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What Bureaucrats think about the formation of next government at the centre?
The general elections are round the corner and the bureaucrats have started making their own assessments as to who would rule the country in the days to come. Whether it will be the Congress, the BJP or the respective fronts - UPA and NDA - lead by these parties. Will it be a third Front that will govern the country? We tried to elicit the views of bureaucrats across the country. They feel …………
( 24) ASSAM- Total seats 14
CONGRESS 6
BJP 3
AGP 4
IND & others 1
"Call on culture be instilled among youngsters"
Call on culture should not be misunderstood and be instilled among the youngsters as more than the courtesy, it is a mark of respect, opine majority of our surfers who responded to the survey conducted by whispersinthecorridors.com to elicit the views on this age old culture now vanishing by the day. "Call on has tremendous usefulness in terms of present and future, personal and official. Importance of this symbolic gesture should be made known to one and all and instilled in the new entrants. Sad to see that sometimes few ignorant officials tend to misinterpret it and say that he called on seeking personal favors", says Ranbir.
But who is to be blamed for the fading away of this all important traditional culture. No one else but the seniors, if one was to go by the opinion of the respondents. "It is finished because rude seniors do not want to entertain junior officers. Forget about calling on at home the arrogant seniors do not spare time even in the office", says VK Gupta.
However there are also many like Kaushal who feel that we should not give importance to such things which have little value in public life. "It was appropriate during the British era as the British respected the privacy, autonomy, authority and dignity of the individual as also of the office that the individual held", says SK Tiwari. "The colonial status of India notwithstanding, there was a subtle balance in the formal roles, responsibilities and relationships at various levels. Perhaps, the call on culture served to further strengthen the mutual relationship by bringing in more informal elements of trust and acceptance at a one-to-one level", he adds.
14 IRS officers promoted as Chief Commissioners of Customs and Central Excise
As many as 14 IRS officers have been promoted as Chief Commissioners of Customs and Central Excise. They include KC Singh, RM Ramchandani, KK Srivastava, PK Sirohi, Biswajeet Dutta, Rajendra Prakash, Praveen mahajan, Balmiki Ram Tripathi, Chander Mohan Mehra, Ahmed Hussain, Sheila Sangwan, Sreela Ghosh, Renuka Mann and KR Bhargava.
Chief Commissioners of Customs and Central Excise get new postings
Two dozen Chief Commissioners of Customs and Central Excise have got new postings. Ajit Kumar has been posted as Chief Commissioner of Central Excise - Ahmedabad, Subhash Chander as Chief Commissioner of Central Excise - Bangalore, BR Tripathi as Chief Commissioner of Central Excise - Lucknow, Ahmed Hussain as Chief Commissioner of Central Excise - Chennai, Biswajeet Dutta as Chief Commissioner of Central Excise - Ranchi, RM Ramchandani as Chief Commissioner of Central Excise - Mumbai-I, Sreela Ghosh as Chief Commissioner of Central Excise - Delhi, KC Singh as Chief Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise - Pune, CM Mehra as Chief Commissioner of Central Excise - Meerut, Rajendra Prakash as Chief Commissioner of Central Excise - Shillong, Vijay Laxmi Sharma as Chief Commissioner of Customs - Ahmedabad, Lalitha John as Chief Commissioner of Customs - Bangalore, GV Naik as Chief Commissioner of Customs - Chennai, HK Sharan as Chief Commissioner of Customs - Kolkata, M Dwivedi as Chief Commissioner of Customs - Mumbai-I, KR Bhargava as Chief Commissioner of Customs - Mumbai-I (w.e.f. date of relinquishing of charge by N Sasidharan for joining in the Settlement Commission), Shiela Sangwan as Chief Commissioner of Customs - Mumbai-III, MC Thakur as Chief Commissioner of Customs - Delhi, PK Sirohi as Chief Commissioner, TAR, Delhi, AC Buck as Director General Central Excise Intelligence, Jasdeep V Singh as Chief Commissioner of Customs (Prev) Delhi, Praveen Mahajan as Director General, Export Promotion, KK Srivastava as Director General Service Tax and Renuka Mann as Director General Human Resource Development
Batra is new Member Authority on Advanced Ruling
J K Batra is taking over as Member of the Advanced Ruling (Custom, Central Excise & Service Tax ) in a couple of weeks. He is 1972 batch IRS (C&CE) officer.
