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Asha Swarup to be Chief Secretary of Himachal Pradesh !
Grapevine has it that Secretary Information and Broadcasting Asha Swarup is returning to the parent Himachal Pradesh cadre as Chief Secretary in June. She is 1973 batch IAS officer.
Four dozen 1978 batch IAS empanelled
About four dozen IAS officers belonging to 1978 batch are believed to have been empanelled to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India. Meeting for empanelment took place last week.
Who will be Principal Secretary to L K Advani ?
In case NDA comes to power, who is going to be Principal Secretary to Prime Minister L K Advani. Insiders say either former Cabinet Secretary Kamal Pandey or former Secretary Defence Ajay Prasad will be the Principal Secretary.
Sharma to return to MEA Headquarters
India's Ambassador to Suriname A K Sharma is all set to return to the MEA Headquarters as Joint Secretary.
Noreen Naqvi appointed DG Doordarshan
DDG Doordarshan Noreen Naqvi on Monday has been appointed DG Doordarshan. Her name was cleared by the I & B Minister.
( We said this on May 5 and again on May 12)
Will Mandloi move to AIR ?
Will DG Doordarshan L D Mandloi move to the All India Radio as DG ?.One can only wait and watch.
Congress leaders taken to task
Atmosphere was tense on Monday in the AICC Headquarters and it was heard that several Congress leaders were taken to task by the party high command for Karnataka debacle.
Left not to retain present number
It is widely believed in the political circles that Left will not be able to retain present number of seats in the ensuing Lok Sabha polls.
Khan to be DG RNI ?
Senior IIS officer S M Khan is likely to be appointed new Registrar of News Papers in July.
Gautam Chatterjee to be MHADA Chief !
Gautam Chatterjee is being tipped to be new MHADA Chief. 1982 batch IAS officer, Chatterjee, who is currenly CVO of the DVC is returning to the parent Maharashtra cadre next month.
O P Singh to return to UP
IG in the CRPF O P Singh is returning to the parent Uttar Pradesh cadre this week after completion of central deputation tenure. He is 1983 batch IPS officer.
Nair to be IG CRPF
P M Nair is likely to be posted as IG CRPF in Delhi. He is 1978 batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre.
Kapur joins Commonwealth Games Secretariat
Nachiketa Kapur who was removed from PS to MOS Mrs Renuka Choudhry on certain charges has joined Commonwealth Games Secretariat of Suresh Kalmadi. Nobody seems to be watching!.
Verma moves to Agra
UK Verma DPS Bareilly has been moved to DPS Agra. He is 1995 batch Indian Postal Service officer.
Gupta is Judicial Member CAT in Jabalpur
M K Gupta has been moved from Delhi to Jabalpur as Judicial Member of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT).
Three IAS take VRS in UP
P K Mishra is the third IAS officer to take voluntary retirement from service in Uttar Pradesh after former Chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Board of Revenue 1971 batch IAS officer Neera Yadav and 1972 batch IAS officer Manjulika Gautam.
Two foreign posts lying vacant
The posts of first secretary Singapore and Mauritius for CBDT may expire by June 10 as this post has been not filled for the last one year. Why posts are not being filled up.
IPS changes in UP
Abhimanyu Tripathi has been appointed DIG Azamgarh.V K Vajpayee will be IG Railways Allahabad.Rajendra Pal Singh has been made IG Prosecution. Rajendra Prasad Singh has been posted as IG Special Enquiries and Anand Kumar will be DIG Prosecution.
Thakur to be posted in Faridabad
Samar Kant Thakur, Director (Admn/Hqr) (1993 batch IAAS) in the O/o Director General of Audit, Defence Services, New Delhi, is likely to be placed at the disposal of the Government of India for appointment as Finance & Accounts Officer (Director level) in the Central Ground Water Board, Faridabad.
We said this on April 28 and again on May 3
Independent pre Assembly poll survey in Karnataka
An independent survey in Karnataka by whispersinthecorridors.com shows that the BJP is ahead in the Vidhan Sabha polls at the moment.
BJP ahead in Karnataka-IB report
Congress leaders are a worried lot as an Intelligence Bureau (IB) report has reportedly stated that the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is way ahead of the Congress party. The Congress is so far ranked on number two slots in Karnataka.

Abbe to be CMD of NEEPCO !
V K Abbe is being tipped to be new CMD of the North East Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) .Abbe who is presently ED in the NHPC is expected to take over on July 1.
AAI Member Planning & Administration interview from today
PESB will conduct interview for the post of Member Planning & Administration in Airport Authority of India (AAI ) on 27th and 28th of this month.
Sankaran appointed Director
K. V. Sankaran has been appointed director of the Kerala Forest Reseach Institute.
MDLR not buyingTotal TV
Rumours have been found baseless that MDLR is trying to buy Total TV . There is no substance in the rumour.

