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Rahul Sarin to be Member of UPSC ?
Latest information says that Secretary Personnel Rahul Sarin is being appointed new Member of the Union Public Service Commission . He is 1974 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre. Sarin is scheduled to retire on August 31.
Shantanu Consul to be Secretary Personnel
Shantanu Consul is set to take over as Secretary Personnel in the Government of India on September 1. He is 1974 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.
Rudra Gangadharan to succeed Consul ?
In all probability Rudra Gangadharan will succeed Shantanu Consul as Secretary Drinking Water in the Government of India. 1975 batch Kerala cadre IAS officer Gangadharan is presently Director LBSNAA Mussorie.
Rajiv Mathur promoted in NCRB
Rajiv Mathur has been promoted to the rank of DG in the Government of India.1974 batch Chhattisgarh cadre IPS officer Mathur is presently posted in National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
Vice Admiral Dhawan to succeed Vice Admiral Joshi
Vice Admiral R K Dhawan will succeed Deputy Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral D K Joshi in the Naval Headquarters. He is presently Commandant of the Khadakvasla-based National Defence Academy (NDA).
IFS much ahead of IAS
Indian Foreign Service is much ahead of IAS as far as empanelment for the post of Joint Secretary is concerned. While IAS officers belonging to 1990 batch are yet to be empanelled for the Joint Secretary level, IFS officials belonging to 1991 batch are expected to be empanelled in the next two to three months.
DoPT returns file 1988 batch IPS officers
As the grapevine has it the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) has returned the file pertaining to empanelment of IPS officers belonging to the 1988 batch to the MHA.
All of 1989 batch IAS get postings
All 1989 batch IAS officials empanelled at Joint Secretary level and posted in Delhi have been given postings.
Officers in Agriculture Ministry are on their toes
The deficient rainfall this year & looming threat of a severe drought ion certain pockets of India, officers in the Indian Agriculture Ministry are working overtime.
An air of comfort in Surface Transport Ministry
Everyone in the Surface Transport Ministry is these days feeling relieved after the arrival of Kamalnath as their minister. Reason; while his predecessor T R Balu used to exchange ideas only in English, Nath uses both English and Hindi as his means of communication. This has made the staff in his ministry quite comfortable.
3 IAS officers among 16 suspended in Noida
The Uttar Pradesh Government on Monday suspended 16 senior officers including three IAS and a retired IAS officer for alleged irregularities in connection with a land scam in Noida. All the officers named were posted with the Noida authority in different capacities at the time when the scam took place. The IAS officers suspended include Rakesh Bahadur, Sanjeev Sharan and Ravindra Naik while another IAS officer Dev Dutt who retired from service has also been named.
Did Outgoing CMD of Gail Chaubey provoked officials to strike work?
GAIL officers Association has reportedly blamed outgoing CMD of the GAIL U D Chaubey for pushing them to join Oil Officers strike .Now the Association is planning to call him as a witness during the trial of officers who are still under suspension.
Jain appointed Chief of NMCC
R.K. Jain has been appointed IAS as Chief (Joint Secretary level), National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council(NMCC) under the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion. He is 1981 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.
Acharya to hold additional charge of CWW
K M Acharya, Secretary, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, will hold additional charge of the post of Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development from 29th August, 2009 to 6th September during leave of Anil Kumar.
Vijay Lalita Reddy to succeed N Ravi in MEA
Vijay Lalita Reddy is expected to succeed N Ravi Secretary (East) in the Ministry of External Affairs.
Meena to join Rajasthan Government
Ramesh Chand Meena is all set to join Rajasthan Government on inter-state deputation. He is 1991 batch IAS officer of TamilNadu cadre.
Lt Gen Lamba to succeed Lt Gen Jaiswal
Lt Gen Arvinder Lamba is expected to succeed Lt Gen Baljit Jaiswal in Shimla .
B. Ashok to be PS to K V Thomas
B. Ashok who is currently Deputy Director in the LBSNAA Mussoorie is poised to join as private secretary (PS) to Indian Minister of State for Agriculture and Cooperatives Prof K V Thomas. He is a Kerala cadre IAS officer of the 1998 batch. Ashok holds a Masters from Italy and has been trained in London and Duke Universities. He has been a keen mountaineer and horse rider while in the LBSNAA.
