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Posting of Additional Secretaries this month

Additional Secretary level postings in the Government of India is expected to take place in a couple of weeks.

Uday Verma to be AS & FA I&B !
Uday Kumar Verma is being tipped to be new Additional Secretary and FA in the Ministry in Information and Broadcasting. He is 1976 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Tarun Bajaj is JS (Insurance )
Tarun Bajaj is the first officer of 1988 batch IAS to get posting as Joint Secretary in the Government of India. 1988 batch Haryana cadre IAS officer Bajaj has taken over as Joint Secretary (Insurance) in the Ministry of Banking.
( We said this on August 7 and again on August 30 )

Major bureaucratic reshuffle in Delhi on cards
After the appointment of 1975 batch IAS officer Rakesh Mehta as Chief Secretary, a major bureaucratic reshuffle will take place in Delhi soon. He is reported to have superseded 10 officers and hence seniors to Mehta would now have to report to him. And this situation has led to speculation about bureaucratic reshuffle.

Member-Secretary Silk Board to be from Orissa !
An Orissa cadre IAS officer is all set to join the Silk Board, Bangalore, as Member-Secretary. The post has been lying vacant for the last several months.

Neerja Rajkumar to be CS of Karnataka ?
Karnataka Chief Secretary P B Mahishi is likely to be replaced by his 1972 batch colleague Ms Neerja Rajkumar.

Fireworks in Politburo meeting

As the grapevine has it there are going to fire works in CPM's politburo meeting that commenced on December 3, 2007.Whatever may be the public posturing over the 123 Agreement by CPM leaders,hardlines are likely to reject the Indian Government's move to negotiate with IAEA.

Ms.Y B Anuradha to go to Bhutan
Ms.Y B Anuradha will be going as a poll observer to Bhutan next month. Ms.Anuradha who is an Andhra Pradesh cadre IAS officer belongs to the 1993 batch. Polls in Bhutan are scheduled be held around December 26, 2007.

Tenure of CBI director to expire on December 12
Two year tenure of CBI Director Vijay Shankar Tiwari is coming to an end on December 12. 1969 batch UP cadre IPS officer Tiwari is however sure to continue till July end next.

Nobody wants to go to Karnataka from Delhi

As the grapevine has it,there is nobody in the bureaucratic circles who may like to go to Karnataka during the President's rule.

Sudhir Krishna may be PS to Karnataka Governor

1977 batch IAS officer Sudhir Krishna is likely to become Principal Secretatry to Karnataka Governor Rameshwar Thakur .At present there is no PS to Karnataka Governor.

Bihar Government recalls IAS officers
Bihar Government is reported to have sought repatriation of about one dozen IAS officers currently on deputation to the Government of India.

Two ITS officers quit
Shaleen Jain of ITS (Indian Telecom Service) 92 Batch who is DGM BSNL Meerut and Vivek Bhusan of ITS 92 Batch who is DGM Mobile Meerut have reportedly resigned from the Government service. It is not known what are their future assignements. It is rumoured that some fortune 500 global company is looking for their service.

IAS officer on foreign training
Ramachandru Tejavath IAS Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Defence has gone on foreign training to Syracuse University, NY, USA. He is undergoing one term training in Public Administration. He is 1984 batch IAS Officer from Orissa Cadre.

We said this on August 13

Will Rakesh Mehta succeed Ramesh Narayanswamy ?
It is widely believed that Rakesh Mehta will succeed Ramesh Narayanswamy in November as Chief Secretary of Delhi .He is 1975 batch IAS officer.

