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15 IRS officers seek VRS
As the grapevine has it, at least 15 Indian Revenue Service(IRS) officers have sought voluntary retirement(VR).
Ms.Neera Saggi quits
Mrs.Neera Saggi who was earlier Department of Commerce as Development Commissioner Santa Cruz Electronics Export Processing Zone (SEEPZ)Mumbai has quit the job by seeking voluntary retirement.Mrs.Saggi is an IAS officer of the West Bengal cadre & belongs to the 1980 batch.Her parent cadre gave her clearance recently.She was on leave during the period.
(We said this on June 17,2008)
Task Force to check terrorism
A task force headed by the Chairman of the JIC is reported to have been set up to deal with terrorism in the country.IB Chief,RAW Chief,DRI and Chief of Military Intelligence are said to be members of the Task Force.
Working in GOI comes under a cloud
Working in the Government of India(GOI)has come under a cloud as it has made a mockery of itself.The CSB for empanelment of IAS officers belonging to 1989 batch in GOI has proved be a non starter for about last three months. The CSB that was slated for September 22, 2008 was deferred again.There has never been so much of delay in such a process,like it has happened the case of 1989 batch.
In-situ promotion unlikely for 1978 batch IAS
Latest information says that 1978 batch IAS officers empanelled to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India will not be given in-situ promotion.
Undeclared holiday for GoI officers
As Indian Prime Minister Dr. Man Mohan Singh is away to the US & France from September 22, 2008, senior officers in Government of India (GoI) will have no major work to deal with. Whatever, major decisions are on the anvil, will happen only after Dr.Man Mohan Singh is back to India next month.
DG Dordarshan and Akashvani interview in October
As directed by the I & B Ministry delayed selection of DG Doordarshan and Akashvani will be held in October. Recruitment Board will be meeting for the purpose.
EC braces up for fool proof Lok Sabha polls
There are indications that Election Commission (EC) is going to act very tough to hold smooth & peaceful polls to the Lok Sabha.
Srinivasan to join Power Company in TamilNadu ?
Former Secretary Petroleum M S Srinivasan is likey to join a Power Company in Tamil Nadu as Chairman. He is retired 1971 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.
Ms.Anita Sinha is Director Culture
Ms. Anita Sinha is Director in the Ministry of Culture. She is an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer of the 1990 batch.
Private Sector wooing talented officers
Sensing widespread resentment among All India Services officers in the wake of raw deal being meted out to their ilk as per report of the 6th Pay Commission, private sector is wooing talented officers.
A Pattnayak is poised to move to GoI
Amarananda Patnayak, DG Fire Services and Commandant General, Home Guards, is set to go on central deputation following his empanelment to rank of DG of Police in GoI, Ministry of Home Affairs. The ex-Orissa DG of Police, Pattanayak, is 1973 batch IPS officer of Orissa cadre.
Rajiv Mehta granted extension in ITBP
Rajiv Mehta, IPS (AM-1981) IG ITBP, has been granted one year extension of his current deputation to ITBP as a special case in view of his excellent services to this elite para military force. He is presently posted as IG North Zone at Dehradoon.
MP Forest Villagers come under on e roof
Madhya Pradesh Government's Forest department has taken a unique initiative of bringing forest villagers under one roof. This has been achieved by organizing three day Vanvasi (forest villagers' fair in the state capital of Bhopal. Participants here are displaying their folk dances, food delicacies, customs of marriage ceremonies etc. It is also unique because forest villagers are being exposed to friendly behaviour of Forest department's officer & employees. It will go on till September 24, 2008.
Cabinet reshuffle in Maharashtra on the anvil

As the grapevine has it that Vilas Rao Deshmukh Maharashtra Chief Minister is going to reshuffle his Cabinet next month.Deshmukh who is at present abroad to woo entrepreneurs will be back to India on October 1,2008.

