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Gopal Pillai to be Secretary Defence ?
If all goes well Secretary Commerce Gopal Krishna Pillai will be new Secretary Defence .He is 1972 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.

Christy Fernandez to be Secretary Commerce !
In case G K Pillai moves to Defence Secretary Tourism Christy Leon Fernandez will be new Secretary Commerce. He is 1973 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.

Behura to be Secretary IPP !
Siddhartha Behura is likely to be appointed Secretary Industrial Policy and Promotion in the Government of India. He is 1973 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Ravi Dhingra appointed HP Chief Secretary

Ravi Dhingra has been appointed new Chief Secretary of Himachal Pradesh.He would succeed S S Parmar on July 1.1972 batch IAS officer Dhingra is presently Secretary National Minorities Commission.
( We said this on June 27 )

New Defence Secretary this week
New Defence Secretary may be appointed in a couple of weeks, as OSD, one month before the retirement of Defence Secretary Shekhar Dutt.

Will 1988 batch empanelment list touch 88?
Grapevione has it that the list of those 1988 batch IAS officials empanelled to the rank of joint secretary in the Government of India would be made known only after the total number of those being empanelled reaches 88.

Chatterjee to get promotion
Samirendra Chatterjee is being promoted to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India in a week or two.1976 batch Assam-Meghalaya cadre IAS officer Chatterjee may be posted in the Manufacturing Commission headed by Krishnamurthy.

Ms Zutshi to be ACS Home in Maharashtra
Ms Chitkala Zutshi has been appointed new ACS Home. 1971 batch IAS officer Ms Zutshi will succeed A P Sinha ON June 30 who is retiring.
( We said this on June 25 )

Shukla to succeed Kanwal Sibal
Indian High Commissioner in Australia Prabhat Shukla is all set to replace Kanwal Sibal current envoy to Russia. It means Sibal will now return home.

Parmar appointed Information Commissioner HP
Himachal Pradesh Chief Secretary S S Parmar who is superannuating this month end has been appointed State Information Commissioner for a period of five years.He is 1971 batch IAS officer.

Sudha is Member of Petroleum Regulatory Board
Sudha Mahalingam of the Jawahar Lal Nehru Centre for contemporary studies ,Delhi will be Member of the newly constituted Petroleum Board.

Gen Sharma to join NSG
Gen V K Sharma is joining the National Security Guards (NSG) as IG Training Centre.

Two from Punjab opt for deputation
Only two IAS officers from Punjab, N S Kalsi 1984 batch and AS Chatwal 1986 batch, have opted for deputation to the Government of India.

Anil Ambani to launch news portal

Anil Ambani group is planning to launch a news website under the Big Internet brand name. It is reported that news portal for which the company has already started hiring staff would develop its own content.

G C Dutt is no more
Gopal Chandra Dutt, IPS, former Principal Security Officer to Prime Minister Nehru, Shastri and Indira Gandhi passed away in New Delhi on 26th June 2007.

Kishore Malviya leaves India TV
Producer of Breaking News in India TV Kishore Malviya is all set to join the Triveni Group's News Channel.

Raghavan to be posted in Singapore
K N Raghavan,1990 batch IRS (CE&C) officer, is being posted in Singapore. Formal orders are expected next month.
(We said this on 16 Nov 2006)

Gaurav Yadav to return to Punjab
SSP Chandigarh Administration is returning to the parent Punjab cadre next week.1992 batch IPS officer Yadav will be posted as DIG in the Home State.

Srivastava to succeed Yadav in Chandigarh
Sudhanshu Shekhar Srivastava is likely to succeed Gaurav Yadav as SSP of the Chandigarh Administration. He is 1994 batch IPS officer of Punjab cadre.

Vaish to go to US
Rajneesh Vaish is going to US on a two weeks training course beginning July 7.He is 1985 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

ISS officer resigns
Indian Statistical Service officer Ratnesh Sharma is reported to have resigned from service.

S Dev posted in CAT Delhi
IDAS officer S Dev has been posted as Chief Accounts Officer and FA in the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) New Delhi.

Hareswar Baruah is Addl Judge

Hareswar Baruah, will be an Additional Judge of the Gauhati High Court. His appointment will be for a period of two years with effect from the date he assumes charge.

