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Will Thulasidas go to Delhi?

Air India CMD, Vasudevan Thulasidas, is to be made secretary in the Government of India and posted to Delhi soon but will he move? Chances are that he may like to stay back in the hope of becoming the Chairman of the Organisation that is to take shape after the merger of Air India with the INDIAN. One can only wait and watch. His name is presently doing the round for the post of Secretary Disinvestment.

Posting of Khullar next week

Official orders to post Rahul Khullar as Additional Secretary Commerce are expected to be issued next week. He is 1975 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

A S Gill unlikely to join GoI

Rajasthan DGP, A S Gill, is unlikely to go on deputation to the Government of India. He is 1972 batch IPS officer. Infact, Gill has been empanelled to the rank of DG in the GoI.

Archana Ramasundaram to return TamilNadu

Joint Director in the CBI, Archna Ramasundaram, is returning to the parent Tamil Nadu cadre after completion of her deputation tenure. She is 1980 batch IPS officer.

Five DG rank country's officers are ex-army men

Atleast five DG rank officers, all over the country, are ex-army men. Belonging to 1969 batch, they were trained alongwith the 1973 batch IPS officials. The officials include Vijay Shankar Tiwari - CBI Director, Swaraj Puri - DG Madhya Pradesh, Nirmal Singh - DG Haryana,
Swaranjit Sen DG Andhra Pradesh and Arun Bhargava DG Gujarat.

Who will be Commissioner Mumbai MC?

Who will succeed Johny Joseph as Commissioner of Mumbai Municipal Corporation on June 1 ?. Tie is said to be between PS Urban Development Ramanand Tiwari and Subhash Lalla PS to the Chief Minister. At the moment 1972 batch IAS officer Ramanand Tiwari is having an edge.

1974 batch IPS to get DG rank in Haryana

1974 batch IPS officers are being promoted to the rank of DG in Haryana in a couple of weeks.

Air India Board Meeting and V K Verma

Director ( Commercial ) V K Verma is to be cleared from all the charges in the Air India Board meeting on Friday to pave his way for the appointement as Functional Director.Who are the persons taking special interest in this matter and why ?.

No entry of IRS officers in GoI !

It is believed that the IRS officers have been restricted to join the Government of India. This is evident from the fact that no name of IRS officer has been sent for deputation to the DoPT for the year 2006.

Who will be DG investigation IT in Mumbai ?

Who will be the new DG (Investigation) Income-Tax in Mumbai ?.The prestigious post has been lying vacant for quite some time. While Chief Commissioner (5) in Mumbai Venkat Ramani is the choice of Finance Minister P Chidambaram, Minister of State S S Palanimanikkam is backing the candidature of Chief Commissioner Chennai Santosh Datta. It seems decision will be taken only after the Tamil Nadu elections.

Mudgal to go Vienna

A K Mudgal Joint Secretary (Estt.) in the MEA is going to Vienna in place of Ms Radhika Lokesh.

PMO and IFS infighting:

It seems that the PMO has sat over the proposal for appointment to the coveted post of DG Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education and in the process have stalled moves to appoint the person shorlisted by the Minister for Environment and Forests. Is it the result of IFS infighting ?.

Letika Saran is Police Commissioner Chennai

Letika Saran has taken over as new Police Commissioner of Chennai.She is 1976 batch IPS officer.

Jayasankar to join Rail Vikas nigam

S Jayasankar, SrAFA /SR, is joining the Rail Vikas Nigam at Chennai as Deputy General Manager (F&A) .

Dy secr post in CVC vacant

Class I officers from CSS and other services are required to fill the post of Deputy secretary in the CVC.

Pande is ADRM Sealdah

A K Pandey, SA Grade /IRSME, South Eastern Railway, has been transferred to Eastern Railway as ADRM Sealdah.

Khan is Secretary to Manipur CM

On return from central deputation 1988 batch IAS officer M H Khan has been appointed Secretary to the Manipur Chief Minister.

SP-Collector shifted in Sehore in MP

On the orders of the Election Commission Sehore Collector S K Mishra and SP I P Kulsrestha have been shifted. Now Raghvendra Singh will be new Collector and Anshuman Yadav new SP.

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A retired IAS officer ruminating on the "best" ranks in the Civil Service exam! The position since 1979 has altered, and now the old distinction between the three papers(for Central Services), five papers(IAS and IFS) and two papers(IPS) is gone for ever. Further, since 1993, ranks do not matter for at least 50% of the batches. Even otherwise, top ranks join other Services also, Foreign Service being an example, Police another and Income Tax, Customs etc the others. What is at issue is the right that the IAS acquires to go to divers fields which they deny to other services when the process of filling up posts is actually under Central Staffing and the posts are not encadred in the IAS(in fact, the CSS also mans the same posts, so why not Income Tax or Customs officers). By the logic of the retired IAS officer, the IAS should confine itself to District administration only, being recruited for it and serving there in posts encadred for them! Bangladesh and Pakistan are what they are due to lack of democracy (dictatorships) and the single point agenda of being anti India, and not because they abolished their one dominant service. Retired ICS officers used to believe that the IAS was inferior, but that did not stop the IAS. Similarly, all Services now can think of a place under the sun, of course with a special place for the IAS, which is the first among equals and will remain so!

A K Singh

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Private companies to run goods trains !

There is a move in the Railway Ministry to allow private companies to book cargo, run goods trains .They will run their own freight rates.

IOB ED Nagappan to retire

Executive Director of the Indian Overseas Bank, A R Nagappan, is retiring by this month end.

Ramanathan is CEO SHCIL

S Ramanathan has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of associate company, SHCIL.

Nitin Chopra appointed CEO

Nitin Chopra has been appointed CEO of the Bharti AXA Life Insurance.