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Empanelment of 1977 batch IAS officers
Altogether 48 IAS officers belonging to 1977 batch have been empanelled to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India. They are Mssrs Girish Chandra Chaturvedi (UP), Raj Kumar (Haryana), J P Singh (UT), Shekhar Agrawal (UP), Alok Rawat (Sikkim), Naved Masood (Manipur-Tripura), K Jose Cyriac (Kerala ), S S Brar (Punjab), Mohammad Haleem Khan (UP), Subodh Kumar (Maharashtra), B A Coutinho (Karnataka),C V Anand Bose (Kerala), Parvez Dewan ( J&K), Gurunurkar Sudhir (AP), Sudhir Krishna (Karnataka), Dr Surajit Mitra and Jayant M Mauskar (Assam-Meghalaya), Rakesh Kackar (TamilNadu), O P Rawat,D R S Chaudhary and Vishwapati Trivedi (Madhya Pradesh), Dr M Sarangi (TamilNadu), P K Chaudhery (Haryana), P K Tripathi (UT), Madan Mohan Jha (Bihar), Vilasini Ramachandran (Gujarat), Arun Kumar Mathur (UT), R K Mathur (Manipur-Tripura), Girish B Pradhan (Maharashtra), Shumsher K Sheriff (UT), Ajay Bhattacharya (TamilNadu), P K Deb (Rajasthan), Sundaram Krishna ( Punjab), Loretta Mary Vas(UP), G Balachandran( West Bengal), P K SINHA (UP), Sharad Gupta (Assam-Meghalaya), M V P Chandrasekhar Sastry (AP), V Venkatachalam (UP), A S Lamba( West Bengal), Sangita Gairola(Rajasthan), N C Vasudevan (Orissa), Tabom Bam (UT), W M Simon Pariat (Assam-Meghalaya), Manik B Sonawane (Haryana), D Thangaraj (Karnataka), and Ashok Thakur (Himanchal Pradesh).

Dr Anand replaces Ranjit Issar

Dr Harjit Singh Anand has taken over as Secretary Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation in the Government of India on Tuesday.He is 1973 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.Dr Anand has replaced 1972 batch Haryana cadre IAS officer Ranjit Issar.

Removal of Issar demoralizes bureaucracy

There has been a demoralisation among senior bureaucrats in the wake of Ranjit Issar being put on compulsory wait.1972 batch Haryana cadre IAS officer Issar who so far was Secretary in the Ministry of Urban Development & Poverty Alleviation was in an unprecedented manner removed yesterday. This has sent negative signals among bureaucrats. It may be stated that Ranjit Issar is an astute, dedicated and upright IAS officer who won kudos for his work in the Defence Ministry.

Singhal is new Chairman of CBEC

S K Singhal will be new Chairman of the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC).He will succeed V P Singh on June 1.1970 batch IRS officer Singhal is considered to be an upright officer.
( We said this on May 4 )

What next in U.P?

The satta market, contrary to exit polls is predicting a Bharitaya Janata Party (BJP) government with the backing of Samajwadi Party and the CM will be an independent. As per the satta market BJP and SP will be neck in neck and Congress might double its vote share but the same might not translate into increased number of seats.

PM refuses to part with Coal Secretary
Prime Minister is believed to have said "No" to shift Secretary Coal Harish Chandra Gupta to the NHAI as Chairman. P M has a feeling that 1971 batch UP cadre IAS officer Gupta is doing a good job as Secretary Coal.

Ghosh to retire
Secretary Forests and Environment P Ghosh is superannuating by this month end. He is 1969 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Sharma is new Joint Secretary Telecom

Balram Sharma has joined as Joint Secretary Telecom in the Government of India. He is 1985 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.
( We said this on March 12 )

Sahai posted in Railway Board
Vivek Sahai, Additional General Manager, Western Railway, has been posted as Executive Director (Information Technolgy), Railway Board. Sahai had earlier been posted as DG Operations, but the post was scrapped due to protests from railway officers and sahai had to return to his original post of AGM. Sudhir Kala, who had been posted in Sahai's place as AGM Western Railway had to go back. Now rumour mill says that Kala will come back.

Discipline enforced in Uttarakhand
Discipline among Government officers & employees is being enforced by Uttarkhand Chief Minister B C Khanduri. Unlike the past, officials cannot afford the luxury of reaching their offices by 12 noon and returning back home by 3 pm now. Even the Chief Minister is reportedly working with full dedication and striving to put the state on fast track of development.

Bihar chosen for Mirror Conference
The Stanford University in its efforts to foster a policy dialogue with India has started a new practice of "Mirror Conference" in India. These Conferences reflect the format, and the intellectual debate at Stanford itself. After several states, Bihar has been chosen as a venue for the mirror conference .It shows Bihar has started rapid strides under the dynamic Chief Ministership of Nitish Kumar.