1979 batch IPS promoted in UP
Four 1979 batch IPS officers Mssrs A K Jain,A L Banerjee,Gyan Singh and Shiv Narayan Singh have been promoted to te rank of ADG in Uttar Pradesh.
H Rana is ED (Sales and Marketing) Air India Cargo Business
H Rana has been posted as ED (Sales and Marketing), Air India Cargo Business, based in Mumbai. He will be based in Mumbai (Sahar) and report to SBU-Head (Cargo).
IAAS officer S. C. Pandey promoted to SAG on NBR basis
S C Pandey - Joint Secretary & Additional Financial Advisor, Ministry of Defence, Government of India, New Delhi, has been promoted to the new Higher Administrative Grade (SAG) on an NBR basis.
DJN Anand to be Regional CF of MoEF, Bhopal
DJN Anand on deputation is set to take charge as Bhopal based Regional Conservator in the Indian Ministry of Environment & Forest (MoEF). He is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1986 batch who belongs to the Manipur-Tripura cadre.
12 AIG level posts in MoEF
As the grapevine has it, there are 12 vacancies at the AIG level in the Ministry of Environment & Forest (MoEF) that are to be filled up by Indian Forest Service (IFS) officers on deputation basis. These posts are going to be advertised very soon.
Orissa Government not to allow DGP to join GoI
Orissa Government has refused to spare DGP M Praharaj for central deputation. He is 1976 batch IPS officer. Praharaj is keen for central deputation.
Cadre training for 1990 batch of IRS (C & CE)
Cadre Training for 1990 batch IRS(C&CE) officers is starting from August 17,2009 till 28th August 2009.Lalan Kumar,Additional Director is the course director and the first week of course module is about management and the second week is course module covers the entire spectrum from Customs,Excise and Service Tax to GST as well. For details communication concerning officers could contact the jurisdictional Chief Commissioner or Director General.
6 CITs transferred in Mumbai region
As many as six Commissioners of Income Tax (CITs) have been transferred in the Mumbai region. They are: Subachan Ram CIT (OSD) (ITAT) to CIT (A)-15, Satyakam Mishra CIT (A)-15 to CIT (A)-32, Ajit Kumar Sinha CIT (A)-32 to CIT (OSD) (ITAT), Chet Ram CIT (ITAT)-5 to CIT (A)-10, Ajay Pal Singh CIT (A) 10 to CIT (ITAT)-5, K.K.Kanwat CIT (ITAT)-13 (Intl. Tax) to CIT -26 & R.C.Gupta CIT (ITAT)-Jaipur to CIT (A)-3 Jaipur.
Chairman CBEC, V. Sridhar launches new website of NACEN
Chairman, Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC) had recently launched new website of the National Academy of Customs, Excise & Narcotics (NACEN). It was launched on the occasion of the passing out ceremony of the 59th batch of IRS (Customs and Central Excise) Probationers at NACEN Complex, Faridabad .The website is christened as www.nacen.gov.in The website has all standard features of the websites of other top academies of India like the information about the facilities of NACEN, Probationer's Gallery, Information about the Faculty, Picture Galleries etc. However, the website has many unique features, which are available usually on the websites of academic institutions like IITs and IIMs.The unique feature of the website includes news and updates, announcements (allows the download of the notifications/correspondences by NACEN), online registration of departmental officers and guest faculty, online availability of training schedules at NACEN with
the facility to give willingness for the training program online, provision for uploading of Articles and provision for the download of important study materials. Visitors can submit their feedback to NACEN online using the feedback feature of this website. Their feedback shall be used to make NACEN a true centre of excellence for imparting the knowledge of indirect taxation to the world.
IAS changes in Uttar Pradesh
V N Garg has been given additional charge of Industrial Development Department. Sri Krishna has been made principal secretary, rural development with additional charge of horticulture and food processing departments. JN Chamber has been made principal secretary, planning with additional charge of small industries and export promotion and secretariat administration. Rohit Nandan, has been moved to the department of agriculture, agriculture education and research in the same capacity. Anil Sant, commissioner has been given additional charge of secretary to the chief minister and additional resident commissioner, UP, New Delhi. CS Verma has now been made member (judicial), Board of Revenue, Allahabad . Amit Gupta ,Manish Chauhan will be DMs of Hamirpur and Azamgarh respectively.Pankaj Kumar and Sameer Verma will be DMs of Basti and Lakhimpur Khiri respectively.
