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Majority favours appointment of PCS officers as DMs

Bhopal: "Let the spoils of power be rip open for every citizen of this great democratic nation", says Sanjiv a respondent to the querry "Should PCS officers be appointed DMs?" put up on the News and Views section of the popular whispersinthecorridors.com.
Corroborating, S Vikrma another respondent - referring to Uttar Pradesh government's move to appoint PCS officials as DMs - says that other states should also follow. "In the days of the British Raj, an ICS man alone could become Collector because only a British could sustain and consolidate the Raj. And those brown-skinned Indians who managed to get into ICS were said to be more British than the Britishers as these natives were the products of the Macaulay system of education which had aimed at producing such Indians who could continue and strengthen the Raj", he says.
"It is unfortunate that the same edifice is continuing at the district level even after Independence, with the IAS replacing the ICS. This thoughtless status-quoism needs to be changed. Over the years the PCS personnel have proved their usefulness. But for their role, the government machinery at the grass-root level would have collapsed. It is a matter of discomfort that their role has never been judged on merit", he adds.
In all 70 per cent respondents to the above question favoured appointment of PCS as DMs if they are competent. Infact some of them said, "this issue has no meaning in the age of globalisation. There should be no IAS/IFS/PCS/PPS etc. Only professional competence should be the criteria for appointment to the important posts in bureaucracy".
But there were others, only 30 per cent, who said that PCS should not be appointed as DM. "PCS officers should not be appointed as DMs. They have narrow vision, less exposure to wide sections of administration, and by years of playing 'yesmen' they command lesser repsect of piers".
"Instead, officers from class I central services are much suited. If there is any derth of IAS or suitable IAS, officers drawn from Central services would be better replacements in view of the fact that they are selected from the same lot as the IAS and in terms of experience and exposure they are equal to any other IAS", said P K Mishra.

About 40 ,1976 batch IAS officers empanelled

Around 40 IAS officers belonging to 1976 batch are believed to have been empanelled to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India.

Dutt is new NSG Chief

Special Director CBI Jyoti Krishan Dutt has been appointed new DG of the National Security Guards (NSG).He is 1971 batch IPS officer of West Bengal cadre.
( We said this on May 3 )

P K Mishra gets Secretary rank in GoI

DR Pramod Kumar Mishra has been promoted to the rank of Secretary in the Government of India with effect from July 1. 1972 batch Gujarat cadre IAS officer Mishra will now be Secretary National Disaster Management Authority.

Rani Jadhav promoted

Chairperson of the Mumbai Port Trust Ms Rani Jadhav has been promoted to the rank of Secretary in the Government of India. She is 1970 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.
( We said this on July 7)

Ms Veena Sreeram Rao promoted in GoI

DG CAPART Ms Veena Sreeram Rao has got in-situ promotion.She is 1972 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Sujit Banerjee gets promotion in CVC

Secretary in the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) Sujit Banerjee has been promoted to the equivalent rank of Secretary in the Government of India. He is 1972 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
( We said this on June 20 )

Gupta also gets promotion in GoI

Secretary of the National Commission for Women N P Gupta has been promoted equivalent to the rank of Secretary in the Government of India. He is 1972 batch IAS officer of TamilNadu cadre.

Ravi Dhingra is Secretary in GoI

Adviser Inter-State Council has taken over as Secretary National Commission for Minorities.1972 batch Himachal Pradesh cadre IAS officer Dhingra has succeeded 1971 batch Haryana cadre IAS officer Deepa Jain Singh who is now Secretary Child and Women Welfare.
( We said this on July 31 )

A V Singh to be State Election Commissioner in MP

Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Secretary A V Singh is being tipped to be new State Election Commissioner .1967 batch IAS officer Singh is presently Chairman of the Narmada Valley Development Authority.

Now fixed tenure of CS for 3 years

Government of India has decided to set a fixed tenure of three years for the post of Cabinet Secretary and two years for the posts of Home Secretary, Defence Secretary, the Directors of the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Intelligence Bureau and the Secretary, Research and Analysis Wing. If necessary they may be given further extension.

