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Empanelment of 1988 batch IAS in May

Vigilance clearance has arrived.It is now expected that the empanelment of 1988 batch IAS officers to the rank of Joint Secretary in the Government of India will take place in May.

Mathur gets additional charge of IT

Secretary Telecom D S Mathur has been given additional charge of the Department of Information Technology.He is 1971 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.Secretary IT Jainder Singh has proceeded on long leave.

Balvant Singh empanelled
Balvant Singh has been empanelled to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India during the last review meeting.He is 1975 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.

Six 1973 batch IAS officers waiting
Six IAS officers in the Government of India are still waiting in the wings to get posting as Secretary in the Government of India.

CBEC Chairman to retire

Chairman of the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) V P Singh is superannuating by this month end.

Who will be PS Revenue Maharashtra ?
Who will be new Principal Secretary Revenue in Maharashtra ?.Two 1972 batch IAS officers Neela Satyanarayana and Dr Ms J Sankaran are the contenders for this powerful post.One can only wait and watch.

Ramanand Tiwari to be Information Commissioner Maharashtra
Ramanand Tiwari is being tipped to be Information Commissioner in Maharashtra. He is 1972 batch IAS officer.

Sarangi joins Uttarakhand Government
Prabhat Kumar Sarangi has gone on deputation to the Uttarakhand Government .1986 batch UP cadre IAS officer Sarangi has joined as Secretary Chief Minister B C Khanduri. ( We said this in March )

Prabhat to go to Andhra Pradesh
Principal Secretary Home Chhattisgarh S V Prabhat is going to Hyderabad as Chairman of the National Council for Rural Institute for a period of three years. He is 1979 batch IAS officer.
( We said this last month )

JS Shipping posts to be filled
Two Joint Secretary level posts lying vacant in the Ministry of Shipping are being filled up soon.Minister T R Balu is reported to have approved the names.

Rakesh Kumar is CVO of NBCC
Rakesh Kumar has joined as CVO of the NBCC.He is 1990 batch IDAS officer.

1976 batch IPS gets DG rank in Tripura
1976 batch IPS officer R K Shukla has been promoted to the rank of DG in Tripura.He has made DG Home Guards.

Cabinet decision being flouted

Under the present UPA regime a cabinet decision is being flouted. There is a decision that orders for appointment of incumbents to succeed those who retire, should be issued two months in advance.However, in many instances it has been flouted. One of the examples pertains to the delay in appointment of CMDs of certain public sector banks.

Arun Bhargava joins as Member SAT
Former Member of the CBDT Arun Bhargava has joined as Member of the Securities Appellate Tribunal(SAT) in Mumbai.

Dutt is Deputy Secretary Telecom
Sanjiv Dutt has joined as Deputy Secretary Telecom. He is 1976 batch CSS officer.

Gayen gets extension
Second Secretary in Baku M M Gayen has been granted extension in tenure till retirement in March 2008.

Lal to go Bangkok
Director (EW) in the Ministry of External Affairs is going to Bangkok in place of Dinkar Asthana.Asthana will move to Kolambo.

Chauhan to Move Beijing
Counsellor in Tehran Manish Chauhan is moving to Beijing in place of First Secretary G Srinivas who will report to the MEA Headquarters.

Promotion file of 1987 batch IRS(IT) reaches to ACC
The file for promotion to the grade of Commissioner of Income Tax of 36 IRS (IT) officers of the 1987 batch has reached the ACC. Guess it shall take another 35 days for the clearance.

Changes in Karnataka likely
Gonal Bhimappa, presently MD Of Bangalore Electricity Supply Co (BESCOM) may join Karnataka Public Service Commission ac Chairman..Ashwathanarayan Gowda, presently DC Of Hassan District may be MD BESCOM.

Former AP Chief Secretary no more
Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary V.P. Rama Rao has passed away in Hyderabad. He was 73.

Ms.Ellen Stern goes to Vienna (Austria)

A profile principal Miss Ellen Stern ,has resigned from the Mumbai based "Ecole Mondiale"school.It may be stated that she had taken a number of moralistic stands against this Mumbai school. Now she will be joining the "American International School (AIS), Vienna (Austria).

Prasad Sinha is officiating CEO of Star News

Prasad Sinha will be the officiating Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Star News till a full time CEO was put in place.Sinha is Managing Director of the "Ananda Bazar Patrika (ABP) group being headed by Aveek Sarkar.A full time CEO is expected to be positioned in next five to six months time.

Vice Adml Y.Singh new DG,AFMS

Surg Vice Admiral Yogendra Singh has assumed the charge of Director General (DG), Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS).He will be based in Delhi .An alumnus of Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune; he passed his MBBS in 1968 and was commissioned in Army Medical Corps on Jan 27, 1969. He has served with distinction in different capacities in India & abroad. He was appointed Honorary Surgeon to President of India on October 6, 2006.

