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BSNL CMD approaches Mukesh Ambani
Kuldeep Goyal Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has offered to collaborate with the Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) being headed by noted industrial tycoon Mukesh Ambani. Goyal through a letter has offered to provide for "total telecom solutions by BSNL". In order to provide a hassle free service CMD, BSNL has nominated a senior executive of the BSNL. On being contacted by <whisperspersinthecorridors.com> Kuldeep Goyal MD- BSNL said RIL is not the only corporate entity to have been approached by him. Answering a question Kuldeep Goyal said around 100 head honchos had been approached him for augmenting business of the BSNL. Corporate sector is keenly watching that as to how many corporate giants will respond positively to Kuldeep Goyal's request.
Raghav Chandra to be Joint Secretary Commerce
Raghav Chandra is being tipped to be Joint Secretary Commerce in the Government of India. He is 1982 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.Chandra had been Director Commerce from 1992 to 1997.He had also been to the Harvard University for one year on World Bank scholarship.
BSP aims at winning 60 LS seats from undivided UP
As the grapevine has it, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) being headed by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Ms.Mayawati has set a target of winning 60 parliamentary seats from undivided UP during next year's Lok Sabha polls.
Orders of Ajit Lal this week
Orders of the promotion of Ajit Lal to the rank of DG are expected to be issued this week.1974 batch IPS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre Lal is presently additional Director in the IB.
IRS officer to join PMO ?
Rumour has it that one lady IRS officer from north east is joining the PMO soon.
Why postings of GMs in Railways delayed?
Why postings of General Managers (GMs) have been delayed in Railways? This question is doing rounds in corridors of power. As the grapevine has it postings of GMs have been delayed in Railways because file is moving between the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) & the office of the Cabinet Secretariat.
Ajay Shankar and Panjiyar out of the race !
Latest information says that two 1973 batch IAS officer Ajay Shankar and U N Panjiyar now out of the race for the post of Secretary Power in the Government of India.
Congress dithers over Finance Minister
As the grapevine has it, Congress is dithering on zeroing in on the incumbent to be sworn in as next Indian Finance Minister.
Overhauling in Mumbai Income Tax Department
1971 batch IRS officer Mala Ramakrishnan is no longer CCIT 1 Mumbai. She has been moved as DG Investigations. P C Chhotray has been made CCIT 1.R K Singh is now CCIT Central Mumbai.
Who will be new Collector of Jaipur ?
Who will be new Collector of Jaipur? Tie is said to be between Ajitabh Sharma and Kunji Lal Meena.
Mumbai Police Commissioner on his way out ?
Mumbai Police Commissioner Gafoor Khaja Hassan is being changed. One can only wait and watch. He is 1974 batch IPS officer.
BJP, Shiv Sena truck intact in Maharashtra
As the grapevine has it, the political alliance between the Shiv Sena & Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) for elections is intact. Accordingly BJP & Shiv Sena will contest 26 & 22 parliamentary seats respectively during next Lok Sabha polls.
Girish Shankar likely to be RC, Bihar
As the grapevine has it, Girish Shankar is likely to be new Resident Commissioner (RC) Bihar Government in Delhi. He is a Bihar cadre IAS officer who belongs to the 1982 batch.
Sanghmitra Ghosh to be Director Industries West Bengal ?
Grapevine has it that Collector of 24 Paragna Sanghmitra Ghosh is being appointed Director Industries in West Bengal. Ghosh is 1997 batch IAS officer.
Bureaucratic changes likely in West Bengal
Buzz is that Manish Jain Collector of Vardhman is being moved to 24 Paragna. He is 1994 batch IAS officer.1996 batch IAS officer Sarmistha Ghosh may be shifted to Malda.1997 batch IAS officer Onkar Singh Meena is likely to be posted as Collector Vardhman.
Who is T Srinivasan ?
Who is T Srinivasan ,new Principal Secretary to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot ?.It was stated that 1975 batch IAS officer Srinivasan is low profile officer of Rajasthan cadre.
Why did Mathew not join CMO ?
C K Mathew was Principal Secretary to Ashok Gehlot during his first tenure as Chief Minister. Why did 1977 batch IAS officer Mathew not join the CMs Secretariat ?.It was stated that Mathew himself declined the offer to become Principal Secretary to the CM and requested for the Finance.
Diwakar Mishra shifted to Assam Board of Reveue
Diwakar Miushra who was earlier Deputy Commissioner Golaghat (Assam) has been shifted to the Assam Government's Board of Revenue. He is an IAS officer of the 2000 batch who belongs to the Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
Tripurari Sharan is poll observer in Midnapore
Tripurari Sharan Food & Civil Supplies Secretary with the Bihar Government is poll observer in Midnapore where assembly by poll is to take place later this month. He is a Bihar cadre IAS officer of the 1985 batch.
