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Sudhir Nath is new Director Enforcement

Sudhir Nath will be new Director Enforcement.1974 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer Nath would succeed Gujarat cadre 1971 batch IAS officer R N Das.

Madhukar Gupta to be Secretary Fertilisers !

Grapevine has it that Vice Chairman of the DDA Madhukar Gupta is being appointed Secretary Fertilisers in the Government of India. He is 1971 batch IAS officer of Uttaranchal cadre. He is presently on leave.

Mohapatra to move from Tariff Commission

Ashok Kumar Mohapatra is moving from the Tariff Commission in a week or two. He is 1971 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.

Sumantra Chaudhuri unlikely to join GoI !

Newly appointed Additional Secretary & FA Sumantra Chaudhuri is unlikely to join the Government of India.Chaudhuri is 1974 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.

G C Srivastava is Chairman in Uttaranchal

G C Srivastava has taken over as Chairman of the Second State Finance Commission in Uttaranchal. He is 1967 batch retired IAS officer of UT cadre.

Parakh proceeds on leave

Allegedly upset over the prevailing corruption Secretary Coal in the Government of India P C Parakh has proceeded on leave . He was also reportedly upset over the attack from the MOS (Coal)Dasarai Narayan Rao on the issue of CBI raids in Southern eastern Coal fields Limited.The Coal Secretary is believed to have written a letter to the Cabinet Secretary before proceeding on leave.1969 batch Andhra Pradesh cadre IAS officer Parakh is scheduled to retire by the end of this year.

WHICH CIVIL SERVANT HAS MORE ACADEMIC DEGREE?
Reena Jha Tripathi

IRS(IT) 1988 batch, posted in Mumbai
Qualifications:
*MA (History) (Delhi University)
*Masterrs in Human Rights (TISS)
*MBA (U.K.)
*LLB (Mumbai University)
*2 Levels of French from Alliance Francaise.
Seeing the interest of our readers in the academic qualifications of the most learned ones among the decision makers, we welcome more such information about those running the show. If you have any such information, do send it to us to enable the whole World to know about it. After all, knowledge is to be imparted or it is of no use. Mail us:- sureshmehrotra@yahoo.com

Civil Servants from India at Harvard

John F Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University offers an MPA (Masters of Public Administration) programme of one year duration.Eminent Civil Servants who have previously graduated from this programme are former Cabinet Secretaries ofIndia, Mr. P.K. Kaul, Mr. T.S.R. Subramaniam, Mr.Kamal Pandey, present Secretaries of Government of India like Steel Secretary (Dr. Mano Ranjan, UP cadre 1969 batch), Culture Secretary (Dr. Neena Ranjan, UP Cadre 1969 Batch), Pr. Adviser Planning Commission(Smt. Meenakshi Dutta Ghosh), Member Secretary IGNCA(Dr. Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty, Chhattisgarh cadre 1970 batch),Director General Foreign Trade (Mr. K.T. Chacko,M P cadre 1973 batch), Two Joint Secreatries in Commerce Ministry (Mr. R. Gopalan, TN cadre 1976 batch & Mr. Anthony De Sa, MP Cadre 1980 batch), Aditional Secretary Panchayati Raj Smt. Sudha Pillai (Kerala Cadre 1972 batch), Additional Secretary,Defence Dr Sheela Bhide (AP Cadre 1973 batch) and of course the popular Chairperson of NDMC Smt.Sindhushree Khullar (AGMUT cadre 1975 batch).
The complete list would read like a who's who ofIndian Bureaucracy. They are also called Mason
Fellows, and the programme, Mason Programme.This July the 2005-06 course has started and there area record number of EIGHT Indian Participants. 4 from IAS (Kiran Gupta and her husband Madhukar Gupta, both from 1985 batch Rajasthan cadre; Prabakar Sakthi Kaivalyan from TN cadre 1991 batch, and Rahul Anand from 1996 batch Himachal Pradesh Cadre), 1 from IPS (Mukesh Jain), 1 from Income Tax (Ashok Mittal), 1 from Indian Trade Service (Sanjeev Nandwani) and 1from Private Sector (Sanjay Indamdar, CEO, Flucon, Mumbai).
This is a record number of Indian participants at Harvard.What is more, there is another distinguished Civil Servant who is on the Economics Faculty of the programme. Dr. Anup K Pujari (Karnataka cadre 1980 batch, presently Managing Director, Karnataka Food & Civil Supplies Corporation at Bangalore) has been deputed by Government of India to teach Economics. Dr.Pujari has been a visiting Professor at Harvard for nearly 15 years now and every year he comes to USA for a few months to teach Economics to the Mason Fellows.Dr. Pujari has a PhD in Intellectual Property Rightsissues from Boston University and his article on TRIPS was included in the two volume collection "WTO at Ten".

Alok Kumar is Director Personnel

Alok Kumar has joined the Government of India as Director Personnel. He is an officer of IRPS( Indian Railway Personnel Service ).
( We said this on July 21 )

Parida posted in NCT

Manoj Parida is back from Arunachal Pradesh.On return 1986 batch IAS officer Parida has been posted in NCT of Delhi Government.

No Advisor for Bihar

Government of India is now unlikely to appoint any new Advisor to the Governor in Bihar.

Addl IT Commissioners transfer

About half a dozen Additional Commissioners of Income-Tax have been transferred.

No takers for Chennai' DD Director post

No body, it seems, is willing to be posted on the post of Station Director in Chennai Doordarshan Kendra. Reason; State polls are approaching fast and no one wants to be a party - either with Jayalalitha or Karunakaran.

