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Secretary level changes in GoI this week
Secretary level changes in the Government of India will take place this week.There will be new Secretaries of Defence and Industrial Policy and Promotion.Again the name of 1973 batch UP cadre IAS officer Siddharth Behura has started doing the round for IPP.

Sumit Bose to be OSD Finance Commission
Sumit Bose will soon be joining the Government of India as OSD 13th Finance Commission.1976 batch IAS officer Bose is presently Principal Secretary Finance ,Madhya Pradesh Government.

1988 batch IAS file to be cleared this week
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to clear the file of empanelment of 1988 batch IAS officers in a couple of days.

Anil Verma to be PS to Pranab Mukherjee

Anil Verma Secretary, Darjeeling & Gorkha Hill Corporation is poised to become PS to Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee.Verma who belongs to 1989 batch is an IAS officer of the West Bengal cadre.

UPA's VP nominee & the Ambani link ?
Is Mohd Hamid Ansari, UPA-Left candidate for the post of Vice President (70), associated to industrial tycoon Mukesh Ambani ?.He is a distinguished fellow of the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) floated by Ambani Sr & ORF's Chairman is RK Mishra . Recipient of Padamshree, Ansari, had edited a book `Iran Today -- Twenty Years After the Islamic Revolution. He was inducted in the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) in 1961 and has served as Indian ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia.

1991 batch may head to N.Korea
The IAS officers belonging to 1991 batch may head towards North Korea for their training. This is being considered as they were not sent to China.

50 per cent 1998 batch sent to the US
As many as 50 per cent of IAS officers belonging to the 1998 batch have been sent to the US for training. Rest of them were held, reason about which would be explained to them later on.

Chaitanya Kalbag exits from Hindustan Times

Editor in Chief of "The Hindustan Times" Chaitanya Kalbag, after a brief stint has quit. As the grapevine has it, his exit happened after newspaper baroness & Vice Chairperson, Hindustan Times Mrs. Shobhna Bhartia had a meeting at Oberoi hotel Delhi last week. After the meeting both parted ways. It may be recalled here that a similar brief stint as Editor in Chief of Hindustan Times was served by Prem Shankar Jha in 1980s'.

Who will be Editor of Hindustan Times ?
Who will succeed Chaitanya Kalbag as Editor of the Hindustan Times ?. Names that are doing rounds are: Harish Khare,Pankaj Paul and Joydeep Bose. There is speculation that in remotest possibility Vir Sanghvi may don the mantle of Editor-in-Chief in the said newspaper, once again.

Pratibha has no choice for Secretary
President elect of India Mrs.Pratibha Patil has indicated no choice for any particular incumbent as Secretary to the President. As the grapevine has it, she has however said a "suitable officer" may be posted.

Panel for Secretary to President
There is a panel of three to four bureaucrats for new Secretary to President designate Mrs.Pratibha Patil.

Two scribes quit The Telegraph
Two journalists have quit "The Telegraph" that belongs to Kolkata based media baron Aveek Sarkar. They are Ashwani Talwar & Gautam. They have understandably quit because they were being branded as trusted men of Bharat Bhushan who recently joined the "Mail Today" - a morning to be launched by "India Today" group in collaboration with "Daily Mail" by March 2008. As it is Ms.Manini Chaterjee would join as Editor of "The Telegraph" on August 1,2007.

Ulhas Joshi:a sad IPS

Is Ulhas Joshi ,1976 batch IPS officer of Mahrashtra cadre, paying price for having taken up cudgels with Indian Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar in 1993? It is an open secret that as DIG Konkan range, he had filed a writ petition against Sharad Pawar, then Maharashtra Chief Minister, in connection with Pappu Kalani and Hintendra Thakur, (TADA detainees) and MLAs from Ulhasnagar and Virar respectively in 1993.Recently he was denied promotion as Additional DG unlike six of his batchmates. They are Sudhakar Ambedkar, Dhananjay Jadhav, Jayant Umranikar, Bhujangrao Mohite, Vasant Deshmukh and Tukaram Wankhede .

Logun is Director LAC Division in MEA
Amrit Logun has taken over as Director LAC Division in the Ministry of External Affairs.He is 1989 batch IFS officer, Logun, has succeeded Dinesh Bhatia.

Gupta to be PS to Renuka Chaudhry
S C Gupta is all set to join as PS to Union Child and Women Welfare Minister Ms Renuka Chaudhry. He is 1986 batch IAS officer of Sikkim cadre.