Tewari to succeed Pravesh Sharma

Anirudh Tewari (IAS 90, Punjab Cadre) has been selected to the post of Senior Adviser in International Fund for Agricultural Development which was earlier held by 1982 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer Pravesh Sharma who has returned to his parent cadre.The post coordinates all activities of IFAD in India.

Sanjay Kumar is Director (Vigilance ) Railways

Sanjay Kumar has joined as Director (Vigilance) in the Railway Board. He is 1985 batch IPS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.

Jyoti Kalash joins GoI

Jyoti Kalash has joined the Government of India as Director of School Education in the Ministry of HRD. He is 1990 batch IAS officer of Nagaland cadre.

Air Marshal Ahluwalia to be C in C SC

Air Marshal P S Ahluwalia is being appointed AoC C in C Southern Command.

PMO blocks the Central staffing Sceme of the IFS !

PMO has reportedly blocked the Central staffing Sceme of the IFS as the file is in the cold storage in PMO for the last four months. The Forestry wing is about to collapse completely after September 2006. DGF and ADG Wildlife are retiring in October/September. Another ADG is on daily basis since 30th June and may be asked to go any time.Two posts of IGF are vacant.On the top of it DoPT is asking the Ministry not to sit for the selection of senior officers till the scheme is approved by the PM.IFS officers in the Minsitry are wondering if it is the result of PMO asking the Ministry to bifurcate."

Sahai is Secretary to Delhi LG

Sanjeev Nandan Sahai has taken over as new Secretary to the Lt Governor of Delhi. He is 1986 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Justice Dinakaran is Chairman Kerala HRC

Former Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court N Dinakaran has been appointed Chairman of the Kerala State Human Rights Commission.

Venkatramani to be CCIT I Mumbai!

Venkatramani is being tipped to be new Chief Commissioner of Income Tax I Mumbai.The post has fallen vacant following the appointment of Ms Indira Bhargava as Member of the CBDT.

Saurabh Tripathi goes to Delhi

S P CBI in Jabalpur Saurabh Tripathi has been transferred to Delhi.He is 1997 batch IPS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.

Mohanty joins PPAC Cell

Former PS to Union Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar,B Mohanty has joined the PPAC Cell.He is an Indian Economic Service Officer.

Nutan Guha Biswas is Commissioner Food in Delhi

Ms Nutan Guha Biswas has been appointed Commissioner Food and Civil Supplies in the Delhi Government. She is 1983 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

FORUM

It is time that corporatisation of Indian Administration should take place - there should be a mechanism where flow of people from corporate to government should be facilitated - going by the record it is indian corprate sector which has delivered much more
Amitabh Dhawan

Aaj Ki Aawaz

Nut has just won one election…..one swallow summer,
Nut saying that Manmohan has not won even one election and is the PM is a bummer (shame)!!

Nowadays Nut has breakfast with Digvijay…. then has lunch with Yashwant Sinha and has dinner with Amar!!! Talking about dinner with Amar …. seems that night when the Congress announced Nut's suspension Nut was at Amar's place for drinks and dinner. Seems Nut had too much wine and was pretty tipsy when the news came in… Amar the good host that he is ensured that Nut's glass was always full!!!! And when the news of his suspension came Nut's glass of 'woe' did overflow and add to that the glassfuls of wine that Nut had consumed …… made a very heady cocktail.....Nut just spat out venom!!!! And his camaraderie with Amar Singh proves the adage….. birds of a feather flock together!!!!

Nut says he taught Manmohan Diplomacy… what a joke???
Nut is no Diplomat….. on his kind of diplomacy there should be rokk (ban)!!

Nut has the misconception that he's the ultimate in Foreign Affairs and Diplomacy!!! He says that he'll not say a word against Sonia….. whereas he knows without Sonia's approval he could not have been suspended!! And he knows why Sonia is upset with him!!!!!! After all the bravado seems the reality is sinking in……. father and son are trying to show that they are Congressmen…. trying to wiggle back after being kicked out!!!! Politically father and son are finished…… at crossroads with all roads barricaded!!!

Somnath Da needs to sit down and think,
Why do majority say that his stint as Speaker sure does stink???

