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Will there be retirement age of 65 years ?
The Finance Minister is strongly supporting a retirement age of 65 years because of the resource crunch. This would postpone huge payouts for 5 years and meanwhile the economy will consolidate. It is also being considered that those who opt to serve till 65, will not be paid a pension.PMO sources,however,rule out any such possibility.
Sahi to be Commissioner of Bureau of Civil Aviation !
R R P N Sahi is likely to be appointed Commissioner of Bureau of Civil Aviation. He is 1973 batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre. The post has been lying vacant for quite some time.
1978 batch empanelment file to reach PM
File pertaining to the empanelment of 1978 batch IAS officers to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government is expected to reach to the Prime Minister for approval in a day or two.
Who will succeed Chatterjee ?
It is believed that this time a senior IFS officer is going to succeed Deepak Chatterjee in Brusells. Rumour mill says that former Cabinet Secretary B K Chaturvedi is eyeing for the post.
Vasudeven to be Director Enforcement ?
Name of N C Vasudevan is in circulation for the post of Director Enforcement. He is 1977 batch IAS officer of Orissa cadre.
Will it be an all women Board ?
After Ms. Doraiswamy taking over the leadership, who would be in the newly constituted Postal Board. Will it be an all women Board...? If all goes well Ms Meera Datta, Ms Indira Krishnakumar and Ms Madhu Narayanan will rule the Postal Board.
Subramanyam to leave this week
PS to the Prime Minister B V R Subramanyam is relinquishing office on June 20 to join the World Bank. He is 1987 batch IAS officer of Chhattisgarh cadre.
Empanelment of 1974 batch IPS delayed
Empanelment of 1974 batch IPS officers to the rank of DG in the Government of India has been delayed by a month or two.
GoI increases over 100 SP level seats
Peeved at the shortage of SP level officials across the country, the GoI has increased over 100 SP level posts this year.
NCB post down-graded
Post of DG Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has been down-graded from DG to the ADG level. Post is yet to be filled up.
Mishra to go Hague this week
Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Chemicals and Petro-Chemicals Kumaresh Mishra is leaving for Hague on an International assignment in a day or two. He is 1977 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.
( We said this on April 21)
Seven vacancies of DD in Enforcement Directorate
Seven vacancies of Deputy Director in the Directorate of Enforcement have been circulated.
Will an IRS officer enter in Rajya Sabha ?
Is an IRS (IT) officer of 1987 batch putting in his papers ?.Rumour mill says that the officer has been offered a Rajya Sabha seat by a National Party.
Brijendra Navnit to join GoI
Brijendra Navnit is joining the Government of India. He is 1999 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.
Training for CCITs on the anvil
The Indian Government is actively contemplating to impart mid carrier training to Chief Commissioners of Income Tax(CCITs). It will be done in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad.
D.C.Sagar is CVO, Cotton Corporation of India
D.C.Sagar has joined the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) as its Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) on June 16,2008.Sagar who was earlier DIG Chambal Range is an MP cadre IPS officer of the 1992 batch.
(We said this on June 6)
IT sleuths to submit report in a day or two !
Income Tax (IT) department sleuths are going to submit their report in a day or two to the Madhya Pradesh Government. IT sleuths had conducted a raid recently at the residence of Rajora who is an MP cadre IAS officer and others. Income Tax (IT)department sources say that sleuths of IT have found documents relating to 13 properties that are with Rajesh Rajora.
1984 batch gets PS rank in Himachal Pradesh
The Himachal Pradesh IAS officers belonging to the 1984 batch have been elevated to the rank of Principal Secretary. They are: Arvind Mehta, P.C. Dhiman, V.P. Gupta, Narinder Chauhan, Manisha Sridhar and Rashima Gupta. Proforma promotion to two IAS officers namely: Ajay Tyagi & Tarun Shridhar was granted, as they are on deputation to the Government of India (GOI)
Orissa to seek repatriation of IAS officers (UPDATED)
Being faced with IAS crunch in higher echelon, Orissa government is likely to ask the Centre to repatriate at least half a dozen of its IAS officers out of the deputed lot. There is a clear shortfall of 24 IAS of its sanctioned strength of 202.