Bhatia is HC to Lesotho
High Commissioner of India to South Africa R.K. Bhatia has been concurrently accredited as the next High Commissioner of India to the Kingdom of Lesotho.

IAS changes in Jharkhand
Manikant Azad will be Special Secretary Planning.Shyam Shankar Prasad will be Special Secretary Disaster Management.Rahul Sharma has been appointed Secretary Electricity Board.

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IAS is being marginalised
It is a pity that a premier service like the IAS is being slowly marginalised. The postings at levels of Joint Secretary also bear out the same story. Proactive approach must be taken to stop this tradition.
Anuja

India needs the best of persons
To improve the efficiency of All India Services, it is imperative that outstanding and efficient officers are recruited parallely in IAS, IPS etc and non performing officers are placed in some other services, because India needs the best of persons available for all times and not only at the time of selection by UPSC. It's high time lateral entry in to such services is started by the GOI, because mediocrity can not lead us to any destination.
R Singh

States are perfect place for IAS
It's not a question of making hay but the dedication of other services. IAS officers only like to go for positions where they can systematically loot the system. And state governments are perfect place for it.
Sanjeev

It's good
Good. This was done for government officials in the A/Cs & Audit services in the month of Nov'06.The rules infact are violative of Art.19 of the Constitution. The reference can be made to various pronouncements by Tribunals as also by the Apex Court.
Anupam Advocate

PLI in Air India and INDIAN
The disparity in careers causes huge monetary losses, besides loss of face and prestige, as well as social standing. The fact that PLIs are payable to Engineers worldwide on Indian parameters and not to officers of AI is blatantly unfair and discriminatory since 1996. Surprising that Officers Association has deemed it unworthy of legal redressal. The other disparity is in the choice of different and discriminatory parameters for Engineers over Officers. The last straw is the non-inclusion of revenues of Air India Express which has largely replaced AI parent routes and operations and is a wholly owned subsidiary like Air India Charters. It is just another discriminatory and fraudulent behaviour of top managements against its own officers and this is shameful to say the least. I wonder at the deafening silence by the Officers and Management. And the silence of the Auditors, internal and external, besides the regulatory watchdogs that are supposed to guard against discrimination and injustice in the public system, including the media. Can one hang their head in shame at all these human and systemic failures !
Astra

Why only for IAS ?
Why only for IAS? It should open to all services. This is discriminatory and violates equality and spirit of constitution
S Singh

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Democratic differences between USA & India:

In USA you can kiss in public places but cannot shit; in India you can shit in public places but cannot kiss!
Anita

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Insurance for kidnapping too!

Insurance companies in India are nowadays insuring kidnapping.TATA-AIG is secretly marketing a product to high pofile individuals for insuring themselves and their family members from kidnapping and any ransom demands. The whole process is very high-tech.Should an insured person be kidnapped a toll free number has to be called in the US. Immediately a team of experts gets on to assist aggrieved family in all aspects of kidnapping. It is anybody…s guess weather the Insurance Regulatory and Development {IRDA} has approved the product to be marketed in India? Hitherto more than 2000 families have been insured.

SAIL- a major achiever

Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has bagged the Businessworld-FICCI-SEDF Corporate Social Responsibility Award ‚ 2006. President of India Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam presented the award to Mr S.K. Roongta, Chairman, SAIL, at the FICCI Auditorium Delhi the other day. The award recognises the innovative corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives taken by SAIL in the fields of education, access to drinking water, medical and healthcare, sanitation, communication/roads, sustainable livelihood/income generation, women's empowerment, tribal welfare, environment preservation, sports, reproductive and child healthcare, heritage preservation, cultural and recreational activities, etc. This is the first time that a public sector enterprise has won the award since it was instituted in 1999.

Over the years, SAIL has established 133 company-run schools that impart quality education to more than 80,000 children, maintaining a girl-boy ratio of 1:1. SAIL also provides access to improved sources of drinking water to more than 2 million people. More than 20 million people have benefited from SAIL's 20 hospitals, four speciality hospitals and numerous primary healthcare centres. The first corporate entity to collaborate with NACO for generating greater awareness on anti AIDS, SAIL has so far covered more than seven lakh people in its AIDS awareness programme since 1999-2000.

Swaraj Paul is second richest British Asian
NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul is the second richest British Asian with business interests next only to Mike Jatania.

Sandeep Mishra is Regional Manager ICICI Bank
Sandeep Mishra has taken over as the Regional Manager (North and East), of the Automotive cluster of ICICI Bank.

Vijay Kumar joins Pollution Control Board
IFS officer Vijay Kumar has been appointed Member Secretary of the Uttaranchal Pollution Control Board