambaram

Krishna Saini will be PS to Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram. He is 1981 batch IRS officer .

Arvind Kumar is PS to Balu

Arvind Kumar is PS to Union Surface Transport and Highways Minister T R Balu. He is 1985 batch Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of Sikkim cadre.

Sharma to be IG BSF Jammu

Banshidhar Sharma will be new IG BSF,Jammu. He is 1980 batch IPS officer of West Bengal cadre.He would succeed 1978 batch UP cadre IPS officer Dilip Trivedi.

Manu Shrivastava to be PS to Kamal Nath

Manu Shrivastava will be PS to Union Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath.He is 1991 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Pawar joins SPG

Ram Phal Pawar has joined the Special Protection Group (SPG) as DIG. He is 1988 batch IPS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Will Mrs Balakrishnan be CBDT Chief ?

Grapevine has it that Mrs R Balakrishnan is being appointed new Chairperson of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).If all goes well 1967 batch IRS officer Mrs Balakrishnan would succeed acting Chairperson of the CBDT Ms Shobha Majumdar in a couple of weeks.

Meena to be PS to Shakeel Ahmad

Hukum Singh Meena will be PS to Union Minister of State Communications and IT Shakeel Ahmad. He is 1992 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Rastogi gets additional charge of Air Force

Pramod Kumar Rastogi Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Defence has been given additional charge of Air.He is 1974 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Mrs Nirmala Buch resigns ?

Grapevine has it that principal Adviser to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti,Mrs Nirmala Buch has resigned.

Julka gets additional charge

Bimal Julka Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Defence has been given additional charge of General(G).He is 1979 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Tej Pal Singh to be PS to Kanti Singh

Tej Pal Singh will be PS to Union Minister of State HRD Kanti Singh.He is 1990 batch Indian Customs Service officer.

1990 batch IPS promoted in Madhya Pradesh

Ten 1990 batch IPS officers in Madhya Pradesh have been promoted to the rank of DIG. They are Mssrs Vipin Maheshwari,Anuradha Shankar,S W Naqwi,K waife,Ashok Awasthi,Vijay Katariya, B B Sharma,Mohammad Afzal,A P Singh and S K Nayak.

15 DRM's transferred

New Railway Minister Laloo Yadav has ordered transfer of 15 DRMs.Devi Pande will be new DRM of Bhopal in place of Subodh Jain. Arunesh Kumar has been made DRM of Bombay Central.A K Verma will be new DRM of Jaipur.

IAS changes in Jharkhand

Former Chief Secretary A K Mishra has been appointed DG of Academy of Administration.Neelam Nath has been moved to the Board of Revenue.Maheshwar Patra will be Secretary Housing. Vishnu Kumar has been appointed Divisional Commissioner Dumka.Nidhi Khare has been given additional charge of the Tourism Development Corporation.

IAS changes in UP

Dharmendra Dev will now be Chairman of the State Roadways Transport Corporation.Khanjan Lal has been appointed Chairman of the Jal Nigam. Mohinder Singh has been made Principal Secretary Urban Development.

Shukla transferred to Mizoram

Goa SP I D Shukla has been transferred to Mizoram. He is 1995 batch IPS officer of UT cadre.

IPS changes in UP

Veer Bahadur Singh will be SP of Bagpat.D K Thakur has been appointed SP Prosecution ,Lucknow.

IPS changes in West Bengal

C V Murlidhar will now be DIG IB.Manoj Malviya has been made DIG Border.H P Singh will now be DIG IPS Cell.

Mulayamji,Priyanka se savdhan !

If insiders are to be believed Priyanka Gandhi will soon start touring Uttar Pradesh to revive the Congress party.No doubt,Congress will win Vidhan Sabha elections and naturally Priyankaji will be the Chief Minister of India's largest state.

List of eight Secretaries ready

List of over half a dozen new Secretaries in Government of India is ready.The list include 1969 and 1970 batch IAS officers.

Sudip Banerjee to join HRD Ministry

Additional Secretary Agriculture Sudip Banerjee is all set to join the Ministry of Human Resource Development. He is 1971 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Bagchi to join Indian Embassy in London

Rajatava Bagchi is joining the Indian Embassy in London next month as Counciller.He is 1975 batch IPS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Baijender Kumar is PS to Arjun Singh

N Baijender Kumar has joined as PS to Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh. He is 1985 batch IAS officer of Chhattisgarh cadre. Earlier he was Deputy Director (Administration)AIIMS.

IAS reshuffle in Maharashtra

There is major IAS reshuffle in Maharashtra. Ranjana Sinha will be new Principal Secretary GAD.Sandip Bagchi has been moved to Aurangabad as Divisional Commissioner.V Ramani has been made Secretary Textiles and Cooperation.D N Mandlekar will be MD Maharashtra State Agriculture Corporation.Ashvini Kumar has been shifted to Pune as Commissioner Child and Women Development.Amitabh Chandra has been shifted to Human Rights Commission as Secretary.Anil Diggikar will now be Director Maharashtra Energy Development Agency,Pune.M N Kokate will be Commissioner Animal Husbandry.P K Deshmuka and Manisha Sharma will be new Collectors of Pune and Solapur respectively.Anup Kumar has been appointed MD of State Seeds Corporation Akola.Eknath Dawle and Ravindra Jadhav will now be Collectors of Akola and Amravati respectively.V S Singh has been appointed Vice Chairman of State Road Transport Corporation.C S Sangitrao will be MD MSSIDC.

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Raghu elected Chairman

Raghu Allams-etty, managing director - India operations, Adaptec (India), a storage solutions provider, has been elected as chairman of American Chamber of Commerce in India, Hyderabad chapter.

Three new Vice-Presidents

Arvind Brands Limited (ABL) has announced the appointment of three new vice-presidents in its core management team. They are Mssrs R S Krishnan, Hari Krishna and Ravi Prabhakar will look after the sales, HR and operations functions respectively.