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Who will be new Petroleum Secretary -IAS or Technocrat ?
Who will succeed M S Srinivasan as Secretary Petroleum? Though 1971 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IAS officer Srinivasan is retiring on July 31, aspirants have started lobbying for this key ministry in the Government of India. This time one question is doing the round- who will succeed Srinivasan-IAS or Technocrat ?.
Arun Bhatnagar to be Chairman of Prasar Bharti !
Secretary of the National Advisory Council Arun Bhatnagar is being appointed new Chairman of the Prasar Bharti. He is retired 1966 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.
Pulls & Pressures on for BPT's chief
Pulls & Pressures for the slot of Chairman Bombay Port Trust (BPT) are being exerted. Initially there were four contenders.
Rishi Raj Singh to be JD West in CBI
Rishi Raj Singh is going to be Joint Director West in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Singh is an IPS officer of the Kerala cadre who belongs to the 1985 batch.
Who will be Maharashtra Governor ?
After the name of former Orissa Chief Minister J B Patnaik now the name of Congress leader of Karnataka Jafar Sharif has also started doing the round for the post of Maharashtra Governor.
1989 batch IAS is frozen
The 1989 batch of IAS officers is frozen for empanelment to the rank of Joint Secretary in the Government of India.
Major bureaucratic surgery in Maharashtra
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh is supposed to carry out a massive bureaucratic surgery in near future. While performer incumbents will be rewarded with good postings, non-performers are likely to be shunted out. As the grapevine has it a list of such officers has been drawn who have served at one place for three years or more than that
RK Goyal to IG Forest Conservation
RK Goyal is going to join the Indian Government's Ministry of Environment & Forests as IG Forest Conservation, Delhi. He is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1977 batch & belongs to the AGMUT cadre.
Aspirants queuing up before LK Advani
Aspirants for different posts among top Government officials have begun to queue up before LK Advani, NDA's Prime Ministerial candidate. Will the NDA come to power ?.
Vivek Dixit quits BSNL
Vivek Dixit who was Deputy General Manager (DGM) Value added services in Chandigarh with the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has quit the job. He is an Indian Telecom Service (ITS) officer of the 1994 batch.
Chauhan is new PMG of Ahemdabad
DK Chauhan has been appointed new Post Master General BD Ahmedabad.
This is the job of Scindia in the Ministry
Finally A.Raja Indian Minister for Communicatio & IT has allocated work to newly inducted Indian Minister of State for Communication & IT Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia.The latter has been assigned affairs relating to Madhya Pradesh & questions in the Parliament.
Aarti Jairath to join Times of India ?
Buzz is that Aarti Jairath is leaving the DNA to join the Times of India..
Kumar Rakesh joins NETV Group
Kumar Rakesh,Senior Journalist,earlier with Dainik Bhaskar,Hindustan and Rashtriya Sahara has joined FOCUS TV of NETV group as Senior Editor..Focus TV will be first News & current Affairs Channel of ASIA devoted to empowering Women.Mr.Rakesh will be also VICE PRESIDENT(Content & Development) of this group.At present,NE TV group has six channels including NE TV,NE HI-FI,NE Bangla,FOCUS TV,HAMAR TV(Bhojpuri),and HY TV from Hyderabad.This group will have more 16(sixteen) metro channels soon.
Police changes in Delhi
K K Vyas will now be DCP EOW.Prabhakar DCP EOW has been moved to the Police Headquarters.JCP M C Sandhu has been shifted to Planning.K D Singh will join Riot Cell as JCP.Arun Kampani has been transferred to the Armed Police.B S Bhola will go to the First Battalion.
Two DCPs promoted in Delhi
Two DCPs in Delhi Meenu Chaudhry and Sanjay Kumar have been promoted in Delhi.While Meenu Chaudhry will look after Licensing Sanjay Kumar will join Vigilance.
IPS reshuffle in Uttar Pradesh
There is IPS reshuffle in Uttar Pradesh. New postings are :- Mssrs kashi Nath Singh SP Hathras,Chandra Prakash SP Jaunpur,Sheodan Singh SP Balrampur,M D Karndhar SP Shravasti,Lalji Shukla SP Gonda,N K Srivastava SP Prosecution Lucknow,A R Mishra SP Oriya,Abhimanyu Tripathi Joint Commissioner Commercial Tax Lucknow,A M Jain SP Prosecution Lucknow,Arun Kumar II SP Shahjahanpur and Vir ahadur Singh SP Rampur.
