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Rath appointed Secretary HRD
A K Rath has been appointed Secretary School Education and Literacy in the Government of India.1973 batch Jharkhand cadre IAS officer Rath would succeed Champak Chatterjee who is joining the CAT in Kolkata.
( We said this yesterday only)

Sujit Banerjee to be Secretary Coordination ?
Grapevine has it that Sujit Banerjee is being appointed Secretary Coordination in the Government of India. He is 1972 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Brahma Dutt is acting Chairman of Tariff Authority
Secretary Surface Transport Brahma Dutt has also taken over as acting Chairman of the Tariff Authority for Major Ports in India. He is 1973 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Justice Dave to be CJ of AP High Court !
Justice Anil Ramesh Dave of the Gujarat High Court is likely to be moved as Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court.

Justice Roy to be CJ of Rajasthan HC !
Justice Narayan Roy of the Patna High Court is being moved to Rajasthan as Chief Justice of the High Court.

Justice Gupta to be CJ of Chhattisgarh High Court !
Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court Justice Rajiv Gupta is being moved to Chhattisgarh High Court.

Justice Bhalla to be CJ of HP High Court !
Acting Chief Justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court Justice Jagdish Bhalla is being elevated as Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court.

Rahul Gandhi has tremendous insight & maturity

AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi has tremendous insight & maturity in political matters.This is what another AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh has reportedly told his bossom pals.As the grapevine has it,Singh made this statement when his bossom pals questioned him regarding recent tour of Uttar Pradesh that was undertaken by Rahul Gandhi.In fact Digvijay Singh has lauded Rahul Gandhi because the latter "handled media people extremely well."

V.L.V.S.Subba Rao is Director Petroleum

V.L.V.S.Subba Rao on deputation has been appointed as Director of Petroleum & Natural Gas.Rao who is an Indian Economic Service(IES) officer of the 1985 batch was so far a Director in the Ministry of Mines.

Mishra is Regional Director SSC
A K Mishra is now Regional Director of the Staff Selection Commission. He is 1985 batch ISS officer.

Radhey Shyam is Deputy Secretary Culture
Radhey Shyam has joined the Department of Culture in the Government of India as Deputy Secretary. He is 1993 batch IRS (IT) officer.

ITS absorption likely
There is a rumour that ITS absorption may happen at any time. The absorption offer has been reportedly been prepared by the DOT.

1979 batch IPS is ADG in Haryana
1979 batch IPS officer R K Vachher has been promoted to the rank of ADG in Haryana.

Will Bangalore Municipal Commissioner go ?
There are reports that Commissioner of Bangalore Maha Palika Dr S Subramanya is being shifted. He is 1983 batch IAS officer.

IPS reshuffle in West Bengal likely
A minor IPS reshuffle is expected to take place in West Bengal in the first week of December.

Kudos to Somnath Chatterjee

Who brokered the climbdown by Left Front(LF) with the Congress?This million Dollar question is being asked in political circles of Delhi.As the grapevine has it,it was Somnath Chatterjee Speaker to the Lok Sabha(Lower House of the Indian Parliament) who played the pivotal role.

Much ado about nothing in Rajasthan

There seems to be much ado about nothing as far as purchase of a new chopper by Rajasthan Government being led by Chief Minister Ms.Vasundhra is concerned.While some vested interests are blowing up the issue of the proposed purchase of a new Augusta Helicoptre by the Government of Rajasthan, the fact is that between the Governor and Chief Minister, there is only one operational flying machine available right now. The state plane met with an accident a few months back at the Delhi airport.Rajasthan, after bifurcation of Madhya Pradesh, is the largest state in the country, in terms of geographical area. Other states of comparable size have many more number of aircrafts(including helicopters) e.g. Gujarat -4, J&K - 4, Maharashtra - 5, UP- 5, Jharkhand - 7 (4 proposed). ALso, Rajasthan government through its Civil Aviation Corporation, leases out these aircrafts and helicopters when the VVIPs are not travelling and earns revenues out of it. Moreover, the brand Augusta is owned by J&K and Chhattisgarh also.Last but not the elast, this is state government's property not CM's personal property.

Telecom Secretary convenes a meeting of mobile cos

Indian Telecommunication Secretary D.S.Mathur has convened a meeting of top brass of Mobile telephone companies to sort out different issues.The meeting will be held in Delhi on November 21, 2007.Key players like Anil Ambani,Sunil Mittal, Aga& Aseem Ghosh will be attending the meeting.

S.K.Paswan is DG Jails & Home Guards in Chhattisgarh

S.K.Paswan Additional Director General(ADG) CID & Railways has been made DG Jail & Home Guards.A.K.Shrivastava ADG Intelligence & Anti Naxalites Operation has been given additional charge of CID & Railways.