An uneasy calm in MEA

There was an uneasy calm in the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) yesterday. Thanks to the statement by Condoleezza Rice US Secretary of State about the India being part of Non Aligment Movement(NAM).As the grapevine has it faces of Indian diplomats in the South Block were distraught with shock & dismay.Ms.Rice had said if India abandoned NAM & joined the US led Grand alliance
Then as a "kickback" the US will sign 123 Agreement without any changes in the draft suggested by Indian Parliament. MEA officials till late Thursday evening were huddled in meetings to come up with a response to the US, but could not articulate the correct language. It may be mentioned here that Maiden Indian Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was founder of the NAM that was revived by Mrs.Indira Gandhi in 1982.Rajeev Gandhi had gone a step further & formed a group of developing nations G 12.It was on the lines of G-8 that comprises developed nations.

L.K.Advani wins accolades

Former Indian Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani has won praise for his forthright views about the Bhartiya Janata Party's (BJP's) defeat in UP polls. He had openly criticised the defeat & more importantly the faulty strategy followed by party leadership. This won him praise not only from party leaders but also the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh(RSS).As the grapevine has it the RSS has reminded the BJP leadership that it was Advani's strategy which had worked in party's favour finally led the BJP to form a Government at the Centre.

Uphill task for Maharashtra sleuths

Sleuths of Maharashtra government's Intelligence wing in the Police department are nowadays busy with only one task. And that is to ensure that no further skeletons from Pratibha Tai's cupboard tumbled in laps of journalists.

Why Ahmad Patel was in Mumbai?

Why Ahmad Patel Political Secretary to Congress president Mrs. Sonia Gandhi recently tour Mumbai? Was it part of damage control exercise in the wake of a spate of controversies in which Ms.Pratibha Patil got embroiled?

PR.Munshi & Rajdeep Sardesai meet

Rajdeep Sardesai Group Editor of the CNN -IBN had met Indian Information & Broadcasting Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmushi in the latter's office recently.What transpired between the two is not known.

Issar is Secretary Official Languages

Ranjit Issar has been appointed Secretary Official Languages. He is 1972 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

Renuka Vishwanathan is Secretary Disinvestment
Dr Renuka Vishwanathan, Secretary Coordination, has been appointed Secretary Disinvestment. She is 1971 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Veena Upadhyay shifted to Inter-State Council
Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Forest and Environment Veena Upadhyay has been moved to the Inter-State Council. She is 1976 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre. She has been posted in Place of Atul Gupta.

FORUM

Both should use IFS

This is regarding Bharadwaj's claims of the Foreign Service being superior. Bhardwaj should know that all Central Services are at par in the eyes of the Govt and such norms of superiority as proclaimed by Bhardwaj are only societal in nature. Precisely for this reason the term "Central Group A services " has been coined to include services of a particular stature and no such special category like "IAS- I(Foreign)S" has been framed formally by the government to stress the superiority.

It is imperative to note that no service is superior or inferior. We all should know that we all are civil servants working towards the common goal of serving the country in various diverse fields and arena. We should cherish the values as enshrined in the Constitution and appreciate the role played by our brethren in other services. Indian Forest Service controls 23% of the country's land mass and from where the origin of 450 of our rivers lies. A sound agriculture system depends on the prosperity of the forestry sector. Integrated watershed management can only take place with forestry as the focus. Food security and water security would be properly taken care of along with conservation of forests. Moreover Bhardwaj should know that Forest Service is an all India service with a huge presence across the length and breadth of the country and offers diversity of careers
in the form of the Forest Officer acting as the administrator, teacher, policy maker and an adjudicator in various diverse capacities. Nature loving people and environmental conservationists would do well not to adhere to the unprofessional call of Bhardwaj according superior status to the Foreign Service. Moreover with the growing concerns of the Global warming and rapid deforestation at the global level and at international forum, no better than the Foreign Service officers would know the gravity of the importance of the matter and henceforth the worth of the Forest Service.

To conclude, the use of acronym shouldn't be based on the notions of superiority but on the basis of need... I recommend that both the services use the acronym IFS as it doesn't impair the government functioning in any manner and would satisfy the aspirations of people from both the services vouching for their respective concerns.

P.S. I am a non foreign/forest service officer but belong to an all India service and i have
given a neutral account based on my interaction with Forest Service in the states and Foreign Service at the centre.

Ramesh Kumar

Who is superior?

I fully agree with K Bharadwaj that IFS is the only superior service. Officers of other services should understand how IFS is superior than their respective services. Some of the important points are as follows.

