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Sunil Krishna to be DG NHRC ?
Sunil Krishna is likely to be appointed new DG of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).He is 1973 batch IPS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre.The post has been lying vacant for the last four months.
Sudhakar to be Additional Secretary Corporate Affairs !
P D Sudhakar is being tipped to be Additional Secretary Corporate Affairs in the Government of India. He is 1976 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
Satish Chandra tipped to go on deputation
Satish Chandra is tipped to go on deputation to the Government of India(GOI) as Joint Secretary Chemicals & Fertilizers.He is an IAS officer of the 1986 batch who belongs to the Andhra Pradesh cadre.
R.S. Shukla to be Joint Secretary Health
R.S. Shukla is poised to be Joint Secretary in the Health ,Government of India(GOI).He is an IAS officer of the West Bengal cadre who belongs to the 1986 batch.
Bhatia to get extension !
Latest information says that Special Representative WTO in Geneva Ujal Singh Bhatia is getting six months extension in deputation tenure.1974 batch Orissa cadre IAS officer Bhatia was to return in a couple of months.
Two new posts of Special DG in BSF
Two new posts of Special Directors General are being created in the Border Security Force (BSF) this month.
KK Jalan to be Secretary Power in Haryana
KK Jalan is likely to become next Power Secretary in Haryana. Jalan who is an IAS officer of the 1982 batch & belongs to the Haryana cadre is presently Secretary Public Works department(PWD).
IPS officer to contest on Congress ticket
ADG (Crime) Subash Bharani who has resigned from service to join politics is expected to contest Vidhan Sabha election on Congress ticket form T Narasipur in Karnataka. He is 1975 batch IPS officer of Karnataka cadre.
Empanelment of 1974 batch IPS this month
Empanelment of 1974 batch IPS officers to the rank of DG in the Government of India is going to take place this month.If insiders are to be believed about 20 officers of this batch have been short-listed for the empanelment. They are Mssrs :- Y S Dadwal (UT) S P Ram (Assam-Meghalaya) Ranjit Sinha (Bihar) Rajiv Mathur (Chhattisgarh) R S Dalal and G S Malhi (Haryana) G S Gill and Ajit Lal (Himachal Pradesh) P S Gill and Kuldip Khoda (J&K) A K Singh (Karnataka) S K Raut and N K Tripathi (Madhya Pradesh) Gafoor Khaja Hassan (Maharashtra) Paramvir Singh (TamilNadu) S K Awasthi,U K Bansal,Vikram Singh,R K Bhatia (Uttar Pradesh) and Bhupinder Singh and P K Sahay (West Bengal).
Zhimomi posted in MEA
I H Zhimomi Counsellor in Vienna has been transferred to the Headquarters of the Ministry of External Affairs.
Singh goes to North Western Railway
Gurdev Singh SAG who is an IRAS officer has been posted in the North-Western Railway.
GM level changes in Air India
There is General Manager level reshuffle in the Air India. New postings are :- Mssrs A K Sharma Mumbai,J Chatterjee Safdarjung, U K Gupta Mumbai,Sanjeev Kumar Safdarjung, F Vaz AIB,K M Kurian AIB,K Shyamsunder AIB,F Colaco AIB, A lal Eastern Region Kolkata,Pankaj Srivastava Western Region Mumbai,R Jaidka Northen Region Delhi and R Ratnalon Southern Region Chennai.
Dy GM level reshuffle in Air India
There is Dy General Manager shake-up in Air India. New postings are :-Mssrs :-G Venkatachalam Safdarjung,V Ravahari Mumbai,U K Chatterjee Mumbai, N Narang Safdarjung,Ranjana Adani Mumbai,Pradeep Kumar Safdarjung,Chander Kumar Safdarjung,P Biswas Eastern Kolkata,G Ambi and L M Joshi Western Mumbai,S Gupta and S Dhand Northern Delhi , T R Subramanian Southern Chennai, M Malik Eastern Klkata,Mohan Pillai Western Mumbai, Vishrut Acharya Northern Delhi and R Radhakrishnan Southern Chennai. .