Mohammed Afzal returns to MP cadre
Mohammed Afzal on completion of his three year tenure as Registrar Aligarh Muslim University(AMU),Aligarh is back to his parent cadre of Madhya Pradesh.He is an IPS officer of the 1990 batch.
Ram Niwas is new Home Secretary of Chandigarh Administration
Finally Ram Niwas has been appointed Home Secretary of the Chandigarh Administration. He is 1985 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.
Two new Judges of Chhattisgarh HC likely
Prashant Mishra and Maninder Srivastava are likely to be appointed new Judges of the Chhattisgarh High Court.
Shukla is new Member of CAT in Gauhati (UPDATED)
SN Shukla, vice-chairman of Income Tax Settlement Commission at Chennai, has been appointed as Administrative Member of CAT in Gauhati.
Garima Gupta relieved for Goa (UPDATED)
2004 batch UT cadre IAS officer Garima Gupta has been relieved by the Delhi Government to join the Goa Government.
IPS transfers in UP on the anvil (UPDATED)

Transfers of IPS officers are on the anvil in Uttar Pradesh.
India Post's new logo unveiled (UPDATED)

India Post has launched a new logo that will now be seen across all post offices and postal services of the country. The changed corporate logo for the Department of Posts was launched by the Minister of Communications & IT, A. Raja in Delhi on September 23,2008.Raja announced that India Post will very soon acquire a number of aircrafts to carry letters, parcels and logistic consignments for making overnight delivery in major towns of the country. India Post had launched its first Aircraft last year to provide these services in the North East.The Minister also announced a host of new customer services to be launched by India Post very soon. These will include Express Parcel Post Retail service, Gift Parcel Post service, Logistics Post Air service, Sale of Gold coins through Retail Post, express Money Order service, Speed Post Call Centres and a range of new international services.Raja informed that major technology initiatives have been planned to bring Automatic Mail Processing systems to process the mail faster; to equip the postmen with hand-held devices that will capture and transmit the signature of the addressees digitally; to establish mechanised hubs to process the parcels efficiently; to build logistics and warehousing centres for providing supply chain solutions to the businesses.Raja said, the unveiling of the logo marks a new beginning in the journey of India Post; it marks a new commitment in the ethos of the Department of Posts and sets the vision for a world class postal services. Speaking on the occasion, the Minister of State for Communications and IT, Mr. Jyotiraditya Scindia described the new logo as a synthesis between service proposition and modernity. He said, the launch is a landmark and the new corporate identity will unfold higher level of customer services. Explaining the New Logo The construct of the new logo (see attachment) is inspired by the fact that India Post carries emotion across physical distance. At first glance, it is an envelope and at the next glance, it is a bird in flight, unhindered and unrestricted. The following bold strokes convey free flight. The choices of colours are Red and Yellow. Red has been chosen for its traditional association with the Postal Service. It embodies passion, power and commitment. Yellow communicates hope, joy and happiness. Evidence of the combination of the two colours is found across the country.

Maharashtra CM signs MoU of Rs.250 crore with Rieter (UPDATED)

Maharashtra Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) for a setting up textile unit worth Rs.250 crore with its Chief Executive Officer (CEO)Hartmut Reuter
Chief Executive Officer(CEO)of the Zurich based "Rieter group" of Swithzerland. Vilas Rao Deshmukh Maharashtra Chief Minister is leading a high level delegation to European nations.Deshmukh also visited the Interlken located Jungfrau Railway systems unit & met its CEO Urs Kessler.Maharashtra Chief Secretary Johny Joseph who is accompanying Chief Minister Deshmukh was also present on the occasion.

CORPORATE
Is BHEL being restructured?
As the grapevine has it, Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd (BHEL) is going to be restructured.
Kamal Nath inaugurates CII's Excellence centre in Chhindwara
Indian Minister for Commerce & Industries Kamal Nath inaugurated India's and CII's first National Centre of Excellence for Skill Development in Chhindwara district, Madhya Pradesh recently. This is the first initiative of its kind in the country set up by CII through Private Private Partnership and a small but unique step to try and bridge the skill gap.Speaking on the occasion, Minister Kamal Nath said, "When we talk about 6 to 7% growth rate in major cities, I do not see this growth in Tier 2 & 3 cities". He also said that in the race of getting employment, youth in the districts always lose out in the last mile. The CII National Centre of Excellence for Skill Development in Chhindwara will attempt to ensure that employability increases, he added. Kamal Nath also said that with the CII National Centre of Excellence for Skill Development, Footwear Design & Development Institute and NIIT centre, Chhindwara has become one of the very few districts in the country to be offering so many skill development courses. Outlining the activities of the Skill Development Centre Rajendra Prasad Chiarman CII Madhya Pradesh State Council said initially training will be imparted in the trades of masonry, bar-bending, welding, excavator operators and fitters for a period of 1 to 3 months. Each batch will have 15-30 students per trade and will be run by CII member companies namely, Ambuja Cement, JCB, L & T, Punj Lloyd among others. Training in the areas of auto mechanic, security guards and drivers would be included in due course. Ms Supriya Banerjee Deputy Director General, CII was also present on the occasion.

