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1978 batch IAS empanelment next month
Altogether sixty two IAS officers belonging to 1978 batch are believed to have been short-listed for the empanelment to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India. Meeting for empanelment is expected to take place in April. Those who are posted abroad and those who have not served the GoI in any capacity will be empanelled or not is yet to be ascertained. Those who reportedly short-listed are :- Mssrs Vivek Rai, R Chandra Mohan, K S Mehra, R Bhattacharya, Ms Jayashree Watal, R P Watal, S K Srivastava, Ashiqi Ibrahimi, Ms Subha Kirti Majumdar, S Minz, P Panneervel, M M Srivastava, Ms Lakshmi Venkatachalam, Arvind Jadhav, K N Srivastava, R N Shastri, P Prabhakaran, K Jayakumar, K Ramamoorthy, Sanjay Kothari, Ms Shakuntala Jakhu, Sudripto Roy, Parthsarthi Mitra, R S Sharma, U K Sangama, R Parsuram, Atindra Sen, Ashok Das, Dr J M Phatak, Rahul Asthana, A K Mangotra, R K Vaish, R C Mishra, P B O Warjri, Gokul Chandra Pati, Aurbindo Behera, V N Gaur, Rakesh Singh, Sudhir Mittal, Arvind Mayaram, Rajiv Mahrishi , Ashish Bahuguna, Ram Lubhaya, K Vijay Kumar, Deepak Jain, Jawaed Usmani, Saurabh Chandra, Alok Ranjan, Lov Verma, Prem Narain, Anoop Mishra, Sudhir Kumar, Pankaj Agrawal, Stuti Narain Kackar, Desh Deepak Verma, Harminder Singh, G B Pattanaik, V Rajgopalan, Govindan Nair, K N Desiraju, D K Chakraborti and T N Barman.
Kesari is Joint Secretary Power
I C P Kesari has joined the Ministry of Power in the Government of India as Joint Secretary. He is 1988 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre. Prior to this assignment Kesari was PS to Union Commerce Minister Kamal Nath.
Justice Ganguly to be CJ of Madras High Court ?
Grapevine has it that Justice A K Ganguly is being moved to Madras High Court as Chief Justice. He is presently Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court.
Jyoti Arora to be Home Secretary Chandigarh ?
Jyoti Arora is likely to be appointed Home Secretary of the Chandigarh Administration. She is 1987 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.
Kalsi to join GoI this month
NS Kalsi is joining the Government of India this month as Joint Secretary Home in the Government of India. He is 1984 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre.
Who shall be the Next Member(Finance) Telecom Commission?
R. Ashok from IRAS is leading in the race of Member (Finance) Telecom commission. Mrs. Shaukat A. Tirmizi and O.P. Veer from Indian P&T Finance Service (1975 batch) are legging behind. When will the Indian P&T Finance Service open account for Member(F), however other Members of TC are posted from ITS?
Retirement age of BIFR Chairman to go up ?
Grapevine has it that retirement age of BIFR Chairman A K Goswami is being raised to 68 years.
Private players eyeing for HSL
As the grapevine has it private players are trying to acquire the Vishakhapatnam located Hindustan Shipyard Ltd (HSL) of the Indian Shipping Ministry.
Bharti Prasad is new Dy CAG
Bharti Prasad, Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General (Commercial)-cum-Chairperson Audit Board has taken over as Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General. She will continue to hold charge of the post of Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General (Commercial)-cum-Chairperson Audit Board, as an additional charge until further orders.
Chhabra gets additional charge of Secretary SAI
SS Chhabra Director (International Sports Division) in the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports has been given additional charge of Secretary, Sports Authority of India. He is 1993 batch IFS officer.
Petroleum Ministry to pick up ED PCRA
Petroleum Ministry is going to decide regarding next Executive Director(ED)Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA). Unlike the past its not essential that the post may go to an IAS officer. This time even a professional stands changes of becoming ED PCRA. Earlier Ravi Capoor was ED PCRA.
IAS reshuffle in Karnataka
Dr S M Jaamdar has been appointed Managing Director of Karnataka Power Corporation Limited, Bangalore, in place of L V Nagarajan. D Thangaraj will now be Principal Secretary to Revenue Department. Siddaiah will be new Commissioner for Bangalore Development Authority. M K Shankarlinge Gowda has been made Secretary Medical Education. D Thangaraj has been transferred as Principal Secretary, Revenue Department. K. Amaranarayana has been posted as Additional Secretary, Finance Commission Cell. N Channappa Gowda has been appointed MD of Food and Civil Supplies Corporation, Bangalore
IAS shake-up in Bihar
There is major IAS reshuffle in Bihar.65 IAS officers have been reshuffled.New postings are :- Mssrs Pancham Lal Principal Secretary Panchayati Raj,A K Sinha Principal Secretary Industries,B B Srivastava Member Board of Revenue.H C Sirohi Principal Secretary Rural Development,C Ashokvardhan PS Revenue,Ajay Nayak Secretary Water Resources,Tripurari Sharan Secretary Food,S Shiv Kumar Secretary PWD,Dr Deepak Prasad Divisional Commissioner Munger,Brijesh Mehrotra Divisional Commissioner Darbhanga,C Vijaylaxmi Production Commissioner,Mihir Kumar Singh CEO Patna Municipal Corporation,Rana Avdesh DM Jamui,Narsimha Upadhyay Commissioner Cooperative Societies, Upendra Sharma Director Toursim,Suman Kumar Joint Development Commissioner RD ,Upendra Kumar Rai Labour Commissioner,B Rajinder Director Agriculture,Masood Hassan Director Social Welfare,Daya Shankar Pandey Director Land Records,Vishnu Deo Singh Additional Secretary PWD,Anand Kishore Director Mid day Food Scheme,Jeevan Kumar Sinha Director Beta,Rahul Singh Personnel Department.K Senthil Kumar Additional Secretary RD,Vinay Kumar MD Brewraies Corporation,Jitendra Srivastava Joint Secretary Finance,N Sarvan Kumar Director Animal Husbandary,Mayank Barvade Director Panchayti Raj,Ram Shobhit Paswan DM Aurangabad,Pran Mohan Thakur DM Lakhi Sarai,Vinay Kumar DM Sitamarhi. Jitendra Kumar Sinha DM Patna,Vipin Kumar DM Muzapparpur,Vaidya Nath Prasad DM Kemur,Uday Narain Thakur DM Khagaria,Suresh Prasad Singh DM Shivhar,Indra Sen Singh DM Arriya,Arun Prasad DM Darbhanga,Dilip Kumar DM West Champaran,Vimla Nand Jha DM Arwal,Firaq Ahmad DM Kishan Ganj,Yogendra Bhakt DM Navada,Gareeb Sahu DM Sahrsa,Ashish Kumar DM Banka,Anupam Kumar DM Nalanda,Lokesh Kumar Singh DM Munger,A Chava DM Samastipur,Kamal Kumar Sinha DM Buxer,D Verma DM Katihar,Santosh Kumar Mall DM Bhojpur,Pankaj Kumar DM Madhubani,Sanjay Kumar Singh DM Gaya,Narmadeshwar Lal DM East Champaran, Vandana Preyasi DM Diwan,H Alam MD Text Book Corporation.
Why did AP Chief Secretary proceed on leave ?
A Raghothama Rao who has been appointed Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh only for two months has suddenly proceeded on 15 days leave? Any significance. Meanwhile P Ramakantha Reddy, Chief Commissioner of Land Administration has assumed charge as Chief Secretary on Saturday for a temporary period of 15 days.
Six CCIT posts vacant
Six posts of Chief Commissioners of Income-Tax including two each in Chennai and Delhi, are vacant across the country.
Civil Services day on April 21
Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances is organising 'Civil Service Day' on 21st April in Vigyan Bhawan which will be inaugurated by the Prime Minister. On this occasion, an Exhibition on "Innovations in Administration" is also proposed to be put up. As a part of this Exhibition, organisers are displaying books written by civil servants of various civil services published in the last five years. Anybody interested in getting his book displayed can either send the information i.e. name of the title, year of publication and name and address of the publisher or provide a copy on loan basis for the display. The information could be given at ranjanalok_cal@yahoo.co.in or talk to me at 91-11-23360369 Mob. 09868106643.