IAS changes in Madhya Pradesh
Additional Secretary (Backward Class and Minority Welfare) Jabbar Dhakwala has been shifted in the same capacity in the Social Justice and Jail department. Deputy Secretary (Jails) K P Rahi has been transferred in the same capacity to the Revenue department
IPS postings in Madhya Pradesh
DIG (Shahdol range) Rajesh Chawla has been posted as Inspector General (MPSEB). DIG (Intelligence, Police headquarters, Bhopal) Sanjay V Mane has been transferred as IG (Police headquarters, Bhopal).
IAS reshuffle in Uttar Pradesh
V N Garg will be new Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister.Kamran Rizvi has been made Secretary to the Chief Minister.Rakesh Kumar Ojha and B R Shastri will be Additional Secretary and Joint Secretary respectively of the Chief Minister.Divakar Tripathi has been brought back as Director PR.Harisharan Das wil now be Sugarcane Commissioner.V Rajgopalan has been posted as Principal Secretary Women Welfare.B M Meena has been made Principal Secretary Backward Classes. Deepak Kumar has been appointed Project Director Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan and Ajay Kumar Upadhyay has been made Additional Director PR.

Can this nation afford militarisation of police ?
CPC recommends Militarisation of Para-Military forces
Citing savings of valuable ruppes spent on recruitment and training
for CPMF, the CPC has recommended that all recruitments to the CPMFs
at Constabulary and lower ranks level should be done away with.
Instead, there should be a central recruitment by defence boards and
all recruits after serving for 7 years in the Army will move to
CPMFs.Now, isn't that we call Militarisation of the Police force? Did
anybody tell CPC that Army trains its men to kill while Police trains
its men to control?Can the nation afford this Militarisation of Police
forces just to save some money?.
N Sharma
IAS and the hypocrisy of the 6th Pay Commission
The IAS through the 6th Pay Commission has given themselves a big raise at the cost of the other services. Let's analyze this logic
1)The argument used was that IAS are posted in remote places, so give them a raise. This logic should apply to Armed Forces, IPS and Forest Service too. Foreign Service have also been given a raise but they work in London, Paris. So what is the logic.
2) The logic that the IAS have higher ranks is not correct. Several IPS, IRS officers have better rank that IAS.
3) The 6th Pay Commission used the 5th Pay Commission as a basis. We all know that the 6th Pay Commission had an IAS officer as a member Mr Kaw (you can read in his book of his bias against other services) who basically gave himself and his service a good deal. So using the 5th Pay commission as a basis is flawed. The 4th Pay Commission recommended parity. So why don't they use that as a basis.
It is time that the other services get together and fight against the IAS hegemony or it will be too late.
Palani T
This is unfortunate
It is unfortunate that the 6th CPC has observed that IAS be given edge over the other AIS and Central Services with the logic that ". They hold important field level posts at the district level and at the cutting edge at the start of their careers with critical decision making and crisis management responsibilities. The leadership function, the strategic, coordinating and integrative role at this level requires the best talent available"
Unfortunately, the logic forwarded by the CPC implies that the best talent is not required for police or forest service or revenue services! In my opinion all wings of the administration must be filled by equally talented personalities. If the DM in a District is important so are the SSP and DFO.
On other hand one is bemused to comprehend that when I.Fo.S has parity with the IAS why other central services can not have it?
Fortunately graduates and post-graduates from IITs, IIMs along with MDs, MS, M.Phils. and Ph.Ds etc. are joining IPS,IFS and IRS as well. The Forest Service, Economic service etc. are manned by officers with background better than many of IAS. But if the CPC has its way, talent will certainly be discouraged to join other services!
It is unfortunate that the CPC has given in to the hypocrisy and myth perpetuated by the IAS that the IAS is premier service which co-ordinates between various departments and that it is the only service which can run the administration!
Reality is otherwise! As we all know that there have been many exceptionally excellent persons who worked as secretaries to govt. of India with no- govt. service background. There have been and there are many excellent officers in other services which are no less than any IAS officer if they are given the opportunity to work in the capacities hitherto jealously guarded by the IAS.