Asheesh Bajaj gets new role in Citi group

Asheesh Bajaj has been appointed Head of Citi's Commercial Banking and Global Subsidiaries business for South Asia.

Aaj Ki Aawaz
Braveheart Sharma remained an Inspector despite being so highly decorated!!!
Seems higher than him the Olympic Medal winners have been rated!!!!

Because one or two winners have been conferred the DSP rank!!!!
Sarkaar rated Medal winners higher than him let me be very frank!!!

Bindra got crores and see what Sharma's family's been given!!!!
And now to get his dues from pillar to post his family will be driven!!

Seems Congress is keeping mum so that its vote bank nahi ho jaye annoy!!!
So in camera glare on Sharma Congressis act coy!!!

In the area where the shootout took place people say 'it was a one sided shootout'!
Sharma's being killed should remove the one sided doubt!!!!

Bajrang Dal and SIMI cannot be compared!!!
After BAD blasts SIMI's diabolical plan and role have been bared!!!

SIMI says it aims to make India an Islamic State!!!!
A cosmopolitan India they hate!!!

Bajrang Dal does not say it'll make India a Hindu State ,
People who are anti Hindu or anti India Bajrang Dal karta hai hate!!!

Comparing Bajrang Dal and SIMI is like comparing a pea shooter with a Bofors gun!!
Or it's like comparing a Congress Sewa Dal worker with Sonia or her son!!!

The root cause of the problem in Orissa and Karnataka is conversions,
And this is indeed one of religion's biggest perversions!!!

Christianity takes conversion to be a pious deed!!!!
And Bajrang Dal feels Christians are making Hinduism bleed!!!

Both sides need to be made to sit down and talk,
And to stop these flashes from taking place modalities they need to chalk!!!

' India should allow religious freedom' is the warning from Uncle Sam!!!
Forced or induced conversions religion's objective ko karte hai damn!!!

Kapil Sibal says Congress does not want POTA as by Modi it could be misused!!!!
He feels that by Modi POTA will be abused!!!

The Media and Courts are there and Modi will not be able to get away if he did so!!!!
But really what a pathetic argument to say 'no'!!!!

Kapil says Government cannot be run on Public's perception!!!
Fact is UPA Government has perfected the art of deception!!

For Nuclear Deal, inflation, appeasing majority minority deception has been used!!!
Of being deceptive Congress is time and again accused!!!

Seems Rahul Baba has seen Singh is King and understood Punjab 's psyche!!!
So he commenced his Punjab tour with something that Punjabis would like!!!

He paid obeisance at the Golden Temple and kiya apne aap ko endear!!!!
Did something that Punjabis would like to see and hear!!!

Manmohan or Mohna is off to US and France!!!
Still in his Nuclear trance!!!

He's the Nuclear PM and this should be his designation!!!!
Three years back from all other responsibilities he'd given his resignation!!!

Even if he stays out beyond the scheduled 10 days it'll hardly matter!!!!
As for three years he's just had the Nuclear Deal on his platter!!!

The Fed's 'save US economically' will not end US's economic woes!!!
Okay there will be a temporary pullback and then again US will ht new lows!!!

First US tried the refunds and then the bail outs!!!!
But still on US's economy reviving there are huge doubts!!!

Confucius says….. Consumerism is what makes USA 's merry-go-round go round and round!!!!
Despite a lot of oiling merry-go-round still has not stopped making the breaking down sound!!!