Give Chance to Younger Generation
A debate for increase of retirement age is very hot on this website. A logic regarding increase in the retirement age that if people turn senile at 60, then most Cabinet Ministers, Judges, Presidents of political parties would be senile and unfit to work, is not tenable. The basic idea to keep the retirement age at 60 is to provide an opportunity to the younger generation. To make the qualified youths idle is not in the interest of the country.
H.K.Deewan

Right age of retirement is 65 years
It is heartening to see that the government has recognised that the retirement age is now being increased to 65 years of ITAT. This shows that the right age for retirement for government employees now should be 65 years in view of the general health conditions and their ability to work and give the benefit of their experience to the government itself. Why government should loose this benefit especially when employment avenues in private sector is tremendous and new comers are preferring private sector because of the big pay package being offered to them. In view of the above reasons it would be prudent and in the interest of the government to immediately raise the retirement age of all central government employees to 65 years immediately.
D K Singh

It is easy to criticize others
This is in response to TT Ram's remarks about PAs cadre. This is pucca that he belongs to CSS so is giving a reverse picture. In practice, you peep in any room of any Ministry and you'll find that no body is there in the office before 10 O'clock in the morning (whereas the official timings are 9O'clock). Coming to seat, they prefer to relax for a cup of tea after 11.30 and lunch hour starts from 12.30pm and remains in current upto 2.30p.m. or even more. After 4.30pm, the strength of sections start depleting. So what is the contribution of UDC/Assistant? May be submitting the files, with remarks, 'placed below is the FR for kind perusal and further directions'! It is easy to criticise others.
S K Gupta

