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M L Sharma to be Information Commissioner !
Outgoing Special Director CBI, M L Sharma, is being tipped to be Central Information Commissioner. He is 1972 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.
Who will be new Secretary Personnel ?
Who will be new Secretary Personnel in the Government of India ?.One thing is certain this time Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer is not going to be appointed to the post.If insiders are to be believed tie is said to be Maharashtra cadre 1972 batch IAS officer Y S Bhave and UP cadre 1972 batch IAS officer Anurag Goel.
Raghuvir Singh to be Member Secy.Tariff panel
Raghuvir Singh has been appointed as Member Secretary of the Tariff Commission in the Indian Ministry of Commerce & Industry in the rank of Secretary in the Government of India.Singh is an IA&AS officer of the 1972 batch.
( We said this on August 2)
A.K.Banerjee to head NPPA
A.K.Banerjee is going to head National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA),in Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals in the rank of Secretary in the Government of India.He is an officer of the IA& AS cadre.
Acharya is new Secretary Ex-Servicemen Welfare
S M Acharya is new Secretary Ex-Servicement Welfare in the Government of India. He is 1974 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.
Ms.Anita Singh to be Director, Culture
Ms.Anita Singh on Central deputation has been appointed as Director Culture for a term of five years.Ms.Singh who is an Indian Revenue Service(IRS) officer of the 1990 batch is at present Additional Chief Commissioner of Income Tax(CIT).
Biswas to return to West Bengal
Subrata Biswas who is on inter-state deputation to Uttarakhand is returning to the parent West Bengal cadre. He is 1990 batch IAS officer.
UT cadre IAS officer to join Uttarakhand Government
Neeraj Semwal batch is going on inter-state deputation to Uttrakhand. 2003 batch UT cadre IAS officer Semwal is presently posted as collector Diu, in the union territory of Daman and Diu.
Patnaik to return Delhi police
IG SPG A K Patnaik is returning to the parent UT cadre this week end after completion of deputation tenure. He is 1985 batch IPS officer.
Jindal goes Brusells
Ashutosh Jindal has been appointed First Secretary in Indian Embassy ,Brusells. He is 1995 batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.
(We said this on July 18 )
Shankar Agrawal is JS IT
Shankar Agrawal is new Joint Secretary Information Technology in the Government of India. He is 1980 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.
( We said this in August )
Dr Mishra joins as Chairman in Gujarat
Outgoing Secretary Agriculture in the Government of India Dr P K Mishra has joined on Tuesday as Chairman of the Gujarat Energy Regulatory Commission.He is retired 1972 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.
IRS officers are sore with ther GOI
Officers belonging to the Indian Revenue Service(IRS) are sore with the Government of India(GOI) as the post of Member Central Board of Direct Taxes(CBDT) which was put at par with GOI's Secretary has been put one step below GOI's Secretary in the notification relating to the 6 th pay commission.
3rd officer from Andhra Pradesh to be RBI Governor
Dr. Subba Rao who will be succeeding Y.V.Reddy as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India(RBI)is an IAS officer of the Andhra Pradesh cadre who belongs to the 1972 batch. Present Governor Y V Reddy & his predecessor C Rangarajan were also from Andhra Pradesh.
Jharkhand CS to continue
Jharkhand Chief Secretary Ashok Kumar Basu is going to continue.He is 1976 batch IAS officer.
ACS rank officers posting in Jharkhand
1974 batch IAS officer A K Chugh has been appointed Member of the Board of Revenue.S K Chaudhry who was in the run for the post of Chief Secretary has been made Development Commissioner.A K Singh will now be DG Institute of Public Administration.
Chamber is now PS to Mayawati
J N Chamber has been appointed new Principal Secretary to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati.He is 1980 batch IAS officer. Present Principal Secretary Shailesh Krishna has been made Principal Secretary Forests.