IPS reshuffle in Uttar Pradesh
There is IPS reshuffle in Uttar Pradesh. New postings are :-Mssrs B K Bhalla ADG APTC Sitapur, Om Prakash Dixit ADG Food Cell, A K Jain IG ATS, K K Saxena IG PAC Headquarters, A D Mishra IG Inter-State Police Mirzapur, Chabinath Singh IG PTS Unnao, Sujan Vir Singh SP Security, V K Agrawal DIG EOW Lucknow, R N Yadav Police Training Directorate Lucknow, Vishwajit Mahapatra DIG Saharanpur, Prabhat Kumar DIG Basti, B P Jogdand DIG Allahabad, Abhay Kumar Prasad DIG Faizabad, Brij Bhushan DIG Kanpur, Brij Raj DIG Basti, Anand Swarup SSP Kanpur, S R S Aditya Kanpur Rural SP, B R Meena SP Bahraich, K Satya Narayan SSP Barelley,Akhiliesh Mehrotra DIG PTS Unnao,Malkhan Singh Yadav Inter-Police Force Varanasi,Shailendra Pratap Singh DIG PTC Gorakhpur,B M Tripathy DIG Cooperative Cell,Dr Ashok Kumar DIG PAC Kanpur,M K Bashal DIG PAC Headquarters Lucknow,S K Mathur DIG RTC Chunar Mirzapur,Rajiv Ranjan Verma DIG STF Meerut,B B Bakshi DIG Inter-State Police Force Jhansi,Hari Shankar Shukla DIG PAC Agra,Rajiv Krishna DIG ATS Lucknow,Mukesh Babu Shukla Vice Principal ATS Mirzapur,Rajiv Sabharwal ATS Lucknow,S K Gupta SP Police Academy Moradabad,Ravi Kumar Lokku Commandant PAC Etah,Vijay Singh Meena SP EOW Kanpur,Vijay Prakash PAC Moradabad,Dr G K Goswami PAC Commandant and Nilabja Chaudhry SP Prosecution Headquarters, Lucknow.

Shrivastava joins NMCC

1998 batch ISS officer Dhananjay Prasad Shrivastava has joined the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council (NMCC).

IPS changes in TamilNadu
R Sekhar will now be ADG Intelligence .A Subramanian has been made ADG Prisons.Letika Saran, who was heading the Administration wing, has been transferred and posted as ADGP, CB CID. Bholanath has been posted as ADG Headquarters. K.R. Shyam Sundar will now be ADG Fire Services.

BCCI's cup of woes

Desperate attempts by Board for Control of Cricket in India(BCCI) being led by Indian Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to find a foreign coach for Team India seem to be far from over.Their latest attempt to rope in a westerner has reportedly drawn a nought.Gary Kristen has reportedly told the BCCI that the package & authority offered to him were inadequate.A formal "no" from is yet to come.

Ramishetty is SSP of Gauhati
VK Ramishetty has taken over as new Senior Superintendent of Police (City) Gauhati. Ramishetty, a 1998 batch IPS officer has replaced Surendra Kumar. .

A.Pattanayak takes over as CG Home Gurads,Orissa

Amarananda Pattnayak on return from leave took over as the new Commandant General, Home Guards and DG Police Fire Services, Orissa on December 01,2007. Ex-DGP Pattnayak(1974 batch IPS) was on a month long leave from November 1,2007 to make way for Gopal Chandra Nanda to become the DG P.

It's raining money in the desert
Rajasthan witnessed a tremendous response in the Resurgent Rajasthan Partnership Summit that recently concluded in Jaipur on December 1st. A total of 295 MOUs totalling an investment of more than one lakh sixty two thousand crores were signed giving a huge boost to Health, SEZs, Mining and Technical Education sectors. Fortis, Mahindras, Vedanta Group, Reliance, Suzlon Energy, Deutschebank, ICICI Bank and a host of Real Estate groups emrged as the major investors. The new IT and ITES policy was also launched by the Chief Minister in presence of Kiran Karnik of NASSCOM and Mohandas Pai of INFOSYS. The success of the summit is being attributed squarely to the personal involvement and supervision of Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and Chief Secretary D C Samant.