Aaj Ki Aawaz
Rather than looking at the real reasons Congress is looking to save Sonia's skin,
Do you think it was infighting that did Congress in???

What did Congress in was the pathetic performance of Central Sarkaar ,
And this is responsible for Congress's haar!!!!

Paapi stomach is closest to people's dill!!!
And galloping inflation proved to be a really very bitter pill!!!!

People also feel that Congress is not serious on tackling terrorism,
They feel when there are terror attacks Congress indulges in sheer opportunism!!!

Rather than going hammer and tongs after terror outfits Congress pleases its Vote Bank!!
Underplays every terror attack to show as if it was just a prank!!!

Tale of two vakeels……one wins elections and the other gives excuses!!!
Jaitley wins elections and Sibal gives excuses for flopping and his lawyer skills he uses!

Now for Congress's poor showing Kapil has been given the 'safai' denne ka kaam!!!
Arre Bhai joh safai karta hai safai karamchari is his or her naam!!!

In Congress one has to be flexible ….one day Mantri and next day safai karamchari!!!!
And kabhi bhi aa sakthi hai Congress me job switch ki baari (turn)!!!!

Like take Manmohan….. he's the PM and many times he's had to professionally paint!!!!
He's had to become a painter and whitewash taint!!!!

Some Congressis are quoting IBN and saying that Congress's seats have gone up,
Will Sonia believe this gupp???

Madam Ji take my advise it's now or never!!!!
Though I do agree in politics there can never be a forever!!!

I know your cutlery tells you that on the horizon they can see good days,
Rely on what your gut feeling says!!!!

Would you vote for a Party that's just brought you woes????
Jaisi karni waisi bharni the limerick goes!!!

The farmer loan waivers have been factored in and so have the other sops,
Recent elections should have shown you that despite these Congress badly hops!!!

Yes secularism is the stick it uses to hobble along!!!
And by the looks of it this stick is not going to last for very long!!!

Congress is more like a dinosaur bent on going extinct..... slowly but surely!!!!
Thought in recent times to do so its shown hurly-burly !!!!

What made President Patil pose with an AK 47 gun or bandook????
Many this sight would spook!!!!

In fact Congress would be most pained at this pic!!!!
Maybe privately Sonia Pratibha ko karre gi tick!!!

'Bindiya aur bandook' is the caption of this pic!!!!
Though Patil may say for bindiya power in the Armed Forces gun she did pick!!!

PC is working of different ways to pass over the fuel pain,
But he's not willing to look at the taxes and duties which are the actual bane!!!

With Deora on reduction of taxes and duties karr raha hai duel,
And he's toying with the a ludicrous idea of 'market rate' City fuel!!!!

PC means Preposterous Chidambram….. such an idea can only come from him!!!!
Believe me he's like a cellphone that's without a SIM!!!!

Totally disconnected and on his own trip,
Just hope Sonia has Manmohan to take out his leg aur karre PC ko trip!!!!

North has been having some very pleasant weather when it should be burning hot!!!
In a worried mindset mujh ko this has got!!!!

Could this be the harbinger for monsoon being woefully deficient????
Because it's the heat in the plains that makes the monsoon's reach efficient!!!!

Folklore says ' jitna nikle ga paseena utni barrse gi barsaat',
Sweat in the plains because of the heat has in the monsoons a big haath!!!

Monsoon rains,
Are directly proportional to the flow of sweat in the plains!!

Confucius says… Abh ke barass badal re .....megh barsaana chamma chamm ke!!!!!
Dagaabaaz bann ke dagha matt dena re!!!!!

