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Will Agrawal be Law Secretary ?
If all goes well P K Agrawal is going to succeed Vishwanathan as Secretary Law in the Government of India.
Pulok Chaterji to be ED World Bank
Secretary to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Pulok Chaterji will be new Executive Director of the World Bank.1974 batch Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS officer Chaterji will succeed 1968 batch Haryana cadre IAS officer Dhanendra Kumar. Order of Chaterji will be effective from January 31,2009. Deputy RBI Governor Rakesh Mohan and Secretary Power Anil Rajdan were reportedly in run for the post.
Dhanendra Kumar gets extension
ED of the World Bank Dhanendra Kumar has been granted three months extension in his tenure. Tenure of 1968 batch Haryana cadre IAS officer Dhanendra Kumar was to expire on October 31.
Name of P K Mishra recommended
Finance Ministry had reportedly recommended single name of former Secretary Agriculture in the Government of India P K Mishra for the post of Executive Director World Bank.1972 batch retired IAS officer of Gujarat cadre Mishra is Ph D in Economics and author of three books.
Several Secretary level vacancies in GoI to be filled
About half a dozen Secretary level vacancies including Youth Welfare, Culture, Tourism, Official Languages and AYUSH in the Government of India are to be filled up next week
Upendra Tripathy to be JS Minority Affairs ?
Dr. Upendra Tripathy is likely to join the Ministry of Minority Affairs in the Government of India as Joint Secretary. He is 1980 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.
Bansal to go to Canada
Sunil Kumar Bansal is going on a foreign assignment to Canada. He is 1987 batch IPS officer of Orissa cadre.
Two EDs to be elevated as CMDs
Two Executive Directors in different banks are likely to be elevated as Chairman cum Managing Directors (CMDs) only after November 2008.
P Nagesh tipped to be ED
P Nagesh, who at present is a General Manager (GM) with the Bank of India (BoI), is tipped to be Executive Director (ED) with one of the public sector banks.
VK Singh to be Director in Labour Ministry
VK Singh on central deputation is set to become a Director in the Ministry of Labour. He is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the Himachal Pradesh cadre who belongs to the 1986 batch.
CSB for Deputy Chiefs of two ports on October 23, 2008
CSB for selecting Deputy Chiefs of two ports i.e. Chennai & Goa is going to be held on October 23, 2008.
IAS officer commits suicide in Punjab
1986-batch Punjab cadre IAS officer Avinash Singh Chhatwal has allegedly committed suicide on Monday.
Narayanan Joins National Wild Life Crime Control Bureau
S Narayanan has joined as Regional Deputy Director (Southern Region) of the National Wild Life Crime Control Bureau, Chennai. Prior to this assignment, he was working as Deputy Secretary in the Union Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. He is an Indian Forest Service Officer, belonging to 1997 Batch of Haryana Cadre.
HC vacates CAT's stay on selecting DGCA chief
The Delhi High Court (HC) has vacated its stay granted by the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) against appointment of new Director General (DG) of the Directorate Generate of Civil Aviation(DGCA). However, the Delhi HC has said that the appointment process shall be subject to disposal of the related petition.
80 per cent of BORL construction done
Bharat Oman Refineries Ltd (BORL) of which Managing Director (MD) is UN Joshi has been able to complete 80 per cent of the construction work.
IAS changes in Bihar
Sandeep Paundrik has been made Secretary PWD.S Shiv Kumar will now be IG Jails.Sunil Barthwal has been posted as Secretary Transport.Anshuli Arya will be MD BIDA.
Anshuman Dey is Director, Micro & Medium Industries
Anshuman Dey on Central deputation has become Director Micro & Medium Industries. He is an Indian Forest Service(IFS) officer of the Tripura cadre who belongs to the 1996 batch.
NRAA to suffer another setback
The high profile National Rainfed Areas Authority (NRAA) of which CEO is JS Samra is poised to suffer yet another setback as the Department of Land Resource under the Ministry of Rural Development at the Centre is setting up a parallel body called Central level nodal agency (CLNA). It may be stated here that the NRAA was constituted at the behest of Indian Prime Minister Dr. Man Mohan Singh and falls under the jurisdiction of Agriculture Ministry at the Centre.
Mann to be Chairman in Punjab
Former chief secretary R.S. Mann is being tipped to be chairman of the Fourth Finance Commission for panchayats and municipalities in Punjab.
CEC favours ban
Chief Election Commissioner N. Gopalaswami wants ban on civil servants from joining political parties for at least five years after resignation or retirement from service.
