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Two dozen 1976 batch IPS officers empanelled
Over two dozen 1976 batch IPS officers have been empanelled to the rank of ADG in the Government of India.Meeting for empanelment took place on Tuesday.
Retired Secretaries will decide empanelment
If informed sources are to be believed, there is going to be a central valuation of CRs for empanelment in the Government of India. Now retired Secretaries will sit for about two weeks to assess the CRs to decide empanelment.
ACC to clear Empanelment of 1989 batch IAS
The ACC is expected to clear empanelment of 1989 batch IAS officers to the rank of Joint Secretary in the Government of India next week. Altogether 50 bureaucrats of 90 IAS officers have made it to the final list.
Sanat Kumar is now AS & FA HRD
Sanat Kumar is now Additional Secretary and FA in the Ministry of Human Resource Development.He is 1973 batch CSS officer.
SPG Chief empanelled
Special Protection Group (SPG) Chief Bharat Vir Wanchoo has been empanelled to the rank of ADG in the Government of India.He is 1976 batch IPS officer of West Bengal cadre.
Are in situ promotions being misused?
Are in situ promotions being misused? This question is doing rounds in corridors of power because policy of pick & choose is amplified in posting of Secretary officers in Government of India(GOI).
Rajesh Verma is to be CVO of REC
Rajesh Verma is being appointed CVO of the Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) next month.He is 1987 batch IAS officer of Orissa cadre. He is presently JS and FA in the Ministry of Power.
( We said this on November 4)
Will Lokesh Chandra replace Saunik ?
Lokesh Chandra is likely to succeed Manoj Saunik as PS to Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. He is 1993 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.
IPS officer to be a Professor ?
1973 batch IPS officer of UP cadre, SK Rizvi, who is retiring on November 30,2008, is likely to take up an assignment as a Professor of Criminal Justice in a US university in Arizona. Interestingly,he entered IPS with a B.Tech degree from IIT Kanpur and is leaving with a Ph.D on Global Terrorism.
Has Cabinet Secretary had a change of heart ?
Has Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrasekhar had a change of heart? This question is doing rounds in corridors of power because until a few months back it was a perception among bureaucrats that he does not want to jump the criteria of seniority while appointments of bureaucrats were being done on Central deputation.
Virk is now most senior serving IPS officer
After the retirement of R K Das, Maharashtra cadre 1970 batch IPS officer S S Virk is the most seniorserving IPS officer in the country. He will retire on August 1 next year.
Airlines adopt austerity measures
In order to stem the heat of Economic meltdown airline companies have resorted to a number of austerity measures like curtailing inflight snacks that are served to passengers.
IGI more cluttered
Airline companies & its passengers are having a harrowing time because real winter is yet to reach Delhi, but at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport arrival & take off of flights is getting delayed. So much so that aviation companies are incurring wrath of passengers while causing a bigger hole in their pocket by way of consuming extra fuel when their aircrafts have to wait in the take off area. Surprisingly this is happening when the IGI has recently opened its 3rd runway.
Brahmins tilting towards BSP
The formula of social engineering adopted by Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) adopted by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister & BSP supreme, Ms. Mayawati, seems to be paying good dividends to the BSP. There are reports that Brahmins & many Thakurs too are tilting towards the party.
Lt Gen Thanburaj appointed Army Vice Chief
Army's Southern Command chief Lt. Gen. Noble Thamburaj has been appointed as the next Army Vice- Chief.
CVC orders probe against Pradip Mehra
As the grapevine has it Pratyush Sinha Chief Vigilance Commissioner(CVC)has ordered a vigilance probe against Pradip Mehra Advisor to Gen.S.F.Rodrigues Administrator of the Union Territory (UT)of Chandigarh.The probe has been ordered against Mehra for alleged misuse of funds for getting his government accommodation in Delhi.Mehra is an IAS officer of the UT cadre who belongs to the 1975 batch.
Ms.Uma Bharati causing a concern for BJP
Barely a week after assembly polls will be held in Madhya Pradesh.However,the manner in which Ms.Uma Bharati founder president of Bhartiya Jan Shakti Party(BJSP)is making inroads in the state,has raised an alarm bell for leaders of ruling Bhartiya Janata Party(BJP).