Bharat Kumar
Aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

FORUM
We are proud of P K Mishra
Inspired by the letter of Pragya Mishra, the voice of young India, I will like to place, in your website Forum, my admiration for Prashant Mishra, former Chief Secretary, Uttar Pradesh, for his decision to quit, thus upholding the honour & dignity of All India Services. The only matching example I can recall was that of the then Union Home Secretary Godbole who also believed that principles of life were more important than the mundane pecuniary material benefits of service We in the bureaucracy blame the Politicians for politicalisation of Services as a stratagem to smokescreen the deterioration in the personal values & principles of the members of the services that was once the solid material of the 'steel frame' of governance. It calls for introspection by the members of All India Services to answer to their conscience whether it is our own doing to set our priorities wrong by pacing mundane pecuniary material benefits of service before the principles of life or it is the doing of politicians. Once the mundane pecuniary material benefits become the primary goal of All India Services, then in its pursuit, while in service & even later for getting post retirement crumbs, the focus shifts from good governance to pleasing the political masters who obviously are always too happy to have such a bundle of subservient pliant & compliant members of 'All Ineffectual Services'. We are proud of such officers, though a rare specie nearing extinction, & hope that this generation of AIS will get some inspiration from such exceptional worthy of emulating examples, and be of the same mind to reach a consensus on the values of principles of life. Trusting in God, I hope & trust trust in self awakening of AIS members conscience, & show my solidarity with Mishra & his family.
Divakar Peasad
IPS (Retd)
1968 Vintage
P K Mishra must head LBSNAA
I felt quite moved by Pragya's tribute to her father. The situation in UP has come to a sorry pass, with rampant corruption and caste based politics being the order of the day. Politics has reached its nadir. In fact so we believed when the previous regime of the SP was in power. But under the present dispensation it has hit new lows. In such a situation one can empathise with the angst of an upright officer like PK Mishra, who along with a few others like him (though the numbers of such persons is fast diminishing )find it difficult to survive in the present vitiated milieu. However, PK Mishra is the kind of role model who the present generation of Civil Servants should try to emulate in their conduct and behaviour. Surely, the Central Government should intervene to give him a position from where he could inculcate the right values to the entrants in our civil services. I have the position of the Director of the Lal Bahadur Shashtri Academy of Adimistration in mind. At present career bureucrats are posted as Director, who use it as a stepping stone to get a posting at Secretary level in GOI. Their tenures are short. It would be appropriate to change the policy and appoint someone who has the right credentials for a secure and long tenure to the post. It is in this backdrop that I feel a person like Mishra should head the Academy, which is the crucible for training future generations of our Civil Servants. I should add that I do not know Mishra personally and am not canvassing on his behalf. It is his reputation and the moving words written by his daughter that impelled me to weigh in through your esteemed columns.
P K Lahiri.
Why did Mishra seek VRS ?
W.r.t to Pragya's ode to PK Mishra, it would be in Public interest to let all the readers of this column know the reason which provoked Mishraji to seek VRS.
TS
VRS should not become reason to villify
VRS by some IAS officer for his personal reasons should not become a reason to villify any Chief Minister. Even Rajiv Gandhi got A P Venkateswaran (then Foreign Secretary) to resign and even Shiv Shankar menon's elevation got so many IFS officers to resign.
A K Singh
We will get justice
Apropos the 6th Pay Commission and the changes in IAS Pay Rules to grind the others to dust beneath their jackboots, let me say that we have served the nation with blood and sweat and wear our uniforms proudly. We have put forth our legitimate demands before the Political Executive and will get justice. We will get justice despite the IAS not wanting us to. After all, the ICS never wanted independence for India, but it still happened.
Vijay Kumar
Professional standard of the IPS officers
The handling of Arushi Talwar murder case by UP Police has shocked everyone. Finally, after arresting the prime suspect, the manner in which the worthy IGP of Meerut Zone Gurdarshan Singh held the press conference shown live on the TV, it eroded the residual good image people have been carrying about the IPS Officers. Firstly, there was no need for the IGP to head for the press conference when various aspects of the crime were not yet investigated to draw a clear picture. Even if there was some compulsion, he should have come fully prepared and presented the bare fact, whereas, in the visibly childish enthusiasm he made speculative comments on loose ends without substantive evidence, as if he had talked to the ghosts.
To the dismay of TV viewers, he repeatedly referred the dead girl by incorrect name 'Shruti' and the desperate media representatives literally hooted at him. This press conference was as unprofessional as the investigation. It may be remembered as one of the poorest presentation by an IPS officer seen live on the TV channels. However, he provided enough fodder to the media to keep their viewers busy for the rest of evening slamming the credibility of police. The tally of loose ends highlighted by the media has convinced the people that the case was messed right from day one due to unprofessional police approach. No serious view seems to have been taken by the police hierarchy for such shocking performance of the District Police. One wonders whether the standard of IPS cadre has really stooped so low even in their basic domain of crime management. It raises serious questions as to what has happened to the best brains picked by UPSC for the IPS. Are the best brains covertly divesting their intelligence to other avenues? It also gives credence to the officers of CPMFs who keep making veiled outcries on unprofessional response of the IPS officers joining them on tenure posting in operational fields infested with extremism. Well, while the IPS Association has been making hue and cry against the IAS cadre for pushing them down in the recommendations of the sixth Pay Commission, it is high time they may introspect and take steps to ameliorate their professional image.
S.C.Sharma
Why delay in Sixth Pay Commission
When a committee of three IAS officers is going through the 6 pay commission report there is no reason why it should take more than 48 hours! It is almost a month since the committee was constituted. There seems to be a decline in professional skills these days.
D Choudhury

Dhandlebaaji par excellence
I am constrained to voice my concern once again through this esteemed website against the arbitrary manner in which the norms are being changed year after year by the elite service so as to gradually edge out the non IAS services by making them ineligible to apply for the vacancies of Administrative Members in the several Central Administrative Tribunals located at various stations. Earlier, these posts were open to all the services.
A K Saxena