Let there be a debate on this suggestion. If there can be a lateral entry at the rank of secretary; why not at the levels bellow that. Given a chance a Forest Service or Police or may be even Information service officer will fare better than many IAS officers in the capacity of DM or divisional Commissioner or secretary forests, wildlife or home Departments or Information and Public Relations Department. What if Commissioner of state excise department is from the IC&CES or Commissioner of Sales Tax or Finance Department is brought from the IRS.
In many states in India several important principal secretaries are from services other than the IAS. Let there be an assessment of there performance vis-à-vis IAS and if there is nothing wrong with this idea than it must be replicated in other states as well.
It is unfortunate that instead of having a broader perspective and thinking with open mindedness; the myth of the superiority of the IAS has been perpetuated. It seems that People with mindset of socialistic era have no courage and vision to think beyond IAS!
Kushal Singh
TAIL-PIECE
Andhon ke shahar me aaine bechne nikle.
Yaar tum bhi meri tarah deewane nikle.
Kis kis ke pathar ka jawaab doge tum.
Mehboob ki basti me sabhi to apne nikle.
(The controversy of IAS Vs non IAS and former getting better deal in VI CPC)
Ravi Pipal
Never forget past
For the first time, I am writing in your prestigious site. This has reference to the views of shri S K Gupta, who is vociferous about " Injustice to CSS Officers" . I convey My sympathy to shri gupta. In his views he has been mourning about the 6th CPC's recommendations on merging of CSSS and CSS cadres. I also convey my sympathy to him on this count.. May God bless him/them with wisdom.
Never forget your aukad means NEVER FORGET YOUR PAST
Rakesh Gupta, Proud Stenographer and Proud S.O.
Merger of CSS with CSSS
This is regarding the recommendation of VIth Pay Commission for merger of CSS with CSSS on the ground that with advent of computers, duties and responsibilities assigned to CSS Officers can also be performed by CSSS service officers.
This recommendation raises very basis question of the wisdom of the people who wrote the report.It is well known that officers of CSS have all along been holding the posts at the level of Additional Secretary/Joint Secretary/Directors/Deputy Secretaay etc in central Ministries/Departments. These posts are also held by Officers of all Indian servicesincludijng IAS and and other Gr.A services. From the justificaion given by the pay commsission for merger of CSSS with CSS, it appears that CSS officers occupying the higher level of posts are perfoming computer related job-WS word, MS excel etc which can be performed by CSSS alsoofficers also. In other words, does the Pay commission report suggests that officers of AIS and other Gr."A" services are performing the same clerical job as perceived to be performed by CSS officers. My humble suggestion for the then Member Secretary, Pay Commission now Secretary , Expenditure is that in trying to degrade CSS officers for the reasons best known to her, donot degrade the work performed by officers holding posts at the level of AS/JS/Dir/DS irrespective of the services to whom they belong.
N Kumar
System should be more transparent
Can we propose the change in constituent of pay commission to take care of protests and reactions?the system of drawing of reccommendations may be more transparent and expected rather than shocks and surprises
Sanjay
UPSC has done a great service
I have been surprised to see the various comments levelled against the U.P.S.C Recruitment regarding who must be getting IAS...
Very paradoxically there is criticism against IAS getting better pay ( VI P.C)& at the same breath they talk about who must & must not get IAS...This looks more like frustration than logic...
Now what do they mean by saying IAS should be allotted on Rank & not preference...
There are instances of Toppers opting for IPS/IRS/IFS as first prefernce but at the same time average basis the prefernce is 1.IAS 2. IFS/IPS
3.IRS/ICCES....
UPSC has done a great service to the Nation by maintaing Transparency and Integrity of the Highest Order... Do not blame UPSC/ System if u failed to get IAS...
All the more i wish to say " Grass always appears greener on the other side"...Now who says IAS is all roses and cream ...Politicians, Media, Public,Privacy invasion and Critics( Collector ke sath ek din raho)...
Destiny decides who gets what... Gaon mein humse bhi intelligent milenge jo mauka dene par aap ki aur meri jaga pe ho sakte the...
Lets be Happy & Constructive & not meri safedi usse kum kyon...
