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Gurusamy is new Member of UPSC
E Bala Gurusamy has been appointed new Member of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).

Singhal to be Member of CBEC
S K Singhal is being appointed Member of the Central Board of Excise and Customs.Formal orders are to be issued early next week.

Radha Singh to retire
Secretary Agriculture in the Government of India, Radha Singh, is superannuating by this month end. She is 1969 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Thankur Joins IB
P K Thakur is reported to have joined the Intelligence Bureau as SP. He is 1998 batch IPS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Choudhry is new VC of Gauhati University
Amarjyoti Choudhury is new vice-chancellor of the Guhati University. He has succeeded G N Talukdar.

One vacancy of Member CAT
There is one vacancy of the Member of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT).

Sudhakaran is Director Higher Education
D Sudhakaran has joined the Ministry of HRD as Director Higher Education.

Das is Director Law and Justice
M Das is the new Director in the Department of Law and Justice in the Government of India.

Jagdish Kumar is Director Telecom
Jagdish Kumar is new Director Telecom in the Government of India.

Brahme is Dy Secretary Personnel
K M Brahme has joined the Department of Personnel as Deputy Secretary.

Tripti Mehra transferred
Ms Tripti Mathur Mehra, JAG/North Western Railway, has been transferred to South Central Railway in the same capacity.

2002 AND 2003 batch IFS officers promoted
Indian Foreign Service officers of 2002 and 2003 batch have been promoted to Second Secretary from Third Secretary after passing their Compulsory Foreign Langauges. They are :-

1. Alok Ranjan Jha- French(2002)(He was All India Topper of Civil Service exam of 2002 batch)
2. Dr. Adarsh Swaika- Russian(2002)
3. Mayank Joshi- French(2003)
4.KD Dewal Russian(2003)
5.Anjani Kumar-Spanish(2003)
6. Abhay Kumar-Russian (2003)

Das is Member NSAB
Vice Adm (Retd) PS Das, PVSM, UYSM, VSM, former C-in-C, Eastern Fleet has been appointed Member of the National Security Advisory Board.

BJP ministers to learn fresh lessons
About 125 ministers from 8 BJP ruled states are currently attending a workshop in Mumbai to take lessons in good governance and other important issues like co-ordination between party and the govt and preparation for the up-coming elections.

Sajjan Singh is CEO of Haryana
Sajjan Singh has been appointed Chief Electoral Officer in Haryana. He is 1979 batch IAS officer.

Dr Rajgopal posted in Delhi
Dr V Rajgopal has been posted as Additional Resident Commissioner of Uttar Pradesh in Delhi. He is 1978 batch IAS officer.

Bajaj is OSD to TamilNadu Governor
Jasbir Singh Bajaj, Joint Resident Commissioner at Tamil Nadu House in New Delhi has been appointed as Officer on Special Duty in the Capital to Tamil Nadu Governor Surjit Singh Barnala.

Dr Bakshi is Director Health in West Bengal
Dr Sanchita Bakhsi has been appointed new Director Health Services in WesT Bengal.

Rajiv Ranjan is DCP International Trade Fair
Rajiv Ranjan has been appointed DCP for International Trade Fair in Delhi.

An Interview with Priyadarshi Thakur,
Director General of International Center for Promotion of Enterprises (ICPE), Ljubljana (Slovenia)
SM : Mr. Thakur, we are pleased to learn that you have after retiring from the post
: Thank you. The ICPE is an Intergovernmental International Center for Research and Training in Enterprise Development. It was founded on the initiative of the UN by NAM countries in 1974 as the International Center for Public Enterprises to help research the strength and weaknesses, and train the personnel of State-Owned Enterprises in developing countries. After the break-up of Yugoslav Republic, and the beginning of era of economic reform and restructuring, the Center was renamed in 1996 by its Assembly as the International Center for Promotion of Enterprises and has the following objectives:
? determination of the extent, pace and manner of restructuring their economies
? public governance in the area of 'post privatization'
? reform, restructuring and privatization of enterprises
? institutional support for entrepreneurship development
? technical assistance for SME development
? management and reform of infrastructural sector
? trade, foreign investments, joint ventures
? technology transfer, development and cooperation
? the role women in development

India is one of the founding members and has been playing a dominant role in the affairs of Center either as President of the ICPE Council (its governing body) or with Indians as its Chief Executive called Director General.

