I strongly criticise the feed back from "gyan" regarding the so called "other" services. It is a highly arrogant perception of the civil services. I belong to the IAS myself, and have spent 27 long years in the service but would not venture to suggest that any service - even the Central Secretariat Service - can be treated differently. True, each service has a functional purpose and in several cases, even speciality, but to segregate the civil services in a socially useful forum such as yours is a little too much. No machine - least of all the civil services one - can run without all its nuts and bolts in place, notwithstanding the pretension that one is more important than the other. Please continue to treat every news for what it is worth, rather than classifying it into "premier" services and the "others".

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Jainder Singh to move !

If top PMO sources are to be believed Secretary Information Technology in the Government of India Jainder Singh is being shifted from the Ministry. He is 1972 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

R K Mahajan to continue as OSD

PS to Railway Minister Laloo Yadav, R K Mahajan is not moving as Joint Secretary in any other ministry in the Government of India. 1987 batch Bihar cadre IAS officer, Mahajan, is going to continue with the Minister as OSD.

Jhalani to join GoI ?

Manoj Jhalani is likely to join the Government of India in the National AIDS Control Organisation. He is 1987 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

K K Paul may member UPSC?

Efforts are afoot in corridors of power to make K K Paul Commissioner of Police(CP), Delhi, as a member of the Union Public Service Commission(UPSC).His is the latest name to be added in the list of contenders for the UPSC's post.

Kiran Bedi knocks door at 10 Janpath

Country's ace woman IPS officer Ms. Kiran Bedi has many firsts to her credit. Grapevine has it that now she has approached Congress chief for her appointment as 1st eve IPS to be Commissioner of Police(CP) , Delhi.

TDSAT post may go from IAS

This time post of the Member of the TDSAT may not go to the IAS. The post was earlier held by 1966 batch retired Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer Vinod Vaish.

1982 batch IAS promoted in Maharashtra

1982 batch IAS officers in Maharashtra have been promoted to the rank of Principal Secretary in Maharashtra on Monday. They are Mssrs:- Anand Kulkarni, Dr Sudhir Kumar Goyal, Vidyadhar Kanade, V Jairath,Gautam Chatterjee, Ajit Kumar Jain, K P Bakshi, Vijay Kumar and M Ramaswami.

1975 batch IPS empanelment meeting delayed

Empanelment meeting for the 1975 batch IPS officers to the rank of ADG in the Government of India has been delayed by another three months.

Gesture of Maharashtra Chief Secretary

Maharashtra Chief Secretary D K Sankaran has set a new example .He invited the entire 1982 batch IAS for lunch on Monday to deliver personally promotion orders to the rank of Principal Secretary. A good gesture.

Banerjee gets two year extension

Attorney General Milon Kumar Banerjee has been granted two years extension till 2009 with effect from June 5, 2007. His three-year
tenure was to expire on June 4

IAS reshuffle in Uttarakhand

There is first IAS reshuffle in the B C Khanduri Government in Uttarakhand. New postings are :- Mssrs N Ravi Shankar Secretary Irrigation,Forests and Environment,Vijyendra Pal Secretary Health and Family Welfare,Rakesh Sharma Secretary Sports and Youth Welfare,Utpal Kumar Singh Secretary Water Resources,Dileep Kumar Kotia Secretary Education,Information ,S K Maheshwari Secretary Languages and Manisha Pawar Secretary Medical Education.1983 batch IAS officer Shatrughana Singh on return from central deputation has been appointed Secretary Energy,Housing and Urban Development.Manipur cadre IAS officer M H Khan who is on inter-state deputation has been appointed Secretary GAD,Secretariat Administration and Protocol.

Dehradun post lying vacant

Important post of the Director of Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy has been lying vacant for the last several months.

IAS changes in Madhya Pradesh

There is IAS reshuffle in Madhya Pradesh. New postings are Mssrs:-Rajendra Kumar Sharma Collector Shajapur,Manish Singh Collector Narsingpur,Shivanand Dube Collector Rajgarh,K M Gupta Additional Secretary,G P Tiwari Additional Secretary.

Star India legal head quits

Legal head of the Star India Ajay Sharma has quit.As the grapevine has it, he is likely to join INX Media of which Chairperson is Mrs.Indrani Mukherjea.