India elected Chairman of UNWTO

India has been unanimously elected the Chairman of the Executive Council of the General Assembly of United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO). In its 82nd meeting held recently in Cartegena de Indias, Colombia, the executive council elected India as its Chairman for one year. Indian Minister for Tourism and Culture Ms.Ambika Soni attended the meeting.The General Assembly of the UNWTO consists of more than 150 countries. The membership of the Executive Council is by process of election according to which 30 member are elected on a regional rotational basis for a period of four years.

Kamal Nath lauded by PM

Indian Prime Minister Dr.Man Mohan Singh has a very great liking for Minister for Commerce & Industry Kamal Nath.Dr.Singh commended Kamal Nath for not only his acumen as a politician & as a successful businessman;but was all praise for his writing skills as well.Dr,Man Mohan Singh felt that Kamal Nath was one of faces of India.He said this at presentation ceremony of a book that Kamal Nath has authored.He said "so for me it is a great pleasure, a great honour to felicitate Kamal Nath for having produced a very readable and very instructive book.The book titled "India's Century : The Age of Entrepreneurship in the World's biggest Democracy" was presented by Kamal Nath to Dr.Man Mohan Singh.The book, published by McGraw-Hill of New York, is a first hand account of Nath's ideas, initiatives and his successfully taking the Indian businesses on to the global platform while at the same time, laying a kind of a road map for the Indian entrepreneurs to benefit from emerging trade opportunities.Kamal Nath is India's public face in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the acknowledged leader of developing nations in global trade negotiations. In the past he held portfolios in Ministries of Textiles and Environment and Forests besides serving as a General Secretary of the Congress Party.

Former IAS officer elected President of YHAI
Retired J & K cadre IAS officer Mohammad Shafi Pandit has been elected the president of Youth Hostels Association of India (YHAI )

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CBEC/CBDT is useless !

How to contact anyone in the CBEC/CBDT . None want a window for public .If they have then please put it on your site. They have site for transfer and posting and may be they are worth that only. Expect some strong reaction from the heads of these two BOARDS ---CBEC/CBDT but they may avoid and wait for own settlement. What exactly they do other than transfers or their post retirement placements. Nothing new in this comment. Wish your site makes them realise it....

A K Kumar

Now ISS officers to take VRS ?

Its really a shame on the Government that an upright and honest officer Mrs Kiran Bedi of international fame had to put in her papers for voluntary retirement in disgust. It happened earlier also when honest officers belonging to different services like IAS, IPS, IRS etc. had to leave the Government as the system had no place for them. Chanakya was right when he said " Its not good to be too honest. Straight trees are cut first. Honest people are screwed first." It is now the turn of ISS. Outstanding officers are not being tolerated. An honest and outstanding officer has been literally thrown out to Ahmedabad because some people couldn't tolerate his rise in career. Earlier also a number of outstanding officers were moved out. Another outstanding officer has been issued memorandum just because they couldn't tolereate his proximity with Statistical Commission. Officers are seriously thinking of taking voluntary retirement. Who cares in this insensitive and dumb bureaucracy? "Kee Pharak Painda"? Sub Chalta hai!

Satya Prakash

IRS worst managed service

IRS (IT)is the worst managed service on the surface of the earth.

raaghurane

Only policemen, No policing

The police department in India is corrupt, unprofessional and thoroughly inefficient. The main duty of the Indian police officers is to prevent crime. Since our policemen are busy running after politicians, they can't spare valuable time for crime prevention. Next duty is crime detection---a dismal performance and about crime prosecution the less said the better. It would be far better if the home dept forces the IPS officers to spend a fourth of the time spent on police welfare collections, sports and speaking on tensions of the job- all jobs carry tensions. As for kiran bedi one may ask if she detected and solved any major crime in her career!!! Performance monitoring for police must be strictly reviewed by home department constantly .

