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Pratyush Sinha for system's improvement
Chief Vigilance Commissioner Pratyush Sinha's emphasis is on improving the system. Sinha, who is an IAS officer of the 1969 batch & belongs to the Bihar cadre told <whispersinthecorridors.com> that efforts were being at all levels to have greater transparency in official working. A special drive for creating awareness has been launched by Sinha during the vigilance awareness week that is going on at present.
Railway GMs transfer stalled
Proposed transfer order of Five General Managers in the Railways has been stalled at the behest of the Cabinet Secretariat.
Subodh Agrawal to be CVO of NHPC
Subodh Agrawal is being tipped to be new CVO of the NHPC. He is 1988 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.
Interviews for DG DD and Akashvani postponed
Finally interviews for the post of DG Doordarshan and Akashvani slated for November 7 have been postponed.What is the gameplan ?.
Deepak Kumar Panwar to take charge today
Deepak Kumar Panwar, an IAS officer of 1974 batch from Andhra Pradesh cadre, is going to be next Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of the Food Corporation of India (FCI).He was relieved by his parent state on Tuesday afternoon. Panwar will assume his charge on November 5,2008.He succeeds Alok Sinha who had superannuate on October 31,2008.So far he was Special Chief Secretary & Chief Commissioner of Land Administration with the Andhra Pradesh Government. Deepak Kumar Panwar has a vast experience of more than six years in food management at the State level, in various capacities such as Commissioner Food and Civil Supplies, Secretary Food & Civil Supplies, Chairman Civil Supplies Corporation, Director Civil Supplies and Collector in East Godavari District, which is the most important district in Andra Pradesh for procurement of rice. It is expected that the said experience will help him in discharging his duties to the satisfaction of the Government of India (GOI).
Bureaucrats reshuffled in Maharashtra
In a reshuffle of IAS officers the Maharashtra Government has posted Sunil Soni(1981 batch) as Secretary Planning.The post had fallen vacant following the retirement of V.K.Agrawal ACS Finance & Planning.Other changes are:Vidhyadhar Kanade (1982 batch)Secretary Finance,Ms.Kavita Gupta (1985 batch)on return from foreign training to Secretary Labour,Pradeep Vyas (1988 batch)Managing Director Maharashtra Agriculture Industries Corporation to Secretary Expenditure(in place of Kanade),Sudhir Shrivastava (1983 batch)Chief Executive Officer(CEO)Maharashtra Maritime Board to Secretary Improvement(Finance department's which was vacant for a long time) & Surendra Bagde (1993 batch)Managing Director Filmcity to Chief Executive Officer(CEO)Maharashtra Maritime Board.
Help of private pilots to be taken for surveillance
As the grapevine has it , chosen by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation(DGCA) will be starting process for trained & qualified pilots of private airlines who will be approved to examine flights as "flight inspectors". This will be done keeping in mind different types of aircrafts that are there with various airlines. As against 12 posts there are only four flight inspectors.
Saxena joins Organising Committee of Commonwealth Games
AK Saxena, Additional DG, DGS&D, has joined the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee 2010 as Joint Director General.
Rahul Sharma gets extension in CBI
Rahul Sharma has been granted extension in CBI till September next year.1992 batch Gujarat cadre IPS officer Sharma is presently DIG in the CBI.
Mrs Neeta Lal Butalia is Director, NSC
Mrs Neeta Lal Butalia is Director, National Security Council (NSC), Delhi. Earlier she was Additional Commissioner of Central Customs & Excise, Meerut. She is 1988 batch Indian Revenue Service (IRS) C & E officer.
Azam Zaidi is Regional CCF, Lucknow
Azam Zaidi on central deputation has been posted as Regional CCF Lucknow. He is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1980 batch who belongs to the West Bengal cadre.
PMO will not fill up vacancy
PMO is unlikely to fill the vacancy of Director caused following the UN appointment of 1992 batch UT cadre IAS officer S C L Das.
S K Pande gets extension
DIG in the SPG S K Pande has been granted one year extension in deputation tenure. He is 1988 batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.
( We said this on September 4 )
Cadre of Akshat Gupta changed
Cadre of 2006 batch Gujarat cadre IAS officer Akshat Gupta has been changed to Uttarakhand.
Sridevi resigns
1995 batch IRS (IT) officer Ms S Sridevi has put in her papers.