IPS reshuffle in UP (UPDATED At-11:40)
In a reshuffle of IPS officers UTTAR PRADESH government Mahendra Modi has been appointed as new IG EOW, GK Goswami additional incharge of SP-PMVO. STP...and... 3 ADSP Changed: Ashok Tiwari KBN Banwari Lal Gazipur, Rahul Yadvendra RBI.
New team of PCI elected (UPDATED) At-04:30)
Pervez Ahmad and Pushpendra Kulshrestha were elected as the new president & secretary general of the Press Club of India for the year 2008-09 during recently held polls.The former is with ARY One World News of Dubai.Other office bearers who too were elected are:Jayanta Bhattacharya of Times Now & Narendra Bhalla of Hindi Outlook both vice-presidents, Nadeem Ahmed Kazzmi of NDTV -treasurer,Ajay Verma, Anand Kumar, Anoop Saxena, Arun Jetly, Ms.Aroona Singh, Ashish Kumar Singh, Ashok Wankhade, Avtar Negi, Jagdish Yadav, K.N. Joshi, Manas Banerjee, Pramod Kumar, Pramod Pushkarna, Ms.Ritu Verma, Ms.Savita Srivastava & Vijay Shankar Chaturvedi(all executive committee).
Jathi Pulu joins as member APPSC (UPDATED) At-04:30)
Jathi Pulu, has today joined as member of the five-member APPSC Board - after being administered the Oath of Office as member of Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission on October 20, 2008 by the Chairman APPSC, Rinchen Dorjee in the presence of members Dr. Ligu Tacho, T.S Boko & B.K.Chena, Secretary Personnel and Administrative Affairs A.B.Shukla, Secretary APPSC Repo Ronya , Officers of the Commission and other guests. He has replacesd Mrs. Dr. Manpong, who has retired on attaining the superannuation age of 62 years, who was also present on the occasion. Son of Ita Pulu, the first MLA from the Idu Mishmi Community, Shri Jathi Pulu has completed his Masters degree in History from North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) in the year 1979. He did his schooling from St.Peter'School, Shillong and Don Bosco School, Dibrugarh and graduated from J.N. College Pasighat in the Year 1976.
Pulok Chaterji's appointment as ED World Bank okayed (UPDATEDAt-04:55)
Its now official that Pulok Chatterji, IAS (UP: 74), presently Secretary, Prime Minister's Office will be going as Executive Director(ED), World Bank for a three year term w.e.f. February 1, 2009.
(We said this on October 21,2008)
Dhanendra Kumar gets extension (UPDATEDAt-04:55)
Dhanendra Kumar,IAS (HY: 68) (Retd.),has been granted three months' extension in his tenure , as Executive Director, World Bank beyond October 31,2008 upto January 31,2009.
(We said this on October 21,2008
V.K. Garg takes over as Chairman, JERC (UPDATEDAt-04:55)
Indian Minister of Power Sushilkumar Shinde administered the Oath of Office and Secrecy to Dr. V.K. Garg as Chairman, Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) for Goa and Union Territories (UTs) except Delhi, on October 21,2008.Earlier,Dr. Garg held the position of Chairman & Managing Director of Power Finance Corporation Ltd (PFC).
SAIL Q2 PAT grows 18% to highest-ever Rs. 2010 crore (UPDATED) At-05:30)
The unaudited financial results of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) for July-September of 2008-09, taken on record by the company's Board of Directors in Delhi on October 21,2008, revealed that the steel major has achieved highest-ever Q2 net profit of Rs. 2,009.6 crore, 18.2% higher than the corresponding period last year (CPLY). This has helped the company to achieve highest-ever first-half (H1) net profit of Rs. 3,844.8 crore, a growth of 19.2% over CPLY.SAIL of which Chairman is S.K.Roongta also recorded highest-ever Q2 turnover at Rs. 13,544.24 crore, showing 30.6% growth over CPLY. Consequently, the company achieved an H1 turnover of Rs. 25,727.7 crore, 33.5% higher than CPLY. Profit before tax (PBT) in Q2 of Rs. 3,066.99 crore was 19.2% higher than CPLY, while H1 PBT at Rs. 5,859.8 crore was 20% higher than CPLY. Despite bearing an impact of around Rs. 2,362 crore in H1 due to escalation in cost of inputs such as imported/indigenous coking coal, ferro-alloys, etc., SAIL improved its financial performance through improved production of value-added steel items, better product-mix, achievement of improved techno-economic parameters, lower interest cost and higher interest earnings. In addition, SAIL has made provision of over Rs. 2,000 crore towards pending salary/wage revision.The SAIL plants together produced in Q2 a record volume of 3.8 million tonnes of hot metal, 3.5 million tonnes of crude steel and 1.14 million tonnes of value-added/special steel products, higher than CPLY by 7%, 5% and 33%, respectively. Further improvement in key techno-economic parameters also continued, with reduction of 3% in coke rate and 7% in specific energy consumption during July-September '08. Blast furnace productivity was 5% higher than CPLY. Production through the energy-efficient continuous casting route at 2.3 million tonnes was 8% higher than CPLY.