Sailesh Ojha

It is a shame

A shame that such a fine officer has been forced to demand VRS.I have heard and read certain people say that the lady was not suited for CP Delhi as she was not able to carry everyone along.My question is whether an IPS officer is meant to ensure law n order or is he or she expected to be accomodating? If that is so what are the IAS officers required to do who are the beacons of generalism and accommodation?? Hope that the lady continues to leave her imprints wherever she goes..
Abhishek

Censure the Censor Board

I fail to understand that why there is so much of a brouhaha over the certain stanza in come film of Madhuri Dixit Nene titled "Aaja Nach le"? Why the Censor Board for Film Certification(CBFC) can't act as an effective watchdog?It will save a lot of time,money energy & lung power of people.

Shyamali

2/A publicity gimmick?

To me it looks more like a publicity gimmick as far as ban on screening of Madhuri Dixit starrer "Aa Jaa Nach Lay" is concerned.

A visitor

Aaj Ki Aawaz

It's now confirmed that Jaya Bachchan became an MP with a singular intent!!!!
Or you can say by hubby Big B for a singular reason to Parliamnet she was sent!!!

She's in Parliament to protect the interests of the Bachchan pariwaar!!!
And legit procedure she terms on her pariwaar as a waar (attack)!!!

Sometime back seems some Producer gave her Rs. 500 notes that were fake!!!
And a lot of noise in Parliament on fake currency she did make!!!

Now she's making noise on Tax Authorities questioning her on Abhi - Ash shaadhi!!!
Shaadi of the year in which as per reports there was a lot of paise ki barbaadi!!!

She's crying because she's been asked to explain shaadhi ka kharcha!!!!
Many Indians receive from IT Authority such a parchaa!!!

But then Big B and family want to be treated above the law!!!
And that's why Jaya roh rahi hai aur Amar karr raha hai caw!!!

Pawar says 'Last decade there were 1,50,000 farmer suicides' … why this statement???
Well to 'justify' the Farmer suicides during his term this statement was meant!!!

So as per Pawar there's place for more suicides to meet previous decade's figure!!!!
But as per reports the figure during Pawar's term is actually already bigger!!!

See this is how Pawar's brain karta hai kaam!!!
Pawar has really given UPA a very bad naam!!!

In fact a recent survey shows that UPA is slipping fast!!!!
And will slip faster if for the full term UPA Sarkaar karti hai last!!!

Congress feels Rahul Baba is its magic wand and he'll make things hunky-dory,
Well in UP the wand has already made Congress look sorry!!!

If you ask me Rahul has already been factored in!!!
Some have accepted him and some have put him in the bin!!!

India is becoming regionalized with every election and regionally Rahul's a misfit!!!
For regional politics Rahul is simply unfit!!!

Rahul can play with 'blocks' as much as he wants but electorally block will be a flop!!!
First and foremost the wrong thinking in Congress he needs to stop!!

Congress has to forget its misnomer that it can make it alone!!!
In fact if you ask me no Party will be able to sit alone on Delhi 's throne!!!

Sonia's first speech in Gujarat was damper than a squib that's damp!!!
Her speech brought smiles in the Modi Camp!!!

Gujarat is peaceful and progressing by leaps and bounds!!!
So many Gujaratis say 'Very funny her speech sounds'!!!

And how can she forget Congress holds the genocide record!!!
More than 4000 deaths in the 1984 riots are on record!!

Sonia says it's Gandhi (Congress) versus Ghodse (Modi) and it's a wrong evaluation!!!
Modi versus Pol Pot 'Junior' ( Congress) would be the right equation!!!

Modi or BJP do not have any haloed notions about themselves!!!
Whereas in haloed terms Sonia and Congress are painted by Sonia herself and her elves!!!

To make Congress look less black Sonia paints Modi black!!!
That's why on Gujarat riots karti hai Modi ko attack!!

How can she talk of protection to women or aurat jaat????
When by its silence on Nandigram Congress ne maari aurat jaat ko laat!!

Sorry Madam ji your speech in Gujarat stank of two-facedness!!!
Congress simply cannot afford to preach humaneness!!