Vice-Admiral Anup Singh appointed
Vice-Admiral Anup Singh has been appointed as the new Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Eastern Naval Command .
( We said this on August 6 )
Justice Mishra is Acting CJ of HP HC
Justice Ram Bhuwan Mishra has been appointed acting Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court.
IAS postings in Jharkhand
Kamal Kishore Soan has again been appointed DC Ranchi. Ranchi DC Rajiv Arun Ekka, has been posted as Tribal Welfare commissioner. Nitin Madan Kulkarni has been given additional charge of NREGA commissioner.
Know Dr. Subir Gokarn designate DG,RBI
Dr.Subir Gokarn who is Chief Economist with global rating agency of Standard & Poor (S & P) for Asia-Pacific region, is going to be one of the youngest Deputy Governors (DGs)of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).R.K. Hazari who served as DG from 1969 to 1977 was hardly 34 years old while he was appointed. Interestingly, it is for first time that the RBI has gone beyond the ambit of bureaucrats and government economists to fill the post. Sources say usually it is meant for a macro economist.He will fill the slot that has been lying vacant since mid-June after Rakesh Mohan took an early retirement.Gokarn who did his PhD in economics at Ohio based Case Western Reserve University , Cleveland - the US, has been with S & P for the last two years. Dr. Subir is a product of the St Xavier's College, Mumbai. He had also studied at Delhi School of Economics (DSE),Delhi.In banking circles his selection is being widely hailed because people in the sector believe that Indian Prime Minister Dr.Man Mohan Singh's administration has tried to inject a fresh whiff of air RBI's set up.
IAS changes in Sikkim
Karma Gyatso has been promoted and appointed as Additional Chief Secretary. Ms R. Ongmu has been posted as Principal Secretary, Finance, Revenue and Expenditure Department. Bijoy Pratap Pradhan presently on deputation as Managing Director, State Bank of Sikkim has been repatriate and posted as Commissioner-cum Secretary, Commerce and Industries Department.M.G. Kiran , IAS, Commissioner-cum Secretary, Commerce and Industries and Information and Public Relations Department will hold the additional charge of Managing Director, State Bank of Sikkim.
K N Srivastava to be AS and FA MEA
DG ASI K N Srivastava will succeed N Bala Baskar as Additional Secretary and FA in the Ministry of External Affairs on September 1. He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre ,the home state of Minister External Affairs S M Krishna.
Allocation of work amongst Members, CBDT
There has been allocation of work amongst CBDT members. While the newly appointed member Narender Singh has been given the charge of Member (LA & D), C.S. Kahlon will look after the charge of Member (L&C).
Debasish Prusty to be PS N.N.Meena
Debasish Prusty on central deputation will be private secretary (PS) to Namo Narain Meena Indian Minister of State for Expenditure & Financial Service.. He is IAS officer of the 2000 batch who belongs to the Rajasthan caddre.

(We said this on July 28, 2009)

PM's Economic Advisory Council Reconstituted
The Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister has been reconstituted with Dr. C. Rangarajan as its Chairman. The Members of the Council are Dr. Saumitra Chaudhuri Economic Adviser ICRA, Dr. Govinda Rao Director General National Institute of Public Finance & Policy, Dr Vijay Shankar Vyas President Asian Society of Agricultural Economists & Suman K. Bery Director-General National Council of Applied Economic Research. They will have the rank of Minister of State.

CORPORATE
Jha to be Director (Pipelines) IOC
K K Jha is being appointed new Director (Pipelines) in the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC).
Pani takes over as MD of ITPO
Dr. Subhas Pan has taken over as the new Chairman and Managing Director of India TradePromotion Organisation. He is 1972 batch IAS officer of Orissa cadre.
Indian Economy to face multi pronged set backs
Experts in the field of Economics have forecast multi pronged negative impact on Indian Economy this year. National production of agricultural produce will shrink & so will other business activities.
CVC penalizes Works Accountant in the Ministry of Railways
CVC has ordered penalty of reduction to a lower stage in the time scale of pay by 3 stages for 2 years with cumulative effect in the case of a Works Accountant in the Ministry of Railways.
Land Ports Authority to be set up
A new Land Ports Authority of India is being set up by the Government of India.

Aaj Ki Aawaz
Media should play a responsible role and should not sensationalize!!!!
On Swine Flu Media should inform and analyse!!
Very soon Swine Flu will find a place on Vardaat and equivalent shows on the Telly!!!
