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Ravi

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Arya seeks pre-mature retirement
Additional Secretary in the Government of India has sought pre-mature retirement from May 1. He is 1975 batch IAS officer of Uttarakhand cadre.
Pramod Deo appointed Chairman of CERC
Finally Pramod Deo has been appointed Chairman of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission. He is presently Chairman of the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission. The post had been lying vacant for the last one year.
( We said this on September 11,2007 and again on December 12,2007)
Thompson may not join Agriculture Ministry
Jiji Thompson's name has run into problems for the post of Joint Secretary Agriculture in the Government of India. Name of 1980 batch Kerala cadre IAS officer, Thompson, has been in circulation for the post.
Will Vishwa Ranjan return to GoI ?
Rumours are rife that Chhattisgarh DGP Vishwa Ranjan is returning to the Government of India.Infact,1973 batch IPS officer Vishwa Ranjan has proceeded on long leave and this has fuelled speculations to this effect.
Transfers in Mahrashtra after assembly session
A large scale bureaucratic reshuffle in Maharashtra is going to take place after the budget session of the Maharashtra assembly gets over.
New Ministers yet to get their PS
Newly inducted cabinet colleagues of Indian Prime Minister Dr.Man Mohan Singh are yet to get their private secretaries(PSs).
Rahul Gandhi has a very sharp memory
AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi has a very sharp memory.The net result of this:all are quite impressed in the Congress party.
MCGM registers record earning from Octroi
The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai(MCGM)of which Commissioner is J.M.Phatak(an 1978 batch IAS of Maharashtra cadre) has registered a record growth in collection of Octroi during the financial year that ended on March 31,2008.The MCGM wa able to collect an all time high record amount of Rs.4252 crore during FY 2007-08.This is 19.5per cent higher than the previous financial year.In charge for Octroi collection was Ms.V.Radha (also an IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre)Joint Commissioner MCGM.
Prabodh Saxena to be Director,DEA
Prabodh Saxena Director Financial Services i.e. Banking in Government of India (GOI) is poised to go to Department of Economic Affairs as Director. He is 1990 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.
NK Sapra promoted as Addl Secretary Lok Sabha
NK Sapra who so far was Joint Secretary in the Lok Sabha Secretariat has been promoted as Additional Secretary.
RK Jain is Social Justice & Empowerment Rajasthan
RK Jain on his return from Central deputation has been posted as Secretary Social Justice & Empowerment in Rajasthan. Earlier 1990 batch IAS officer, Jain, was Director in the Ministry of Shipping.
Fresh panel for HS, Chandigarh being sent
In the wake of rejection of the three member earlier panel for the post of Home Secretary to Chandigarh Administration by Prime Minister Dr. Man Mohan Singh, Haryana Government being headed by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda will soon be sending a fresh panel.
Ravi Mathur to return to Rajasthan
Joint Secretary in the HRD Ministry Ravi Mathur is returning to the parent Rajasthan cadre after completion of central deputation tenure. He is 1979 batch IAS officer.
1995 batch IAS to go to South Korea
1995 batch IAS officers will be visiting South Korea next month for ten days .
Change of guards in Maharashtra is no joke
Change in Chief Minister of Maharashtra is not going to be a knife through butter affair. Though, time & again speculations have been rife that Indian Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde was being dispatched to Mumbai in place of Vilas Rao Deshmukh, Chief Minister Maharashtra. However, political pundits point out that it will be a difficult task to do so. Deshmukh belongs to the Maratha clan who constitute 25 perc ent of population .If one takes into account their clout through village chieftains & 40 per cent MLAs in the state assembly, then he would learn that 50 per cent of the population is under the direct control of Marathas. On the other hand Sushil Kumar Shinde belongs to the reserved category & they have very little unity, point out political pundits.
Ghosh appointed Member of NSAB
Former Secretary, Ministry of Environment & Forest, Prodipto Ghosh, has been appointed Member of the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB).
