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Who will form the next Government ?
In case Midterm Lok Sabha polls are held which political party is going to be benefited ?.Mood of the country says, the Congress will go down, the BJP will go down and the Left will go down. Then only a big question mark. Will another Deve Gowda or I K Gujaral take over the reigns of the country ?

Deepak Gupta is Secretary New and Renewable Energy
Deepak Gupta has been appointed Secretary New and Renewable Energy in the Government of India. He is 1974 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre. Gupta who is presently Special Secretary Health will succeed 1971 batch West Bengal cadre IAS officer V Subramaniam who is retiring on Monday.
( We said this on June 25)

Shantanu Consul appointed new Secretary Mines
Shantanu Consul has been appointed Secretary Mines in the Government of India .He is 1974 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre. He shall assume office when the current Secretary J P Singh retires on June 30.Singh had a very successful tenure and was liked by one and all.
( We said this on June 24)

Rahul Sarin is Secretary Food Processing Industries
Rahul Sarin presently Special Secretary, Department of Personnel & Training, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions has been appointed Secretary, Ministry of Food Processing Industries, He is 1974 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre.
( We said this on June 20 and again on June 24 )
Vijai Sharma is new Secretary Forests and Environment
Vijai Sharma presently Special Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat has been appointed as Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests vice Ms Meena Gupta who is retiring on 30th June. He is 1974 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
( We said this on May 13 and again on June 18)
Jarnail Singh appointed Secretary Border Management
Manipur Chief Secretary Jarnail Singh has reportedly been appointed Secretary Border Management in the Government of India. He is 1974 batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.
( We said this on June28)

Who will succeed Jarnail Singh in Manipur ?
In case Jarnail Singh joins the Government of India as Secretary Border Management D S Poonia is likely to succeed him as Chief Secretary of Manipur. He is 1978 batch IAS officer. Infact, no officer currently on deputation to the Government of India is willing to go to Manipur as Chief Secretary.
Dy RBI Governor to get extension ?
Deputy RBI Governor Leeladhar is likely to get extension .His tenure is coming to an end in September. Finance Minister P Chidambaram is reportedly favourably inclined for the extension.

Thompson is JS Agriculture
Jiji Thompson is new Joint Secretary Agriculture in the Government of India. He is 1980 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.

M K Singh to go to London
M K Singh IRS (C&CE) officer is all set to be posted in London.

M Ramshekhar likely to join GMR ?
M Ramshekhar who has applied for VRS is likely to join the GMR group.He is 1988 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre. He is presently Transport Commissioner in the state.
New Field Marshals
Real Field Marshal is no more. A new category of Field Marshals in IAS and IPS has emerged in the country. Definition of this category is one who never retires.
Will Subramanian join Suzlon Energy ?
It is being rumoured that V Subramanian who retires as Secretary Ministry for New and Renewable Energy in the Government of India on Monday may join Suzlon Energy.
Bhat is recalled by J & K Government
S L Bhat has been recalled from central deputation by the J & K Government. On return 1976 batch IAS officer, Bhat, has been posted as Financial Commissioner.
Transfer of about 300 IT Commissioners in a week or two !
Transfer of about 300 Income Tax Commissioners is expected to take place in a week or two.
Jha to be PS to MoS Heavy Industries
S K Jha is joining as Private Secretary to Union Minister of State of Heavy Industries Raghunath Jha. He is 1997 batch IAS officer of Sikkim cadre.