Kapoor to be OSD to Ms Chaudhry
PS to Union Child and Women Welfare Minister, Nachiketa Kapoor, is likely to take over as OSD to the Minister.

IPS officer to join NHRC
Jammu SP Mukesh Singh is joining the National Human Rights Commission. He is 1996 batch IPS officer of J & K cadre.

Kumar is new IG Law and Order HP
B Kamal Kumar has been appointed new IG Law and Order in Himachal Pradesh. He is 1982 batch IPS officer.

Vinod Dhall's book receives rare honour
Vinod Dhall's book, "Competition Law Today" received a rare honour when it was launched at an international function at the Palais de Nations, the UN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on 18 July, 2007 by the Secretary General of UNCTAD, Supachai Panitchpakdi before an august gathering of over Competition Law experts from around the world. The audience included chairpersons, members, directors of competition authorities, government officers dealing with the subject, multilateral organizations like UNCTAD, WTO, OECD, WAEMU, some NGOs, and others gathered in Geneva for the meeting of Intergovernmental Experts on Competition Law and Policy. The Indian Ambassador and the Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Mr Anurag Goel were also present. Before the International Launch, the book had been launched in India by the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram and the Corporate Affairs Minister, P C Gupta. Speaking at the international launch, the Secretary General, Supachai Panitchpakdi hailed the book as a major contribution to the cause of competition law and policy in the world, especially for the developing countries, many of which had in recent years embraced modern competition law. The book particularly explains the economic content of this important law and its complex provisions. Competition law is an essential ingredient in the development process based on free market economy. Hence it needs to be properly understood and implemented, both in the national and international contexts. The Secretary General also added that the book will contribute to better international cooperation in this field. This much hailed book by Vinod Dhall, currently Member and actg. Chairman of the Competition Commission of India, is published by Oxford University Press.

A CBDT member without portfolio!
CBDT member, RN Upadhyaya, is without a portfolio for long. What could be the reason?.

Haryana for pre-mature retirement of 2 IPS officers
Haryana Government is reported to have recommended pre-mature retirement of two direct recruited IPS officers.

1991 IPS gets promotion in Haryana
Four 1991 batch IPS officers Mssrs Balbir Singh, M S Malik, R S Deswal and A K Roy have been promoted to the rank of DIG in Haryana.

Wasteful Expenditure by NSSO
A two day Office Council Meeting of NSSO(FOD) was organised at Sikkim. Two Joint Secretary level officers and one Addl. Secretary level attended beside junior level officers like a UDC, a Joint Director and a Peon from Delhi. The meeting just lasted for 2 hours as there was nothing substantial in the Agenda. Rest of the time was spent in site-seeing at the expanses of Government. Lakhs of rupees were spent in air-travel, DA, Lunches, Dinners, hospitality etc.to officers. Why was it not possible to hold this meeting in Delhi when out of 12 Members, 7 were from Delhi ?.

Presidential poll campaign was worse
The campaign for Presidential poll in India this time was worse than the electioneering that one witnesses during polls to students union in an Indian college.

DIGs to be posted in important districts of UP

There is a proposal to post DIGs as district police chiefs in Lucknow, Kanpur, Meerut, Agra, Ghaziabad, Varanasi, Ghorakhuur and Bariely.

IPS officer is back to Manipur

Peter Ngahanyui has returned to the parent Manipur cadre from central deputationdeputation .1975 batch IPS officer Ngahanyui was chief security commissioner Northern Frontier Railway.Incidently he is senior to Y Joykumar Singh who is DGP in-charge..

FORUM

Bureaucracy must rise above petty issues

While going through this portion of your website it gives a very clear
insight of the minds of the people who are governing the country. It
gives a very bad impression about the bureaucrats as they are discussing
issues like what IFS should be called or why some persons are posted at
Mumbai or Delhi or who is superior etc. etc. On some point of time these
discussions may be acceptable but Most of the time debating doesn't befit
the status of these top ranking civil servants. It also proves the
allegation againset them that they are concerned only about themselves
and their ego and have no concern or feelings for the common people of
this nation. This country has seen Civil servants like Noronha &
Rustamji and in their times the ICS & IP were really respectable. The
senior lot of officers who got trained with them also kept the flg
high. The civil Servants of today must remember that It is this crop sown
by the civil servants of the past which the today's bureaucrats are
reaping. The entire bureaucracy must rise above such petty & mundane
issues and think seriously about their priorities & Roles otherwise they
will soon loose their importance and responsibilities.
Rajnesh

A Suggestion

The Public Enterprises Selection Board of GOI selects most suitable persons to be appointed as CMD/MD/CEO in government PSUs. Yet performance of loss making PSUs has not shown any remarkable improvement. It is suggested that let the Chairman of the PESB be appointed as CMD of any loss making PSU with full powers so that he can show that he is capable to make things happen and happen for better. If he succeeds the credibility of the PESB will be established.