1. IFS officers get a foreign allowance and so many other perks like residing in high quality bunglows, travelling in big cars etc. in the foreign counties whereas the officers who work in India will not get all these perks and facilities.

2. IFS do a great 'bandobust' duty (the only main duty they do)to the Political big wigs and other VVIPs who are important for the Govt abroad. They establish a good contact with them. In this, they can easily eat away the superiority of their Indian super colleagues i.e IAS and the strike rate of IFS is very high like that of 'Dhoni'. IAS cannot boast that they are managing the country very well.

3. In diplomatic work, there is no 'target' and no 'achivement' i.e only dinners and talks. No 'hard and fast' rule that we have to get the membership of UN security council for India. All targets are only for the 'self development' of officers like 'getting an UN assignment, International jobs etc. Here also, the sucess rate of IFS is higher than that of IAS.

4. IFS truly represents India in foreign countries by running their Missions strictly in the same way as that of an ugly "Teshildar's office of Bihar" both functionally and aesthetically. This shows their superior Indian sprit.

4. Where is 'forest' and where is 'foreign'?. If you ask a 'forest service officer' to go to a foreign country, he will go. But, if you ask a foreign service officer to go to the forest, will he go?

So, no argument, IFS is superior.

Finally, if we see only the 'service' in the designations, then, there is no problem. But we do only disservice to the 'service' by seeing what a sensible person should not see. The moral of the story is that every 'service' is the same and the individual makes the difference. You become superior when you get the opportunity of being closer to the politicians, that IFS also provides.

RAJA

IFS is undoubtedly for Indian Forest Service

This is regarding IFOS vs IFS. What was commented few days back was correct as per the Indian Constitution. IFS is undoubtedly for Indian Forest Service. I am sorry to say that the reaction particularly relating to Indian forests vs Indian foreign is nothing short of mudslinging. Lets utilize the forum for expressing our views in a positive manner. Its not the platform for passing sarcastic comments against any service.

Deepak Shrivastava

I agree with Raja

I agree with Raja on the IFS and babudom. But it is quite surprising that Bhradwaj should say that Foreign Service is superior to Forest service. IFS (Forest Service) is a key sectoral need for the sake of future of the country. They control 23% of the land mass and are making immense contribution but the polito-bureaucratic nexus and the incompetent forest officers who have been in the lime light are responsible for the present condition. I believe that the service should be given independence like a judiciary if we do not want to edit the face of mother earth and make this planet safe for the future generations.

K P Singh

Constitutionally only Forest Service is designated

This is in ref to the IFS/IFoS acronym debate...
Indian forest service is an All India Service and is known by its acronym IFS throughout the length n breadth of the country but of late the central service called the Indian Foreign Service has started using this acronym which is causing the confusion. It is worth mentioning here that constitutionally only the Indian Forest Service has been designated as IFS, if the members of the foreign service want to use any acronym they can use IFoS...another point of concern is that in UPSC exam as well as in LBSNAA (Mussoorie)the members of the forest service are asked to write the acronym IFoS which is constitutionally wrong...all the members of the forest service are therefore requested to fight it out at their own levels...

Vivek Acharya

Good contribution of Col Dhawan

While Raja's sarcasm on the ongoing controversy between Foreign & Forest services fits well in the ridiculous situation created by incumbents of both these cadres, Col. Satish Dewan deserves appreciation for his beautiful/innovative contribution on the habits of men/women, as are often seen. Keep it up !
B G U Walia

IES has more posts ----

There is no need for sophisticated tools like 6.22 to thwart objective behind Central Staffing Scheme. There are so many other things going on. The Indian Economic Service has number of cadre posts in GOI Ministries of Additional Economic Advisors, supposed to be doing economic analysis work, plan and budget work, monthly summary etc.. However these IES officers are not interested in doing this work and manage to thwart the system by doing main line Ministry work ,which officers selected under CSS through rigorous selection process for fixed tenure should be doing.In fact IES has more posts than reserved for them, than actually required and there is a serious need to review their actual requirement.

