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Prof Agrawal to be UPSC Chairman
New Chairman of the UPSC will not be IAS or IPS officer. This time a professor D P Agrawal is going to take over as Chairman of the UPSC on August 17.Incidently he will have longest six year tenure.
Sixth Pay Commission meeting today
Top officials concerning to the Sixth Pay Commission are reportedly meeting the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday. A final decision is expected to take place in the meeting.
Who will join Manmohan Singh Government ?
Who is going to be sworn in as Minister in the Manmohan Singh Cabinet in the first week of August ?.Names of Mssrs Mulayam Singh Yadav, Omar Abdullah, Shiboo Soren and Kanimozhi are in circulation.
Large scale changes in Cabinet likely
A large scale changes in the Indian cabinet being headed by Prime Minister Dr.Man Mohan Singh are on the cards. As the grapevine has it, the Samajwadi Party(SP) being headed by Mulayam Singh Yadav is going to stake its claims for Ministries of Defence & Petroleum. A.K.Antony Defence Minister is expected to be Home Minister in place on Shivraj Patil. Efforts are afoot to find a suitable place to rehabilitate Home Minister Shivraj Patil & Petroleum Minister Murli Deora. Minister for External Pranab Mukherjee may exchange position with Commerce & Industry Minister Kamal Nath. DMK patriarch Muthavel Karunanidhi's poet-daughter Ms.Kanimozhi may also get a berth in the Dr.Man Mohan Singh's cabinet. She is likely to succeed A. Raja Minister Ministry of Communications & Information Technology.
Dr.Man Mohan Singh to have his way
As the grapevine has it, Indian Prime Minister Dr. Man Mohan Singh who has proved that "Singh is King" after winning the "Trust vote" is going to have his way as far as cabinet reshuffle is concerned.
Jothiramalingam may be PS Home in Karnataka
K Jothiramalingam is likely to be posted as Principal Secretary (PS)Home to the Karnataka Government. At present he is PS Urban Development. Ramalingam is an IAS officer of the Karnataka cadre who belongs to the 1978 batch.
Atul Chaturvedi is new Secretary Fertilisers
Atul Chaturvedi has taken over as new Secretary Fertilisers in the Government of India on Monday. He is 1974 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
Dr Sarma is Member of TDSAT
Outgoing Secretary Fertilisers in the Government of India Dr J S Sarma has taken over as new Member of the prestigious TDSAT. He is retired 1971 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.
( We said this on January 30 )
Will Srinivasan get new job ?
Will Petroleum Secretary M S Srinivasan get post-retirement job on August 1?.It is believed that he is unlikely to get any post-retirement job in the Government of India.
Vinod Rai heads International IT Group
CAG of India Vinod Rai has been appointed Chairman of the IT Group of INFOSAI ,the supreme International Audit Association. This is an honour for the country.
Why did RBI Governor visit Delhi ?
What is the meaning of RBI Governor Y V Reddy's two day stay in Delhi last week. In fact, his stay has fuelled speculations about his getting one year extension in tenure.
Mulayam and Amar Singh unlikely to dictate terms !
Now Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has emerged very powerful in the Government. It is now believed that Mulayam Singh and Amar Singh will not be able to dictate terms .Watch the development in the North and South Block in the months to come.
Thakur to join CBI
Amitav Thakur is joining the CBI as SP in a couple of weeks. He is 1998 batch IPS officer of Orissa cadre. He is likely to be posted as SP CBI in Bhubneshwar.
( We said this on June 17
)Cabinet approves revised offer conditions for BSNL/MTNL
The Cabinet has given its approval to various proposals regarding absorption of Group ¡A¢ officers of Indian Telecom Service (ITS), Indian P & T Accounts and Finance Service (IP&TS&FS) and other Services in Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL). The proposals relate to extension of period of deemed deputation, pay scales, optional CDA and IDA pay scale, special allowance and position allowance, compensatory payments , HRA, CCA and other perquisites, accommodation, pro rata pension and incidental matters. With the proposed revised offer conditions, it is expected that majority of officers will seek absorption in BSNL/MTNL. In that event, the process of allocating requisite personnel to MTNL and BSNL and their corporatisation will be complete. This will ensure smooth and efficient running of services by BSNL/MTNL.
Wasan gets extension in tenure in CBI
Joint Director in the CBI NR Wasan has been granted extension for a further period of one year i.e. from 1.7.2008 to 30.6.2009. He is 1980 batch IPS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.
1993 batch IAS in MP to get super-time scale
1993 batch IAS officers in Madhya Pradesh are expected to get super-time scale this week.
IAS reshuffle in Tamil Nadu
There is IAS reshuffle in Tamil Nadu. R Balakrishnan will be new Chairman of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board . V V Varaprasada Rao has been posted as Chairman and Managing Director, Tamil Nadu Small Industries Corporation. A. Karthik, has been made Additional Director of Rural Development. P. Shanmugam will now be Commissioner of Backward Classes. J Uma Maheswari is posted as Sub-Collector, Tiruvallur. J Chandrakumar has been made Sub-Collector, Pollachi.
Capt A K Sharma is officiating Director Commercial Air India
Capt A K Sharma has been assigned the work of Director (Commercial) Air India. He is presently ED .
Deewan quits AajTak
J P Deewan has quit AajTak to join Voice of India as Input Head.
DNS Suman is PCCF,UP
DNS Suman has joined as PCCF to the Uttar Pradesh Government. He is 1977 batch Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre.
Ms.Naini Jayaseelan is acting CS,Pondicherry (UPDATED)
Ms.Naini Jayaseelan is looking after the charge of Chief Secretary Pondicherry .She is 1980 batch IAS officer of the AGMUT cadre.She has succeeded Rakesh Behari who was asked to proceed on leave.
Why delay in appointments of Chief Secretaries?(UPDATED)
Why there has been a delay in appointment of Chief Secretaries in Goa(state),Pondicherry(Union Territory) & Andaman & Nicobar (Union Territory)? This question is doing rounds in corridors of power. It seems that the Home Ministry is seized of more important matters.
Why BJP failed during "Trust Vote"? (UPDATED)
Why the Bhartiya Janata Party(BJP) being headed by Rajnath Singh failed during the "Trust vote" that Indian Prime Minister Dr.Man Mohan Singh won on July 22,2008? Well,because the BJP does not have any leader of the calibre of late Pramod Mahajan.
Niraj Srivastava appointed Ambassador Rwanda (UPDATED)
Niraj Srivastava High Commissioner of India to the Uganda, has been concurrently accredited as the Ambassador of India to the Republic of Rwanda with residence in Kampala (Uganda).
Ganapathi is new High Commissioner to Mauritius (UPDATED)
Madhusudan Ganapathi, currently Ambassador of India to Kuwait, has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to Mauritius.