Chitra Gauri Lal is new Member of C&CE
Chitra Gauri Lal has taken over as new Member of the Central Excise
and Customs. Chitra Gauri Lal is 1974 batch IRS (C&CE) officer.
(We said this on March 9,2009)
No vacancy in Steel Ministry
There is no vacancy at any level in the in Steel Ministry as on date.
Why did Lalu parted ways with the Cong?
Why did the Janata Dal leader Lalu Yadav parted ways with the Congress? Insiders say that he started drifting away from the Congress primarily because all his recommendations pertaining to senior level appointments were virtually turned down by the PMO.
IDAS officer Varghese Mathew promoted
Indian Defence Accounts Service Officer Varghese Mathew of 2005 batch has been promoted from Junior Time Scale officer to Senior Time Scale and shifted from IFA (SC) Pune as Principal IFA.
Sanyal empanelled for JS
The name of Indian Audit and Accounts Service (IA&AS) officer T K Sanyal of 1975 batch has been recommended for empanelment for the post of Joint Secretary in the Government of India.
Green Planet Bicycle Riders Association's path breaking endeavour
Green Planet Bicycle Riders Association (GPBRA) being headed by Satya Prakash a Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer has embarked on a path breaking & trend setting mission. Though, the GPBRA is barely one year old it has got 5000 members including 175 core members. Satya Prakash who is Principal Secretary Commerce & Industry with the MP Government & belongs to the 1977 batch of MP cadre told <whispersinthecorridors.com> that his aim is to create a movement to facilitate people have a disease free & stress free life by overcoming wasteful lifestyle. According to Prakash bicycle riding not only adds to fitness of an individual but also acts as a mood enhancer. Association's vice president is Sanjay Rana an IPS officer of the MP
cadre. Other committee members belong to IAS & IPS cadre of MP. They are: Mahendra Gogia, Mrs.Snehlata Shrivastava, Ashok Das, and Pravin Garg & S.W.Naqvi. Amitabh Bajpayee who is crusading for intelligent transport system (ITS) is association's secretary. Answering a question Satya Prakash confided "one can even make a style statement by riding a bicycle." Advancing an argument in favour of bicycle riding Satya Prakash asked, "how many people can go to a gymnasium? Of course this reduces pollution while enabling to reduce the carbon footprint. Satya Prakash is quite optimistic about turning his endeavour into a mass movement, one day. He admitted, "It is not always easy to convince people about the importance of bicycle safety, but it is vital for everyone in your family to understand basic safety rules and to wear protective equipment before setting forth on any family bike ride. The concept of safe biking is overlooked or dismissed because of the simple nature of riding a bike. For the safety of everyone in your family, it is of utmost importance that safety is understood, and that a commitment to wearing a helmet is absolute." He concluded by quoting John F.Kennedy former American President who said, "Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride."
Narayan Raja tipped to DMD
As the grapevine has it Narayan Raja is tipped to be a Deputy Managing Director(DMD) in the State Bank of India (SBI).
Das appointed CCIT I Mumbai
Debrata Das has been appointed new CCIT I , Mumbai. He is 1971 batch IRS officer.
( We said this on April 2 )
Gupta is new CCIT I Kolkata
B K Gupta has been appointed new new CCIT I Kolkata. He is 1973 batch IRS officer.
( We said this on April 2 )
Arti Sawhney appointed CCIT I Delhi
Arti Sawhney has been appointed new CCIT I , Delhi. She is 1973 batch IRS officer.
