What people say about us !

Dr, Mehrotra, Are You a Medical Doctor or a Psychologist ?

Dr Dinesh Paul

Kanth to join GoI !

DGP of Arunachal Pradesh, Amod Kumar Kanth, is expected to join the Government of India as Member-Secretary of the National Commission for Children. He is 1974 batch IPS officer of UT cadre.

Vivek Mehrotra to move from DEA

Additional Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs is expected to move to some other Department. He is 1974 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre

1985 batch IAS empanelment meeting inconclusive

Meeting of the CSB for the empanelment of 1985 batch IAS officers to the rank of Joint Secretary remained inconclusive. Now it is expected to take place on August 16.

R K Singh to be Bihar' Home Secretary

Raj Kumar Singh is back to the parent Bihar cadre after completion of central deputation tenure. 1975 batch IAS officer, Singh, is likely to be posted as the new Home Secretary of the state.

V K Singh to move Daman

Vijay Kumar Singh is moving to Daman as Administrator.He is 1981 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Bhargava to be Member of CBDT

Name of Arun Bhargava has been cleared for the post of Member ,Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). He is 1969 batch IRS officer.

Basu returns to Jharkhand

Central deputation tenure of the Damodar Valley Corporation Chairman, A K Basu, is coming to an end on August 12. He is 1976 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre.

Resentment among IAS in UP

Resentment prevails among a section of IAS officials in UP because of the likely action against some of their colleagues who had recently initiated the 'anti-corruption' crusade. "If the bosses think they can pressurise us in this manner, they are mistaken; after all, what we are doing is in the larger interest of the state and the nation," an IAS officer said.

Mishra is NRI Affairs Joint Secretary

Rajendra Mishra is the new Joint Secretary in the Ministry of NRI Affairs. He is 1976 batch CSS officer.

Seven vacancies of SC judges

While three vacancies of the Supreme Court Judges are already existing since August 1, this year, four more Judges are superannuating by December 2005.

Kala is new DG Forests

J C Kala has taken over as the new Director General (Forests) and Special Secretary in the Ministry of Environment and Forests. He is 1968 batch Indian Forests Service Officer of TamilNadu cadre.

Mathur is new Commissioner MCD

Arun Kumar Mathur will be new Commissioner ,Municipal Corporation Delhi.He is 1977 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Rakesh Mehta proceeds on leave !

Commissioner of Municipal Corporation of Delhi is reported to have proceeded on leave.He is 1975 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Nagachandran to be shifted

Grapevine has it that Enagachandran is being shifted from the office of Minister of State for Statistics and Programme Implementation Oscar Fernandese.He is 1999 batch ISS officer.He seems to be unfit in the system.

Vinod Chaudhry posted in Bhopal

Vinod Chaudhry has been appointed Director of the Madhya PradeshTribal Research Institute.He is 1972 batch IAS officer.

1980 batch IAS is PS in Madhya Pradesh

1980 batch IAS officers in Madhya Pradesh have been promoted to the rank of Principal Secretary in Madhya Pradesh.They are Mssrs I S Dani,G P Singhal,Swarnmala Rawla,P D Meena,Devendra Singhai and Pukhraj Maru.

Public Forum

The comment of Megha is symptom of the disease pervading among frustrated armchair people whose favourite past time is to spread the virus of cynicism without contributing anything to improve their surroundings.
If one looks around, we find all kinds of characters in all spheres of life.

M N Raju

I am fully agreeing with views of Megha. Leaving a few aside there is no commitment in IAS officers. Most of the time they are busy in securig some privileged postings in stated or some deputation at centre. Most of the officers has superficial knowledge about the subject they are dealing with and taking important policy decisions just on their whims and fancy. Some of them take the help of out side agencies in formulation of policies and these agencies are interested to serve their need first. Now the goverment should place the people having in depth knowledge of the subject specially in ministries like Finance, Health, Transport, Telecommunication, Defence, Petroleum, Atomic Energy, Power, Space Research, Information Technology and Science and Technlogy etc.

Hari Om

Aaj Ki Aawaz

Giani Zail Singh was the President when the 1984 genocide took place,
And when justice in this case is being buried Manmohan Singh PM ki kursi karr raha hai grace!!!

Sad but true on both occasions a Sikh was and is at the helm of affairs….coincidence,
And dono ki Gandhi family pe thi aur hai total dependence!!!

Tytler says he stood by Indhra's body for eight hours ……what an excuse,
He could have easily ordered his goons to act from there…… goon's ruse!!!

Injustice is one of the biggest reasons why people take law into their haath,
ATR is being looked upon as Justice ke saath vishwaasghaat!!

Congress's hand in the 1984 genocide is a well known baath!!!
So for the 1984 victims Congress ke haath ne maara hai unke mooh pe chamaat!!

Men forget that there is a higher Court that dispenses justice and His justice is truly just,
Look around and there are so many examples if you must!!!

Action Terminated Report is being termed as a whitewash and Congress has painted its face black,
On India's Democracy 1984 genocide was a blot and this ATR is an attack!!!!

And India has lost face abroad…….. Sarkaar de Kangaroo,
Where the Government protects people accused of a genocide….. will elicit an international boo!!!

98% viewers ( as per Star News) say justice has not been done,
76% viewers (as per NDTV) say futile expecting justice… logh ho gaye hai stun.

Child of 1984 riots

He cried …..and he was scared,
As they lynched his Dad he helplessly stared.

They came and set his Dad alight,
His Mother tried to stop them by putting up a brave fight

They pushed her aside and trampled on her to get to his Dad,
Had this kid been older he would have gone mad.

But his innocence saved him and all he could do at that time was cry,
As he saw his Mom and Dad die.

