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Lt Gen Dutt to be E&C
Lt Gen Gautam Dutt is being appointed new Engineer in Chief in the Indian Army next month.
Who will be new Director of AIIMS ?
Who will be new Director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences ? Picture is not clear. Over two dozen senior doctors including a few from the United States and Canada have applied for the post.
DRDO to hire Scientists !
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)is now going to hire Scientists on contract.
Justice Chouhan appointed CJ, Orissa HC
Justice Balbir Singh Chouhan, a senior Judge of Allahbad High Court (HC), has been appointed as the Chief Justice (CJ) of Orissa HC. He is likely to take oath of office on July 16, 2008.
Justice Gyansudha Mishra to be CJ of Jharkhand HC
Judge of the Rajasthan High Court Justice Gyansudha Mishra will be new Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court.
India Post website is down !
India Post website is down for the past couple of days. It is reliably learnt that the website has been hacked...!Speed Post customers are not in a position to track their consignments through the website...
!Himachal Pradesh State Administrative Tribunal Abolished
The Government of India has cancelled the notification No. GSR 1045(E) dated 26th August, 1986, vide which the Himachal Pradesh State Administrative Tribunal (SAT)was established, with effect from of July 8, 2008.With a view to protect the interest of the employees serving in the Himachal Pradesh SAT, the Himachal Pradesh Government being headed by Chief Minister Prof.Prem Kumar Dhumal has decided to adjust them against the vacancies available in the Himachal Pradesh High Court and other government departments of the state as per its requirement and demand
Several vacancies in WCCB
The following vacancies are to be filled up on deputation basis in the newly constituted Wildlife Crime Control Bureau under the Ministry of Environment and Forest. All the posts are in the HQ of the Bureau at Delhi which is an active operational unit with all India jurisdiction. One post of Joint Director--for IPS --( Rs16400--20000). Two posts of Deputy Director --one for police and one for customs officers ( 12300--18300).
Bhat is Special Secretary to J & K Governor
Zaffar Ahmad Bhat has been appointed as Special Secretary to the J&K Governor.
IPS changes in Jharkhand
Kuldeep Dwivedi has been posted as Rural SP, Ranchi, in place of MD Nehal. Nehal has been moved to the CID.
President is scouting for a media advisor
Grapevine has it that President of India Mrs. Pratibha Devi Singh Patil is scouting for a media Advisor. She is looking for an expert from media world who should have a good command over Hindi, Marathi & English.
IAS changes in Delhi
V P Rao has been appointed new Director Higher Education in Delhi Government. Vivek Pandey who is Director Child and Women Welfare has been given additional charge of DC North-West.
IRAS postings
R K Manocha, SAG, has been transferred to Coach Factory Rai Barelley. R Raghuraman SAG will move to the Southern Railway. Ms Chandra Kanta has been shifted to Northern Railway. Brijendra Kumar on return from deputation has been moved to North-Eastern Railway. Ms Sujata Jairaj has been transferred to the West Central Railway.
Pandit joins Arunachal Pradesh Government
1997 batch UT cadre IAS officer D S Pandit has joined the Arunachal Pradesh Government.
Virdi to join IIPA Course
S P Virdi SAG IRAS is joining the IIPA training course.
Saravanan moves to Srinagar
IDAS officer M S Saravanan has been transferred from Jammu to Srinagar.
ISS postings
Indian Statistical Service (ISS) officer S K Panda has been posted in the Department of Animal Husbandry. Ms Usha Pralhad will continue to be in the DGFT office Mumbai.O P Prabhakaran has been moved from Mumbai to Panji.M G Jayasree has been promoted to JAG.
IAS changes in Meghalaya
Himalaya Shangpliang has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Shillong Municipal Board (SMB). He will continue with IPR and Transport departments also.RM Kurbah has been given the charge of Deputy Secretary of Home (Police), Political and Cabinet Affairs departments.
IPS changes in Meghalaya
Claudia Lyngwa has been transferred as the new SP (City) while SP (Infiltration) Darwin Sangma will take over as the new South Garo Hills SP.S Toi has been appointed as the new Commandant of Fourth Battalion. Ricky Dkhar will be new SP Special Branch (II) while H Kharmalki will take over as the new SP (Infiltration).
IAS reshuffle in Nagaland
Dr. K. Chubatemjen has been posted as Commissioner & Secretary, Soil & Water Conservation. Imkonglemba shall hold additional charge of Sericulture and Shri. Alemtemshi Jamir. FP Solo will now be Commissioner & Secretary, Higher Education. B. Thawang Konyak has been posted as Secretary, Fisheries Department, vice Dr. K. Chubatemjen transferred.
