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Gokulram is new Chairman of NHAI
N Gokulram has been appointed new Chairman of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).1974 batch Karnataka cadre IAS officer, Gokulram, will succeed J S Maini.

Maini moves to BRPSE
Chairman of the NHAI J S Maini has been moved to BRPSE. He is 1974 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre.

Vivek Mehrotra is AS and FA Home
Vivek Mehrotra will now be AS and FA Home. He is 1974 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

Raghu Sirohi is now AS and FA DIPP
Raghu Sirohi has been moved as AS and FA in the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion. He is 1974 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Raghupathy is AS and FA Food
N K Raghupathy is coming to Delhi as AS and FA in the Ministry of Food and Civil Supplies. He is 1975 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Avni Vaish is MD Trifed
Avni Vaish has been appointed MD of the Trifed. He is 1975 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Ramasubban is new Secretary CVC
K S Ramasubban will be new Secretary of the CVC.1976 batch West Bengal cadre IAS officer Ramasubban will succeed Sujit Banerjee.

Sujit Banerjee moves to Cabinet Secretariat
Secretary in the CVC Sujit Banerjee is moving to the Cabinet Secretariat as Chairman of Chemical Weapons Conventions in the rank of Secretary in the Government of India. He is 1972 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Money is Member (Administration) NHAI

K S Money Chairman Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority(APEDA),Delhi, has been appointed Member (Administration) in the NHAI. He is 1976 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

IPS officer resigns in UP ?
Uttar Pradesh cadre 1991 batch IPS officer Kiran D Jadhav is reported to have tendered his resignation.
CAT asks Orissa Government to give posting to two IAS
The CAT has reportedly quashed the illegal orders of the Orissa Government and asked to give 1979 batch IAS, Ramesh Charan Behera and 1983 batch IAS, Santosh Kumar Mishra suitable posting as per their seniority within 30 days.

Revised inter-seniority of 2001 IRPS
Revised inter- seniority list of the 2001 batch of the IRPS officers has been issued by the Railway Board.
1. Sasanka Sarmah2. Ms. Suvarna Deshpande Dash
3. Dr. Sakkeer Hussaiin C.T. (OBC) 4. Ms. Amrita Dhingra and
5. Ms. Sanghmitra Markam (ST).

Railway transfer- postings
K M Pandey, SAG/IRSME/East Central Railway has been transferred to North Central Railway.P K Gupta, HAG/IRSME presently working as CME, West Central Railway has been shifted Railway Board on promotion to grade Rs. 24050-26000/-, and posted as Additional Member (Production Units).Jyoti Kumar, SA Grade/IRSME/Eastern Railway has been moved to Chittaranjan Locomotive Works and posted as CPO vice Abdul Nasir, SAG/IRPS, on leave. Shishir Dutt, Selection Grade/IRSME/IRIMEE will now go to Rail Coach Factory. S K Agarwal, SAG/IRSME/Rail Coach Factory has been transferred to East Central Railway .Dayanand Naik, Senior Scale/IRSME/Rail Wheel Factory has been shifted to South Western Railway in the same capacity. Subhranshu, SA Grade/IRSME/Southern Railway has been transferred to South Western Railway and posted in the cadre. B B Verma, SAG, EDPC/Railway Board has been posted as EDFA/Railway Board vice J Srinivas, SAG. Srinivas, SAG, EDFA/Railway Board has been made EDPC/Railway Board. P S Khuntia, SAG, FA&CAO(C-II)/Northern Railway has been tranferred to Railway Board and posted as EDV(A), Railway Board, vice Vandana Nanda, SAG, proceeding on deputation. Vidya Bhushan SAG/IRSME/North East Frontier Railway has been transferred to Indian Railway Organization for Alternative Fuel (IROAF)/NDLS in the same capacity .

Kharbhih to succeed Sampath Kumar
The former DC of East Garo Hills, Mr EP Kharbhih is expected to take over from P Sampath Kumar as DC of Garo Hills in Meghalaya..Sampath Kumar is going on deputation to the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation.

