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Will Ajay Singh get extension ?
Two year extension in service to number two man in the RAW Ajay Singh is under active consideration of the Government.1970 batch officer Ajay Singh is scheduled to retire on December 1.

Will there be three Posts of CP in Delhi ?
There is a serious proposal in the Ministry of Home Affairs to have three Commissioners of Police in Delhi -one for Law and Order, second for Administration and the third for Commonwealth Games.

Dr. Brahmachari takes charge as Secretary DSIR & DG CSIR

Dr. Samir K. Brahmachari, FNA, FASc, FNASc and Director, Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology (IGIB), Delhi has taken over charge as Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) and Director General, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), from Dr. T Ramasami, Secretary, Department of Science & Technology (DST), who was holding the additional charge as Director General, CSIR and Secretary, DSIR.Dr. Brahmachari, a Ph.D in Molecular Biophysics from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore was earlier a Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Genetic Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, before joining as Director, IGIB. He has pioneered functional genomics initiative in India and is successfully led the Indian genome Variation Consortium project and presently coordinating a national network project in 'In Silico Biology' for drug target development.Dr. Brahmachari has over 130 publications in leading international journals and has 5 patents and 10 software copyrights to his credit.

(We said this on November 8)

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".

Asif Ibrahim to be Minister Co ordination

Asif Ibrahim will be going to London as Minister Co ordination. At present he is IB Joint Director Delhi. He is an MP cadre IPS officer of the 1977 batch.
( We said this on September 25)

1971 batch IRS is superb
1971 batch IRS is now known as Silver Jubilee batch. It has contributed 16 officers to the rank of Members of CBDT, IT Settlement Commission, ATFP, Ombudsman and PSC Member Uttarakhand. They are Mssrs R Matoda, R N Upadhyay, P K Mishra, A J Majumdar, N B Singh all Members of the CBDT. Suresh Trikha, R Sharan, Geeta Kriplani all Members of the IT Settlement Commission. Manju Agrawal and Madhavan Member Telecom Commission.B K Srivastava Member Appellate Tribunal (PMLA).R J Singh Member Uttarakhand Public Service Commission. C Rajendran, S K Iyre, Swapna Ray, D P Panta and R C Prakash Ombudsman

Meenakshi Datta Ghosh to retire
Secretary Panchyati Raj in the Government of India Meenakshi Datta Ghosh is superannuating by November end. She is 1970 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Who will head SRA in Maharashtra ?
Who will be Chief of the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) in Maharashtra? Tie is said to be between 1989 batch IAS officer I S Chahal and 1986 batch IAS officer Shreekant Singh. There is also a chance of getting Chandrasekhar as additional charge.

Mukesh Jain gets extension
DIG in the Seema Shashtra Bal (SSB) Mukesh Jain has been granted one year extension in deputation tenure. He is 1989 batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Rajat Bhargava returning after deputation
Rajat Bhargava, DDG Prasar Bharti, is said to be returning after completion of his deputation. He is 1990 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Two NIFTs without Directors
There are two centres of National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) which are without Directors. They are in Chennai & Raebareli.

Anup Shrivatava joins today

Anup Shrivastava who so far was Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs(MHA) rejoins in Meghalaya today.He is an IAS officer of the 1981 batch & belongs to the Assam-Meghalaya(AM) cadre.

3 IPS officer in MP promoted as DGs

As many as three IPS officers of Madhya Pradesh cadre have been promoted from the rank of Additional Director General(ADG) to the rank of DG.S.K.Raut who so far was ADG in CID on promotion has been appointed as DG Economic Offences Wing(EOW). ADG Complaints Alind Jain on promotion was made Special DG Complaints &Transport Commissioner N.K.Tripathi has been promoted there only.
( We said this only yesterday)

Minor shake up of IPS officers

In a minor reshuffle of IPS officers ,the Madhya Pradesh Government on November 12, 2007 transferred Nandan Dube from ADG Fire Fighting Services & Training to ADG in CID.He will succeed S.K.raut who has been promoted as DG.Ramesh Sharma ADG Narcotics was given additional charge of Training and Vijay Wate ADG Crime Records Bureau(CRB) will hold the charge of ADG Fire Fighting Services.