S R Kumar

CORPORATE

NOA's campaign against NHPC,CMD a whimper
Contrary to a drive Members of the "NHPC Officers Association(NOA) against S.K.Garg,Chairman cum Managing Director(CMD) of the NHPC there has been no action so far.It seems that the anti CMD campaign by NOA has proved to be a whimper.It may be stated that the NOA had shot a missive to Indian Prime Minister Dr.Man Mohan Singh .The NOA's missive had stated "…request for suitable corrective measures by immediately removing Sh. S.K.Garg from the post of CMD,NHPC so that this profit making company could be saved from turning into a sick company."The NOA's four page letter to Dr.Man Mohan Singh,a copy of which is with <whispersinthecorridors.com>, concludes with following sentence "with lots of hope in your justice we remain yours faithfully."
Pathak moves to Hong Kong
Air India has moved A Pathak from Dubai to Hong Kong.
Orissa Govt signs MoU with AEPC
Orissa Government signed MoU with Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) on April 3,2008 to set up five satelite Apparel training & design centres (ATDCs). These centres will be be set up at Berhampur, Rourkela, Baripada,Sambalpur and Cuttack.to meet the textile and handloom industry's growing requirement for a steady supply of trained workforce and professionally trained expertise to train human resource in various aspect of garment technology. The deal was signed by Ms.Anita Agnihotri, Principal Secretary , Textile and Handloom Department on behalf of Government of Orissa and Anil Kumar Bamba , ITS, Secretary General , AEPC sponsored by Ministry of Textile,
Government of India, in presence of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Textile and Handloom Minister Golak Behari Nayak in the state secretariat.
New MDC at IIM-Indore coming up
IIM Indore planned to establish a second Management Development Centre (MDC) at a cost of 8 Crore. This will serve as an additional facility to train managers of the country. This will be state of the art training facility.Prof. S P Parashar, Director, IIM Indore laid the foundation stone of the same on April 3,2008 in the IIMI Campus.
TERI and DuPont join hands on Green Building Designs
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) & DuPont have signed a memorandum of understanding(MOU) to promote the cause of green building design and certification in India.This was signed in Delhi on April 3,2008 between Thomas F. Schuler Vice President & General Manager DuPont Building Innovations & Dr R K Pachauri Director General TERI at the Talking Tomorrow Lecture Series organized by TERI BCSD India, a strong industry body of 76 corporate members that engage with TERI on sustainable development, environmental management and corporate responsibility.Speaking at the event, Thomas F. Schuler, Vice President & General Manager, DuPont Building Innovations said, "DuPont has a long tradition of using science and innovation to deliver advanced products to the marketplace, enabling architects and designers to build sustainable, cost-efficient building."Speaking after signing the MOU, Balvinder Kalsi President & CEO, DuPont India appreciated TERI's contribution to the cause of sustainability in India. "The relationship between DuPont and TERI goes back many years and the signing of this MOU today will further strengthen our association," said Kalsi.Ms Mili Majumdar, head of TERI's Green Building GRIHA project & Ms.Roli Jindal, Business Manager, DuPont Building Innovations also spoke on the occasion.
UTV to launch business news channel
UTV of which CEO is Ronnie Screwvala is going to make foraysinto the English business news space with UTVi channel,in near future.
Atul Hegde is CEO, Connecturf
Connecturf, has appointed Atul Hegde as its Chief Exeutive Officer(CEO).He is former Head of Vyas Giannetti Creative(VGC).
Manish Mathur promoted as COO ,P9 Integrated
Manish Mathur has been promoted as Chief Operating Officer(COO) of P9 Integrated.So far he was Associate Vice President (AVP)of the company.
NTPC & UPRUVL join hands
NTPC Limited has formed a Joint Venture Company with Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited (UPRVUNL) under the name "Meja Urja Nigam Private Limited" on April 2, 2008 for setting up a power plant of 1320 MW (2X660 MW) at Meja Tehsil or any other suitable site in Allahabad district in the state of Uttar Pradesh. NTPC and UPRVUNL both shall contribute 50% equity each in the share capital of the Company.
Mohit Anand to join head Channel [V]
Star India has roped in Mohit Anand as general manager for Channel [V].He was formerly with Microsoft India (Entertainment and Devices Division)