Bihar to have three new DMs

Three districts in Bihar will have new DMs this week.

Aaj Ki Aawaz

Movie Mangal Pandey has got the Brits hopping mad,
They say the way Brits have been portrayed in the movie is real bad.

They say the movie is full of distortions,
Demand censoring of such portions.

Brits say the movie savages British rule,
Say anti Brit sentiment movie will fuel.

Even UP Government is considering banning this movie…….why????
They say movie distorts Mangal Pandey and on this there is a hue and cry!!!

But many say behind UP stand is Amar Singh's hand,
Amar is trying to ensure that his word in Bollywood is the 'law of the land'.

Censor Board under Ms. Tagore believes ' all is okay till proven wrong',
'Sabh chaltaa hai' is Censor Board Chairman ka favourite song!!!

Ms. Tagore believes that one should 'buck' the trend and wait for public ka reaction,
Then based on the reaction and political pressure take action!!!

Now Censor Board only sits up to take notice if there is anything anti Congress,
Then the Censor uses its scissors citing that the relevant scenes karthe hai oppress.

Laloo now says there is a conspiracy against him,
Says situation is very grim!!!

Says that there is a move to prevent voting by genuine voters,
And all these voters are RJD supporters!!

But then he is in power so why does he not get this stopped,
Seems EC is hell bent that Laloo ka goonda bubble is popped!!!

Laloo spurs his Party men telling that this is the ultimate battle,
Insiders say Laloo ho gaya hai rattle.

Now he says Congress is a sugar coated bitter pill,
Says they shake his hand in friendship but have dushmani in their dil!!

Reminds Congressis that he stood by Sonia when all were pointing fingers at her being a videsi,
Says he was the only one saying that after Sonia's marriage to Rajiv she had become a desi!!!

Now before boarding a flight remember if plane is hijacked India could shoot it down,
This is a warning to terrorists that with India they can no longer clown.

Yes if there is a VIP or VIP's kith or kin then Sarkaar could change its stand,
After all when it comes to VIPs all laws are written on sand!!!

Islamic Terrorists have written themselves off when the embark on such a mission,
So such pledges are not going to make them go into remission.

Also remember prevention is better than cure……El Al is a good example,
However on certain passengers rights be prepared to trample.

Make Air India the safest airline to travel by,
New USP for Air India……… Safest way to Fly!!!

Are Deshmukh's days numbered???
Could be ……. because detractors say that during the floods he slumbered!!!

His replacement……. Gunman Patil or Smoothy Prithviraj,
Inn mein se kaun karre ga Maharashtra pe raaj????

They say now Manmohan will reshuffle his Cabinet by end August....after current session,
Sooner the better…..now in Congress confidence is in recession.

There is a chance that Rahul Baba may get a Cabinet berth,
So that he can start learning administration and then proving his worth.

He may get Panchayti Raaj…....... Uncle Aiyer will show him the ropes,
As with the pressures of MOPNG he copes!!!

Saare jahaan se achcha Hindustan hamaara……. Mera Bharat Mahaan,
Qurbaan hai iss pe hum sabh ki jaan.

Bharat Kumar

Public Forum

D.K.Tiwari's is a typical reaction reflecting an attitude 'if not me than who else'.It however,accepts the incompetance of the self. Profitability has no relevance in the context of socio-economic development of the resource poor people. There has been no dearth of investment, but poor policies and lacklustre implementation has been the root cause of failure. Rs. 50,000 crore has been spent to tackle the problem of drinking water since independence but rural poor is still struggling to have access to clean drining water.who are responsible for this, the ones who cosider themselves torch bearer, indispensible and most wise which they are certainly not.Blowing their own trumpet will not sustain them any longer, nation now has to encounter the challenges effectively with professional competance and not with the generalist attitude of incompetance and adhocism.India if now is at the threshhold to join the group of world leaders it is mainly due to remarkable achievements in the sphere of economic reforms, Information Technology, nuclear and missile power made under the leadership of renowned economist, technocrat and scienist and not a generalist having no vision. Another example of real outcome of an speicialist, which has brought in positive impact on day to day life of a commoner in Delhi is the efficient implementation of Delhi Metro Rail Project.
Vijay Snatak

Whispers --- Corporate World -

Basudeb Banerjee to be Chairman of Tea Board

Basudeb Banerjee is being tipped to be new Chairman of the Tea Board. He is 1983 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Work culture in Indian Airlines deteriorates

Work culture in Indian Airlines is said to have deteriorated since the exit of it's MD Sunil Arora. While the Delhi office used to function till 8 PM during his tenure, now it can be seen closed by 6 Pm.

Kaushik Roy joins RIL

Kaushik Roy has joined the RIL ,as Corporate President Brand Strategy and Marketing He was earlier with Reliance Infocomm.

Dr Basu gets fellowship

Dr Ashok Ranjan Basu has been conferred with fellowship by the All India Management Association. He is 1980 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.

World's rare whiskey for sale

A rare 19th century bottle of Irish whiskey has been put up for sale net for a record 100,000 pounds. This is said to be last surviving bottle from UK distillery.

Four new Directors of Vijya Bank

Four new Directors have been elected of the Vijya Bank. They are Mssrs Krishanswamy, Ashok Kumar,Ashok Kumar Shetty and R Vaidyanathan. They will hold office till August, 2008.

Ramu to join Times Internet

Ravi Ramu of the Mphasis BFL Ltd is joining the Times Internet Ltd as CFO.