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Will Maini be Secretary Mines ?
Name of Dr J S Maini has started doing the round for the post of Secretary Mines in the Government of India. He is 1974 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre.
Dhingra to be Secretary Inter-State Council Secretariat
Ravi Dhingra is being tipped to be new Secretary of the Inter-State Council Secretariat. Dhingra who is currently Chief Secretary of Himachal Pradesh is joining the Government of India this month.
Rahul Asthana to be Chairman of Mumbai Port Trust !
Rahul Asthana is all set to become new Chairman of the Mumbai Port Trust. He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre. Name of Asthana has reached the ACC.
PM clears four JS level appointments
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is believed to have cleared four Joint Secretary level appointments directly without being sent to the ACC.
Aditi Mehta to be Secretary IGNCA
Aditi Mehta is being appointed Secretary of the Indira Gandhi National Commission for Arts (IGNCA).She is 1979 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.
D P Singh to be Secretary NCSK
DP Singh is beng moved as Secretary, National Commission for Safai Karmacharis. He is 1980 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
Ratan Watal to be JS Petroleum
Outgoing DG Sports Authority of India R P Watal is joining the Petroleum Ministry as Joint Secretary. He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.
Ms Shalini Prasad as JS HRD,
Ms Shalini Prasad is joining the HRD Ministry as Joint Secretary . She is 1985 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
Sahu is Additional Commissioner ESIC
B K Sahu has taken over as Additional Commissioner (Personnel and Administration ) of the State Insurance Corporation (ESIC).
Vinod Kumar may be Custodian?
Vinod Kumar may be given temporary charge of the new Custodian in Ministry of Finance. He is a SAG rank Director in the Custodian office. He belongs to 1989 batch of the Indian P&T Accounts and Finance Service.
Change in Rajasthan DGP due to politics
Change in Rajasthan Director General of Police (DGP) has reportedly taken place due to internal politics.
Ban on transfers in Orissa
State Election Commission has banned transfers in Orissa. It has been done as revision of electoral rolls is going.
Lal Singh Arya & Sunil Nayak to be inducted in MP
Lal Singh Arya & Sunil Nayak will be inducted in Madhya Pradesh cabinet being headed by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in a couple of days. No minister is being dropped.Chief Minister has already met the Governor on Tuesday evening.
Venkataraman is PS to Aiyar
N Venkataraman is new Private Secretary to Union Panchayati Raj Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar.
Simplicity of DGP to MP Government
Simplicity of Madhya Pradesh Government's newly appointed Director General of Police(DGP) SK Raut has floored all. Unlike many of his ilk, Raut picks phone whenever he is at home. Raut is an IPS officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre & belongs to the 1974 batch who was recently appointed as the DGP in MP.
IAS reshuffle in Tamil Nadu
There is IAS reshuffle in Tamil Nadu. New postings are Mssrs:- R Rajgopal CMD of Handicrafts Development Corporation, Susan Mathew vice-chairperson, Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority, Anu George DC Education Chennai, M Balaji as project director, Hill Area Development Programme, Udhagamandalam, C Munianathan GM TN Medical Services Corporation, K S Palanisami Commissioner, Corporation of Salem, M Mathivanan as State Programme Manager, State Health Society, Chennai, V Rajaraman DRO in the monitoring unit, office of Chief Minister, Chennai, A Nambirajan RO, Kancheepuram,S Vishwanathan GM TN Civil Supplies Corporation and M mayakrishnan DRO Tirunelveli.
Lt Gen Parmar takes over charge
Lt Gen Naresh Kumar Parmar has taken over as the Director General Medical Services (Army) .
GOI clears 4 new centers of NIFT
The Government of India has given green signal to set up four new centers of the National Institute of Fashion Technology(NIFT).These centres will come up in Shillong,Patna,Bhopal & Kannur.
