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Dr.Subba Rao to be RBI Governor?
Latest information says that Secretary Finance, Dr Subba Rao, is going to be next Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).He is topper of 1972 batch IAS.

Is Chawla moving to North-Block ?
Is Secretary Civil Aviation Ashok Chawla moving to the North-Block ?.Picture will be clear in a couple of days.
Will Nambiar be Secretary Civil Aviation ?
Will Special Secretary IT M Madhavan be new Secretary Civil Aviation?. He is 1974 batch IAS officer of TamilNadu cadre.
Why did RBI Governor refuse extension ?
Why did RBI Governor Y V Reddy say "No" for one year extension in tenure ?. It is said that Indian Industry is sore with present RBI Governor. Main reason for this is attributable to the manner in which interest regime was handled.
Will Rakesh Mohan go to World Bank ?
Two meetings of Deputy RBI Governor Rakesh Mohan with Finance Minister P Chidambaram has fuelled speculations about the former going to the World Bank as ED .Will Rakesh Mohan go ?

Orders of K Ravi Kumar to be issued today
Orders regarding continuation of K Ravi Kumar as the Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) till June 2009 will be issued on September 1,2008.
Four months extension for Gohain likely
Four months extension for Kanu Gohain Director General Civil Aviation (DGCA) are likely to be issued on September 1,2008.
Who Shall be the New Custodian?
Ms. Vijaya Moorthy (1978), Satish Loomba (1982) from IA&AS, and OP Veer (HAG, 1975 Batch) from Indian P&T, Accounts and Finance Service, are reportedly in the race of the Custodian in the Ministry of Finance. Approval of ACC is awaited.

GL Sharma to join GoI as DG ,NDRFCD
GL Sharma, who was appointed as Director General of the National Disaster Response Force & Civil Defence (NDRFCD), has been relieved by the UP Government. He is a 1972 batch IPS officer from the UP Cadre.
( We said this on March 25 )
Nand Kumar is new Secretary Agriculture
T Nand Kumar, Secretary, Department of Food and Public Distribution, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution is taking over as Secretary of Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture on Monday. He is 1972 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre.

( We said this on August 25 )

Ms.Alka Sirohi is new Secretary Food and Public Distribution
Ms. Alka Sirohi, Principal Advisor , Planning Commission is taking over as Secretary, Department of Food and Public Distribution, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution on Monday. She is 1974 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.
Radha Krishna Mathur to join Defence Ministry

