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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 …………
(23) MAHARASHTRA-- Total seats 48
BJP 13
CONGRESS 8
SHIV SENA 13
NCP 13
RPI 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.
New Election Commissioner from South ?
This is almost certain that the new Election Commissioner will be from South .In case some one from North is appointed he may be Secretary Health in the Government of India,Naresh Dayal.Only Navin Chawla knows the name of the new EC.
Banerji is oldest living ICS officer
At present, the oldest living ICS Officer in the country is S.K. Banerji 1937 batch. He retired as Foreign Secretary (East) in 1972 and thereafter served as Lieutenant Governor of Goa from 1972 to 1979. He resides at Vasant Vihar, New Delhi . His Date of Birth is 22nd October, 1913 and he is, therefore, 95 years old.
T.S.R.Reddy to join CRPF as IG
T.S.R.Reddy, on central deputation is poised to join CRPF, as IG.He is an IPS officer of the 1987 batch who belongs to the Punjab cadre.
Daniel Alexander to be ADG, BSF
Daniel Alexander on central deputation is poised to join BSF as Additional Director General (ADG). He is an IPS officer of the 1976 batch who belongs to the Uttar Pradesh cadre.
2 in fray for NHB's post of ED
As the grapevine has it, there are two incumbents from Reserve Bank of India (RBI) who are in fray for the post of Executive Director (ED) in the National Housing Bank(NHB).They are Kapal Sen and Deepak Shrivastava. Both of them are Chief General Manager (CGMs) in the RBI.
Dr S B Singh to join CISF by April 20,2009
Dr S B Singh is poised to join the CISF as IG by April 20,2009. He is an IPS officer of the 1986 batch who belongs to the Assam Meghalaya cadre.
Search is on for NSG's new IG (Operations)
A search is on for selection of an Army officer for the post of IG (Operations) in the National Security (NSG). Present incumbent Maj. Gen. Abhay Kumar Gupta is due to retire on May 31,2009.
Pramod Nangia returns to CBDT
Pramod Nangia who on central deputation was a Director in the Petroleum Ministry is back to Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). He is an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer of the 1985 batch.
Terrorists eyeing four Indian states
Grapevine has it that Taliban backed terrorists are now aiming to create disturbances in four Indian states - Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh. It will be good luck of DGPs in these states if no untoward incident takes place.
Shiv Kumar tipped to DMD
Grapevine has it that Shiv Kumar is tipped to be a Deputy Managing
Director (DMD) in the State Bank of India (SBI).
1963 batch officials create history
1963 batch Civil Service officials have created history as far as remaining on top posts is concerned. While TKS Nair has remained PS to two Prime Ministers - IK Gujral and Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prabhat Kumar and TR Prasad have been Cabinet Secretaries, Krishna Kumar and Mani Shankar Iyer Ministers and Nikhil Kumar and Pyari Mohan Mahapatra have been MPs.
AS Prasad to be DDG (FS)
Indian Postal Service officer A S Prasad has been appointed DDG (FS).
Subodh Kumar Jaiswal of Maharashtra cadre empanelled for JS post
1985 batch IPS officer of Maharashtra cadre, Subodh Kumar Jaiswal, has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary in the Government of India.
R Karikal Valaven of 1989 batch empanelled for JS post
1989 batch IAS officer, R Karikal Valaven, of Andhra Pradesh cadre is reported to have been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary in the Government of India.
Is Riju Jhunjhunwala joining Rahul Gandhi Brigade ?
There are rumours in the Corporate world that Riju Jhunjhunwala is joining the Rahul Gandhi Brigade.
Hauzel Haukhum takes over as Goa CS
Hauzel Haukhum, 1974 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of UT cadre has taken over as new Chief Secretary of Goa on Wednesday.
( We said this on March 27 )
IA&AS officer R P Singh empanelled
The name of Indian Audit and Accounts Service (IA&AS) officer R P Singh of 1979 batch has been recommended for empanelment for the post of Joint Secretary in the Government of India.
IDAS officer S Prakash promoted
Indian Defence Accounts Service Officer, S Prakash, of 2005 batch, has been promoted from Junior Time Scale officer to Senior Time Scale and shifted from main office to CDA Bangalore.
Kunwar Bahadur is now PS to UP CM
Outgoing Principal Secretary (Home) Kunwar Fateh Bahadur has now been appointed Principal Secretary to the UP Chief Minister Ms Mayawati. He is 1981 batch IAS officer.
Will PM enter poll arena?
Will Indian Prime Minister Dr.Man Mohan Singh enter the Lok Sabha poll arena? Rumourmill says that he may contest from Lok Sabha seats of Mahendragarh or Sonepat in Haryana.So far Congress has not announced its candidate for both seats of the Lok Sabha.
Will Varun Gandhi be released soon?
Will young BJP leader Varun Gandhi be released soon? Rumourmill says that the Utarr Pradesh Government may withdraw the case registered against him under NSA before April 13,2009.