Keshav Prasad

"Functional Justification for ISS Posts

It is true that there is no justification for creation of Economic Adviser and Sr. Economic Adviser posts belonging to IES in various Ministries of Government. The officers are not doing any economic work but only secretariat work which is being done by Secretariat Officers or officers under Central Staffing scheme. It is an open secret that Cadre Review of IES and ISS have been done only to remove the stagnation in two services rather than any functional justification for the posts. The position is worse in ISS where due to cadre review and upgradation of posts from JTS level to SAG level in the field offices, SAG level officers are doing the work which a Section Officer perform in Secretariat. Is it not criminal waste of Government Money at a time when Government is concerned about heating of economy, inflation and wasteful Government Expenditure. It is time that Government orders a review of creation of posts in these two services through non-Government bodies like IIM or Indian Instt of Applied Manpower Research if not AT Kerney or Mackinzee. Even a Government body like SIU can do a good job, and till the time study is completed, all promotions should be kept on hold. "

Surendra Mohan

We should support Vandana Prevasi
Ms. Vandana Preyasi has taken correct action by lodging criminal case against RPF officer who tried to "accidently" fall on her sister while travelling by train.Shri Lalu prasad Yadav himself father of several daughters did not cover himself with glory by downplaying a criminal act on the part of RPF officer. Infact such offences should be made non bailable with minimum ten years RI incase of persons belonging to police/ army. Recently in a similar incident involving an army jawan who had tried to rape a women officer in Delhi DGDE tried to trivialise the incident by writing to Vice Chief of Army Staff to take action as "deemed fit " against army jawan for his "unruly and uncivilised" conduct. The local army authorities who had taken custody of offender jawan from police assuring strict action under sec 354 of IPC simply removed him from service without any jail term giving curious logic that the accused person had acted under influence of liquor and had he not consumed liquor he would have "acted otherwise". On the one hand government is deeply concerned because of declining sex ratio, on the other officials of security forces have the guts to indulge in such shameful and criminal acts secure in the belief that their bosses would take a lenient view. We should all support Vandana Preyasi so that no one in future will ever dare do such a thing.
Sudhir Chopra

I do not agree about IES officers

I completely disagree with Sri Raman that all Ministries should have Economic Divisions headed by IES officers. There is absolutely no need for even most of existing Economic Divisions and creation of further such Divisions will only add to infructuous work and non-plan expenditure. Ministries are meant for implementation of Government's programmes and not for economic research. IES can use their expertise (whatever it is) from Planning Commission, where they occupy most posts of Joint/Deputy Advisors.

Sarvesh Moorthy

Training courses should be conducted for others also

What is so special about IAS that the Government is ready to spend so much for 150 officers short visit to the USA. Why should DoPT not conduct such training courses for all Group A services?
Devendra Sridhar

TAIL-PIECE
An American decided to write a book about famous temples and churches around the World.
So he bought a plane ticket and took a trip to China.
On his first day he was inside a church taking photographs when he
Noticed a golden telephone mounted on the wall with a sign that read "$10,000 per call".
The American, being intrigued, asked a priest who was strolling by what The telephone was used for.
The priest replied that it was a direct line to heaven and that for $10,000 you could talk to God.
The American thanked the priest and went along his way.
Next stop was in Japan. There, at a very large cathedral, he saw the Same golden telephone with the same sign under it.
He wondered if this was the same kind of telephone he saw in China and He asked a nearby nun what its purpose was.
She told him that it was a direct line to heaven and that for $10,000 He Could talk to God.
" O.K., thank you," said the American.
He then traveled to Pakistan , Srilanka , Russia , Germany and France .
In every church he saw the same golden telephone with the same "$10,000 Per call" sign under it.
The American, upon leaving Vermont decided to travel to up to India to See if Indians had the same phone.
He arrived in India , and again, in the first temple he entered, there Was the same golden telephone, but this time the sign under it read "One Rupee per call."
The American was surprised so he asked the priest about the sign.
"Father, I've traveled all over World and I've seen this same golden Telephone in many temples and churches. I'm told that it is a direct line to Heaven,
But in the US the price was $10,000 per call.
Why is it so cheap here?"
Friends., it is your turn........
Think .....before you scroll down...

