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Will Bhave be Secretary Consumer Affairs ?

Grapevine has is that Y S Bhave is being appointed Secretary Consumer Affairs in the Government of India. He is 1972 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

Anil Jain to be JS Petroleum

Anil Jain is being tipped to be new Joint Secretary Petroleum. He is 1986 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

CSS to be posted in CBDT

A senior CSS officer is likely to be appointed Joint Secretary (Administration) in the CBDT.

Neena Garg is JS Telecom

Neena Garg will be new Joint Secretary Telecom. She is 1973 batch CSS officer.

Avoiding to be admitted for fear of repatriation

IPS officials on deputation in the GoI are these days avoiding to be admitted to a hospital or a nursing home for fear of being repatriated. This is happening since the GoI has decided to repatriate those unfit.

Ghosh returns to India

Best known authority in the field of Water and Sanitation, Gourisankar Ghosh has returnded to India after headng international organisations in his field for 15 years. Ghosh was picked up by Rajiv Gandhi to establish National Drinking Water Mission in 1986. An IAS officer (Gujarat:67) he was assited by R. Gopalakrishnan and Anand Asthana (both IAS officers of MP cadre) and some technical experts and made the mission the largest and most sucessful programme in the world. Later he headed Water and Sanitation Section of UNICEF in New York and Water and Sanitation Council in Geneva. Ghosh is unlikely to accept a post retirement job.

Chellam is Adviser, DONER

VSR Chellam has been appointed Adviser in the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region. Dr Chellam is an officer of Indian Economic Service.

Tenure of Yogesh expires

Deputation tenure of Director in the CVC, Yogesh, has expired last week. He is 1984 batch IFS officer of UT cadre.

P K Hota to retire

Secretary Health in the Government of India, P K Hota, is superannuating by this month end. He is 1969 batch IAS officer of Orissa cadre.

Alok Prasad is High Commissioner to Sri Lanka

Senior IFS officer Alok Prasad has been appointed India's new High Commissioner to Sri Lanka.
( We said this on September 28 )

Tenure of Nayak to expire today

Central deputation tenure of Sandeep Kumar Nayak, Director in the NSCS, is coming to an end on Wednesday. He is 1988 batch IAS officer of J & K cadre.

All's not well in West Bengal too

All's not well even in West Bengal. The post of District magistrate is lying vacant in West Medanipur for over six weeks.

IPS changes in Uttaranchal

V P Singh and Satish Chandra Shukla will be new SPs of Rudraprayag and Almora respectively.Deepak Jyoti has been moved to the Vigilance as SP.

Cat walk leads to walk over

BJP circles in Rajasthan are amused over the victories that the Congress is scoring one by one in the battle of ballot to the local bodies. The latest in the series is Bikaner Nagar Parishad where the BJP has lost badly. Grapevine has it that what else could be expected of a party whose Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje remained busy in attending Cat Walks at a time when she should have done something to mobilize voters in favour.

IPS reshuffle in Madhya Pradesh

There is IPS reshuffle in Madhya Pradesh. New postings are :- Mssrs R S Meena SAF Morena,V N Pachori SAF Indore,G P Uike SAF Mandla,Mayank Jain SP Railways Indore,Vivek Sharma SAF Rewa,R S Saket SAF Jabalpur,Sanjay Kumar CSP Balaghat,R S Kaul SAF Bhind,R S Rusia SAF Datia and R S Shukla SAF Jaora.

77 IAS officers of 1987 batch short-listed !

Over 75 IAS officers belonging to 1987 batch are believed to have been short-listed for the empanelment to the rank of Joint Secretary in the Government of India. Meeting for the empanelment is expected to take place next month. Those who reportedly figure in the list include Mssrs Vijay Kumar Dev and Naresh Kumar (UT) N K Prasad, D B Kantha and Ms Vasudha Mishra (AP), Dr A K Singh, K N Kumar, M C Jauhari and M Srinivas Rao (Assam-Meghalaya), Amir Subhani, Sudhir Kumar and R K Mahajan (Bihar), B V Subramanyan and C K Khetan (Chhattisgarh), Rajgopal and R K Gupta (Gujarat), Ms Jyoti Arora, S N Roy, Amit Jha and Rajiv Arora (Haryana), Tarun Kapoor, Ram Subhag Singh and Nisha Singh (Himachal Pradesh) P K Tripathi and Sudhanshu Pandey (J & K ) Indu Shekhar Chaturvedi (Jharkhand) Rajeev Chawla,Ajai Seth and M Laxminarayana (Karnataka) V P Joy,Satyajeet Rajan,Pradeep Kumar (Kerala) Pankaj Kumar (Nagaland) T K Pandey and Rajesh Verma (Orissa) Ms Vini Mahajan and S K Sandhu (Punjab) Neel Kamal Darbari and Ms Veenu Gupta (Rajasthan) Arun Kumar Yadav and K Jaya Kumar (Sikkim) Otem Dai,Praveen Kumar,Apurva Verma,Jasbir Singh Bajaj and Ashok Dongre (TamilNadu) Manoj Shrivastava,Pravir Krishna,Sanjay Kumar Singh,Rajesh Kumar Chaturvedi,Ajay Tirkey,M Mohan Rao and Gauri Singh (Madhya Pradesh) Vijay Kumar Gautam,K U Gajbhiye,T C Shekhar,Ashvini Kumar and K S Vatsa (Maharashtra) Ajay Shrivastava,Barun Mitra,Sushil Kumar and Lalit Kumar Gupta (Manipur-Tripura)Arun Singhal,Debashish Panda, Leena Nandan, Renuka Kumar, Sanjiv Kumar Mittal, Rama Raman, P V Jagan Mohan, Sunil Kumar, Jivesh Nandan and Sanjiv Dube (Uttar Pradesh), Om Prakash (Uttaranchal), Tallen Kumar, A Bandopadhyay, Sunil Kumar Gupta and B K Kundu (West Bengal).