Sahu to be Member SEBI
M S Sahu has been selected for the post of Member SEBI. He is former IES officer.
Neeraj Verma is Secretary Planning,development IT in Assam
The Assam Government has appointed Neeraj Verma as its Secretary Planning,Development & Information Technology(IT).Verma who returned to his parent cadre after successful completion of one year MBA programme in Ahmedabad located IIM belongs to the 1994 batch.
Race for Joint Secretary Company Affairs hots up
The race for the post of Joint Secretary Company Affairs in Government of India (GOI) has hot up.So far it was being held by Yudhvir Malik who has returned to his parent Haryana cadre.
Will a Haryana IAS be Joint Secretary Co.Affairs?
Will a Haryana cadre IAS ,once again get the post of Joint Secretary Company Affairs in Government of India(GOI).
Ashok Lavasa to be Secretary Industry, Haryana
Ashok Lavasa an IAS of the Haryana cadre is tipped to become Secretary Industry in Haryana.At present he is Secretary Power .He belongs to the 1980 batch.
Raj Express to launch Delhi Edition
Raj Express is expected to launch its Delhi Edition soon. It's a Hindi Newspaper group of Madhya Pradesh.
Mohanty to continue in CBI till July
CBI Spokesman G Mohanty is going to continue till the expiry of tenure of the Director Vijay Shankar Tiwari in July.
RR Okhandiar to present a paper in Beijing
RR Okhandiar who is an Indian Forest Service(IFS) officer of 1987 batch & belongs to M.P. Cadre has been invited to present a paper at XXI ISPRS Congress to be held in Beijing (China) .It will held from July 3-11, 2008.He has done his super specialization in the field of Geo-informatics from I.T.C(Internation Institute for Geo-information science and Earth observation) The Netherlands. Since last two years he was working on developing new GIS-RS technology for detecting change in forest land scape. His work has been appreciated and accepted by prestigious ISPRS (International Society of Photogrammetary and Remote Sensing).The topic of his paper that he would present in Beijing is" Neighborhood analysis technique for change detection in forest landscape." Presently he is also working on many other technological solution for problems related to day to day forest management.
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)
Sandeep Bamzai is Consulting Editor, Sakaal Times
Sandeep Bamzai has joined Sakaal Times, the soon-to-be-launched English daily by the Sakaal group, as Consulting Editor.Hitherto he was a consultant with the Reliable group.
R.S.Sharma likely to be CMD,NTPC(UPDATED)
As the grapevine has it R.S.Sharma is being inducted as the Chairman cum Managing Director(CMD) of the National Thermal Power Corporation(NTPC).Sharma is presently a Director,NTPC.His name has reportedly been okayed by Indian Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde.Present incumbent CMD T.Sankaralingam is superannuating on April 30,2008.
Postings of IRS officers changed(UPDATED)
Postings of two Indian Revenue Service(IRS) officers were changed.B.K.Jha(1983 batch)was transferred from DIT(DOMS)New Delhi as DIT (HRD)Delhi and Nilimesh Baruah (1985 batch)CIT((A) XX Delhi was shifted as DIT(DOMS),Delhi.
Addl judges to Rajasthan HC appointed(UPDATED)
Three inumbents namely Kishan Swaroop Chaudhari, Chand Mal Totla & Mahesh Chandra Bhagwati have been appointed as Additional Judges of the Rajasthan High Court.Their apppointment will be in order of seniority, for a period of two years with effect from the dates they assume charge of their respective offices.
Repatriation of Manoj Joshi ordered(UPDATED)
The Central Board of Direct Taxes(CBDT) has ordered for immediate repatriation of Manoj Joshi to the CBDT.Joshi who is an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer of the 1987 was on deputation with the 6th Pay Commission.

Very complicated report
The report of sixth pay commission is very complicated. The pay fixation on appointment & promotion is not only very complicated but disappointing. Employees who have joined or promoted after 01.01.2006 will not get any benefit from this report. I expect that the issue of pay fixation on promotion/appointment will be revived properly.
