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100 ,1995 batch IPS officers empanelled
Altogether 100 IPS officers belonging to 1995 batch are believed to have been empanelled to the rank of DIG in the Government of India. They are Mssrs :- . Ajay Mukund Ranade, WB, . Javed Shamin, WB, Anil Kumar, WB, R. Shiva Kumar, WB, . Satya Shankar Panda WB, Ritu Arora, OR,Radha Krishan Sharma, OR ,Santosh Pala, OR, Ashok Kumar Singh, UP ,Vijay Bhatia, UP , 1995 ,Amrandra Kumar Sengar, UP,Rajkumar RN Kuril, UP, Aalok Singh, UP ,Ashok Mutha Jain, UP,Anupam Kulshrestha, UP, Ravi Kumar Lakku, UP, Deepam Seth, UP , P.B. Krishna Prasad, UK, Bala Naga Devi, TN ,Sandeep Mittal, TN, S. Devidson Devasirvatham, TN ,S.N. Seshasai, TN ,M. Ramasubramani, TN,S. Nallasivam, TN,V.A. Ravi Kumar, TN , Satish Ramji Khandhare, JK, Tsewang Namgiyal Kalal, JK ,Rajesh Kumar, JK , Shivdarshan Singh, JK , Pankaj Kumar Darad, JK ,Sanjay A. Lathkar, JH ,Sandeep Khirwar, HY ,Charu Bali, HY,CHakkirala Sambasiva Rao, HY ,Subash Yadav, HY,Satinder Pal Singh, HP,Venugopal N., HP ,Ganesh Dutta Bhargava, HP,Shiv Pal Singh, HP,Raju Bhargava, GJ ,R.B. Brahmbhatt, GJ ,B.S. Jebalia, GJ ,D.J. Patel, GJ Pradeep Gupta, CHJagmohan, BH , Sushil Man Singh Khopde, BH ,V.T. Lakra, AP ,veerisetty Venkata Srinavasa Rao, AP,Mahesh Murlidhar Bhagwat, AP,Atul Singh, AP, Rajiv Kumar Meena, AP,R.S. Praveen Kumar, AP, A.Y.V. Krishna, AM, Munna Prasad Gupta, AM ,I.D. Shukla, AGMU ,Zorammawia, AGMU, Madhu Kumar Tiwari, AGMU, Ravinder Singh Yadav, AGMU ,Davesh Chander Srivastava, AGMU, David Lalrinsanga, AGMU,Thugvemo Lottha, NL,Puneet Rastogi, MT, Bishawanath Bev Berma, MT, Meenakshi Sharma, MP, K.P. Venkateshwar Rao, MP, Jaideep Prasad, MP, Yogesh Deshmukh, MP, Chanchla Shekhar, MP, A. Sai Manohar, MP, Amitesh Kumar, MH, Naval Bajaj, MH , R.G. Kadam, MH , S.K. Tarwade, MH, R.S. Salunkhe, MH , V.K. Chaubey, MH , A.D. Sindhe, MH , D.G. Rao, MH, Niket Kaushik, MH ,Umesh Kumar, KTK, Arun Jeji Chakravarthy, KTK , Amrit Paul, KTK , Syed Ulfath Husain, KTK, R.S. Harihar, KTK, M.R. Ajit Kumar, KL, Vihayak Vineet, SK, Samita Khare, RJ, Prashakha Mathur, RJ, Biju George Joseph K., RJ , Tajinder Pal Singh, PB ,Surinder Singh, PB , Gautam Chima, PB , Amit Prasad, PB , Mohammad Faiyaz Farooqui, PB, Pramod Ban, PB , Kapil Dev, PB , Gollapalli Nageswara Rao, PB , S.K. Priyadarshi, OR , Padmakar S. Ranipse, OR , L. Singsit, NL and Jong Pongiungrang, NL : 1995.
U K Bansal appointed Special Secretary Home
U K Bansal has been appointed new Special Secretary Home in the Government of India.1974 batch UP cadre IPS officer Bansal will succeed Raman Srivastava.