( We said this on April 2)
Salim Haq is DDG (P)
Indian Postal Service officer Salim Haq has been appointed DDG (P).
Two IPS of Karnataka cadre empanelled for JS post
Two 1985 batch IPS officers of Karnataka cadre, H N Sathyanarayana Rao and Ashit Mohan Prasad, have been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary in the Government of India.
Three 1989 batch IAS officers of WB cadre empanelled for JS post
As many as three 1989 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre, Anil Verma, Chandan Sinha and S Kishore, are reported to have been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary in the Government of India.
Two big surprises in IRS panel ?
Two names, Milap Jain and Laxman Das, reportedly do not figure in the panel prepared for the post of Member CBDT. Jain is 1973 batch IRS officer while Das is 1974 batch IRS officer. There is big surprise in the IRS circles over this development.
Deepak Amitabh has joined PTC
Deepak Amitabh is now Director Finance with the Power Trading Corporation (PTC). He had quit Indian Revenue Service (IRS) to join the PTC as Director Finance.
P. R .Jaishankar shifted by NHB to Delhi
P. R. Jaishankar Hyderabad Regional Resident Representative National Housing Bank(NHB)has been shifted to Delhi.He will be joining as a General Manager(GM)in Delhi.
Director rank officer of CSS required
There is a requirement of a Director rank officer of CSS to be posted in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.
Promotions & transfers of CCITs
As announced on this site on April 6, 2009 the Central Board of Direct Taxes has issued promotion & transfer orders of Chief Commissioners of Income Tax (CCITs).Those who figure in the list are: SP Swain on promotion to DGIT (Inv) Hyderabad, Tarkeshwar Singh on promotion to CCIT-V Patna, Arti Sawhney CCIT-III to CCIT-I Delhi, Meenakshi Singh CCIT-IX to CCIT -II Delhi, Laxman Das CCIT-XII Delhi to CCIT-III, M.C.Joshi CCIT-Dehradun to CCIT-IV+ LTU Delhi, Sarojini Lal on promotion to CCIT-VIII Delhi, L.Sailo on promotion CCIT-VI Delhi, M.Sailo on promotion CCIT-IX Delhi, Lakshmi Prasad CCIT-VI Delhi to DGIT( BPR), Vinita Chopra DGIT (Inv) Chandigarh to DGIT (HRD), Sunil Chopra CCIT Amritsar to CCIT ( C ) Delhi, Durgesh Shankar CCIT-III Bangalore to CCIT-XII Delhi, D.S.Rastogi CCIT-II hmedabad to CCIT-I Ahmedabad , A.P.Saxena CCIT-III Ahmedabad to DGIT (Inv) Ahmedabad, Santosh Sharma on promotion to CCIT Hubli, S. S. Rana DGIT (Inv) Bhopal to CCIT-I Bhopal, Brijesh Gupta on promotion to DGIT (Inv) Bhopal, Sudhir Kumar Jha on promotion to CCIT-II Pune, Devbrata Das CCIT-II Mumbai to CCIT-I Mumbai, R.K.Singh CCIT ( C) -II Mumbai to CCIT-II Mumbai, Karan Singh CCIT-IV Chennai to CCIT-III Mumbai, S.K.Chattopadhyaya CCIT-VI Mumbai to CCIT-IV Mumbai, Sri Ram Singh CCIT-IX Mumbai to CCIT-V Mumbai, S.C.Jain on promotion CCIT-VI Mumbai , R.N.Dash on promotion CCIT-VII + LTU Mumbai, Girish Dave on promotion CCIT-IX Mumbai, Christopher Abraham on promotion CCIT-II Mumbai ,Neelima Manusukhnin CCIT-VII+ LTU Mumbai to CCIT- (C ) Mumbai, A.K.Manchanda on promotion to CCIT-Nagpur, V.K.Sreedhar