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Reshuffle of Governors soon
New appointments and reshuffle of the Governors is expected to take place in a couple of weeks.
UPSC notifies 671 vacancies
Union Public Service Commission has notified 671 vacancies for the Civil Service Entrance Examination this year. This is said to be highest so far.
Bishnoi not to be debarred
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Kaveri Banerjee to be CPMG Delhi
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Cell for implementation of 6th Pay Panel
A cell in the Indian Ministry of Finance has been set up for implementation of recommendations by the 6th Pay Commission. Its Joint Secretary is Ms. Madhulika Sukul of IDAS cadre(1982 batch) & Alok Prasad of the Indian Postal Service(IPS) is Director in the cell.
IAS changes on cards in Madhya Pradesh
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Former IFS officer appointed Member of NSAB
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IAS changes in Uttar Pradesh
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New DG of Intelligence Bureau in Pakistan
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Major bureaucratic reshuffle in Chhattisgarh

In a major bureaucratic reshuffle Chhattisgarh Government has promoted nine IAS officers while ordering transfers of other IAS officers on Monday.According Dr.B.S.Anant Director Food & Civil Supplies promoted there only as Commissioner & Secretary,Manohar Pande Special Secretary School Education on promotion will be Home Secretary,Shiv Kumar Tiwari Registrar Cooperative to Commissioner Bilaspur,Ms.Nidhi Chhibber Direc tor Public Instruction to Commissioner Public Instruction,Vikas Sheel Collector Raipur to Secretary Agriculture & Commissioner Sugarcane,Manoj Kumar Pigua Director Tribal Welfare & MD Antyavyavsayi nigam to Commissioner Surguja,Ganesh Shankar Mishra Collector Bastar to Commissioner Bastar.Anil Agrawal & Ms.Richa Sharma who are on central deputation have been given proforma promotion.

N.Baijendra Kumar Secretary & Commissioner Public Relations has been given the charge of Secretary Commerce & Industry also.Others who were transferred areP.Ramesh Kumar Secretary Health to Commissioner Higher Education & Secretary Women & Child Welfare,B.L.Agrawal Labour Commissioner & MD Chhattisgarh Industries Development Com missioner to Commissioner Raipur,K.D.P.Rao Commissioner Higher Education to Labour Commissioner,R.P.Jain Home Secretary to Secretary Culture & Tourism,Mrs.Renu G.Pillai Secretary Revenue,Culture & Tourism to Commissioner Employment Guarantee Scheme(EGS),Awadh Bihari Secretary Agriculture & Sugarcane Commissioner to Commissioner Tribal Welfare,Durgesh Mishra Regional Development Commissioner Surguja to Secretatry Religious Endlowments & Trusts & relief Commissioner,R.S.Vishwakarma Regional Development Commissioner Bastar to Secretary Health,D.K.Shrivastava Commissioner Women & Child Development to MD Aapoorti Nigam & Chhattisgarh Markfed,K.Shreenivasulu Special Secretary Finance to Director Land Records,Printing & Stationery,Gaurav Dwivedi MP Aapoorti Nigam & Marfed to Registrar Cooperative,Sonmani Bora Collector Kabirdham(Kawardha) to Collector Raipur, M.S.Paraste Collector Narayanpur to Collector Bastar,N.S.Mandawi Director Land Records Printing & Stationery to Collector Narayanpur,Ms.Shahla Nigar Deputy Secretary to CS & GAD will also be Deputy Secretary Women & Child Development,Pardesh Siddharth Komal CEO Bilaspur district Panchayat to Collector Kabirdham(Kawardha),Ms.Sangeeta P. CEO district Panchayat Janjgir to CEO District Panchayat Bilaspur,Om Prakash Choudhary SDO Bemetra to CEO district panchayat Janjgir & Anup Shrivastava Special Secretary Revenue repatriated to his parent Forest department.