Samar Halarnkar promoted as Managing Editor,Hindustan Times
The Hindustan Times has promoted Samar Halarnkar from Editor-Mumbai of the Edition has been pomoted as Managing Editorof the paper.
CITs transferred
As many as 65 Commissioners of Income Tax(CITs) have been transferred.Those who have been transferred are: Pankaj Gupta CIT(Central) Ahmedabad to CIT -I Rajkot, Gopala Subramonia CIT Kottayam to CIT-IX Kolkata, Bulbul Sen CIT (Central-III) Kolkata to CIT Karnal, B.L.Razdan CIT Moradabad to CIT ( A-I) Bhopal, Deepa Krishan CIT -IV Delhi to CIT Dibrugarh, Sudhir Mohan Rastogi CIT A-XXXVI Kolkata to CIT Burdwan, Atulesh Jindal CIT Kanpur to DIT (Exemption) Ahmedabad, Subbiah Bose CIT Rajkot to CIT-XIII Mumbai,Swatantra Kumar CIT (LTU) Bangalore to CIT - ( C ) Kochi , A.K.Singh DIT (Investigation) Bhopal CIT ( C ) Mumbai, P.K.Vijay Kumar CIT -X Kolkata to CIT XXV Mumbai, Girish Sharma CIT Burdwan to CIT (Audit- I) Mumbai, O.G.R.Ganvir DIT (Exemption) Ahmedabad to CIT -XVI Mumbai,Gautam Kumar CIT(A-II) Jabalpur to CIT Bangalore , Ashok Kumar Chatterjee CIT (A) -I Bhubaneshwar to CIT Hazaribag, D.S. Saxena CIT Meerut to CIT (A) IX Delhi, Pradeep R Sethi CIT ( C )-I Mumbai to CIT -II Nagpur, Ratan Kishor Bajaj DIT (System)-V Delhi to CIT (A) Kota, Harprasad Kumar CIT -II Jaipur to CIT -X Delhi, Vallabhdas Devajibhai Parmar CIT Belgaum to CIT -V Pune, C.R.Sekhar Reddy CIT (A) -II Rajkot to CIT -IV Nagpur, Simar Singh Negi CIT (Central) Kochi to CIT (A) Panaji, Parsha Ram Dhayal CIT Panaji to DIT(Investigation) Bangalore, Neeraj Vijay Bansal CIT -IV Bangalore to CIT(RTI)- Chandigarh, Sushil Singh Rathore CIT(ITAT)-II Delhi to CIT (CIB) Lucknow, Ajit K.Panda CIT(A) VIII Ahmedabad to CIT Bilaspur ,K.K.Mishra CIT (TDS) to CIT Hubli,Suneet Mohan Misra CIT-V Pune to CIT Panaji, Anup Agrawal CIT (A)-III Lucknow to CIT (A) -VI Delhi, Chandra Mohan Jha CIT Muzzafarpur to CIT (A) -VIII Delhi, Bhagwan Das Gupta CIT -X Delhi to CIT(ITAT)-Lucknow, Rajpal Singh CIT(A) XXI Ahmedabad to CIT (ITAT) Rajkot, Ajay Singh CIT Bhagalpur to CIT Dhanbad , Nishi Nair CIT(Audit) -II Mumbai to CIT(CIB) Kochi, Abha Anand Kishore DIT(Audit) Delhi to CIT(A) -I Patna, Madhu Mahajan DIT (L & R) Delhi to CIT-III Jaipur, Anand Kishore CIT XIX Kolkata to CIT (ITAT) Patna, Ashutosh Chandra DIT(Exemption) Bangalore to CIT -Coimbatore, Kai Sang CIT(A) -XII Delhi to CIT(ITAT) Bilaspur, Kishan Lal Maheshwari CIT Thrissur to CIT(TDS) Ahmedabad, Arun Bhatnagar CIT (RTI) Bangalore to ADG-I NADT Nagpur, Rakesh Mohan Garg CIT(A) III Delhi to CIT(TDS) Jaipur, Shyama Prasad Choudhary CIT(A) XXIII Mumbai to CIT-II Jabalpur,Akhoury Abhay Shanker CIT(TDS) Ahmedabad to CIT(ITAT) Jodhpur, Vidhu Shekhar Singh CIT Audit-I Mumbai to CIT Bareily, S.Sankaralingam CIT(A) -II Madurai to CIT -XXVI Mumbai, Krishnakumar T.P. CIT(A) Calicut to CIT XX Kolkata, D.B.Manival Raju CIT(A) -III Bangalore to CIT Behrampur, Lov Chandra Joshi CIT (A) Guwahati to CIT (A) XIX Mumbai, Yogendra K.Batra CIT Alwar to CIT(A) VIII Ahmedabad , Raju Jain CIT(OSD) Delhi to CIT(A) Meerut, Usha S.Nair on return from study leave to CIT(A) XXIII Mumbai, Iyadurai Vijay Kumar CIT(Audit)-I Chennai to CIT(A)-II Rajkot, Pradosh Chandra Mohanty CIT Cuttack to CIT(A)-I Bhubaneshwar, Venigalla Nagaprasad CIT- VI Hyderabad to CIT(ITAT) Vizag, Jagannath Bidyadhar Mohapatra CIT(A) XV Delhi to CIT(A) ( C ) Ludhiana, D.V.Reddy on return from deputation to CIT(A) -II Madurai , Raghubir Sharan Upadhyay CIT(RTI) Kolkata to CIT( TP) Mumbai, Kana Ram Meghwal CIT(ITAT) Jodhpur to CIT(CO) Ahmedabad, Ronmoy Das on return from IIM to DIT(Inv) Kolkata, Kaushalendra K.Singh CIT(ITAT)Bilaspur to CIT(A)-I Indore, Ashish Verma on return from deputation to CIT Moradabad, Sumit Sinha CIT(A) -I Bangalore to CIT(CO) Kochi & Mohanish Verma CIT(A) XIX Mumbai to CIT(A) XV Delhi.Ms.Poonam Dutt from deputation to CIT(OSD)Mumbai & Sanjay Kumar posted as CIT(OSD) Kolkata.Separate transfer orders of Ms.L.Sailo,Sudhi Kumar (1981) ,Shishir Sinha T.K.Shah, A.K.Singh,Rajesh Ojha, Pushkar Bhatnagar, Bishwanath Jha,Kavita Jha & S.K.Sahay.
Jha shifted from INDEXT (UPDATED)
Gujarat Government has shifted MD of the Industrial Extension Bureau Bhagyesh Vasudev Jha. He is 1991 batch IAS officer.
SpiceJet's Ex. Chairman & existing CEO resigned (UPDATED)
CEO of SpiceJet, Siddhant Sharma has reportedly resigned from his post. Siddhant Sharma was an old associate of SpiceJet and has worked in different key positions.
There are whispers that airline may even merge with any other giant competitor.
Gurjar to be Lt Governor of Pondicherry(UPDATED)
Former Rajasthan Minister Govind Singh Gurjar is being appointed Lt Governor of Pondicherry.