Devendra Sridhar

Make the service attractive

If govt. needs the best talent then its necessary to make the service attractive. The pay commission report has already been debated in FORUM.
Another important issue is transfers. While IAS/IPS/IFS are confined to their cadres the central services are really in a soup. When the children are midway of education they are transferred from north to south east to west. It really depresses and suffocates an officer.
Instead govt. can introduce Zonal allotments for central services and at least for the first 20 to 25 years transfers can be affected within the zone.
The first transfer within the zone can also be after 10 to 12 years.
Outside the zone transfers can be done after 25 years or on serious complaints before that.
Some system should be worked out so that officers are not totally dislocated. With most of the states having their own education policies and regional languages being made compulsory it will be very difficult for children to adjust to different patterns of education and not all districts have good CBSE schools.
The system should be so devised that all officers feel comfortable and attracted to join the service.
These long/ huge transfers cannot have any personal touch. Hence the zonal system with choices opted by officers would be the best way to adopt in a transfer policy for all central services.
Ratnaprabha

Piece of Bharat Kumar is good

This piece is As good as Kalam himself especially the poem.
A Murlidharan

Posting of Issar is appreciable

It is highly appreciable. Shri Issar is a very gentle soul.
Hitender Narang

It's a futile exercise

As far as consultations for VP are concerned, it will be just futile exercise to guess the exact name. Such decisions come only at the fag end, as we all have seen in the case of Prez. When all the names taking rounds were thrown in dust-bin. Recent poll surveys in U.P. also met the same fate. As such, these whispers may not be true & of any use !

Sat B

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CORPORATE

Why Mukesh Ambani is abroad?

Why industrial tycoon Mukesh Ambani is abroad around the time Presidential polls are round the corner? This question is being debated. He along with his family had gone abroad more than 10 days ago. His closest aide Nikhil Meswani also flew abroad. Both are not going to return to India at least for one more week. On the contrary his younger brother Anil Ambani is busy meeting Chief Ministers of Congress ruled states. So far he has met CMs of Delhi, Himachal Pradesh & Andhra Pradesh.

INDIAN wrests number one position
Indian has wrested the number one position in domestic passenger carriage for the first time in over five years. it has reportedly recorded a passenger market share of 21.4 per cent in May this year displacing its nearest competitor. It also recorded the maximum monthly carriage of 1.01 million passengers during the month.

A.K.Singh tipped to be CMD, CMPDIL

A.K.Singh is likely to be appointed as Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) of the CMPDIL Ranchi.At present he is Director Technical in Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL) Ranchi.The grapevine also has it N.Das may Director Technical in the Northern Coalfields (NCL) Singrauli while A.K.Sahay Coal Controller Calcutta may be Director Technical CMPDIL Ranchi.Presently Das is Chief General Manager (CGM) CCL, Ranchi.

Full time DCI chief !

Who will be the full time Chairman cum Managing Director(CMD) of the Dredging Corporation of India(DCI)?Tie is said to between Capt S.S.Tripathi Deputy Conservator of Visakapatnam Port Trust & Suresh Kumar of Hindustan Latex Ltd(HLL).At present acting CMD is A.K.Dhar.

Shailindra Kaul is Sr Director BINDASS

BINDASS, India's first 360 degree entertainment brand for Young India, has announced the appointment of Shailindra Kaul as the Senior Creative Director. Brand Bindass will kick start with a Hindi GEC channelscheduled to launch in later this year.
Prior to joining Bindass, he was working with Zoom TV where he was responsible for the look and feel of the channel.

Australia supports Indian steel majors
Australia has supported the proposal from Indian steel companies to acquire equity stake in coking coal companies there and to acquire coking coal properties. The Australian Federal Minister of Industry, Tourism and Resources, Ian McFarlane gave this assurance when the Indian Minister for Steel, Chemicals and Fertilisers Ram Vilas Paswan met him in Brisbane the other day. McFarlane assured the Minister of all possible help in fast-tracking these ventures of Indian steel companies, which are absolutely critical for India's proposed expansion of steel sector capacity.

Union Cabinet approves selection in CPSEs
The Union Cabinet today gave its approval for the process for selection.
appointment and for grant of extension of Chief Executives and Functional Directors should remain as per the existing procedures. In respect of sick/loss making Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) for which revival plan has been approved by the Government, relaxation is proposed for any incumbent Chief Executive or Functional Director who has contributed exceedingly well in the turnaround of the sick company may be considered for relaxation in retirement upto 65 years of age subject to annual review of the performance to be conducted by the Secretary of the concerned Administrative Ministry.

Rao is Chairman of IBA
M. B. N. Rao, Chairman and Managing Director, Canara Bank is new Chairman of Indian Banks' Association (IBA) for 2007-08.