Dr.Anil Mainra returning to Sikkim
Dr.Anil Mainra is returning to Sikkim.Dr.Mainra who is an Indian Forest Officer(IFS) of the Sikkim cadre belongs to the 1984 & so far was OSD Tourism in Delhi.
Puneet Kansal to be OSD Tourism for Sikkim Govt
Puneet Kansal who so far was Special Secretary Pine with the Sikkim Government in Delhi will be new OSD Tourism for the Sikkim Government in Delhi.
The post of Director Tea Board,Dubai vacant
The post of Director,Tea Board in Dubai has been lying vacant for quite sometime. The post fell vacant as Mrs.Priya Kumar had come back to India from her deputation foreign posting.Mrs.Kumar who is an Indian Information Service(IIS)officer of the 1991 batch was Director Tea Board. It falls under the Indian Ministry of Commerce & Industry.
Chandigarh DD Kendra Director no more
Station Director of the Chandigarh Doordarshan Kendra Ashraf Sahil has passed away in Delhi.
Will Vohra be Governor J & K ?
The Prime Minister is believed to have cleared the name of N N Vohra for the post of Governor J & K last night.Another report says that J & K Governor Gen S K Sinha whose tenure is coming to an end today may continue for some time.

Praveen Garg to head MP Tennis Association (UPDATED)
Praveen Garg Managing Director of the Madhya Pradesh State Industries Development Corporation(SIDC)was unanimously elected as President of the "M.P.Tennis Association".Garg who is an MP cadre IAS officer belongs to the 1988 batch.Other office bearers who too were elected are: Anil Dhupar President(Marketing)of leading Hindi daily titled "Naidunia", B.S.Chhabra-Treasurer & Pramod Dixit Joint Secretary.

CORPORATE
Jha to be Member Planning & Administration AAI ?
PESB is believed to have selected IRS (IT) officer K K Jha for the post of Member Planning & Administration in Airport Authority of India (AAI ) . Interviews were held last week.
To ten of Kumarmanglam Birla
1 Santrup Mishra
2 D Bhattacharya
3 Sanjiv Aga
4 Saurabh Mishra
5 Shailendra Jain
6 K K Maheshwari
7Ravi Kastia
8 Vikram Rao
9 Dr Bharat Singh
10 Dr Pragnya Ram -Chief Coporate Communications
Majumdar assumes charge as PGCIL's CMD
S Majumdar, Director (Projects) of Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL), has assumed the additional charge of CMD w.e.f. May 30, 2008 for a period of three months or until further orders, whichever is earlier. Dr RP Singh relinquished the charge of CMD after being at the helm of the company for 12 years. Majumdar has been Director (Projects) of Power Grid since September 27,2005. He possesses more than three decades of work experience in different power sector utilities such as NTPC and DVC. A mechanical engineer from Calcutta University, Majumdar holds Diploma in General management from Delf University, Netherlands and Diploma in Public Sector Management from Bradford University, U.K.
Asim Kapoor is Director, India Today group
Asim Kapoor has joined the India Today group as Publishing Director of the Business Group.
SAIL & MDI Gurgaon join hands
The Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) of which Chairman is SK Roongta , has signed a memorandum of understanding with Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon to meet the challenges of Human Resource Development keeping in view its modernisation and expansion programme. S P Patnaik, Executive Director (HRD) SAIL/ Management Training Institute (MTI) & Prof. C. V. Baxi Director MDI signed the MoU in the presence of G Ojha., Director (Personnel)/SAIL and Prof. C. P. Shrimali, Prof. (HRM) & Dean, Continuing Education, MDI at Ispat Bhavan, New Delhi on June 2,2008.Under the MoU, the scope of the collaborative efforts being addressed include faculty support for SAIL programmes from MDI, faculty support from SAIL in MDI programmes, Joint research and development of case studies, special programmes for SAIL executives at MDI and mutual access to literature and library resources.
Ajay Bhatt is Manager Connaught Home, Mt. Abu
Ajay Bhatt is Manager of the WelcomHeritage Connaught Home, Mount Abu. Earlier he was Resident Manager(RM) with the Dalmia Resorts, Mussoorie.
