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Mars to mar peace in days ahead
Mars moving into Cancer and getting to fourth house and thus being debilitated may cause newer worries to civil servants. Since Saturn is occupying the fifth house in Leo, the two unfriendly neighbours may cause popular anger scaling high, particularly among farmers and students. DMs and SPs should get ready with their contingency plans for May and June which may turn out to be months of protests and agitations. Politicians won't rest peacefully either. Their feuds will increase and a lot of dirty linens will be washed in full public view. Media men alone will
be happy. Their hands and cameras will be full.
1978 batch IAS empanelment meeting on April 24
Empanelment meeting of 1978 batch IAS officers to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India is expected to take place on April 24.
Kumaresh Mishra to get foreign posting
Kumaresh Chandra Mishra is getting foreign posting in Hague. He is 1977 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.
Who will be new Member of CBDT ?
Who will be new Member of the CBDT ?. Names of CCIT Kolkata Narinder Singh and CCIT Bangalore Pramod Kumar have started doing the round. Some say Mala Subramaniam will make it.
Gujarat Chief Secretary may be changed !
As the grapevine has it Dr. Manjula Subramaniyam Chief Secretary with the Gujarat Government may be changed. She is an IAS officer of 1972 batch who belongs to the Gujarat cadre.
Two Secretaries in Sports and Youth Welfare
Sports and Youth Welfare Department in the Government of India is likely to be bifurcated.It means the department will have two Secretaries one for Sports and the other for Youth Welfare.
Ms Radhika Doraiswamy to be next Secy Posts
Ms Radhika Doraiswamy is poised to be next Secretary Posts after present incumbent Secretary I.M.G. Khan retires in July 2008. She is an Indian Postal Service(IPS) officer of the 1974 batch.
Ashok Sinha to be Chairman of Mumbai Port Trust ?
It is believed that Ashok Sinha will be next Chairman of the Mumbai Port Trust. He is 1975 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.
Kumawat gets additional charge of DG NCB
Special Secretary Home in the Government of India M L Kumawat has been given additional charge of the DG Narcotics Control Bureau. He is 1972 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.
Panda joins CAT
Former Secretary Heavy Industries in the Government of India Dr Ramesh Chandra Panda has joined the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) as Administrative Member. He is retired 1972 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.
Bajpai joins new Channel
Punya Prasunna Bajpai after quitting the Sahara News Channel has reportedly joined new News Channel to be launched by the Sakal Group. He has joined alongwith six other journalists.
Sharma is new Director in ASI
J Sharma has been appointed Director (Conservation) in the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
Race for HS, Chandigarh hots up
The race for the post of Home Secretary(HS) to the Chandigarh Administration has hot up as the new panel of four names has been forwarded by Haryana Government being headed by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Huda. Anil Kumar a Haryana cadre IAS officer of the 1988 batch also figures in the list.
All contenders for HS, Chandigarh have solid backing
All contenders to the post of Home Secretary(HS) to the Chandigarh Administration have solid backing. While Ramniwas has the backing of Governor, RR Jowel has excellent rapport with four bureaucrats who are Secretaries in Government of India(GOI).Anil Kumar is quite close to Ms.Selja Indian Minister of State Urban Development & Poverty Alleviation(with Independent charge). Similarly, Ram Pal Chandra's mother in law Mrs.Shakuntala Bhagwadia is a sitting MLA who was earlier a Minister in the Haryana Government.
Yudhvir Malik likely to be in Haryana CM's Secretariat
Yudhvir Malik who was so far Joint Secretary Company Affairs in Government of India (GOI) his return to his parent Haryana cadre is being inducted in the Secretariat of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Huda.
Post of Addl Secretary Telecom vacant
The post of Additional Secretary Telecom in Government of India has been lying vacant ever since R Bandopadhyaya had joined as Secretary DPE.
Alok Sharma promoted
Alok Sharma, Indian Postal Service, 1986 batch has been promoted to Senior Administrative Grade and has been posted as General Manager in Postal Life Insurance Directorate, New Delhi.
Post of Jt Secretary Telecom vacant
The post of Joint Secretary Telecom has been lying vacant ever since Balram Sharma joined his parent Himachal Pradesh cadre as the Secretary Public Works Department(PWD).