Four IAS officers promoted to ACS rank in J & K
Two 1976 batch IAS officers Shiban Lal Bhat and Samuel Verghese and two 1977 batch IAS officers Madhav Lal and B L Nimesh have been promoted to the rank of ACS in J & K.
Ram Kripal Singh to join NBT !
Grapevine has it that veteran journalist Ram Kripal Singh is joining the Nav Bharat Times.
IAS officer suspended in UP
Divisional Commissioner Basti T P Pathak has been suspended in UP.He is 1990 batch IAS officer.
Awasthay is back to UP
Sudhir Kumar Awasthay is back to the parent UP cadre after completion of central deputation tenure. On return 1974 batch IAS officer Awasthy has been made DG Rules and Manual.
IAS changes in Uttar Pradesh
Devendra Chaudhry will now be Principal Secretary Social Welfare and Backward Class.R C Srivastava has been made Principal Secretary Animal Husbandry.Anoop Chandra Pandey has been posted as Secretary Basic Education.R P Singh will now be Secretary Urban Development.Kunwar Fateh Bahadur will be Principal Secretary Personnel.
Sinha is DG Training in UP
D P Sinha has been appointed DG Training in Uttar Pradesh. He is 1972 batch IPS officer.
Kavita Sharma is Secretary General IIC
Kavita Sharma has taken over as Secretary General of the India International Centre (IIC )in Delhi.
Two DMs shifted by Mayawati
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has removed Lakhimpur Khiri DM Dr Pinki Joyal and Sant Kabirnagar DM R S Dube on Tuesday.
Justice Mathur is chief of the Armed Forces Tribunal
Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur, a retired judge of the Supreme Court has assumed the charge as First Chairperson of the Armed Forces Tribunal. His tenure will be for a period of four years.Born on August 7, 1943, Justice Mathur was enrolled as an advocate of the Rajasthan High Court in 1967. He served as Assistant Government Advocate and Deputy Government Advocate and later as Government Advocate of Jodhpur from 1969 to 1978. He was appointed as Additional Advocate General of Rajasthan in 1981. Justice Mathur became Additional Judge of Rajasthan High Court in 1985 and Permanent Judge of the same court in 1986. He transferred to the Madhya Pradesh High Court in 1994 and was appointed as Chief Justice of the same court in 1996. Justice Mathur was transferred to Calcutta High Court in 1999. Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur was elevated as Judge of the Supreme Court of India on June 07, 2004 and retired from there on August 6,2008. Pramod Agrawal to join GoI (UPDATED)
Pramod Agrawal is joining the Government of India as Director Sports . He is 1991 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.
Additional charge in Chhattisgarh (UPDATED)
Renu Pillai has been given additional charge of Gramodhyog .B L Tiwari will also look after additional charge of Technical Education.
First ever break through in liver Transplant Surgery at Army Hospital (UPDATED)
Army has successfully accomplished in situ liver transplantation. On 27 Aug 2008, 30 year old wife of a serving Major of the Indian Army was battling for her life in the ICU of Army Hospital R & R, New Delhi. Despite all possible medical efforts, she was declared brain dead and her husband desired her wish of organ donation to be fulfilled. Surgeons at Army Hospital (R & R) honoured this noble gesture by embarking on an "in situ" split liver transplant surgery, the first ever in India, thus giving a new lease of life to two patients suffering from end stage liver disease. The novel technique of "in situ" splitting of the liver involves dividing the donor liver during retrieval into two parts, so that two patients can be benefited from one donor organ.The surgery resulted in two liver grafts. The smaller graft was transplanted into a 14 month-old baby suffering from Biliary Atresia and the larger right part was transplanted into a 26 year old soldier with cryptogenic cirrhosis. Both patients are doing well postoperatively.This unique surgical feat was undertaken by a team of 20 doctors and paramedical staff and took 18 hours to complete. Incidentally, the 14 month old boy was conceived by in vitro-fertilisation technique aned is amongst the youngest liyer transplant recipients in the country. As his parents were unsuitable as living donors, an "in situ" liver split from a compatible brain dead donor offered the only chance for his survival as he was born with congenital absence of bile duets causing deepening jaundice since birth.The kidneys and coronus from the donor were also harvested and transplanted, one kidney being flown to Command Hospital, Lucknow. The liver transplant team at Army Hospital (R & R) is trained in Adult as well as Paediatric Liver Transplantation and has performed seventeen liver transplants since the Inception of the programme in Mar 2007.