Bharat Kumar

Forum
Fresh Recruitment in Delhi Police

While recruiting the additional 17,000 personnel in Delhi Police, the government should aspire to modernise the force and make it really cosmopolitan.
Firstly, the new recruits should be from selected all regions of the country and not merely from Haryana, UP and Punjab as has been the case so far. Delhi is truly a mini-India but the police force does not quite reflect the diversity.
Secondly, emphasis should be on recruiting experts in telecommunications and IT. Clearly at a time when the white collar criminals and terrorist are net savvy, ordinary metric pass constables can't be expected to do the job.
Finally, their training needs to focus on the emerging challenges in view of the changing nature of crimes in Delhi. The training should also include human rights issues so that the new recruits treat the citizens with dignity and respect due to every law abiding Indian.

Mukesh
Don't increase force on following counts
Further to Sudhir Chopra's opinion on increasing the strength of the Delhi Police, I have additional justification not to increase the force on the following counts:
The general impression of the people is that front level force in Delhi police are largely responsible for mushrooming growth of vendors/sellers occupying pavements in the markets, roads even inside residential areas ostensibly to collect more money from them. Their efforts are directed more to fill their pockets than to do proper policing as mandated.
I have seen that senior police officers are largely more active, slim and trim, but front level force who are put to field duties are pot bellied and physically not in the position of taking quick action if desired from them.
In fact if the existing Delhi police force are more sensitized about moral, ethics and dedication through proper training from time to time, I am sure the existing strength will do wonders. In order to bring proper assimilation of dedication , honesty selective manpower from central police organisations like ITBP& Military Police etc be brought in the Delhi police on rotational/deputation basis and send proportionate Delhi Policemen to those organisations. Instead of increasing the existing strength of Delhi police. I feel that a single policeman who is honest and dedicated can be very effective in a particular beat instead of a dozen inefficient and corrupt policemen. Let the Delhi police generate the impression that they are the lifeline for the citizen of Delhi.
A Delhi Citizen
Dear Sudhir Chopra,
Hope you have not suffered at the hands of Police for violating traffic rules. If so it will be better you educate yourself about them. Your observation about orderlies etc may be partially true but you conveniently forgot about chaprasis etc available with hundreds of departments. If they are also similarly withdrawn, perhaps government will be able to come upto the half-way mark in fulfilling the guidelines of the National Police commission regarding the strength of the police force which is presently highly over-worked-working on an average 14 hrs at constable level and 17 hrs at SO level.
Archie
Whither internal security
I do not agree with Sudhir Chopra' views in the today's (21-09-2008) column. Internal security is no longer a mere cross- border phenomenon. It is now an internal phenomenon with foreign roots including conduits for uninhibited funding. Police force is already too unwieldy. Larger the police force, more widespread will be the corruption by way of recruitment, creation of logistics etc. We should have more brave hearts like late M C Sharma who laid down his life fighting the terrorists. The announcement of measures by the Home Secretary after the Cabinet meeting is merely an eyewash to distract public attention from the core issues. I am not the least casting aspersions on the Police force. But, first, look at their working conditions! What we need today is a slim and trim police force with a sharp Israeli like mindsets. Outsourcing through private security is another source of corruption. Keeping in view the existing worldwide security scenario, it is high time that we have now a full- fledged ministry of internal security directly under the Prime Minister to work as a as a canopy or an umbrella organisation to whom all internal and external intelligence agencies must report including the National Security Council Secretariat. In fact the position of the NSC Secretariat which has been in existence for a little too long merits to be reviewed. Its function as a 'think tank' must be taken over by the proposed Ministry of Internal Security. If it is decided to retain the NSC Secretariat then its accountability and functions should be clearly redefined. There should be no place for superannuated bureaucrats in the NSC Secretariat for appointment as Consultants who have been vested with power but without responsibility. During the past about seven years, the NSC Secretariat has overgrown in size in pursuance of the principle of Parkinson's Law. As far as I understand, there is no accountability in this organisation in matters of public exchequer as well as appointments, and that too , in the name of security. And, last but not the least, let us withdraw all the so called security guards and orderlies from all ministers , Police Officers and the undeserved civil servants for whom these are all status symbols. Exceptions are always to be made in the case of President, PM, Chairman UPA, HM, etc depending upon the genuine threat perceptions and not as mere status symbols which is sheer waste of skilled manpower. This will clearly release about three thousand police personnels, who could be deployed more meaningfully elsewhere. May I request Dr Suresh Mehrotra, the Chief Editor of this site to convey the above suggestions to the Prime Minister for giving a serious thought in national interest before long