New Delhi GPO awarded "SEVOTTAM"
New Delhi General Post Office (Gol Dak Khana) has become the first Government office in India (either of Central Government or of any State Government) to be awarded 'SEVOTTAM',IS 156700:2005 Certification by Bureau of Indian Standards. The credit of this achievement goes to Alok Sharma, Director, New Delhi General Post Office and his team of officers. SEVOTTAM is an Indian Quality Standard developed by Bureau of Indian Standards in collaboration with Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, Government of India specifically for Public Service Organizations with focus on public service delivery.
RK Agrawal is Director Planning, BSNL
RK Agrawal has joined Director (Planning)on the board of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) being headed by it CMD Kuldeep Goyal. Hitherto Agrawal as Chief General Manager Telecom (CGMT) Bihar Circle .He is an Indian Telecom Service (ITS) officer of the 1975 batch.
PLI registers growth
The Postal Life Insurance(PLI) of India has registered a growth of 35 per cent during the last financial year of 2007-08.The Rural PLI as well registered as growth of 32 per cent during the FY 07-08.
SC Mishra is CGMT, Bihar
SC Mishra is the new Chief General Manager Telecom (CGMT) Bihar Circle in place of RK Agrawal who has been elevated as Director (Planning) in the board of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) headed by its Kuldeep Goyal. So far he was Senior DDG Establishment. He is an Indian Telecom Service (ITS)officer of the 1975 batch.
Madhuri Dabral to head Directorate of Printing ?
Here is a strong rumour that Madhuri Dabral an Indian
Postal Service officer of 1989 batch will be heading
the Directorate of Printing under the Ministry of
Urban Development at New Delhi. It is learnt her name
has been recommended by the UPSC. She is presently
working as Director, Postal Services of Indore Region
in Madhya Pradesh.
IPS changes in J & K
Johnny Williams, who was under transfer as SSP Leh will now be SSP Security. Avtar Singh Bali has been posted as Staff Officer (SO) to IGP Armed. S R Samuel, presently posted in Sher-i-Kashmir Police Academy (SKPA), will now be new SSP Leh. lliams. Tsering Phungchok has been made SSP 4th Security only.
Mishra to go on deputation (UPDATED)
Uttar Pradesh cadre IPS officer P K Mishra is going on deputation to the Central Detective School ,Hyderabad as Principal. He is presently SP Unnao.
Ravi Capoor returns to Assam (UPDATED)
Ravi Capoor on his return from Central deputation has rejoined his parent cadre of Assam on Monday.He is an IAS officer of the 1986 batch.Earlier,Capoor was Executive Director(ED) with the Petroleum Conservation Research Association(PCRA).
Rakesh Mohan gets additional charge in Delhi (UPDATED)
Principal Secretary GAD Rakesh Mohan has been given additional charge of Administrative Reforms in Delhi Government. He is 1978 batch IAS officer.

This debate should stop
I think the debate should stop. All of us should think of the poor man on whose cost we are taking the salaries. Before joining every officer is supposed to know his responsibilities and the perks he gets. By virtue of ones rank, the services were allotted. every service can ask for better pay. But should not compare with other services.
Munigala
Would you propose lower scales ?
Dear Sudipto,
No wonder a man sitting in Dhaka thinks so, perhaps someone sitting in Islamabad will also think alike. Sudipto appears to have joined the discussion rather late. He is also unaware of the fact that IAS has state quota of promotions apart from usual SC/ST/OBC reservation quotas. As such, which race is he talking of-or does he propose different pay-scales for different modes of entries ? Number of officers make it to the IAS in third attempt and get no AIS in the first two attempts-would you propose lower scales to them?
Archie
It is husband-wife relationship
Going by this logic of Sudripto Roy, second preferred service should have second pay slab, third preferred should have third and so on. Why this logic starts and ends with IAS only. Is it so because they enjoy the status of Husband-wife relationship with the politicians.
Prabhat Kumar
Absurd Logic to give IAS higher Pay
The logic that IAS is given preference in exam and so deserves higher salary is absurd. We all are aware that IITs, IIM Ahmedabad are the first choice for any engineering/MBA aspirant out of school and AIIMS for any medical aspirant, does that mean that only IITans/IIMA graduates can becomes CEOs and AIIMS students become Head of Departments. These people have to prove themselves continuously throughout their career. Unfortunately, IAS do not have to prove themselves and most end up becoming deadwood very quickly in their careers. They fire from the soldiers of the Central Services and State Service officers.
The irony is that, the Army on the other hand have defended our borders and won wars, the IRS have collected record amount of Tax. The Railways function smoothly despite all the difficulties.