CCIT Thane to CCIT Nasik , Manjari Kacker CCIT Nasik to CCIT Thane, T. Hangzo on promotion CCIT Guwahati , A.P. Srivastava on promotion CCIT Shillong, M.S.Rai CCIT Ludhiana to DGIT (Inv) Chandigarh, Mohinder Pal Singh on promotion to CCIT Shimla, Jaspal Singh on promotion to CCIT Amritsar, R.K.Tiwari on promotion to CCIT Ludhinana, B.B.Das on promotion to CCIT Bhubaneshwar, Surendra Kumar Mishra on promotion to CCIT-Jodhpur, P.P. Srivastava CCIT-II Chennai to CCIT -I Chennai, P.M.Vasan CCIT Coimbatore to CCIT-II Chennai, R.N.Tripathi CCIT-V Chennai to CCIT-IV Chennai, K.Chandrahas on promotion to CCIT-V Chennai, G.C.Jain on promotion to CCIT-VI Chennai, Arvind Pinto on promotion to CCIT Coimbatore, M.P.Varshney on promotion to CCIT Ghaziabad, Sudha Sharma on promotion to CCIT Kanpur , G.G.Shukla on promotion to CCIT Dehradun, B.K.Gupta CCIT-II to CCIT-I Kolkata, Kusum Avasthy Gupta CCIT-XI Kolkata to CCIT-III Kolkata, Gautam Chaudhary DGIT( HRD) Delhi to CCIT-IV Kolkata, A.Majumdar CCIT-IV Kolkata to CCIT-V Kolkata, T.B.C. Rozera on promotion to CCIT-X Kolkata, Manika Datta on promotion to CCIT-XI Kolkata.Those who got additional charge are : Tarkeshwar Singh -CCIT-II Patna, D.S.Rastogi CCIT -IV Ahmedabad, Y.K.Gaiha CCIT-III Ahmedabad , Debabrata Das CCIT-XIII Mumbai & Gautam Chaudhary CCIT-II Kolkata. Promotion of D.C.Agrawal & N.L.Kalra will take place once they return to their parent cadre from their deputation.
Five Bihar officers to get PM Award for Administrative Excellence
Five Bihar officers Mssrs Dilip Kumar, AIG Reg., Birendra Kumar Singh, Barunandan singh is also AIG of Registration, Registration NK Prasad, SSA, NIC,and Sanjay Kumar have been selected for PM Award for dministrative Excellence for their work- SCORE- e-Registration in Bihar.
Chandrashekhar and Shridharan get PM Award for Administrative Excellence
R. Chandrashekhar, AS DIT and Shridharan SA have been selected for PM Award for MCA 21 e- Governance Project under the NeGP.
Five Manipur officers to get PM Award for Administrative Excellence
Five Bihar officers Mssrs RR Reshmi, Comm. Finance, . SSL Singh, Secy, DOP, K Radha Kumar Singh, JS, Ms. M Budhmala Devi, NIC and Ms. O Shaliza Chanu, NIC
have been selected for PM Award for Administrative Excellence for their work- Computerization of PIS in Manipur.
CBEC Directorate of Systems get PM Award
Directorate of Systems and Data Management, Central Board of Excise & Customs, GOI has been given PM Award for Administrative Excellence for "Implementation of Risk management system in Customs ".
Principal Secretary Home in UP shifted
The Election Commission has ordered transfer of Uttar Pradesh Principal Secretary for Home Kunwar Fateh Bahadur. He is 1981 batch IAS officer.
Yadav is new DC of Panchkula
On the orders of the Election Commission Pankaj Yadav has been appointed new DC of Panchkula. He is 2001 batch IAS officer.Panchukula DC R K Kataria has been posted as Director Primary Education..
IPS changes in Andhra Pradesh
A B Venkateshwar Rao has been appointed as IG (Andhra) based at Visakhapatnam.Charu Sinha will now be SP of East Godavari.