Rajdeep Sardesai to head Editors' Guild
Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief, IBN Network, was elected as President of Editors' Guild of India during recently held polls.He was elected unopposed. K Sachidananda Murthy, Resident Editor - Delhi, The Week & India TV COO Rohit Bansal were elected as general secretary & treasurer,respectively.
IRS officers shifted
Two Indian Revenue Service(IRS) officers have been posted in the CBDT.They are:Virender Singh & P.K.Singh who have been posted as OSD(TPL) & OSD( V & L)respectively.So far they were in DLIT,Delhi Region
Anil Kumar gets additional charge
Secretary Child and Women Welfare Anil Kumar has been additional charge of the Secretary Social Justice till November 23.Secretary Social Justice K M Acharya has gone on a leave.

CORPORATE
No suitable candidate found for BHEL's Director (R&D) post
As the grapevine has it, no suitable candidate was found for the post of Director Research & Development in BHEL. The slot falls vacant as present incumbent CP Singh is going to be CMD of a joint venture that has been formed by BHEL & NTPC.
Shashi Sharma promoted in IFCI
Ms Shashi Sharma has been promoted from General Manager to Chief General Manager (Treasury) in the Industrial Finance Corporation of India Ltd..
HSBC to cut 500 jobs in Asia
HSBC is reportedly planning to cut 500 jobs in Asia due to the global economic slump.

Aaj Ki Aawaz
People of Kashmir have voted!!!
The turnout the world has noted!!!
Hurriyat should now realize that Kashmiris want azaadi from terror and barbaadi!!!!
This vote means from Hurriyat Kashmiris want azaadi!!!
PC says by year end Indian economy will bounce back!!
Writing on the wall is that economy will crack!!!!
Earnings and growth will fall,
Recession iss ko karte hai call!!!
PC's fibbing when he says that India is just facing recession aftershocks!!!!
His stance really shocks!!!!
But why is Sonia not willing to let PC go!!!!
Understand Manmohan wanted Shivraj and PC to go but Sonia said no!!!!
Shivraj is an old Gandhi family retainer or politely ardent spoon!!!!
But why did Sonia say no to PC's shifting saying that for the economy he was a boon?
Its now proved that for Indian economy he's a curse!!!
And this is just the start as downturn is going to get worse!!!
For one get ready for lay-offs galore!!!
A spate of lay-offs are in store!!!
Rajnath has said that Rahul is a bachcha,
You be the judge if he's being sachaa!!!!
Rahul says that 70% of Indians are bachchas like him!!!!
But the Sarkaar does not dance to 70% of Indians whim!!!!
Sarkaar dances to Rahul's whim and he is also aiming for the top slot!!!!
And many would worry that at the helm we could have a tot (bachcha)!!!!
Rahul should have ignored Rajnath's barb!!!
Digested barb with reality check and patience ka bi-carb!!
As the election scene gets hot more and more barbs will be thrown at him!!!!
Responding to all the barbs would indeed be something very dim!!!
I feel Rahul's think tank is letting him down!!!!!
In a recent rally in Chattisgarh what transpired must have made Sonia frown!!!
His not getting through to the locals caused him face loss!!!!
In his speech just a few local words he did toss!!!!
He needs to understand that his dimples look good,
But if he wants to get through to people he has to be understood!!!
His reminder that only 10% is reaching the Public hurts Congress the maximum!!!!
People are not fools so on such a touchy issue its better to keep mum!!!
He should realize that public feels Congress is fountainhead of corruption!!!!
People feel that Congress is behind corruption's eruption!!!
Natwar Singh has been shown the door by Maya!!!!
Natwar ne firr gotta ( gone underwater) khaya!!!!
Now when he surfaces which Party will he join???
And for his booting from BSP what phrase will he coin????
Mulayam and gang will keep a distance from him!!!!!
They know that any proximity with Natwar will be taken by Congress as grim!!
From politics Natwar should retire!!!!
From being booted out so often by now ho jaana chahiye Natwar ko tire!!!!
Confucius says….. people like Natwar and PC who are arrogant meet a booting out fate!
And with such a fate in due course PC too has a date!!!

Bharat Kumar

Forum
will the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad qualify?
