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Vishwanathan to be new Law Secretary

Secretary Legislative Affairs, T K Vishwanathan, will be the new Secretary Law in the Government of India. He would succeed R L Meena on April 1.

Wangdi gets Secretary rank

Rinzing Wangdi has been promoted to the rank of Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs. He is 1971 batch IFS officer.

Dr Chaturvedi to be Secretary Legislative Affairs

Dr K N Chaturvedi is being tipped to be new Secretary Legislative Affairs in the Government of India. In all probability, he would succeed T K Vishwanathan on April 1.

Total number of 1974 batch Addl Secrs is now 54

After the second review total number of 1974 batch IAS officers empanelled to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India has risen to 54.

New post of JS in Panchayati Raj

A new post of Joint Secretary is being created in the Panchayati Raj Department in the Government of India.

A significant event !

Speaker of the Lok Sabha is above political affliliations.The Speaker belongs to all the party,he has no party of his own.Such has been the glorious tradition of Indian democracy.By absenting himself from the Prime Minister's lunch in honour of the visiting American President ,Somnath Chatterjee ,the CPM MP from West Bengal has indicated that Indian democracy matters little for the "great" communists.Is this absence warning signal for the Manmohan Singh Government ?.

Vikas Swarup is Director (North) in MEA

Vikas Swarup, IFS 1986, who was earlier Director in EAM Natwar Singh's Office, has joined as Director(North) in MEA in place of Achal Malhotra (1989). Malhotra is going to Vienna on posting.

Anjana Singh to go on deputation

Ms Anjana Singh, IPS 1994 batch, has reportedly been cleared by the Nagaland Government for inter-state deputation.

Khan to join Academy

S H Khan is joining the LBS National Academy of Administration as Deputy Director. Indian Defence Estates Service Officer, Khan, is presently posted in Pune.

Jerath to be PS to Dev

Sumeet Jerath will in all probability be the new PS to Union Heavy Industries Minister Santosh Mohan Dev. 1985 batch Assam-Meghalaya cadre IAS officer, Jerath, is returning next month from his foreign posting.

Sharmila Chawli get extension

Director (ADB) in the Department of Economic Affairs, Sharmila Chawli, has been granted three months extension in deputation tenure. She is from Railway Accounts Service.

Subodh Agrawal is PS to Bhuria

Subodh Agarwal, former PS to External Affairs Minister has joined as
PS to MOS Agriculture Kanti Lal Bhuria .He is 1988 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Railway promotions

Altogether 8 Senior scale officers of the IRAS have been promoted to JA Grade. They are Mssrs:- Neeti Srivastava Sarkar, Aditya Joshi, Sanjeeva Shivesh, Tanuja Thakr, Amarjit Gautam, Hara Prasad Nayak, Sunit Kumar and Batti Lal Meena.

Goyal posted in Railway Board

Ms. Anjali Goyal, SG, on return from deputation, has been posted as Director, Accounting Reforms-II, Railway Board.

FORUM

Today is the time of specialisation. Developed countries are developed because of such a system. Britishers started ICS now called IAS for their own interest and rule. It is high time that a generalised service like IAS is done away with. India will progress faster if it is done so --sooner the better. IAS has lost its relevance unlike IPS.

Ram Mohan

Whole lot of bullshit. AK's comments show how blinkered, ill informed and bigoted views can still be put forth shamelessly. IAS is the main bane of governance now. Most are corrupt, conceited and self serving at the end of 10 years of service. The IAS arrangement is part of the problem why India could not do so well. It is only now when the Government is becoming increasingly less important, resulting in lesser opportunities for IAS to meddle, that country is breaking loose.

A K Pandey

The statement indicates a mindset which is shallow. The language used is not befitting of a balanced thinking. The site should refrain from publishing such type of negative writings.

R Das

What is this rot?