Utter confusion prevails over new CMD of NTPC
Utter confusion prevails regarding the slot of Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) which would fall vacant once present CMD T.Sankaralingam superannuates on April 30,2008.One report says that He has got one year extension. Other report says that the new incumbent would take over as the CMD, NTPC.
PMO to decide regarding the NTPC's, CMD
Amidst confusion regarding the slot of Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) which would fall vacant once present CMD T.Sankaralingam superannuates on April 30,2008,a decision will be taken by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).
NTPC Board to meet on April 29, 2008
The board of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) of which Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) is T.Sankaralingam is going to meet on April 29, 2008.This will be preceded by launching of a joint venture between NTPC & Bharat Heavy electrical Ltd (BHEL).
Working in NTPC adversely hit
Working in the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) of which Chairman cum Managing Director(CMD)is T.Sankaralingam,has been adversely hit due to uncertainty over the new CMD. Sanklaralingam is due to superannuate on April 30, 2008.Initially the name of Chandan Roy was being pushed, but later R.S. Sharma has been ahead in the race. Both of them are Directors in the NTPC.
Kaur Chand Badhok is Dy.Secy, POE
Kaur Chand Badhok has been appointed as a Deputy Secretary in the office of Protector of Emigrants(POE)that falls under the Ministry.His tenure will be of four years.He is an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer of the 1994 batch.At present he is posted as Additional Commissioner of Income Tax(CIT)in Rajasthan.
44 IRS officers posted as Assistantt CITs
As many as 44 Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officers have been posted as Assistant Commissioners of Income Tax (Probationers) on completion of their training from the Nagpur based National Academy of Direct Taxes. Those who have been posted are: Balijeet Kaur-Delhi, Ravi Kant Gupta-Mumbai, Prasoon Kabra-Mumbai, Rajdeep Singh-Gujarat, Yogendra Mittal-Delhi, Rajat Kapoor-Delhi, Hemant Gupta-Delhi, B.Nischal-KTK, Surbhi Sharma-Delhi, Priyanka Singh-Delhi, Shiv Swaroop Singh-Delhi, Bhanwar S. Ratnoo-Mumbai, Richa Rastogi-Delhi, Vinod Kumar-Mumbai, Amit Kumar Singh-Mumbai, Roli Khare-Delhi, Ram Kumar Yadav-M.P., Kalpana Singh-UP (W), Ajay Modi-Mumbai, Neena Jeph-Rajasthan, Madnappa G. Erappa-Mumbai, Awijit Rakshit-Gujarat, Sunil K. Yadav-NWR, Sudhanshu D. Mishra-UP(E), Abhishek Kumar-Gujarat, Rajeev Kumar-Bihar, Alok Malviya-Delhi, Puneet Kumar-UP(E), Love Kumar-Gujarat, Abhishek Sharma-Rajasthan, Tshering Ongda-West Bengal, Nitin R. Waghmode-Pune, Bedobani Chaudhuri-NER, Umesh C. Bharti-UP(W), S. Renga Rajan-TN, Subhash K. R.-KTK, Kailash P. Gaikwad-Pune, Ashwani Hosmani-Nagpur, Nathala Ravi B.-A.P., Rajesh Kumar Mishra-NWR, Ram Babu-Bihar, Rukmani Attri-M.P., Kumar Pranav-Pune & Yamini-NWR
Decision on CMD,NTPC likely today (UPDATED)
Decision regarding new Chairman cum Managing Director(CMD)of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) of which present CMD is T.Sankaralingam is likely today.Sanklaralingam is due to superannuate on April 30, 2008.
S.K.Singh joins CBI, as SP (UPDATED)
AIG in Police Headquarter S.K.Singh has joined CBI at Delhi as SP on deputation to Government of India (GOI). He is an Orissa cadre IPS who belongs to 1996 batch. Singh will be on central deputation for a period of four years.

Plus and minus points of Abhinav Kumar
This refers to Abhinav Kumar's write-up captioned, "Rejoinder by IPS officer" (WIC Forum 28-4-08). Abhinav seems to be a brilliant young man with a flair for writing very few bureaucrats can boast of. Nevertheless his logic goes haywire and turns conspicuously self serving as he strives to run down the grievances of the CPMFs vis-a-vis the guest artists from IPS who dominate the higher echelons in almost every CPMF.