Somnath Da before he became Speaker suffered from ' I can never be wrong' sickness!!! After becoming Speaker this sickness just went from bad to worse!!! Communists as it is do not like anyone else talking….. and then add to that the infamous Bengali temper (Pranab Da is another example of this temper) and you can easily deduce why Somnath Da is so unpopular!!! Somnath Da needs to contemplate…..you can get angry and be rude with some people some time, you can get angry and be rude with some people all the time but you cannot get angry and be rude with all the people all the time!!!!

Pepsi says their products are safe…. Coke says drink up and don't worry,
To get us re-hooked onto their bottled 'slow poison' they seem to be in a real hurry!!!

Both Soft Drink giants are working round the clock to get off the hook!!! Even the American Government has taken note that their 'blue eyed' Companies have been given a black eye in India!!! Big B has a word of advice for Coke and Pepsi 'There's nothing quite as impressive and quite as important as being honest about the mistake that you've made. So, really the best thing is to use me to go in front of the people and tell them, 'Ok this is a problem, this is a mistake and we've rectified it'……. and he'll help them to bluff their way out….. this was the art that go him his Doctorate!!!

Surrogate ads should stop!!!
This backdoor way of advertising needs to get the chop!!!

Surrogate ads actually demean the concept of advertising!! 'Samajhdaar bewakoof ko ishaara kaafi hai'...... bewakoof because these people know the ill effects of the products being advertised via surrogate ads!!!! And then this also sends a wrong message…. that one can get around the system!!! Of course Madman Suheil Seth will have his lopsided take on this…….. he'll say it's a question of perception!!! Fact is that the Government needs to act as soon as possible because they should have never allowed this sort of advertising!!

Breaking News….. Nut has sought an appointment with the Manmohan Singh who he has called spineless and weak,
Just see the man's cheek!!!

Nut is now commencing Project Spit and Clean……. in Hindi they call this 'thook ke chaatna'!!!! He's going to tell the PM that what was shown by the Media was a 'cut and paste' job…. the voice were his but the words were not his!!!! But the question is will or should the PM give him an appointment in the first place???? And now that he's shown his colors and who his true friends are shouldn't the Congress be saying 'Good riddance to bad rubbish.'?????

Bharat Kumar

aaj_ki_aawaz@rediffmail.com

WHISPERS .... CORPORATE WORLD

Bhattacharjee is new CMD CIL

The CMD of Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL), Partha Sarathi Bhattacharjee, has been appointed as the next Chairman of the public sector Coal India Ltd (CIL). He would take over on October 1.
( We said this on March 27 )

Murli Deora to back GAIL CMD !

There is rumour in the Petroleum Ministry that the Minister Murli Deora has decided to back extension of GAIL CMD Prashanto Banerjee.Tenure of Banerjee is coming to an end on August 25.

Paul appointed MD of Dunlop India Ltd

Samir Kumar Paul has taken over as managing director of Dunlop India Ltd.

Sood appointed is CFO of Tata AIG Life Insurance

Vivek Sood has been appointed CFO of Tata AIG Life Insurance.

New CanFin Directors

J S Vasan and B balakrishna Shetty have been appointed new Directors of the CanFin Homes.

Binu is Chairman OPIL

CPI leader V B Binu has taken over as the new chairman of Oil Palm India Ltd., (OPIL) in Kerala.

Super Saver Tickets validity extended

Indian has extended the validity of tickets under its Super Saver scheme, for travel till Sept. 30, 2006. All Super Saver tickets whose validity had expired, will be considered for extension of validity, against a charge of Rs.500 per coupon.
The hugely popular Super Saver Utsav scheme at present offers 4 Economy class coupons for Rs.22,000 or 4 Executive Class coupons for Rs.30,000 for travel on domestic sectors. Similarly, an 8 coupon offer in Economy class would cost Rs.46,000 whereas the same in Executive class would cost Rs.64,000.
If any Super Saver ticket is more than one year old (calculated from the date of original issue), then such a ticket would need to be reissued. Re-issuance charge of Rs.500 per ticket will be collected in addition to the validity extension charges of Rs.500 per coupon.
Fuel surcharge of Rs.650 per coupon would also be levied on all such Super Saver tickets that are reissued for validity extension, on or after 8th August 2006.