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Two orders of 1977 batch IAS soon
Promotion orders of two 1977 batch UP cadre IAS officers G C Chaturvedi and Shekhar Agrawal to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India are expected to be issued in a week or two.

Post of DDA to be upgraded
1974 batch UT cadre IAS officer Dinesh Rai is going to continue in the DDA. The post is being upgraded to the rank of Secretary in the Government of India.

Mohan Bhagwat to head RSS in the New Year
Mohan Bhagwat is going to succeed K Sudarshan reigning Rashtriyaswayam Sewak Sangh(RSS) chief who is likely to step down in early 2008.

HPCL commissions Asia's 1st LPG cavern storage project

The Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd(HPCL)of which Chairman cum Managing Director(CMD) is Arun Balakrishnan,has commissioned Asia's 1st LPG cavern storage project at Vishakhapatnam.This is highly creditable for Arun Balakrishnan who became HPCL's CMD in April 2007.The LPG cavern storage project which has a capacity of 60000 tonnes.Its cost Rs.333 crore.Most significant aspect of the LPG cavern project is that,that will facilitate in bringing down prices of LPG in India.LPG in this can be rolled six times.

Pankaj Kumar to get more importance in Gujarat
Pankaj Kumar is going to get more importance during the third regime of Chief Minister Narendra Modi. He is 1986 batch IAS officer.

Will Rana get his due ?
Bureaucratic circles in Gujarat are watching with interest whether J S Rana will get his due this time. It is believed that 1975 batch IAS officer Rana may be given some important assignment.

Sinha unlikely to return to Gujarat
B K Sinha is now unlikely to return to the parent Gujarat cadre from central deputation. 1975 batch IAS officer Sinha is presently Handloom Commissioner in the Government of India.

Mukherjee gets one year extension
Tenure of Ambassador UNESCO, B Mukherjee, based in Paris has been extended for one year. Tenure of IFS officer Mukherjee was coming to an end in January.

Bhanu Bhushan is out of race ?
If insiders are to be believed, powerful contender Bhanu Bhushan is now out of the race for the post of Chairman of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC).
( We said this on September 10 )

Mathur to be Member of CAT
Secretary Telecom D S Mathur is being tipped to be Member of the Central Administrative Tribunal(CAT).He is 1971 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

IPS reshuffle in Delhi Police
There is IPS reshuffle in Delhi Police.Aditya Arya, Joint Commissioner of Police has been made in-charge of Rashtrapathi Bhavan security.K K Maheshwari will now be Joint CP Operations.On return from Mizoram A K Singh has been posted as IG Disaster Management. Transferred from Goa, N S Randhawa has been inducted as Joint Commissioner of Police (Welfare). S Sundari Nanda, who is returning to Delhi Police from central deputation, will be the new Additional Commissioner of Police (PCR). DCP D P Verma will now join Battalion in the same rank. D S Norawat has been moved to Home Guards as Commandant. Bhupinder KumarACP has been promoted as DCP.ACP (Vigilance) S R Meena has been transferred to Supreme Court Security in the same capacity.

GoI and AP Government at loggerhead
Government of India and Andhra Pradesh Government are reportedly at loggerheads over the creation of ex-cadre posts. Government of India thinks that creation of ex-cadre posts is violation of rules. The AP Government has created 11 ex-cadre posts at senior level and about 75 posts at other grades.

Mukul Joshi not relieved
Punjab Government is believed to have sent a communication to the Union Government about non-availability of 1975 batch IAS officer Mukul Joshi.

Maharashtra Government wants sacking of 5 IPS officers
Maharashtra Government has reportedly recommended to the Government of India sacking of five IPS officers on the ground of incompetence and inefficiency.

Transfers delayed in Karnataka because of differences

Transfer orders of about six dozen IAS and IPS officers in Karnataka have been delayed because of difference of opinion between Advisors of the Governor.
IPS changes in Punjab
J P Birdi will be ADG HRC. Jyoti Trehan has been made ADG and PS HRC and Hardish Singh Randhawa IG Security.

Rajiv Takru joins as DG,NIFT

Rajiv Takru has joined as Director General(DG) of National Institute of Fashion Technology(NIFT).Takru who is 1979 batch IAS officer belongs to the Gujarat cadre & hitherto was Joint Secretary Defence.
( We said this on May 25 )

Vivek Kumar Saxena is Director(Admin)

Vivek Kumar Saxena is now Director (Administration ) in the Indian Ministry of Environment & Forests(MoEF).Saxena who belongs to the 1991 batch of the Indian Forest Service(IFS) is from the Haryana cadre.