Nitin Kumar Aggarwal is RM, Balsamand Palace
Nitin Kumar Aggarwal has been appointed as Resident Manager , WelcomHeritage Balsamand Palace ,Jodhpur. Earlier he was associated with the Taj group & the Hyatt.
Apeejay group to set up Ship Building Yard in Orissa
Orissa government on June 03,2008 has cleared the proposal of
leading shipping Company Apeejay Shipping Limited to set up a
Ship Building Yard & Ship Repairing project at Dhamra in the east coast. The Rs.2200 crore ambitious Ship Building project was cleared by the High Level Clearance Authority (HLCA) headed by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at its 9th meeting . Apeejay would float a new Company -Oceanic Shipyard Limited to build and run the Dhamra Project which is targeted to be commissioned in five years time since the full acquistion of required 1050 acares of land.
Abhishek Verma joins Neo Sports Broadcast

Neo Sports Broadcast has appointed Abhishek Verma as Head of Marketing & communications.

FORUM
Regarding raise in retirement age from 60 to 62
It should be effective from January 2009. Last time the raise was announced on 12th May 1998 and some people missed the bus by 12 days. But it is not necessary for the precedence to become rule. Eh koi zaroori to nahin ki ghoda hamesha dhai chaal hi chalega!
MRP
Proposal to raise retirement age
If your Reports are to be believed, then the P M has delayed the prpoposal for extension of retirement age. If he goes on delaying further then he will be blamed for favouritism. So as stated by one of your readers the proposal, if is to be implemented, should be done immediately from June. The PM should not expose himself to criticism unnecessarily. He is already paying lot of price for various commissions and omissions of his coalition partners like the Left, DMK etc. This will affect Congress chances in the polls more than anything else.
Verghese Kurien
Corruption in IAS
During a batch get together held in Delhi the main topic of discussion was rapidly growing corruption levels among the officers especially among the younger generations who are looking for quick kill. During discussion a northern state was rated to the most corrupt cadre and WB as the least. It seems that ED while going through some hawala investigations was dumbstuck to know that many of the officers from Punjab were owning properties worth crores in UK and Canada. The file was given a quite burial to avoid major embarrassment for the service. On the positive side there were many inspiring stories of those selfless public servants who maintained there integrity and conduct amongst all this nonsense.
Purohit
CBDT orders
At last, the mighty CBDT woke up to the fact of passing orders - a transparent and legitimate order. It is to be seen whether he is a man of honour or a man who would get a with peaceful retirement.
Raaghurane
UPSC affair
UPSC has gone beyond the stipulated 15 day period to release mark sheets for CSE 2007 and DOPT is delaying the release of a revised merit list despite the stay order. What are they waiting for? Precious years of youth (those who appeared at the interview) of this country are being wasted by one delay after another! Kindly publish this on behalf of the Aspirants. The anguish and resentment with UPSC and DOPT is growing in the student community, both reserved and unreserved.
Aspirant
Predicament of the Stenographers' Cadre as a whole in CSSS
Two my colleagues - one from CSS and another from CSSS- were arguing that promotional avenues of a Stenographer in CSSS are better than the CSS and vice versa. Finally, when they felt exhausted, they asked me, I happened to be their neutral friend, to decide as to whose promotional avenues are better. They handed over me a paper downloaded from http://persmin.gov.in/CSWing/CSDivision/CSMainMenu.htm regarding the sanctioned strength of the CSS and CSSS. I studied the paper carefully and went service-wise as follows:
CSS
Assistant to Section Officer
There are a total 4905 Assistants and for their next promotion as Section Officer, there are 3005 posts which in percentage terms comes to 61.26 per cent;
Section officer to Under Secretary
There are 3005 Section Officers and for their promotion as Under Secretary, there are 1410 posts which in percentage terms comes to 46.92 per cent;
Under Secretary to Deputy Secretary
There are a total of 1410 posts of Under Secretaries and for their next promotion as Deputy Secretary, there are 333 posts of Deputy Secretary which in percentage terms comes to 23.61 per cent;
Deputy Secretry to Director
There are a total of 333 posts of Deputy Secretary and for their next promotion as Director, there are 113 posts in which percentage terms comes to 33.93 per cent
CSSS
Personal Assistant to Private Secretary
There are a total of 2793 post of PA and for their next promotion as PS, there are 1650 posts which in percentage terms comes to 59.07 per cent;
Private Secretary to Principal Private Secretary
There are a total of 1650 posts of PS and for their next promotion as PPS, there are 130 post which in percentage terms comes to 7.87 per cent.