Rajaraman is Commissioner Civil Supplies in TamilNadu
K Rajaraman is new Commissioner of Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection in TamilNadu.1989 batch IAS officer will succeed 1972 batch IAS officer L N Vjayaraghavan, who is retiring on September 30

IAS changes of Haryana
A Sreenivas will be ADC cum CEO Mahendragarg . Saket Kumar will move to Kalka.Mandip Singh Brar has been shifted to Hisar.Mona Sreenivas will go to Mahendragarh

Novel experiments in Higher Education in MP
Taking over charge as Principal secretary Higher Education Department in Madhya Pradesh Ms Snehlata Srivastava found that number of files are pending in the Department and in the Directorate of Higher Education.She has started 'Nasti Nivaran Shivir' (File Disposal Camps) at the Divisional level. In the Camps organised at Rewa, Sagar and Ujjain in one day each camp total more than 500 files have been disposed of .
This effort not only reduces delay and red-tapism but provide for interaction with Principals and employees of different colleges. Even Government employees are pleasantly surprised to see that their cases are decided then and there itself and they do not have to run around for their work and visit Secretariate and Commissioner office.
When contacted she calls this move as G2G (Government to Government)initiative and gives credit to Ashish Upadhayay, Commissioner Higher Education and his team of Directorate for its successful implementation.She said that the beauty of these camps are the support of the Higher Education Minister, Laxman Singh Gaur, who also during the camps disposes all those files in which he is the competent authority to decide.

Laxmi Chopra is SD DD Kendra Mumbai
Laxmi Chopra has taken over as Director Doordarshan Kendra Mumbai.
( We said this on September 26 )

OSD to Prasar Bharti CEO shifted
OSD to CEO of the Prasar Bharti Dhiranjan Malwe has been shifted to CV Sales.

Bakshi appointed OSD to Prasar Bharti CEO

B M Bakshi has been moved from Imphal to take over as OSD to Prasar Bharti CEO B S Lalli.

( We said this on September 27 )

Irshad posted Additional Member in Railway Board
Mohd. Irshad, HAG/IRSME, presently working as Adviser(ME), Railway Board has been promoted and & posted as Additional Member(ME).

Nandita is DC Hamirpur in HP
Nandita Gupta has been appointed new DC of Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh

Dilemma among officers
Members of the bureaucracy & corporate sector are in dilemma,particularly those who have to switch jobs or assume charge at new places.Reason for this is not too far to seek.These days "Shradh paksha" is going on.It will conclude on October 11,2007 with "Sarvapitra Moksha Amavsya".During fortnight long period,in India,specially Hindus do not start any new work & are busy offering prayers in memory of their ancestors including next of kin who have passed away.Basically as per belief of the Hindu mythology it is considered inauspicious to start any new venture during this period

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 from the charge of Village Industries department on the day Khan asumes charge.

Admiral Mehta takes over as COSC
Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sureesh Mehta has taken over as Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC) from the outgoing Chairman General JJ Singh. In a solemn ceremony held in Defence Headquarters yesterday, Gen Singh handed over the baton of Chairman COSC to Admiral Mehta. A former resolution placing on record a rich contribution made by the outgoing Chairman was also passed in the meeting. A large number of senior officials from the Army, Navy and the Air Force attended the ceremony.

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PCS officers should be sent to other states

I support the views of RK that officers of state civil service selected to IAS must be sent to other states. When this policy is adopted for AIS officers why this patronage to state service officers. Also as Neeta Sngh has wrote that direct recruit IAS officers are suffering in states due to promotee IAS officers this will help in solving the issue of undue patronage to state service officers by respective state governments. The state service officers if they want promotion to IAS they must be ready for a change in their cadre. This will also help in further strengthening the All India character of IAS.

Sunil

DG Doordarshan and DG AIR should be from internal cadre

Someone has rightly said that DG, Doordarshan and AIR should be from the internal cadre. Perhaps people do not know that well that it is a highly technical and programme oriented area. This needs specialisation. And this nation knows what IAS is all about ?