Palani T
At particular rank we are treated equally
After the Pay Commission submitted its report, a hot debate has started as to whether the IAS Officers deserve a better deal or not. The most ardent supporters of the IAS lobby say that since they have to pass a difficult examination and the type of duties they have, they need a preferential treatment. Passing a difficult examination is not an indication of intellectual superiority. It all depends as to how well one has prepared for that examination. It is an established fact that most IAS officers belong to well to do families and their parents grind them well for preparing the examination and so they pass the exam. As regards duties, it is not the case that all IAS officers are doing well in their positions. There a lot of promotees in IAS and IFS who have not passed the IAS exam but they are also performing equally well. Performance has nothing to do with the IAS exam. ? So, stop talking about IAS supremacy. Once one reaches a particular rank, all are to be treated equally within that rank. Within the same rank some cannot be more equal than others.
Rajeeva
IAS and IPS
IPS will always remain backward as their IAS counterparts, remember the UP ex-CS, have hotels in UK or say businesses- remember MP ex-IAS -in USA etc.
Mahesh
There should be fairness and justice for all
To avoid perversion, discrimination and degradation in the matters of government, we should not depend on a ruler/king who may be philosopher and very intellectual but on the rule of law, was the belief of Aristotle. To be very much academically qualified does not necessarily mean that the person will definitely be virtuous. Of course, intellectually sound person is equally necessary for the system to add vision in its dynamics. What is required is dedication, honesty and the most uncommon thing i.e. common sense. Akbar the great was not so educated but had strong vision resultantly a great administrator. Aristotle became a great champion of constitutionalism and rule of law because he knew the fallibility of human nature what so ever intelligence he has or had.
I am sorry to say that our bureaucracy which boosts to be very intelligent and academic has totally failed not only in making the vision for India but also in its implementation. For this thing, I don't blame politicians, because their stay in power is not so long but a bureaucrat can not say this. See the DDA or MCD in Delhi; they have always been headed by IAS officers. These two agencies are single handedly responsible for the vision, growth and planning of metro city like Delhi. But what has happened to our city? We all know that the vision and development of city like Delhi has proved to be worst. In fact, these two departments have contributed only in negative terms to Delhi for all those purposes they have been meant for them. It is this leadership for which IAS people claim to be kept higher to all. What is the basis of their claim except that one lucky exam? If IAS people can not plan and develop capital city of India, we can very well know what they can and have done for the whole India. We will have to look alternate system of accountable bureaucracy and not post grabbing monopoly of IAS for no benefit to our nation.
I quoted Aristotle for some specific purpose.
My intention was to say that intelligence and intellectualism will never be infallible till the governance of the state is under rule of law and no body above law.
As IAS people are always judge in their matters so far as their structuring of service superiority is concerned but this is against principles of natural justice. No one should be judge in his own matter or dispute. To keep other services lagging behind and to maintain their superiority, they (IAS) always have been sitting in the chair which decides their matters. This practice needs to be cut. The issues of bureaucracy which might have intra bureaucratic ramifications must be either decided by a political or expert bodies keeping the entire process totally insulated from IAS or other services to make an objective study and improvement. The claim of superiority by IAS only on the basis of an examination gives them no absolute right to have superior career and pay etc all the time in their life. Only happened to be one time superior intellectual is not a guarantee for a perpetual intellectual superiority in everything throughout in the life. A virtuous bureaucracy is an equal necessity. The government must make adequate laws to regulate the career profiles, central staffing schemes, DPC, pay grades etc. and should not leave these things to be framed by IAS officers who will always be subjective in framing these rules in their favour. This "rules culture" gives IAS very much power to manipulate things escaping from legislative and executive. Their must be an elaborate and enforceable law passed by parliament to define each and everything of bureaucracy and only parliament should have power to frame those rules needed in continuation of that law so that IAS people remain away from this process. This will ensure the fairness and justice to all.
M N Tiwari
PM must take stand
I have been taking keen interest in the debate over the Pay Commission recommendations. Generally , the non -IAS officers have been sniping at the IAS.
Whether as service deserves a better pay or not has to be seen in the background of the efficiency in delivery by the service.
In the recent times, if we are to see what the country has been proud of we can list out the following:
i) Telecom- Sam Pitroda generated this evolution and he is not an IAS officer
ii) Software- Fortunately there was no Government intervention in the incipient stage and naturally no IAS officer was involved.
(iii)DMRC- This is strictly in the hegemony of Sridhiran and other Railway officials.
(iv) Bumper tax collections- No IAS officer is involved here too in the tax collection mechanism etc
This is especially jarring in the backdrop that today in the top -50 of the civil services merit list the service of choice of all is not the IAS. People have panned out to IRS /IPS/IC&ES. Then why this differentiation in pay scale to this 'know all' service called the IAS.