Just look at his reasoning. He argues that CPMFs form a tighter pyramid close to the Armed Forces because of their para military nature and comparing the role of the officers cadre of the CPMFs and the IPS may not be wholly accurate, yet he not only wants IPS officers to occupy top slots in the CPMFs but also objects if the CPMFs become the exclusive preserve of officers and jawans from the Armed Forces which is what is going to happen if the fine print of the VI CPC is to be read according to him. (It is another matter that the scare is artificial as I have read the fine print and found that the VI CPC has only tried to address the long outstanding problem of re-employment of Jawans from the three services who are made to retire early for keeping the AFs young and not because they have failed to make the next grade. In fact There is a simultaneous exercise going on in the services HQs as well as the MoD for the re-deployment of these elements even within the non-combatant segments of the forces themselves). To suggest therefore that the VI CPC has recommended that those rejected by the Armed Forces are to be piled on to the CPMFs is nothing short of an insinuation. The false scare may serve the short term interest of a particular service (IPS) but it certainly militates against the basic dictates of honesty and fair play. If the constitutional role of the IPS as asserted by Abhinav is to uphold the values espoused by the constitution, the false scare being created in this manner is a clear instance of failure of the role thus assigned.
Abhinav's reasoning on the alleged maltreatment of the cadre officers of CPMFs by their IPS big brothers is equally unconvincing. "As far as being treated like dalits by the IPS is concerned", he argues, "their own conduct towards the non-gazetted officers of the CPMFs and towards those gazetted officers who are promoted from the non-gazetted ranks calls for a great deal of introspection". When you analyse the argument it tends to justify the ill treatment because those who are being ill treated are in turn themselves ill treating some others. I find it no less absurd than the generalised position that all IPS deputationists ill treat their junior colleagues in the CPMFs. All of them or may be a majority of them don't do. But to dismiss the perception by simply asking the CPMF chaps to introspect about how they treat their own colleagues is not a fair disposal of the issue.
NN OJHA
Why anonymous ?
Dear Shashank and VK Nayar,
I thought the point of raining these issues on a popular and prestigious website like Whispers was to have an intelligent and informed discussion. However the tone and substance of your submissions on these issues clearly indicates that you are merely content to trumpet your own prejudices and pre-conceived notions about this issue.
On the corruption issue I have repeatedly argued that the IPS bears great responsibility for the sorry state of affairs in the police prevailing today. However I maintain that being in a system where at the very top level of the government people are enjoying all types of immunity, then simply to arrest clerks and constables for accepting bribes becomes something of symbolic value only. At the top level, bureaucrats (including both IAS and IPS as well as the other services), politicians and judges have all created various types of privileges and immunities that prevent effective action from being taken against them. In the absence of such action whatever we do on the anti corruption front is limited to cosmetic exercises. From time to time the CBI and other agencies to undertake high profile actions but even these have political undertones and therefore lack credibility. SO please don't put words into my mouth Shashank, the IPS has no license to be corrupt, however given the milieu in which it operates without far reaching institutional changes it is difficult to expect the IPS or any other agency to check corruption in a meaningful way.
As for the IPS Association, I think you are displaying exemplary ignorance and bad manners. First of all the IPS Association is created to be a platform to advance the interests of IPS officers and therefore for non-members to complain about it is in slightly bad taste. For your information the pay and welfare of ordinary jawans was a key point in the memorandum submitted by the IPS Association perhaps my article did not highlight it but that is because the focus was the widening disparity between the IAS and the IPS in the 6th CPC compared to the 5th CPC. At the constable level the present disparities have not worsened and therefore I did not highlight them in the same way.