Bidri is new Intelligence Chief in Karnataka

M Shankar Bidri is new Intelligence Chief in Karnataka. He is 1978 batch IPS officer.He has replaced H.C. Kishorechandra.

Baligar and Siddaiah in CM Secretariat in Karnataka
1980 batch IAS officer V.P. Baligar has been appointed Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister in Karnataka.1986 batch IAS officer Siddaiah has been appointed Secretary to the Chief Minister.
( We said this only yesterday )

3 new SC judges appointed

As many as three new judges to the Supreme Court have been appointed.They are Mr.Justice Ganpat Singh Singhvi Chief Justice Andhra Pradesh High Cour, Mr.Justice Aftab Alam Judge, Jammu & Kashmir High Court & Mr. Justice Jagdish Madhurlal Panchal Chief Justice Rajasthan High Court.Their appointments have been done in order of seniority, with effect from the dates they assume charge of their respective offices.

Sawani joins in Dubai

Former Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Joint Director R.N. Sawani has takes over as the chief of the International Cricket Council's Anti Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU).He is former 1977 batch IPS officer of TamilNadu cadre.He has succeeded Jeff Rees.
( We said this on October 27 )

IAS changes in Haryana
There is IAS reshuffle in Haryana.New postings are :-MssrsRoshan Lal director and special secretary, rural development. Ashok Khemka director, consolidation of holdings, land records and special collector, headquarters, and special LAO, Haryana. N.C. Wadhwa, labour commissioner and director, ESI additional charge of director, employment. Krishan Kumar special secretary, general administration. Sumita Misra director and special secretary, agriculture and director, renewable energy sources. S.N. Roy special secretary, PWD (B&R). Sant Kumar special secretary, Home-I. Ashok Yadav director and joint secretary, social justice and empowerment and welfare of SCs and BCs department. J.P. Kaushik, commissioner, Rohtak division additional charge of director and special secretary, archives, archaeology and museum.

Sitaram Kesri's grandson's debut in filmdom

Pankaj- the former Congress chief Sitaram Kesri's grandson is going to in Bollywood.He will act in a film titled "Jackson Jaikishan" with Nana Patekar.While,Bhojpuri film actress Rani Chatterjee plays the female lead,it will be directed by Ashok Nanda.The film will be made under the banner of Venus Films. It may be stated that Chirag son of Indian Minister Minister Chemicals, Fertilizers & Steel Ram Vilas Paswan has already entered Bollywood.

FORUM

Constraints of a CVO !

The person who is writing on the performance of the CVOs in the vigilance & anti-corruption measures in the organisations wherever they are posted is partially true. Majority of the CVOs get discouraged after initial reactions of the managements to the vigilance measures as they are more in favour of continuing their corrupt/ intransparent practices to their personal benefit & ensure that CVO is virtually isolated from all the information/policies and vital apex level meetings of the Companies. CVOs (though in dismal minority these days )who even are virtually struggling to perform their sacred duty of preventing the corruption are construed to impede the progress of the companies by the compromising CMDs/CEOs who have direct unhindered access to the CVC without any consultation with the CVOs. CVOs are single soul posted from outside and all the vigilance officers and other supporting staff is belonging to the in-house arrangement. Their commitment to the CVO and the anti-corruption cause can be well imagined. Look at the following constraints of the poor CVOs:

CVO is reporting to the CMD?CEO of the Companies and their ACRs are written by the CMDs/CEOs, CVOs in turn have been given internal officers who in majority of the cases do not report to the CVO but to the management. Why CVC cannot directly report on the

performance of the CVOs if the Government of India is serious about the cause of controlling corruption rather than to the Company executives who in many cases are party to the ongoing corrupt practices in their establishments and would not like to check the same. Can any CVO then perform for anti corruption or for the Boss he reports in the Company? CVOs are the links between their organisations and the CVC/CBI/Admin. Ministry. Should not then all these agencies consult the CVO in respect of all vigilance matters of the organisation? In actual practice it doesn't happen. None of the agencies ever give even such an impression in the dealings of the vigilance cases. Those CVOs who try to perform in the above scenario only suffer themselves as no administrative help by way of posting of staff under him or official accommodation provision to them or any incentives for their stressful work is ever given. Not even a word of appreciation ever comes from any quarters. In India in fact their is no one really serious about even controlling corruption leave aside stopping it then why blame only the poor CVOs who are only scapegoats for all unrestrained demeanors of the executives/chief executives who invariably are not with the CVOs in controlling corruption in their companies. Corruption starts from top. If the top gives an impression by his words and deeds that he means business in preventing this malaise from his company, things will fall in order in less than you ever think they can. Unfortunately the companies want the institution of CVO only to regularise their prevailing practices. God save the companies and the public funds they are masqundering.

Subramanian K

S Bose

PWD and Tax Payer

The TOI on 9th Nov. carried an interesting feature on repairs of officers' quarters in Hyderabad. It's practice-common knowledge that most govt. quarters are built to very poor specifications and material used. Yet to put cheap PWD quality tiles seems to cost as much as granitite! Cheap wooden cupboards cost more than teak ply cupboards! And finally the quarters are more than 50 years old!! It's just like most govt. staff cars - if you add the cost of repairs a new Corolla/Civic may be a far cheaper option but yet MoF says 150,000 kms or 8 years. How much more oxygen will one pump into stuff that should be demolished or thrown out of the window instantly? And then hypocritically talk of budget deficits! Why not instead wind up the PWDs, fund their VR by selling these very houses and give all officers 60% of their post-CPC salaries as HRA and make it non-taxable too? Similarly, a lumpsum monthly figure on a scaled basis, say Rs. 10000 to a DS level officer would pay for an EMI on a decent car and some amount of O&M expenses too. Wind up the garages and gift the cars to VR drivers. The taxpayer would be the single and biggest beneficiary.

Presently, a staff car with driver, maintenance and fuel, costs govt. more than 25000 rupees per month. Give that to employees and they will maintain a Honda City with uniformed driver. The problem is accounting. As long as accounts decision makers are from civil services, such detailed and proper accounting is not going to get done. Insisting for fuel inefficient and fault prone Ambassadors is more in interest of vote banks of drivers, cleaners and others to be kept happy and appeasement of Group C & D staff, whose votes can be bought by declaration of bonus.

P Kumar

Why he is Joint Secretary ?

Truly a hard working individual, who never curried favours with anyone. That explains as to why he is still a Joint Secretary, where as his batch mates have become Secretaries to the Government of India, for the past many years.

Raaghurane

Is the rule only meant for a Civil Servant ?

The objection in Prabh Das case is entirely justified. Similar is the case of Ex- Secretary Power R V Shahi who has joined Teesta Urja after being incharge of Policies on Power which we feel were made to help IPP's. Is the rule not applicable to him because he was not a Civil Servant or some other reason?.

Sushant Mohan

Appointment of Baligar is a good signal

Baligar is well known as an honest and upright man. His posting with the new C M will send good signals to the society. I wish him all success.

C V Gopinath

Aaj Ki Aawaz

On account of numerical compulsions UPA Sarkaar is looking the other way!!!
As with lives CPI(M) karr rahi hai khoon ki holi play!!

Now Front partners CPI(M) ko karr rahe hai blame!!
Saying what happened is Nandigram is a crying shame!!

Front partners term this as 'genocide'!!!
In Kolkata CPI(M) leaders are looking for a place to hide!!!

CPI(M) workers did what Paki troops did in Bangladesh !!!
And brought worldwide condemnation on their Desh (country)!!

This was Operation RKP or Rape , Kill and Pillage!!!
And they went doing this village after village!!!

The WB Guv decried the rape and killing,
As anti CPI(M) the Guv CPI(M) is billing!!!

People of WB have seen Communism's true face!!!
And Communism has plummeted from grace!!