Radha Krishna Mathur, 1977 batch IAS Officer of Manipur-Tripura Cadre, is poised to join the Defence Ministry as Additional Secretary.
IT raids likely today ?
IT department is likely to strike on couple of big groups in Ahmedabd & other earas in the Western India on Monday, It is learnt
Rakesh Sharma tipped to be member CBEC
Rakesh Sharma is tipped to be a member of the Central Board of Excise & Customs(CBEC).Sharma at present is DG Central Excise, International Taxation.
Ms. Chitra Gaurilal tipped to be member CBEC
Ms. Chitra Gaurilal is tipped to be a member of the Central Board of Excise & Customs(CBEC).At present she is Chief Commissioner CBEC, Delhi.
P K Tripathi is now JS Road Transport
P K Tripathi is leaving the Department of Personnel on Monday to join the Ministry of Road Transport as Joint Secretary. He is 1987 batch IAS officer of J & K cadre.
Deepak Ratan relieved to head Bhopal centre of NIFT
Deepak Ratan has been relieved by the Uttar Pradesh Government to become Director of the newly opened Bhopal based centre of National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT). Ratan who is an IPS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre belongs to the 1997 batch. So far he was SSP Ghaziabad.
(We said this on July 21,2008)
Hemant Priyadarshi is DIG,CBI in Bhopal
Hemant Priyadarshi has joined as DIG,CBI in Bhopal-the charge which so far was with Alok Pateria after being promoted as IG. Priyadarshi is a Rajasthan IPS officer who belongs to the 1992 batch.
Lamba takes charge as AS &FA Agriculture
Amarjit Singh Lamba who was earlier C. V. O. Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOC)has assumed the charge as Additional Secretary & FA in the Indian Ministry of Agriculture & Cooperatives on September 1,2008.Lamba is an IAS officer of the West Bengal cadre & belongs to the 1977 batch.
IAS reshuffle in Andhra Pradesh
Twenty five IAS officers have been reshuffled in Andhra Pradesh. Some new postings are :-mssrs C. V. S. K. Sarma Principal Secretary, Municipal Administration and Urban Development department, S.P. Singh Commissioner and Special Officer, GHMC, B Kishore Secretary to Vigilance Commissioner, G Ramnarayana Reddy Vizianagaram Collector, Sameer Sharma Secretary Finance FP, Ms Vasudha Mishra Secretary Finance IF, Dinesh Kumar Commissioner Disaster Management, A K Parida Principal Secretary Transport, J R Anand MCR HRD Institute. A.K. Tigdi, Indrajit Pal, C.R. Biswal, D. R. Anand and J. C. Sharma have also been given new postings.
Ahluwalia to release book of Panda today
Based on experience while working in the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Steel Authority of India Limited and a study done 1980 batch Manipur -Tripura cadre IAS officer Sanjay Kumar Panda has written a book "Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in India- Past, Present and Future".
Vice Chairman of Planning Commission M. S. Ahluwalia is going to release the book on September 1 in the Yojna Bhawan (1st floor Conference Hall) at 6 pm.
Sahai is ED Finance Stores in Rail Bhawan
IRAS officer Rajnesh Sahai is taking over as Executive Director (Finance Stores) in the Railway Board.
Srinivas is ED Vigilance Railway Board
IRAS officer G Srinivas is back from deputation. He is going to be new Executive Director (Vigilance) in the Railway Board.
Did he go or made to quit ?
Did Director CBDT M D Sinha himself go or was made to quit ?.IRS officers in the country are curious to know.
Col Singh takes over
Colonel Sukhvinder Singh has taken over command as the Colonel Records of Electronics and Mechanical Engineers Corps from Colonel R.K. Katoch. Col Katoch retired on Sunday.
Sharma appointed Vice Chairman Planning Commission in Nepal
Academician Pitambar Sharma has been appointed as the vice chairman of National Planning Commission (NPC) in Nepal.
Six pay Commission report

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Gohain gets four months extension (UPDATED)
Four months extension has been given to Kanu Gohain Director General Civil Aviation (DGCA).Orders were issued on September 1,2008.
( We said this on August 26 )
T. Nanda Kumar takes charge of Agriculture Secretary;(UPDATED)
T. Nanda Kumar has taken over the charge as Secretary Agriculture. T. Nanda Kumar was Secretary, Food & Public Distribution since July 2006. In his career spanning over 34 years, he has had wide experience in areas ranging from agriculture and food to urban development, textiles, mines, commerce and industry. He has also served as secretary General, International Jute Study Group. He is 1972 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre.
( We said this on August 25 )
Mrs. Alka Sirohi takes over as Food Secretary (UPDATED)
Alka Sirohi has assumed the charge as Food Secretary to GOI.Mrs.Alka Sirohi was Principal Adviser in the Planning Commission before joining this Department. She was in the Food Ministry earlier, from 2005 till April this year, as Additional and Special Secretary. She has held the charge of Secretary, Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Protection in Madhya Pradesh government.She is 1974 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.
Atul Kumar to be MD,Uttaranchal Infrastructure Dev. Corp.. (UPDATED)
Atul Kumar has been appointed as Managing Director(MD),Uttaranchal Infrastructure Development Corporation.At present Kumar is Chief General Manager(CGM) with the National Highway Authority of India(NHAI).Atul Kumar is the senior most staff member & the only CGM who is on regular rolls of NHAI.Kumar who is an M.Tech from IIT ,Delhi.He has over 30 years of experience in this field.

It is learnt that Nisheeth M.Misra IRAS,FA&CAO Central Railway has been selected by PESB for the post of Director Finance, Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation Ltd. The post fell vacant last Sept when KL Dhingra the then Director Finance MRVC joined as CMD
HUDCO.

