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Selection of Sengupta runs into rough weather
Selection of CPCB member secretary B Sengupta for the post of chairman Central Pollution Control Board has run into rough weather.
1976 batch IAS to get ACS rank in Uttarakhand
Decks have been cleared for the promotion of three 1976 batch IAS officers Ms Vibha Puri, N S Napalchyal and Vijendra Paul to the rank of ACS in Uttarakhand.
1994 batch IPS to be DIG in Orissa
1994 batch IPS is expected to be promoted to the rank of DIG next month.
Justice Sharma appointed SC Judge
Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court Mukundan Sharma has been appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court with effect from the date he takes charge.
(We said this on January 23 )
Tewary is Land Reforms Commissioner West Bengal
S.C.Tewary has moved to the post of Land Reforms Commissioner & Secy, Land & Land Reforms, West Bengal..He is 1984 batch IAS officer.
Yadav is Director Home
Pradeep Yadav has joined the Government of India as Director Home. He is 1992 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.
Meghalaya DGP proceeds on long leave
Why did Meghalaya DGP Bijoy K Dey Sewian proceed on long leave ?. There is no official version on this development.
Shukla to go Arunachal Pradesh
A B Shukla has been relived to join the Arunachal Pradesh Government this month. He is 1996 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.
Santosh Kumar promoted as Joint CIT
Santosh Kumar has been promoted as Joint Commissioner of Income Tax(CIT) from the date he assumes charge & notionally with effect from June 27,2001-the date on which juniors were promoted as Joint CITs.Kumar who is an Indian Revnue Service(IRS) officer of the 1988 batch is posted Joint CIT Bihar region.
Only 35 non-local IFS in J & K
The J & K has sanctioned strength of 106 IFS officers, of whom, 95 were in position 60 locals and 35 non-locals.
Three promoted to IAS in Manipur
Three Manpur state civil services officers have been promoted to the Indian Administrative Service. They are: H Deleep Singh, M Lakshmi Kumar Singh and K Radha Kumar Singh.
Five Major Generals are back to Army
Five Major Generals posted by Gen Musharaff in civil departments have been asked to relinquish their charge by April 15 and report to their respective assignments in the army.
Vandana Singhal posted in North-Central Railway
IRAS officer Vandana Singhal has been transferred to the North-Central Railway.
O.P.Choudhary is back to MP cadre
O.P.Choudhary who was Vice Chancellor of the Singhania University Jhunjhunu has reported back to his parent cadre of Madhya Pradesh.He is an Indian Forest Service(IFS) officer of the 1989 batch.
Retired IAS officer dies in Bangalore
CP Prabhakar, a retired IAS officer, who had served under five Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu, died in Bangalore . He was 85.
Tiwari is Additional Commissioner MCD
Ramesh Tiwari has been posted as Additional Commissioner of the MCD. He is 1999 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.
Posting of IRPS officer
Patrudu, 1996 batch IRPS, has joined as SrDPO/Khurda, ECO Railway.
Railway transfer and postings
P Ananth, Selection Grade/IRSME/Railway Board, has been transferred to Northern Railway in the same capacity. N S Kasturirangan, HA Grade/IRSME/South Eastern Railway will move to Eastern Railway. S K Chaudhary, HA Grade/IRTS/Eastern Railway, presently working as AGM has been transferred to South Eastern Railway, Pradeep Kumar, HAG/IRSME, presently working as Director/IRIMEE has been posted to Indian Railway Organisation For Alternative Fuel (IROAF), New Delhi . Arun Bhagra, HAG/IRSME, East Central Railway, presently working as CAO/Harnaut, has been transferred to IRIMEE and posted as Director/IRIMEE vice Pradeep Kumar.
Sukhbir Singh to move from US
Second Secretary in US, Sukhbir Singh, has been moved to Windhoek on a vacant post.
MEA vacancies
Male and Female Muslim doctors can go on deputation to Jeddah for three months. Similarly, Assistant Haj officer has been required by the Ministry of External Affairs for a period of three months.
ISS changes
ISS officer Dr Manish Sammerwar who is Deputy Director in Nagpur has been moved to Bhopal. B B Khendaker has been shifted to IBM under the Ministry of Mines in Nagpur.
IPS Officers promoted to DIG Rank in Orissa (UPDATED )

Two IPS officers were promoted to the rank of DIG Police on April 5,2008 and are likely to get their new postings this month. They are-Yeswant Kumar Jethwa SP Balasore and Sanjeev Panda SP Baragarah.