Ms.Surabhi Verma Garg posted to CCIT (CCA)Delhi
Ms.Surabhi Verma Garg Additional Commissioner of Income Tax(ACIT) who was OSD(ITA-I) in Department of Revenue(DR) ,CBDT has been posted back to her parent cadre of CCIT(CCA) Delhi. She is an Indian Revenue Service(IRS)officer of the 1990 batch.
Prasar Bharti CEO Lalli to get extension ? (UPDATED)
Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Anand Sharma is believed to have recommended three years extension to Prasar Bharti CEO B S Lalli.Tenure of Lalli is coming to an end shortly.
17 JA grade Indian Railway Service officers get Selection Grade (UPDATED)
As many as 17 JA grade officers of Indian Railway Service (of Mechanical Engineers) have been given Selection Grade with effect from January 1, .2009 and posted in various Railway units. They include Archana Mittal - posted at RWF, Amit Srivastava posted at WR, Suyash Narain posted at RB, Om Prakash Shaw posted at NCR, Onkar Singh posted at COFMOW, Srinivas Sadhanakari posted at SWR, Rajesh Kumar Dwivedi posted at CR, Sanjay Tyagi posted at SER, Satish Singh posted at Workshop Projects Organisation, Patna, Atul Arya posted at RCF, Sudhanshu Panwar posted at SECR, Anil Kumar Singh posted at RCF, K Gopal posted at SR, Vikas Anand posted at NR, Anil Kumar posted at RDSO, Sudhir Kumar Sarvaria posted at NFR and Sanjiv Kumar M Mehtre posted at CR.
CBEC Wins Minister loses ?
Did the CBEC overrule Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee over the posting of Chief Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise Viswajeet Dutta ?.Rumours doing the round say that the Minister wanted Dutta to be posted as Chief Commissioner in Mumbai and the CBEC Board was opposed to this proposal. Now Dutta has been moved to Ranchi.

CORPORATE
CMD NTC Pillai to get extension !
Grapevine has it that CMD of the National Textile Corporation K Ramchandran Pillai is getting two years extension. UPA Government seems to be in a hurry to clear the file of Pillai's extension.Tenure of Pillai is coming to an end in May end.
NHB to get an ED soon
National Housing Bank (NHB) is soon going to get an Executive Director (ED).

Aaj Ki Aawaz
Jagdish Tytler says that on his ticket there is no rethink!!!!
Whereas andhar ki khabhar is that Sonia is now ready 'to blink'!!!!
No not the blinking she does when she's worried,
For this election seems Sonia now wants 'to blink' so that this matter is buried!!!
So Tytler get ready for the boot!!!!
Though Tytler is getting a posse of Sikhs ready who in camera glare for him will root!
Does he think Sonia is that naïve!!!!
Abh toh only 'blackmailing' karr sakthi hai Tytler ko save!!!!
I hear he'd once said ' what if I were to say I got the orders from above'!!!!
Tytler may go off the handle if push comes to shove!!!
On the other hand Sonia can cut Congress from this sordid past!!!!
She needs to act fast!!
And no people will not resort to shoe throwing to get Congress to agree!!!
The hurt and the salt on the wounds that has been applied Congress needs to see!!!
PC they say is practicing to improve his reflexes…. practicing to duck!!!!
He's practicing at home and his trainer karta hai shoes chuck!!
PC knows that in his case there will be a second time though not for the same matter!!!
PC's file of huritng people during his stint as FM with every passing day got fatter!
He knows that had the Journo thrown another shoe it would have hit him in the mooh!
And that is why he knows ducking practice he needs to do!!!
He wants to be as fast as George Bush who ducked one jootha after another jootha!!
Had he not been fast one of the jootha's would have hit him in the bootha (Punjabi for face)!!!!
Does the Home Minister have in his cavalcade a road roller on flattening duty!!!!
From Laloo this one is a real beauty!!!
He says had he been HM he'd have road-rolled Varun Gandhi!!!
That's not all …. harbinger of 'Laloo ki gaali galoch ki andhi'!!
Now he's called Sushma a 'bhootni' or Demoness!!!!
From Laloo no one expects anything less!!!
By his deeds Laloo qualifies to be called a bhoot of bhooton ka King!!!!
After all he cannot be an ordinary bhoot as he has to be 'something'!!!
And now Jairam Ramesh has called Advani a liar!!!!
Seems in elections our Politicians apni gob karr rahe hai like a gun fire!!!
Confucius says…… words are like arrows and once shot do not come back!!!!!
Our Netas should maintain decorum while giving each other flack!!!!