A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)

I do agree with author
I do agree with author on "Mere increase in strength of police force will not suffice". I am surprise that when ever some serious crime occur or election time is near there is only one statement ' shortage of staff'. On the other hand if a common man draw the attention that his/ her item(s) is/ are stolen, no one take attention and the sufferer is always under fire from police official.
Ramesh Chhabra
Benefit of 6th CPC
For gazetted officers:
1. Juicy salary and increased grade pay for gazetted officers.
2. Free official tours(mostly personal in nature but making it official)
3. Free telephone reimbursement(mostly personal calls but claiming it official)
4. Free paper reimbursement(2-3 newspapers for their use but showing it as official)
5. Usage of mileage points for self and family gained be being a member of frequent flyers(actual tours undertaken for official purpose at the expense of government)
6. Timely promotion and other related benefits.
7. Transport Allowance(Rs.3200/-) Hal the amount they will be able to save. In case of officers availing transport; that transport is being used by family etc.
8. Government quarters allotted to them in excellent living condition and good maintenance and timely allotment without any bungling.
9. Next Pay Commission will recommend foreign official tours for these persons.
For non-gazetted officers:
1. Normal pay just for mouth to hand existence.
2. So much interpretation in pay fixation; that all the benefits limited to bear minimum contrary to the announcement.
3. 3 ACPs announced. But actually this has nullified the earlier two ACPs which were an antibiotic to some extent. This 3 ACPs actually without any benefit is really mad in sense as there is no clarification till date as to whether it is on designation and its respective grade pay or on grade pays in the hierarchy existing in the pay band. If it is on designation; then to some extent it is OK; otherwise if it is as per grade pay in the pay band; it means we have been declared half-mad.
4. No telephone reimbursement - must pay from pocket if your are contacted at home.
5. No newspaper reimbursement.
6. Transport Alowance - non gazetted staff are forced to stay late and also come on holidays during exigency and parliament sessions. They have to pay ateleast 50% more than the TA they are being given.
7. No promotional chances except being fooled as DOPT time and again constitutes a committee for cadre restructure without any purpose.
8. Even SOs and PS have been given the benefit of NFS Scale; whereas we have been demoted by three ACPs.
9. Very good life for Sr.PPS and PPs as they have got nothing to do; simply attend telephones; no dictation because they call themselves US and Deputy Secretary and leave office at the pathetic cost of non-gazetted stenos.
10. Poor maintenance of the govt. accommodation we live. Our HRA is for the maintenance of Type-IV and above. A lot of bungling by the Directorate of Estates in allotment and given technical acceptance because we are non-gazetted.
R P Biswas
It is a matter of fairness !
Happy with the arrears you will be getting? Happy with an enhanced salary? Wait till you understand how the DoE (read IAS) has by its notification and resolution on Pay Commission favoured IAS over other services. It is not a matter of pay, it is a matter of fairness and fighting injustice. Will Associations of other services wake up and raise a voice? Understand the following, to illustrate the point:
Fitment issues:
The DoE has fixed pay drawn by IAS officers and that drawn by officers of other services differently for the same pay drawn. Look at these:
a. As per the fitment tables (S-24 and S-25), an IAS officer drawing a basic pay of Rs 15100 will get Rs 39690, whereas officers of other services drawing the same basic pay of Rs 15100 will get Rs 38530.
b. The basic pay of Rs.16300/- for IAS Selection grade has been fixed at Rs 40890/- (Fitment table S-25), whereas basic pay of officers (Brigadiers/Conservators/DIG/Superintending Engineers/Scientists, etc) drawing Rs 16400/- has been fixed as Rs.39690/-. (Fitment tables S-26 and S-27). More pay drawn earlier, gets less pay now!!
Going beyond the mandate of the Cabinet in operationalising the edge to IAS:
The Cabinet's decision on the Pay Commission reads as under:
"The edge presently granted to IAS/Foreign Service officers at middle level to continue in the form of 2 increments in the pay band at the existing three levels."
The notification, however, has given the IAS more edge than was decided by the Cabinet as follows:
a. STS level for IAS has been given 2 additional increments over other services - this conforms to the decision of the Cabinet.
b. JAG level for IAS has been given 4 additional increments over other services, whereas the Cabinet decided on only 2 additional increments.
c. NFSG level for IAS has been given 2 additional increments over other services- conforms to the decision of the Cabinet.
d. SAG and HAG+ levels of IAS have been given 2 additional increments over other services, whereas the Cabinet did not decide on any additional increments at these stages.
The Cabinet has approved grant of 2 increments at 3 middle levels only to the IAS.
The proposed operational procedure not only increases the edge to 4 increments at one middle level, but also extends an edge of 2 increments at all higher levels. Hence the IAS will be drawing more pay than mandated between 10th to 13th year and beyond 17th year.
This has happened because the 2 additional increments given to the IAS at the STS grade in the running pay band PB3 and at the NFSG grade in the running pay band PB4 continue to get carried forward to JAG grade in PB3 and SAG/HAG+ grades in PB4, respectively.
In effect, IAS has been given at least 2 additional increments over other services throughout their career. This is against the Cabinet decision to limit the edge to middle levels.
IAS, indeed deserve an edge - they are the Sovereign and not the Government. They finally decide, not the Cabinet.
An Aware officer
Anomaly in allotment of accommodation
There is one big anomaly in the matter of allotment of accommodation vis-a-vis giving of HRA to one of the spouse. There are a number of Government offices who are not eligible for allotment Directorate of Estates Accommodation and thier organization also does not have any accommodation of its own. If one of the spouse is having a Directorate of Estates Accommodation, the other spouse is not eligible for payment of HRA even if the fact that the office of the latter is not eligible for allotment of Government accommodation. Suppose a husband, having a Directorate of Estates Accommodation, dies then the wife is thrown on the streets just because her office is not eligible for Directorate of Estates accommodation. No heed is also paid to the fact that the wife all through had not been taking HRA. The Government should consider sympathetically such cases.
Anurag Srivastava
Several infirmities in the order
It is true there are several infirmities in the orders. For instance the employees drawing increment from 2nd Jan. to 30th June are treated differently from those who are drawing theirs from 2nd July to 30 the December. the later is granted advance increment the former is denied the benefit and their increment get postponed. Similarly those who are promoted in between periods 2nd Jan to June are denied the increment benefit . The sole culprit being the uniform increment date. As one time dispensation all the employees drawing their increments between 2nd Jan06 to 30th June 2006 which will do justice and to maintain the uniform increment date in July.
M V Rao