It is high time that the academician in Manmohan Singh stands up and takes a stand .
Rohan
Empanelment is the biggest joke
It amazes me that people talk of service. One should talk of how the best person could be appointed to a post esp. in GOI. Empanelment is the biggest joke in the name of merit. If this is corrected most of the aberration sin the system will be rectified in due course of time. It is not a secret that after 20 years of service, 70% officers become useless and this is uniform all across the services including IAS.
A Reader
Rejoinder to Roy's argument
This is apropos Sudipta Roy's argument that the IAS deserves a slight edge since 98% of civil service aspirants give IAS/IFS as first preference; secondly, marks in the Civil Services exam are like timings in an Olympics. Going by this logic should we say that the pay scales should be decided for different services in order of preference with as many pay scales as there are services. Also whether within the services pay scales should be decided in terms of marks. So, you should have a system where IAS gets higher pay than IPS, which gets higher pay than Customs and so on and within the same service the gold medallist gets more pay than the silver medallist, who gets more pay than the bronze medallist. How far can you take this logic Mr. Roy from Dhaka. Fortunately none of the Pay Commissions have been as stupid to put forward such a silly logic. Higher pay can only be justified in relation to job challenges that the service faces and other facts. Does Mr. Sudipta Roy know of any police force in the world that has sacrificed more than 10,000 officers in the last decade. About 30 IPS officers have been killed. Many have been injured and hundreds have been awarded gallantry medal. Police does not want mercy or parity, neither are we jealous of any service. We resent the pay commission report since it has ignored facts of our sacrifice and succumbed to silly machinations.
R K Sahu
Role of services
Role of Services:- Sixth CPC has brought an evaluations on role and functions of different services and rewards in relation to 6th CPC recommendations. When seen in retrospect the role major AIS in nation's development is seems to be dismal. The major reasons for lack of developments and backwardness of Indian people should be attributed poor administration and lack of implementation of development projects. If this is taken as a yardstick the AIS can claim only very poor track records. Just carry forward the colonial rules and regulation has been considered their sincere duties. It has been uniform all over India. The small difference here and there may be due to political boss. Therefore the AIS can't claim higher rewards for their services. Common man's lack of faith in the system shows the poor records of these services. How many of them can claim good records except continuance of colonial practices. Except for the first decade of independence no AIS can claim to have any role in development of system of development oriented administration both civil and police in any of the Indian states, when they were enjoying all the privileges which was denied to a vast majority of Indian masses. On looking back they have very little to claim. So what for these people has to be rewarded, except for perpetuating the old practices. Still an Indian can't be proud to have a responsible administrative system on which he can rely upon. Everywhere the delivery is uncertain. All institutional mechanism has been corroded. Some of the Panchayat level institutions has been shown wonderful development. On the other hand any institutions upwards which are generally headed by an AIS officer can't have anything to claim as sample of responsible administration from small muncipalities to big corporations! In this respect a vast majority of Central Services has proved to much effective despite working within limited space given by AIS bosses.
V K Pomkar
Pay Commission and Engineering cadre services

This refers to the raw deal meted out to group A engineering cadre services of government of India by the sixth pay commission and designs to annihilate such cadre services.
Indian railways has been consistently earning handsome profits over many years now due to the stellar role played by its engineering service cadres. However, the pay commission has only to mention that the railways is to be corporatised and hence no comments!
Telecom commission of DOT is proposed to be considered for winding up since its relevance is gone according to pay commission. This, despite the fact that growth rate of telecom sector has galloped to 25% due to a vibrant telecom commission!
The major engineering cadre service of DOT viz, ITS, which is the mainstay of DOT today, is emphatically proposed for abolition! All these, despite justification for new engineering cadre services like Indian ICT Service.
The pay commission however says that, as the Indian postal services is deep into business development, the postal board is to be expanded. However, it's well known that the status of business-development of postal services run by the department is nothing less than woeful. Not a single new business launched, has taken off.
Summing up, a cursive reading of the report would reveal the systematic designs for annihilation of engineering service cadres of the Govt of India across the board, with calculated motive for reinforcing the myth of superiority of general civil services in the ICT era!
Can you save a country where generalists call the shots in a Cyber war, just like country going to war without Defence services? Network security is an agenda worldwide and essential for securing all kinds of infrastructure in our country too. Stopping of engineering cadres like ITS is not justifiable at all.