An exam is conducted in which 50 % of those selected are clearly people not on merit.(Though an exam is not clear indication of one having the BEST BRAINS!!)about being posted to REMOTE CORNERS of the country- do a survey in Delhi and find out people from which service are in maximum numbers? In all the three All India Services -IAS/IPS/IFS . Clearly it is the IAS - because they do NOT ALLOW OTHER SERVICES TO get empanelled or selected. What is serving in a remote corner of the country? Your pets are looked after by the Animal Husbandry dept, the agriculture dept does farming in the DMs bunglow, memsahib has one vehicle or more to socialize, you have free access to entertainment, never think about paying for most things, health dept takes care of childrens health, etc, etc.
KABHI KUDH KAM KAR KE DEKHO- staying honestly in big towns is the TOUGHEST of them all!! And these so called people living in remote areas- How many of them even know what their electricity bill is or have they ever paid it in their lives? How many know their doodhwala's (milkman) bill? How many know the cost of their daily groceries or where it comes from. About the liqour served in their parties? Would memsahib continue to throw these fabulous parties even when hubby is in "big towns" luxury? About the amount of petrol spend on their generator sets?
GIVE OTHER SERVICES A CHANCE TO WORK IN GENERAL AREAS - they might perhaps outwit the IAS. The IAS realizes this and gives no opportunity to anybody else.
The IFS serves in the toughest field conditions- with not much support. For 20 years - 17 years most of them are DFOs thanks to DPC not being conducted by the IAS (oops the efficient, intelligent, ........). .a PERSON IS DM MAXIMUM FOR 7-9 YEARS -after they lose touch with reality - in the secretariat. THE MOST CORRUPT AND SELFISH PEOPLE.!!

P Singh

Absolutely right. IAS as a service is cut above the rest but the other services should restrain from drawing comparisons with IAS. Due to this they lack pride in their own service as well as suffer from an inferiority complex. I myself belong to IAAS and i feel half the time we are competing with IAS and drawing futile comparisons. I guess the basic flaw lies in the fact that we all gave the exam for IAS and by default we got other services. We all wanted to get IAS , therefore, the complex of not making it to the top never goes. I feel one should take pride in ones job and do it properly.

NJ

Ref Comments from AK.

1.Telented yet shy, powerful yet fearful to hide name behind an acronym.
2.Almost civil services have officers from diversities in backgrounds. True, we do not require so many disciplines in universities. Because IAS knows all, and person with one background can impose decisions in concerning other disciplines. This is expected out of an administrator, who can pretend to know everything under the sun, and take quick ignorant decisions on an issue deserving specialised inputs. The IAS is definitely the best, of those, who are taking the same exam(civil services exam),and achieve higher ranks, under influence of both exogenous and endogenous factors. But the merit list remain incomparable with those who are entering through other exams. IAS has topped in many desirable and undesirable public interface. IAS contributes maximum in 'running the show' in central government, at the cost of their services in Districts and States, for which they are actually meant for. Take any parameter, central government is doing far better than state governments, that is due to excessive taking care of IAS in central than in states, can we infer this? There are maximum number of IAS officers who are leaving the service, given it is the best, why so? Because, though IAS are best of the talent, there is no worth of talents in IAS, perhaps.
3. The management theory referred to has no reference. Hence not require any comments. The birth right to administer is admissible, but observed trend in post-marital strategic cadre shuffling establish people of the country has not accepted the 'raj' as with the presumption of birth right.

4.India is full of 'success stories'. interesting enough due to diversity of the country, the patterns of success, is not fit for every corner of the country. The experience in 'limited' fields do not ensure 'unlimited' exponence in every field, especially for a policy addressing the entire country.

The last paragraph is not understood.

SP

Please ignore AK. Need not give him too much of importance. Surprisingly, there are many in the IAS who have this attitude. Best to avoid such elements who are a drag on the nation.

Sunny

It is amusing to see the views on the first note. The persons sending comments have not even realised that it was a sarcastic note by a non-IAS who did not want identified. It is a reflection on the mental ability of those sending comments that they could not understand it . Well grapes are always sour . Civil service is the most transparent system of recruitment which is not there anywhere else whether academics or so called autonomous bodies. Yet all these so called experts would like to be in govt in some capacity by back door, and hence their frustration. Only very few manage back door entry , the rest cannot meet their aspiration hence their jealousy SAM

The officers of the Indian Civil Service are allotted different Services after qualifying the same UPSC examination by the Ministry of Personnel on the basis of their ranks and preferences.
It is unfortunate and wrong to presume that the officer once certified as suitable for the particular service is taken for granted to be so for the next 35 years, unless something serious comes to notice.
After serving for over 20 years in the system and having closely worked with almost all the services, it is pointed out with some authority, personal experiences and full responsibility that the ICS (backbone of the establishment)has all type of officers in all the Services. Infact, no service bad and it is the officer's act which makes it good or bad.
We are all nuts and bolts of the machinery and it is only our personal and false satisfaction that one service is better than the other. If some of the parts do not perform efficiently there may be some temporary arrangement to move the vehicle without that part. Ultimately, if all parts function in complete harmony, then the result will definitely be better and that is perhaps the optimum situation we should try.
Can anyone try to answer why a civil services aspirant should opt for so called lucrative services ( ?, ?, ?)as compared to inferior services ( none to me)in their eyes? Only one who had the choice (rank)for many services but enjoyed the service allotted to him with full confidence, respect and dignity from a large number of excellent officers in all the Services.
There would have been perhaps lesser need for Right to Information if the ICS had taken care of serving the people in their respective jobs during the last sixty years. Better late than never.
So, good luck to all and hope for the best. If some of us do not change, people will make us change.

