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Dr Adarsh Kishore is new ED of IMF
Outgoing Secretary Finance Dr Adarsh Kishore has taken over as ED of the International Monitory Fund (IMF).He is 1969 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre. He has succeeded B P Mishra.

Posting of 1986 batch IAS starts
Posting of 1986 batch IAS officers to the rank of Joint Secretary in the Government of India has commenced.

Who is Mrs Nair ?-Mystery solved
Search for Ms Nair who recently spoke ill of AICC Chief Ms. Sonia Gandhi is learnt to have been solved. Ms Gandhi is believed to have been informed by her managers that who actually that Nair is whose wife had adverse feelings about her. He too is a big shot but not PS to PM TKA Nair as Sonia used to think earlier.

What is the significance of PM watching Munnabhai ?
What is significance of Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh watching Sanju Baba's Hindi feature film "Lage Raho Munna Bhai"? This question is being hotly discussed in corridors of power. Whether he wanted to send a signal that "Gandhigiri" still holds good or that good things always survive? Alternatively, was it to convey both messages. You keep guessing as the actual answer lies with the PM.

C T Mishra is Chairperson SSC
Ms C T Mishra has joined as Chairperson of the Staff Selection Commission. She is retired 1972 batch Gujarat cadre IAS officer .

R P Agrawal is new Secretary Education
R P Agrawal has taken over as new Secretary Higher Education in the Ministry of HRD. He is 1972 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.
( We said this on October 26)

Bhave is Secretary Consumer Affairs
Y S Bhave has assumed as Secretary Consumer Affairs in the Government of India. He is 1972 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.
( We said this on October 18 )

Naresh Dayal is new Secretary Health
Naresh Dayal has joined as new Secretary Health in the Government of India .He is 1972 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Ramachandran is Secretary Urban Development
M Ramachandran has taken over as new Secretary Urban Development in the Government of India. He is 1972 batch IAS officer of Uttaranchal cadre.
( We said this on August 4 )

Ashok Jha is Secretary Finance
Secretary DEA, Ashok Jha, has taken over as Secretary Finance in the Government of India. He is 1969 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Vinod Rai is Secretary Financial Sector
Special Secretary Banking, Vinod Rai, has assumed the charge of Secretary Financial Sector. He is 1972 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.Vinod Rai will look after Banking,Insurance and Capital Market.

Sanjiv Mishra is new Secretary Expenditure
Secretary Disinvestment Dr Sanjiv Mishra has taken over as Secretary Expenditure. He is 1972 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre. He would continue to hold charge of the Department of Disinvestment.
( We said this on October 27)

P K Mishra is Secretary Parliamentary Affairs
Special Secretary Civil Aviation, P K Mishra, has joined as Secretary Parliamentary Affairs .He is 1972 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Meena is new DGFT
B S Meena is the new DG of the Foreign Trade. 1975 batch Maharashtra cadre IAS officer Meena has succeeded K T Chacko.

Rajan moves to Delhi
Dr Amitabh Rajan has succeeded B S Meena in Maharashtra Sadan,New Delhi. He is 1979 batch IAS officer.

Shashi Prakash is Chief Secretary of Tripura
Shashi Prakash has taken over as new Chief Secretary of Tripura. He is 1976 batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.

Gairola is new DG NIC
Dr B K Gairola has taken over as Director General, National Informatics Centre(NIC), Ministry of Communication and IT

Bureaucratic changes in Maharashtra soon
A minor bureaucratic reshuffle is expected to take place in Maharashtra in a couple of days.

Agrawal is Member Planning AAI
V P Aggarwal has taken over as Member Planning of Airports Authority of India on Wednesday.

Air Marshal Gokhale takes over
Air Marshal Bhushan Nilkanth Gokhale has taken over as Vice Chief of the Air Staff at Air Headquarters on Wednesday. He succeeds Air Marshal Ajit Bhavnani who retired after 40 years of distinguished service in the Indian Air Force.

Tenure of Katoch expires
Deputation tenure of Joint Secretary in the MEA K B S Katoch has expired on Monday. He is 1970 batch RAS officer.

Chaudhry takes over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief
Air Marshal G S Chaudhry has taken over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Training Command.
Naik is Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Central Air Command.
Air Marshal P V Naik has taken over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Central Air Command.

Randhawa appointed India 's next High Commissioner to Kenya
PS Randhawa, Consul General of India in Edinburgh , has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to Kenya . He is expected to assume charge of the office from Surendra Kumar shortly

FORUM
Plenty of excellent officers in other services

Its difficult to change mindsets like that of Kamala Kanta. Some officers still keep on living in this ruler mentality as I quote from his statement "IAS is blessed to rule this country". Unfortunately today a good majority of the officers have forgotten that they are not the British rulers but public servants and the role of a public servant is to provide the service to the public not to rule them. There is no denying that some of the best brains of the country make through the civil services and we have a plenty of excellent officers in each of the service. But the UPSC exam qualification can not be the sole critieria of talent identification for a country as large and complex as ours with many social and economic realities. There is a plenty of talent within different civil services and also the other arenas of the govt and private sector. We must not forget that persons like Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Dr Manmohan Singh, E.A Sasidharan, P A Chidambaram, Montek Singh Ahluwalia and many more such stalwarts who have contributed greatly to the growth of country in different fields don't come from our coveted civil service examination. I wd say that even the thought of reserving secretaries posts for a service specific or only for civil services alone is vindication of the closed mindset that our administration has acquired over the years. We would have to expand the base of administration to different specialities with a sole objective in the view that how can the progress of the country be ensured. Persons like Kamala Kanta are representative of the old feudalistic bureaucratic mindsets and have nothing much to offer in terms of thought process of nation building. But I hope there are plenty of forward thinking officers in IAS and other services who have the intellectual levels to rise above all this parochial service oriented discussions and work towards reforming our administration to get it ready for the challenges of this century. Our future generations are looking forward to us to set the example.
MB
There are specialists in different fields

It appears that this fellow is a well-frog of the kind Swamy Vivekananda referred in his historic address at Chicago a century ago. He is simply unaware of the vast potentialities of specialists in different fields. Be aware of such super-ego!