Sumana Mohanty gets posting (UPDATED)
On return from deputation IRAS (SG) Officer Sumana Mohanty has been posted to the East Coast.
O.P.Mehra is no more (UPDATED)
O.P.Mehra former IAS officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre passed in Bhopal on the evening of June 16, 2008.He belonged to the 1962 batch.

CORPORATE
AAI Chairman interview on June 17
PESB will conduct interview for the post of Chairman Airports Authority of India on June 17.
Roy is Regional Manager ICICI Prudential MP
Rajiv Ranjan Roy has taken over as Regional Manager ICICI Prudential, Madhya Pradesh. He was earlier posted in Jharkhand .
Amitabh Verma is Director BoB
Joint Secretary Banking Amitabh Verma has been appointed Director on the Board of the Bank of Baroda.
Dhoni to be brand -ambassador of Bhaskar Group
Country's leading business group Dainik Bhakar has assigned the Indian skipper & hottest cricket star, M S Dhoni as its brand ambassador. Dhoni will take on the promotion of Bhaskar group's existing as well as up-coming ventures.
Kapadi is head of SBI DFHI
Yashwant S Kapadihas taken over as MD and CEO of SBI DFHI. He has succeeded Renu Challu.
Renu Challu is MD of SBI Hyderabad
Ms Renu Challu has been appointed Managing Director of the State Bank of Hyderabad.
Shyam Shankar to rejoin Times group (UPDATED)
Shyam Shankar who had quit as President of India Media Exchange (IMX) is poised to return to the Times of India group as Deputy Director.
Rupesh Kashyap is CD, Leo Burnett (UPDATED)
Rupesh Kashyap has moved to Leo Burnett Mumbai as Creative Director (CD). Earlier he was CD with Everest Mumbai.
Shraman Jha quits The Telegraph (UPDATED)
As the grapevine has it Shraman Jha Vice-President The Telegraph, has put in his papers and is headed for NIIT.
Mann Award for JWT's Mithali Chandrashekar (UPDATED)
JWT India Senior VP and Executive Planning Director Mithali Chandrashekar has been awarded the prestigious Patricia Mann Award for Women. She has also won a £10,000 scholarship to pursue any educational and career development opportunity of her choice.
Bhasin moves to Aegis India (UPDATED)
Ashish Bhasin Executive (Vice PresIDent) Lowe World Wide has moved
to Aegis Media as Chairman, India & CEO south east Asia.
Bose is COO of Mudra Group (UPDATED)
Pratap Bose is now COO Mudra Group, He was serving as CEO in Ogilvy India.
Haredia promoted as CEO (UPDATED)
Anthony Heredia who was Head of Marketing & Sales in Morgan Stanley is now been promoted with a fresh responsibility of CEO of the organization.
Reddy is now CIO of ABN amro (UPDATED)
C C Reddy has been appointed Chief Investment officer of ABN Amro
Ram Prasad is now VP (UPDATED)
Lenovo appoints Ramprasad Lakshminarayanan has been appointed as Vice President for its transactional consumer sales in India.

FORUM
Narad has to regain credibility of PESB
Naresh Narad has to regain the lost credibility of PESB. The concerned ministers are interfering in the selection of CMDs of Central Public Sector Enterprises and they are appointing the CMDs on daily or monthly basis to suit to their requirement. He should not heed to the unnecessary pressure from these ministers /secretaries and ensure that merit oriented candidates are selected to lead the Public Sector enterprises. Best wishes to Naresh Narad.
K J Raman
Appointment of Narad has been welcomed
Appointment of Narad as PESB Chairman has been welcomed by all the PSU officers, as he is considered to have got the post on merits. Aspiring MDs and Directors not having political connections can hope for Fair and Just selection. Narad is also believed to be supportive of those who opted for Public Sector as career ( PSU candidates) rather than opportunists looking to become MD / Directors through political support for their own agenda..
Manish
Retirement age and Government
Where exactly the case for increase in retirement age is lying. When it is expected to be raised? If the retirement age is raised by two years, the central government can save Rs 250 billion per year which is payable to the employees in the form of commutation of pension, encashment of leave, gratuity etc but excluding PF. In this way the burden of implementing Pay Commission Report to the extent of Rs 305 billion can be met. Otherwise, the fiscal deficit will exceed 4% of GDP which along with fiscal deficit of Stata Government shall exceed 10% of GDP making the economy unsustainable and we shall be back to 1991.