FORUM

Hope Pay Commission will consider all anomalies

I agree with the comments given regarding the treatment of the working couple with negative benefits like same accommodation for higher HRA, only one LTC for two working people etc. This would really de- motivate the couple. I wish and hope sixth Pay commission considers all these anomalies

Lakshmi

Issue of HRA

As regards the issue of HRA, I would like to point out a glaring disparity which exists in the Government of India. On hand a female/male spouse is working in some PSU/Attached/Subordinate Office on one hand she/he is not given HRA because her/his spouse has been allotted a Directorate of Estates, Government accommodation but on the other hand she/he is not eligible for the Directorate of Estates Accommodation. This situation would have not arise, if one of the spouses had been working in private sector. She/he would have got the HRA irrespective of the fact that the spouse had been allotted a Directorate of Estates accommodation or not. We talk of providing level playing field to the private sector in the Government sector what about providing similar level playing field to the Government employee. You either give him HRA or if you cannot then make him eligible for Directorate of Estates Accommodation. If you don't do so then in the event of the death of the spouse who got the Directorate Estates accommodation, the other spouse will be on streets with the children and no body will give credence to the fact that latter had not been taking HRA. This is against the principle of natural justice.

Anurag

Calculations are interesting
The calculations on the gross salary and expenditure of an officer having years of service in hand is rather interesting. It would be further useful if the emoluments and propensity to save are compared with that of an executive in a private sector similar number of years of service. Due consideration should be paid to the educational background and options available to the budding Civil Servants at the time of joining the government.

Sanjay

Will the FM correct things ?

Sarathi has so correctly brought out the situation prevailing in the CBDT and how CAT has quashed the transfer order of Addl. Commissioners which was against the policy formulated by CBDT itself. Shri. Lalu Prasad has steered the Railways brilliantly by turning it into a profit making organisation. He used innovative ways suited to our country. May be our Finance Minister can consider turning the Income-Tax deptt. in the same manner. This deptt. is much smaller in size compared to Railways. FM has unquestioned credentials to turn a dying deptt. into a living one. For that he will have to go deeper into the ground reality of this deptt. If he visits one of the offices of an Assessing Officer in metros he would realise the inhuman working conditions. The AOs sit in dingy rooms full of returns covered with dust with taxpayer in front chair where the only steno shared by 4 to 5 officers can not cross over to the computer table unless the taxpayer is asked to go out for a while to make way for the steno. There is no place for public to stand when they come to file their papers etc. Then it is AO who pays for filing appeals- for getting extra help of stenos- for outsourcing many things-and for buying office stationery etc. Does anyone know all this? Unless the reality comes to the fore how will anything work in this deptt. Then CBDT is busy in passing transfer orders round the year or fighting CAT cases arising out of such orders. Will the FM see below the surface and try to correct things like the Railways.

Rakesh

Will anyone take notice ?

When one sees so much of media activism for cases like Jessica Lal, Priyadashini Matoo, Afzal etc, one wonders why no one bothers about bringing those accused of killing IAS & IPS officers in North East, Jharkhand etc to book. To name a few, Dr LV Reddy (IAS,1985) was killed in Kohima in 1994 when he was Deputy Commissioner. Ved Prakash, IPS 1989 was killed in 1994 when he was SP Mokokchung, Nagaland. Ajay k Singh, IPS, 1995 was killed in 2000 when he was SP Lohardaga, Jharkhand. Dashrath, IAS 1994, MT, was killed in Imphal, Manipur. None of these killers have been brought to book. Indeed shocking. Will anyone take notice.

Tanmay

Aaj Ki Aawaz

Laloo says he did not want the Rail Ministry in the first place,
And he lies with such a straight face!!!

Maybe at first he was angling for the Home Ministry with the hope that there would be a Deputy PM and as HM he would be first in line!!! But when he saw the HM not coming his way he put his foot down for the Rail Ministry and got into a spat with Paswan!! Paswan got irked and went on his own in Bihar!!! Laloo ji 'jhoot bolle crow bites'!!!! Or is he hinting that he wants a change in his Portfolio???? As we all know a mini reshuffle is in the offing!!!!