I have a query which I would request esteemed readers to answer. GoI (DoPT) has a scheme of partial funding of foreign study under which it gives 25000 USD for any course in the top 200 institutions, as per the QS rankings across the world.
For MBA courses, the Financial Times rankings are more relevant and so will the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, which is ranked 20 in the world as per Financial Times rankings qualify for accessing partial funding.
A Singh
Response of IRS officers not understandable
Response of the IRS officers to the post of AK was not understandable. Do they mean to say that tax department has no corruption or that whatever corruption is taking place that is at lower levels? Does it not sound to be a naive argument?
Second argument that seems to be extended is that there is more corruption in other areas like FCI, urban develoment authorities, various other state departments? Does that justifies the corruption in tax department? Do the two wrongs make one right? Do the people of this country should now start debating who is more corrupt IAS or IRS or should they be looking for a clean administration?
Third argument that is being extended is that IAS enjoys better facilities than IRS and hence there is justification in the corruption of IRS. This argument does not hold water as then the levels of corruption in services other than IRS would have been as high as that in IRS. It has to be agrred that the corruption is a ofshoot of discretions vested in the Income Tax act whic provides vast powers to the assessing officers consequently raising their nuisance value resulting in corruption. If these powers are regulated and tax administration rationalized then there would be perceptible change in the levels of corruption in the tax department. The same argument holds good for other areas of governance be it FCI, Urban Development bodies, rural development departments etc.
Let us get realistic and suggest concrete measures to all pervading corruption. For this the level of the debate certainly shall have to raised above the inter-services rivalries.
GB
We are fixated only with growth and stock market
At present we seem to be fixated only with growth and stock market. Well stocks had gone up to unimaginable levels only because of greed with prices being extravagant. Now the promoters are talking as if 21000 level should be the threshold! Can anyone explain how in the Indian context of 10% inflation , a P/E of more than 8 is justified! The price of a share is based on income potential and if it cannot earn even 12.5% for the company is it justified!
As for liquidity, won't it increase inflation, is 10% inflation justified! any developed country example!
Instead of jobless growth , we should spend public funds on infrastructure we need to create jobs, and help labour intensive MSMEs, to create jobs.
Why increase interest rate for NRIs? They wont do charity! If we need dollars /FE, we should allow all foreigners to keep money in deposits in India, to boost hot money, if we need it so badly! Why only NRIs?
Let the stock market find its own level! Was 5 times jump in 2 years justified even with a 9% growth! Unfortuntely the savings of common households is being eroded ( FDs and PFs ) we should think of them also and not increase liquidity at the behest of one section only.
With global recession we cannot have growth and we should allow things to settle. After we had the hindu rate of growth for decades, we can bear with it during this crisis!
S Chatterjee
All would welcome Secretary (Personnel) decision
Ideally, any person with even ordinary prudence will welcome the decision of Secretary (Personnel) to stop the ad-hoc promotions in CSS. But the situation in CSS is not even normal what to say of ideal. It has been divided in so many layers and no principle of natural justice (even the instructions issued by DoPT itself) is followed in the case of CSS. I have been promoted as Under Secretary 3 years back after putting 16 years of service but still continuing on ad-hoc basis. On the same time my some colleague from the same select year is officiating as Deputy Secretary. Regular select list of 2003 for the Under Secretaries are yet to be finalised. Reasons can not be bonafide and DoPT , in all fairness, is in defenseless situation. Therefore, the directive by the Secretary (Personnel) is welcome one but directive should be followed by a time-bound action plan. Otherwise, the person may retire as Under Secretary and will be killed in goodness. If Secretary (Personnel) real meant to implement its decision, then he should also give directive to CS Division to act in a time-bound manner and it should not happen like that select list for 2003 for Under Secretaries has not even gained momentum after 6 years.
P N Shukla
The suggestion is baseless!
The suggestion of the civil servants of 1983 batch for institutionalising such get-togethers ( for all batches of civil services) by the Govt. is absurd per se. These are personal matters and must continue to remain so. I believe, the successive Cabinet Secretaries have been holding similar get-togethers for all batches of their fraternity(IAS) year after year. The non-IAS services are considered persona non grata! The analogy with the Armed Forces is misplaced. Let us not talk of mollycoddling the civil services any more.
Instead, the Government must focus on removing the artificial distinctions created among various services.
A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)