K.S. Dhatwalia.

Dilip Mehra is PS Technical Education in MP
Dilip Mehra has been appointed Principal Secretary Science and Technology and Technical Education in Madhya Pradesh. He is 1975 batch IAS officer.

Sriniwas gets new posting in Maharashtra

S V R Sriniwas has moved from Municipal Commissioner Solapur to Commissioner Animal Husbandry of Maharashtra. He is 1990 batch IAS officer.

Lt Gen Lidder goes to Delhi

Lt Gen. H.S. Lidder (GOC) 4 Corps, has been moved as chief of Integrated Defence Staff, Delhi.

IAS reshuffle in Bihar

There is major IAS reshuffle in Bihar.New postings are :- Mssrs K D Sinha Member Board of Revenue,P K Basu Secretary and Commissioner Urban Development,S P Verma Secretary Small Irrigation Schemes,A K Sinha APC, K K Pande Sugarcane Commissioner,A K Chauhan Cabinet Secretariat,Shashi Shekhar Sharma Additional Commissioner Finance,Amita Pal Additional Member Board of Revenue,Girish Shankar Secretary Programme Implementation,W A Anjum Vice Chairman PRDA,Pankaj Kumar DM Nawada,Lallan Singh Director Industries,L Kunga Special Secretary Agriculture,Amir Subhani CMD COMFED,Vidyanath Mishra MD Text Book Corporation,R K Khandelwal Addition Commissioner Home,Vivek Kumar Singh Secretary Public Relations,Brijesh Mehrotra MD Civil Supplies Corporation,Dr Deepak Prasad Chief Electoral Officer,S P Sinha Director AIDS Control,V P Singh Additional Secretary Panchayati Raj,A N Singh Additional Secretary HRD,S M Raju Additional Secretary Rural Development,B Negi Director Training,N K Chaudhry Director Middle Education,Vaidyanath Prasad Director Land Records,Sarvan Kumar Joint Secretary Finance and P K Sah Director Welfare.

Aaj Ki Awaz

Bush's visit….Commies and SP are just going through the motions???
Pure politics and no emotions!!

SP is playing to its Muslim Vote Bank and Commies have to protest the presence of their natural enemy in India!!!! And what is with the silly caps that the Mulayam's gang wears……they look more like a pack of Qawals …. in fact Jaya Pradha looks as she's going to break out into a Qawali!!! Neither the Commies nor SP have India's interests in mind…. its just their agendas and vote bank politics!! And both say that they are showing Bush their contempt…..well Bush won't get to see them rave and rant, but yes Delhites sure will face the brunt of their protests!!!

For Bush it's American interests … same is Manmohan's stance (Indian interests),
And it would be wrong to say that to The Pipers Manmohan karr raha hai dance!!!

Fact is that India badly needs Nuclear Power!!! And America pushes the Non Proliferation agenda… though this is achieved indirectly!!! But, will not be easy for Bush to push through this Agreement past the Non Proliferation Lobby back home!!! One thing to be remembered is that whatever Bush agrees to is subject to approval by the Senate….. like the Americans say 'it ain't over till the fat lady has sung'…. the fat lady in this case is the US Senate... for Indian this Nuclear Agreement is a win win situation!!!

Bush ain't eating any banty roosters (chicken)…… its mutton and sea food,
Indian sweet dishes he's gonna find good!!!

Cleopatra had her food tasters… Bush's food, not only is it passed through food tasters but also through a Lab. After all if he got the Delhi Belly then instead of a chair Bush will require a commode to sit on during meetings!!!! They say Bush as it is not too fond of chicken….. he's a Texan and loves 'slow elk' or beef…… so if chicken is not on the menu Bush's not going to miss it. The menu's got mutton and sea food!!! And hope like Clinton he too falls in love with 'mango kulfi'!!!