On the City Centre chori Amrinder is now planning to do a paint job,
Fact is Punjab ko City Centre ke protagonists ne kiya rob!!!

Amrinder says that he'll come out with a White Paper on the City Centre scam!!!! Actually he means he'll do a white wash job!!! Up to now Guv Rodrigues had been getting protestors like Farmers, Teachers and Unemployed hit by water cannons at the behest of Amrinder!!! The Rally did a 'water cannon' on both the Guv and Amrinder…… both were wet…. with sweat!!!!

Pawar is trying to pass the buck to States,
Agriculture Minister Pawar has ditched the Farmers and left them to their fates!!!

Farmers have been really let down by the UPA Government….. from Jai Kisan now its Maar Kisan!!! Kisans are really facing the brunt of the anti Kisan policies of Central, UP and Punjab , Haryana and Maharashtra Governments…… land acquisitions and bogus relief measures!!! And see the joke Mulayam has played with the Bundelkhand Farmers….. Mulayam's sadism has come to the fore…… no wonders they say SP means Sadistic Party!!! As for Pawar now Indians say NCP means No Confidence in Pawar!!! Please get ready for a spurt in prices of Dals and Beans ( Rajma and Lobiya)!!!! India's Agriculture Minister from the NCP and is a NCP…… Not Competent Pawar!!!!

Why doesn't Abdullah do what he's known to do???
Stay in Delhi and Party at night and during the day lock himself up in the loo!!!

The man reeks of a 'couldn't care' attitude!!! His hollowness is evident!!! When he was the CM of J&K he spent most of his tenure in Delhi partying and golfing !!! We should all get together and gift him a motorcycle and request Mallika Sherawat to ride pillion with him for a round the World tour!!!! If Mallika does so then this act of hers should be considered as a patriotic act!!!

Arjun Singh is in a huddle,
Planning how he should get out of the muddle!!!

SC's Order has put Arjun in a fix!!!! SC asked Arjun to submit his calculations sheets on how he derived the percentage of 27%!!! Actually the 27% Quota calculation was a political one….. don't know how he's going to decipher the calculations to the basis that will be acceptable to SC!!! And on the creamy layer Arjun's now looking up the Dictionary to try to do a googly!!! HRD Ministry is on a High Alert …....... War like situation!!!!

Bharat Kumar


What is the password for SBI Chairman ?

What is the password for accessing OP Bhat, Chairman, State Bank of India, who took over a few weeks ago? This question is doing rounds in the corridors of power. Grapevine has it that the password is :RBI Governor.

Time for Indians to chill abroad

This is the time for Indians to chill abroad.This may sound strange,but it is a fact due to the ensuing celebrations that mark the Diwali festival.Many of top executives whose children are settled abroad have availed of the opportunity to be with them.

IPO of the PFC in a limbo

Powers that be in the corridors of power are dithering regarding the public issue of Power Finance Corporation(PFC).Reasons are too far to seek,only concerning executives have an answer.

Federation of Indian Airlines formed

In order to take up matters of common concern with the Indian Government and different departments including Airports Authority of India(AAI)Captains of all 10 Airlines of India floated "Federation of Indian Airlines(FIA)"under the Chairmanshiship of . V. Thulasidas, CMD, Air India. The FIA will also take matters relating to private airports well.Its founder members who attended the meeting were .V.Thulasidas- CMD Air India,.Vishwapati Trivedi -MD Indian Airlines.Naresh Goel Chairman and Wolfgang Prockshaeur CEO both from Jet Airways,DR.Vijay Mallya -Chairman Kingfisher Airlines,Capt Gopinath Chairman Air Deccan,.Alok Sharma CEO Sahara Airlines,.Jeh Wadia Chairman Go Air
airlines .Thiagarajan Chairman Paramount airlines,Mr.Siddhant Sharma CEO and .Ajay Singh both from Spicejet and .Steve from Indigo airlines.The FIA to be based will be registered under the Societies Act and based in Delhi.For appointing its DG an HR Consultant will be approached.Thulasidas said that for initial six months FIA will hold monthly meetings and then ever quarter federation's members will meet.All passengers and cargo airlines in India will be eligible to become its members subject to the condition they are scheduled airlines.Initial corpus of the FIA is Rs.5 crore and annual membership will be other than this.
Subramanian joins TVS
Krishnan Subramanian has left the Citibank to join the TVS as its vice president, consumer finance services.
debate
No, this is not desirable. What is the objective? "Cross-fertilization of Ideas" not really in the context of Indian bureaucracy. India is not U.K. The idea there is also different than what we are imitating. The way the rule will be used will result in unethical precedents and more heartburning within All India services and other Group A services as permission will be given only to the chosen few. Better course would be to include a stint with any private company as a part of the probationary training if exposure to the private sector is considered useful and relevant. For this the Govt. can have a list of companies willing to impart that training on payment. The Govt. should also think of adding village stay ,say for a month or so for IAS probationers to see first hand the problems of farmers and the actual implementation of all rural development schemes for better appreciation of ground realities of rural India. Working in private sector for five years to make money while retaining your job in Govt is not correct or necessary.

Aarti Khosla

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