CORPORATE
Basu is new MD of MRPL
Uttam Kumar Basu has been appointed new Managing Director of Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL). He will succeed R. Rajamani who superannuated on August 31
Sengupta appointed Director NTPC
Former CMD of the Coal India P.K. Sengupta has been nominated as Director of the NTPC.
Singh is now CEO of BHEL-NTPC Power projects
Director (Engineering ) BHEL, CP Singh has been officially appointed the new CEO of BHEL-NTPC Power Projects - a Rs. 6,000-crore joint venture between BHEL and NTPC on Tuesday.
( We said this on August 12 )
Higher bonus in Kerals
The workers of 14 profit-making public sector companies in Kerala will be getting higher bonus this year.
Capt. Mohan to head National Shipping Board
Captain P.V.K. Mohan, the senior-most member of National Shipping Board, has been nominated as Chairman of National Shipping Board (NSB) for a two year term with immediate effect. The Board consists of four members of Parliament from the Lok Sabha and two members of Parliament from the Rajya Sabha, besides some technical people.Captain Mohan is the youngest and also the first Master Mariner to become the Chairman of the National Shipping Board. In his vast experience on the Board for over 11 years, he is well-versed with all subjects in the shipping and port sectors besides having an intricate knowledge of the global shipping industry.The National Shipping Board is constituted under the Merchant Shipping Act and was first formed in 1959 and headed by illustrious people like late G.L. Mehta,C.H. Bhatia and C.M. Stephen. Apart from Members of Parliament, the National Shipping Board has representatives from the Trade Unions, Ship Owners, Director General of Shipping, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Commerce as well as the different sectors like Commodore M. Jiterndran, CMD of Kochi Shipyard, from Ship Building Sector, S. Velumani, Chairman Ennore Port from Port sector, Dr. Vijayan, Dirctor, National Maritime Academy from the Maritime education sector and Prof. Ramaswamy a renowned scientist. The Board has been instrumental in contributing towards several developments both in the shipping and port sectors. The Vallarpadam project, the expansion of container terminals in other major ports in the country like JNPT, Chennai and Kandla are some of the examples. Issues relating to training, man-power shortages and dredging activities were also taken up by the Board in recent times.
WAPCOS presents dividend to Prof. Soz (UPDATED)
A dividend cheque of WAPCOS for the year 2007-08 was presented to Prof. Saifuddin Soz Indian Minister of Water Resources by the CMD, WAPCOS D. Dutta in Delhi on September 2,2008. U.N. Panjiar Secretary, S. Manoharan Addl. Secretary and senior officers of the Ministry of Water Resources were present on the occasion.WAPCOS has declared dividend of 155 % of its paid up capital amounting to Rs. 3.10 crore for the year 2007-08, which is the highest ever since its inception in 1969. Based on audited data, it has achieved a unique score of 1.0 which is the highest achievable score as per the MoU evaluation system of the Department of Public Enterprises, Government of India. It is now eligible to be placed for the excellent time in succession.
Net direct tax collection (UPDATED)
Net direct tax collections in the first five months in the present fiscal (up to August 2008) stood at Rs.84,409 crore, up from Rs.61,030 crore, registering a growth of 38.31 percent. Growth in Corporate Taxes was 43.49 percent (Rs.48,450 crore as against Rs.33,766 crore), while Personal Income Tax (including FBT, STT and BCTT) grew at 31.79 percent (Rs.35,840 crore as against Rs.27,195 crore). Growth of Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) was 31.85 percent (Rs.1,339 crore against Rs.1,015 crore); Securities Transaction Tax (STT) was 15.10 percent (Rs.2,730 crore against Rs.2,372 crore); and Banking Cash Transaction Tax (BCTT) was minus 21.36 percent (Rs.274 crore against Rs.348 crore).