IPS changes in Chhattisgarh

As many as 11 IPS officers were transferred by the Chhattisgarh Government.They are:Rajesh Mishra SSP Durg to Director Sports,B.S.Marawi SSP Raipur to AIG PHQ,Dipanshu Kabra SP Raigarh to SP Durg,Amit Kumar SP Rajnandgaon to SP Raipur,Anand Kumar SP Kawardha to SP Mahasamund,V.K.Choubey SP Kanker to SP Rajnandgaon,P.Sunder Raj SP Nayanpur to SP Kawardha,Ratanlal Dangi SP Bijapur to SP Kanker , J.K.Thorat SP Mahasamund to SP Raigarh,Ankit Garg Assistant SP Bijapur to SP Bijapur & Ajay Yadav Assistant SP Dantewara to SP Narayanpur.

Two Addl judges promoted in Patna HC

Two Additional Judges in the atna High Court(HC) have been appointed as judges.They are Mr. Justice Ajay Kumar Tripathi & Justice Dharnidhar Jha.They have been appointed in order of seniority, with effect from the dates they assume charge of their respective offices.

Two Senior Editors shown the door by Star news

Two Senior Editors of Star News were reportedly asked to leave Star News.They are:Vinod Kapri & Ajay Kumar.Of them Kumar has rejoined the "Aaj Tak."

B.K.Chaturvedi in 13th Finance panel

B.K Chaturvedi, Member, Planning Commission will be the part-time Member of the newly constituted 13th Finance Commission.

Three IPS shifted in Gujarat

Ahmedabad Joint Police Commissioner P. K. Jha, Vadodara Police Commissioner P. C. Thakur and Anand Superintendent of Police D. S. Bhatt have been transferred in Gujarat.

IAS changes in Uttar Pradesh
Rohit Nandan will now be Principal Secretary Rural Develoment.V S Ravi has now been moved as Vice Chairman of the Lucknow Development Authority.

FORUM

Post of Secretary SSC lying vacant for 4 years

" This is regarding the issue raised by Madan lal in the Forum of 14/11/2007 regarding DOPT issuing strict instructions to others but itself not following them in regard to many issues, including making a panel in
advance for filling-in future vacancies. In addition to the mess created by them in regard to the post of Member, SSC, the post of Secretary, SSC is also lying vacant for the last about 4 years. A junior level
Regional Director is officiating as Secretary, SSC for many years creating lot of heart burning and resentment amongst other Regional Directors of SSC who are receiving instructions from a junior colleague of theirs just because they are away from the powers that be in Delhi. Will some one inquire into this as to why the post has not been filled in the last 4 years, and whether there are any vested interests to keep the post
vacant?

K K Chadha

Similarity between Mayawati and Killer bluelines

There is a strange similarity between UP CM Mayawati and Delhi's killer bluelines - both attack innocent people and gain publicity! The latest example is the Divisional Commissioner of Moradabad who was suspended in the so-called surprise visit of the CM to a village in Bijnor district. An honest and upright officer is a victim of Mayawati's social engineering. Sources in the power corridors say that the Commissioner was suspended as Behenji's political advisers were averse to suspending a Brahmin District Magistrate, an act which would be detrimental to her newly gained vote bank. Mayawatiji, how would you explain the act of suspending a supervisory officer for lack of development in a small village and not taking any action against other officers like SDM/ADM/DM etc. who are directly responsible for carrying out the development work?
Beware IAS officers of UP. This is just the beginning. UP's killer Blueline is back!!