( We said this on July 7 )
Bagchi is now Special Director IB
R Bagchi has been promoted to the rank of Special Director in the Intelligence Bureau. He is 1975 batch IPS officer of West Bengal cadre.
( We said this on July 22 )
Pravesh Sharma is quitting IAS
Pravesh Sharma, IAS 1982 MP, is shortly likely to take up the newly created position of Senior Agriculture Specialist at the India Resident Mission of Asian Development Bank at New Delhi. Sharma is currently Principal Secretary, Agriculture and Cooperation to Govt. of Madhya Pradesh at Bhopal. It is learnt that he is quitting the service to join ADB and will be applying for VRS in the next few days. ADB is understood to be very keen to diversify its lending portfolio in India, away from power, roads and ports, towards agriculture, natural resource management and poverty reduction projects, hence the new position dealing exclusively with these issues. A Search Committee appointed by ADB is said to have zeroed in on Sharma after profiling over a dozen candidates, including several IAS officers and private sector executives.
5 IPS officers of 1991 batch empanelled
As the grapevine has it names of five IPS officer of the 1991 batch in review have reportedly been cleared for empanelment in Government of India (GOI). They are:Madireddy Pratap- AP, Jagmohan- WB, K. Lakshman Mohan- AP, Naresh Prasad Singh JH & Raghuvansh Prasad Yadav- BH.
11 IPS officers of 1992 batch empanelled
As the grapevine has it names of 11 IPS officer of the 1992 batch in review have reportedly been cleared for empanelment in Government of India (GOI). They are: Bhagwanaram Meghwal- WB,B. Prasad Tripathi,R. Pratap Singh, Rajesh Kumar Rai, Sushil Kumar Singh, K. Srivastava (all from cadre), Dhananjay Kamalakar- MH, Shiv Ram Sharma- HP, N. Chandra Mouli- AP,T.K. Vinod Kumar- KL & A.S.N. Murthy- KTK.
18 IPS officers of 1993 batch empanelled
As the grapevine has it names of 18 IPS officer of the 1993 batch in review have reportedly been cleared for empanelment in Government of India (GOI). They are: Sunil Kumar Gupta UP, Manvender Singh Bhatia- JH, Rajpal Singh- HY, P.V. Sunil Kumar- AP, P.K. Das- AM, V.N. Pachori- MP, Govind Gupta- RJ, Sunil Dutt- RJ, Hari Ram Meena- RJ, Kartar Singh PB, Anil Kumar Gupta- MP, Ashok Kumar Das-TN, R. Arumugam- TN, Ajoy Kumar- WB, Varun Kumar Mallick- WB, J.K. Bhatt- GJ, V.D. Vaghela & Sunil Kumar Jha- BH.
Shailendra Pratap Singh empanelled
Shailender Pratap Singh is reported to have been empanelled to the rank of DIG in the Government of India during the review meeting. He is 1989 batch IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
Daljit Singh Chowdhury empanelled
Daljit Singh Chowdhury is reported to have been empanelled to the rank of DIG in the Government of India during the review meeting. He is 1990 batch IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
Bhattacharya to continue as DG UID
R Bhattacharya will continue with assignment of additional charge of the post of DG & Mission Director, Unique identification Authority of India . He is 1978 batch IAS officer of AP cadre.
Vice Admiral Anup Singh to succeed Nirmal Verma
Vice Admiral Anup Singh is going to succeed Vice Admiral Nirmal Verma on September 1 as Eastern Naval Commander.He is presently Chief of the Integrated Defence Staff. Vice Admiral Verma is taking over as Naval Chief.
Srikar to be PS to Nandan Nilekani
S M Srikar is joining Chairman of UID Authority of India, Nandan Nilekani as his PS. 1999 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre Srikar is currently Additional Commissioner BBMP, Bangalore.
Gururaj Rao to move Birmingham
C Gururaj Rao Joint Secretary (North) in the Ministry of External Affairs will succeed Ms Jordana Diengdoh Pavel in Birmingham as CG.Ms Pawel is superannuating in November.