We keep comparing and criticising DD for poor programming- has anyone ever given thought or raised voice to let the trained professionals work ? Easy to lambast professionals but these IAS people impose their idiotic decisions. That is the reason of its miserable downfall.

If people can see, why cant Dr Manmohan Singh ji see ???? Its high time, senior politicians look into this.

Rajiv Khandelwal

Professionals should be posted in Prasar Bharti

I fully support Sultan's view about IAS in Doordarshan. Any corporation, body where IAS have been head the efficiency of that organisation has gone down. There are large public sector undertakings in State Government. How many are profitable those who are run by IAS except organisations selling government land and providing government services. Any factory, transport corporation which are headed by IAS giving profit? They come as head of any organisation enjoy all benefits and leave after a few years. Doordarshan should be headed by professionals.

P K Mishra

NO transparency

Tishyarakshit Chatterjee wrote

Your site could become useful to slot an officer to a post. If vacancies are known a little in advance then CVs can be matched and DOP can use your medium to indicate chances of posting in Delhi. This would be a transparent method.

When was the circular or ruling issued to make the selection for higher level posts transparent? To be best of my knowledge, any attempt to make them so, has been scuttled successfully in last 6 decades.

P Kumar

Why must we repeat our follies, and history, over and over again?

Of course the Indian cricket team has done well, and they must be felicitated, but this ostentatious display of wealth distribution by BCCI, and these handouts by Air India are shocking. And Air India's money is public money - how can auditors allow this brazen expenditure of public resources. And, why can't we be temperate in eulogy for the team and its success.

This very same team, if it doesn't perform in the coming one-day matches, will be hounded and accused of taking bribes etc. And this team can lose - after cricket is a game like any other, and other nations too put in a lot of effort.

Should the team lose, will the BCCI and AIR INDIA take back these handouts? Logically they should.

Unfortunately this entire "tamasha" is being orchestrated by senior politicians, senior bureaucrats, and senior BCCI members from whom more wisdom, and a balanced approach was expected.

Ch KS Sindhu

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Rana Som to be CMD ,NMDC

As the grapevine has it Rana Som is poised to become the Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) of the National Mineral Development Corporation(NMDC). He is presently Director in the STC.

Talukdar is Director Exploration OIL

B N Talukdar has been appointed Director (Exploration & Development), Oil India Limited (OIL). His appointment will be effective from the date of assumption of charge on or after 01.12.2007 for a period of five years or till the date of his superannuation, or until further orders, whichever is earliest.

Grover is ED (Legal) NACIL
H S Grover is Executive Director ( Lrgal) of the of the National Aviation Company of India Ltd (NACIL), the new company into which Air India and Indian have been merged.

Arun Anand joins TDI as CEO

Real estate major TDI Infrastructure Limited of which Managing Director(MD) is Kamal Taneja has appointed Arun Anand as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO)for the group.Anand brings with him an experience of over 28 years with his last assignment as Vice Chairman, MD & CEO of Federal Goetze India Limited (FMGIL). According to Kamal Taneja "we are extremely delighted to have a person of his caliber on our board.His vast experience and knowledge will help us infuse fresh management ideas and provide further thrust for our expansion plans.

NB:-Sir for today with photo

Reebok introduces the maiden 'Golden Bat'

Heros of the win in the Twenty 20 World cup were feted by Subhinder Singh Prem Managing Director of Reebok India in Bangalore with maiden "Golden bats".It may be stated that nine out of the playing eleven cricket stars represented brand Reebok.Prem who presented the trophies to the young champs with a heart-felt note asserted that there is brand's long term commitment and support in nurturing sports talent.

MD of TNS quits

R Suresh Managing Director(MD) TNS India has to quit.Plans of Suresh are not known who will with the company till December 2007.It may be stated that TNS is a global market insight and information group of which Regional MD is Stuart Campbell Morris.