S Khanna

Bell the act V K

I felt concerned for VK who has had to pay a heavy price just for doing his duty as CVO (WIC Forum 15th Nov). Without going into the personal issues for obvious reasons I find two basic generic issues emerging from his story. First, your seniors remain unhappy with you if you do your job dutifully . And second, there is no efficacious redressal mechanism in place to protect your legitimate interests when you are victimised by an unhappy boss as even the judicial fora including the apex court or the CAT do not deliver justice easily.
VK is right on both these counts. It is a fact that majority of those occupying decisive positions within the bureaucratic hierarchy are people who would like their juniors to simply toe the line unquestioningly. In fact they have themselves risen to the commanding positions through blind, robotic obedience of their own superiors' commands and trained themselves to believe that a questioning attitude is the worst form of indiscipline. In a nutshell, all successful officers are not necessarily good officers while all good officers are necessarily unsuccessful. (I don't deny some honourable exceptions as I have come across some 2 or 3 - and thats all mind you - such honourable exceptions in my 34 years service).Generally speaking there is need to break this vicious circle whereby an unscrupulous person rises high and secures similar rise only for equally unscrupulous elements working under him to the exclusion of any one suspected of having a fearless disposition or an independent, probing mind. Coming to the redressal mechanism, well in a democratic country the judiciary alone has the privilege of adjudication. Unfortunately the judicial system is inaccessible without a professional practitioner of law and the fee for engaging one is simply beyond the legitimate means of any civil servant, more so for an upright and conscientious one. Besides the juristic mindset is so deeply entrenched in formalities that a good many cases are lost on preliminary objections and technical grounds without even touching on the merits. As a young man in the early eighties (when CAT wasn't there) I had decided to argue my own case in a High Court against a transfer order which I considered to be unjust. I soon found myself outwitted by the 'preliminary objections' reeled off by the Government Counsel who happened to be a professional heavy weight. "But what about the merits of my case My Lord! Lets talk about that", I pleaded. "That will come later on", Lordship said tenderly and affectionately, "First let me hear the preliminary objections from the learned government pleader". The preliminary objections were heard and disposed. And with that was disposed my writ petition. Merits didn't get a chance to be reached.
You can't blame Lordships there. They are operating within a system and the system asks for professional experts irrespective of whether an honest or a dishonest person alone can afford to pay for their services.
Ultimately it is the viciousness inherent in the system that has to be broken. That may be a daunting task but not impossible. A beginning can be made by the victims by belling the cat rather than suffering silently. VK too can make a beginning by naming the Secretary who asked him to read novels rather than perform his duties as CVO. Rest assured, once you bell the cat, you will find large number of likeminded persons ready to join hands and stand by you. For all I know help may come pouring in from most unexpected quarters including from the honourable exceptions (howsoever few in numbers) occupying high positions within the bureaucracy and even the judiciary. Remember there is something called 'suo motto' notice taken by Lordships from time to time.
N N Ojha

Good tail-piece

Thanks for a good one Abhishek Singh. Keep it coming!

S Bose

Let us give credit

The comments about Harsh Mander. He was on deputation to international organisation from IAS when he spoke against Gujrat Government . What courage? However, all those who speak against Modi should also think about the Godra burning of innocents and the past history of Gujrat. There have not been any terrorist attacks thereafter and people of Gujrat are enjoying a relatively peaceful existence than other states. Let us give the credit where it is due.

Senior citizen

Aaj Ki Aawaz

Sushma is abs right …. Commie leadership has fallen into immature hands!!!
In the dock Communism stands!!!

When Karat became General Secretary the called him a tough nut!!!
Now word tough has been cut!!!

Bardhan thinks he's always right,
And expects all to say it's day when he says it's day and night when he says its night!!

And imagine Budha just justified the slaughter of Nandigram peasants !!!
His comments I'm sure every sane Indian resents!!!

Then don't forget Commie stand on the 123 Deal,
Cheated India is what many feel!!!!

Saare jahan se achcha bann raha hai Hindustan hamaara,
And Commies are doing their level best ki ho jay India ka kabaada!!

Now to travel out of Delhi Ministers will have to take permission!!!
They'll have to get Somnath Da's okay when House is in session!!!

So now Commies will control the movement of every Mantri!!!
To travel they've to take permission of Somanth Da whose a self appointed Santri!!

All said and done if Commies do not make Somnath Da use this diktat in the wrong way!!!
There is sense in what Somnath Da karr raha hai say!!!

Attendance in both Houses is dismally low!!!!
On the live DD telecast you get to see empty row after row!!!

When Ministers don't attend MPs feel what's the use to attend???
And if questioned standard reply is.... constituency ko karr rahe hai tend!!!

Latest Media polls show BJP is leading in Gujarat and people are satisfied with Modi!!
Polls show Gujaratis want to put power again in BJP's godi (lap)!!!

Congress's 'create fires' strategy seems to have failed!!!!
Gujarat Muslims have realized that for them croc tears Congress wailed!!

Polls show that Gujaratis do not want for Modi a replacement!!!
Only thing now Modi should not get complacent!!!

Sonia has refused to the request that her birthday be nominated a girl child day!!!
Next ....Demand that Baba Day would be celebrated on Rahul Baba's birthday!!!

Manmohan's birthday should be celebrated as Obedience Day!!!
On this day whatever a Boss says employees will have to obey!!

Pawar's birthday should be celebrated as ' Hay making Day'!!!
On this day Pawar's supporters will symbolically cut and bale hay!!

Shivraj Patil's birthday should be celebrated as ' Gun Day'!!!
All those who have a yen for guns on this day with their guns will play!!!

FII's will celebrate PC's birthday as 'Greenback Day'!!!
By making the Sensex shoot up by 1000 they'll wish him happy birthday!!!!

Karat's and Bardhan's birthdays should be celebrated as Russia and China days!!!
Commies will celebrate with Chinese and Russian food festivals and street plays!!!