Typographical Errors
"Implementation OM dated 2.9.08 is illegal, being violative of Resolution"- Published in Forum dated 19.9.08- Two Inadvertent Typographical Errors
Readers may please note two small typographical errors in the aforesaid views, First, in the 8th line, for the words "during the past 10 years", please read "during the past 10 months". Secondly, in the last but one line, for the words "If this is done", please read "If this is not done". The inadvertent errors are regretted.
A.L. Makhijani
Director (Retd) & Advocate
These transfers are local adjustments
These transfers are not the transfers of commissioners from one city to other but are local adjustments at some of the places only. Needless to mention that intercity transfers on request are necessitated round the year to take care of the large cadres interest also but even in these local adjustments, it would have been appropriate to clear the anomalies in all the chief commissioners charges. The CBDT has conveniently left out adjustments for seniority in many charges, even though the same have been repeatedly pointed out by the officers as well. The solution lies in clearly specifying the pecking order for the different posts of commissioners on one hand and then posting the commissioners on the basis of seniority to the said posts. For instance, posting of a commissioner in Administration, with 1 or 2 yrs of seniority ,when his seniors are in Appeal or elsewhere is a mockery and misuse of the policy and discretion vested in the competent CBDT. There are junior as well as senior commissioners holding administrative charges ,and they have never done a posting in Appeal or ITAT or elsewhere .By depriving them of such exposure the authorities have done more harm than good to the system and the officers also. It is therefore a must to identify and lay down the min seniority for holding a particular post and the CBDT should carry out local adjustments only on that basis in future at the earliest.