SM : Who are or can be the members of the ICPE?

PT : Full Membership with voting rights is available only to Countries.The following 19 Countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe are the Members of the ICPE : Albania, Algeria, Bangladesh, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Congo, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Guinea, Guyana, India, Iraq, Macedonia, Nepal, Slovenia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tanzania, Venezuela and Zambia. Other than this, Public or Private Sector companies, NGOs, Research Organizations etc. can also become Affiliate Members of the ICPE.

SM : What kind of Training Courses / Programmes does ICPE do?

PT : The ICPE runs a 1-year English-medium International Executive MBA programme basically meant for Officers and Corporate executives of member countries. The MBA programme is one of the approved foreign training courses of the DOP & T,GOI for middle-level officers. Besides, a number of shorter programmes from 3 weeks to 3 months as entrepreneurship development, management development, TQM, Sustainable Development etc. are also organized from time to time.

SM : Is the quality of the ICPE 1-yr MBA Programme really up to the mark? What kind of academic staff does the ICPE have?

PT : Well, the ICPE itself is a lean organization and runs this programme in academic collaboration with the Faculty of Economics of the University of Ljubljana. Contrary to uninformed views, it is actually an excellent MBA programme which has recently been granted the highly coveted EQUIS ACCREDITATION by the EUROPEAN FOUNDATION of MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT (EFMD).

SM : What is the implication of this EFMD Accreditation and which other institutions have similar accreditation?

PT : Well, EQUIS from EFMD places our ICPE-MBA degree (awarded by the Univ. of Slovenia) on par with similar degrees of a whole lot of high-cost Ivy League Schools, 97 of them across 29 countries. Anyone can see the list on Internet by accessing the EFMD / Europe website. It is also extremely cost-effective to do this programme as its cost is almost 1/3 of other Schools enjoying similar Accreditation. We are, therefore, inviting private self- financing students also to join this Programme.

SM : Is the ICPE - MBA Programme less expensive in Ljubljana because Slovenia is a somewhat backward economy and location-wise quite remote?

PT : Again, I must emphatically correct the rather widespread but totally uninformed impression in South Asia in general, and India in particular, that Slovenia is remote or backward / developing country. For the information of all those who log on to whispersinthecorridors.com I would like to emphatically put on record the following, which I hope will be quite a pleasant surprise to many who might intend doing the MBA course at ICPE / VOL at Ljubljana :

# Slovenia is already a Member-country of the European Union (EU).
# Not only that, it is important enough to be slated to become the President (country) of EU in 2008.
# It is not a backward economy: actually it is robust enough to have cleared all the fiscal and financial norms for the introduction of EURO as its currency in Jan. 2007.
# Its per capita income is approx. $ 18000 USD and it is now a Donor country.
# It is completely free of ethnic or any other kind of internal strife or militancy.
# Contrary to popular but erroneous belief, it is not a remotely located country. It is located in the very heart of Central Europe, surrounded by Austria, Italy, Hungary etc.
# Ljubljana is a small but beautiful city just 380 kms from Vienna and 270 kms north of Venice.
# India is opening a fully fledged Embassy of India at Ljubljana in Jan. 2007 despite the fact that the total population of Slovenia is about 2 million only.

SM : What are your plans as Director General of the ICPE?

PT : We are planning to re-activate our links with the Member Countries and to win back some of the lost memberships. We want to begin a consultative process to find out their training needs and expectation of the ICPE, and organize programmes tailored to their felt needs based on their advice. We also plan to rebuild our links with the international funding agencies. Also, we hope to be able to reactivate our Affiliate Membership scheme for corporate bodies and selectively facilitate what might be termed as applied promotion of joint enterprises and FDI amongst Member Countries. If our plans succeed a full new class of International MBA participants who are self financing students or sponsored by private sector companies would be doing the MBA programme at the ICPE in Oct. 2007. We also have ambitious plans of upgrading the lodging facilities at the ICPE hostel.