(We said this last week)

Pay Commission is a time waste
Pay Commission is a time waste, money waste. Merge the DP-DA. Arrive at a new scale. Srinivasreddy a balanced approach for the government to handle the 6th pay commission I have gone through remarks of all section of officers regarding this or that aspect of pay commission. It is true that people have objected well. Any way, I do not want to waste my energy by critisising or IAS bashing. Let us think about remedial measures to help political executive to decide this deadlock. It is election year and government can not afford to annoy any sizeable section of society and more if it is bureaucracy.
All heads of departments headed by their respective cadre service officers should be given pay parity of secretary to the government of India. This will make each and every specialised service officer to feel judiciousness. Group B officers recruited through civil services examinations should be given Pyramidical status and scale of joint secretary to the GoI so that their officers may end their career and contribute some thing at the top level policy making bodies due to their vast field experience and exposure. Right now, the planning functionaries in the departments or in the government of India are dominated by high ranking officials who may be very capable but do not have that experience and wisdom which is achieved only through field experience living closure to the people at the bottom of pyramid. In all posts of government of India under central staffing scheme, their should be clear cut quota and identification of posts for all officers of different services so that the same is not grabbed by IAS only. At the secretary level also, in GoI, there should be some quota for specialised services like IRS, IPS etc. Why not Secretary Revenue should alternatively be from custom or income tax services? OK , let the IAS hold the finance secretary post but revenue or expenditure like so many secretary posts must go for other suitable services. Why not in MHA, secretary internal security or border be from police service? Let only Home Secretary be from IAS . All FA level additional secreatary posts are held by IAS why? They are purely technical and financial job and account service officers are most suitable to hold them. IFS and IAS being equal can live in harmony and do coordination then why not IAS with other services. The foreign ministry handles issues concerning all departments of government of India and foreign policy of country is a composite of all sort of interests of our country. Obviously, IFS and IAS people in all ministries must be coordinating more than any other service together with IAS but IAS people have no problem in coordination process with IFS. This means the logic forwarded by IAS that they have to have superior scale to do their co-ordinational and integrative role with other services, is false and trick to rationalise their greed and ego. For group C and D employees, the government should also adopt the pay model which attract people to feel that their cadre management have not been left to the winds and if they are capable, they may rise to the level of director or under secretaries respectively after clearing some sort of examination so that quality is suitable .it is true that this promotion should be made available not on the basis of seniority but on the basis of an objective and quality control exam by the UPSC . Another thing government of India, in the long run should think, is to down size the bureaucracy. This can be possible by introducing VRS schemes at 15 years what is available as per 20 years scheme. Officers with chronic system diseases like heart patients, diabetics,etc should be offered some humanitarian packages like VRS so that they do not continue in the system as their performance is bound to suffer and in this way the people of this country and national interest will suffer. They should be given this VRS package plus something more and told politely that they have to go on compulsory retirement with voluntary retirement pension etc. this is very delicate issue but the country is first and moreover they are being taken care of by pension etc. in the football field we need players of the best capacity and not sick players who may gracefully sit in the pavilion with pensionary support and some health support things. The IAS officer only in the cabinet secreatary post, may get higher than any other service pay scale which will make the officers of this service feel to be more first among more equal
sM N Tiwari

In praise of Capt Rajat Sharma
The 1 billion people of India congratulate Capt. Rajat Rana for maintaining the highest professional standards in the discharge of his official duties! May his tribe increase and prosper! The MPs conduct was arrogant and boorish and such people have to be taught a lesson. It might be a good idea if the Lok Sabha Secretariat had a crash course in good manners and etiquette for such country bumpkins. The MP should be debarred from travelling by air. Next time he wants to go to Jedda let him walk on water accross the Arabian Sea like Jesus. How I wish IAS , IPS and senior Army and Defence officers showed as much boldness as Capt. Rana when dealing with Ministers and politicians! In front of Ministers these worthies have their tails tucked safely between their legs. It is only before the Pay Commission that they start howling, snarling ,growling and biting each other like dogs fighting over scraps of meat. Shame on you! Learn from Capt. Rana!
D Choudhury