Designation can not be declared as dead
Comments on T Ram
What I expressed was PAs and Stenos are at present doing the bulk of the job than PS/PPs/Sr.PPs. You can't declare PAs and Stenos dead as they are assisting the senior officers by sitting late. What I meant to say was that from Steno Grade 'D' to Sr.PPs, so many designation should not be there. Instead there should be only 3 and three good remunerative scales should be given and all should be held responsible in disposing of their duties. If this is not possible, they Steno Grade 'D' and 'C' should be given good extra allowance for working after office hours as in the case of PSUs. This may also tempt the PS/PPs/Sr.PPs to sit late for this allowance instead of Grade'D' and 'C' and they may change their attitude. So therefore any designation cannot be declared 'dead' just like that. In that case nearly 50% of the designation in Government Ministries should cease to exist.
Rajesh

Yes they needed to be declared dead
I think that DOPT has already taken measures to declare dead the cadres which needed to be declared dead. That clears the picture as to who is doing what in Government Departments. Lets us not fight over which cadre should be declared dead, lets broaden our approach and think of what is better in toto for Govt. Servants (in general and no one in particular) rather than throwing mud at each other. Grow up.
Vandana Sharma

It is disappointing
Please refer to your news item on whisper dated 13.3.2008
It was disappointing to note that the retirement age of ITAT Chairman has been raised to 65.
RS Yadav

PA and PS are backbone
PA, PS, PPS and Sr PPS are back bone for smooth functioning in Central Secretariat. They are the people who finish their job within one hour of assignment. The system depend on their assistance.
Gosain

DoPT has already taken measures
I think that DOPT has already taken measures to declare dead the cadres which needed to be declared dead. That clears the picture as to who is doing what in Government Departments. Lets us not fight over which cadre should be declared dead, lets broaden our approach and think of what is better in toto for Govt. Servants (in general and no one in particular) rather than throwing mud at each other. Grow up.
Vandana Sharma

Was she not killed in India ?
I think Choudhary is not appreciating the point concerned in the scarlette murder case. Does he think that if she was drug addict and involved in teeenage sex, her murder was justified.... Chaudhary, if she was drug addict or involved in sex, it was her decision but the fact she was killed in India was not her decision or her will. The fact that she was a foreigner made the case more unfortunate, not the fact the she was the Britisher or white, it would have been equally unfortunate had she been from Nigeria or Angola
Vinay

Media should behave in responsible way
I fully agree with Chaudhury. Media should behave in a responsible way, particularly when the matter relates to some foreign country. It has a direct effect on the tourists and economy. When we compare the quality of coverage and crime files on Indian TV media (private channels), we see how desperate and cheap they have become just for commercial purposes.
Prafulla

NDTV -highlight problems of India
NDTV has started behaving like and imitating CNN and BBC News Channels. Why the hell is it doing so is not known? Com'on NDTV, you are a New Delhi TV. Highlight the problems of India, you will be doing a big favour to the people of India by doing that.
Ravi

Pl have some decency in reporting
These comments are appropriate. NDTV has made a mockery of the news item as though it is the only crime of its kind in the whole world. Worst kind of police bashing and trash reporting. Why can't these channels bring in some professionalism and decency in reporting ? Some channels are specialising only in reporting trash. IBN is another stupid channel. Is making money the only motive for these channels ? Let some better sense prevail on these channel barons.
Rajeeva

What are the prospects ?
What are the prospects in the forthcoming Pay Commission. Are we really going to get something or our condition is likely to remain the same .
Suneel Pathak

Federations of National Games
The national level games federations, currently being run as fiefdoms, could do with some reforms. To begin with, a limit could be placed on the number of terms anyone can have as office bearer of a particular game federation.
S Sharma

There shall be two grades of officers in the country
After publication of sixth pay commission report, there shall be two grades of officers in the country. The central government employees who automatically avail the benefits of new pay scale, and the employees of state government who have to wait indefinitely till the political leadership wish to implement the same, mostly a truncated one. Some state government have not yet implemented many of the benefits of 5th pay commission. It is urged upon all that let the pay scale be implemented uniformly all over the country mutatis-mutandisso that zeal to work is maintained.

Suresh

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EPI CMD interview on 17th
PESB will conduct interview for the post of Chairman-cum-Managing Director in EPI today.
Process to promote AGMs starts in SBI
Process to promote AGMs to DGMs has started in SBI. Of the 320 aspirants screened, 80 are likely to be promoted.
NHPC - no work !
Work is said to be given a second preference in the NHPC these days. On priority is the 'doings and undoings' of the former CMD Yogendra Prasad.
Suresh Babu is MD in Kerala
C. Suresh Babu has been appointed as the Managing Director of Kerala Water Authority (KWA).