SM : Do you have a message for the patrons of our Website?

PT : Definitely : I wish to inform all concerned in the Training Divisions of all Govts. / Public Sector Enterprises in India and all other Member Countries in South Asia like Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka etc. (where your website is visited more often) of the enhanced worth of our 1-year Executive MBA Programme because of the EQUIS Accreditation. I also wish to invite the Private sector companies looking for incentive sponsorship for their employees and, ABOVE ALL, self-financing students desirous of doing a worthwhile MBA Programme, to seriously consider the MBA at ICPE / University of Ljubljana.

SM : If anyone is interested in getting more info on this, who can they contact?

PT : Well, they can contact Mr. Aswin Shrestha, Programme Coordinator at the ICPE by e-mail aswin.shrestha@icpe.si or they can contact me directly at pthakur06@yahoo.com or through suzana.drabik@icpe.si

SM : Well; Congratulations and best of luck.

PT : Thank you, Sureshji.

FORUM

Yeh to hona hi tha

If all the norms are thrown to winds, postings are made according to whims and fancies of some senior members of board, and no rules are followed. Even today people can predict about some of the CIT'S who will get DELHI/BOMBAY postings on their promotion as CCIT inspite of the fact that throughout their service period they have been in these places or nearby.

Poonam

May God bless him

Mohd. Izhar Alam is a soft spoken but a tough police officer. He was posted as S.P. in Patiala District in the early eighties when I was D.C. there. " Dharam Yudh" of the Akalis was at its peak. Patiala district was the hub because of the city being the base of late Gurcharan Singh Tohra. Out of the total of the 25000 Akali interns Patila district alone had 10000 prisoners in the Central Jail Patiala, District Jail Nabha and the temporary jail in the Bahadur Garh Fort Patiala. Izhar Alam's handling of the Law and Order situation as S.P. city was imaginative and commendable.He is an excellent team leader,sympathatic to victims of crime, unsparing to the law breaker and richly deserves to be the head of the state police force. May God bless him!

S P Singal

Interesting missive
Interesting to read Murali's missive. Apropos the management Pool Murali is talking about, I have two observations. First, I know of a topper of one of the earlier batches of the Civil Services Exam, who joined the Management pool after doing his MBA from Harvard, and having cleared the Civil Services Exam for the IAS/IFS thinking he was suited for it and would serve the country better (at similar ranks, topper that he was, his friends joined the Indian Foreign Service as was the trend in those days). The idea of the Management Pool was stillborn. Years later, this poor chap retired as a mere Director in the Government of India, his friends who had ranks lower than his in the exam, retired as full Secretaries to the Government. Secondly, the same is the case of the IAAS (Audit and Accounts Service), which was originally meant (Nehru and his dreams!)to man senior positions in the Public sector etc, never was it allowed to reach its potential. The solution to internecine inter service rivalry (which has been around from the days of the ICS which used to make life difficult for the Political Service, for example) is probably to have smaller Services, and second suitable senior people from all Services to a common pool to man senior positions in the Government of India. I do not see it happening in a hurry though and perhaps it will never happen.

A K Singh

Aaj Ki Aawaz

Ram 'Sherlock' Jethamalani is on the job,
Will try his level best ki justice ho jaye rob!!!

Now he's given a new twist to the Manu case. Manu had confessed to shooting Jessica…… there was nothing about a Sikh shooting Jessica….. but Ram says that a Sikh shot Jessica because she snubbed him!!! Sikh because he's easily recognizable and this narrows the identification !!! Maybe after viewing the Bollywod movie Majboor, Ram's decided to do a Majboor.

Amrinder's commenced his 'Load Show',
In actuality the turnout is very low!!!

There are hired crowds and PP too has mobilized its men to stand in as crowds.... still the stops are forlorn!!! There's a chopper flying overhead with the Load Show!!! Ultimately it's the people of Punjab who will be paying for this farcical Load Show!!! Amrinder's even distributing cash with the hope that he'll be able to buy votes and also hopes the message will go around and people will turn up at his Load Show stops in the expectation that they'll get some cash!!! There's an adage that may make Punjabis turn out for his Load Show in the hope fo getting some cash from him….. baagthe chor ki longoti!!!