CORPORATE
Interviews for EDs in BHEL on Nov.4 & 5
Interviews of General Managers (GMs) to be elevated as Executive Directors (EDs) in pubilc sector major Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd (BHEL) will be held in November 4 & 5 , 2008.
Powers of M Kumara Raja, Secretary, Coir Board modified
As the grapevine has it powers of M Kumara Raja, Secretary, Coir Board have been modified
Post of VP, Duty Free Trade likely to be disbanded
As the grapevine has it the ITDC is going to abolish the post of Vice President (VP),Dutry Free trade once present incumbent NK Piplani retires on November 30,2008.At present such trade is being done at airports located in Goa, Hyderabad, Chennai Bangalore & Thiruvanthapuram. Such shops in Delhi & Mumbai are being run by private operators.
Agrawal is CEO of SpiceJet
Sanjay Aggarwal has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the SpiceJet.

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Anomalies have been rectified
As per 6CPC pay scale of 6500-10500 is available to PAs and Assistants. The only difference is that they will not get arrears. When the 6CPC is made effective from 1.1.2006 all the pre-revised scale should be taken from 1.1.2006 instead of the date when these were announced by the Government because these anomalies related to 5th CPC have been rectified by the government.
Suresh Kumar
They can be collectively depressed
As a practicing psychologist, i can say that a group of persons [in this case the Income Tax Service] can definitely be collectively depressed, especially if the policies are oppressive and officers see no hope of getting to their choice of posting till their retirement. the result would be a depressed service with low morale which would be passed on from generation to generation of officers. this may sound funny but has been so in the case of lady teachers in many states of india where the collective depression has affected the entire primary school system. hope the policy makers in the income tax mantralaya are listening. a depressed worker does not work but only spreads gloom.
Dr Geeta
Government playing with public sector airlines to benefit private ones
The government has been playing with public sector airlines in order to benefit private players like Jet and Kingfisher. Three years ago there used to be a domestic airline called Indian Airlines. Millions of rupees were spent to change its name and logo and it was reduced to only Indian. As if this was not enough, soon the Indian was merged with Air India claiming a net gain of 600 crores per annum. Both Air India and Indian Airlines (nee Indian) had turned around their losses and were even in a position to pay dividend to the government. In fact Air India did give a dividend in 2005-06. However after the merger while Air India had a whopping loss of 2,500 crores Jet and Kingfisher fly the most beneficial routes including the coveted gulf routes which previously were the exclusive domain of Air India. No wonder Air India is in deep red while Jet's balance sheets showed a profit at the end of June 2008. Oil price hike affects all airlines around the world not just Jet and Kingfisher! Is any other government in the world considering a bailout for private airlines?
VP
Enough is enough
It is high time that Raj Thakre of MNS mends his ways. India is not a confederation but a federal polity. It is the Fundamental Right of every Indian citizen to live in any part of the country and appear in any central government examination from anywhere including Maharashtra. Raj Thakre has no business to deter any Indian citizen from appearing in any examination from Maharashtra. This violates the fundamental right as enshrined in the Constitution of India. He must not forget that any indiscretion on his part may lead to backlash in other states of our polity. His demand for reservation of jobs based on the principle of "sons of the soil" is absurd and unworkable. Why is he scared of the well settled principle of "Merit". Strangely, what is the hidden agenda of the Congress party, which is ruling at the Centre as well as the state of Maharashtra? Why are they refusing to act in the national interest? Raj Thakre has already rendered himself liable to legal action for contempt of Court by refusing to comply with the non bailable warrant of arrest issued today ( 20-10-2008) by a subordinate Court of Jamshedpur. Is Raj Thakre above Law? May I urge upon the Supreme Court to kindly take suo motu notice of this chaotic state of law and order situation in Maharashtra in the national interest and protect the Constitution of India instead of leaving the matter in the hands of these unscrupulous politicians.
A K Saxena ( A retired civil servant)