Lawyers in Bachchans' guest list

There are two high profile lawyers who figure in the guest of Bachchans for the wedding of Abishek Bachchan with Aishwarya Rai. One each is an Indian & an NRI. Pradip Rai is a high profile Supreme Court lawyer who is legal counsel to Ms.Jaya Bachchan and Samajwadi Party(SP) leader Amar Singh. And Sarosh Zaiwala is the lawyer from abroad who had represented Amitabh Bachchan in the defamation suit against the "Guardian".

Immigration authorities amused

Immigration authorities in India were amused last week when they read a "look out notice" for a Pakistani lady journalist. The scribe in question is supposed to have got married with ex Chief Minister of an Indian state. It is understood that as per the notice that lady journalist cannot be allowed to enter India.

IAS wins high profile Chandigarh Golf Club polls

Despite efforts and huge expenses, IAS have once again won the high profile Golf Club polls in Chandigarh. Ravi Sandhu, IAS, has been elected as its president defeating IPS officer SK Sharma.

Ramalingam is new CGM BSNL AP

S. Ramalingam has taken over as Chief General Manager (CGM) of BSNL, Andhra Pradesh Telecom.

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When Indian Bureaucracy will be thing of past

The comments by Gyan prove that if such persons are present in Indian bureaucracy, days are not left when the Indian burauecracy will be a thing of the past. The Indian Bureaucracy had a glorious past because it was headed by large hearted great personalities with great vision. They thought the entire team of their workforce as their family and they took care of them as their family members. That is the reason that people still remember M N Buch, RP Noronha and their time mates. It is proved from the fact that everyone was equal as a human being in their eyes. Everyone got their due share and respect in the administrative setup be it an engineer or a Deputy director of panchayat. They were Leaders and not managers. Today also the older part of Indian bureaucrats upto 85-90 who were trained in that atmosphere are still better than the new lot who think only about themselves.

Jain

Gyan is living in a make believe world of his own

It appears that Gyan is living in a make believe world of his own, totally oblivious of what makes a country go on or grow. If some services really believe that they are the ones who are controlling the country, then they should take full blame for our country being almost at the bottom of the list of nations, despite over 60 years of existence as a free nation.
The site is wonderful and commands respect of all those who see it, primarily because it is being run on unbiased lines.
Ashwani Lohani

What is Indian Bureaucracy ?

I wonder even after watching bureaucracy after 35 years this gentleman has failed to understand the true meaning of bureaucracy. Even a Car mechanic knows the importance of carburetor in an engine but he is not that chauvinist to conclude that it is the carburetor which runs the car, rest all other machinery has got no importance in making the car move. This is high time we inculcate democracy in one's thinking as steel frame never meant an end to the means. OR abolish all other services and let that so called mai bap take over other functions as well. Then only they will realise what importance they hold in the day to day functioning
Ajay

COCSSO a failure

The two day All-India conference organised by M/o Stat & PI was a utter faillure. The representatives from the State Governments strongly opposed the Central Government move to impose Statistical Advisers on them. The item was introduced in the Agenda for the conference by the Ministry for discussion on 10.4.2007 to indirectly get ex-post-facto approval of State Governments on creation of JS level ISS posts in all the State Capitals, as the Ministry forgot to take the approval of State Governments before creating these posts in State capitals with the approval of Cabinet. After a commotion for about half an hour, the Chief Statsitician of India and Chairman of the National Statistical Commission, smelling the mood of State representatives, apologised and withdrew the item. It is understood that the Hon'ble CAT has also termed the promotion order for promoting ISS officers to JS level on ad-hoc basis as illegal. The Forum of State Statistical Organisations have decided to oppose tooth and nail the Centre Government move to put Statistical Advisers in the States as watch dogs, as Statistics is a subject in the concurrent list of the constitution.
Kulwant

Aaj Ki Aawaz

Feel that Rahul took the joke seriously and joke could have led to his statement,
But for whom was this statement meant???

The joke is that his Grandma is responsible for WC mein India ki haar,
If Bangladesh had not been made then nahi padthi India ko itni jaldi WC mein maar!!