Rajesh Bhushan is poll observer in Purulia
Rajesh Bhushan Information & Public Relations Secretary with the Bihar Government is poll observer in Purulia where assembly by poll is to take place later this month. He is a Bihar cadre IAS officer of the 1987 batch.
Kamleshwar Prasad Singh is poll observer in Malda
Kamleshwar Prasad Singh Cane Commissioner with the Bihar Government is poll observer in Malda where assembly by poll is to take place later this month. He is a Bihar cadre IAS officer of the 1993 batch.
Sandeep Paundrik is poll observer in Tamar
Sandeep Paundrik Roads & Construction department with the West Bengal Government is poll observer in Tamar (Jharkhand) where assembly by poll is to take place later this month. He is a West Bengal cadre IAS officer of the 1993 batch. It may be stated that Shibu Soren Jharkhand Chief Minister is seeking entry into the state assembly from Tamar.
U.N.Behera to return to Orissa
Upendra Nath Behera Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO)Delhi Development Authority(DDA) is all set to return to his parent Orissa cadre in January ,2009 on completion of the central deputation. He is an IAS officer of the 1983 batch.
Madhya Pradesh - Theme state for Surajkund Crafts Mela
Madhya Pradesh has been selected as the theme state for the Surajkund Crafts Mela from February 1 to 15 ,2009; after a gap of 17 years. This is indicative of the excellent work done by Madhya Pradesh Tourism in recent times.
IFS officer joins CMs Secretariat in Rajasthan
Indian Forests Service Officer Dr Deep Narain Pandey has been appointed Special Secretary to the new Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.
Singh gets new posting
IAS officer Balraj Singh who is chief executive, Haryana Khadi and Village Industries Board, has been posted as director, Sports and Youth Affairs.
Move to have new Finance Minister put on hold
As the grapevine has it the move to appoint a Finance Minister after the departure of P.Chidambaram; has been put on the back burner. Chidambaram was made the Indian Home Minister following resignation by Shivraj Patil in the wake of Mumbai carnage on November 26,2008.
Sabita Gopal seeks VRS
Senior IRAS officer Sabita Gopal has taken VRS from service.She was General Manager ICF.

CORPORATE
Puri joins Hindujas
Former Chairman of the BHEL A K Puri has reportedly joined the Hinduja Group.
NSIC signs MoU with Union Bank of India
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by Dr. H.P. Kumar, CMD, National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC) and M.V. Nair Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD), Union Bank of India (UBI) in the presence of Mahabir Prasad Indian Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) in Delhi on December 16,2008. He congratulated the UBI for coming forward for financing micro and small entrepreneurs through its various branches located all over India. The Minister hoped it will be a grand success and wished many such incubation centres be established all over the country. NSIC and UBI are joining hands to serve the MSME sector - specifically micro & small enterprises, through this Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). Under this arrangement, while NSIC would provide technical support to the eligible private institutions to set up Training-cum-Incubation Centres, Union Bank of India would extend credit support to such institutions for procurement of machineries to be required for setting up these centres. In addition to provide credit support for setting up such Incubation Centres, UBI would also help the aspiring entrepreneurs, who would be trained at these centres and desirous of establishing their own business ventures. The arrangement, between NSIC and UBI, would be unique programme for enterprise establishment and would create self-employment opportunities for the unemployed persons. The Secretary Ministry of MSME Dinesh Rai and other Senior Officials of the Ministry were present on the occasion.
Why did Ruia meet Mamta Banerjee ?
Why did Dunlop India Chairman Pawan Ruia meet opposition leader Mamta Banerjee in Kolkata ?.Political circles are discussing this meeting.
PSU officers federation to meet pm
Public Sector Undertakings (PSU) Officers Federation has decided to meet the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to review the pay scale of the officers. A memorandum will be submitted to the PM.
Bharat Kapadia is Director, Lokmat
Bharat Kapadia has joined Lokmat as Director.Earlier,he was Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Editor,with the Jagran-TV18, a joint venture TV18 and Jagran Prakashan Ltd (JPL).
Lloyd Mathias is CMO, Tata Teleservices
Lloyd Mathias former Senior Director Motorola- India has joined Tata Teleservices as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).
Rajiv Bhandari is Station Head-North & East for Radio One
Radio One of which CEO is Vineet Singh Hukmani has roped in Rajiv Bhandari as Station Head-North & East.Radio One is the joint venture between Mid-Day and BBC Worldwide.Radio One was so far operating in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Ahmedabad & now Kolkata as well(since December 15,2008).
