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Retirement age to increase w.e.f. from April 1 ?
Chapter is not closed. Grapevine has it that the retirement age of central government employees would be in the first phase increased to 62 years w.e.f. from April 1, 2008. Thereafter in the second phase it may go up to 65 years. Infact, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is pushing this case but but - - -?.One can only wait and watch. Whisper may come true ,may not come true.

Will the age of SC Judges be raised ?
Government is reportedly actively considering to raise the retirement age of Supreme Court Judges from 65 to 68 years.

Changes in cadre allocation policy
Regarding the cadre allocation policy - significant changes have been made for IAS/IPS/IFS aspirants. Now cadres will be allocated on the basis of merit, preference and vacancy. The vacancies to arise will also be displayed at the Personnel Ministry website before commencement of the exam. This will bring in a lot of transparency. The rooster system has been done away with. This will help the attrition rate of IAS officers serving outside their home states (or close by), and also of young entrants who leave after getting allotted cadres not of their choices and availability of wide opportunities in the private sector. A very good decision by TKA Nair indeed!

New Department of Food and Drugs in offing
A new Department of Food and Drug is being created in the
Government of India soon.

Dayakar appointed Ambassador to Sweden

Ratakonda Dayakar has been appointed India's Ambassador to Sweden. 1976 batch IFS officer, Mr. Dayakar will succeed Deepa Wadhwa .
( We said this on February 20 )

Rana is Dy Secretary in MEA
Sanjay Rana on return from Copenhagen has been posted as Deputy Secretary UNP in the Ministry of External Affairs. He is 1996 batch IFS officer.

Laluji's success is because of Sudhir Kumar !
Well done Sudhir Kumar-an insider can only say. Credit for Lalu Yadva's success mainly goes to Sudhir Kumar .He is 1982 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre and presently OSD to the Railway Minister.

Raju Sharma is Secretary UGC
Finally Raju Sharma has joined the University Grants Commision (UGC), as Secretary. He is 1982 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
( We said this on December 5,2007),

CRPF post to be upgraded in Hyderabad
IG level post of CRPF is likely to be upgraded to the ADG level in Hyderabad.

15 IAS officers to retire
Altogether 15 IAS officers in the country are superannuating by this month end. They are Mssrs:-J Harinarayan (AP), V K Kapoor and Wilfred Lakra (Chhattisgarh), Ms Promila Issar and H C Disodia (Haryana), Ms S. Sathi Amma (Kerala), Ramanand Tiwari and A K Lakhina (Maharashtra), D Dutta (Manipur-Tripura), Gopinath Mohanty (Orissa), Babu Lal (Punjab), R C Panda and K A Mathew (TamilNadu), R N Trivedi (UP), and B C Basu (West Bengal),.

Saran refuses to go to US
Shyam Saran is learnt to have refused to go to US as ambassador. What could be the reason ?.

Pal to continue in Islamabad
Satyabrata Pal, India's high commissioner in Islamabad was all set to go Washington to succeed Ronen Sen. Now he is unlikely to move from Islamabad.

S.S.Sandhu is Commissioner Konkan Range

S.S.Sandhu on his return from Central deputation has joined his parent cadre of Maharashtra as Commissioner Konkan Range.Sandhu who is an IAS officer of the 1984 batch was earlier Joint DG,DGFT,Mumbai.

IAS officers promoted & posted in Madhya Pradesh

As many as 14 IAS officers have been promoted & given postings by Madhya Pradesh Government.Besides,three IAS officers were given new postings.Manoj Goyal (1983 batch)who was so far Commissioner Treasury & Accounts has been promoted there itself in the rank of Principal Secretary.IAS officers belonging to the 1993 batch were given Super Time scale & promoted to the rank of Commssioner/Secretary.Pankasj Agrawal DISCOM(Eastern) Jabalpur promoted there itself.K.C.Gupta Additional Chief Electoral Officer(CEO)on promotion has been appointed as Controller Government Press.Ashish Shrivastava Managing Director Food & Civil Supplies Corporation on being promoted will continue to be there only.Mrs.Smita Chandra Ghate MD MP Finance Corporation(MPFC)Indore on promotion has been posted as Commissioner State Archaeology.Mrs.Kalpana Shrivastava on promotion will be Commissioner Women & Child Welfare.Raghuveer Shrivastava on promotion will continue as Managing Director of the SC/ST Finance Corporation.K.S.Gautam on promotion will continue as OSD & Secretary MP Public Service Commission(MPPSC)Indore.Omesh Mundra who was so far Additional Secretary to MP Governor Dr.Balram Jakhar on being promoted has been posted as Commissioner State AIDS Control Authority.Pradeep Khare Controller Government Press on promotion has been appointed as a Member in the Revenue Board,Gwalior.Ravindra Pastore Project Coordinator & ED Employment Creation Board on promotion will continue to be there only.Mrs.Seema Sharma on promotion will continue to be Secretary in the Chief Secretary's office.Likewise Collector Chhindwara Arun Pande & Collector Chhatarpur V.K.Batham have been promoted at their present places only.Sudesh Kumar will now be Secretary Backward Classes & Minorities Welfare.Mrs.Saleena Singh Commissioner AIDS Control will now be SC Welfare.Pramod Agrawal who so far was Commissioner Archaeology Bhopal has been posted as MD AKVN Indore.Agrawal will also hold the charge of MD MPFC,Indore.