Respected Ram Kumar,
Sir, I am proud of my service. I was allotted Indian P&T Finance and Accounts Service and I have no regrets. It was and is one of the best services in terms of versatile exposure to modern technological and financial practices which other services can not even dream of. Its slim, trim and energetic service, with average age below 40 . The officers have behaved like true civil servants during phase of turmoil in communication sector. Till recently it provided one of the fastest promotions equivalent to IAS and IA&AS. We serve a ministry which has revolutionised the Indian economic and social scenario. It is a democratic cadre unseen in non-democratic iron clad bureaucracy which paved the way for senior time scale officer to head All India association long back in 1998.
But only one thing hurts. There should be no discrimination on remuneration side for officers from same examination who prefer to join Indian Police Service or Indian Audit and Accounts Service or Indian Revenue Service or who accidentally lands in IP&TAFS.
Does big brother concept still works in a sovereign, socialist, secular and democratic country? The answer is yes but is this rational?
Gopi Krishna
Verify facts ,first
In response to Malhotra's comments on Government employees - Bank employees-PSUs, Ii would like to clarify that the Bank employees get their pay up graded every 5 years and not every 4 years. There is also stagnation in all grades and the allowances like HRA etc. are not at par with Government rate. I request Malhotra to verify all the facts from Bank employees before coming to a conclusion. Besides, all the Bank employees are not having the facility of pension option and other benefits like Government employees. It is totally a wrong notion that they are enjoying more benefits than Government employees.
Sujatha
ISS Grievances with CPC
Verma and Manmit Singh have given a thorough and detailed analysis of the recommendations of VI CPC, particularly with reference to ISS. The way analysis has been carried out by Verma shows the spare time ISS officers have for such personal matters after the recent cadre review of ISS with 327% increase in SAG level posts and more than 100% in HAG. Most of these officers are sitting idle and whiling away their time with higher perks in field offices and headquarter at MOSPI.
Madan Gopal
Now some drastic action by IPS ?
Apropos a comment posted by 'An IPS officer' that "obituary" of IPS has been written by the CPC and that the IPS is agitated over the CPC report. The officer has pressed for parity in salary etc for IPS vis-a-vis IAS but the logic forwarded is skewed and based on wrong appreciation of the facts.
By arguing that " half of (the IPS) have been above IAS in merit list" the learned IPS officer is making false claim. Yes, there are certain officers every year who prefer the IPS over IAS but to say that half of the IPS are above the IAS in merit is not a true claim.
If he/she is hinting towards the persons coming from reserved categories, than it can very well be said about the IPS also that half of the IPS are bellow, say IRS in the merit list.
Moreover, if learned officer wishes to verify than I would bring to his kind notice that every year almost 30% of the IRS officers are those who due to choice as well as medical reasons do not join IPS; to which rank wise they would have been entitled.
The point therefore is that, if "the IPS officers are agitated" over CPC report and wish for parity vis-à-vis IAS on the ground of merit; by same logic many central services such as IRS, Civil Accounts etc. can also make the same claim.
Now we all have to wait to see some desperate and drastic actions from the IPS officers to which the IPS officer has cautioned (warned!) in his comment.
-A Government Servant.
We have ignored two events
In the din generated by the Pay Commission, the babus have ignored two important events-----one, as pointed out by Ojha is India's groveling before China over the Lhasa massacre and second, the dropping of all charges save one ,against that Beast of Nathari , that man eating Cannibal of Noida ,Pandher. As citizens of free India and under the RTI we want to know who all figured in Pandhers dinner guest lists? The names would then explain why there is such unseemly haste to close this case. No doubt the capitals elite is involved in the dreadful feasting on human flesh late into the night in Noida. YUK! The human organs left over after the nights feasting were donated next morning to the hospital next door in a rare gesture of compassion by the Beast of Nathari. Who knows after his release the Beast of Nathari might even get a Padma Vibhushan for philanthrophy?
D Choudhury
Matter of choice
This is for Ram Kumar. For your consumption, I may like to tell you that there are various instances where officers have higher ranks and have chosen IP&TFAS, eg. Suchita (87 rank) and Shilpi (92 rank) ....and I think they could have easily got IPS, if not IAS in this post mandal era. And to remind you had this rank been obtained during 80s, these girls might have been sitting in Administrative services. So the matter of choice still holds gravity.
M H Khan
Give fresh look to the issue
This is with reference to the write-up "Can India afford militarisation of Police" by N Sharma (WIC Forum: 4-3-08). Sharma seems to have oversimplified the issue by assuming that the induction of PBOR into CPMFs after certain years of service under the army is meant only for saving some money. His other assumption that these men are unsuitable for such lateral induction as Army trains its men to kill whereas the Police trains to control is equally simplistic.
