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K M Singh is new boss of NHDC
K M Singh is appointed as Chief Executive Director of NHDC. He was earlier Executive Director of NHDC, K M Singh has succeeded D P Bhargava who is shifted to Faridabad now.
Sumita Dawra is Director of OBC
Sumita Dawra has been appointed Director on the Borad of the Oriental Bank of Commerce.
Shyam Shankar to rejoin Times group
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
Rupesh Kashyap has moved to Leo Burnett Mumbai as Creative Director (CD). Earlier he was CD with Everest Mumbai.
Shraman Jha quits The Telegraph
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
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
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
Pratap Bose is now COO Mudra Group, He was serving as CEO in Ogilvy India.
Haredia promoted as CEO
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
C C Reddy has been appointed Chief Investment officer of ABN Amro
Ram Prasad is now VP
Lenovo appoints Ramprasad Lakshminarayanan has been appointed as Vice President for its transactional consumer sales in India.
Renu Challu takes over as MD SBH
Renu Challu has taken over as Managing Director of State Bank of Hyderabad on Monday.
Kunju promoted as GM
Pareethu Kunju DGM has been promoted as General Manager in the Corporation Bank.
Ms.Amee Sanghvi to head INX Studio
Ms. Amee Sanghvi has joined INX Media as Vice President & Creative Head of INX Studio.Hitherto she was Creative Director(CD)with DDB Mudra.
Ms.Sharada Sunder joins Alva Bros
The Real Global Broadcasting (RGB), the Turner-Alva Brothers' joint venture company, has roped in Ms.Sharada Sunder as President.
Ms.Anita Agnihotri joins in Mumbai
Ms.Anita Agnihotri has joined the Department of Commerce as Development Commissioner Santa Cruz Electronics Export Processing Zone (SEEPZ) & SEZ, Mumbai. Mrs.Agnihotri is an IAS officer of the 1980 batch who belongs to Orissa cadre.Hitherto she was Principal Secretary , Textile and Handloom with the Orissa Government.
Beat the heat Delhi way !
Do you know how officers in Delhi over come power cuts in their offices.Very simple they leave their offices in the name of attending some or the other meeting outside.They return if power is restored or else attend to office the next day.What a cool way to beat the heat of summers & the sultry weather?

FORUM
Bad news for good governance
The raising of retirement age in government, across board is bad news for good governance. As a civil servant, my unbiased view ! ( I have completed 19 yrs and due for SAG, so i have no stakes)is that Governments have failed to weed out the rotten elements, have not used 56 J provisions, and is in no position to distinguish the good from the bad. I suggest retaining the retirement age at 60 and need to work out a handsome VRS, so that we create vacancies and infuse fresh blood. It will also be cheaper for the government in the long run ( getting workers with new skills and updated understanding at 1/3rd cost). The economic argument will fall flat after 2 yrs and we will have a whole generation to blame us for this historical blunder. we need to consider the impact on the unemployed youths and their families too. Government will bound to lose millions of votes, so it is politically also a bad decision. What the government needs to do is to retain the qualified doctors, technical experts and scientists. How do they incentivise these guys to stay. Instead there will be a further exodus of talented people if 65 comes in. Please don't create historic blunders.

Dr Sanjay Singh
Follow the Canadian model
The best way to end the never-ending controversy over retirement age is to follow the Canadian model which prescribes a minimum retirement age but officers can serve after that at their option. So here too, the retirement age could be 60 or 65 at the option of the civil servant. This will address the needs of both view-points.
A Civil Servant
Do not talk about raising the age
Please for heaven sake, don't ever talk of raising the retirement age to 65 or any other figure. Bureaucrats, who are unfit in service, will become unfit, to live also? God may not have any mercy on them.
Raaghurane
Who says Kerala is best managed ?
Who said Kerala is best managed? The cut-off date for joining government service in Kerela is 35 years(general), 38 years (OBC) and 42(SC/ST). After joining the service, most leave for Gulf thus blocking any further recruitment. The only saving grace is general public is better educated and fight for their rights, thus reducing corruption to a certain extent. With high life expectancy, Kerala has more pensioners than serving employees!
