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Bureaucratic changes in GoI
Senior level bureaucratic changes have taken place in the Government of India on Tuesday.
( We said this yesterday)

Renuka Vishwanathan goes
Rural Development Secretary, Ms Renuka Vishwanathan, has been shifted. She is 1971 batch Karnataka cadre IAS officer.
( We said this yesterday)

Pani is new Secretary Rural Development
Orissa Chief Secretary, Subhash Pani, has been appointed new Secretary Rural Development in the Government of India. 1972 batch IAS officer Pani would succeed Ms Renuka Vishwanathan.
( We said this yesterday)

Dr Mishra appointed Secretary Agriculture
Dr P K Mishra has been appointed Secretary Agriculture in the Government of India. 1972 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre, Mishra, is presently Secretary Disaster Management .He would succeed Ms Radha Singh who is retiring on November 30.
( We said this yesterday)

Renuka Vishwanathan is Secretary Coordination
Secretary Rural Development, Ms Renuka Vishwanathan, has been moved to the cabinet Secretariat as Secretary Coordination. 1971 batch Karnataka cadre IAS officer, Ms Vishwanathan, would succeed 1971 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer G S Sahni who is retiring on November 30.
( We said this yesterday)

J P Singh is Secretary Disinvestment
Special Secretary Labour, J P Singh, has been appointed Secretary Disinvestment. He is 1972 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Indira Bhargava is new CBDT Chairperson
Ms Indira Bhargava has been cleared for the post of Chairperson of the CBDT. She is 1970 batch IRS officer.
(We said this on October 26 )

Justice Bedi to be Judge of SC !
Grapevine has it that Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court Justice H S Bedi is being appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of India.

Brahma is promoted
H S Brahma has been promoted to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India . 1975 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre, Brahma, would succeed Dr P K Mishra in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
( We said this yesterday)

Pande to succeed Shikhawat
Shailendra Pande will succeed Madan Singh Shikhawat as DY CAG on December 1.

Vipin Kumar is Advisor IOC
Vipin Kumar will be new Advisor (Security) Indian Oil Corporation (IOC).He is 1975 batch IPS officer of Haryana cadre.

Major Gen Sharma shifted to Delhi
Major General S K Sharma Major General S K Sharma, Commandant EME School Baroda, has been transferred to New Delhi. He has been succeeded by Major General V.K.Passi. EME School is the premier Technical Institute of the Army in India.

IPS changes in AP
There is IPS reshuffle in Andhra Pradesh. New postings are :-Mssrs Umesh Sharraf Additional Director ACB,C V Anand Police Commissioner Vijaywada,D T Naik DG Drug Control Administration,Lokendra Sharma ADG HRC,T Krishna Prasad Director APSRTC,M A Raza DIG Eluru and A Abraham Lincoln DIG New Cyberabad.

Akil to join BSF
Mohammad Akil is joining the Border Security Force (BSF) as DIG. He is 1989 batch IPS officer of Haryana cadre.

Tiwari and Tripathi are ACS in Maharashtra
Two 1972 batch IAS officers Ramanand Tiwari and Satish Tripathi have been promoted to the rank of ACS in Maharashtra on Monday.
( We said this on November 23 )

FORUM
Need of a unified civil service
A question has arisen in the context of determination of pay and perquisites of government servants whether All India Services (IAS etc)are an anachronism of colonial vintage and whether we should not restructure the services into a single Unified Civil Service providing mobility vertically and horizontally consistent with demands of Leadership , domain expertise, training, and experience vs job requirements, eschewing mutual back-scratching practices based on network of old boys. In these days of incessant talkathon on empowerment, it would be necessary first of all to empower government officers themselves at various levels in their various functions to achieve a flatter hierarchy and free the bureaucracy from the legacy of hegemony and vice like grip of seniority.