Sitendra Kumar
Retirement age and Kerala
All those who are making so much noise about retirement age to be increased to 65 yrs should know that in Kerala state employees retire at 55 yrs and Kerala is most efficiently managed, with clean administration.
Rajesh
About retirement age
I endorse the views of Gurvinder & Rainanil on retirement age though both are contradictory in broader sense. Gurvinder is straight to the point when he says that government servants are master of the people, not servants. This attitude is brazenly visible in Public utility Department where a LDC rules the roost. Hardly any public has the access to even lower middle level officer. Senior officers are bit sensitive to the needs of the general public but they encounter helplessness in midst of rampant mismanagement & deep rooted corruption unless one becomes very strict and unpopular. Northern states & to some extent Eastern states perhaps in this matter are more notorious compared to Southern states, I beleive. Like wise the comments of Rainanil is straight to the facts and I believe the lower level officials in the government those who are sincere and dedicated and those selflessly serve the Government certainly deserve raise in retirement age. If the government as an employer takes care of the minority good employees ,the benefit accrued to the Government (public) will be more in the long run. The survival of the system is because of few honest workers.
Shiv
Retirement Age
It is not only ironical but completely illogical if the government is still considering the increase in retirement age. The efficiency or inefficiency of majority of government is well proven!!! It is highly unlikely that you get your works done without pleasing the government servant in 'some or the other manner'. If the government servant at the age of 58 or 60 feels that he is still so 'active' then he should see some other employment opportunity instead of sticking to government department and keep calculating his corruption money and pension benefits every day. I have seen government officials above the age of 55 in Government department always making calculations either for next promotions or GPF accumulation or pensions. Why people don't think of the younger lot? We cannot afford to leave younger generation frustrated. In fact if we have to choose one for frustration, we should chose old government servants and must NOT the younger ones.
These days government has started outsourcing and they are paid less than quarter of what regular servants in their seats take - no liability for medical, transport, leave etc. etc. These outsourced ones are doing work perfectly fine. Unlike the typical government servants, these outsourced neither take bribe nor do netagiri. So whoever is in the decision making body for retirement age must take all these factors into consideration and not just consult the top bureaucrats, who would obviously dictate what is advantageous to their 'own' self. Please respect 6th CPC's observations and not run for vote bank. Even if government cares for vote bank, it is always younger lot who goes to polling booths and older government stays at home celebrating their "holiday".
Kaushal
All about retirement age
The last word on retirement age: Retirement age everywhere in the civilized world is decided on basis of years that a person can do productive work. It is childish and churlish to decide retirement age to corruption, making way for next generation, employment, not doing clerical work on a computer, looking for fresh careers during mid-life, etc. If a man's working life should end at 60 to 55 as some say, then why not pass a law saying that no one can work after 55 in any sector or profession.
I am sure that you will agree with this simple logic.
Last word
All rumours about retirement age
The rumours of raising the age of retirement to 62/65 is being spread by interested parties to confuse others. Government of India has already clarified in the Parliament once for all that there is no such move!
Dr Kotnis
CSS-CSSS - adjustment after merger.
Kalvin Kevin has asked about adjustment of PA with Assistants once the merger takes place. As far as I guess this graduation qualification would be for future recruitments of Executive Assistants. As regards present lots they would be fixed one PA and one Assistant basis of same year. In Government of India those who have made entry their service conditions cannot be changed to their detriment, and it is fair enough. GOI may prepare some refresher course to trained the present lots if the need. As far as CSSS are concerned they always keep themselves up-to-date, be it the use of electronic typewriter or computer knowledge. Perhaps for CSS officers some training programmes will have to be arranged.
TAIL-PIECE
New Exam pattern in India (Revised) 1. General students - Answer ALL questions.2. OBC - WRITE ANY one question.3. SC - ONLY READ questions.4. ST - THANKS FOR COMING.. AND. 5. Gujjars/Jats - THANKS FOR ALLOWING OTHERS TO ATTEND THE EXAMINATION .. !! CHEERS TO RESERVATION......
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Kaushal