On development Sonia Ji Modi's way ahead of any Congress ruled State!!
Would be more productive if on these issues with Modi you have a Public Debate????

In fact you can bring your Baba along with his 'byte brigade'!!!
And still in such a debate Congress ka mincemeat will be made!!!

Seems Commies used Taslima as a deflection ploy!!!
Deflection ke liye they were on the lookout for a toy!!!

These Taslimas and Husseins should not be allowed to hurt religious sentiment!!!
For this purpose art and literature are not meant!!!

At one time when there were 'chamde ke sikke' Mochis minted like a 'goldsmith'!!!
Hasn't lyricist of Aja Nach le heard of this myth (legend)???

People's feelings can no longer be taken for granted!!!
Care and caution before in public domain anything is planted!!!

Back to Sonia's comparision..Congress should not be allowed to use Bapu's name!!!
Congress comparing itself to Bapu is a real shame!!

Confucius say…. Bapu see how people are using your naam!!!
Continues… By using your naam for itself Congress karr rahi hai aap ko badnaam!!!

Bharat Kumar
Aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

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CORPORATE

NTPC CMD interview deferred
PESB is believed to have deferred the interview for the post of CMD NTPC. Interview was scheduled to take place on December 5.

Interview for the post of MD Konkan Railways today
Interview for the post of Director (Finance) Konkan Railways will take place on Monday .

NMDC to invest Rs.18000 cr in 5 years

The National Minerals Development Corporation (NMDC)of which Chairman cum Managing Director(CMD) is Rana Som will invest Rs. 18000 crore in next five years to increase its capacity to 50 million tonnes.Som has already paid an interim dividend cheque to the Minister for Steel, Chemicals and Fertilisers Ram Vilas Paswan in Delhi recently.According Rana Som the company will focus on investigation and exploration and will apply for prospective license for increasing its capacity. He said, NMDC would like to diversify and increase its capacity in minerals other than iron ore while retaining its leadership in iron ore mining as well. While,receiving the dividend cheque the Minister said that the NMDC should emerge as a global mining company with a futuristic vision. Paswan said 80 percent of the iron ore available in the country is low grade and the challenge for the industry is to convert this low grade ore into high grade by inducting new technology. The Minister lauded the performance of the company saying NMDC spends 5 per cent of its net profit on various corporate social responsibility activities.The NMDC earned a net profit of Rs.2300 crore last year and targets Rs.3005 crore in the current year. It has paid 100 per cent interim dividend amounting to over Rs.130 crore to the government

TDI appoints high profiled professional Sachdeva
Country's one of the leading real estate company , TDI, which off late has been recruiting top line to strengthen the top line management has appointed another high profile professional Ravi Sachdeva as Chief Financial Officer today. This follows the recent induction of Corporate HR Head, Prabhat Saksena(who joined from Samsung), the Chief Executive Officer, Arun Anand (from another multi-national company, Goetz India) and Executive Director, Pankaj Chadha (from ICL).

G N Bajpayee is Director Apnaloan.com

Apnaloan.com has appointed Gyanendra Nath Bajpayee as a non-executive independent director . He is ex Chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India(SEBI)where from he retired in 2005. He was also chairman of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India.At present he is a member of Reserve Bank of India's Standing Technical Committee on Financial Regulation and Board of Advisors of Indian Army Group Insurance Fund.

Ms.Chandana Agrawal joins Rediffusion DY & R

The Rediffusion DY&R has roped in Ms.Chandana Agarwal as business head for its Mumbai office.Hitherto she had been working with JWT as Client Services Director.

Ashutosh Karkhanis is CD,Rediffusion DY & R

Ashutosh Karkhanis has joined the Mumbai office of Rediffusion DY & R as a Creative Director(CD).Earlier he was Karkhanis creative director with Contract Advertising.

Manish Porwal quits Starcom Worldwide
Manish Porwal, Managing Director, West and South, Starcom Worldwide, has resigned. Porwal would be at Starcom Worldwide till the end of this year.

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