Muralidhar Rao joins as OSD

Muralidhar Rao has joined the Atomic Minerals Directorate Hyderabad as an Officer on Special Duty(OSD).Rao who is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer was so far Director in the Indian Ministry of Environment & Forests(MoEF).This is a newly created post.

Lok Sabha promotions delayed
Promotions in the Lok Sabha Secretariat have reportedly been delayed.

IT collection touch Rs.200 lakh crore mark

Income Tax(IT) collection by sleuths of the Central Board of Direct Taxes(CBDT) of which Chairman is R.Prasad,has crossed the Rs200 lakh crore mark yesterday.This was the situation on December 26, 2007.It may be stated that the target for the current financial year of 2007-08 is Rs.267 lakh crore.

An IPS willing to serve in naxalites belt
As the grapevine has it M.W.Ansari - an IPS officer of 1984 batch is willing to go & serve in highly sensitive areas of naxalites in states of Jharkhand & Chhattisgarh.However,neither state government nor the Central Government is giving him a chance.Question doing rounds in corridors of power is that will he get a chance to do so.

MTDC to introduce scuba diving

The Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation(MTDC) of which Managing Director(MD) is Bhushan Gagrani (IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre),is going to launch scuba diving within a few days at Tarkarli.The destination is in Maharashtra ,a little before territory of Goa.

NBCC bags SCOPE excellence award 2006-7

The National Building Construction Corporation(NBCC) of which Chairman cum Managing Director(CMD) is Arup Roy Choudhury has won SCOPE award for Excellence 2006-07 in medium PSE category for its outstanding contribution in Public Sector Management. This is the second consecutive time that NBCC bags this prestigious SCOPE award as it won the award in Turnaround Category in the year 2005-06 as well. It may be mentioned that NBCC, over the last six/seven years, has been putting up outstanding performance and its multiplied jump in all the key performance parameters during these years has also earned the Corporation, the 'Top Ten PSUs' Awards of the Government of India for the years 2004 -05 and 2005-6. According to its CMD Arup Roy Choudhury, the company, since 2001, has taken up many new initiatives in its stride by adopting new business strategies in order to make turnaround for the company. He also says that in order to maintain a sustained growth, the company today, has ventured into new booming and profitable areas of operation, such as Real Estate, Power Generation works etc. Shri Roy Choudhury while talking about many recent large value contracts bagged by the company in new areas, cited of 1000 MW Power Plant project at Chhatisgarh, Pravasi Bhartiya Kendra Complex - a Green Building project in Delhi, Real Estate projects at Okhla (Delhi) & Kolkata etc. and also mentioned about Company's future target of achieving Rs.4500 crore turnover by 2011-12.

Singh is new Secretary to Punjab Governor

M.P. Singh, IAS has joined as Secretary to Governor Punjab in place of N.S. Kang.He is 1986 batch IAS officer.

Couple of IT Commissioners transfers this week
A couple of Income Tax Commissioners are expected to be transferred in a day or two.

Brar is VC of Lucknow University
Ajayab Singh Barar has been Wednesday appointed the new Vice-Chancellor of Lucknow University .

Kiran Bedi's resignation accepted

India's maiden IPS officer Ms.Kiran Bedi who has many firsts to her credit is now a free citizen of India, as her resignation has been accepted.So far she was DG Police Bureau of Research & Development.

M.R.Asudani is IG Wireless in MP

M.R.Asudani who was recently promomoted from DIG to IG in Masdhya Pradesh has been posted in Wireless.Asudani who is an IPS officer of the MP cadre belongs to the 1992 batch.

WE SAID THIS ON OCTOBER 27

Narendra Modi's triumph likely

Reports pouring in from different walks of life have indicated that Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, will have the last laugh. Reason for this is that despite stiff resistance from certain quarters, there has been no fading in sheen of Modi's "poster boy image" as far as the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is concerned.

WE SAID THIS ON NOVEMBER 13

BJP ahead in Gujarat
According to a recent survey the ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is ahead in Gujarat where assembly polls are to be held next month. This is solely being attributed to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's popularity. If polls were to be held tomorrow then BJP's tally in Gujarat would be "plus/minus, five seats".