Obviously the advantages of having a single unified civil service are many. With the availability of computing power , data bases and search facilities with real time net working it is no longer necessary to confine decision making and management of Human resources in government as aracne as it is now and sole prerogative of the Department Of Personnel and Training. . With the Right To Information Act in position many old myths of the 'efficient' steel frame can be exploded and replaced by a structure which can above all facilitate drawing upon a larger pool of talent untrammeled by parochial service cadre affiliations and year of allotment barriers. Match making between job requirements and available persons with appropriate domain expertise, training and experience can be an objective and transparent exercise without intermediation by vested interests. Performance can be more easily tracked and factored in a larger pool to get the best resources for each and every position.

With a unified Civil service there will be no need to satisfy elements within the government to conduct tedious and ridiculous rituals like cadre reviews. These are ostensibly carried out to improve the efficacy but in real fact leads to over ranking as it is used as a vehicle to make mere promotion avenues. Of course those who know why in the first place these redundant exercises are carried out will be aware that this is the only way to keep a reasonable pace of progression in most of the civilian services compared to those enjoyed by the members of All India Services who luxuriate in a career progression scheme solely based on efflux of time. There may be a cap on the numbers of ministers in the cabinet, but there is no limit to the number of chief secretary rank positions in a state. .

From the employee view point, a Unified civil service can ensure equality of opportunity to serve in positions consistent with one's education, training, skills, performance and domain knowledge. For instance, under the present scheme of things a district collector suddenly can become the transport commissioner in charge of a complex network in a metropolitan city, just because he is liked by the chief minister. No one knows how these appointments are done. The unplanned urban growth or 'Delhi Sealing' or 'Unlivable Chennai' is now blamed on politicians, traders and corrupt bureaucrats. Part of the blame should also be laid at the door of the present scheme of cadre classifications and their management.
If it can be demonstrated that positions are manned by objective criteria of matching jobs digging deep into the data bank of skill profiles, transfer of personnel from one station to another will cause no heart burns unlike now when arbitrary postings make almost every one unhappy. A larger pool will always help in being vastly flexible to address employees' concerns in transfer and grant of sabbatical and study leave etc. Moreover larger pool will also help devise schemes in which the onus of changing one's station of posting from A to B can be shifted from th0e government to the officer himself or herself.

Obviously there will be a tremendous resistance from the groups which are enjoying the low hanging fruits of the present systems. They are also powerful, after all they have exhibited their solidarity by resisting any kind of reform for the last several decades. Whenever the government of the day brought some reforms like job cuts or closing down some departments, say like DGS&D or CCI&E etc they ensured not only they would not be affected but in fact their tribe would increase to implement the reforms!.

However, if this VI Pay Commission merely produces concordance tables like 'for this old pay scale ' 'read this new pay scale' and does not think out of the box and recommend structures for the 21st century management in government, it would indeed be sad. .
R Sundaram

Aaj Ki Aawaz

All SP MLAs are on call duty,
And they have to report the minute they get a call from Mulayam's Deputy!!!

All SP MLAs have been ordered to be present in Lucknow!!! All have dedicated mobile phones that Amar Singh will call on in case they are wanted for Parade Duty!!!! They've done quite a number of dry parade runs…..they can parade in order of height or in order of seniority or in order of weight or in order of personal wealth!!!! Amar Singh has got five sets of designer Kurta Payjamas for Parading MLAs….. he feels his Kurta Payjmas make a fashion statement !!! But this time its not for fashion …… he's lately been suffering from incontinence and in his Land Cruiser there are quite a number of Kurta Payjama sets, including the one's for parading purpose, neatly hanging!!!

Laloo's boasts on the Railway turnaround are empty ….. cock and bull (fibs) ,
But then we know that with cock and bull Laloo is abs full!!!

The 'turnaround' in railways seems to be a five-year-old story, and not a phenomenon driven by Railway Minister Yadav just in the past two and a half years!!! Ministry officials said that the signs of a turnaround first surfaced in the Rail Bhawan in 2002-03 when the Ministry recorded 518.74 million tonnes originating freight loading against 492.50 million tones during the previous corresponding period. Since then, the Railways have not looked back. Seems the IIM will have to purge Laloo's speech from the minds of the young students he spoke to….. something like getting ulta pheras done to nullify a marriage!!!

Tug of war on between Dullo and Amrinder,
Lets see who will be made the sacrificial Baandar ( Punjabi for monkey)!!!!

