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Will Ms Nair be Secretary Agriculture ?
If PMO has any say then Ms Santha Sheela Nair is going to be new Secretary Agriculture in the Government of India. She is 1973 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.
Will there be non-IAS Secretary Agriculture
If Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has any say then this time a non-IAS officer is going to be Secretary Agriculture . One can only wait and watch till September 1.
Ranjit Sinha to be DG RPF !
In all probability Ranjit Sinha will take over as new DG of the RPF early next month. He is 1974 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.
Indu Kumar pande is new CS of Uttarakhand
Indu Kumar Pande has been appointed new Chief Secretary of Uttarakhand. He is 1975 batch IAS officer.
Das is PSC Chairman in Uttarakhand
Outgoing Chief Secretary of Uttarakhand S K Das has been appointed Chairman of the State Public Service Commission. He is 1973 batch IAS officer.
Air India shutting down flights on certain sectors
As the grapevine has it, the Air India of which Chairman cum Managing Director(CMD) is Raghu Menon is contemplating to shut down certain flights on foreign sectors. Interestingly, it is being done on those sectors where either private have launched or are going to launch their flights.
JS Civil Aviation to be in-charge DGCA ?
One Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Civil Aviation is likely to be appointed in-charge of DGCA. Extended tenure of present DGCA Kanu Gohain is coming to an end on August 31.
Brij Mohan is Dy Secretary Consumer Affairs
Brij Mohan is joining the Department of Consumer Affairs as Deputy Secretary. He is 1995 batch IA&AS officer.
IAS officer going abroad
Bihar cadre 1992 batch IAS officer Ravi Manubhai Parmar is going abroad on a study leave.
Thakur posted in Mumbai
Newly appointed SP CBI Amitabh Thakur has been posted in Mumbai. He is 1998 batch IPS officer of Orissa cadre.
Two posts vacant in CBDT
Two posts of Deputy Secretary/Director are vacant in the Central Board of Direct Taxes(CITs).Deadline for aspirants to these posts would end on August 14, 2008.
EDs appointments to banks delayed
The appointment of Executive Directors (EDs) in different public sector banks has been delayed. The delay is being attributed to a querry that the PMO had raised regarding track records of all contenders for the post of Executive Directors (EDs) in different commercial banks in public sector. As the grapevine has it the PMO had asked whether ED aspirants were warned in the past.
Gulzari Lal gets Proforma promotion
Gulzari Lal ,Financial Advisor, Delhi Tourism &amp; Transportation Development Corporation, N. Delhi has been given Proforma Promotion to the SAF. He is 1992 batch IA&AS officer.
Soumya Ray is CGM Telecom WB Circle
Soumya Ray has been appointed Chief General Manager Telecom West Bengal Circle.
MTNL CGM Mumbai shifted
Chief General Manager MTNL ,Mumbai, T K Sil has been shifted as PG MTD Kalyan Maharashtra Circle.
Paliwal is new CGM Telecom Uttarakhand
Senior ITS P K Paliwal is joining as Chief General Manager Telecom Uttarakhand.
IAS postings in Haryana
J.P. Kaushik has been posted as MD, Federation of Cooperative Sugar Mills. Ashok Kumar Yadav has been given additional charge of administrator, HUDA, Panchkula, Neelam Pradeep Kasni has been posted as director and joint secretary,.Social Justice and Empowerment and Welfare of SCs and BCs. Mehtab Singh Sehrawat will now be chief administrator, Housing Board, relieving T.C. Gupta. Amit Kumar Agrawal, ADC-cum-CEO, DRDA, Panipat, has been posted as administrator, HUDA, Faridabad.
IPS changes in Haryana
V. B. Singh has been posted as Additional Director General of Police, Crime. Sharad Kumar will now be Director, Vigilance and Security, Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam, Panchkula.Hanif Qureshi, awaiting posting orders, has been given the charge of Commandant, Third Battalion, IRB at Bhondsi.
ITS SAG promotions (UPDATED)
There is ITS SAG promotions. New postings at the CGM level are :- Mssrs P K Gupta Ahemdabad to Chandigarh,A K Dube Gaziabad to CGM ETR,A K Garg Senior DDG BSNL New Delhi,Vinod Kumar GM MTNL to GM MTNL CGMNE 1,Somnath Maity GM to CGM ETP, T K Sen GM to CGM IT Project Pune,P Raghavan Bangalore to CDJ Bangalore,S C Joshi CGM Orissa Circle,E S Chandrasekharan Chennai to PGM CHTD,Anil Purwar New Delhi to PGM TD Lucknow, Murlidhar Bhatia GM MTNL to PGM (O) Maharashtra Circle,A K Joshi Jaipur to PGM (Mobile) Jaipur,P K Sarkar Kolkata to PGM TD Patna,Rajiv Agrawal GM MTNL to CGM NE II,Roop Krishna Pandit CGM TLTTC,Gaziabad,A Subramanian Bangalore to CGM QA Circle and N N Banerjee Kolkata to PGM Assam.

