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Pradip Singh is DG NPC

Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Pradip Singh has been moved as DG of the National Productivity Council.1974 batch UT cadre IAS officer Singh will succeed 1972 batch UP cadre IAS officer N A Vishwanathan who retired on September 30.

Is it a fact ?
Did the Secretary Child and Women Welfare Deepa Jain Singh admit on one official file that she does not inspire confidence in the present Minister ?. It means Minister Child and Women Welfare in the Government of India Ms Renuka Chaudhury and her Secretary Deepa Jain Singh are not getting along at all.

Who bothers about losses in Prasar Bharti ?
How many people know cumulative deficit of the Prasar Bharti has been to the tune of Rs 5,440 crores ?.What is the contribution of Chairman B S Lalli, an IAS officer of UP cadre, to improve the things? Howmany foreign trips since his joining the broadcaster?.

Rakesh Behari is new CS of Puducherry
Rakesh Behari has been appointed the new Chief Secretary, Government of Puducherry.1977 batch UT cadre IAS officer Rakesh Behari will succeed Pradeep Mehra who has moved to Chandigarh administration.
( We said this on September 24 )

IAS officer de-empanelled
1976 batch West Bengal cadre IAS officer D Chakrabarti has been de-empanelled in the Government of India. He had been earlier empanelled to the rank of Additional Secretary.

J P Mishra to be Director in MHA
JP Mishra is going to become Director in the Ministry of Home Affairs(MHA).At present he is AIG in the Indian Ministry of Environment & Forests. Mishra who is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the AGMU cadre belongs to the 1993 batch.

Prem Narain gets extension
Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture Prem Narain has been granted extension in deputation till March next. He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Vijay Bhushan to be CCIT 1 Delhi !
Vijay Bhushan is all set to succeed Prashant Ray as CCIT 1 Delhi. Ray is retiring this year.

No deputation for couple of services
Government of India has stopped deputation of a couple of services including the IIS and IRS because the quota has exhausted.

Pateriya to be promoted in CBI
A K Pateriya is being promoted to the rank of Joint Director in the CBI next month. He is 1986 batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Two Assam cadre IAS in Ahemdabad
Two Assam IAS officers Samir Kumar Sinha and Niraj Verma, both (IAS, 1994), are doing the one year PGP Public Policy Program at IIM-Ahmedabad.

Bandhopadhyay is RNI
DG AIR News P K Bandhopadhyay has been given additional charge of the RNI. He is 1971 batch IIS officer.

Surajit Mitra unlikely to get third extension
Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Heavy Industries Surajit Mitra is unlikely to get third extension in deputation tenure. Tenure of 1977 batch Assam-Meghalaya cadre IAS officer Mitra is coming to an end on October 24.

1984 batch IAS to be PS in Andhra Pradesh
1984 batch IAS officers are being promoted to the rank of Principal Secretary in Andhra Pradesh.

No IPS officer empanelled in three states
Surprisingly no IPS officer belonging to 1986 batch has been empanelled to the rank of IG in the Government of India from Punjab, Haryana and Chhattisgarh.

Behar is now Advisor in Chhattisgarh
Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Secretary S C Behar has been appointed Advisor Education in Chhattisgarh. He is retired 1961 batch IAS officer.

He could not complete 100 years
A retired IPS officer in Madhya Pradesh Ram Rao Dube has passed away after crossing 99 years of age. The most important aspect was that he never retired. He used to work till his death in the Usha Trust, Indore.

Centre drops hunt for MD of Bhatinda Oil refinery
The Indian Government has done away with the exercise to look for an incumbent to function as Managing Director of the Guru Gobind Singh Refineries Ltd. Coming up in Bhatinda. It's going to be a joint venture of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd(HPCL) of which Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) is Arun Balakrishnan & noted industrial magnet L N Mittal.

Panel of IAS sought for Director Shipping
Indian Minister for Shipping, Road Transport & Highways, T R Baalu, has reportedly sought a fresh panel of IAS officers for the post of Director in the Ministry of Shipping. The post has been lying vacant ever since PC Dhiman's tenure ended about four months back. However, the bureaucratic incumbent should have science background ,it is learnt.

