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Justice Patnaik to go to SC ?
Finally name of Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court Justice Ananga Kumar Patnaik has reportedly been cleared for the Supreme Court of India.
Justice A R Dave to move to SC ?
If top sources are to be believed, Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court Justice Anil Ramesh Dave has been cleared by the SC Collegium for the Supreme Court of India.
Jutice Thakur to move to SC ?
Name of Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court Justice Tirath Singh Thakur is reported to have been approved by the SC Collegium for the Supreme Court of India.
Justice Radhakrishnan to go to SC ?
Grapevine has it that name of Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court Justice K S Radhakrishnan has been cleared by the SC Collegium for the Supreme Court of India.
Justice Dinakaran to join SC ?
Supereme Court Collegium is believed to have cleared the name of Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court Justice Dinakaran for the Supreme Court of India.
Name of Justice Gyan Sudha was discussed ?
Name of Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court Justice Gyan Sudha reportedly came in for discussion in the Collegium for elevation to the Supreme Court.
Parameshwaran Iyer resigns from IAS
Parameshwaran Iyer a star officer of the IAS, who was well known for his Jal suraj program, has finally quit and rejoined World Bank as Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist in Washington DC. He served in World Bank from April 1998 till September 2007 when he was served show cause notice by Government of UP to return. He returned to IAS but quit in 2009 and is now back in Washington. He is 1981 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.
India's Foreign office to bring in specialists from other ministries
To enrich knowledge and expertise, India's Foreign Ministry is learnt to be contemplating to bring in specialists from other ministries on deputation and experts from think tanks to address specific issues like climate change and energy security. Regular consultations with think tanks on specific issues has already commenced.
Mandloi is back as DDG in Prasar Bharti
New wind has started blowing in the Prasar Bharti.L D Mandloi who was transferred to Bhubneshwar by the CEO B S Lalli is back to the Prasar Bharti Headquarters as DDG (Commercial and Films).
Gujarat gets six officers from the fresh batch to be inducted in IAS
Gujarat has been allotted six officers from the new batch of 120 officials to be inducted in IAS.
Sudhir Saxena returns to MP
Joint Director CBI Sudhir Saxena is back to the parent Madhya Pradesh cadre after completion of deputation tenure. He is 1987 batch IPS officer.
Rahul Chhabra gets extension
Minister (A) in Indian Embassy ,Washington, Rahul Chhabra has been granted extension till June next year.
RCVP Noronha Academy of Administration to organize foundation course
RCVP Noronha Academy of Administration, Bhopal of which Director General (DG) is Dr.Sundeep Khanna is first time organizing foundation course for 170 All India services officers commencing from August 31,2009.In this officers belonging to 11 All India services like IRS-IT, IRS C & EC, Indian Postal Service (IPS) & different branches of Railways & Defence will undergo training till December 2009. The said is the apex and nodal training institute of Madhya Pradesh.
Goa CM to urge to GOI to maintain SEZ
As the grapevine has it Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat is going to urge Government of India (GOI) not to do away with the SEZ project in his state. Though, the GOI has approved proposal to scrap the SEZ in Goa, its final notification is yet to be issued. Since Economic development in Goa is need of the hour, source close to Kamat maintain that the proposal to have a SEZ will go a long way in giving a solid fillip to Economic growth of Goa.
Vijay Kumar not to be PS to Ms.Agatha Sangma
As the grapevine has it Vijay Kumar is unlikely to be private secretary (PS) Ms Agatha Sangma Indian Minister of State Rural Development. The related proposal was not cleared on the grounds that one has to have nine years seniority in service before going on deputation to Government of India (GOI). Kumar who is an IAS officer of the 2004 batch who belongs to the Assam -Meghalaya (AM) cadre is currently DC of East Garo Hills Meghalaya.
Sarkar is Director Home
Sandeep Sarkar has joined the Ministry of Home Affairs as Director Home. He is 1995 batch IDAS officer.
RBI recommends another term for Ms.Shyamala Gopinath
As the grapevine has it, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recommended one more term for Ms. Shyamala Gopinath, Deputy Governor Reserve Bank of India (RBI), who is retiring next month.
I S Srivastava is new Judge of the MP High Court
Outgoing District Judge of Indore I S Srivastava has been appointed new Judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court.
1991 batch IPS is now IG in Tripura
Two 1991 batch IPS officers, Joudeep Nayak and D Gautam, have been promoted to the rank of IG in Tripura.