Selection grade to 7 IAS officers in MP

Altogether seven IAS officers of the Madhya Pradesh cadre have been given Selecttion Grade.They are:Sacjin Sinha Director Rajiv Gandhi Mission,Ashok Shivhare Additional Commissioner Gwalkior,Manish Kumar Shrivastava Collector Shivpuri,Ram Kinkar Gupta Member NVDA,D.D.Agrawal Secretary MP Board of Secondary Education,R.K.Mathur Collector Bhopal & Subhash Jain Collector Mandla.

IAS reshuffle in J&K

There is IAS reshuffle in J &K. New postings are :- Mssrs S S Sahni Financial Commissioner (Coordination) New Delhi,S S Kapoor Financial Commissioner Home, Mohammad Iqbal Khanday Principal Secretary Planning,Sonali Kumar Principal Secretary Agriculture Production, Dr Ravi K Jerath Principal Secretary Social Welfare,L D Jha Secretary ARI,N K Verma Secretary Culture,Dr Pawan Kotwal Secretary Commerce and Industries, G A Peer Secretary School Education,

IPS changes in J & K
K. Rajindera Kumar, IGP will now be IG Jammu. P L Gupta, IGP Human Rights Commission is transferred and posted as IGP Headquarters. S. K. Mishra has been moved as IG State Human Rights Commission. Ram Lubhaya, Director Sher-i-Kashmir Police Academy, Udhampur has been posted as IGP (Personnel) PHQ while Gopal Reddy, awaiting orders of posting, has been posted as new IGP Vigilance. Dr S.P. Vaid has been appointed IGP Crime and Railways. Naveen Agrawal has been posted as Director Sher-i-Kashmir Police Academy, Udhampur.Dilbagh Singh, IGP Crime and Railways will now be IGP CID. Zahoor Ahmed Chesti, awaiting orders of adjustment, has been posted as IGP Modernization PHQ. On promotion Lalat Indu Mohanty, DIG Jammu Kathua Range has been posted as IGP Home Guards Civil Defence. Hemant Lohia has been made DIG Doda range while Farooq Ahmad Khan, DIG Doda Range has been transferred and posted as DIG Jammu-Kathua Range. Muneer Khan, DIG Armed has been transferred and posted as DIG Anantnag Abdul Gani Mir, SSP Anantnag has been promoted as DIG and posted as DIG Armed Jammu.

FORUM

Boss is always right?

Deewan, you have highlighted such a issue which is prevalent in almost every government departments. Bypassing the channels is definitely bad and a sign of destruction of the foundations of bureaucracy in the country. If some channel is bypassed, it means something is fishy. The bosses who adopt such tacts definitely fulfill certain hidden motives or interests. So proper auditing must be done periodically so that system should not be suffered and country should not be put on loss for such actions. I don't recommend such bosses to be judged as right.

Y. Mishra

Why Can't Centre adopt Kerala pattern ?

Kerala officers move is a welcome development. I wonder when would DoPT wake up to the usefulness of such a move in Central services." Such scheme was pioneered by Haryana Government in 1996. The scheme was also adopted by Rajasthan Government. Can anybody enlighten the readers of this newsletter about the benefits derived by these state Governments . OR is it that history keeps on repeating itself ( or the state Governments are condemned to repeat the history.

Ram Kumar

Aaj Ki Aawaz

Prior to presenting Budget Laloo said that challenges come and challenges go!!!
And Laloo ji Ministers comes and go and this you must already know!!

Seated on your Mantri chair just swivel around and see the names on the wall!!!
Inn sabh ko ex Railway Mantri karte hai call!!!

So this Budget is Laloo's bow!!!!
He knows he's kuch time ka Rail Mantri now!!!

Laloo now wants to become a man of the masses!!!
In his breakfast with journalists he said he did not care for classes!!!

He ate breakfast in dehati style and emerged from his home in a Pringle pullover,
Did this signal that his dehati avtar for the time being was over????

Rajdeep Sardesai still has nightmares of having a meal with Laloo,
At that time Rajdeep wondered 'apne mooh mein chawal Laloo ki tarah kaise daloo'!!!!

Laloo said he was least bothered about the Metro hi-fi lot!!!!
Seems in Laloo's book we city dwellers are a blot!!!

Laloo reached Lok Sabha to find the House in turmoil!!!!
MPs were crying out that Farmers were not getting fair price for their toil!!

When matters cooled down Laloo got into his act!!!
This time seems with a poet he had a pact!!

Because every now and then he broke into prose!!
And for his prose from the House laughter arose!!

People start laughing when Laloo opens his oral cavity!!!
And very often what he has to say shows his sheer depravity!!

Seems this time even in his private Salon his nose gave him pain!!!!
Despite the air freshners the stench from the toilets in the rest of train did not wane!!

So this time Laloo has tackled the toilets in trains on a war footing!!!!
About making toilets in the trains go green Laloo is this Budget is tooting!!