Not Brahmins but Thakurs in Madhya Pradesh
There is going to be new Social Engineering of Mayawati in Madhya Pradesh .This time she is considering to give seats to Thakurs and not Brahmins in the state.

Supreme Court doesn't like HC practice
The Supreme Court does,'t like the practice of high courts summoning top bureaucrats like Chief Secretaries.The SC has asked them to use such powers only under exceptional circumstances.

IAS postings in Delhi

1983 batch IAS officer Nutan Guha Biswas has been appointed Secretary Revenue and Development.Vijay Kumar Dev will now be Commissioner Food. He is 1987 batch IAS officer.

IAS changes in Uttar Pradesh

There is IAS reshuffle in Uttar Pradesh. New postings are :- Mssrs Hari Raj Kishore Secretary Finance,Rajan Shukla Transport Commissioner,R K Tiwari Commissioner RD,Sanjay R Bhoosreddy Member (Judicial) Revenue Board and Sudhir Mahadev Bohre MD UPSRTC.

FORUM

It is strange that everyone curses IAS

I find it strange that everyone curses the IAS with one breath and with the next, seeks to join it, or rather infiltrate into it as PCS or CSS and so on. Even the army wants to dominate the IAS and overtake it by revising the blue book fixing precedence and protocol.The IAS is attacked by all and sundry as a casual pastime.Since 1947 the IAS has held the country together. Whatever erosion has taken place is due to political pressure , political tinkering and straight forward political corruption. To constantly criticise the IAS is to undermine it and demoralise its officers who are already shouldering a huge burden. After all there are only 4000 or so IAS officers in a country of 1 billion. The time has come to do a fair assessment of the contribution made by the IAS in nation building in the last 60 years.It is because of the IAS that civil war has not erupted all over the country, nor have maoists been allowed to have a bloodbath in the name of revolution.To make fun of the IAS and criticise the red lights on their cars shows pettiness and a small mind. Several news channels ,like NDTV are guilty of this.IAS baiting is like Brahmin baiting and under it all seems to be bottled up envy.

D Choudhury

Why Hindu is targeted most ?
I would never decry the religious sentiments of any community but the one question that comes to mind is why of all the religions in this country is the Hindu always targetted the most -- almost as if he were the alien invader and all the so called "activists" and "secularists" are ready to pounce upon the Hindu and his beliefs and sentiments and are even ready to go to this extent of trying to gun down the deepest of their beliefs and integral part of their very lifeline
Is it because we have given so much in to the minority politics of quotas and reservations or the pressures of the atheist communists or are we today so much under the influence of the westerners and so subject to their pressures that we are ready to marginalise and on occasion virtually demonise the majority community of this nation ?
What is it that prevents the "activists" and "secularists" from also speaking up and questioning the motives behind such questions being raised -- and why does not anyone question the mythology or beliefs of the Christian and Moslem religions ?
Where are Shabana Azmi and Father Cedric Prakash and all their army of do gooders who at the drop of a hat are ready to brand the Hindu virtually as a "rakshasa" ? Why such deafening silence from them while that senile atheist and branded corrupt goes around ranting his theories and probably because some one wants to make a lot of money out of this deal and to hell with the sentiments of the majority of this country
In Gujarati there is a saying "Thali ma pani lai ne dubi maro" -- drown yourself in a saucer full of water -- if you can be shamed to this extent.
Dewan

TAIL-PIECE

After numerous rounds of "We don't even know if Osama is still alive," Osama himself decided to send George Bush a letter in his own handwriting to let him know he was still in the game. Bush opened the letter and it appeared to contain a single line of coded message: 370H-SSV-0773H

Bush was baffled, so he e-mailed it to Condoleezza Rice. Condi and her aides had not a clue either, so they sent it to the FBI. No one could solve it at the FBI, so it went to the CIA, and then to NASA. Eventually they asked India's CBI for help. Within a minute, CBI called the White House with this reply: "Tell the President he's holding the message upside down."

Contributed by-Anita

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