CMO of CR humiliates Padambhushan awardee

Indian Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav may have won kudos for bringing in professionalism in country's railway department.However,many a brows have been raised over the manner in which recipient of Padambhushan Dr.Ashwin Mehta was unceremoniously ousted to head cardiology wing of the by Chief Medical Officer (CMO)of the Central Railway(CR).Dr.Ashwin Mehta who is most respected cardiologist who heads the related department at hospitals of Jaslok & Breach Candy, Mumbai was replaced by one of his deputies. The latter would now head the cardiology team of Central Railway.

Kamal Nath's special lecture in Oxford today

Indian Commerce & Industry Minister Kamal Nath will deliver a special Address at the University College in Oxford on May 3, 2007. The Special Address, which is part of the University's Global Economic Governance Programme, will be on "India and the Future of the World Trade Talks". During his visit to the UK, he is also likely to call on Prime Minister Tony Blair besides other top shots.

FORUM

Let us stick to age of retirement as 60
Presently the retirement age is 65 but hardly anybody retires. The officers are out to please the political bosses to get extension, re-employment or assignments in tribunals and commissions. This is sad and affects objective advice at the senior levels and politicians are having their say righr or wrong. Let us stick to age of retirement as 60 and nobody should be given extension and letyounger officers take over.
PMO is full of retired people and so are the tribunals and commissions. Let them seek appointments in the private sector a year after retirement and show their merit.
Ramesh Arora

Retirement age should be raised to 65
I do not agree with the views expressed by some of your contributors reg reduction in retirement age of govt employees. Rather,it will be in the fitness of things if the age limit is raised to 65 yrs.This will help govt to utilise the experience of the persons.Experience,if better utilised, is always fruitful.
R S Bhatia

This matter deserves a serious review

Good that left out states are being included in review for higher postings. However, the so called incentives for the officers posted in the northeast states remain a myth.Much had been said on this in the Civil Services Day(April21).
And yet,no officer seems to be empanelled for Additional Secretary post in 1973,1974 and 1975 batch of IAS from cadres like Manipur,Sikkim, and Tripura.
The matter deserves a serious review.
S Sharma

Haryana is worst
The case of IPS officers of Bihar is not as worse as that of Indian Forest Service officers of Haryana Cadre. Officers of 1972 batch are still working as Chief Conservator of Forest.An Officer of 1977 batch is working as Conservator of Forest where as his batch mates in most of the States have become Principal Chief Conservator of Forest. Officers of 1985 batch are working as Deputy Conservator of Forest i.e. without a single promotion for the last 22 years. I think the situation of IFS officers of Haryana is the worst in the country , with no releif in sight
Alok Verma

In praise of new Secretary Tourism
Christy Fernandeze is extremely honest, simple and a wonderful person. It is going to be a great loss for Commerce but a major gain for Tourism. Congrats and best wishes to him for all success as Secy. Tourism.
Ravi Sunder

TAIL-PIECE

A man walking along a California beach was deep in prayer.

Suddenly the sky clouded above his head and, in a booming voice, the Lord said, "Because you have TRIED to be faithful to me in all ways, I will grant you one wish." The man said, "Build a bridge to Hawaii so I can drive over anytime I want."

The Lord said, "Your request is very materialistic. Think of the enormous challenges for that kind of undertaking. The supports required to reach the bottom of the Pacific! The concrete and steel it would take! It will nearly exhaust several natural resources.

I can do it, but it is hard for me to justify your desire for worldly things. Take a little more time and think of something that would honor and glorify me."

The man thought about it for a long time. Finally he said, "Lord, I wish that I could understand my wife. I want to know how she feels
inside, what she's thinking when she gives me the silent treatment, why she cries, what She means when she says nothing's wrong, and how I can make a woman truly Happy."

The Lord replied, "You want 2 lanes or 4 lanes on that bridge?"
contributed by- Col. Satish Dewan

Aaj Ki Aawaz

Kalam not being given a second term points to one thing,
Honesty karti hai Indian Political establishment ko sting!!!

A person whose not a politician and is equidistant from Political Parties would be best,
For the President's post any day better than the rest!!!

And now seems Commies are not pressing for Somnath Da for President's post,
Seems they've realized that Somnath Da is disliked by most!!!

Now Commies have made it into a UPA versus NDA fight,
With UP going to BSP and BJP the fight is going to be really tight!!!

What our Politicians forget is that a Country is rated by those who head it!
India is rated Excellent as Kalam and Manmohan in top Offices karr rahe hai sit!!!

Basu says that Commies UPA ko karr sakthe hai tumble,
Poor fellow cannot see the way Commies kar rahe hai bumble!!

Basu says CMP is not being adhered to but support is because of exigencies or constraints,
With UPA Commies have lot of complaints!

Seems the Government has woken up from its slumber,
Feeling was that Sarkaar was getting dumb and dumber!!!

A few industrial Houses are slowly gaining total control,
Monopoly is their goal!!!

Manmohan has decried crony capitalism….. term explains it all,
But I must compliment Manmohan for his gall!!

And seems our Sarkaar is learning on the job,
After announcing SEZs later realized that how via SEZs land hotha hai rob!!

See the ECBs…….. chalo at least they did awaken,
No actually in the ECB matter from its sleep Sarkar was rudely shaken!!