Forum
It is totally unjustified
Sir, In the name of Cadre Restructuring of Indian Defence Estates Service, 498 posts of Group C & D staff are going to be abolished to create 55 Group A posts of IDES officers in HAG.SAG.JAG ,STS & JTS scales. As against 6 HAG posts already available, only one is filled up and five are lying vacant for long and there has been no fresh intake during last three years. Whosoever is allotted IDES , refuses to join and those who go on deputation avoid coming back for as long as possible. Under these circumstances abolition of Group C & D posts of Cantonment Boards (comprising mostly of safai karamcharis) to generate matching savings to justify creation of additional posts of IDES appears to be wholly unjustified . If this trend catches on , there will be hardly any safai karamchari left in any of the municipalities. Safai karamcharis being at the lowest level of bureaucratic hierarchy will hardly come to know about this and when they come to know , loss of employment opportunities in their case can always be explained due to effects of meltdown of US economy.
Sudhir Chopra
It is a tragedy after tragedy
It is a tragedy that with every election, castes and creed are gaining more and more prominence. If ex-Lohia socialists like Laloo Yadav are in the fore front of casteist politics, the much acclaimed 'secular' communists are searching for caste and communal candidates in their bastion in Kerala. Only common factor is that all these casteist, communal and racist parties go under one flag that is our secularism. The Congress which has seen the pangs of partition have no qualms in accepting a communal party like Muslim League as their ruling partner at the centre. Communists in Kerala are sharing the platform and running after Nassar Madani, whose terrorist links are well known .Added to this is our print media who never misses a chance to explain the caste equations and winnability of candidates.
The root cause of all these are reservation based on caste and religion. Many undeserving castes and communities have got the benefits either through their political might or through appeasement policy of the ruling party. Our founding fathers meant the reservation to continue only for ten years and never visualized the depth of decadence it will bring to our political life.
It is time we stop all this birth based reservation and make it need based. There should be only two classes in the country, the haves and the have-nots.
N Krishnan
Plight of the Bank employees
I would like to draw your attention towards the plight of the Bank Employees who are been degraded to the level of LDCs/Peon post 6th Pay Commisssion. During last one year, every body in the Govt./Public Sector /Teachers got hefty rise in their perks. However the Bank employees were left out of the Bonanza as they do not form power group and are not aligned to any political force. They are being represented by shrewed Union Leaders who are neither informed about the contemporary development nor interested in welfare of the Employees. This way Bank employees are suffering and highly underpaid as most of them have to sit late to complete the job.
Ramesh Chandra
Injustice with UDC of CSCS
We would like to add here that cadre restructuring of CSCS along with CSS in 2nd CRC was carried out and the report was submitted in November 2008 to DoPT. The 2nd CRC recommended :-
(i) For regularization of all ad hoc Assistants.
(ii) Upgradation of certain posts of UDC to Assistant grade, and
(iii) To relax the rules of CSS Rules , 1962 on direct recruitment of Assistant grade in order to regularization of certain eligible UDCs
But four months have passed the recommendation of 2nd CRC in respect of CSCS is yet to be implemented.
You may also aware the 2nd Administrative Reforms Commission in its 10th report has recommended the mode of recruitment for Assistant grade as 40% - Direct Recruitment, 40% - Promotion and 20% - Departmental Examination . This has to be considered by the Government of India and to be implemented till the last LDC gets promotion to Assistant grade.
I, therefore, request to Department of Personnel and Training kindly think about CSCS too.
A CSCS
Present day politics is a business
Days are gone when a person really interested in social welfare used to contest polls. Now, any person contesting the election invests money for getting ticket and the persons like bureaucrats/capitalists and economically weaker sections (who are purchased) back these people. Ultimately the middle class and lower middle class are the losers and the election for interested persons becomes like entering into an arena where horse race is going on and betting is taking place. Given the circumstances, there is no harm even if the votes of middle class and salaried class are purchased and the day is not far off when a rate will be openly fixed by these politicians for their votes by publishing a rate list.
AV
Hard works always pay in life
The new direction given to ITPO under your dynamic leadershilp will always be remembered. This award is in fact for each employee of ITPO who is working for the growth and development of the organisation. On this occasion, we would again like to bring to your kind notice the long pending issues still to be resolved like pay scales of Executives/Deputy Managers, restructuring the organization and removing stagnation to give some relief to already suffering employees. Awards are meaningless, if the employees are unhappy with their jobs and environment.
Subhash Kalia
Ugliest of architecture
I would like to say that having travelled all over the globe, one finds the ugliest of architecture in India. The constructions undertaken for the Government have absolutely no architectural aesthetics at all. Surprisingly, this happens even when the contract is given to a firm from abroad. This can only mean that the approving authorities have no sense of beauty and aesthetics right from the initial stages of instructing and then to finally of approving the designs.
Khan
TAIL-PIECE
Subject: Medical help for Indians
QUICK REMEDY FOR CONSTIPATION..
This may be of help to you.
If you're bothered by occasional or frequent constipation, repeat the following,
three times in quick succession,
when symptoms occur:
"My future now lies in the hands of Mayawati, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Laloo Prasad Yadav, Jayalalitha, Prakash Karat and Bal Thackeray."
If that doesn't scare the shit out of you,
then you are probably destined to be full of it for the rest of your life.
GO OUT & VOTE !!
Contributed by -A Visitor