Don't get amazed Vijay, you deserve it!
Vijay Kumar should not feel amazed one bit. A promotee IAS officer is definitely ten times better than an IPS officer. Anyday. Reason, no promotee officer would write the kind of silly letter Vijay Kumar IPS has penned. He bemoans "unabashed casteism" but betrays the same in unabashed abundance by referring to a promotee with such uncouth sneer. Only an IPS can be so idiotically uncivilized. Pay commission has rightly treated the IPS by offering them what it did. If Vijay Kumar is their champion specimen, they don't deserve any better.
A Promotee Officer

There should be parity
The difference between the payscale of IAS officers and other officers is not a new thing. It was there and has been continued. The suggestion that all class I officers should have similar pay scales and perks may seem popular but the fact remains that the IAS is the most desirable and challenging service as of now. If the logic is that other services also came through the same exams then why not have same scales and perks and designations for group A and group B services as well?
And finally, all of the officers belonging to other services did know of the difference when they applied for their jobs. And took their choices or accepted their position. Now why cry?
Let us have the courage to face the truth that the services were never equal.
Partha Sarthi Sen Sharma

IAS-IPS and IRS
I have been following this site and the row over the higher pay the IAS officers enjoy as compared to their (step?) brother officers. Well, the IAS officer sleeps well at home, secure and comfortable due to the Armed forces and the IPS. If the IAS is safe and surviving in Jammu and Kashmir, Nagaland, the North East, Naxalite areas all over the country (Andhra, Bihar, Chattisgarh et al), it is due to the services of the IPS. The IAS officer is paid his (higher) salary out of the funds generated by the IRS, he runs around in his red/blue/yellow beacon light cars funded by the income tax, excise and customs duty collected by the IRS. Still he feels that the job he does (providing clean drinking water, schools, healthcare) far less adequately than the IPS and IRS do theirs deserves more pay than the IPS or the IRS! Defies logic.
A K Singh

Ram Kumar may be well advised to peruse carefully the demands of officers from the IPS, IRS, IAAS, IRTS and Group A services: it is not higher scales than IAS officers but merely the same scales as them. And why not? The extra increments granted to IAS/ IFS officers are a throwback to the days in which the IAS/ IFS had five papers, the IRS/ IAAS/ IRTS three and the IPS two. This system of examination was abolished in 1979. The 4th Pay Commission also accepted that the gratuitous advantage had to be phased out and made a beginning. But instead of continuing to do so, the Empire keeps striking back, now the IAS (and even their promotee officers) will draw the pay of Joint Secretary to Government of India in 14 years and Services like IPS, IAAS, IRS, IRTS will get it in 20 years. By what logic? Perpetration of injustice cannot be cloaked in sophistry. And comparing the IPS with the PCS is an affront to anyone above sub-optimal intelligence.
Vijay Kumar

Liberal and progressive approach of MP IAS Association
Kindly carry the resolution of the IAS Association Madhya Pradesh asking the Government of India to bring parity between the AIS. Hope other IAS associations will take a similar progressive and liberal stand, which will enhance the prestige of IAS as a service. Madhya Pradesh IAS Association wishes to attract your attention to the report of the 6th Central Pay Commission.
2. Certain recommendations of the report have resulted in widening the disparity between the scales and remunerations of the All India Services, specifically in comparison to the IAS.The Association is advised that the concerned IPS Association and the IFoS Association have formally represented to the Government of India and have requested reconsideration.
3. From the recent reports published in newspapers we understand that a high powered committee of secretaries has been set up by the Government of India to consider the various representations against the recommendations of pay commission
The Madhya Pradesh IAS officers' Association appreciates the concerns of IPS Association and urges the Government of India to review the relevant issues and accord appropriate relief
R K Sahu

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