Now the Government has done the same too,
By flushing justice down the loo!!!!

Now today those memories make his eyes well up with tears and unashamedly they cry,
All the time looking up and questioning 'Why???"

He is now no longer a child and he understands and feels the pain,
How can his own Countrymen look at what happened with such disdain???

Wipe your tears ……your Guru sacrificed his four sons and did not shed a tear,
Like Him accept the Will of Almighty and get over your sorrow, anger and fear.

Stand up ……live by the motto of earning, sharing and praying,
Sikhs live by this saying.

Best way to remember your parents is become a true Sikh,
Sikh who does not extend his hand for bhik (alms).

Fight adversity and make something of your life,
Even though you've always faced strife.

A day will come when this pain inside you will start to ebb and will be replaced by a feeling of solace,
Remember all this can happen…….just hold His Hand and believe in His Grace

Bharat Kumar

Two years tenure-M N Buch writes to PM

Dear Dr Manmohan Singhji,

There are reports in the newspapers that government are toying the idea of providing a two year tenure for the Secretaries of the Ministry of Defence, Home Affairs and Finance. The Cabinet Secretary already enjoys a tenure, but he is the head of the Civil Service and in his case there can be a special dispensation. Other Secretaries to government are civil servants and so far there has never been a distinction between the ranking of secretaries either in terms of seniority or of status. Identifying some posts only for tenure would immediately introduce a value judgement into the system whereby whereas all animals are equal, some animals are more equal than others.

Though you were never a member of the Civil Service, you have headed the Finance Ministry as Secretary. You are, therefore, aware of the fact that there are certain officers who will be prepared to go to any extent in order to jockey for what are considered prize posting either because they bring a degree of power to the holder of the post or they enable the office holder to frequently travel abroad and make contacts which can get him or her either a post retirement job or a plum international posting while in service. The so called economic ministries are, therefore, the scenes of considerable intrigue, apple-polishing and the use of political connections to obtain a posting as Secretary. I can quote chapter and verse, including giving names, cadres, seniority, etc., of officers who have made it early to a central deputation post in a prize ministry, made only a proforma return to the state when the tenure is over, only to return to a prize posting at a higher level as soon as the compulsory waiting period is over. Many of these offices have monopolized key ministries not because of their special expertise but because they are more influential than other officers who are not equally capable of intrigue, flattery, etc., Instead of the Service deeming to consist of officers who are more or less equally competent we already have four distinct groups:-

i) The empanelled officers and non empanelled officers
ii) The officers who go on frequent deputation to Government of India and those who are never selected for such deputation.
iii) Those who get prize posting in the Government of India and those who are either sidelined or not called on deputation at all.
iv) Those who having obtained a prize posting are also able to wrangle lucrative postings abroad which bring them international pensions which are tax free and those who spend the entire span of service in the states without ever having experienced a change of location.

To these four categories we are now, I understand, about to add a fifth, i.e., officers who somehow obtain a posting to selected ministries where they are given a tenure. Applying such a value judgement will not lead to a better handling of these ministries, but instead will create a schism in the Service between the chosen people and the rest which will damage the Service beyond repair.

Apart from the Cabinet Secretary no one should have a tenure and the date of retirement must be adhered to very strictly with no exceptions at all. Instead we should have a system whereby we select as Secretaries of the chosen departments those officers who have at least two or three years of service left so that they can be left undisturbed for a given period of time. One of the main reasons why we think of tenure is that we often post officers who have only a few months of service left and the frequent changes thus necessitated break continuity in the administration of the ministry concerned. I see no reason why we cannot select as Defence Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary, Finance Secretary, etc., officers who have at least two years to go before retirement. Without introducing a perfidious tenure regime which will split the Service wide open it might be better to be selective in posting of officers to key ministries so that they have enough service left to leave a mark in the ministry.
The All India Services were constituted in order to provide cadres of officers who, because of the selection procedure, training and traditions of the service, would have a similar outlook in administrative matters. This homogeneity of the Services has been put under a strain which has virtually eliminated this character of the Services. Let us not aggravate the problem further by singling out ministries for tenure and thus putting a value judgement on which post is important and which post is not.

With warm regards,

Yours sincerely

( M N Buch )

Whispers --- Corporate World -

AI pays in dollars ?

Air India which had recently taken three aircrafts on lease from Jet Airways is said to be paying the amount in dollars. What is the significance?

Roy is MD of IISCO

ED of Durgapur Steel Plant, Nilotoal Roy, has taken over as new Managing Director of IISCO.

Tenure of Vijaya Bank Directors expire

Tenure of Vijaya Bank Directors Mssrs S P Krishnaswamy, B K Jagdish Chandra, R A Ashok Kumar and S Ananthan has expired.

Three resign from UTI Bank

Mssrs Ajeet Prasad, Yash Mahajan and M Raghvendra have reportedly resigned from the Board of the UTI Bank Ltd.

HSBC named best sub-custodian bank

Global Finance Magazine has named HSBC as "Best sub-custodian bank 2005" in the Middle East region.

Star Alliance to rope in India's domestic carriers

Star Alliance is said to making a bid to join hands with some of the India's domestic carrier. It is reported to be in talks with Air India Ltd, Jet Airways India Ltd and Sahara Airlines Ltd to get any one of them to join the world's largest group of airlines, extending its network to the second-most populous nation.

Atul Singh is Coca-Cola head

Coca-Cola has appointed Atul Singh as the new president for its India division. He would succeed Sanjiv Gupta.

Sanjay Singh is MD

Sanjay Singh has been appointed the Managing Director of its Indian subsidiary of Akarnai Technologies.