Industry had found a way to get around Sectoral Cap,
Because cheaper foreign funds they wanted to tap!!!

India might as well send some Officials to Thailand,
And find out how a strengthening Baht ne baja diya tha Thailand ka band!!!

And what about the wrong kind of FDI.... Fidayeen Direct Investment???
We all know for what these investments are meant!!!

Proceeds will go to fund terror!!!
How will Sarkar correct this wrong FDI error???

BJP should not shoot itself in the foot again,
This Leadership issue has been in recent times BJPs bane!!

Cross the Leadership bridge as and when it comes……why talk about it now???
Or was it to some pressure that Rajnath karr raha tha bow???
As of now Rajnath is doing a damn good job,
So this Leadership ka grenade kyon kiya lob!!!

Sonia does not want Rahul to parachute into PM's Office so why not start his rise???
Wouldn't giving him a Cabinet berth be wise???

Or has the family decided to enjoy indirect power???
Remote controlling the Congress Sarkar's boat with a nominee being the rower!!

In UP BSP seems to be increasing its lead,
And SP continues to bleed!!!

And in sixth phase Beni Prasad will make SP bleed even more,
No wonders SP calls Beni ' vote chor'!!!

Hope Mulayam has packed his bags….. May 11 is not far,
And hope he'll not mind to start travelling in a car!!!

Like Amrinder he too used the aerial route to move about,
Now he'll have to pay for this once from the Office of CM he's out!!

Amrinder is expected to return to Punjab tomorrow,
Wanted to come back in style but Chopper or Plane he could not borrow!!!

Now he'll buy a ticket and fly down to Chandigarh and then drive down to Patiala,
On the Patiala Border he'll be received by some loyalists with flowers ki maala!!

After some time he'll run back to Dilli or go to Dochi,
His loyalists say 'Maharaj is in sochi' (Punjabi for contemplation)!!!

BCCI has put the team on a diet……gluttony is banned,
Meal tables will be by BCCI appointed Meal Guards manned!!!

Players lament that its not longer fun being in the Indian Team,
BCCI has just left skimmed milk and taken away all the cream!!

Fitness is one area where the Indian team is totally lacking,
No wonders fitter teams like Aussies and SA give us a whacking!!

Now for the Indian Team its 'Dal roti khao aur BCCI ke gunn gaao',
And on return gifts of Whisky and Wines BCCI Officials ke liye laao!!

Bharat Kumar

Aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com
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NBCC earns record profit of Rs 123 crore

NBCC, a Public Sector Undertaking under the Ministry of Urban Development expects to achieve a record turnover of Rs.1575 crore for the financial year 2006-07, which is about 20% more than the last year. It is also expects to post a record profit of Rs.123 crore, about 225% more than 2005-06. Speaking at the conclusion of the annual GMs' Conference held recently, CMD of the Corporation, Shri Arup Roy Choudhury, informed that NBCC had not only made a total turnaround, it had contributed around Rs.60 crore to the National Exchequer and for the first time, would be paying dividend to the Govt.of India. Besides, it would also be in a position to redeem non-cumulative preference shares of Rs.30 crore during the current financial year. Shri Choudhury also added that due to sincere efforts of the workers, staff & officers of the Corporation, NBCC was maintaining clear lead as the largest public sector company in the Construction Industry and with a net worth of over Rs.150 crore, it would now venture into entrepreneurial mode of project development.

Dev Dutt is UPSRTC Chairman

Dev Dutt has been appointed new Chairman of the Uttar Pradesh State Roadways Transport Corporation.

McKinsey group's new role.

McKinsey-the leading management consulting firm, is turning out to be the biggest mover & shaker in the media world.Uday Shankar's elevation to the post of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in Star India is also to credit of this McKinsey group. Prasad Sinha ,Managing Director of the Ananda Bazar Patrika(ABP) group & officiating CEO of the Star News is also an ex hand of the McKinsey group. As the grapevine has it they are presently talking to Peter Mukherjea & BAG Films to help them appoint suitable heads.

Sameer Manchanda- a trend setter

Sameer Manchanda, distribution head of the CNN & IBN group has set a new trend by floating an exclusive distribution company. So far news channel like Star News used to spend Rs.40 crore per annum ,has signed up with Manchanda for half the price,i.e.Rs.20 crore with an assured increase of 20 per cent in viewership.The CNN IBN is already part of this network while the "Aaj Tak"is in talks with Sameer Manchanda.

Memani is Chairman of AMCHAM

K. N. Memani has been elected new Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in India (AMCHAM).

OVL & Mittals to bid jointly with Mittal's co

The ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) has decided that all future bid or marketing abroad for oilfields will be done in collaboration with L.N.Mittal's Joint Venture with OVL. However, as the grapevine has it , other oil companies of L.N.Mittal would bid independent of the OVL.

Krishnan to buy Maxis

T Ananda Krishnan of Malaysia is all set to buy Maxis Communications, the South East Asian country's biggest mobile-phone operator. He is the second richest man of Malaysia.