Muralidharan is Chief of Personnel Navy
Vice-Admiral M.P. Muralidharan, has been appointed Chief of Personnel of the Navy. The appointment will take effect by this month-end.
IAAS officer Mukesh P. Singh promoted
Mukesh P. Singh of the 1983 batch of Indian Audit & Accounts Service (IAAS) has been promoted as Principal Accountant General, Assam, Guwahati.
Retirement Age of SAT Members to be raised
Retirement age of Members of the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) is being raised from 62 to 65.
Radhika Rastogi is Director Atomic Energy
Radhika Banerjee has been appointed Director Atomic Energy.She is 1995 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.
Prabhat Kumar is Director CVC
Prabhat Kumar as joined the CVC as Director. He is 1994 batch (C &CE) officer.
Chopra couple going to London
Sanjeev Chopra (IAS, 1990, Orissa) and Ranjana Chopra (IAS, 1994, Orissa) are proceeding on a one year MSc in Social Policy and Development course at London School of Economics.
CITs in Delhi get new postings
As many as 17 Commissioners of Income Tax (CITs) in Delhi region have got new postings. They are: S.K.Ray CIT (ITAT)10 International Taxation to CIT-4, Balbir Verma CIT-4 to CIT (Audit)-1, Chhedi Lal on reinstatement CIT (OSD), Arun S.Bhatnagar CIT (A)-7 to CIT (C)- 2, Rajani Kant Gupta CIT (A)-4 to CIT (A)-2, Sunali Arora CIT-10 to CIT-9, P.V.Rao CIT (A)-2 to DIT (Exemption), J.S.Naurath CIT(A)-9 to CIT-16, Manas Shankar Ray CIT (A) -29 to CIT (A)- 18,Mohammad Wasimul Haque CIT -22 to CIT CIT (A)-7, Bipin Bihari Singh CIT (A) -18 to CIT (A)-22, Kunal Singh CIT (A)- 15 to CIT (A)-21 , Mohanish Verma DIT (Exemption) to CIT-(A)-4, Gajanand Meena CIT (A) 16 to CIT (ITAT)-7, Ashwani Kumar CIT (ITAT)-7 to CIT (ITAT)-10 (Intl Taxation) & Rameshwar Singh CIT (A)-21 to CIT (A)-15.
Tenure of Jamuda to expire this month end
Central deputation tenure of Commissioner Central School Organisation Ranglal Jamuda is coming to an end on August 31.
UN Secretariat seeks nomination for Police Advisers post
UN Secretariat through PMI to UN have sought nominations of Police officers from Government of India for the post of "Police Advisers (D-2) on secondment basis for an initial period of Two years.
H.K.Dua likely to be Governor Goa
As the grapevine has it H.K.Dua Editor-in-Chief Tribune is likely to be appointed as new Governor of Goa.
UID cards in couple of months
The first set of Unique Identification Database (UID) cards would come out in the next eight to 12 months, Chairman of UID Authority of India, Nandan Nilekani, has recently announced. More than 1.7 billion citizens will be covered under the scheme.
Sanjeev Khirwar is PS to Ms. Krishna Tirath
Sanjeev Khirwar, IAS (AGMU cadre: 1994 batch) has been posted as PS to Ms. Krishna Tirath Indian Minister for State (independent charge) of Women &Child Welfare. Presently he is posted in Andaman & Nicobar as Secretary Finance.
Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar to return to UP
Rajiv Bhatnagar is returning to the parent Uttar Pradesh cadre after completion of his deputation tenure. He is 1983 batch IPS officer.
Chief Secretaries Conference on Saturday
Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrasekhar has convened a meeting of the Chief Secretaries of the States and Union Territories on Saturday.
P B Gangopadhyaya joins as ADG in MoEF
P B Gangopadhyaya has joined as Additional Director General (ADG) in the Ministry of Environment & Forests ( Mo EF) on August 6, 2009. Earlier he was PCCF to MP Government. He is Madhya Pradesh cadre Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1975 batch.