It is not just the question of saving some money. There is the larger question of addressing the problem of rehabilitation of a large number of PBOR made to retire annually for keeping the Army young. PBORs joining the Army (or the other two Services) at the age of 17-18 have a maximum color service of 20 years and they are retired when they are barely 35-38 years old leaving them out in the cold at a time when their family commitments and other social liabilities are at the peak and resources severely limited as the pension is a pittance irrespective of the huge pension bill for the government in macro terms. It leaves a large mass of highly trained manpower in a state of frustration. Their vulnerability may come in handy for exploitation by anti social and anti national elements of whom there is no dearth in the present scenario. Their plight so conspicuous in the social circles also deters others in the recruitable age group for volunteering their services for the armed forces. It is because of these reasons that the proposal for redeployment of men from the services to not only CPMFs but also in some other non-combatant segments (ASC, EME etc) within the services has been under consideration of the government for quite some time. I was myself associated with the exercise in my own humble way some 10-15 years back when I was on central deputation with the MoD.
To think that the Army trains its men to kill indicates total lack of knowledge about the training scenario in the army. If one takes a holistic view of training in the army, one would notice that it strives to inculcate courage of conviction, high standards of discipline, exemplary levels of commitment to the job and above all highest regard for human values and human lives. Respect for human rights occupies no less space in the training manuals than the techniques for use of weaponry. To say that Army trains its men to Kill is an insult to the highest traditions of humanity and the over all ethos painstakingly nurtured by the army as part of its glorious traditions. Indian Army is not a band of killers. They are soldiers with a high degree of respect for traditional Indian ethical values which includes utmost respect for human life. One has to be barely truthful and not unduly charitable to accept this basic truth.
Induction of highly disciplined and well trained personnel from the army, air force or navy into our CPMFs should be a welcome step in the larger interest of all concerned. If the bosses in the CPMFs so desire they may request the government to associate with the recruitment process at the time of initial induction of the men in the army so that the qualities they consider indispensable for service in the CPMFs are also catered for. They may even suggest changes if any deemed essential by them in the training modules to render the men more suitable for their lateral induction in the CPMFs. But to reject the idea on the plea that army trains its men to kill whereas police trains its constabulary to control is unfair and unjust. I am sure Sharma and others who believe in the views spelt out in his write-up shall like to give a fresh look to the whole issue.
NN Ojha

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Sundaram appointed Vice President of HUL
D Sundaram has been appointed Vice-Chairman of the Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL). Dhaval Buch, Executive Director Supply Chain, would be joining the HUL board as a Director.
Banmali Agrawala & Naushad Forbes,chief & deputy chief CII,Western region
Banmali Agrawala Executive Director - Strategy & Business Development, Tata Power Company Ltd is an established member company of the Tata group of companies. He has been elected as Chairman, Confederation of Indian Industry, Western Region at its meeting held in Mumbai on April 4,2008. Dr Naushad Forbes Director Forbes Marshall India's leading Steam Engineering & Control Instrumentation company and also the Chief Executive Officer of the Steam Engineering Companies within the group. He has been elected as the Deputy Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry, Western Region for 2008 - 09.
Rajiv Lall elected President
MD of IDFC Rajiv B Lall has been elected Presidnt of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce for 2008-2009.
Masani on IFABC Board
Secretary General of the Audit Bureau of Circulations H Masani has been nominated on the Board of the International Federation of Audit Bureau of Circulations.
BHEL Bhopal earns Rs.504 crore profit in FY 07-08
Maintaining its trend of profitability BHEL, Bhopal has achieved a new bench mark in its annual turnover and profit before tax this year,said R.K.Singh Executive Director(ED)BHEL-Bhopal unit.According to Singh the unit has achieved many mile stones in the fields of engineering, technology up-gradation and modernization. BHEL, Bhopal unit has achieved record performance with the effort put forth by BHEL, Bhopal employees and those connected directly with the operation of BHEL, Bhopal. It is for the first time that all the parameters are not only achieved but also surpassed original budgeted target.R.K.Singh said in spite of many ups and downs in the international market, The performance of BHEL, Bhopal Unit for the year 2007-08 is :turnover-Rs. 2808 Crore,profit before tax Rs. 504 Crore, Export Turnover-Rs. 368 Crore,Order Inflow-Rs. 4014 Crore,capital expenditure Rs. 173 Crore & Value Added Rs. 1155 Crore.In today's competitive market BHEL, Bhopal is committed towards customer satisfaction by continuously improving product quality,said Singh.BHEL employees have been closely associated with the development and growth of the country. Bhopal Unit has the credit to initiate many path breaking systems such as MECOM, Employee Management Participation etc. which have been followed by many of the private and public sector undertakings.