Maharashtra faces crisis of bureaucrats
The state of Maharashtra is facing crisis of bureaucrats as many of its senior level bureaucrats have resigned in the last 18 months or so. Latest to quit was Ramanath Jha (1977 batch) who at present is Principal Secretary Transport & Excise with the Maharashtra Government.
IAS officer repatriated
1982 batch Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS officer Dinesh Singh has been repatriated to the parent cadre.
TS Jawahar likely to go to Centre
As the grapevine has it, TS Jawahar, 1990 batch IAS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre, is tipped to join the Government of India (GoI) on deputation.
Misra is Advisor, Planning Commission
Arun Kumar Misra has been appointed Advisor in the Planning Commission. He is 1976 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
Kalha appointed Advisor, Planning Commission
Dilsher Singh Kalha has been appointed Advisor in the Planning Commission. He is 1977 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre.
Anil Chandra authors a new book
Anil Chandra has authored a new book titled ' Glimpses of Ancient China....'.The book is written by Anil Chandra a retired IAS of Madhya Pradesh cadre who belongs to the 1962 batch.He is well known short story writer whose books have been extensively translated into Hindi.His earlier book on history "Glimpses of Ancient India. Letters From Grandfather' was very succesful in India and abroad.'The latest book has been published by Har Anand Publications Ltd.
Neeraj Kumar is again important in NHAI
Private Secretary to Chairman in NHAI. Neeraj Kumar, has again become important in the Organisation.
Reshuffle likely in Dainik Bhaskar Group
After Editorial Conclave in Bhopal it is rumoured that a reshuffle of the Editors is going to take place.
IAS reshuffle in Karnataka
There is IAS reshuffle in Karnataka.Sobha Nambisan has been appointed Principal Secretary, Planning and Statistics Department,.Sudhir Kumar, waiting for postinghas been made Principal Secretary to Government, e-Governance, Bangalore. B.L. Sridhar will now be Managing Director, KAVIKA, Bangalore.Parmesh Pandey has been posted as Commissioner, Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services, Bangalore. Anagram Baderiya has been made Special Secretary to Government, Infrastructure Development Department, Bangalore.K.S. Prabhakara will now be Secretary, Department of Public Enterprises, Bangalore . K. Ramanna Naik has been appointed Commissioner for Religious and Charitable Endowment and Joint Secretary to Government, Revenue Department, Bangalore. Sandhya Venugopal Sharma will be Director, Women and Child Development Department, Bangalore.
Pujari appointed VC in Orissa
Dr Arun Kumar Pujari has been appointed new Vice-Chancellor of the Sambalpur University in Orissa.
Jayakrishnan is VC of Kerala University
A. Jayakrishnan, professor in IIT, Madras, has been appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kerala.
Deepak Kumar Panwar is CMD,FCI
Deepak Kumar Panwar, an IAS officer of 1974 batch from Andhra Pradesh cadre has assumed the charge as Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of the Food Corporation of India (FCI)on November 5,2008.He was relieved by his by his parent state on Tuesday afternoon.He succeeds Alok Sinha who had superannuate on October 31,2008.So far he was Special Chief Secretary & Chief Commissioner of Land Administration with the Andhra Pradesh Government. Deepak Kumar Panwar has a vast experience of more than six years in food management at the State level, in various capacities such as Commissioner Food and Civil Supplies, Secretary Food & Civil Supplies, Chairman Civil Supplies Corporation, Director Civil Supplies and Collector in East Godavari Distt., which is the most important district in Andra Pradesh for procurement of rice. It is expected that the said experience will help him in discharging his duties to the satisfaction of the Government of India(GOI).
New Judges of Rajasthan High Court
Justice Guman Singh, Justice Bhanwaru Khan Parian, Justice Deo Narayan Thanvi Justice Raghuvendra Singh Rathore, Justice Mahesh Chandra Sharma, Justice Sangeet Raj Lodha and Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari have been appointed Judges of the Rajasthan High Court.
IAS reshuffle in TamilNadu
There is IAS reshuffle in TamilNadu on Wednesday. New postings are :-Mssrs P Seetharam Collector Madurai,J Chandrakumar Collector Salem,N Mathivanan Commissioner Disciplinary Proceedings Chenna,J Uma Maheswari Collector Karur,T N Venkatesh Joint Commissioner Commercial Taxes, Dharmendra Pratap Yadav Joint Secretary Law and Order, Pankaj Kumar Bansal Vellore Collector, Ramanathapuram Collector, Sivaganga, Ashish Chatterjee Collector Kanniyakumari, B Jothi Nirmala Deputy Commissioner Health Chennai Municipal Corporation and S S Jawahar MD Marketing Federation.