To show crowds at Amrinder's Load Show now his PR guys are doing cut and paste job,
Cut and Pate photographs into the public domain karr rahe hai lob!!

Punjab's PR Department inserted ads in newspapers showing a crowd at Amrinder's Road Show!!! Well the photograph was just a cut and past job!!! Punjabis are showing no enthusiasm for Amrinder's Load Show and so his PR is resorting to tricks!!! Akalis should come out with a White Paper on Amrinder's Load Show to show the load on Punjab's Treasury!!!

Mulayam and his thugs resorted to rigging but still results for SP are disappointing,
Now a new agency for rigging Mulayam is appointing!!

SP resorted to rigging in the Civic Body elections but still the results are disappointing!! Mulayam blames the riggers for SP's bad show!!! Now he's importing riggers from Bihar to do the job in the upcoming elections…… verbal Tenders have been issued and due date is within 15 days……. experience criteria……should have rigged at least one State in a General Election and two State Elections!!!! Of course Mulayam has the means to get the experiences listed verified!!! And as is common in UP the tender necessarily does not have to be awarded to L1….. Mulayam's decision will be final and binding….. just as is common in UP Tenders!!!

Pawar plays politics in whatever he does,
Got his chamchas in the Champions Trophy matter to raise a fuss!!

Pawar played it cool while his chamchas lambasted the Aussies!!! What did he expect them to call him Buddy Sahib or Buddy Ji??? He's so used to sycophants that normal human behavior is contemptible for him!! Modi and Bindra, his henchmen, are no better!!! Seems BCCI is now in the grips of Boss Sharad 'Useless' Pawar and his lieutenants I.S. ' Shifty ' Bindra and Lalit ' Goon' Modi….. in BCCI now the rules of Cosa Nostra apply…. they now make offers that no one can refuse!!!

Bharat Kumar

All is well in TRAI
With reference to a mail by a visitor named R Singh in the FORUM column, the TRAI has clarified "Affairs in TRAI" on 27th October, 2006. They are contrary to facts. Not merely are the facts totally incorrect but you have also chosen to cast aspersions on the organization itself as also on the Chairpersons and the Secretary. TRAI is viewed both within and outside India as a forward looking responsible and efficient Regulator which has facilitated the development of the booming telecom sector. Further, the TRAI has not been without a secretary even for a day . on the appointment of the previous Secretary as Dy. Director General in the WTO, a new Secretary was Appointed following the due procedure of selection laid down in the Recruitment Rules of the TRAI. The statement like 'under hand' dealings by the previous Chairman is totally un-called for and in extremely bad taste. Further, you have stated that the new Chairman has rejected the already selected candidate and advertised the post again. The post has been advertised again because the secretary, on the basis of his competence and experience in the field of telecom has been selected for a World Bank assignment. It is extremely prestigious for an organization to have its officers selected for such positions. The question, therefore, of the present Chairman rejecting the Secretary does not arise and post has been advertised to enable the filling up of the post once the present Secretary leaves. As regards the qualifications, the present Secretary fully meets the eligibility criteria laid down and advertised for the post. It is regretted.

Rao is CMD of Electronic Corporation
K S R Rao has joined as CMD of the Electronics Corporation of India Ltd.

Penalty under RTI Act
The Gujarat Information Commission has fined two officers Rs 23,000 for a delay in answering a query under the RTI Act. State Information Commissioner R N Das penalised public information officer and deputy collector of stamp duty office of Jamnagar on a complaint.

Insurance Company faces solvency crisis
The solvency margin of an Insurance Company has fallen below the level prescribed by the industry regulator IRDA.

India to host first F-1 race
Bernie Ecclestone, formula one's CEO plans to hold the mortor sport's first race in India in 2010 and may cut the British Grand Prix to every other year.

Two new Members of BSE
Ishaat Hussain and Sudipto Sarkar are new Public Interest Directors on the board of the Bombay Stock Exchange.