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Cabinet reshuffle during Navratri
Changes in the Union council of ministers are on the cards during Navratri. Names of DMK chief M Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi, Shibu Soren and Ajit Singh have started doing the round .

Sanjay Murthy to go Hyderabad
K Sanjay Murthy, former PS to Union Telecom Minister Maran, has been allowed to go on deputation to Hyderabad under 6 (2) (2). He is 1989 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.

Sampath Kumar to join Rajiv Gandhi Foundation
P Sampath Kumar is going on deputation to the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation . He is 1997 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.He is presently DC of West Garo Hills in Meghalaya.

Rekha Bhargava gets additional charge of I & B
Secretary Parliamentary Affairs Ms Rekha Bhargava has been given additional charge of Information and Broadcasting. She is 1973 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

1991 batch IAS officers to go South Korea
Altogether 108 IAS officers belonging to 1991 batch are going to South Korea for ten days beginning October 1on an exposure visit .

Three 1975 batch IPS officers willing to go to GoI
At least three 1975 batch IPS officers namely Vijay Raman, OPS Mullick and PPS Sidhu, are willing to go to GoI on deputation.

Sheel Vardhan Singh to be JD IB
Sheel Vardhan Singh is being promoted to the rank of Joint Director in the Intelligence Bureau in a week or two. He is 1986 batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre.

Why praise of Mishra by Finance Minister ?
Finance Minister P Chidambaram has openly praised 1971 batch IRS officer P K Mishra in front of other Mandarins of North Block. Has the FM given indication about his choice of Mishra as CBDT Chief ?

Shortage of IAS officers in Karnataka
This is now official. Karnataka Government is facing shortage of about 20 IAS officers in the lower cadres. Presently there are 259 IAS officers in the State of which 38 are on Central deputation.

IAS reshuffle in Rajasthan
There is IAS reshuffle in Rajasthan. New postings are :- Mssrs Parmesh Chandra ACS Social Infrastructure,Kushal Singh President Board of Revenue,Rakesh Hooja ACS Training,R P Jain PS Administrative Reforms,Ashok Jain CMD State Road Transport Corporation,Umesh Kumar Commissioner BIP Rajasthan Foundation,Rashmi Priya Darshini Member Rajasthan Administrative Tribunal,Navin Jain DM Karouli and Samit Sharma Secretary Improvement Trust Bhiwadi.

IAS changes in Bihar
On return from central deputation Ms Rashmi Verma has been appointed Principal Secretary Tourism with additional charge of Bihar Tourism Development Corporation.Anjani Kumar Singh will be PS HRD.Sudhir Kumar has been made Small Irrigation Projects. Rajesh Bhushan has been moved as Director Education Projects Bihar..Vijay Prakash will be PS Backward Class

IAS reshuffle in Madhya Pradesh
In a minor bureaucratic reshuffle Madhya Pradesh Government has promoted four IAS officers as Additional Chief Secretaries and affected change in posting of 10 officials.Those who got the ACSs rank were Iqbal Ahmed,Rakesh Bansal,Mrs.Ranjana Chaudhary, R.N.Berwa .They have been granted rank at par with President Board of Revenue.Iqbal Ahmed will be now Member of the State Finance Commission while Satya Prakash who was earlier Principal Secretary Home on his return from foreign training has been appointed as Agriculture Production Commissioner(APC).Rakesh Bansal will continue to hold his present departments of Labour & Transport while Mrs.Ranjana Chaudhary will continue to look after departments of Forest, Biodiversity,Sports & Youth Welfare.R.N.Berwa will also continue to look after his previous departments of Social Justice & Minorities Welfare. ACS rank officer Ranveer Singh who was Director Tribal Research Institute(TRI) will now be Chairman Preofessional Examination Board as Dr.Ajit Raizada is superannuating by this month end.M.A.Khan who was earlier Commissioner & MD of the Mandi Board will now be Secretary Village Industries & Managing Director of the Handicrafts Development Corporation in place of S.S.Uppal.On the other hand Uppal will be Commissioner & MD MP Mandi Board,Radhe Shyam Julania on his return from central deputation has been appointed Commissioner of the State Education Reasearch & Training(SCERT).Shailendra Singh Commissioner MP Land Records Gwalior will be new Chief Exective Officer of MP Rural Roads Development Authority in place of Ashok Shah who has been sent to Gwalior in Singh's place.J.N.Kansotia Secretary Tribal Welfare will hold additional charge of Director TRI.Avani Vaish Principal Secretary Commerce & Industry will be relieved rom the charge of Village Industries department on the day Khan asumes charge.