Stopping UN deputations, no way to stop outflow of officers
Stopping UN deputations under 6.2.2 for JS and above is hardly the way to stop outflow of officers at this level. Stopping it makes good sense for the private sector. At best GOI could have imposed a 5-year limit instead of 7 presently for deciding whether to quit GOI or not while at the UN/World Bank. Secondly, UN jobs are by open advertisement and DoPT is seldom requested for officers. Therefore if these deputations are stopped altogether, it will work against India's representation in a world body and her international professional standing. Discrimination by DoPT for UN jobs is not entirely true. It is indeed an officer's own credentials, perseverance and effort that gets an UN job, not the DoPT. Therefore, the best thing to do may be to delegate the power to grant such approvals to all GOI departments, if not already done, including for deputationist officers) and to the states for all-India service officers. DoPT then need not play a role in such appointments. However, DoPT's role should be preserved for officers migrating to the private sector.
S Bose

Rule 6.2.2: Let us follow the practice across the world
I am completely disinclined to agree with Anand that this is a very good Rule. It is a perfect example of IAS officers as always having their cake and eating it too (while the IRS/ customs officers or others have to resign from service to take up such offers). While it allows the IAS to enjoy the salary and perks of the private sector/ international bodies for upto 5-7 years, even up to 10 years at times, their seniority is protected and they are eligible for full pension for the period they have not even worked in the government (just by paying a measly amount per month as "pension contribution"). Should a government which is under severe fiscal deficit be increasing its future commitments on account of pensions for such people who have been away for long periods? The world over, people move from the government to private service and vice versa but have to resign from either service before joining, and if they want to re-enter, they have to once again go through the selection process for the appropriate position. Why should things be different for "Indian babus"? If they want to enjoy the rewards of the private sector, they should also be prepared for the risks like a "sacking" on account of poor performance or a business downturn. In such a situation they want the safety net of 6.2.2 where they can come back to the comfort of the bureaucracy. Besides, it is seen that in most cases the officers who do get selected for such jobs have had official dealings with organisations while in the ministries at the central or state level. And once they are back, what prevents them from extending return favours to these organizations from an even more senior position within the government?
Ravi
CGHS affairs
Rajesh R Khanna wrote "CGHS and Government hospitals are short staffed over worked and yet CGHS wants only to harass and delay the pensioners and increase the cost to the tax payer"

No. They are not overworked but simply do not want to work. I am reminded of a recent incident which I saw in Sadiq Nagar CGHS dispensary in New Delhi. A govt. officer, whose child appears to have met a serious mishap was brought in around 9:30 a.m. The officer and his wife were carrying the child and asked Mrs. Bhatnagar, CMO as to where is the emergency treatment available. Rather than replying as a good human, she responded " Emergency opens at 2:30 p.m."

This is the type of medical practitioners which are there.
Ram Narain

Height of discrimination.
If the news of new pay scales of the review committee is to be believed, then God help the officers of government below SAG grade. the s1(old scale) goes for 8000, a 213 % rise and the NFSG s24 goes for 28000, a paltry 95% rise. S29(sag) getting more than 200% rise( taking only the basic pay for calculation purposes.) The difference between s1 scale to s24 scale is 20,000 (28000-8000) and between s24(s24) to s28(sag)is 24,000.Isn't this the height of discrimination. How can this happen in a democracy?. I feel the GoMs studying the report before implementing it must look into this artificial gap created between two scales as this will hit hard the officers of all cadres except the IAS who get SAG grade in 14 years time bound. Before implementing the recommendations, government should ensure that no section of the employees get a raw deal.
Ajay

Sixth Pay Commission
It seems that due to inflation government is slow in implementing the 6th CPC but want to quickly revise the pay of Banks and PSUs in the interest of public as more public money is used in it for the welfare of its employees; like good salary; medical facilities. Government wants only the employees of banks and PSUs to enjoy with their family with the help of public money invested in these sectors and not interested in the government employees who do the planning and other administration work indirectly for setting up of these sectors in their respective ministries. In fact it means that government non-gazetted employees should live only hand to mouth existence; risk themselves for election duty etc .but without any recognition.
Rameez Raja

Pay fixation formula
The pay fixation formula should be such that new pay including grade pay should not be less than 300% of the existing basic pay. e.g. For basic of Rs. 2550 (Group D) it should be more than 7650 and for Rs. 26,000 (fixed for Secretary to GoI) it should be fixed for 80,000.For all grades in between it should be correspondingly fixed at three times the present pay like it is being done for the lowest and highest levels otherwise there will be justified resentment especially at Director/DIG level whose increase (suggested) is comparatively much lower.
Dilip Kumar

Amar Singh -new hero of Civil Servants
The civil servants are cheering their new hero, Amar Singh who is pushing for age extension to 65; a better salary; business class air travel; better daily allowance; etc. No wonder he is the apple of the civil servants' eye.
Rita

Take a careful look at the time schedule of lobbying involved in IRS transfers.
The official transfer season starts in March with the CBDT asking for 3 options from all officers, even those who are not due for transfer. Then these are processed and lists are released in July. Does a genius have to tell the readers of this column, what the IRS does during these 4 months. Then officers start representing against these transfers in August because the transfer orders itself have a specific statement saying that officers can represent after joining at new station. By August end the representations come. These are considered during Sept and Oct. So another 3 months of lobbying. Then officers wait till next March i.e. a full 4 months before they give fresh options and the lobbying circus begins again.

Astrology has it that: The IAS-IRS-UP club will be more powerful next year with a new lady PM. The 10th/12th education will work out a tuition scheme for 11th and college which will be run by IRS parents. The spouses will be seeing holding hands in North Block for more visibility. Some single ladies [not included in 10th/ UP-IAS / Spouse club] could think of innovative ways to find a place in these hallowed clauses. The education clause could cover all dependents including nephews or nieces. Finally the best for the last. In view of the fact that 40% of Delhi lives in slums, if an IRS officer moves out of his govt house, it will be treated as a C station. This way shortage of govt housing will also be resolved.

Sounds like something out of Cycrus Brocha show on TV.
Hemant

TAIL-PIECE
How about requesting IOC to introduce following events in Olympic for bettering our prospects of winning medals.
1. Scams 2.Embezzlement of public money.3. Buying/selling of legislators.4. Bribery, 5. Adulteration 6 Roads full of pot holes etc.
Ravi Pipal