Even the pseudo communists are saying that CPI(M) is a slur on humanity!!!
WB's intelligentsia which supported CPI(M) is also up in arms… latest causality!!

What's happened to Karat …. has the cat got his jeeb (tongue)???
His silence on the blood on his Party's hands sure looks very ajeeb!!!

Mamtha and Congress should remember now its ek aur dhakaa!!!
Or in cricketing parlance 'hit Commies out of the stadium for a chakaa'!!!

Mamtha and Congress need to unite and throw Communism in WB into the bin!!!!
And mind you if they come together in earnest they will definitely win!!

And BJP too needs to do its bit to get WB rid of modern day Hitlers!!!
Democracy's belittlers!!!

And mind you all would be doing India 's sewa!!!!
First aim should be to bin communism and only second should consideration of mewa!!!

Mewa or prize which in this case is power should be the secondary aim!!
First aim should be ki Communism ko karro maim!!!

BJP will come to power in Karnataka but JD(S) is again up to masti or mischief!!!
Their Ministers will take oath at a later day as per JD(S)'s Chief!!!

Actually Papa Gowda is setting his own house in order!!!
Power then loss of power and now some power has brought in a lot of disorder!!!

Papa Gowda's got the wrong notion that in negotiation he's number one!!
The same opinion for himself is harbored by the son!!!

Fact is like Papa Gowda becoming PM its again right time and right place!!
Its time at least Papa Gowda is shown his true place!!!

Now the cat is out of the bag that why was Hooda learning from Ramdev Yoga!!!
He wanted to pat himself on his back saying 'merre jaisa CM kabhi nahi hogaa'!!!

And Hooda did just this….. patted himself on his back physically,
And then said ' I'm the best' and patted himself verbally!!

Hooda Ji you can pat yourself as mush as you want!!!
But for the patting to be credible it has to be okayed by your Delhi waali Aunt!!!

He dare not call Sonia sister or Mummy Ji …… yes he can call her his Aunt!!!
And all praises reserved for Aunt and self praise a Congressi simply can't!!!

Congressis need not wear khadi and now they can tipple too… what next!!!
Well Rahul Baba is working on his 'changes in Congress' text!!!

Maybe now Congressis will be required to jog 4 miles everyday!!!
In fighting fit form they will be required to stay!!

So lazy are they that some of them wear adult diapers rather then going to the loo!!
Congressis epitomize laziness so what will they do????

Liposuction… easiest way to rid oneself of excessive fat or lard!!!
What else is next on card???

The next generation will not marry before the age to get naughty!!!
That means Generation next can only marry when they reach forty!!

Rahul Baba feels marriage causes distraction and so marriage should come midlife!!!
No wonders till now he's not got himself a wife!!!

Nowadays Junior Badal spends his waking hours trying on Papa Badal's footwear!!
Junior's foot floats in jo hi Papa's shoe karta hai wear!!

He's even tried wearing six thick socks but still in the shoe his foot karta hai float!!!
Why doesn't he inject into his foot the thing that has made his head bloat???

What does PC mean when he says Rupee rise is on strong fundamentals!!!
Basically Rupee rise is against prudent economic fundamentals!!!

Speculative inflows (IPOs/Shares and Reality) are making the Rupee phenomenally appreciate!!
And once the inflows reverse Rupee will depreciate!!!

But by then in all probability PC will be practicing law!!
He came and allowed Rupee to artificially rise and he just sat back and saw!!!

Can Manmohan and PC explain the continuance of the Mauritius route!!!
Why FII's are being allowed to escape taxation in India via this chute???

An Economist should recognize the follies of allowing this to go on!!!
FII hedging in the Rupee has now been for some time on!!!

Confucius says ..principal should be that profits made in India should be taxed here too!!!
This would indeed be the right thing to do!!!

Bharat Kumar
Aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

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ALL TIME HIGH RECORD OF DIWALI GIFTS ?

Bureaucracy in the country seems to have gone
crazy accepting diwali gifts from all sources this
season. According to very conservative sources,
Government offices all over the country received
gifts worth about Rs. 5,000/- crores. Any body
having any type of dealings with any government
department shared his diwali happiness with the
bureaucrats by presenting them diwali gifts.