Will BJP field KK Gupta from Mandi Lok Sabha Seat ?
KK Gupta, who after seeking pre-mature retirement from Indian Forest Service joined BJP, is understood to be trying for Party ticket from Mandi Lok Sabha Seat. In view of his background and wide experience, (Secretary, NCST, Joint Secretary, Food Processing & Disinvestment) of working in Government of India, apart from the assignments in Himachal Pradesh State (PCCF, Secretary), as well as the potential for winning the seat and making significant addition to the BJP cadre of MPs, the Party may nominate him.
Vigilance Court exonerates IFS officer in Orissa
SK Acharya has been acquitted by the Vigilance Court from charges of amassing property disproportionate to his known sources of income. He is 1986 batch IFS who belongs to Orissa cadre. Acharya ,who is now placed as Officer Without Duty in the PCCF office, Bhubaneswar, is likely to get regular postings soon.
IFS officer appointed MD in AP
Mohammad Ilyas Rizvi has been appointed vice-chairman and MD of the AP State Minorities Finance Corporation. He is 1985 batch Indian Forests Service Officer.
Vyas is PS to J & K Governor
Bharat Bhushan Vyas has been posted as new Principal Secretary to J & K Governor. He is 1986 batch IAS officer.
Dr Arun Kumar shifted in J & K
Dr Arun Kumar, Principal Secretary to Governor and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Amarnath Shrine Board and Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board has been attached to the GAD. He is 1979 batch IAS officer.
IAS postings in Madhya Pradesh
Jabbar Dhakwala has been appointed Additional Secretary Child and Women Welfare Department. Aniruddha Mukherjee has been made Additional Secretary Forests and Social Justice. S N Sharma will be Deputy Secretary School Education.
IPS changes in Jharkhand
On promotion Sidho Hembrom has been posted as DIG, Rail Police at Ranchi. Arun Kumar Singh, commandant, India Reserve Batalion, Mosabani, will now be new SP of Dumka. Jitendra Kumar Singh will be SP Godda.

Major IAS reshuffle in Rajasthan
As predicted on this website last week ,the Rajasthan Government on Sunday transferred 38 IAS officers.Ms Alka Kala has been promoted to the rank of ACS.Other new postings are :-Mssrs Atul Kumar Garg CMD Rajasthan State Finance Corporation,V S Singh Principal Secretary Water Resources,Ravi Mathur Principal Secretary Higher Education and Technical Education,G S Sandhu Principal Secretary PHE,S N Thanvi Principal Secretary Home,Jails and Transport,P S Panwar Principal Secretary Food and Civil Supplies,D V Gupta Principal Secretary Urban Development,Ajit Kumar Singh MD Rajasthan SECO,Manohar Kant Commissioner Industries,B L Arya Commissioner Social Justice,Khemraj Chaudhry Commissioner Bharatpur Division,B N Sharma MD RICO,Sudarshan Sethi Secretary Panchayati Raj,Deepak Upreti Commissioner Jaipur Development Authority,S S Rajvi Member Rajasthan Civil Services Appeal Tribunal,Niranjan Kumar Arya Divisional Commissioner Jaipur,Samir Singh Chandel Secretary Employees Welfare Department,Akhil Arora Director Local Self Government and CEO Municipal Corporation Jaipur,Alok Additional Secretary Finance (Expenditure),Dr P L Agrawal Collector Nagor,Kuldeep Raka Collector Udaipur,Naresh Pal Gangwar Collector Jodhpur,Anand Kumar Collector Bharatpur,Praveen Gupta Collector Jaipur,Ashvini Bhagat Additional Secretary Water Resources,Kunjilal Meena Collector Sikar,Ajitabh Sharma Director Elementary Education Bikaner,Dinesh Kumar Additional Secretary Higher and Technical Education,T Ravikant Collector Jhunjhunu,Manju Rajpal Director National Employment Guarantee Scheme,Navin Jain Collector Rajsamand,K K Pathak Director Middle Education Bikaner,Dr Ramit Sharma Collector Chittorgarh,Dr Ravi Kumar Collector Jaisalmer,Ambrish Kumar Deputy Secretary Finance and Palla Konda Ramesh OSD Personnel.

CORPORATE
Borah to be CMD Oil India !
N M Borah is going to be new CMD of the Oil India. The PESB has put Borah number one in the panel of selection. Interview for the post was held on June 27.He is presently Director Operations in the Oil India.
( We said this on April 17)
S Mohan appointed Director-HR,BPCL
S Mohan has been appointed Director Human Resource(HR),Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL). At present he is Executive Director(ED)-HR,BPCL.
( We said this on February 12 and again on May 13 )
B. B. Pattanaik to be MD,Central Warehousing Corporation
B. B. Pattanaik, Managing Director(MD),National Seeds Corporation(NSC) Limited is new MD of the Central Warehousing Corporation.B. B. Pattanaik will hand over his charge of MD,NSC on June 30,2008.He will succeed N.K.Choubey Chairman cum Managing Director (C.M.D.), Central Warehousing Corporation who is superannuating on June 30,2008.