R Sahay

It reflects non-seriousness of CBDT
Mass CIT level transfers in the month of September reflects non seriousness of CBDT towards Annual Action Plan Targets. Even CIT(A)s have been transferred, on whose appeal disposal, tax recovery out of arrears largely depends. Under the Annual Action Plan, all High Demand Appeals are to be disposed off by 30th November. Will the new incumbents be able to achieve this? Absolutely impossible!! What happens to all the heard appeals and who is answerable to the taxpayers, who will have to again plead their cases before new incumbents? Shuffling CIT level officers from one particular CIT(A) charge to another CIT(A) charge makes no sense. If seniority is the criterion, what about performance? And will this policy be always followed in future, so that the displaced juniors will also be one day getting identical treatment? Senior CITs want junior to man ITAT posts, but how many of these seniors were in ITAT as DR, when they were junior. There is one set of rules for self and one for others!!!

Devendra

Directorate of Estate is at it agains
Directorate of Estate has again started the hera pheri as was being done before the Supreme Court judgement. I agree that the cutoff date has no relevance and persons who are senior in service by several years are placed below their juniors of other services, only because promotions in their service has been delayed. In my view seniority should be from the year of joining the service. An officer suffers twice i.e. his promotions are delayed and because of this delay he does not reach the required pay scale and is placed below his junior from other service. All these problems are only for central services and that is why no action is taken to remedy the situation. Another racket is shifting of ground floor houses from general pool to tenure pool accommodation. There is no justification for this unconstitutional and discriminatory policy and must be stopped immediately. In my view these issues should have been brought before the pay commission as they affect the service conditions.

P C Tripathi

IAS officers nominated by government to World Bank, IMF

It is interesting to note that the officers nominated by government have all been IAS officers, such is the cronyism of the IAS controlled system. However, Central Service officers have been asked to work by the World Bank to work for them under open competition. This is the difference between the IAS and Central Civil Services. The so called superiority of IAS is only a self created superiority. Central Civil Services have out performed the IAS whenever there has been a level playing field. Even in the performance of officers in Universities abroad. Central Services have done better. Let the government replace the DOPT Secretary with a non-IAS and we shall see which service is really superior.

Palani T

Good news indeed !
Good news for the other two All India Services in the State! At least, now armed with the Pay Commission / Cabinet decision about grant of higher grade on non functional basis, officers of 1991 batches of IFS and IPS can expect the same scale. But, is anyone listening? And How about implementing the Pa Commission for the AIS! This issue seems to be taking ages!

Ashok Sharma

It is but natural..
In a country where Home Minister gets into government through back door , terrorists are sure to enter through front door. If UPA has to change the Home Minister let it be done quick and soon. If he is accommodated elsewhere in the government the country will continue to remain vulnerable to terrorism because terrorists will believe that UPA has certain compulsion to retain the incompetent and so they need not bother.

Keshav Prasad

IDES : a unique innovation
Recently BOT(Build Operate and Transfer) a type of public private partnership has been tried in Secunderabad , Pune and Lucknow cantonments by construction of shopping complexes, multi facility hospitals , bridges and hot mix roads . A considerable amount of non tax revenue has also been generated by these innovations. Quality mannuals have been created and ISO standardizations are on way.
Cantonment Board Pune is first in itself which created OPEN AIR MALL ON M B ROAD. Indian Defence Estates Service is on the way to create modernised municipal corporations culture. India is the only country which possess Cantonment Boards type Municipal Corporations - a unique experience in the World where a Central Civil Service Group-A officer (IDES) administers the area where both civili and as well as defence force personnel are stationed.

Shantanu

TAIL-PIECE

If a barber makes a mistake,
It's a NEW STYLE

If a driver makes a mistake,
It is a NEW PATH

If a engineer makes a mistake,
It is a NEW VENTURE

If parents makes a mistake,
It is a NEW GENERATION

If a politician makes a mistake,
It is a NEW LAW

If a scientist makes a mistake,
It is a NEW INVENTION

If a tailor makes a mistake,
It is a NEW FASHION

If a teacher makes a mistake ,
It is a NEW THEORY

If our boss makes a mistake,
It is a NEW IDEA

If an employee makes a mistake,
It is a MISTAKE ONLY

Contributed by-Anita Saxena