No doubt, vested interests were part of the pay commission, as its members and also as serving support officers.
Pillai

We should remain civil in all situation
I welcome the views expressed by Partha Sarthi Sen Sharma. As a civil servant it is my humble duty to be civil in all situations. Fight for justice should not degenerate in to hatred for someone. As we all belong to the same society, we are basically similar. Every service including IAS has a number of excellent persons who stand for justice. The better pay and perks to IAS has its origin in the evolution of different services. As the situation over time has changed, there is demand for a review and parity. Today, the gap between the IAS and ISS is about 13 years. ISS officers with 25 to 26 years of service are still Directors in the scale of Rs.14300-18300 where as IAS officers with 14 years of service are Joint Secretaries. Other group A services are between IAS and ISS. ISS Association (EC) has already submitted its solution to these problem to all concerned. We just hope that the Government will take appropriate measures to ensure parity as well as harmonious relationship in the bureaucracy.
A.K. Verma
Secretary, ISSA(EC)
IAS vs others debate-
I am surprised at this debate of IAS vs others.. If IAS is not the superior service, why does everyone gives IAS its first choice in the Civil Service Exam. Ask all the IPS/IRS officers who are writing against supremacy of IAS, what was their first choice. At least I want to become IAS, and not IPS/IRS.
AN IAS aspirant
Indian support to China
The Indian Governments measures to protect Chinese interests on Raj Path were indeed extremely touching.One wonders how many of our military and para-military forces were left to guard Ladakh and Arunchal Pradesh during the silly torch rally of the Chinese? Remember Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh? And what about the rest of the Macmohan Line? Did the Chinese occupy some more Indian territory when our forces were so busy on Raj Path guarding that silly Chinese torch? When will India get real?
D Choudhury
Please take note
I would like someone in your community to take the plight of science students taking up UPSC examinations ,scaled to penury. In the list of unqualified candidates no one has got above 380 in Physics. An IITJEE rank 10 got 210 . All others go in the same way. Please someone sitting at the helm take note. Why this injustice for taking science in civil services?
Ravi
Dalai Lama is no different
We got to understand the Chinese view about Tibet. Are the Chinese and the Tibetans not from the same race. Some one should tell us. If China claims Tibet a part curved out of China ruled by a Religious Leader-cum-King what good it was bringing to common Tibetans. The most Tibetans who fled during Chinese occupation were the cronies of this Dalai Lama and were in comfortable position before the so called occupation. They had come out from the Land Locked country, got educated by reiterating anti-China pitch, it suited American, got support and money. India doled out money in our land to further the cause. Is it desirable to keep a person in our land to launch an attack on the Chinese. We must not forget the Train connectivity China has done with Tibet to bring it closer to China. A thousand dalai lama could not have done this and the region would have remained poverty stricken, illiterate. At least there is now hope of development. Please do not forget that where ever in British Raj the Kings used to have Privy Purse are the regions in India most undeveloped and poor till today. The kings never did any development like Orissa, MP, Rajasthan & J&K. So Dalai Lama is no different.
Tikat Kishan Wali

Appointment file of the new CMD of the Bank of Baroda has been cleared. The post has been lying vacant since March 31 after the superannuation of A K Khandelwal.
Director (Technical) RCF today
PESB will hold interview for the post of Director (Technical) Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilisers on Monday.
Total collapse of working environment in NHPC
Yet another live example of total collapse of working environment in NHPC under SK Garg and his junior SK Chaturvedi, Director (HR). NHPC invited all retired officers from Senior Managers to
Executive Directors for a brainstorming session on 5th April, 2008. The meet was postponed to 12th April and converted into reunion and lunch.
Again the meet was postponed to 26th April and again the so called reunion has been indefinitely postponed. While SK Chaturvedi is very keen to meet the retired officers, SK Garg does not want to face them for obvious reasons - non performance. Will the new minister of state for power
please look into this?
Mudda is Chairman of Builders Association
Mahesh Mudda has taken over as new Chairman of the Builders Association of India.
Sudha Anchalia is MD of GNFC
Ms Sudha Anchalia has taken over as CMD of the Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertlisers Co Ltd.. She is 1972 batch IAS officer.
Edison nominated
Dr.S. Edison, Director, Central Tuber Crops Research Institute (CTCRI) has been nominated Board Member of the International Potato Centre based at Lima, Peru.
Paramount Airways to start new flights (UPDATED)
Paramount Airways has decided to start nine new flights which would connect Chennai to southern cities .