Amrinder wants Dullo to take on Baba Badal in Lambi and Dullo wants Amrinder to do this!!! In case Amrinder is forced to do this then he's going to cite Dullo's diktat that no Akali turned Congressman will be given a ticket and excuse himself!!! Sonia believes in giving new faces a chance…. and more so when the old face has muck all over it…. that is if by a miracle Congress scrapes through in Punjab!! Then Sonia is going to ask Amrinder the same question she asked Bhajan Lal…… ' Why do you want to become the CM again?' And for this question like Bhajan Lall Amrinder too has got no reply!!!

The induct Rahul campaign is getting shriller,
How long will Sonia keep Rahul in the chiller???

Chiller because the perception is that Rahul Baba is chilling it out!!!! In UP Congress can at most hope to play King Maker!!! And as things stand it won't serve any purpose to expose Rahul to UP!!! Rather than the Party why not get Rahul into the Cabinet???? Let him make a difference or mark in the Portfolio he handles!!! And in a way Rahul is being unfair to the other young Turk MPs……. the perception is that because of him they too have been placed in the chiller!!! Its time that they all are given responsibilities and let them feel the heat of responsibility under their collars!!!

The Cape Town Cricket field at a mountain on one side and on the other side the sea,
Hope this you all did see???

The setting gave the situation for Indian team…. climb the mountain or jump into the sea!!! What a pack of over payed nincompoops!!! And the biggest nincompoop is non playing and he sits in a plush Office in the Agriculture Ministry!!! Had this happened to the Aussie or Brit Cricket Team the Head of the Board would have resigned!!! But here BCCI …. Besharams Controlling Cricket in India give one excuse after the other!!!

Sharukh will now anchor KBC…… Big B has been replaced,
Actually the right word is displaced!!!

Because the Big Bluffmaster thought that KBC just could not run without him…. and we've had enough of his hand rubbing and false pretences!! Of course Amar 'Dalal' Singh is going to say that Big B was booted out on Sonia's instructions!!! By the way Inconsequential B and Ash are to get married soon!!! They deserve each other!!!

10 more questions for Jethmalani !!!
Defending Manu is with Law pure beimaani!!!

What is the purpose of Law ? Should Law be used to get the guilty off? Do Lawyers switch off to the obvious? Don't you feel its criminal to get the guilty off the hook? Do you believe in the adage…. even if its bad name at least its some name? Why didn't Manu or his Lawyers speak of this Sikh person in his/their defence? Do you read fictional Detective novels? What would you have done if Jessica had been your own daughter? And what would you have done if Manu was your own son? What do you see when you look into the mirror every morning?

Will the TADA Court pronounce Munnabhai a Khalnaayak,
They say Papa Dutt often called him a naalayak!!!

Sanju Baba was always a troublesome Baba and then he grew up into an overgrown Baba and remained troublesome!!! There is no way the Court can pronounce him 'not guilty'!!!! Maybe the next sequel of Munna bhai will be…. Andar gaya Munnabhai or in goon language.... Sasooral gaya Munnabhai!!! Feel bad for him....... but those who live dangerously are always in danger of endangering themselves!!! Like they say ' le lo duwaave (blessings) Ma Bapp ki uttre gi ghatdi paap ki' ..... feel with his Dad he was lacking in taking his blessings!!!

Bharat Kumar

Corporate

Who will be CMD of HPCL ?
Who will be the next CMD of the HPCL ?.Though there are several contenders for the post, the tie is said to be between A Bala Krishnan and Roy Choudhry.

Poongavanan to be Director BEM !
Muthoo Poongavanan is being tipped to be Director Constructions in the Bharat Earth Movers. He is presently CGM (Marketing) in the BML.

BSNL to have roaming pact
BSNL may have ruled out the possibility of having national roaming arrangements with private mobile players, but the state-run telecom company plans to launch global roaming with a 400 foreign operators including some priority operators.

Sethi joins Wipro
Ramit Sethi has joined Wipro BPO as Senior Vice_President, Knowledge Services and Capital Markets