Raise in retirement age is welcome
Extension of retirement is welcome. It's sad how one fine day just because you are 60 years of age you are made to sit at home to rust both mentally and physically. The retirement should come over a period of time, maybe over one year, wherein work responsibility is gradually reduced so one gets mentally prepared for the eventual. Also, if there is an extension since when will it be effective? It should be effective with post facto effect for the period for which the pay commission will be effective. It will be unfair to the persons who retired during the intermediate period if this is not extended to them.
Monika

Retirement age should be 100 years
Retirement age should be raised to 100 years or the death of the government servant which ever is later. Then only the efficiency of government will increase to infinity.
R Singh

Retirement age
C.K.Chellamani wrote " the Government can raise the age with a rider i.e. after attaining the age of 58 a government servant will be subjected to face a Medical Board every year and only after clearing the fitness test he or she will be allowed to continue in Service."
Who will give negative medical report to such senior officers?
Ram Kumar

About retirement age
I completely agree with what Kulkarni has to say about our senior citizens cum senior government officials who are due to retire. Now that the time has come for their retirement, they want the retirement age to be increased. What about the people who retired at the age of 58. I am sure these people would have been the happiest at that time. Let a message go to people like Chellamani, Time And Work Waits For Nobody. When Indira Gandhi died people thought that the nation would come to a standstill. Jab Bharat Sarkar Kisi Ke Jaane Se Nahi Rukti To Chellamani Ji Aap Jaise Experienced Logon Ke Jaane Se Nahi Rukegi.
Vandana

Think of Unemployed
Chellamani, I am sure you are amongst those who are fast approaching the retirement age. You are worried about the sons and daughters of your beloved friends but not worried about lakhs and lakhs of sons and daughters who are becoming unemployed because of some sick minded people like you. Health checkups can only be done to check the physical condition of the person, what about the mental sickness? Actually people like you are worried as to how you would pass your time after retirement. May be some of you are in such positions, which according to you are responsible posts, that you could harm your subordinates. Those poor subordinates must be praying for your early retirement. A person who gets into the habit of harming the interest of others, naturally will feel crippled once he superannuates. People like you remain healthy and responsible till they die. So go ask the Government that retirement age should be increased to infinity. Afterall you have become a "Sarkari Jamhai". And let me tell you that a person who is 18+ is much more healthier and capable than a person who is 60+. And if you have excess experience, you can share it with your grandchildren sitting at home.
Simran

Field Marshals
Sinecure for retired IAS/IPS officers -- Bravo n well done. These 'legions' will keep alive the cadres of these Field Marshals ( who never actually 'retire').They will keep blocking government accommodation and growth avenues of others , in perpetuity!!
K D Joyal