Dear Madam Gandhi,
The Congress Party after timely oxygenation by the Samajwadi Party has got a new lease of life. I do not like to go into the politics of this shifting equation. It is, nevertheless, heartening to note that Mrs Sonia Gandhi, assisted by Rahul Gandhi, is contemplating taking some steps within C- Party. This was inevitable. It is common knowledge that the overt support (with possible covert conditions) extended by the S- Party has sent a chill down the spines of some self-styled leaders of C- Party who in their heydays were seen more loyal than the" Queen" in uttering several vigorous expletives against leaders of S- Party. Their names are anybody's guess !
Watching people like Rajiv Shukla, MP, the other day, in the TV news channels, running like children to get maximum media coverage by simply standing alongside Mrs Gandhi or Rahul Gandhi was downright disgusting. This shameless behaviour only brings disgrace to the C- Party. Why can't Mrs Gandhi suitably snub or admonish these small time local leaders to stop hogging the undeserved limelight .I am sure, she does not like sycophancy. It is an open secret that they have already become eyesores to several senior leaders of C-Party. Rajiv Shukla will be well advised not to play cricket in politics nor politics in cricket! One wonders whether he has ever played cricket at all in his life!
So the lesson to be learnt is not to rely on 'chamchaas' and let Mrs Gandhi be guided by the dictates of her conscience and the advice of senior leaders. Also, during this crucial period before the election, the civil servants should not be taken at face value. Some could even outsmart the so-called politicians.! Regards
A K Saxena
( A former civil servant)
Pathetic condition of CGHS
CGHS run Medical facility--Dr. Sanjay Singh should know of the pathetic condition of CGHS run hospitals before recommending its expansion
1.The condition of CGHS hospitals is pitiable. All the senior officers of the Government get themselves checked in private hospitals at their own expense.
2. I often envy my relatives in Banks etc. who don't have to suffer CGHS clinics.
3.I have often come across employees working under me suffering from various diseases like cancer, heart attacks, kidney problems. Despite poor salary they would borrow money and get themselves treated by good doctors and in good hospitals ,rather then get treated in CGHS hospitals conditions of which are appalling.
4.Due to complicated rules and procedures , poor employees could not get reimbursement also.
5.Feeling insecure about medical emergency is also one of the reasons for corruption, thanks to CGHS.
There is a very strong case for winding up Government run hospitals in phases.
Anand Agrawal