Alok Singh returns to cadre
Alok Singh presently working as Chief Vigilance Officer in Central Coalfields Limited, Ranchi, is back to the cadre. He is 1993 batch IRS (IT) officer.
IRS officer to replace IRS officer
Ms.Vismita Tej 1990 batch IRS (IT) officer is going to succeed 1993 batch IRS (IT) officer Alok Singh as Chief Vigilance Officer in the Central Coalfields Limited (CCL), Ranchi.
Sinha to be CVO of Bharat Coking Coal Ltd
PK Sinha has been appointed as Chief Vigilance Officer in the Bharat Coking Coal Limited, Dhanbad. He is 1992 batch IRS (C&CE) officer.
Rath joins as Professor and Chairperson
Dr. Arun Kumar Rath, after superannuation from Indian Administrative Service, has joined as Professor and Chairperson of the School of Public Policy & Governance in Management Development Institute , Gurgaon . Dr. Rath belongs to the 1973 batch of IAS (Jharkhand Cadre) and served as Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of HRD, Government of India and as Special Secretary, Ministry of Steel, Govt. of India. A Master of Science in Physics and Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration , Dr. Rath's landmark book entitled "Towards Better Corporate Governance: Independent Directors in the Boardroom" based upon his pioneering research work on the challenges of corporate governance in the Indian public sector enterprises is scheduled for release next month . Dr Rath's book has been highly acclaimed in the pre-review by eminent scholars and corporate leaders.
Seven officers nominated for 50th NDC Course
As many as seven officers have been nominated for 50th NDC Course at National Defence College, New Delhi, commencing from 4th January,2010.
1991 batch IPS to be IG in Jharkhand
Six 1991 batch IPS officers are being promoted to the rank of IG in Jharkhand next week. They are Mssrs Nandu Prasad,A Natrajan,M M Ojha,Naresh Prasad Singh,S Hembram and Manoj Mishra.
Services of Addl CIT Ludhiana transferred to Finance dept Haryana
Upon his selection for appointment as Joint Advisor in the Finance Department of Government of Haryana, on deputation basis, the services of Harinder Kumar, IRS, Additional CIT, Ludhiana , are placed at the disposal of the Finance Department of Government of Haryana, for a period of one year.
IAS changes in Jharkhand
Sukhdeo Singh has been appointed Secretary Water Resources.K K Khandelwal has been made Secretary Forests and Environment.Avinash Kumar has been moved to Personnel.
Indian Forest Service Officials transferred in MP
As many as 19 Indian Forest Service officials have been transferred. Accordingly, MK Sinha has been sent to MP State Minor Forest Produce Corporation, Sudhir Kumar as CEO, MP State Bio-Diversity Board, Abhay K Jain as Principal, Rangers College - Balaghat, Pankaj Srivastava - Wild Life Centre (West Region) Indore, Mahendra Yaduvendu - CCF (Ujjain Circle), Rajesh Srivastava - CCF, MP State Forest Development Corporation, Kalka Prasad Sharma to Shyopur Forest Division, Keshav Singh - Deputy Forest Conservator to MP State Forest Development Corporation and M Luikhan - Deputy Forest Conservator to MP State Forest Development Corporation. Others who have been transferred are Ajay K Yadav to Rewa, RS Champawat to Betul, Mrs. Bindu Sharma and OP Uchadiaya to State Forest development Corporation, Amit K Dubey and Vincent Rahim to Pnna and Nahar Singh as Deputy Forest Conservator, NVDA.
IFS transfers cancelled in MP
Transfer of AKS Chauhan who was earlier transferred to National Forest Development Corporation and L Krishnamurthy who was transferred to Betul has been cancelled.
BSP's triumph in by polls show BSP's popularity
The victory of Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP)candidates in three out of four asssembly seats of Uttar Pradesh has once again proved the fact that BSP's popularity has gone up. Three assembly segment where the BSP has won were earlier held by opposition parties. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister & BSP supremo Ms.Mayawati is modest enough to give full credit to party workers. Political pandits say that the latest by poll results have shown that BSP's popularity is on the rise. Even Ms.Mayawati's detractors have been silenced who had tried to malign her after last Lok Sabha polls ,by alleging that BSP's popularity was on a downward trend.