(We had said this more than two months back)
Mahajan to take over as CMD Canara Bank today
AC Mahajan, currently Chairman and Managing Director of Allahabad Bank, is taking over on Tuesday as CMD of the Canara Bank. He will succeed MBN Rao, who is superannuating today.
( We said this on March 3 )

Director Shipping Corporation interview today
PESB will conduct interview for the post of Director Shipping Corporation on June 30.

Amrit Singh is new Head
Amrit Singh is new head of Merger & Acquisitions (M&A) India. (Deutsche Bank). His appointment will enhance the banks market share.
Tolia appointed Director TMTC
Chetan Tolia has been appointed as Director Tata's (TMTC). His immediate reporting authority will be Satish Pradhan, Executive Vice-President (HR).Tolia is an old associate of TaTa group.
Rajan Hinduja is MD of Blackstone
Rajan Hinduja has taken over as Managing Director of Blackstone. This is in the same series in which Hinduja family and Blackstone Group signed an agreement.

FORUM
Transfers of Delhi Government Teachers
The much awaited transfer orders of a few categories of teachers of Delhi Government have been issued. A total of 171 teachers have been transferred- TGT Home Sc.(23), Lab. Assistants (16), Music Teachers (1), Drawing Teachers (29) and AssistantTeachers (102). The orders smack of arbitrariness with no application of mind. A number of teachers have been transferred from one school in a locality to another in the same locality. Similarly, there are a large number of teachers in the list who have been transferred within 2-3 kms of their earlier schools. Most of the teachers who have been transferred are young. Claim of old teachers , and those staying at large distances and few years left for retirement, have been conveniently ignored. Special care has been taken of the newly married teachers irrespective of the distance. Grapevine has been that new criterion has been decided this year to suit the requirements of some top bureaucrats. Will the CM and Education Minister look into the Transfer Policy of Teachers and ensure that good sense prevails amongst the bureaucrats posted in Education Department in this election year?
S. SurendramohanOnly Babu Raj
The administration in India is an inverted pyramid since long. We're living in Babucracy - Government of the Babus for the Babus by the Babus. Hence the whole mess the country is in.

Sampath

Choice of Mooshahary is welcome

Its really exciting to hear that at least in Bodo history a person from Bodo community could become the governor of other state like in Meghalay. It's good. May god bless him and his people, Meghalayan. I support him heart and soul 100%. He is well experienced person as he was an army officer. Long live Meghalaya. I am from Bodoland, working in one of the private company in Delhi.

Phenus Narzary

Why Senior level posts are created ?

Generally new senior level posts are created by surrendering the lower level posts.

Balaji

Age 65 but without pension

Simple mathematics has it that if government retires officers at 65, the extra money paid over the 5 years, if capitalised and invested in bank deposits, would be enough to compensate for discontinuation of pension. So the solution could lie in retiring officers at 65 but without pension. Is the FM reading this?

Ganesh

No job after the age of 65

Those who want government servants to retire early, should understand that by retiring them at 60 instead of 65, we the tax-payers are shouldering extra 5 year burden for their pension, medical expenses and they work in lucrative jobs in private sector. The retirement age should be 65 and they should be banned from any kind of public or private employment after 65 if they want to get pension and free medical.

Dr DKW

This is the game plan of the Government

This seems to be a well thought plan of the government to reduce the number of posts leading to slow but gradual reduction and finally elimination of the reservation in jobs.

K Lal

Time is not ripe for elections

Probably this is the only difference between the politics(the trio) and the common man (our PM). He still looks like a common man only. But still I think the time is not ripe for elections. We are still reeling under heavy inflation. Another bout of elections may strengthen some parties and may weaken some, but the common man will be the ultimate looser, who has always been. Personally I think n-deal can wait. On political front as well the time may not be suitable enough for congress and other allies. Even left will loose ground. Wait of another 8-10 months is worth than a N-Deal getting thru. Even some technocrats are voicing their concern on IAEA safeguards policy. Let's hope the government hangs on for the time being.