Retirement Age:
Chellamani - just because some of your friends daughter and sons are yet to be married; it does not mean that the retirement age should be raised. Think about the parents who are anxiously waiting for their son/daughter to get employment. There is not point if a person gets employment after the age of 30. Then when will he marry and settle in life. So, therefore this stupid proposal should be dumped and we should encourage the students who are coming out of the Universities these days with more qualifications. At the most, extension of service can be given to persons after retirement and that too at the level of JS or more as it would be worthy. An increase in retirement age will automatically apply to everybody and the very concept of 'government office' will become a dharamshala. Or If there is a proposal to increase the retirement age; then they should be retained on a contract basis; at the same time they should vacate government accommodation; their presence should not affect promotion. Will they give an undertaking to this effect. They will not give; because they cannot earn freely with any tension. So far heaven's sake this proposal should not come up again and again and stop where it is.
Gambir Singh

Why delay in Pay Commission report ?
By any delay in implementation of pay commission, government employees are deprived of several allowances like HRA, DA which are generally given from prospective effect only. In case of further delay, the government should announce that HRA etc. will be given atleast from now on regardless of actual date of implementation.
Rajiv Agrawal

IDES affair
sI gone through the article on IDES sent by someone . I am a retired IAS officer who has worked with this department named IDES. I totally agree with the apathy. There is a definite nexus of land encroachers and judiciary as I also know many judgments where defence land compensation was arbitrarily hiked by judiciary which lead to severe loss to state exchequer despite of all the sincere efforts made by IDES officers . One thing I found while interactions with IDES that they get no support from either government or army or even media. They are working in the worst condition as sometimes .
R K Rastogi

Meraa Desh Mahaan
Last couple of weeks political events by virtue of their sheer speed overtook the entire country nay the whole world! Scenarios were changing by hours! The political drama had the ingredients of a blockbuster : collapse of moral values, allegation of M-deal, the quid pro quo, the demands for ministerial berths, sting operation, the number game, personal attacks, stoning the houses of abstainers and others for switching their loyalties, voting by jail birds, RTI applications for revealing the mysterious CD, celebration in one camp, introspection in another! It is really a paradigm shift in moral values from the Nehruvian era! Can we still cry from the rooftop: Meraa Desh Mahaan !
A K Saxena

Fresh IT Transfers
It is heartening to note that more and more officers are being accommodated in phases by the CBDT by transferring them as per their requests. However ,the CBDT in its exercise has quietly ignored the seniority consideration while posting the officers. There are so many places where the junior officers have been put in Senior administrative charges ,and the claim of seniors ,who were in ITAT or in other such charges has been ignored .There are so many officers whose genuine requests are still pending but their cases have not been considered for transfer because they are not able to pursue their requests on merits like the other favoured few. There are officers who have falsely stated that their son is in clXII or in final year and have been able to get stay. Then there are cases where some officers who were transferred in one order get a change in the subsequent order. One can also note with interest that an officer has been posted to Surat wef Nov2008,when he has only served in Mumbai, Delhi and Gujarat and never in a C station. Where is the rule. We should be sorry for this state of affairs.
Ranjan Sahay

Why large space of whispers to IRS ?
The single topic of IRS transfers has occupied disproportionately large space in "Whispers". The amount of venting in the Forum could be an indicator of the vested interests involved!
S Sharma

CCIT transfers
Some one in CBDT should look into gross injustice in postings of CCIT cadre where jungle raj prevails as there is no policy at all.PB
IRS and CBDT
It is strange that top political bosses in the ministry of Finance address themselves to transfer matters which ought to be in the domain of the Income Tax department only. Indian Revenue Service could have been made the pride of this nation with the officers who are most brilliant and efficient. In some of the years the toppers of the Civil Services examinations opted for IRS instead of IAS/IFS. It is sad why -why IRS officers are perceived as corrupt lot when corruption is all pervading-more so in IAS/IPS and in society itself. Do our political bosses have something to hide that they are making IRS officers scapegoats. If they had motivated the officers and made them play a positive role the IRS would have taken the country to great heights and would have been an example for the whole world. It is an appeal to the political bosses to realise their utter failure and look at the IRS with fresh perspective.
Jurie

Order is OK but ---
The order is by and large okay. However, it cannot be understood that how come an officer who was earlier posted as CIT (Appeals) XV in Delhi has now been given yet another transfer and posted to another important charge ( after the hue and cry on this web site) ignoring the rule of seniority. Some people are perhaps more equal than the others.
Secondly, when cancer patients have been accommodated, how come Pushkar Bhatnagar who has the highest degree among all has still not been given the relief?
Swamy

Planning Commission post
The post of Director (IAMR) should be filled up on the basis of only ACRs and proven research work without any interview in Planning Commission.
Nikhil

All is not well in empanelment
I agree with Mahadev that all is not well with the empanellment process.
Aarti KhoslaOne party that claims itself to have got India its independence (that British ran away after they couldn't continue their own divide and rule policy) has again mortgaged Indian independence to the USA.
First we should have asked the USA to stop supporting Pakistan and then talk about the nuclear deal.
Sudhakar