FORUM

Gujarat is more enlightened state in India

Modi's win has proved that Gujarat is the most educated and enlightened state in India even compared to Kerala and Bengal, the so called highly literate states. The people loved the man who talked only about Gujratis and not about Hindus, Muslims, Kolis and Patels. Congress as their wont tried to bring in casteism and communalism. Every one appeared to be against him. The vituperative English visual media carried a campaign against him.
Navnith Krishnan

In support of other services
It's a pity that the IAS corners all top positions in government. These top posts are not, contrary to popular myth fostered assiduously by the IAS, repeat, not encadred in the IAS and any one with requisite experience can man these posts as per even existing rules. Examples of M/s Shahi (Technocrat, Secretary Ministry of Power), Jung (IAAS, Secretary Department of Civil Aviation), Krishnamurthy (IRS, Secretary Department of Company Affairs) are cases in point. The IAS keeps out the other services and economists/ technocrats etc by resorting to dubious means like deliberately delaying empanelment of other services, keeping them out of the empanelment process etc. Services like the Indian Economic Service are kept out by slowing their promotions. The IRS is kept out by delaying promotions and empanelment. The IAAS is kept out by nominating retired IAS officers as C&AG and keeping them under the thumbs of the IAS. And the myth is perpetuated by writing long pieces on sites like whispers about how these posts are "meant" for the IAS and much hand wringing about the role of other services/ technocrats/ economists being confined to "what they have been recruited for" and homilies on "serving the nation". The truth is that be it in matters of hogging top posts unfairly, keeping all possible perks, housing, air travel, training, deputations, empanelment confined to themselves; throwing all norms to the wind, the IAS has no parallel. It is truly unparalleled. Had Kiran Bedi been an IAS officer, she would not have been treated so unfairly as she was.
A K Singh

Congrats Income-tax department

The Central Government's collections from direct taxes are going to surpass indirect taxes this fiscal. Already for the year ending 2007-the direct tax collections are more vis-a-vis indirect taxes. The officers and staff of the Income-tax Department should be congratulated for having achieved this onerous task. Infact, not many people know that majority of officers would have already foregone their Christmas vacations so as to meet the assessment targets. Keep it up and the nation is proud of you. Keep up the good work.
Rajesh Garg- A tax-payer

People have not be reimbursed
This is so even for the international exhibitions of SSI Ministry. People have not been reimbursed their expenses for more than one year.
Sunita Sood

Kiran Bedi
For every upright and courageous officer like Dr. Kiran Bedi, our country has a 100 Ravis who will want submissive, yes sir officers who will never seriously address the issues of corruption and malaise which are hindering progress in our country. Dr. Bedi brought positive changes wherever she worked no matter how unimportant the post may have been. And thankfully the Magasaysay Award selectors are not influenced by such sycophantic mindset and have therefore recognised her contribution.
Kamlesh

TAIL-PIECE
Tum se pehle jo baithe theay in aiwaano mein .
Unhe bhi apne khuda hone ka itna hi yaqeen thaa.

Contributed by-Ravi Pipal

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CORPORATE

Interviews for the post of MD,CWC deferred

Interviews for the post Managing Director(MD) of the Central Warehousing Corporation(CWC)have been deferred.

Interviews for Coal sector from Jan. 2008
Interviews for selection of Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) in three coal companies namely NCL, SECL & CCL besides Directors for SCL,SECL & MCL will be held from January 28 to 31, 2008.

S K Shrivastava's orders still awaited
Despite S K Shrivastava's name being cleared for the slot of Director-Personnel in Eastern Coalfields Ltd (ECL),orders have not been issued for reasons best to concerning authorities. Shrivastava who is currently Company Secretary Western Coalfields Ltd (WCL), Nagpur, is supposed to join ECL at Santoria from the New Year.

Ajees of Canara Bank takes over in Doha
Abdul Ajees, senior manager of Canara Bank, has taken over as operations manager of Eastern Exchange Establishment in Doha.

Milinda is Manager Srilankan Airlines in Qater
Milinda Balasuriya has been appointed Manager of Sri Lankan Airlines in Qatar.

Patodia elected President of CAI

P. D. Patodia has been elected President of the Cotton Association of India (CAI).

Arvind Mahendru is Managing partner with Interaction

Arvind Mahendru has joined Interaction, the digital agency of Group M, as managing partner in place of Tushar Vyas.

Sumantra Sengupta quits JWT

Sumantra Sengupta, senior vice-president and general manager,JWT's RMG Mumbai, has resigned.

Rahul Sengupta enters into production

Rahul Sengupta who has now ventured into production line has launched his company called Mad Box.His partner is Suneel Manchanda producer of films including "Cheeni Kum".Sengupta was earlier Executive Creative Director(ECD)with Lowe in Bangalore.