NHB to get an ED soon
National Housing Bank(NHB) is soon going to get an Executive Director(ED).

CORPORATE
Sanjay Gupta to be COO,STAR India
Sanjay Gupta who was the Chief Marketing Officer(CMO)with Bharti Airtel is all set to join STAR India as Chief Operating Officer(COO).
Sandeep Goel is VP Mudra Connext
Sandeep Goel vice-president, Indian Cricket League (ICL) has joined
Mudra Connext as vice-president and branch head, Delhi.
Raj Mitra joins Bhaskar group
Raj Mitra has been appointed as Senior General Manager and business
head South India by Dainik Bhaskar group.
Manoj Padmanabhan promoted in Ten Sports
Ten Sports has been promoted Manoj Padmanabhan as national sales head.
K V Srinivasan gets promotion as the (CEO), Reliance Consumer Finance & Retailing
K V Srinivasan (Dy CEO of Reliance Consumer Finance) has is promoted as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Reliance Consumer Finance & Retailing. Reliance Capital Ltd, CEO, Sam Ghosh made this announcement of Srinivasan's promotion officially.
GoAir's CEO Edgardi Badiali resigned
Edgardi Badiali, GoAir's CEO has resigned from the company. He had joined GoAir as a CEO last year in January. Earlier he was with Italian air-carrier My Air.
Manoj Adlakha appointed Vice President and Country Head American Express
Manoj Adlakha appointed as the Vice President and Country Head of credit card company American Express. Adlakha has worked with YES Bank and Visa.

Aaj Ki Aawaz
PC now stands for Padhe Chittar which in Punjabi means he was shoed!!!
His attitude rankled a Journo and via his shoe at PC he booed!!
Please do not forget that when the riots took place PC was Minister of State!!!
MOS for Home and he knew firsthand about the 1984 dance of hate!!!
PC as it is has an attitude that is indeed very insulting….demeaning to be precise!!
And now he's paid the price!!!
Now Congress says it will review the candidature of the 'Horrendous Two'!!!!
Seems one shoe has done to Congress what to Bush two shoes could not do!!
And iof Congress decides not to give tickets to these two!!!!
Then in Punjab and Delhi Congress will be able to show its mooh!!!
On PC's shoeing why is BJP crying foul … shouldn't they be worried about Varun Gandhi????
Though BJP feels that Varun ne toh karwaa di BJP ki chaandhi!!!
BJP was itching to do something for its hardliner Vote Bank!!!!
And Varun obliged with his prank!!!
Sonia Gandhi in her nomination says she does not own a house or a car!!!!
But she does own a house but the house from India is very far!!!!
The House she owns is in Pizza and Pasta Land!!!
Though the house is not anything grand!!!
And when all the cars in Congress belong to her why does she need a car?????
One call for a car and she gets chaar!!!
Mulayam has a God send opportunity to rid himself of Amar Singh!!!!
He should choose Azam Khan and Amar apne aap ko by the collar karre ga SP ke bahar fling!
With Azam Khan Amar has picked up a fight!!!
And now he does not like Azam's sight!!!
Amar's allegation is that Azam continued to humiliate him!!!
And Amar feels like murder this is equally grim!!!
Only Amar has the right to humiliate and insult!!!
And now let' see what will be the end result???
Hope that Mulayam chooses Azam and Amar is out!!!!
Well we'll know this has happened because then expletives at Mulayam Amar will shout!!!
He'll say, " For SP I gave my entire jawaani and start of old age"!!!
And then war of words or aar paar ki ladayi karrega Amar Mulaaym ke oopar wage!!!
In US now the earning worries will set in!!!
And Markets will take it on the chin!!!
Confucius says….Don't forget Markets are slaves of earnings and earnings are going to fall!!!
And Markets are going to take the call!!!!

Forum
Who after Manmohan singh?