Rajat Sethi to join Reader's Digest on Nov.5
Rajat Sethi will be joining as Executive Director (ED) of Reader's Digest on November 5,2007.So far he was CEO with Wunderman India. He had quit recently.

"Mint" to be launched from Bangalore
The Economic newspaper titled "Mint" of the Hindustan Times group, of which head is Ms.Shobhana Bhartia, is going to be launched from Bangalore in November 2007 around Diwali festival. At present "Mint" is simultaneously being published from Delhi & Mumbai.

Launch of "Mail Today"delayed
Launch of broadsheet morninger titled "Mail Today" has been delayed by about two months. It may be stated that the English daily is a joint venture of the "India Today" group being headed by Aroon Purie & "Daily Mail", London.

11 Scientists named for Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize

Eleven scientists have been selected for 2007 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for science and technology. Their names discipline-wise are as under:Dr. Upinder Singh Bhalla National Centre for Biological Sciences Bangalore,Dr. Narayanaswamy Srinivasan Indian Institute of Science Bangalore(both for Biological Sciences),Dr. Amalendu Chandra IIT Kanpur,Dr. A. Ajayaghosh National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIST) Thiruvananthapuram(both for Chemical Sciences) Dr. Anil Bhardwaj Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram for Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences, Dr. Rama Govindarajan Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Bangalore,Dr. Budaraju Srinivasa Murty IIT Chennai(both for Engineering Sciences),Dr. B.V. Rajarama Bhat IIT Bangalore(for Mathematical Sciences), Dr. Pundi Narasimhan Rangarajan Indian Institute of Science Bangalore(for Medical Sciences)Dr. Yashwant Gupta, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Pune & Dr. Pinaki Majumdar Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad(both for Physical Sciences)

Two SPs changed in MP

The MP Government has appointed Chanchal Shekhar as Superintendent of Police(SP) Barwani.So far he was Commandant of the 34th Battalion of SAF in Barwani.Likewise,P.K.Mathur SP Dhar has been shifted to Barwani in the same capacity.Both of them are MP cadre IPS officers who belong to the 1996 batch.

NACIL amongst the top in terms of fleet insurance
Figures released by one of the top insurance broker firm reveals that NACIL of India formed as a result of the merger of Air India and Indian ranks 10th in the Asia Region in terms of average fleet value(AFV) insured in the London reinsurance market. NACIL of which CMD is V Thulasidas is on the threshold of massive expansion plan which would witness the induction of nearly 100 new aircraft in its fleet in the period commencing from October 1,2007 which would be a combination of Airbus and Boeing fleet. In terms of passenger numbers NACIL ranks 10th in the region and as far as departures are concerned the company ranks 7th in the region. The combined fleet of NACIL which represents the erstwhile Air India and Indian was placed in the market by "The New India Assurance Co. Ltd." with the assistance of Aon Global Insurance Services Pvt. Ltd. It is understood that the company was able to obtain a substantial saving upto 40% vis-à-vis the premium as compared to the premiums prevailing in the last year i.e. 2006-07.The exposure on AFV is likely to go up by nearly 25% to 30% at the expiry of this year's policy i.e.2007-08.

Shailendra Pandey is Member CAT

Senior IA & AS officer Shailendra Pandey has taken over as Member of the CAT in Allahabad.

FORUM

CHIRAG TALE ANDHERA.

This hindi proverb holds true in the case of Finance Ministry in so far as foregin tours are concerned. All rules instructions are ignored. Everybody is away on foreign tours at same time. In fact the foreign travel budget of 200 lakh has already exhausted and 6 more months remain. A number of more tours are in the offing and there is not budget. Though the Financial Adviser has pointed this out, no body is listening. Finance Ministry is advising others that no reapportion in foreign travel expenses will be allowed but yet to see what it will do in its own case.

Prashant

Retirement age should be 65 years

In view of better health conditions of people and the rich experiance the employees have, government must increase the retirement age of its employees to 65 years .

Deepak Singh

Retirement age should not be raised

It would certainly be a welcome move if the age of retirement for civil servants is not hiked beyond 60 yrs. There are instances where those sitting at the helm of affairs go on getting extension after extension beyond their superannuation just by pleasing their bosses - something neither desirable nor justified ethically or by any other means. The younger lot gets retired as such, their dream of reaching the top remains unfulfilled just because the oldies remain firmly glued to their chairs. Narayan Murthy set an example by retiring at the age of 60 - something to be followed by one and all including the politicians whom we are bearing till the end of their lives.