Among regions, tax growth in Delhi and Mumbai was 76.23 percent and 32.49 percent, respectively. Other regions with high tax growth are Nagpur (88.75 percent); Kochi (58.07 percent); Kolkata (56.82 percent); Bhubaneshwar (53.59 percent) and Bangaluru (48.87 percent).
Overall growth in tax deducted at source (TDS) was more than 40 percent but growth in corporate TDS was 55.22 percent. Corporate TDS collections stood at Rs.26,445 crore as on 31st August 2008 against Rs.17,037 crore during the corresponding period last year. This was also the result of several TDS verifications / surveys carried out by the Income Tax department, which led to detection of hundreds of crore of rupees not deducted or not paid to the government account after deduction. Robust growth in direct taxes has been maintained despite substantially higher relief to individual taxpayers announced by the Finance Minister in the Union Budget 2008. Therefore, higher growth in TDS collections indicates good health of the Indian economy and indicates further improvement in tax administration and tax compliance levels. The cost of direct tax collection, on the other hand, which had declined to an all-time low of 0.54 percent during fiscal 2007-08, is likely to further decline to about 0.43 percent during the current fiscal, the lowest among all large economies in the world.
Robust growth of over 35 percent in direct taxes during the past few years has helped the central government in meeting FRBM targets, focus on developmental and social programmes, and declare higher pay and allowances for its employees.

Aaj Ki Aawaz
Floods in Bihar and Laloo is in glee,
His happiness is so easy to see!!!!
He feels he's got a chance to gain some brownie points!!!!
Such an attitude sure disappoints!!!
But please do remember that this should be expected from Laloo!!!!!
He epitomizes being chaloo!!!!
Bihar and Biharis don't matter to him one bit!!!
Otherwise in such trying times till now Delhi mein nahi karta sit!!!!
All that he does nowadays is take joy rides with PM, Sonia and the lot!!!!!
A seat on every such sortey over Bihar he's got!!!!
From the sky Biharis suffering the floods look like dots or ants!!!!!
And then when he deplanes at Delhi in front of the Media he raves and rants!!!
This is Laloo for you….. uncaring and try to profiteer from people's suffering and pain!!!
But Public knows him and have borne him so he will not gain!!!!
Amar Singh has the solution to Congress - SP seat sharing deadlock!!!!
Prospective Candidates from both Parties will have to open without a key a lock!!!!
Amar knows his lot are experts in such kind of kaam!!!!!
In the end on the list of candidates there will not be even one Congressi ka naam!!!!
Rahul is also getting to witness first hand how a grease ball thinks!!!!
And understanding why people feel Amar stinks!!!!!
By the way Amar's bro Big B has got something to match his swollen red (dyed) head!!!!
An eye that is swollen and red!!!!
They say Amar's Bhabi Jaya is unhappy about Amar's chumming up with The Foe!!!
Amar is trying to sell this chumming up as for the Family he's doing so!!!!
Maybe he'll soon sing to Big B ' aa tujhe Sonia ke paas le jaaoo…. aa chalta kya'!!!!!
'Bachchan and Gandhi family ka start karre Chapter naya'!!!!
Oil prices are falling!!!
For a similar fall in India Indians are calling!!!
But Deora says time is not ripe!!!!
Now Oil Majors past losses he will hype!!!
Deora is a hard nosed businessman and is not a people's man!!!
Will look at making profits whenever and wherever he can!!!
So as he's pro the Oil Majors he'd like the Oil Majors to cover up losses!!!!