The priest smiled and answered, "You're in India now, Son - it's a Local Call".
This is the only heaven on the Earth.

KEEP SMILING

Aaj Ki Aawaz

Kalam the People's President demits Office and Sonia's choice takes over!!!
Fight by Indians to stop a person with serious charges from becoming President is over!!

Five years hence can Pratibha even dream of such a send off!!!
Doesn't look like when Indians at her becoming President karr rahe hai scoff!!

On her taking over Indians are not at all happy!!!
In fact quite a few are pretty scrappy!!!

Please do not be taken in by Congress's 'rented celebrations'!!!
In actuality in gallis and mohallas on her becoming President there are deliberations!!!

Okay Congress has bulldozed her into Office with numbers…bullying numerical kind!!
That's the definition that comes to mind!!!

So from a people's President now you have Sonia's choice!!!
Many say like PM another HMV……Her Majesty's Voice!!!

Congress's excuse is that any Leader who stood would have face accusations left and right!!!
So Congress's argument is that on probity we must loose sight!!!

Fact is people are shocked that even a Lady Leader has so many skeletons rattling!!
And seems Congress forgot to do due diligence on the cases she was battling!!

No doubt Pratibha has won but the Nation has lost!!!
And for getting Sonia's choice into Rashtrapathi Bhavan Nation's image is the cost!!

Sonia says it's a special moment….. yes for her it may be!!
Not for Indians because her game we see!!

Manmohan says it's a vote against divisive politics… what a joke!!!
But then Manmohan has always been an off the track bloke!!!

BJP now needs to contemplate……. both in Neta and Neeti BJP is lacking!!!
BJP needs to put a stop ' which party man has which Leader's backing'!!!

Why should Advani behave as the head honcho when Rajnath is the one?????
This kind of dual Leadership and politicking in erstwhile BJP was never done!!

Basically power spoilt BJP rotten…… now from cadre based its power based!!!
Out of the Party values have been chased!!!

And sad thing is that within their own Party BJP CMs anti incumbency karr rahe hai face!!!
Party Leaders try karr rahe hai apne CM ko karna debase!!!

So BJP needs to get its house in order!!!
And stem all the indiscipline caused disorder!!

Otherwise come 2009 and BJP will be in tatters…… so BJP needs to shock itself to its senses!!!
Otherwise for BJP very soon they'll be using past tenses!!

Today BJP needs another Vajpayee and another Pramodh Mahajan…..wanted badly!!
Jaitley can take Pramodh's place…….no one in sight to step into Vajpayee's shoes sadly!!!

Told you Big B was just playing some game!!!
There's some reason why he's been given the Big Bluffmaster name!!

Who is he to donate the Barabanki land when it does not belong to him!!!
He cannot own land as per his whim!!

And now he says he's going to make a paatshaala!!!
Trying to whiten his face that's looking very kaala!!!

Fact is to get valuable land records were fudged…… and he became a Farmer by wave of a pen!!!
After all he was one of Mulayam's men!!!

And then with a Farmer certificate he bought valuable land,
On which he had planned a Farm house that would have been really grand!!!

Amrinder is worried about Chahal in jail… what happened to him when he was in the Chair!!!
For the hundreds of innocents languishing in Punjab jails he did not care!!!

Badal is a smart cookie,
He'll not try to get Amrinder jailed in try put in Raninder the rookie!!

Maybe Amrinder will soon be jail hopping!!!
To meet Man Friday Chahal , son Raninder and son in law into jails he'll be popping!!

I'll end this one with a salute to Kalaam!!!
Aap ko Kalaam Sahib dill se salaam!!

And just like to add…….. Pratibha has been forced on us!!!
Had it been our choice leave catching the Presidential Bus we would not let have her come near the bus!!