As for VK Nayar's comments comparing the IAS and the IPS for honesty, I think he is betraying his own personal frustrations at living in Delhi. Trust me VK Nayar the abuse of perks and privileges begins at the very top. The day we see our top ministers and civil servants refrain from abusing their perks it would have a salutary effect down the line. You mean to tell me no IAS officer in a ministry tries to abuse the perks of the various PSUs and Directorates that are a part of their ministry? If you really believe so then I think you are either a hypocrite or completely naive. The point is not to justify the abuse of perks by IPS officers but to simply point out that the Armed Forces and Police Forces are manpower intensive organizations and therefore their officers have traditionally enjoyed these perks whereas in civilian organizations you enjoy different types of perks depending on the ministry you are attached to. I hope you will agree that both types of perks impose a cost on the exchequer and are a form of corruption. They need to be curtailed but it would be difficult to do so unless the Government starts compensating by hiking the pay and allowances substantially.
But I think both Shashank and Nayar are digressing from the issues I raised in my article. My main concern was that given the fact that All India Services have a constitutional status and a role envisaged for them by our founding fathers, what is the legal, administrative or practical justification for difference in pay and promotions of the All India Services? The anonymous interventions by Shashank and Nayar are not very illuminating on this point.
Warm regards
Abhinav Kumar
What are the requirements as well as challenges before India?
1. We need, peace with law and order everywhere in our country
2. We need better respect of human rights by all government departments and public to public also
3. We need a good economy so that the government can easily afford expenditures on welfare measures and development
4. We need strong army to defend us and make us respectable in the world community.
These above mentioned things are the most important functions of the government now. If our government is capable of providing theses things, the other functions of government will automatically find path either through private sector or driven by profit motive organizations.
So far as developmental expenditures of India are concerned, now time has come when we should adopt an efficient system of result oriented and not process oriented as exists. We should outsource the developmental work from private or corporate bodies so that if we provide expenditure we can catch their neck as well projects remain materialized if the funds have been released and consumed. Otherwise heavy penalty. I think the corporate sector of India is competent to do this job more efficiently than our developmental bureaucracy. The existing developmental bureaucracy has proved to be white elephant and has been collapsing on its own weight. The admin expenditure of developmental administration is highly unacceptable and disproportionate to the actual work entrusted. Neither there is any accountability nor guarantee that the money spent would have definitively been converted in to the target, which was planned. There are lots of invisible factors, which make it difficult to explain failures of developmental administration in India. If we are to make a bridge, we just offer tenders and those willing to provide quality services come forward and they do the work in time and quality also remains good. As a government, we audit their performance and as soon as we think that our requirements were met, we release the money or other wise impose penalty. Why cannot we adopt this model of expenditure regarding welfare and development of our country and then I think the leakage would be minimum and work will be visible on the ground also. I strongly believe that this is the solution of corruption and inefficiency in our developmental administration .Our five year plans so meticulously planned, do not get translated in to action despite that money scarcity not being the issue, gives me clear cut reason to attack on developmental bureaucracy of India.
Now, all the core functions of the government of India have been discussed. Can any one tell me where is the role of IAS in this prospectively, of course retrospectively they have lot to explain.
No service should be given importance because that importance was a legacy of British Raj. After more than fifty years of independence, we have to set our priorities as a democratic country and only then it will be an improvement on colonial governance .ICS was a tool to perpetuate imperialism and colonialism, but what is the role of IAS now, in a progressive country like India in view of above-mentioned points. We all have to sit and introspect ourselves and then decide
M N Tiwari
Real issues are not being discussed
Its amazing how the real issues are being obfuscated in the din created over the PSOs and CPMFs. Let us understand the issues. One-Pay. The IAS and the IFS have historically had two additional increments over other services of the same batch. The reason- prior to 1979, everybody wrote five papers in the civil services exam, however, lists of IAS and IFS were made taking all five papers, IRS, IAAS, IRTS etc lists were made taking three best papers subsequently, IPS list was made taking best two. However, this system was given up in 1979, now, the same number of papers is taken by everybody and the list of selected candidates is one and the same, service allocation depending on rank and choice taken together. So, the rationale for the two additional increments does not exist since 1979. Then why is it continuing? The 4th Pay Commission had agreed that it should not, and made a beginning by abolishing the said additional increments in the lowest viz. junior Time Scale. Why not at one go across scales? Because, the officers recruited through pre 1979 scheme should not be made to suffer the consequences of the change brought about in 1979, however, post 1979 and post 4th Pay Commission, this evil has continued without rationale (why does the government continue to dole out money gratuitously without rationale? Because the Government is run by the IAS who see to it that their illogical so called superiority remains extant). There is another motive. All benefits, housing, travel, Dearness Pay etc are calculated on the basic pay. Two additional increments (two years of increase in pay) translates to a lot of benefits, apart from the preening they can do over the issue.