Buch is Director NTPC

M N Buch has been nominated as Director on the Board of the NTPC. He is retired 1964 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.

Sanjay Bahadur quits Mail Today

Sanjay Bahadur has reportedly quit Mail Today -the India Today group's English newspaper .He was Associate Publisher in the newspaper

LIC Completes 52 years of service to its customers (UPDATED)

On the 1st September 2008, LIC has completed 52 years of service to the nation.
On this occasion Mr T S Vijayan, the Chairman, thanks all our policyholders and other stakeholders for continuing to maintain their faith in LIC. He also thanked the Govt of India and the Regulator and attributed the stupendous success of the Organisation to the hardwork done by its employees and agents.

LIC came into being on the 1st of September 1956 on nationalization of the Insurance Industry which comprised of 245 private insurers. LIC is today the largest life insurance company which not only has offices in several countries but also has diversified its business into Mutual Fund and Housing Finance. The Life fund of LIC stands at Rs 6,86,616 crore and its Asset Base stands at Rs 8,03,820 crore making it one of the largest financial institutions of the country.

During the year 2007-08,LIC completed 375.90 lacs new policies with first premium income of Rs.43812.86 Crores with this the total number of inforce policies of LIC crossed the mark of 23 crore in individual insurance. More than 2.21 Crore persons were covered during the year 2007-08 under various social security schemes managed by LIC. Newly introduced Scheme "Aam Admi Bima Yojna also registered excellent response and more than 46 lakhs heads of the rural landless households have been covered till date under this scheme.

As at 31st March 2008, LIC has invested Rs 82,022 crore in the Infrastructure and Social Sector. LIC has been ranked as the most trusted service Brand in the Economic Times Brand Equity Survey for the fifth consecutive year in 2008. LIC's overall ranking across all categories has gone up from 27th to 12th in this survey. LIC has won various other prestigious awards during the year which consist- Reader's Digest Trusted Brand -2008,Skoch Challengers Award, Most Preferred Life Insurance Co. of the Year by CNBC-Awaaz-(Third time in a row),Outlook Money-NDTV Profit Best Life Insurance Award 2007,Golden Peacock Award for Corporate Governance etc.

LIC has defined the world standard in the field of Claim Settlement. During the year 2007-08 LIC settled Over 1.39 crore claims for an amount of Rs 37,206 crores in individual life business. LIC thus settles on an average 48,097 claims every working day. Out of the total Maturity Claims settled over 97 per cent are settled on or before the date of maturity and over 92 percent of the total Non Early Death Claims are settled within 20 days of intimation.

LIC is the largest user of Information Technology in the insurance sector and it has networked all its 2048 branches and 340 satellite offices to provide the convenience of anytime premium payment to all its policyholders. For the benefit of customers, LIC has also made available various alternate channels of premium payment like internet, ECS and ATMs. Recently ,another facility has also been given to the policy holders to pay their premium by just sending an SMS. Currently this facility is available to the account holders of Corporation Bank only. The world class LIC portal has a facility of online registration and policyholders can get information regarding their policies and effect simple transactions like change of address etc.. LIC's Enterprise Document Management System project to make the organization paperless is already in progress.