MS
Chhattisgarh is handled by Forest Service officers
Jharkhand example is not surprising. In Chhattisgarh too a large number of non-forests related administrative posts are being handled by officers of the forest service - shortage of IAS officers apart - there is a reluctance on the part of forest officers to work in forest related jobs. So we have IFoS officers handling urban affairs, housing board etc. I am not on the question of competence, it is just that officers selected and trained for specialist jobs are unavailable for the purpose for which they were recruited. The result is the neglect of forests, illegal felling, poaching, forest dwellers left to the tender mercies of the beat guards, tribes denied forest based livelihoods, lack of plantation and so on. It is no wonder that forest areas of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand are the worst affected in terms of governance.
HS
Revise Electoral Rolls in Delhi Promptly.
Newspapers inform that the electoral rolls in Delhi are yet to be revised. Of the 1.3 crore Delhi voters, voter I.D. cards of only 30 lakhs have so far been prepared. This may be by design also. The Election Commission of India may enlist the services of lakhs of highly qualified apolititical retired civil/police/defence services officers who are living in Delhi and complete the whole election process with their cooperation. They are available in Delhi in lakhs. They are not beholden to any political party and thus would impart the necessary element of impartiality which is so badly needed to protect, preserve and promote democracy in India.
M L Gupta
It is ridiculous to ban foreign travel
In my opinion it would be ridiculous to completely ban the foreign travel as many a times it is for essential and bonafide reasons. More so trainings abroad are a good exposure to best international practices and hence are a great learning exercise. However, unfortunately some of our netas and bureaucrats have lost all sense of proportion and generally over indulge in the facilities available at the expense of public money. Travel abroads are undertaken for mostly indulging reasons rather than for bonafide purposes. Organisational benefits accruing from such jaunts are neither identified nor insisted upon by the sanctioning authorities. In my own stint in UP I had seen such jaunts being undertaken at the expense of even those public undertaking that are in losses forever and some of them on the verge of being declared sick. Worse still their was hardly any logical reason identified for such travels and even the tour reports were never submitted. One felt sick of seeing such callous waste of public money and it is these types of jaunts which needs to stopped. PMO if it is at all serious on the issue then it should lay clear guidelines for the same and insist on their being implemented for sanctioning of foreign tours otherwise hallow advises are given a hoot by powerful netas and their chamchas in bureaucracy.
GB
"ACR- No More Confidential": Supreme Court.
Meenakshi Roy rightly said, "The ACRs play a very vital role in the career of a government servant. Timely promotion and recognition are the basic motivations for a government servant So DoPT should evolve such transparent Performance Appraisal System, which should have least subjectivity and no room of unfairness and prejudices. In Central Staffing Scheme, the DoPT has fixed minimum bench-mark of ACR as 'VERY GOOD' for empanelment of Deputy Secretary, Director, Jt. Secretary. If some officer is appointed as DS/Dir/JS, it means his/her performance had been Very Good and above. So such officers are fully capable to deliver the results. Our duty is to provide congenial environment. There are examples in some ministries that some officers are not allowed to get adjusted in the new environment. Some high-headed people forget if such treatment was given to them, what would have been their reaction? First of all, provide them stage only then they can perform better. Moral of the story is that one should play with anybody's career. Moreover in the recent judgement of Hon'ble Supreme Court(CA No.7631 of 2002: Dev Dutt Vs Union of India), ACR in no more confidential document. It can be shown to the concerned official. The Supreme Court has held, "Non-communication of entries in the Annual Confidential Report of a public servant, whether he is in civil, judicial, police or any other service (other than the military), certainly has civil consequences because it may affect his chances for promotion or get other benefits. Hence, such non-communication would be arbitrary, and as such violative of Article 14 of the Constitution."
The DOPT must take immediate step for issuing necessary guidelines to all the Departments keeping in view of the Hon'ble Supreme Court's latest order. This action of DoPT shall remove the subjectivity in the ACR System will bring transparency and efficiency in the working of Government.
Y Mishra
TAIL-PIECE
Have a history teacher explain this----- if they can.
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960...
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.
Now it gets really weird.
Lincoln 's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln .
Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln , was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln , was born in 1839..
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.
Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.
Now hang on to your seat.
Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Ford.'
Kennedy was shot in a car called ' Lincoln ' made by 'Ford.'
Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theater.
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
And here's the kicker...
A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe , Maryland
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.
n Contributed by-
V. Arunachalam
Chennai