Two-To add insult to injury, the IAS is now to get the pay scale of Joint secretary to the Government of India in 14 years (others of the same batch, higher in rank in the Civil Services Exam, will get it after 6 further years, viz. 20 years).With the scale, add benefits of housing, travel entitlements etc (all this additional expense for the Government because the IAS makes all the rules for all the services). This even the promotees will get, who have never cleared the Civil Services exam. There is no rule and no justification for this, they have gone and done it, notably, this is not historical, it is a fresh, novel idea. If rank in the exam is sacrosanct, let there be a rank pay given to all officers of the same batch of the Civil Service Exam and let rank one be paid more than rank 2 and so on, and let an IAS officer of rank 190 be paid lesser than an IPS officer of rank 4 (both OBCs).And let all officers of earlier batches be paid more rank pay than all officers of a junior batch. The tribalisation of the Services is a historical fact. The ICS used to think of the Indian Political Service as being inferior and maintained supremacy (those days the minimum qualification for the ICS was graduation and not so for the IP(Indian Police, the predecessor of the IPS). The differences created then made some sense because the qualifications, no. of papers etc were different. Now, there is no sense, only illogic and ill gotten gain. Three- The IAS does not allow other services to get empanelled for "open" central staffing posts (which, by definition are not cadre posts for anyone, not even the IAS, remember, we are not talking of DM, Divisional Commissioner posts which are cadre posts, these posts can be manned by officers of any service participating in the Central staffing scheme, including the CSS). 1989 batch of the IAS is empanelled for Joint Secretary, other services 1983 batch is empanelled, six batches are not allowed empanelment. Reason? No reason at all! Simple might. Simply because they man all senior positions of the Secretariat at the centre. By hook or by crook, so why not crook!
The list continues. Housing, vehicles, posts, post retirement benefits, you name it. The rules will be twisted, some sleight of the hand will be affected and lo and behold, out will come a djinn (read the IAS officer, never mind his rank in the exam, never mind him being a promotee). Pay Commissions are by definition for the IAS, its members are members of the IAS, they even housetrain the Judges who (nominally) head them. The reviewing committees are comprised of them! The king is dead, long live the king.Three cheers for the king.1947 never happened. They are all over the place. The Augean stables of the 6th Pay Commission will need more than Hercules to clean them.
Vijay Kumar
Is it fair ?
Is it fair to let others perish just to maintain supremacy of someone. If someone cannot utilize even his own expertise properly how can he claim to be the destiny maker of others. Why don't we abolish all other services if it is not possible to make their proper use? Suppressing creativity and promoting slave mentality is in no way the best kind of administration. All services be treated equally and given due recognition so that they could be used fully. Why do all want to join only particular service? Is it not possible to do away with all special advantages of any particular services over others so that incentives to work could be distributed to all services to achieve cent percent utilization of all services. Much of the collective potential of all civil services is either unutilized or lost and burnt away in egoistic friction and unproductive unhealthy administrative practices in many countries.
Aifin
Only God save the poor public
I have my points to make with reference to Shashank & Abinav's comments on Direct v/s promotee Police unjustified squabbles.Evry0ne aspires for career progressions but with regard to performing the duties of Police organisation are concerned I'm at pains. When I see the state of affairs in policing in the cities, I find both the category are in wanting. Police meant for the beat duties are merely concerned with more proliferation of squats n roadside vendors with obvious objectives known to them rather than streamlining the smooth movements for general and law abiding public. I hardy find any senior n middle level officer on the general round n disciplining the dishonest and erring front level police staff in full view of public. All other than Police agree that majority has negative view n image for the entire Police organisation. This is more so with State Police than CPMF. It seems that police department is meant for proliferation of anarchy than bring about law and order. Only God save the poor public from the insensitive n brute force.
Shiv
Better pl cross check
Dear Shashank,
You are writing without verifying facts or even knowing them. IPS Central Association duly flagged issues pertaining to subordinate ranks as well while highlighting illogical and unsympathetic recommendations of 6th Pay Commission in their meetings with higher -ups. It will be better you cross-check facts before venturing to write.
Mahesh Chandra

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