RS

CEO and DG should not be from IAS

In Doordarshan if CEO and Dg both belong to IAS then coordination and functioning might be very poor we seen this previously its a fine if DG should be from non IAS cadre as CEO is IAS.

Sultan

What I meant to say ?

Myy writing was in no way intended to cast a doubt on competency and right of state civil services officers. In fact most of the time my colleagues from All India Services have benefited from the experience of state officers. What I want to say is that a young officer going to a far off state is most of the time shocked to see the realities. More often than not he is kept waiting or is posted to jobs where none of the other officers want to go. Here `want to go` being the keyword. Ideally we should go to any post the government wants us to go but this is far removed from reality. From first day onwards he can smell in the air that all is not well when he is meted out different treatment from different officers mostly on basis of being a direct and a promoted one or which state he belongs and also his caste. If I am wrong than may be it is what I have perceived being new to the services. According to me it would have been better that all of us would have been serving our respective states instead of this hypocrisy of bringing unity in the country while watching the seniors irrespective of source of recruitment going all out to please the political bosses.

Neeta Singh

Cricket should not be encouraged

I fully agree with Arvind regarding celebrating cricket. Can country be prosperous by promoting country. There are eminent personalities who have contributed to science, technology, agriculture for whom we enjoy a comfortable life. By encouraging such game we create more unemployment. It is a lengthy game and young people waste a lot of time playing this game. All don't achieve big in life. Those who don't achieve become almost unemployed at later stage. If we honour such people who have made our life comfortable and more and more people are attracted for science, technology, agriculture they cant be unemployed. They can easily earn their livelihood by salaried employment or self employment. Let us honour the people who have contributed to our existence than cricket alone.

P K Mishra

TAIL-PIECE

Can I buy an hour of your time?
A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year-old son waiting for him at the door.
Son: "Daddy, may I ask you a question?"
Daddy: "Yeah sure, what it is?"
Son: "Dad, how much do you make an hour?"
Daddy: "That's none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?"
Son: "I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?"
Daddy: "I make Rs. 500 an hour."
"Oh", the little boy replied, with his head down.
Looking up, he said, "Dad, may I please borrow Rs. 300?"
The father was furious, "If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or other nonsense, then march yourself to your room and go to bed. Think why you are being so selfish. I work hard everyday for such an amount."
The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door.
The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy's questions.
How dare he ask such questions only to get some money?
After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down, and started to think: "May be there was something he really needed to buy with that Rs. 300 and he really didn't ask for money very often!"
The man went to the door of little boy's room and opened the door.
"Are you asleep, son?" He asked.
"No daddy, I'm awake," replied the boy.
"I've been thinking; may be I was too hard on you earlier", said the man, "It's been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you. Here's the Rs.300 you asked for."
The little boy sat straight up, smiling "oh thank you dad!" He yelled.
Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled some crippled up notes. The man, seeing that the boy already had money, started to get angry again.
The little boy slowly counted out his money, then looked up at his father.
"Why do you want money if you already had some?" the father grumbled.
"Because I didn't have enough, but now I do," the little boy replied. "Daddy I have Rs. 500 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you."
MORAL
It's just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life.
We should not let time slip through our fingers without having spent some time with those who really matter to us, those close to our hearts.
If we die tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of days.
But the family & friends we leave behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives.
And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into work than to our family.
Contributed by-Col Satish Dewan

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Asheesh Khazanchi quits Rediffusion DY&R
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HCC bags Golden Peacock award
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Reebok's 1st store for eves
The Reebok's 1st exclusive "Women's World store at DT City Centre Mall, Gurgaon has opened.Even launch of the all new women's wear collection from Reebok also took place.Star attraction was Sagarika Ghatge, the player who epitomized competitiveness in the famous film "Chak De India".She is new brand Ambassador for Reebok products as are M.S. Dhoni ,Yuvraj Singh & Irfan Pathan. Subhinder Singh Prem who is Managing Director of the Reebok India said "we would aggressively be focusing on the women's category and plan to create new product lines and launch women's only stores to befriend our women consumer, there is a need for a brand ambassador who could make a sporty fashion statement and at the same time command a mass appeal. Sagarika is known for her strong sports legacy, she has been a state level champion in athletics and also a hockey player during her school days at Mayo College. She embodies the pulse points of our brand -individuality, authenticity and ideology. "

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Anuj Dahiya is Country head ValueFirst

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Tushar Vyas quits Group M's Interaction

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Saurabh Verma is CMO of Reliance Entertainment

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