Capt.K.S.Nair elevated as Director in SCI
Capt K.S.Nair has become Director Bulk & Tankers(B & T) Division with the Shipping Corporation of India(SCI). Hitherto,Capt Nair was Senior Vice President(VP) with SCI's International Safery Marine(ISM) & ISPS divisions.The slot was lying vacant for the last year and a half.
( We said this on July 13 )
Capt Pai succeeds Capt K.S.Nair in SCI
Capt Pai has succeeded Capt K.S.Nair who on promotion has become Director Bulk & Tankers(B & T) Division with the Shipping Corporation of India(SCI). Hitherto,Capt Nair was Senior Vice President(VP) with SCI's International Safery Marine(ISM) & ISPS divisions.
A.K.Singh CIT relieved
A.K.Singh CIT Delhi-V who was transferred in July 2008 has been relieved with immediate effect to join as CIT-III Surat.

CORPORATE
32 promoted as General Managers in State Bank of India.
Altogether 32 officers have been promoted to the rank of State Bank of India (SBI).They are Mssrs:-Nanda Vimal Kumar,Iyengar Sheshadri,Sunil Damodar,Bagga Pradeep Kumar,Saran Rajiv,Mehra Rajeev Nandan, Mukhopadhyay Sarada Prasad ,Subramanian R Ganapathy,Ramamurthy K, Wadhwa Gurinder Bir Singh, Anand Velamur Varadan, Pradhan Shirish Shantaram, Sinha Abhay Kumar, Rajan S, Nehriya Ram Narayan, Krishnamacharin, Ramesh Rangan S.A, Malhotra Praveen Kumar, Prakasa Chandran V.K, Amitabh Kumar , Karthikeyan R, Desai Swati, Mathew V.G, Venugopal Kavilakath, Sahai Deepti, Saran Salil Kant, Ghatey Raghavendra Janardan, Misra Jibendu Narayan, Sharma Rakesh, Venugopalan K.P, Rajnish Kumar, Gupta Praveen Kumar .
BSNL postings
Sanjay Kumar JAG ITS will continue as Director (VTM) Bihar Circle. V K Ray will be Director (VTM) Bihar DoT. Anil Kumar Gupta will not move to Assam Circle. Tej Pal Singh JAG ITS will continue to be in UP East Telecom Circle. Prabodh Kumar Sahana will move to ETR Circle.
Ms.Vineeta to work for DRM Consortium
British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC's) India Business Development
Manager Vineeta Dwivedi will be reportedly associated with the DRM
(Digital Radio Mondiale) Consortium as Project Director for one year.
Sinha is BBC's India business head
BBC Hindi's Desk Editor in London Indu Shekhar Sinha is learnt to have
been assigned the charge of India Business Development Manager for a
year.
Swaminathan is V-P,Times Internet
Times Internet has roped in I.M. Swaminathan Director, communication and community products, Yahoo! India as its new Vice-President.

Aaj Ki Aawaz
Seems Pranab Da was searching for some paper and he found a Commie handout!
And now against globalization karr raha hai Pranab Da shout!!!
Pranab Da has given globalization a foreign policy and security twist,
MEA approval by Commerce, Finance and Defense Ministries is twist ka gist!!!!
So in fact Pranab Da could end up as one of India 's Super Ministers,
Commerce , Finance and Defense Ministers could end up as his assisters!!!
No doubt the World is now a village!!!
And the entire 'Village' ko recession karre gi pillage!!!
This is for sure protectionism is going to take center stage!!!
Outsourcing in all forms certain Countries would like to encage!!
PC in the meantime is working on ways to make Stock rise!!!!
And for guessing why he's doing this there is no prize!!!
He's already let PSU Banks know that interest rates should fall!!!
But Private Banks still karr rahe hai stall!!!
Private Banks say the recent cuts announced by RBI are for a specific objective!!
And many feel that PC's being subjective!!
PC wants interests to fall so that FDs become unattractive!!!
And 'marta kya nahi karta' makes Stock Markets look attractive!!!
Inflation is still high at 10 percent plus!!!
Prices ko still karr rahi hai Public cuss!!!
Five percent inflation rate is still a distant dream!!!!
Till then high prices karre gi Aam Aadmi ko cream (badly beat)!!!
Haryana Cops should get an award for the best excuse for being gun happy!!!!
And the award should be given to them by Hooda who as CM is their Pappy!!!!