When the question, who after Nehru ,was raised, its implications were not clear. Now that loyalties are changing faster than ideologies & alliances faster than fronts, this question assumes some significance. The fraternal embraces of the past few years having untangled, there are any number of claimants for the post of PM. With a slight leash of the whip, they scampered into once again proclaiming Manmohan Singh as the UPA candidate. Perhaps the prompting emanates from the fragile health & equally fragile will of the man named Dr. Manmohan Singh,an academics, who may find it difficult to digest so much of toxic political waste. It appears they was settled for post Manmohan Singh phase to realize their dreams, ambitions and delusions.
Asking for cohesive & stable government in such scenarios is like asking for the moon. Why can be not accept the hard fact of long phases of unstable & diverse governments?
M L Gupta
Campaigning has changed the scenario
Initially looked that congress would emerge as single largest party. The election campaigning has changed the scenario. The BJP may get close to 150 seats and congress would get 141 seats. JD(U) , TDP, BSP and AIDMK would get more than 20 seats each, and would decide the fate of central government.
P S Mehra
Common Seniority List
It appears that the Common Seniority Lists are being prepared wrongly as the CSSS Rules lay down that the approved service of
(i) An officer recruited directly to that grade is to be counted from the first day of July of the year, following the year in which the examination for direct recruitment was held; and
(ii) An officer recruited to that grade through departmental examination, from the first day of July of the year for which such examination was held;
This gives an impression that those recruited through Departmental Examination are to come before those recruited directly by Open Examination. If this is the correct position, then the Common Seniority Lists prepared showing direct recruits above those recruited through departmental examination should be put after those recruited as service of those recruited through departmental examination is to be counted from the year in which the examination was held and for direct recruits year following the year in which the examination was held.
The DOP&T is requested to kindly look into the matter and take necessary action in revising seniority lists.
Luthra
Bureaucrats have misguided govt
The government thinks that it has given a lot in pay revision to the PSU officers through their recent DPE circular. The bureaucrats have misguided the government. Actually there is no real pay increase, and there is no leverage left to the PSU managements to improve upon this. The anger of the PSU people against the netas will be evident in the elections. The problem is, the netas have to fight elections, not the bureaucrats.
Y R Tiwari
What purpose it serves ?
Everyday Government and military officers are telling the people that hordes of armed terrorists are readying themselves to infiltrate into India, particularly J&K, to disturb elections, etc. What purpose it serves ?It only re-enforces peoples' lack of faith in Government's will and capability to ensure security of our borders and citizens. Government should immediately impose night curfew in border areas of J&K. Strict measures should be taken to stop flow of foreign money to militants in J&K and their cover politicians. CM of J&K should be backed by the Centre in his efforts to make improvements. Otherwise a mature politician Azad had fallen into a trap laid by his opponents in the form of Amarnath issue. This should not happen to the present CM. He may be the last hope for the unfortunate people of the State.
Bishan Sharma
Silence is admission.
While all awards in this country, be it Padma Awards, or Gallantry Awards, or even Film Awards, are mired with controversy that awardees are not indeed man/woman of excellence. There is no dispute about Khosla and Goel with who we have interacetd for past 3 years or so. Goel has not replied to a single letter .
Mahendra Gaur
Scope of doubt
There seems to be perhaps a scope of doubt in this case (not sure) as to whether Anurag Goel is solely responsible for this success story or his predecessor Secretary, Department of Company Affairs and other fellow employees of the Department of Company Affairs. This seems to be a case of ancient family tradition of 'nibo-nichor' wherein one of the bahus while cooking the food bears all the smoke & heat but the credit is taken away by the bahu who is involved in the process of serving the food.
A Srivastava
Award has been given to right person
Anurag Goel, very intelligent and hard working, always takes initiative and does new things and take bold decisions to improve the system. Wherever he worked has left indelible imprints. I had the honour to work under him in Ministry of Civil Aviation. From the bottom of my heart, I wish him all the success and happiness.
S S Sandhu