Another noble way of pleasing the bureaucrats was
on the tables of the playcards. It is common knowledge
that businessmen came with lot of cash simply to lose
on the playcard table.

Public Enterprises which are currently giving big and
small construction contracts in power projects, national
highways, airports, railways ,etc., were the special
target of the industry.

Instructions of the Cabinet Secretary were simply brushed
aside.

Jhamde to be Director NPCC

A K Jhamde is being appointed Director of the National Projects Construction Company. He is presently GM in the NBCC.

Is RV Shahi getting some assignment

Is RV Shahi former Indian Power Secretary getting some important assignment? Answer to this question lies with Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde only. Recently Sushil Kumar Shinde had presented a book, 'Towards Powering India: Policy Initiatives and Implementation Strategy' written by R V Shahi, to Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in New Delhi. Shahi was also present on the occasion.

Air India gets its 1st wide body Airbus A330

Gulf-bound passengers from Kozhikode can now look forward to an increased capacity and wide-body luxury aircraft. National carrier Air India (NACIL) has begun the operation of its first leased wide-body A330-200 aircraft on the high density Kozhikode-Sharjah sector from November 10,2007. The 279-seater A330-200 aircraft will operate four times a week on the Mumbai-Kozhikode-Kochi-Sharjah sector and thrice a week Mumbai-Goa-Kozhikode-Sharjah and return sector. Besides a roomy cabin with ample leg space and comfortable seats, this twin-configuration aircraft of 255 Economy and 24 Executive class seats, also offers the attractive feature of audio-video in-flight entertainment. It may be stated that Kozhikode has a large segment of expatriate workforce in the Gulf. Air India and the erstwhile Indian have been providing connectivity to destinations in the Gulf since early Nineties. Flight IC 595 (Mumbai-Kozhikode-Kochi-Sharjah) will operate on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays with departure Kozhikode at 1815 hrs and reach Sharjah at 2200 hrs via Kochi. In the return direction, IC 596 will leave Sharjah at 0110 hrs and arrive in Kozhikode at 0745 hrs, again via Kochi on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The Mumbai-Goa-Kozhikode-Sharjah flight IC 597 will operate on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays leaving Kozhikode at 2025 hrs and reaching Sharjah direct at 2240 hrs. On its return, on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays, flight IC 598 will depart Sharjah at 0035 hrs and arrive in Kozhikode via Goa at 0715 hrs.Air India and the erstwhile Indian have collectively placed an order for 111 aircraft of which 20 have already been inducted in the fleet. As more and more aircraft are inducted, Air India will expand its network and also replace its existing aircraft with new aircraft.

SAIL wins accolades at CUBIC Awards, USA

Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL)of which Chairman is S.K.
Roongta,was adjudged the Runners up in the category of 'Most Innovative Industry Resource' amongst a host of organisations from across the world who participated in the 'Corporate University Best in Class (CUBIC) Awards 2007'. The award was presented to SAIL at a glittering ceremony held in Orlando, Florida, USA recently. On behalf of SAIL Sushim Banerjee Executive Director (HRD) made the presentation and responded to the queries of the delegates. The presentation from SAIL, that focused on the innovative approach to learning through peers by solving real life problems in structured learning workshops called 'Learning from each other' conducted by Management Training Institute, Ranchi, the Corporate Training Centre of SAIL was appreciated by the more than 320 delegates, many of whom proposed to adopt the same methodology in the learning efforts of their organisations.

Air India & Gati join hands

Indian Civil Aviation Minister Prafull Patel will launch new collaborated freighter service of Air India (NACIL) & Gati at Surya Mahal, Radisson Hotel Delhi, on November 13,2007. V Thulasidas Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) Air India, V Trivedi, Joint Managing Director Air India, Ms. Anita Khurana Director Commercials Head SBU Air India Cargo & Mahendra Agarawal Managing Director & CEO, Gati Ltd.will also be present on the occasion.