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Duggal to be Governor or EC ?

In case Home Secretary V K Duggal is not made Cabinet Secretary, he is surely going to be either Governor of Pondicherry or Member of the Election Commission. He is reported to have made it clear that he would not work as Home Secretary under the new Cabinet Secretary who is junior to him.

UPSC Member to be non-official !

A non-official is being appointed new Member of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).About half a dozen senior IAS and IPS officers had been in the run for the post.

Who is Aishwarya of North Block ?

Who is the Lady IAS officer who is known as Aishwarya Rai of North Block? .Though a llittle elder to Aishwarya Rao, she has attained this new name.

Atleast two CMs to go after polls !

A couple of Chief Ministers of the Congress ruled states are likely to be changed after the Vidhan Sabha polls.

R C Mishra to be Judge of MP HC !

District Judge R C Mishra is likely to be appointed Judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court.

Heads of Surface Transport, Telecom to change

While the Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran, is likely to be shifted to Surface Transport after the ensuing polls in various states, the present Surface Transport Minister T R Balu will go to Telecom.

P C Pande is new DG of Gujarat

P C Pande has been appointed new DGP of Gujarat.1970 batch IPS officer Pande would succeed A K Bhargava on May 1.

Elias is Joint Secretary Steel

G Elias is the new Joint Secretary Steel in the Government of India. He is 1982 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.
( We said this on March 9 )

Balasubramaniam to return to MT

IG CRPF C Balasubramaniam is expected to return to the parent Manipur-Tripura cadre after completion of central deputation tenure. He is 1981 batch IPS officer.

LTC allowed by Private Airlines

Government of India has allowed that the officers entitled to air travel by national carrier may travel by private airlines also while availing LTC.

Tandon joins PMO

Rudrendra Tandon has joined the PMO as Deputy Secretary. He is 1994 batch Indian Foreign Service Officer

Singhal to move to Abuja

Second Secretary in Muscat is moving to Abuja in place of Balachandran Nair.

Nair shifted to MEA HQs

First Secretary in Abuja, Balachandran Nair, has been shifted to the MEA headquarters.

1989 batch IAS gets super-time scale in Gujarat

Half a dozen 1989 batch IAS officers in Gujarat have been given super-time scale in Rajasthan. They are Mssrs:- Shubhra Singh,Rajeshwar Singh,Niranjan Kumar Arya,Sameer Singh Chandel,Rohit Kumar Singh and Devi Ram Jodhawat.

Seven dozen 1986 batch IAS short-listed

About 84 IAS officers belonging to 1986 batch are believed to have been short-listed for the empanelment to the rank of Joint Secretary in the Government of India. They are Mssrs Anshu Prakash, Manoj Kumar Parida, Sanjeev Nandan Sahai, Satbir Silas Bedi (UT), Harish Kumar, Abhay Tripathi, Satish Chandra, B R Meena (AP), Ravi Kapoor, Atul Chaturvedi, Sanjiva Kumar, Peter Ingty (Assam-Meghalaya), Sanjeev Kumar Sinha, K P Ramaiah (Bihar), Alok Shukla ,Sunil Kumar Kujur (Chhattisgarh), Pankaj Kumar, Rajiv Kumar Gupta, Sanjay Prasad, I P Gautam (Gujarat), Rajni Sekhri Sibal, Sanjeev Kaushal, V S Kundu, R R Jowel, M Kithan (Haryana), Anil Kumar Khachi, K G B Venkat Subramanyan (Himachal Pradesh), Vimal Kirti Singh, S K Sathpathy (Jharkhand), Bharat Bhushan Vyas, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, L D Jha, Surendra Kumar (J&K), Sanjiv Kumar, Rajneesh Goel, M R Kamble, Ms Gauri Trivedi, I S N Prasad (Karnataka) U K Singh Chauhan, Dr W R Reddy, Jamess Verghese, P H Kurian (Kerala), Anil Kumar Jain, S P S Parihar, P K Das, B R Naidu (Madhya Pradesh), Debashish Chakraborty, Manu Kumar Shrivastava, Shre Kant Singh, B B Mallick (Maharashtra), Shambhu Singh, J Suresh Banu, Dr U Venketeshwarlu (Manipur-Tripura), Suresh Chandra Mahapatra, Laxmi Narayan Gupta, S P Thakur, G V Venugopala Sarma (Orissa), Dr Avinash Singh Chhatwal, Dr G Vajralingam, Bibekanand Sarkar, M P Singh (Punjab), Shailendra Kumar Agrawal, Yaduvendra Mathur, Sanjay Dixit, Deepak Upreti, Siyaram Meena( Rajasthan), Suresh Chandra Gupta (Sikkim), Dr Niranjan Mardi, Shalini Vashistha, Hans Raj Verma, Swarn Singh (TamilNadu), Alok Sinha, Alok Tandon, Mukul Singhal, B S Khullar, Prabhat Kumar Sarangi, Dr Har Saran Das (Uttar Pradesh), S Rama Swamy, Dr Ranbir Singh (Uttaranchal) and Arun Kumar Bal, R S Shukla, Dr Rakesh Kumar Vatsa, Saurabh Kumar Das, Arun Mishra, Swami Singh and P Ramesh Kumar.

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This is with respect to the comment that 'non-achievers'(non-IAS) are envious of the 'achievers'(IAS). This is precisely the problem. Belonging to IAS is perceived by the IAS as being synonymous with being an 'achiever'.

It is not 'envy' , it is manifestation of frustration for being denied a place in the Sun in the system just because one does not belong to the IAS.

IAS's core competence is in administration aka maintenance of law and order/governance. Therefore just as the officers of the IFS are posted in the MEA, Income Tax officers are posted in Deptt of Revenue, the IAS , because of their core competence can have claim to be posted in the MHA, while on central deputation, but in no other Ministry/Department.

For any other Ministry in the Central Government, social or economic, any Officer , cutting across services can deliver just as well, given a chance, that is. The IAS can not really have a claim to be core competence in being a better educationist or financial or a health expert than others.

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Who will be Director (Finance) Petronet LNG Ltd.?

The Board of Directors of Petronet LNG limited is meeting today to select the Director (Finance) of the company. The BOD comprises of nominees of promoter companies i.e ONGC, IOC, BPCL, GAIL and representatives of lenders. It is a very high value company with international stake. Strangely enough the constitution of the company is such that neither the PESB nor the PMO has any say in its appointment of Directors where as Govt. of India's 50% share is held through these above mentioned companies and more than 36% is Indian Public Money.

With the ongoing schemes/ projects of expansion, International players have huge stakes in the company. The grape wine story is that these International contractors have managed to grab all the mega contracts and are even exerting no holds bar tactics to appoint convenient persons in its BOD with an eye on long term benefit. It is no secret that appoints on top positions are becoming increasingly murky with the passage of time?

The Search Committee appointed by the BOD has recommended two candidates for the post of Director (Finance) without putting them in numerical order of merit leaving enough space for last minute manipulation form all the vested interest sources for a tie.

Serious dissent brewing in IDBI

It seems that Nageshwar Rao who is a highly paid CEO of IDBI Bank has reportedly managed to not only introduce division policy but also succeeding in getting his favourite colleagues appointed at higher position despite all of them are junior at IDBI. Who is providing unprecedented support to Nageshwar Rao?.

Garg appointed President of FLAG Telecom

Punit Garg has been appointed President of FLAG Telecom. He is the first Indian to head the company.

Dr Singh is Chairman of Copyright Board

Dr Raghbir Singh of New Delhi has been appointed Chairman of the Copyright Board for a period of five years.