Hope he realizes the limitation of green loos!!!!
When a horde of people use these green loos these loos get the blues!!!

Aam Aadmi will not be able to say bye bye to your near and dear!!!
Platform tickets will become very dear (Rs.30)!!!

And Laloo has budgeted for frills,
But for Aam Aadmi in the Budget there are no thrills!!!

Cleanliness, CC Tv's, Green toilets etc., but no reduction in fares!!!
Seems he forgot for what the Aam Aadmi really cares!!

Laloo boasts that on Indian Railways he's done a 'chakk de'!!!!
And voters in Bihar are shouting ' Laloo ko ek aur dhacka de'!!!

In the end Laloo's Railway Budget was like Laloo,
Made all laugh and was indeed very chaloo!!!

Chaloo because …… Railway Budget is all hype!!!!
About this Budget the next Railway Minister will gripe!!

Laloo's promised the World and he knows he'll be out of this chair next saal!!!
So you can say he's played a chaal!!!

It'll be the next Railway Minister who'll have to find the funds and deliver on the vaadas!
So its east to gauge Laloo's actual iraadas ( objectives)!!!

Sonia was seated next to Laloo and had a tough time not literally rolling with laughter!!!
Though she must have done this in the car on the way home Budget ke after!!

Punjab Congressis took friendly farmers for Sonia's darshan or obeisance karne ke liye pay,
If you ask me it should have been the other way!!!

Photographs of the meeting show all showing their 32 teeth!!!
Back in Punjab the farmers karr rahe hai seethe!!!

There have been suicides by debt ridden Farmers in Punjab ,
And water in villages is so bad that one sip and you'll end up with julaab!!!!

Seems Sonia likes this drama baazi!!!!
Because if she goes to the Farmers she'll have to face their naraazi!!

So her chamchas round up friendly farmers and march them to Sonia's ghar!!!
Where Sonia has no ' facing farmers naraazi' darr!!!!

Speaking of Punjab .... Akali Dal says 'Raj nahi Sewa' (not ruling but serving)!!
Punjabis say....for sewa they don't listen to tarlaa (begging), asees (blessings) but want mewa (materialistic things)!!!!

India will be paying more for Gorshkov ... why???
On this why don't the Commies raise a hue and cry????

Karat ji please let us know on this what you have to say!!!
On a sealed and signed Deal (price) why more India has to pay????

Coming back to Laloo……. he feels he has public's pulse in his haath!!!!!
Actually he has our 'funny bone' or nerve that brain se humaar haath mein jaath!!!

Confucius says…… You cannot joke all the time…..even jokers don't do this!!!
They know when to give their buffoonery a miss!!

Bharat Kumar
Aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

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CORPORATE

NDA watching key appointments in power sector ?
Key appointments being made in public sector, particularly power sector, are under watch of the NDA. Complaints are pouring in about favouritism and corruption in appointment of Directors and Chairmen in the public sector.
Since public sector is a big fund raiser for the political parties, NDA Managers are keeping a watch over what is happening in the public sector and particularly the power sector.
Appointment of SK Chaturvedi as CMD of Powergrid may not be smooth in view of his close proximity to the ex-Cabinet Secretary BK Chaturvedi, according to power sector watchers.

RCIL need EDs
Railtel Corporation has asked for the deputation of IRSSE officers for the post of 4 Executive Directors.

SAIL chief launches new activities at Rourkela plant

The commencement of major project activities of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP)'s Tonnage Oxygen Plant-III was inaugurated by S.K.Roongta Chairman Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL)in Rourkela on February 26, 2008 . Other members of the SAIL board including B.N. Singh Managing Director, Rourkela Steel Plant besides several senior executives and employees of the Steel Plant were present on the occasion. Soon after the ceremony in the Plant, Chairman SAIL and the other Directors proceeded to Indira Gandhi Park where they were joined by Mrs. Asha Roongta and Mrs. Shakuntala Singh, President, Deepika Mahila Sanghati. The dignitaries planted saplings at IG Park.

Raktim Das quits India Today

Raktim Das has reportedly quit as General Manager-Marketing, Business Division from the India Today .

Atul Hegde quits VGC

Atul Hedge Chief Operating Officer (COO)of Vyas Giannetti Creative(VGC) has resigned.

D.Shriram quits Starcom MediaVest

D.Shriram has reportedly quit as Chief Executive Officer(CEO)of Starcom MediaVest.

Nandu quits Saatchi & Saatchi

Nandu Narasimhan Delhi based Creative Director(CD)of Saatchi & Saatchi, has understnably quit.

Ms.Bhavna Soumaya joins Swastik pictures

Swastik pictures has roped in Ms.Bhavna Soumaya has joined.She will be head of new business development and creative consultant with Swastik pictures.

Jasdeep Pannu joins BBC

BBC has roped in Jasdeep Pannu as Director,programming

Ms.Shaaloo Wadhwa joins BBC

BBC has roped in Ms.Shaaloo Wadhwa as Director-marketing

Abhijit Deolekar joins BBC

BBC has roped in Abhijit Deolekar as Creative Director(CD).