CSS is a unique service
1983 batch Section officers are ad-hoc Under Secretaries. They are ad-hoc for 9 years! One ad-hoc promotion in 25 years. 1995 batch(12 year juniors) are also Under Secretaries) 1988 batch Section Officer(DR) are Deputy Secretaries. Two promotions in 18 years. Select list of Under Secretaries since 2003 missing. Please recommend Nobel Price for those responsible for Cadre Management.

Rajeeva

It is a fact that Whisper has no time or space for CSSS. This is a voluntary service of elite class. Yet, it is a fact that CSSS Officers cater all the services in Central Secretariat run by IAS and other services Officers whether it is Home Affairs, Security Services, Defence, Posts, IT, Health, Agriculture, Atomic Energy, External Affairs or so on. Government only thinks for the elite service Officers. I want to add that the Planners and Policy makers must not forget that every tool in the machinery is important for the smooth running. Even the small nuts and bolts if get loose or neglected can cause the machine to halt. So is the role of CSSS and other staff in Government.
There is no promotional prospect for Stenographer at Grade D level. Only Departmental exam is a channel for Gr. C level Stenographer, but the result is delayed beyond limit. Private Secretaries are still waiting their promotion after 18 years. Majority of PPS are adhoc and are not yet regularised after 3 to 9 years. And what to say about Sr.PPS. Top level Officers of CSSS even adhoc are not properly posted with senior levels but put to humiliation.
There is nobody who think about the CSSS plight. Even the top bosses of Secretary /Additional Secretary level officers also don't appreciate. It is my strong appeal that the CSSS cadre should be restructured and all aspects relating to their service and service conditions be considered and the service officers should be provided full respect and dignity.

The Division dealing with CSSS in DOPT and different Ministries/Departments may include some of the senior officers from CSSS to make reforms in the service.

V K Sharma

Good Article by Mritunjay Sarangi

While I commend the sentiments expressed by Sarangi about his lost subordinate, I also commend those who have recognized the same and appreciated in this column. Hope remaining will also follow and keep the similar humanitarian view towards their juniors. Very motivating example Sarangi ji.

Sat B