VS

All about the lower cadre

Having worked in various capacities in GOI, I agree with the concern expressed about overlooking the lower cadres. There are sections and divisions in almost all Ministries that have become completely dysfunctional ( not defunct). Some ministries are using consultants to work as Assistants!! The erroneous belief stems from the argument that we need to be officer led, computerization is the answer. I see Directors and JSs working like USs and SOs, getting to fulfill their reporting requirement - plethora of returns, comments, notes and replies to parliament. ARC is something I have heard but nothing has happened at the ground level. Ask for a file or order 2 or 3 yr old and you don't get it. No wonder we rank low in transparency, high on corruption. I will suggest a serious look at the administrative system of delivery in the GOI as we have poor outcomes, even with best of policies. This is one of the root causes ( I am not pitching for incompetent LDC/Assistants, but for a reasonably competent multipurpose assistant/worker )

Dr Sanjay Singh

Sixth Pay Commission Says Rs.100/- =Rs.12830/-.

Those who are feeling aggrieved by this should read the errata issued by Sixth Pay Commission. Point ix of this errata says that there will be no change in the pay band that the officer is withdrawing before the deputation. So the actual loss will be the grade pay which is not so big.

Ashok

Pay Commission Report:

Whenever the pay of PSUs/Banks are revised there is no hue and cry. But once in 10 years; when the pay of the central government employee is revised after a wide publicity and advertisement and thus nullifying the benefit which they are going to get, the medias and others including the good paid employees from PSU look at the government employees as if they are not given anything. In fact the expenditure incurred for the employees of PSUs/Banks is much more than the expenditure that is spent on government employees once in 10 years. The facilities for the employees of PSUs/Banks is really excellent when compared to that of the government employees. Now as far as the Present Pay Commission Report is concerned the government employees do not know what is going on due to lack of transparency though we are in a democratic country. But the case is not the same with PSUs/Banks as they are always kept updated about their revised pay. Hope persons involved with the pay panel report at least take note of this.

Subhash Malhotra

Directorate of Estates:

A few days back in this forum a mention was made about the bungling still silently being followed in the estate office. This is true as number quarters shown in the vacancy register does not tally with that of allotment. The persons waitlisted for change; their number instead of decreasing whenever the quarter are allotted; they increase in between and then decrease and again the same thing continues and thus delaying the allotment of quarters of their choice. This is very familiar in important colonies like Lodhi Colony, Lakshmibai Nagar, Kidwai Nagar etc. It seems this is common whenever the Congress Government comes to power. One cannot forget Supreme Court Case of 1994 when Congress Government was in power. It was well under control and again now the same is slowly taking place because of this Congress Government. Hope Supreme Court again monitors the situation and make Directorate of Estates responsible for each quarter which they are allotting and bring 100% transparency when it is displayed in the website.

Kulkarni

Armed forces and para-military forces

I certainly agree with the dismay and anguish manifested with armed forces. The raw deal which Armed forces and para-military forces of this country are getting at the hands of government and its machinery remind me about the warning the great strategician Kautilya gave long back. Don't weigh the valour of your soldiers with their repeated sacrifices. The state must care for them and their families, failing which the state can hardly defend itself.
What a crude joke and shock of life that those starting their career in Air Condition continue to rise on the graph of both corruption and career unhindered, politician keep on hobnobbing with them, but those who keep on toiling to maintain internal security and busy to ensure the safety of our skies, maritime boundary and borders are completely ignored.

At least countrymen are crying for the better pay and perks to Armed Forces of the country. But look at the plight of Personnel of Paramilitary Forces. No one is talking about them. Respective Directors General are not satisfied with their scale, how can they talk for their Jawans or Officers. At least all the three chiefs had the guts to convey through the raksha mantri about the feelings of Armed Forces, but no one in the helm of affairs appear to have realised that Para Military Forces Like BSF, ITBP, CRPF ,CISF, SSB etc also deserve better deal. Their nature of job is akin to Infantary, particularly the BSF, ITBP and Assam Rifle.

Will some one really pay attention or let injustice continue thinking that it may end at its own one day.

Bhadoria