These Cops 'mistaking' a student to be a thug put in him a bullet hole!!!
And now to wiggle out they say gun went off because of a pothole!!
The potholes are in their brains or upper storey!!!
Vehicle hit pothole, gun went off, innocent man died…. end of story!!!
Question people ask in Haryana…. is Hooda incharge or Venod Sharma????
Venod will say to help bro Hooda is his Dharma!!!
In Punjab Guv Roddy's love for his ADC is shocking and intriguing!!!!
Many ask kyon yeh sabh kuch for his ADC Roddy is doing????
Grapevine has it that ADC came to Roddy Junior's aid!!!
Helped him out in some alleged 'risky' Gurgaon investments that Junior had made!!!
Brings back memory of ex Guv Chibber who also had a 'live wire' ADC!!!!
A Direct Conduit is how many decipher in Roddy and Chibber's cases ADC!!!
But what did Roddy do to get Sonia to appoint him as Guv,
And despite all the hanky-panky Roddy ko nahi karr rahi hai out of Punjab Sonia shove!!!
In USA today is the day when Martin Luther's dream will come sach!!!!!
Obama will be saying to the American voter 'Thank you very much'!!!
Obama's Kashmir comment will end up as an election stunt!!!!
All is fair in the electoral hunt!!!
Confucius says…. all over the World politicians promise the moon!!!!
Get Public's heads into the clouds only to bring them back to the ground soon!!!

Bharat Kumar

Forum
Obama welcome, Mayawati too is welcome
Obama is welcome. For that matter, Mayawati too is welcome, if it could give confidence to socially backward people. But reg. economic uplift of the country, country had progressed when Mayawati was nowhere. No individual is indispensable. The Nation will go on even after Mayawati. The backward class must take pride of being Chief Ministers/PMs but then they must not set examples like amassing wealth for personal fortunes. How come that a teacher has become so rich by faking that people have given donations. And must not be forgotten, that Even Mayawati would not have become CM without the blessings of so called upper caste e.g. Brahman-Mishraji.
She is not even capable to give an unwritten speech. She gives speech reading Hindi, which is her mother tongue and she belongs to Hindustan. What a joke, she will have an economic facelift of the country. She will have only her ecoomic facelift. She only knows how to grab power. Look at the difference between backward class leaders-Most respected Dr. Ambedkar, Jagjivan Ram and Kanshi Ram and other politicians and saints who made sense when they gave their speeches and worked sensibly. Unlike Raj Thakre's type slogans- come on backward classes and have your CM/PM. It is Dadagiri which is preached by Mayawati, may work for sometime, but ultimately is not in favour of what we say as Nation and Nationality. If Backward classes are so obsessed to come to power, just look at most backward among them. Why do not the privileged ones let the benefits filters to the most deserved in backward classes. By just getting, their income limit increased, they have only deprived the most backward persons. A politician, An IAS or any other Class I Officer, or a big businessman want reservation and do not want it to percolate to the most deserved and deprived section of the backward society. The logic being that for centuries they have paid for their backwardness. And, therefore, it is now their turn to limit the benefits to themselves only and not let it percolate it to the most backward. They just cry foul in everything but not with the greed that the benefit must accrue to them even at the cost of still deprived OBC/SC/ST category. I have yet to see an SC/STs/OBC who have denied the benefit for their fellow beings and have advocated the benefits for the most backward in these categories. OBAMA is welcome, so is Mayawati, Chief Minister of U.P., as Prime Minister of India, so long she has the guts to correct this malady also. By the way, is OBAMA becoming just because of his ethnic character? Or by his qualities of a reasoned leader instead of a seasoned leader like Mayawati who is exploiting Backward classes for his ambition of becoming most powerful women of India (Next to Goddess- "Durga"). What a inferiority complex, she should first become a reasoned leader, instead of seasoned. There are already many and have not become PM. She has, of course, taken a right step by not crying while speaking, giving adequate pauses in her speech (well tutored) but sounds dubbing of script, written by somebody else. And Now giving comments almost everything about India- even economics.
Bobby Kapoor
Need to start talking to Obama's foreign policy
On October 12, 2008, I had forwarded an op-ed by Ambassador G Parthasarathy which had expressed some concerns about the future of India-US relations if Barack Obama wins the US presidency on November 4. He had cautioned that while the Bush administration supported India's efforts to improve relations with its neighbours, a Democratic Party administration would be inclined to be somewhat more "intrusive."