Nirveek Singh is Chairman & CEO Grey for Asia Pacific
Nirveek Singh has been appointed as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Grey Group for Asia Pacific region.

Aaj Ki Aawaz
In 'cash for votes' matter Public I'm sure feels culprits have been given a clean chit,
And whistle blowers ko system ne kiya hai hit!!!
Thankful that the International Media did not pick this up or we'd be the laughing stock,
Is this a Democracy of Banana Republic overseas many would mock!!!
Moral of the story is….. if someone comes to buy votes,
Please accept the notes!!!!
Don't try to be a whistle blower …. you'll be inviting wrath of the system!!!
And to set you right the system has its own system!!!
There is no doubt UPA manufactured its majority!!!!
Voting results show UPA was actually in a minority!!!
Narsimha Rao earned this manufacturing blot!!!!
And the same manufacturing blot Mohna and his Boss have got!!!
On Amar's image there was no dent!!!
Long back to rock bottom level it went!!
US's got FBI and a Homeland Security Law (HSL)!!!!
Okay we are getting a FBI kind of Agency but on HSL Sarkaar is on a see-saw!!
Without a law like US's Homeland,
Our FBI will look like an instrument-less band!!
A few modifications here and there in the law will not suffice!!!
And for such a law its vote bank fixation Congress will have to sacrifice!!!
Within Congress they are already worried sick about alienating their vote bank!!!
When Rahul spoke forcefully to take on terror many Congressis hearts sank!!!
Imagine Badals enjoyed a 1000 strong security cover..... what a joke!!!!
On such misuse there should be rokk!!!
What about the Gandhis.......even their domestic help gets security???
How about reversing this glaring peculiarity!!!!
India's Home Minister has refused extraordinary security cover!!!
Security splurging days are over!!!!
PC why do Amar and Mulayam need Z plus cover???
Wherever they go Security karti hai around them hover!!!
26/11 has made this Nation realize that a lot needs to be rectified!!!
For too long propriety and probity our Politicians have defied!!!
Bush says the shoe throwing shows in Iraq Democracy is back!!!
What would he say if in his rear with his shoe this person karta Bush ko attack?
This shoe throwing should have shown Bush what Iraqis think of him!!!
And what saved Bush were his hours in the gym!!!
Confucius says ……His reflexes saved the day for US and him!!!
US President being floored by a shoe would indeed be something very grim!!
Bharat Kumar

Forum
From slight edge to complete
The Administrative Reforms Commission report and recommendations to reduce ages for the Civil Services Examination appear to be innovative. Reduction in the number of chances and age maximum upto 25 yeras for General (read Brahaminincal) candidate is a ploy and treachery. By this the General Candidates will be provided a permanent edge over OBC and SC/ST candidates due to age differences.
What will follow is an Army like ruling that in order to be appointed a Secretary a residual Service of minimum four years should be mandatory. Only General Category candidates will be able to meet that criteria. In the Armed Forces due to such stipulations, Only NDA entry is able to go beyond Maj Gens. Now IAS has adopted this treacherous and unfair practice through backdoor. This is a mechanism which shall provide complete edge to higher caste Bhadralok IAS. What an innovation...ID Laloo and Mayawati listening ( I am neither of the two but do not like such trickery. Reservation candidates can only compete on equal footing otherwise not. So their ages at entry should be maximum 25 years or they should be ready to remain second grade IAS officers).
Shanti Bhushan
Career Planning (IAS)
The ARC might have missed it. Following two suggestions , if acted upon , may prove beneficial to the people and also for the cadre.
ONE. No IAS officer should be appointed as District Magistrate / Deputy Commissioner earlier to 9th year of his/her service in the IAS.
TWO. After completing probation period IAS officer must be appointed as Block Development Officer or Anchal Adhikari or Circle Officer etc. for full three years.
I shall be thankful to you if you kindly forward my suggestions to DOPT, Government of India for serious consideration.
Prasad Keshav
On CCL-
Look at India's ranking on the gender gap report. India is in the bottom twenty countries-113 out of 130 countries, (it does not even deserve the raising of an eyebrow, leave aside analysis and debate! so obsessed we are with the India that is shining,) more than ninety percent of women work in the unorganised sector. They remain the major contributors towards the care of elders and children.
Civil Servants are educated, sensitive to the social realities and considered more awakened. It is difficult to appreciate the reservation of male employees on this issue. The Govt. is a model employer. Parenting must be taken more seriously if we are to address problems like growing violence and lawlessness.
Why is Madam Renuka so quiet this time? Provisions like the CCL will only further the mandate of the Govt. towards gender justice and equality.