Seems Media needs to be admonished and warned by Delhi!!!
Very soon you'll find score being kept like during vote counting ….afflicted and casualties!
Show at the bottom of the telly screen number of those afflicted and fatalities!!!!!
Azad's comment that the girl who died of swine flu spread it to others shows his mindset!!!!!
Ramdoss would have made a better Health Mantri in this crisis I bet!!!
Azad is good in politicking and chamchagiri…….. administratively he's zero!!
You can say now our Health Ministry has its very own Nero!!!
He says had proper screening been done at the Airport swine flu could have been kept at bay!!!!
But wans't it his job to enforce this.... for his stupidity Indians karr rahe hai pay!
Basically Health Ministry is now doing what it should have done some time back!!!!
If I were Mohan I would give Azad the sack!!!
Mohna needs to admonish the Met Department too….every day in the outlook there is a change!
Recent announcements by Met sure sound strange!!!
One day the prediction is that rainfall will be deficient by 20% and next day 13%!!!!
Are by Sarkaar orders to the Met being sent????
If you like your tea and coffee to be sweet please be prepared for a 'sugar shock'!!!
Very soon the wifey in the family safe karre gi sugar lock!!!
By the time the festive season sets in sugar will touch 45/kg….could go even higher!!!
And if you like kheer I pity you as both sugar and rice are going to be on fire!!!
Basmati will cross the 100 mark……..and both rice and sugar purity will fall!!!!
Opportunistic mixing iss ko karte hai call!!!
No wonders there is rice being cultivated on the Dadri Site land……. Anil's foresight!!!!
He'll make money as for gas karta hai bhai ke saath fight!!!!
For all you know the rice will pay the legal fee for the legal battle!!!
And vey soon you may even get to see on the Dadri land grazing cattle!!!
Tenders have just been floated and so there is still quite some time for work to start!!!!
Using an asset to generate money is an art!!!
And if Sharad Pawar stays the Agri Mantri Anil might find it more profitable to grow rice!!!
Low investment and very high return …..rather than power growing rice will be more nice!!
What will Pawar do with so much 'chai paani' many ask????
And why despite the disclosures he's not being taken to task???
Pawar was travelling in his car in Mumbai and saw a building and he asked his aide,
To find out by whom this building has been made!!!
He said he wanted to buy this building as he found the building good!!!!
The aide said 'Boss this building is already aap ki'…. hope Pawar's problem of plenty is understood!
I hear Mohna has been advised that he should get Indians to stop saving and start spending!
The advice is in Mohna's mental file…. pending!!!
India's saving grace is Indians saving!!!!
And it's with these savings all the downturns Indians have been braving!!
With no social security to fall back on savings are what save!!!!
And the worst conditions we are able to brave!!
The economic downturn earthquake epicenter is in USA!!!!
One should not play with finances oldies correctly say!!
Confucius says…… USA's a classical example of an economy gone wonky!!!!
If you ask me they should replace Uncle Sam with a Donkey!!
Bharat Kumar
aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

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Designs of China
In the light of the Indian navy chief's disclosure, which will come as no surprise to many of us, if China continues to be belligerent and is likely to indulge in a blitzkrieg in the not too distant future to occupy and hold Indian border territory (Arunachal Pradesh or at least Tawang), would it not be prudent for India to take pre-emptive action NOW and sign a defense agreement with the United States (perhaps also with NATO, Japan and Vietnam) to adequately protect itself? There is precedence for such a course of action: To safeguard Indian territory in 1971 Indira Gandhi entered into a defense pact with the Soviet Union against the possiblity of Chinese intervention during the Bangladesh liberation war.
Ram Narayanan
US-India Friendship
http://usindiafriendship.net/
CBDT member interested in stalling amendment in transfer policy
Is it a hidden fact that one CBDT member is particularly interested in stalling the amendment to the transfer policy for his own personal designs?
R Singh
What's wrong in Agriculture ?
During the reply to the debate in Lok Sabha on rising prices of essential food items, the Agriculture Minister could not convince anyone and failed to explain why the prices had gone up so sharply. He kept on claiming about higher production, higher support prices and higher procurement. If all this is true, then obviously there is hardly reason for prices to go up. There is something terribly wrong in our agriculture and a thorough inquiry is necessary to find the real situation as the Minister does not seem to know what is going on.
R Swami