PC
Green-eyed monster

Frowned upon and looked at suspiciously. One should not be so captive to the green eyed monster. The idea that civil servants who resign from Service should cool their heels for two years and survive on thin air is a bit frivolous as well.

Rajeev rattan

Aaj Ki Aawaz

Ram Jethmalani is Manu Sharma's new Lawyer,
To defend Manu, Ram will have to be a very good liar!!!

Manu shot Jessica…. this even Manu has confessed!!! But Jethmalani is going to try to get Manu off the hook on technicalities!!! The Media and Public should not relent because Manu's Dad is not going to leave any stone unturned to get his son off the hook!!! Lets see who wins…. Jethmalani or truth!!! Just for the record Jethamalani has an impressive record of making truth loose and in some cases truth win!!!!

Priyadarshini's killer is in jail,
Now hope in SC justice nahi hoe fail!!!

Santosh spent his first full day in Tihar reading newspapers and referring to law books in the Tihar Library!!! The authorities say he looked forlorn….. with the gallows in sight he's depressed!!! He had no visitors…. which is surprising viewing the reaction of his friends when the HC had pronounced him guilty….. seems it was just froth!!!

Both Venod Sharma and D.P. Yadav are moneyed and powerful,
To get their sons off the hook both are going to use their money and pull!!

There is a view that Media should not create a hype as this effects justice!! In that case they should lock up Venod Sharma and D.P. Yadav and make them totally incommunicado till the case is not decided!!! If both have the freedom to do everything in their power to subvert justice then We The People have the right to ensure that justice is not subverted!!!

Maybe Foreign Universities setting up shop in India will be exempted from Quotas…. Sibal wants this!!
On Quotas why should only Foreign Universities be given the miss???

Foreign Universities have quotas ……. citizens and foreigners !!! So they too have Quotas!!!! Today Arjun Singh has literally brought education on the road!!! The anti religion toxification in NCERT Books and Quotas are the banes of Indian education!!! Arjun may take his move to be a very shrewd political move but he's put the education system and students into a quandary!!

Punjabis say that Amrinder should undertake his Yatra in his Chopper,
This Yatra is going to come out as a cropper!!!

For four and half years he's not bothered about meeting Punjabis!!! He's kept his distance and now with the elections around the corner an ex Raja is planning to go around with his begging bowl asking for votes!!! And Mr. Amrinder Singh if you see some Punjabis waving out to your Yatra don't feel elated…. they are actually saying bye bye!!!!

Today Ash is Thirty Three…… isn't it high time she got hitched,
They say when she was in love with Salman she had got her wedding dress stitched!!!

Ash with all her makeup looks like she in her mid twenties….. without her makeup I hear she looks like she's forty!!! Heroines tend to get the 'wedding itch' when they cross thirty!!! When she was going around with Salmaan I hear she got her wedding dress stitched…. Salman too got his wedding togs stitched…… he went for the tapori look!!! Now they say the Bachchans have okayed Abhishek's marriage with Ash….. Ash should not take them for their word ….. after all there is a reason why Big B means Big Bluffmaster!!!!

Bharat Kumar

TRAI has no Member
TRAI is functioning without Member (Technical)for more than six months now. The other member is from IRS, is having limited technical telecom knowledge. Will this Govt. understand how important this post is or waiting for that 'special someone' to retire from service who is close to Maran???? Only time will tell. Wait and watch.

Santosh Kumar is Director (Projects ) GAIL
Santosh Kumar has taken over as Director (Projects) of GAIL on Wednesday.Earlier he was Executive Director (Projects).

Purwaha is Director (Business Development) GAIL
A.K. Purwaha has taken charge as Director (Business Development). Prior to this, he was MD of Mahanagar Gas Limited.

Changes in ICICI
V Vaidyanathan has been elevated to the rank of executive director responsible for retail banking. Chanda Kochhar, deputy managing director corporate banking, has been given additional charge of international banking.Nachiket Mor DMD will continue to be responsible for rural banking and global principal investments and trading.

Railways' frequent traveller plan in the air
The Indian Railways' are contemplating to introduce a scheme of frequent travellers for its upper class customers ,just like airlines in India. Its nitty gritties are yet to be formalized.

IRS slow on tax moves
USA : Ahead of polls, IRS slow on tax moves : The comissioner of
internal revenue has ordered his agency to delay collecting back taxes from Hurricane Katrina victims until after the Nov elections, saying he did so in part to avoid negative publicity.

SEBI slaps fine
SEBI has reportedly slapped a fine of Rs. 2 Lakh on a former Tata Finance Ltd Director for violation of insider trading norms in his transactions in TFL shares in april 01.