Virika
What is the remedy now?
You get the ACR recording and represent it. Who will sit on judgement on the representation. Should it be in the context of self appraisal, reporting, reviewing. What is the legal position now?
Ashvini Kishore
Woes of forces
The IPS will continue to lay down their lives, and the IAS will continue to have high fives.
No one will bother, no one will listen,
the woes of the forces will not lessen!
Vijay Kumar
Time for civil services to take lead
It is high time that civil services decide to take lead and themselves offer open and transparent performance appraisal system without waiting for stronger reprimands from judiciary, media and perhaps politicians also ( of course only selectively)and 'politically savvy' subordinates.
A Manglam
Keeping Terrorist Alive
Keeping a terrorist alive is inviting trouble. I hope that the authorities foresee possible hijacking of any Indian flights to Afghanistan. Prevention is better than cure.
Raja
On the 6th CPC row
I would like to post one more article received from a friend of mine. The writer is a former banker who was with the SBI Group and DSP Merrill Lynch Ltd.
This is one of the best article I have come across on the 6th CPC row.
Deserves a Standing Ovation......!!!!
We need a permanent solution to this tussle over emoluments so that the armed forces need only confront the enemies of the nation, says TR Ramaswami.
In the continuing debate on pay scales for the armed forces, there has to be a serious and transparent effort to ensure that the country is not faced with an unnecessary civil-military confrontation. That effort will have to come from the netas, who are the real and true bosses of the armed forces and not the civil bureaucracy. A solution may lie in what follows. This country requires the best armed forces, the best police and the best civil service. In fact that is what the British ensured.. By best one means that a person chooses which service he wants as per his desires/capabilities and not based on the vast differential in prospects in the various services. How much differential is there? Take Maharashtra, one of the most parsimonious with police ranks thus still retaining some merit - the 1981 IPS batch have become 3-star generals, the 1987 are 2-star and the 1994 1-star.. In the army the corresponding years are 1972, 1975, 1979. - ie a differential of 10-15 years. While the differential is more with the IAS, the variance with the IPS is all the more glaring because both are uniformed services and the grades are "visible" on the shoulders.
First some general aspects. Only the armed forces are a real profession - i.e. where you rise to the top only by joining at the bottom. We have had professors of economics become Finance Secretaries or even Governors of RBI. We have any number of MBBSs, engineers, MBAs, in the police force though what their qualifications lend to their jobs is a moot point. You can join at any level in the civil service, except Cabinet Secretary. A civil servant can move from Animal Husbandry to Civil Aviation to Fertilisers to Steel to yes, unfortunately, even to Defence. But the army never asks for Brigade Commanders or a Commandant of the Army War College or even Director General Military Intelligence, even from RAW or IB. Army officers can and have moved into organizations like IB and RAW but it is never the other way round. MBBS and Law graduates are only in the Medical or JAG Corps and do nothing beyond their narrow areas. Every Army Chief - in any army - has risen from being a commander of a platoon to company to battalion to brigade to division to corps to army. In fact the professionalism is so intense that no non-armoured corps officer ever commands an armoured formation - first and possibly only exception in world military history - General K. Sunderji. Perhaps it is this outstanding professionalism that irks the civil services.
Next, one must note the rigidity and steep pyramid of the army's rank structure. In the civil services any post is fungible with any grade based on political expediency and the desires of the service. For example I know of one case where one department downgraded one post in another state and up-graded one in Mumbai just to enable someone continue in Mumbai after promotion! You can't fool around like this in the armed forces. A very good Brigadier cannot be made a Major-General and continue as brigade commander. There has to be a clear vacancy for a Major General and even then there may be others better than him. Further the top five ranks in the army comprise only 10% of the officer strength. Contrast this with the civil services where entire batches become Joint Secretaries.
Even the meaning of the word "merit" is vastly different in the army and the civil services. Some years back an officer of the Maharashtra cadre claimed that he should be the Chief Secretary as he was first in the merit list. Which merit list? At the time of entry more than 35 years before! The fact is that this is how merit is decided in the IAS and IPS. Every time a batch gets promoted the inter-se merit is still retained as at the time of entry. In other words if you are first in a batch at the time of entry, then as long as you get promoted, you continue to remain first! This is like someone in the army claiming that he should become chief because he got the Sword of Honour at the IMA. Even a Param Vir Chakra does not count for promotion, assuming that you are still alive. In the armed forces, merit is a continuous process - each time a batch is promoted the merit list is redrawn according to your performance in all the previous assignments with additional weightage given not only to the last one but also to your suitability for the next one. Thus if you are a Brigade Commander and found fit to become a Major General, you may not get a division because others have been found better to head a division. That effectively puts an end to your promotion to Lt. General.