What form this "intrusive" behavior on the part of the US may take is now becoming somewhat clearer. In an interview broadcast on MSNBC, Obama suggested that his administration would encourage India to solve the Kashmir dispute with Pakistan, so that Islamabad can better cooperate with the United States on Afghanistan.
In an article published in the INDIAN EXPRESS, Professor Raja Mohan quotes Obama's observations:
"The most important thing we're going to have to do with respect to Afghanistan is actually deal with Pakistan. And we've got to work with the newly elected Government there (Pakistan) in a coherent way that says, terrorism is now a threat to you. Extremism is a threat to you. We should - try to resolve the Kashmir crisis so that they (Pakistan) can stay focused not on India, but on the situation with those militants".
India, says Professor Raja Mohan, entirely agrees with the first two elements but should strongly object to the third. He goes on to explain why American intervention on the Kashmir issue will make things worse not better.
I am reproducing below Professor Raja Mohan's article in full.
It's too early to say whether Obama, if elected, will pursue a destructive policy that will clearly set back the tremendous gains achieved in US-India relations since the final years of the Clinton presidency. However, friends of India in the US including the Indian American community, and especially all Indian American members of the Democratic party, need to start talking to Obama's foreign policy aides from November 5, if Obama is elected president of the United States tomorrow. They should begin by forwarding the Raja Mohan article to Obama's foreign policy aides plus their Senators and House Representatives.
Cheers,
Ram Narayanan
US-India Friendship
http://usindiafriendship.net/
A realistic approach
I am surprised to read your observations on the stock market and economy. A realistic approach and contrary to what experts in and outside government have us believe!. Inflation is a bigger concern as it is automatically inclusive! Yet the stress is on growth and liquidity! Opposite to the approach of the former governor! Now we should wait for inflation to be above 15% and us$ above rs. 55! So what if 98% of people have negative taxable interest income FDs and Provident funds ( eet!)! We need to bother only about the greedy investors who lost in the stock market even if only 2% aam aadmi invest in stocks!
S Chatterjee
It is time for soul searching
Is it worth our while to blindly ape the west (read USA)? We have been adopting the western economic model for close to a decade and a half now and the only reason why we are not in the mess that Pakistan, Iceland et al are in is the ex RBI Governor who was a cautious man. We are following western culture (or lack of it) more and more and seem to be giving up on our core Indian values. This is particularly true of the rich and the (so called) famous. What is happening to our families, our cities and towns, our people- greed, avarice, western life styles, decadence, dissipation, rising divorce rates, breaking up of families, aping the west and ridiculing the age old institutions of marriage and family, selfishness-do we want more of the same? It is time for us to do some soul searching. Ours is a civilisation which is at least five thousand years old. Is it wise to turn our backs on it and ape the west which worships only mammon and lives only for selfish ends? Consider the American example- the parent-child bond is non existent, where more and more children are born out of wedlock and are uncared for by the parents and are indeed abused (old parents are uncared for in return), where divorce is the norm, deviant behaviour is considered normal (after all most of the settlers in the US consisted of convicted felons), the institutions of marriage and family are practically non existent- what has the civilisation (if it can be called that) given the world apart from crisis after crisis? Examples- the impending recession the likes of which have not been seen before by the world brought onto the world by the greed of Wall Street, a catastrophe in Iraq and Afghanistan, the AIDS pandemic, you name it. Is it worth our while to emulate that model? Is it not time for India to cogitate on the model we are following?
Vijay Kumar
Ministers' Dadagiree
As per media report, a senior IPS officer of Bihar was transferred from Gaya to Patna for his refusal to dance to the tune of Bihar minister for UD .The intrepid police officer's investigation had revealed minister's complicity in the murder of a Bihar MP in 2005. The IPS officer refused to change his report and even refused to present a bouquet to the minister because of his criminal background. The officer was summarily transferred to Patna. Not to lag behind, now even a Union Minister (from Bihar) on Monday night slapped the manager of a private Airline at Patna. The plane had taken off without the minister due to his late arrival. Both the ministers are guilty of criminal misconduct. Strangely and sadly, the Chief Minister of Bihar and the de jure Prime Minister of India , instead of taking strict action against the delinquent ministers, have refused to react under compulsions of realpolitik! They are not only toothless but gumless too! Do we deserve such politicians and their political parties in the impending General Elections ? Let us introspect before casting our votes.
A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)
TAIL-PIECE
Grapevine reports Obama to be Osama's long lost cousin. But its just a grapevine. Maybe the person who gathered this was high on the wine made by the finest French grapes.
Charlie