And I understand he's already promised this to Oil Majors Bosses!!!
Though some would say he's promised this to just one Oil Major Boss!!!!
The one joh karr saktha hai Deora pe boss and who he cannot afford to get cross!!!
Deora says Refiners still are bearing losses to the tune of Rs. 400 crores/day!!!!
He needs to check out the facts and then karre say!!!
A cut in Oil prices will bring down inflation!!!!
Put seems Deora's train stands at a different station!!!
They say Bush is now on the job to get India a total waiver!!!!
But seems certain Nations for India signing the NPT still craver!!!
What surprises is Mohna and gang taking these Countries for granted!!!
Would have been fruitful if by these Countries they were daunted!!!
Because then they would have started Project Woo some time back,
A realistic approach Mohna and gang sure did lack!!!
Confucius says……Deal was always on Mohna's mind but he did very little groundwork!!!
Americans would say Mohna acted like a Dork!!!
Adds…There was lot of placating and threatening but nothing more to write home about!!!
And Bush himself as an exiting President is in no position to actually help out!!!
Bharat Kumar

Forum
I do not agree at all with Lahiri's comments about Muslims not getting flats.
How can so many muslims be living in Mumbai or Delhi or for that matter any other city if they did not get flats.
It is possible that they may not get flats in co-op. societies where traditionally 100% HIndus are staying. This may be simply because they may all be vegetarians. But such isolated cases have to be accepteds gracefully. You cannot insist that you will stay only in a particular society otherwise you will shoud 'discrimination'.
We have had enough of such people crying foul at the slightest pretext. People like Shabana are hypocrites.
Khan 6th CPC:
I would compare this to the the verdicts given in the court. In most of the verdicts, the culprit is spared with created evidences and the innocent is accused. Here, the benefit has gone to the Under Secretary/PPS level officers and above as it seems this commission was set up for them only. Most of of the thousands of crores is being absorbed by them. But in the eyes of the public; the poor non-gazetted and lower level innocent employees have become the target because actually they have got nothing but only rubbed for asking. Special mentioned should also be made in regard to the post of Sr. PPS and PPS in steno line. Only a very few of these really work. Others simple give excuse that since they are class I officer, they are not supposed to take dictation and other works and simply fool the officers if they are technical in nature and not IAS. In the process the poor Grade "D" and PAs/adhoc PAs are rubbed without any logic and are forced to say late by their senior officers. The purpose of creating this Sr.PPS and PPS post was to remove stagnation at lower levels. This position remains the same at the lower level in spite of creation of these posts and instead the persons holding these posts have added nuisance and more problems to the Grade "D" steno and PA. Some experienced PAs really keep these persons at a distance but not all. Anyhow my sympathies are always with them as one can only watch a Sr.PPS and PPS drawing a pay more than Rs.50,000/- per month. My request is that any journalist or someone in any leading newspaper; if he comes over this comment; kindly publish the same on my behalf with due regard to me as a senior citizen.
Sudhakaran Retd. Govt. Servant
Some employees really deserve enhanced salary, but some inefficient and carefree lot need to be compulsorily retired from service to give way for the deserving. This not only includes some from group C and B, but from elite cadres too. Moreover, the British legacy of bureaucracy should be given up. Officers should carry their brief cases, water bottles and Tiffin carriers themselves. Vehicle system should be privatised, and mileage earned from official air travels should be used exclusively for official purpose. personal staff for Ministers and senior officers should be deployed strictly as per sanctioned strength.
Ratnapriya Chakraborty

An option should have been made available to employees to have the arrears or a portion of that to deposited in their GPF Account which would have eased the burden on Govt. Finances.
The uniform date of increment of 1st July adversely affects those who are promoted say in January, etc in the first half of the year who would have to wait for almost one and half years to get their increment. Ideally two dates could have been laid down namely, the 1st Janurary and 1st July so that the dates falling in the respective half year could have been brought to these dates.
Kannan