ACC rejects inter-cadre deputation request
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has rejected the proposal for inter-cadre deputation of Praveen Kumar Raghav from Jammu & Kashmir to Uttar Pradesh. He is 2000 batch IFS officer.
Prakash Chandra gets extension
Chief Vigilance Officer of Indian Rare Earths Limited, Mumbai Prakash Chandra has been granted extension in deputation tenure for a period of two years.He is 1985 batch IRS (IT) officer.
IRS officer is CVO of Cochin Port Trust
Manoj Chandran has been appointed as Chief Vigilance Officer in the Cochin Port Trust Cochin.He is 1991 batch IRS (IT) officer.
CVO of FCI gets extension
CVO of the FCI R. Sridharan has been granted extension in deputation tenure till April,2012.He is 1983 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

CORPORATE
Former IAS & Axis Bank's CEO joins Advent International
P Jayendra Nayak who had quit as CEO, Axis Bank, few months ago has joined Advent International's Operating Partner Programme. He would advise on Indian Investment opportunities in the financial services sector and the development of Advent's business in India. Nayak had remained Joint Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs of the Ministry of Finance and a member of the Board of Directors of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
Venkataraman elected President of ICWAI
G. N. Venkataraman has been elected new president of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (ICWAI).

Aaj Ki Aawaz
Now even the Apte Report says appointing Advani as PM candidate was a blunder!!!
And it also agrees that negativity made BJP flounder!!
When Advani was named PM nominee!!!
It's wrong to say that for bouncing Modi's name as PM BJP paid the fee!!!
Advani attacked Mohna and paid the price!!!
By the electorate was cut to size!!!!
Why did BJP forget Vajpayee during this poll????
Seems for this too BJP paid the toll!!
BJP boasted about Advani who has no USP at all!!!!!
They forgot the Leader who in public's eyes is tall!!
Advani was behind Vajpayee not being mentioned in BJPs ad campaign!!!
He did not to be seen holding Vajpyees coattails again!!
Had BJP fought this general election like it was a State election result would not be so bad!!!
But BJP seems central leaders were the fad!!
Since its tryst with power BJPs gone from bad to worse!!!
For BJP its stint at the Centre has proven to be in the long run a curse!!!
And it looks really funny when you see the undisciplined enforcing discipline!!!
What about Advani's indiscipline????
He praised Jinnah and that too on Paki soil!!!
And then accountability post the electoral drubbing he did foil!!
Sonia Ji whoever gave you the idea of this 20% cut in salary needs to be ticked off!!!!
Check it out and you'll find majority of Indians on this karr rahe hai scoff!!!
Our MPs salary is like pocket money for food and tea!!!!
What do you think their opulence Indians do not see????
Madam step out of your citadel and check why people take this to be a joke!!!
And more so when no action is taken on Pawar who is a out and out a chai pani bloke!!!
Someday he says we need to import food grains and sugar and the next day he flips!
Says things are not that bad as garam garam chai he sips!!
So much should have been done as shortfall in rain was not a total surprise!!
But to need of the hour he refused to rise!!!
Even on the food front so much could have been done!!!!
But what action did this dolt Pawar take ..... none???
Yes Rahul youve got it right.wealth from Cities can do in rural Indian wonders!!!
But hope this does not mean an urban cess one wonders????
What is needed is that Corporate India adopts the poorest of poor villages!!!!
Where poverty literally pillages!!
As Corporate India will deliver much more will reach ground zero as pilferage will fall!
After all it was Rahuls Dad who made reduce the pilferage call!!
A little bird tells me Amar Singh is trying to get the Sharukhs questioning tape!!!
He intends to batter Sharukh's reputation out of shape!!
No doubt Sharukh did name dropping to try to wiggle out!!!
And he also did shout!!
Of course Amar's ultimate aim is to hit out at Gandhi pariwaar!!!
Why..... its now khumal khulla war and so this waar!!
Why doesnt Congress ask him to let us know kidney kahaa se kiya manage????
On his running away to Singapore as the process here is cumbersome karro Amar ko engage!!
Big B threatened to discontinue his blog and then reneged on his threat!!!
Seems criticism makes this dolt fume and fret!!
He gets on an average 400 responses to his blog very low as per Super Star blogs!!!
And its usually the same lot that onto his blog logs (on)!!!
Confucius says..... averages 400 responses in a day and 800 is the highest he's got!!!!
Knowing him hell constitute an award and say my blog is hot!!!