The compensation package must therefore address all the above issues. In each service, anyone must get the same total compensation by the time he reaches the 'mode rank' of his service. "Mode" is a statistical term - the value where the maximum number of variables fall. In the IAS normally everyone reaches Director and in the IPS it is DIG. In the army, given the aforementioned rank and grade rigidities and pyramidical structure, the mode rank cannot exceed Colonel. Thus a Colonel's gross career earnings (not salary scales alone) must be at par with that of a Director. But remember that a Colonel retires at 54, but every babu from peon to Secretary at 60 regardless of performance. Further, it takes 16-18 years to become a Colonel whereas in that time an IAS officer reaches the next higher grade of Joint Secretary, which is considered equal to a Major General. These aspects and others - like postings in non-family stations - must be addressed while fixing the overall pay scales of Colonel and below. Thereafter a Brigadier will be made equal to a Joint Secretary, a Major-General to an Additional Secretary and a Lt. General to a Secretary. The Army Commanders deserve a new rank - Colonel General - and should be above a Secretary but below Cabinet Secretary. The equalization takes place at the level of Cabinet Secretary and Army Chief. If this is financially a problem I have another solution. Without increasing the armed forces' scales, reduce the scales of the IAS and IPS till they too have 20% shortage. Done? Even India 's corruption index will go down.
If the above is accepted in principle, there is a good case to review the number of posts above Colonel. Senior ranks in the armed forces have become devalued with more and more posts being created. But the same pruning exercise is necessary in the IAS and more so in the IPS, where Directors General in some states are re-writing police manuals - one is doing Volume I and another Volume II! Further the civil services have such facilities as "compulsory wait" - basically a picnic at taxpayers cost. And if you are not promoted or posted where you don't want to go they seem able to take off on leave with much ease. In the army you will be court-martialled. Also find out how many are on study leave. The country cannot afford this.
Let not someone say that the IAS and IPS exams are tougher and hence the quality of the officers better. An exam at the age of 24 has to be tougher than one at the age of 16. The taxpaying citizen is not interested in your essay/note writing capabilities or whether you know Cleopatra's grandfather. As a citizen I always see the army being called to hold the pants of the civil services and the police and never the other way round. That's enough proof as to who is really more capable. Also recall the insensitive statements made by the IG Meerut in the Aarushi case and the Home Secretary after the blasts. Further, when the IAS and IPS hopefuls are sleeping, eating and studying, their school mates, who have joined the army, stand vigil on the borders to make it possible for them to do so.
Remember that the armed forces can only fight for above the table pay. They can never compete with the civil services and definitely not with the police for the under the table variety.
Finally, there is one supreme national necessity. The political class - not the bureaucracy - which represents the real civil supremacy better become more savvy on matters relating to the armed forces. Till then they are at the mercy of the civil service, who frequently play their own little war games. At ministerial level there are some very specialized departments - Finance, Railways, Security (Home), Foreign and Defence, where split second decisions are necessary. It is always possible to find netas savvy in finance, foreign relations and railways. Security has been addressed in getting a former IPS officer as NSA at the level of a MoS. Is it time that a professional is also brought into the Defence Ministry as MoS? The sooner the better. In fact this will be better than a CoDS because the armed forces will have someone not constrained by the Army Act or Article 33 of the Constitution. Of course the loudest howls will come from the babus. The netas must realize that a divide and rule policy cannot work where the country's security is concerned. Recall 1962?
Our army, already engaged in activities not core to their functions, including rescuing babies from borewells (!), should not have to engage in civil wars over their pay scales.
The writer is a former banker who was with the SBI Group and DSP Merrill Lynch Ltd.
I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker - HELEN KELLER
Raj
Nop concept of such a long ad-hoc service anywhere
This is to bring in the notice of all concerned that no where in the world has the concept of ad-hoc service for such a long period. It is prevalent in the CSSS Cadre where the ad-hoc service has been continued for more than 12 years and every time it is mentioned while granting further extension of say six months or more that the official cannot bestow claim of seniority for ad-hoc period. My humble submission is that is there any respite from the Government? The ad-hoc promotion should have been viewed as a short term measure just to fill the gap and if it is continued for such a long time with the approval of the Government of India (DP&T-CS Division), then it should be considered as the conspiracy to mar the promotional avenues of the officials of the CSSS, particularly Stenographer Grade 'D' working as Stenographer Grade 'C' since January 1997. It is in the interests of all concerned to raise voices against the injustice being melted out by the DOPT.
V P Sharma