Laloo's announced a one day salary donation by the Railways!!!
Look closely .... its the ordinary Railway worker who pays!!!!
Laloo's trying his best to take credit for Manmohan's aka Mohna's relief pledge!!!!
Trying to show Mohna and he stand on the same side of the hedge!!!
Actually Laloo is seeing this as an opportunity to claw back into Public's good book!!!!
And we know Laloo would do this by hook or crook!!!!
But Bihar 's Public has not forgotten the pilferage of relief in Laloo Raj!!!!
And now looking at the relief distribution say ' Laloo ko aani chahiye laaj'!!!!
SP has decided not to join this Sarkaar!!!!
SP would like to stay baahar!!!!!
Either they do not want UPA's anti incumbency tag,
Or the Ministries they wanted they could not bag!!!
For the next logical step Congress and SP will be meeting in early September,
And will be holding meetings till December!!!!
In the meantime to send messages to Congress Amar will use track two mode!!!!!
And via the Media karre ga Congress ko goad!!!
Hope Congress is prepared for Amar style politics!!!!!
Because in the past Amar's politicking has given Congress tics!!!!
Whenever you took Amar's name Sonia's eyes started to tic or twitch!!!!
And they say once she had even commented ' wish his mouth I could stitch'!!!!
Mohna is a worried man on account of NSG woes!!!!!
Now let us see which way Mohna goes????
As the unconditional waiver seems to be a 'no no' ,
Will India accept a conditional waiver or to the next Sarkaar baton will go???
Seems Bush's promise of making the going easy in NSG has not come true,
And now Sonia is brainstorming with her crew!!!!
Bush's promise made Mohna underestimate the obstinacy of some in NSG!!!!!
And this made Mohna give false confidence to Sonia ji!!!!!
Advani says Mohna was in the know about votes for cash,
And Mohna flashing V signs before the votes was being brash and rash!!!
Reality showed UPA was in a fix so why was Mohna so brash and rash????
Simple…. because he knew votes had been purchased with cash!!!
The end result of the votes showed that in actuality it was touch and go!!!!
And had the votes not been bought this Sarkaar could have had to go!!!
When he could not predict that J&K would go into turmoil!!!!
How can he predict that in 10 days J&K will stop to boil?????
NSA was sleeping as NSA did not predict J&K coming to a boil!!!
And if NSA predicted this then why boiling Sarkaar did not foil????
Confucius says… the so said know alls have shown they know nothing at all!!!!
All that they can predict is when its going to be summer, monsoon, winter or fall!!!!

Adds.... Advani is right when he says that UPA's got India's image sullied!!!!
World has witnessed that with money power by the Government Democracy was bullied!!!
Bharat Kumar

The implementation guidelines issued by Department of Expenditure (Implementation Cell) vide F.No. 1/1/2008-IC dated 30-8-08 seem to have ignored the grade pay while calculating the initial pay. Case of NFSG (S-24) scale of Rs. 14300-400-18300 may be seen. The table is on page 29 of the referred letter. For basic 14300 & 14700 as on 1-1-06, the revised pay in pay band is shown Rs 37400 i.e. lowest of PB4. This is correct as 14300*1.86 = 26598 is lower than the lowest of the pay band (PB4). Now for 14300+2 or 3 increments i.e. basic 15100 & 15500 on 1-1-06, the revised pay in pay band is shown as Rs. 38530 i.e. 3% has been increased only on the pay in the pay band ignoring the grade pay (37400*1.03 = 38522 rounded to next 10 is 38530). As the grade pay is 8700, so the correct pay in pay band for basic 15100 & 15500 (on 1-1-06) should be 38790 i.e. 3% should be increased on pay in pay band+ grade pay (37400+8700 = 46100; 46100 *1.03 = 47483 i.e. 47490; 47490-8700 = 38790). This is confirmed by the illustration no. 5 on page 64 of the gazette notification issued on 29-8-08. This illustration clearly shows rate of increment as 3% of pay in pay band+ grade pay. As there is discrepancy between the gazette notification and the implementation guidelines, so someone should officially ask for clarification form Department of Expenditure otherwise the implementation guidelines may become de facto rules and would have implications on the annual increment calculations also.