Adds..... man is known by the company he keeps!!
And seeing Amar goodness literally weeps!
Bharat Kumar
aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

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IAS is Ahead, IPS is Progressive, IFS (Foreign) is Fine & IFS (Forest) is Flimsy
What a waste of brains that should be used to protect the environment, forests & wildlife. The Minister incharge should go ahead with his plans to bring out and put to work the best and the real hard-working IFS officers. He should leave the rest with their constricted thinking. They will slowly be isolated and fade away. . . .Worth it for saving the forests and environment of the country. The grime, which is a part of every system, should never be allowed the leverage to engulf the positives of the system.
A Concerned Citizen
Undertake proceedings at all costs
One easy way to clear pending cases in various courts in India - proceedings to be undertaken even if the lawyers of the parties are not present. If you analyse the data on posting of cases to a future date, it will show that either of the lawyers were not present at the time a particular case has come up.
Prasad
Retirement Age - Government in a dilemma
Those who are nearing their retirement wish and pray that the retirement age should be increased to 62 (and when they reach the age of 62, their wish will be to further increase the retirement age to 64 or 65); and those who are nearing their promotion and have some years left for retirement wish and pray that the retirement age should not be increased so that they get their promotion speedily. But when they get promoted, they join the first category and will start demanding raising the retirement age. The Government is in a dilemma.
Pradeep
Govt should revert retirement age instead
Thanks to the decision that the retirement age is not enhanced to 62 as wished by most of Indian bureaucrats in the IAS IPS cadres. Instead of paying unemployment dole, the Government can think of providing employment. The Government can think of reverting the retirement age to 58.
Chandru
Reflection of feudal colonial mindset
The 'lal batti' syndrome is a sad reflection of our feudal colonial mindset. No where else on the globe excepting probably the 'kingdom' states of Arabia that such symbols are used to distinguish 'rulers' and the 'ruled'. Though we are supposed to be a democratic country but even our so called 'peoples representatives' vie or may I say die for 'lal batti'. Given a choice they may even opt one on their heads to distinguish them from 'general public'. The syndrome is not restricted to 'Netas & Babus' only but is widely prevalent in other organs of state like 'Judiciary' which is supposed to be custodian of civil rights. Infact every year state Transport Departments come out with elaborate lists of the 'dignitaries' entitled for 'lal batti'. Once you have the 'lal batti' fitted to your vehicle then it is presumed to give you exemptions from following traffic rules or paying 'toll tax' and you are supposed to be treated with admiration and respect by the 'police wallah' on the road. so many incidents have happened where the vehicles were allowed to go unchecked because they had 'lal batti'. Since every neta, babu and judge loves his 'lal batti', I don't think we are ever going to loose it in any case and the country would continue to live in the 'feudalistic middle age' despite being designated as a democracy otherwise.
Jai Hind
Ruhan
"Credentials must be verified"
The National Statistical Commission is being reconstituted. The Chairman has been appointed and a panel of eight has been shortlisted by the Deputy Chairman Planning Commission and forwarded to the Prime Minister .Out of eight, one person who has been a civil servant ,is the blue eyed boy of C Rangarajan ,the present Chairman of the reconstituted Economic Advisory Council, is sure to be selected. The PM is expected to get the credentials of the former civil servant verified before taking a decision.
S C Sharma

Surprisingly, FIPB will again discuss Bycell
After much persuasion FIPB finally posted the outcome of its 141 meeting on its website yesterday. Bycell proposal was deferred in this meeting. Surprisingly the 142 meeting of FIPB will again discuss Bycell.
Sanjay
Rajiv Gandhi was a great visionary and reformer
I am personally an admirer of Late Rajiv Gandhi who in my opinion was a great visionary and reformer and it is because of the direction set by him that India today has emerged as a strong economic nation. However, the crass manner of tribute being paid to him by the 'chamchas' in the Congress is not going to create any goodwill for the late great leader. Only God knows how much public money has been spent by the various ministries and PSU's in bringing out advertisements to commemorate his birth anniversary. All newspapers are full of 'full page' advertisements costing crores of rupees to the exchequre. This splurge at a time when the country is passing through economic recession and drought is not at all in good taste. On the one hand Congress is talking of cutting wasteful expenditures and on the other hand it is wasting public money like this. This is no way of commemorating the late great leader and somebody must put a stop to this.
MB