Bharat Kumar
Aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com r

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BHEL promotes 69 GMs

The much awaited promotions of Additional GMs to the GM level in public sector major Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd(BHEL) have been issued.Altoghther 69 Additional GMs have become GMs.They are A.K. Sinha ,A.L. Harduley ,C.K. Shrikhande Dr.(Mrs.)Pushpa Talwar Chief Medical Services,G.D. Verma ,K.P. Gera ,M.K. Shakya, R.K.Dikshit,R R Yadav ,R W Chitale ,S C Bhageria ,S K Seth, S U Quidwai ,U Chatterjee,Vishvanathan Iyer (all Bhopal), Dev Raj, N.K.Gupta ,N.K.Bansal,S.K.Uppal,Vipin Chandra,Dipankar Das (all Noida) ,H P Saxena ,Brajesh Kumar,J K Batra ,J L Goel ,Mohammad Akbar,N Khandelwal ,S C Singhal ,Hari Om (all Haridwar),C Narendranatha,D.Kumaraswamy,K.Shriramakrishan,Anil Ahuja,R.K.Handa,Dilip Datta,Karori Mal,S.C.Mittal,Des Raj,S/F.A.Rizvi,Sunil Somani, Anu Bhatnagar,Ashok Bhatnagar,I.KMalhan ,S.K.Dube,V.K.Arya(all Delhi),G.Rama Mohan Rao ,G.Ram Reddy,K Nivedan,K.R.K.Shravana Babu,P.M.K.Sagar,Dr.Siddhartha Biswas,J.V.R.Vithal, (all Hyderabad),C.Jaydevan,G.Vishwanathan,N.Jagadeesan, S.Karunakaran,T.Anandan,V.Thyagaran(all Tiruchy),G.Robert Fenelon Chennai,R.Palanivelu Ranipet,U.N.Singh,Alak Chakrabarti,B.R.Guruprasad,B.N.Gupta(all Bangalore), S.K.Thapa Kahlagaon,R.R.Malhotra Khapakheda,S,Ganesan -Rajgarh,V.Srinivasan Neyveli and Mohan Baitha -Varanasi.

Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Director interviews on 24th

Interviews for the post of Director (Finance) in Rashtriya Ispat Nigam will be held on 24th of this month.

Nair quits Deutsche Bank

Murali Nair, head of cards Deutsche Bank is reported to have quit .He is all set to join Barclays Bank (Middle East).

Private Public Partnership in ports on the anvil
With a view to augment infrastructure at Indian ports projects under Private Public Partnership(PPP) are on the anvil.

Tanla Solutions Ltd. announces 1st qr. results

Tanla Solutions Ltd. of which Chairman cum Managing Director is Mr. Uday Reddy has reported a total revenue of Rs.94.51 Crore for the Quarter ended 30th June 2007 against Rs.39.73 Crore for the corresponding quarter of 2006 on a consolidated basis. This registers a rise of 138%. Net Profits have jumped 107% to Rs.33.26 Crores as compared with the same period last year. The first quarter EPS stood at Rs.6.65.The robust numbers reaffirm the traction seen from its subsidiary business Tanla Mobile which is a leading innovator of next-generation mobile application solutions, m-commerce and interactive services. Tanla Mobile works in partnership with global mobile operators across UK and Asia to deliver and bill mobile content over SMS, WAP, MMS, Video, etc.

PFRDA short lists 3 for sponsoring Pension Funds

The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) had invited Expressions of Interest (EOI) from public sector entities for sponsoring Pension Funds for Government employees on May 11,2007. Based on the overall evaluation, including technical and commercial parameters, the Committee found (i) State Bank of India, (ii) UTI Asset Management Company Private Limited and (iii) Life Insurance Corporation of India as the three best value bidders and recommended their appointment as sponsors of Pension Funds under the New Pension System.It may be stated that among others it was essential for sponsors to have at least 5 years experience of fund management and average assets under management of not less than Rs. 10,000 crore.

Nirvik Singh promoted by Grey

Nirvik Singh President of Grey Group for South / South- East Asia has been promoted to G2 Asia Pacific CEO.

Amit Shukla to join Seiger Solutions

Amit Shukla of Bharti Airtel is going to Seiger Solutions.It may be stated that the said company belongs to "Deccan Chronicle."He will join in place of Debraj Tripathi, who recently resigned as CEO of Seiger Solutions.

White is COO Air Deccan
Nick White has been appointed deputy chief operating officer (technical) of Air Deccan.