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Supreme Court to have three new Judges
If top sources are to be believed finally names of Justice V S Sirpurkar Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court ,Justice Sudarshan Reddy Chief Justice of Assam High Court and Justice H S Bedi Chief Justice of Bombay High Court have been cleared for the Supreme Court of India. Official announcement is expected to be made this month.

Shinde to be CM of Maharashtra !
If Ten Janpath sources are to be believed Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde is being moved to Maharashtra as Chief Minister.

Dube returns to Punjab
CMD of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) A K Dubey is returning to Punjab as State Election Commissioner. He is 1970 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre.

Dutt gets additional charge of CRPF
DG of the NSG J K Dutt has been given additional charge of the DG CRPF.He is 1971 batch IPS officer of West Bengal cadre.DG CRPF J K Sinha has retired yesterday.

Muivah is CVO CPWD
Ram Muivah former Joint Secretary Banking has taken over as CVO of the CPWD on Thursday.He is 1985 batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.This is for the first time that an IAS officer has been made CVO of the CPWD.
( We said this on October 26 )

Gill to return
Chief Accounts Officer in the MCD, B S Gill, is returning to the parent IA&AS after completion of deputation tenure. On return he has been made Additional Dy CAG in place of Shailendra Pande.

Will Kannnan be Additional Secretary CVC ?
Who will be new Additional Secretary in CVC? Name of V Kannan is currently doing the round for the post.

IRS is boss of IAS
It may sound to be amazing but it is a fact that an IRS officer would be the boss of an IAS in Goa. While the senior IRS officer Pravin Agarwal is the Chairman of Goa Port Trust, Ashwani Kumar who is 1994 batch IAS officer of Orissa cadre is joining the Trust as deputy Chairman.

Every fourth MP is tainted
Lok Sabha records show that every fourth MP has a criminal record. Cases range from murder to cheating.

Indian likely to become first Asian woman MP
A British Asian looks set to become Britain's first Asian woman Member of Parliament. Thirty-four-year-old British Indian Priti Patel has been selected as a Conservative party candidate and looks set to become Britain's first Asian woman Member of Parliament

Tenure of Mishra expires
Deputation tenure of S K Mishra, Director Non-Conventional Energy, has expired .He is 1990 batch IRS (IT) officer.

Pension money may go to stock market
Government may finally decide to invest the pension fund corpus in equity and bond markets, marking the actual rollout of the full-fledged pension scheme in the country.

Malathi is new Home Secretary TamilNadu
S Malathi has been appointed new Home Secretary in TamilNadu.1977 batch IAS officer Malathi has succeeded Pawan Raina who retired yesterday.

New VICE-Chief of Naval Staff
Vice-Admiral Nirmal Verma has taken over as Vice-Chief of the Naval Staff in place of Vice-Admiral Venkat Bharathan, who retired .

NPCA to be set up
As per draft cabinet note a new court ' National Protection Court Authority' is being setup which promises to deliver justice within 10 days and its ruling can be challenged only in the supreme court.

IAS changes in Himachal Pradesh
There is IAS reshuffle in Himachal Pradesh. New changes are :- Mssrs Anil Khachi Director Industries,B S Nainta Director Vigilance,Prabodh Saxena Director RD,Rakesh Kaushal Director Transport,Ajay Bhandari MD SC & ST Corporation.

ADG suspended in UP
Uttar Pradesh Government has suspended 1974 batch ADG rank IPS officer B K Bhalla.

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Housing allotment scheme is highly biased

The housing allotment scheme is highly biased against central services officers. An All India service officer gets much decent accomodation and much faster then a non-All India service officer, no matter if both of them have joined the government of India at the same time under central staffing scheme. Technically, all officers who come thru central staffing scheme should be entitled to Tenure pool as they come for a "tenure". To mitigate this problem, there was a proposal to create a third pool in addition to general pool and tenure pool i.e. Tenure pool-Non AIS. However, the fate of it is unknown for known reasons !!

Chander Shekhar

Will UPSC look into this !

It is interesting to note that the UPSC is finding it difficult to reveal cut off marks for different subjects in the civil services exams. It implies that different set of parameters are applied for selecting aspirants from different subjects. Who decides this? What is the criteria in deciding such parameters? If the candidates are aware of the criteria, whatever it may be, they may appear in exams with such subjects. Eg. It is a common knowledge that the candidates from technical background are not encouraged. If one knows the criteria, he/she may appear with a different subject.

There is another angle to this issue. The IAS has all through been projecting as a privileged lot with perks/ privileges etc. They got better pay scales vis-a-vis other services. The reasoning given is that 'we were better'. But it is not so. The IAS 'just happened' to take advantage of normalizing. May be a non-IAS from a different service appeared with a particular subject and scored better but because of some discreet criteria (which UPSC is desperately trying to hide), he/she was put at a disadvantage vis-à-vis IAS who though scored less in his subject, somehow got advantage of normalizing. So, IAS please don't project yourselves as 'we are better' or 'we were better' vis-à-vis non-IAS. We hope the pay commission also keeps such issues/ factors in mind so that the 'mistake' of giving better pay scales to some services is not repeated.
Shuchi

Balakrishnan will be new CMD of HPCL
The Public Enterprises Selection Board has selected Arun Balakrishnan for the post of chairman and managing director of state-run Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL).S Roychoudhary is number two in the panel,In all probability Balakrishnan will take over from M B Lal on March 31.
( We said this on November 29)

Sharma is CGM SBI Hyderabad Circle
Ram Kumar Sharma is new Chief General Manager (CGM), State Bank of India, Hyderabad Circle.Earlier he was GM (Network II) of SBI, Delhi Circle.

Kannan appointed Member
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India has appointed R. Kannan as Member (Actuary) for a period of five years.He is presently Principal Adviser and Chief Economist in the Reserve Bank of India.

Kamath is BS Banker of the year
K V Kamath, managing director and chief executive officer of ICICI Bank, has been chosen Business Standard's Banker of the Year for 2005-06.

Amit Chandra resigns !
Amit Chandra, managing director and head of global markets and investment banking division of DSP Merrill Lynch, has decided to leave the company after 13 yrs of association. He is also a member of the DSP Merrill board. Chairman Hemandra Kothari will take over Chandra's operating responsibilities.

Indian born to head BBC
Indian-born Chitra Bharucha is set to become the first woman to head the BBC following the resignation of Michael Grade.

SCOTIBANK may acquire private sector bank
SCOTIABANK , the world's largest bullion bank, is in talks to pick up a stake in NBFC in India. As and when regulations open up, the bank is interested in taking over a private sector bank.

Volkswagen CFO on way out
As per report Volkswagen will not extend the contract of CFO Hans Dieter Poetsch when it expires at the end of next year.

Pritam Singh is ITI in-charge CMD
Marketing Director Pritam Singh is new CMD of ITI replacing Y K Pandey.

Sreenivasan is Director Union Bank
K S Sreenivasan, chartered accountant has been appointed as director on the board of Union Bank of India .