Budha's birthday should be celebrated as 'Revenge Day'!!!
On this day ten times 'an eye for an eye' every Commie will say!!!

Laloo's birthday should be celebrated as Launda Naach Diwas or day!!!!
On this day it'll be mandatory for the RJD lot to be 'gay' (happy??)!!!

Karuna's birthday should be celebrated as 'Poetry day'!!!!
On this day all in DMK will recite in prose whatever they have to say!!

Mani Shanker Aiyer's birthday should be celebrated as ' Queen's English Day'!!!
In Sports Ministry in shudh angrezi Congressis will say what they have to say!!!

Renuka Chowdhury's birthday should be celebrated as ' Hello Hello' Day!!!
As she has no supporters she herself throughout the day Hello Hello karre gi say!!

Amar Singh will celebrate his birthday as ' Anti Sonia Day'!!!
On this day like any other day only negative things about Sonia he'll say!!

Maya birthday will be celebrated as Bahujan Day!!!
She'll wear a new pair of solitaires and for these the Bahujan Samaj will pay!!!

Bharat Kumar's birthday will be celebrated as "Day of Aam Aadmi or Mr. Nobody'!!!
Confucius says… Don't be silly because to get you birthday celebrated you have to be a somebody!!!

Bharat Kumar
Aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

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A B L Shrivastava to be Director(Fin)in NHPC

A.B.L.Shrivastava is poised to become Director(Finance)in National Hydel Power Corporation(NHPC).At present he is General Manager with Rural Electrification Corporation (REC).

ITS officer joins NOKIA
V C Kauhsik ( ITS-95 , DGM CDMA MTNL) has reportedly resigned from the service one month back to join the Nokia at a package of 20lakh+ /annum. A lot of ITS officers have resigned form
the service due to uncertaintity of the ITS officers in BSNL / MTNL / DOT.

NINL MD resigns

Managing Director of the Neelachal Ispat Nigam Ltd (NINL) B P Modi has reportedly resigned.

E-Tendering & procurement in Punjab from 2008

The Punjab Government being led by Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal is going to start E- tendering & E procurement in PWD (B&R) department from January 2008.This was disclosed by Punjab Government's Minister for PWD (B & R)Parminder Singh Dhindsa while presiding over the meeting of board of Punjab Roads Bridges Development Board in Chandigarh on November 15,2007.According to Dhindsa from January 15 , 2008 all works above Rs.One crore would be tendered electronically. Department of Information & Technology was in the process of establishing a suitable platform for these services. The Minister said that this would introduce greater competition and transparency in the public procurement.Dhindsa also said that Computerization of PWD (B&R) was also a part of World Bank funded Punjab State Road Sector Project, the largest road sector project in the state being implemented by PRBDB. A budget of Rs. 15 crores has been kept for computerization in the project.The Minister said that total computerization of PWD (B&R) would be completed by June, 2008.

Turmoil of sorts in Taj group of hotels

It is for the 1st time in many years that the Tata company run Taj group of hotels world wide are experiencing a turmoil of sorts.The resentment is reportedly over induction of froreigners in properties abroad & continuation of a foreigner as the MD in India.In fact several top & middle level executives have begun to desert the hotel chain for better promotion avenues.One of the recent examples is the departure of Farhat Jamal from the company.Jamal had risen from a waiter's rank to the post of a Vice President West & Middle East Taj Hotels.He had quit the group to join Intercontinental chain in India as CEO & President.

Finance Minister's visit to SBI head office

Indian Finance Minister P.Chidambaram's visit to the Mumbai located head office of State Bank of India(SBI)recently has created a lot of curiosity in financial & banking circles.Chidambaram is reportedly extremely with the SBI's performance.

Bhasin promoted by Lowe

Lowe Worldwide has promoted Lintas India executive Asheesh Bhasin to Executive Vice President(EVP) with effect from January 2008.

Reliance to enter into Jewellery market

Reliance Retail Limited has decided to enter into the jewellery market "Reliance Jewels".

MOU signed

SVKM's NMIMS University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Union Bank of India at a function held on 25 th October, 2007 for imparting Skill Based Training Programme for the front line officials of the bank in the areas of development of soft skills, concept of Sales & Marketing of banking Products and contemporary banking issues and emerging challenges. In the first instance, around 600 officials will participate in this training programme Amrish Patel, Chancellor - NMIMS University, B P Sheth, Vice President-SVKM, Dr. N M Kondap, Vice Chancellor, Dr. Rajan Saxena, Senior Advisor to Chancellor and Distinguished Professor were present at the function. M V Nair, Chairman & Managing Director and other senior executives of Union Bank of India represented the bank.

Manhas is Chairman of MHADA
Amarjeet Singh Manhas has taken over as Chairman of the Mumbai Housing and Area Development Authority.