Why beat around the bush ….. why not come up with a Vision???
Get into the people's mind and then make a decision!!!

And in case he wanted to give an example of Gandhi grit,
What about Sonia's example…. on the PM's chair she chose not to sit!!!

Seems Rahul Baba should change the company he's keeping,
Into his head the wrong things are seeping!!

Mayawathi's DM seems to be clicking…. MY seems to be failing!!!
And that's one of the reason why in UP Mulayam is trailing !!!

Jaya Pradha keeps crying out to the Public to save Mulayam from going to jail,
She wails that Netaji will go to jail agar election mein hothe hai Netaji fail!!!

But is it true that post UP elections Amar and Mulayam are going for a holiday????
And then to return they'll say their Astrologer is looking for a Holy Day!!

Chautala has done it and Amrinder tried to do the same,
Though Amrinder had to prematurely return as his own Party was saying shame shame!!

Chautala stayed out of the Country for an extended stay,
While here for his blood Congress karr rahi thi bay!!!

Slowly but surely Congress's anti Chautala campaign lost its fizz,
And now Chautala is back in Haryana or you can say back in biz!!!

Both Mulayam and Amar have a host of medical ailments so they have the excuse,
For not coming back treatment ka excuse they can use!!!

Though then Mayawathi will get to say 'Mulayam mein nahi hai dumm',
And she'll continue......'And same goes for Amar his chum'!!!

In Punjab Sukhbir Badal has tested the waters for his becoming Chief Minister,
To his pleasant surprise not many thought his standing for Assembly elections as sinister!

Newspapers announced that he was going to stand for the Sirhind seat,
And from his detractors in the Party there was not even a bleat!!!

Seems Punjab's Polity has this habit of taking the wrong road,
And on Punjab's fragile economy pe useless debt karna load!!!

There's no vision….. just survival day to day,
And this continues till in power Sarkaar's stay!!!

Today Punjab Sarkaar should be seized with the Power situation,
On cheap and reliable power creation!!

Deshmukh is a cat with more than nine lives,
Don't know despite all his wrongs how in CM's chair he still jives???

Or is it that Madam has not been able to find a replacement,
Only after this will she effect his displacement!!

Reliance says that its optimistic that on SEZs there'll be a re-look,
And it'll be let off the hook!!!

By let off the hook I mean allowed Hyper SEZs…… no ceiling on size,
For guessing how this will be managed there is no prize!!!

Isn't too much being made out of Narayan Murthy's statement????
The wrong meaning is being taken..... this is not what he meant!!

Kalam called him a person suitable to be President and this got our Politicos green,
And they decided its time with Murthy that they got mean!!!

As it is Murthy has never minced his words for them,
So they got after this Nation's Software and wealth creation Gem!!!

Arre all that he said was that foreign guests would be embarrassed,
And for this he's being harassed!!!

What he meant was the foreign guests could not sing the Anthem with the rest,
And so he felt playing the instrumental version of the Anthem would be best!!!

When rise is illogical,
Fall will be logical!!

Market is rising ...time to sell,
Let me assure you before falling Market is not going to ring a bell!!!

And fall it will....... if nothing else law of gravity will make it do so!!!
And this time below 12,000 it will go!!!

So much money for a shaadi…… if it breaks up will be a colossal waste of money???
I'm talking about the marriage of Big B's sunny!!

Bollywood is known for its quick marriages and quicker divorces,
In fact some one had said for Bollywood Stars there should be marriage Courses!!!

Confucius says ….. Marriages are made in heaven and broken on earth,
He continues…. Selfless sacrifices decide each marriage's true worth!!!

Bharat Kumar

Aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

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Bhakta to be Director NRL

N Bhakta is set to become Director(Finance) with the "Numaligarh Refinery Ltd(NRL)"in Assam. At present he is Director (Commercial) with Maharashtra Natural Gas Ltd (MNGL), Pune .Its a joint venture of the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd(BPCL) & Gas Authority of India Ltd(GAIL).

RBI ban being flouted

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"Hathways" installs 2.50 lakh CAS

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Rift between OVL & Mittals in the open

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NE TV's enters FM Channel race

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Potkar joins Pfizer

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