Regards

Avinash Agarwal

ITS-1992 Batch

Does CBDT really neeed a transfer policy

Any sane person would say no to the type of policy we have .We have experts in foreign taxation, in investigation, assessment of various trades and business and professions and also those who have over a period of time developed various competencies which remain to be recognised because of the subjective element and the infighting in the cadre. These experts are sought after by private set ups because no where can you have an expert in administration, expert in various aspects of taxation, and expert in dealing with government set up which is the icing on the cake. Those business houses who have realised this ,are quick to grab the taxman but it is unfortunate that the government does not realise the value of such an experience which can never be there with an officer of any other service .The Taxman deals with a large no of persons from different vocations or trades and also with servicemen and so called legal luminaries who claim to work in the interest of taxpayers, but the same guy is able to lift the veil and break the racket and detect evasion,in view of his experience. Under the circumstances, it is highly illogical to waste the expertise by applying the thumb rules of transfer guidelines and posting the competent officers in far flung places after they have gained in experience, It may be good to have the A B C city concept up to the level of assessing officers ,because in the process they get exposed to different environments, but it is fool hardy to apply the same to higher levels of additional commissioner and above. The CBDT transfer policy makes various exceptions but they are mostly being misused either on account of wrong claims or for reasons which are easily understood.Thus the exceptions far out weigh the do's in the policy.Most of the officers who need a change ,but have not hit the upper ceiling when they ought to be transferred out have their requests rejected or not considered because they are not familiar with the system. In fact we do not require a transfer policy but a guideline to deploy the experienced officers in various positions so that their expertise is of use at a place where it matters and not at a place where the investment in such officers is wasted by the department. There is no fun in posting incompetent officers in MUMBAI or DELHI and posting our most experienced officers in places like Orissa or Bihar or any other state where the expertise acquired by them over a period of time which is only relevant to some of the important places is wasted. It is a shame that such competent officers ,who are experts in their own right ultimately suffer ,on personal and professional account just because of the transfer policy which has more exceptions for favorites, ladies and cheats and none on the basis of seniority or for expertise in different specific fields .

Ranjan Sahay

IDES
All the major land acquisitions from private owners for defence projects sanctioned my ministry of Defence are dealt by Indian Defence Estates Service. The Defence Estates Officer has to pay the amount of land compensation to collectors/District Magistrates for onward disbursement to land owners. Some of the controversial yet major acquisitions are for Visakhapatnam naval expansion and Karwar land acquisitions. IDES has acquired land under LA Act 1894.These are showcasing of LA success .Any one may study these as good training material for officers of IAS and PCS .They may write to Defence Estates Officer , Raksha Sampada Bhawan, Palam Road, New Delhi to provide material.

Shantanu

Ms. Shabana Azmi
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I am unable to agree with the views expressed by some on the issue of Ms. Shabana Azmi's statement about discrimination she faced as a Muslim in buying a property In Mumbai. Ms. Azmi is known for her secular and nationalist views and when she comes out with such a statement, her angst should be appreciated rather than trashed.
The truth is that in the India of today it is difficult for a Muslim to buy property in a Hindu dominated area, especially a housing society. Similarly, it as difficult for a Hindu to buy a property in a Muslim dominated locality. The problem is faced more by Muslims, rather than Hindus, because there are many more Hindu dominated localities than Muslim dominated ones.

It is important to change the mindset of everyone ( Hindus and Muslims )so that the religious identity of a person does not come in the way of any one in accessing the benefits which the state or society offers to the citizens.

More than 60 years after independence if anyone from the minority community points out to a discriminatory practice, the grievance should be objectively looked into and, if found to be genuine, it must be redressed. Asking the person to migrate to another country is just the kind of prejudiced response, which should not find place in civilized discourse.

P K Lahiri

I do not agree with Joyal and Bhimani. I think majority of the Hindus feel the same way. A large majority of the Muslims are patriotic, they love India and have no desire to leave their motherland. Misunderstandings are not uncommon among siblings, families and communities. What is important is that communal colour is not given to individual grievances by blowing them out of proportion. Shabana Azmi is a Social activist and she and her celebrated husband Javed Akhtar have contributed to the cause of communal harmony in the country and have always raised their voice against Muslim fundamentalists at a grave risk to their personal security. There are millions like them though they may not be speaking out like them. Contribution of Islam to the cultural richness of India cannot be belittled. We will be a peaceful Nation only if self serving politicians masquerading themselves as secularists and proclaiming themselves as the messiahs of the Muslims do not exploit their raw sentiments. Undertone of my comments appearing today in Forum is the same. We need to get a lesson from " lage raho munna bhai".

S P Singal