G P Karn
How to wipe tears ?
How to wipe the tears of the civil service after the pay panel report without raising their pay.
A Civil Servant
Such issues should be delegated to independent body
One of the most important grouse against 6 PCR is disparity maintained and extended between IAS and other services which are as important as IAS. It is surprising that a new committee is being set up to review the report headed by Cabinet Secretary and other Secretaries. How can any body expect justice when the judges are the highest beneficiaries of the report. It is high time such issues are delegated to an independent body rather than this façade.
Praveen
Where is the parity for Indian Foreign Service?
The 6th Pay Commission has in its recommendations mentioned about the continued parity between IAS and the Indian Foreign Service (IFS). Isn't it only an eyewash when the officers of the IAS get SAG in the 14th year of the service whereas the officers in the IFS have to wait for another six years to get the same financial parity. Therefore, when an IAS officer comes on Central Deputation, his pay is protected and an officer in IAS junior to his colleagues in IFS draws a much higher salary. This becomes more pronounced when both of them are on deputation to the same ministry. How is this discrimination going to be fixed? In fact, why only IAS, there are other Central Services and AIS whose officers get the financial benefits of SAG much earlier than those in the IFS. I hope the IFS Association is looking into the possible way forward in this regard.
Verma
No complaint from IAS
Has anybody noticed that there has been no complains from the side of IAS lobby regarding this VI pay commission? .
Mansoor
Pakistan Intelligence Bureau
Whispers has reported the appointment of Tariq Lodhi as Director General of Pakistan's Intelligence Bureau (Whispers 14th April 2008). Lodhi's appointment shows the manner in which the newly empowered group of politicians in Pakistan is taking their country's bureaucracy for a joy ride.
Like our very own IB, officers in the IB (P) are drawn jointly from the PSP (Police Service of Pakistan) and the IB's own cadre officers. In the agency's internal hierarchy the DG (who is almost invariably from the PSP) is followed by some Joint DGs below whom are placed the DDGs. The Joint DGs and DDGs are from PSP as well as from IBs own cadres. Tariq Lodhi, an IB cadre officer who has been elevated to the post of DG is presently only a DDG. Nearly half a dozen Joint DGs (three each from the PSP and the IB cadre) are in position superior to Lodhi's. Another 5 or 6 officers are DDGs like Tahir but they are also senior to him as they were promoted to the DDG's scale (BS-20 of Pakistan) prior to Tahir. It is thus a strange phenomenon that these officers to whom Tahir Lodhi was subordinate till Saturday will suddenly have to start reporting to their new DG Sir Tahir Lodhi Monday onwards.
Another important Police appointment cleared along with Tahir Lodhi's which perhaps has gone un noticed by Whispers is that of Dr. Shoaib Suddle as the IG of Karachi. Dr. Suddle presently the DG of Pakistan Police Bureau has a Ph.D in Criminology from Cardiff and an equally impressive professional reputation. He is however one of the accused in the case of conspiracy for the murder of Murtaza Bhutto, brother of the Late Benazir Bhutto. A co-accused in the same case is none other than the illustrious Asif Ali Zardari who has since been cleared of the charge. Dr. Suddle, the new IG appointed reportedly on the instructions of Zardari is however yet to be extended a similar dispensation.
N N Ojha
Casteism in Civil Services.
The IAS is the majority 'caste' in Civil governance of our country. They head almost all the departments and take decisions on crucial matters reg. other services also. They are close to politicians at all levels. The system does not provide any competition to IAS or restrains the vested interest.
Raaja

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64 vacancies in Air India
At least 64 vacancies are there in Air India at different levels.
Race begins for the post of CMD Oil India
Though Oil India CMD M R Pasrija is retiring later this year race of sorts has begun for the post.
Dasgupta to go Bangkok
Air India has shifted J Dasgupta from Kolkata to Bangkok.
Ravi Shankar is CEO of Akshaya Homes
Ravi Shankar has joined Akshaya Homes as its CEO.