Principal Private Secretary to Senior Prinicipal Private Secretary
There are total of 130 posts of PPS and for their next promotion as SPPS, there are 68 posts which in percentage terms comes to 52.30 per cent. The figure 52.30 per cent in respect of promotion from PPS to SPPS is more just because both the cadres have lesser number of posts. In fact, this is lethal to the Stenographers' Cadre. It would kill the career progression of about 95% of incumbents due to lesser number of posts at the level of both PPS and SPPS and due to the fact that the incumbents who have till now made it to PPS and SPPS are young in age thus creating a ghostly level of stagnation in the Stenographers' Cadre starting from the grade of a PA/Stenographer.
Senior Principal Private Secretary to -------------------
There is no further promotion line as on today. However, 6th CPC has recommended creation of a Director level posts to be designated as PSO. This would be in nature of upgradation only and its limit is just 15% of the posts of SPPS which means only 10 posts of PSO. In percentage terms, it would be just 14%.
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I concluded and conveyed to my colleagues that CSS is better placed as regards promotion. The promotional avenues available to Stenographers are virtually negligible.
Encouraged with my conclusion, my Stenographer colleague further opened up and told me that Government of India has stopped the lateral entry of Stenographers at the level of Under Secretary because it is of the opinion that the promotional avenues available to CSSS are equivalent to the avenues available to CSS. He further added that GoI has done so in order to make the promotional avenues of Stenographers better. However, it is totally untrue as would the comparison above depict. Stoppage of lateral has in fact made the stagnation in CSSS more acute than before.
In my view, GoI should either continue with the lateral entry dispensation or create a comparable number of promotional avenues for CSSS at various grades. This would ensure an atmosphere of congeniality and bonhomie leading to efficiency and output. There is one more option that 6th CPC has recommended, viz, the merger of the Stenographers' Cadre into CSS which in my view could prove to be the panacea for the maladies that both CSS and CSSS quite often undergo.
SK Kalemama
Police dog squad
The only reason why the Police Dog Squad in India is so highly regarded is because the police dogs have such high levels of integrity. So far no police dog has ever been accused of demanding bribes or making dishonourable compromises with politicians for the sake of their careers. No vigilance enquiry for amassing wealth disproportionate to known source of income has ever been instituted against a police dog. Nor do they seek media attention like so many of their peers on two legs. What is the reason for this difference? Their high standards are because they have been appointed on merit and merit alone on the basis of examinations conducted by the Police Department. There is no caste based reservation for mongrels and other street dogs, Menaka Gandhi's lobby notwithstanding. There is none of the claptrap about providing employment to the weaker sections of canine society. And the result is there for the whole world to see. Why are the armed forces and the private sector and corporate houses still respected in India? Only because they do not have caste based reservations. At the rate we are reserving government jobs , including in top services like the IAS and IPS ,for the so- called weaker sections of society we will end up with illiterates and buffoons as Chief Secretaries and Directors-Generals of Police. We had a foretaste of such buffoonery in the press conference held by IG Meerut Range recently over the Arushi Talwar murder case. All this is because of the promiscuous reservation policy in AIS services.Thank God there is no caste based reservation in the Police Dog Squad!
D Choudhury