Aishwarya left for a overseas trip … so she'll give a pass to the invite to Kalam's Dinner,
If she had attended this dinner for going to be Pa in Law's outfit she would have been a sinner!!

With talk of her becoming Bluffmaster's wifey this would have been embarrassing for her!!! Though some say SP missed an opportunity…. because had she accepted the invite she would have gone to the Party wearing the cap Samajwadis wear, however silly she may have looked. The Security have also been given Amar Singh's photo and have been told to keep a watch for him….. once a gatecrasher always a gatecrasher!!

Hope Laloo will be seated far away from the Americans during the Dinner thrown by Kalam,
Because if he's seated next to them seeing him eat they're going to exclaim ' Christ' equivalent of Ram Ram!!

Rajdeep Sardesai still has nightmares of Laloo offering him rice with his hands when he did a programme ' Follow the Leader' with Laloo. Laloo does not eat food he 'hand wrestles' food!!! And if any American is seated next to Laloo then he better keep a watch on his coat pockets… Laloo will not be carrying his spittoon and will be looking for places to offload his oral load!!!

Bush is a guest and so I'm being polite,
But I have to protest that what he's done and is doing in Iraq is not right!!!

But following the message from our Tourism Ministry that we should be polite to our guests I being polite to Bush. Hope you recall the Americans strip-searched our Ministers when they visited USA. In fact Bush should have been given a taste of this medicine the Indian way.... he should have just been made to pass through our Immigration and Customs!!!

Mulayam Sarkaar balances precariously at the edge…… ready to fall,
Only a matter of time before in UP Election honge call!!!

Mulayam knows this……and he knows making a comeback is like asking for the impossible!!! Ajit Singh is in a situation that he has been praying for!!! He's being wooed by SP and Congress!!! As you all know Ajit Singh's RLD is Ready to Leave Dal …. only prerequisite is that it should be worth it!!!

Badal says that Congress's Poster Boy is to be seen only on posters,
And by the looks of it Poster Boy is indeed one of the biggest boasters!!!

On Paper Manifesto was printed….. on paper boaster boasts that he has delivered!!! Then on paper via a pre poll survey he shammed that his Government would get re-elected!!! On paper a lot of Companies have made commitments to invest in Punjab!! And to Amrinder's threat Badal says that he's only a paper tiger…..after all posters are made on paper and paper tiger's are made of paper!!! Post elections raddi waalas in Punjab will be raking in money, with all the raddi paper that will be found in Punjab!!!

Rabdi wants more security… security from whom ….who is she scared of??
I'm sure Nitish at her Security demand sure would scoff!!

But Nitish should realize the Security is also for the Public….. you never know how Laloo and his rowdy bunch can react!! Rabdi just gave an example of this the other day and that too in the Vidhan Sabha!!! At present Rabdi is surrounded by 65 Officials but she wants more!!! Also may be her demand for security is directly proportional to the scum coming out on Laloo….. recent revelation of the Food Scam ( Rs. 3500 crores) has heightened her threat perception accordingly!!!

The make crores yet they are the stingiest lot,
On the Laundry Bill the Indian Cricket team got hot!!!

The Hotel that they stayed in charged them Rs. 130 for laundering their cricketing attire and this got the Indian Team hopping mad!!! Seems now BCCI will auction 'Official Launderers to the Indian Team' title!!!

BCCI may have to tape up Chappel's gob,
And tell him to concentrate on his job!!!

Chappel did not need to make those comments about Ganguly in a recent interview!!! In Aussie slang BCCI should tell him to stop behaving like a 'Dill' (idiot) and to stop 'earbashing' (nagging) Ganguly!!! BCCI should warn him that if he continues to 'raw prawn' ( bullshit) then they'll 'pink slip' (sack) him!!!

Bharat Kumar

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Gaiha to be Member TRAI

G D Gaiha ex Indian Telecom Service and Ex Director Technical MTNL and Presently CMD TCIL (Under DoT) is set to become Member of TRAI in place of DR D P S Seth. Good luck to Reliance.
Noticebaly G D Gaiha has a years tenure left at TCIL but still he is resigning TCIL to join TRAI.

Viswanathan gets foreign assignment

Joint Managing Director Of the Motor Industries Company V.K. Viswanathan, has taken up a new assignment in Robert Bosch Corporation, Farmington Hills, USA.

Desai and Shah joins M Morgan Stanley

Ridham Desai and Sanjay Shah have joined the M Morgan Stanley.s .