Tenure of Chandramouli extended
Deputation tenure of Dr. C. Chandramouli as OSD in the Office of the RGI has been extended for a period of three months beyond 9.7.2009. He is 1985 batch IAS officer of TamilNadu cadre.
Patl gets additional charge
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved, ex-post-facto, for entrusting additional charge of the post of Development Commissioner, Dahej Special Economic Zone under Department of Commerce to S.N. Patil IOFC(88), Joint Development Commissioner, Kandla SEZ, in addition to his own charge, for a period of three months.
Ashok Chawla gets additional charge of Revenue
Secretary Finance and Secretary Department of Economic Affairs Ashok Chawla, will hold additional charge of the post of Secretary, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, during the period from 17th August, 2009 to 28th August, 2009 when P.V. Bhide will remain on leave.
Ms Jalaja gets additional charge of Health
Secretary AYUSH Ms S. Jalaja has been given additional charge of the post of Secretary, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare during the period from 10th August, 2009 to 26th August, 2009.
Ms Guha is new CVO of HCL
Ms Srabani Guha has been appointed Chief Vigilance Officer in the Hindustan Copper Limited (HCL), Kolkata under the Ministry of Mines.She is 1986 batch IES officer.
Pradeep Gupta appointed CVO of MOIL
Pradeep Gupta has been appointed as Chief Vigilance Officer in the Manganese Ores India Limited (MOIL), Nagpur He is 1995 batch IPS officer of Chhattisgarh cadre.
P. C. Chaturvedi is new Labour Secretary in GOI
P. C. Chaturvedi who so far was Director General of ESIC has assumed charge as Labour Secretary to Government of India (GOI). He is an IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre who belongs to the 1975 batch.
(We said this on July 24,2009)

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R.M.Gupta is ED LPG in BPCL
R.M. Gupta who so was earlier Executive Director (ED) Retail in Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) is now ED LPG.
Bhandari is new MD of ING Vysya Bank
Shailendra Bhandari has been appointed Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ING Vysya Bank.
Agrawal is Dy MD of Axis Bank
M. M. Agrawal has been appointed as Deputy Managing Director of the Axis Bank. He is presently Executive Director (Corporate Banking) of the bank.
Raghuveer is Director Finance BEL
M.G. Raghuveer has taken over as Director (Finance) of Bharat Electronics Ltd. (BEL).
Singh is Director NTPC Board
B.P. Singhhas taken over as Director (Projects) on the NTPC Board.
Major reshuffle in Air India
All the five EDs of Air India posted in Delhi have been moved to Mumbai. They are Mssrs Vineeta Bhandari ED Integration Cell, Anita Mitru ED Coordination,H S Grover ED Legal, R Goyal ED Audit and Manjeera Khurana ED Customer Services.

Aaj Ki Aawaz
Sensex will hit 4800 before it hits 4300 Brokers say!!!!
And hope that to this attention small investors pay!!!
Objective.....come one come all and invest in stocks and make a quick buck!!!!
My advice is hard earned money please do not chuck!!
Business Channels are pitting in too and getting Bullish analysts to speak on the Market!!
And their advice is bring all your money and into the Stock Market and 'park it'!!!
Our desi Bull Jhujhunwaala's opinion is Markets will shoot up!!!!
Nothing but a Bull giving us bullshit or gupp!!!
Then there is the Big Bear whose recently turned into a Bull!!!
And with the same bullshit (gupp) he too is full!!
When markets start to go up some analysts say the sky is the limit!!!
And when the markets fall that say to new bottom the market will plummet!!!
The chart readers pull a fast one to make their dukaan or shop run!!!
A scam they run!!!
When markets fall to say 4200 they'll say there is resistance at 3900 and then at 3700!!!!
And if it falls to 3500 then it could go down to 3100!!!
Can you see the hedging they do?????
After all they have to again show on the Channel their mooh!!
You have Anchors like Udhyan Mukherjee hedging and showing market is the place to invest!
If you aks me our intelligence these people do test!!
Why is BJP not taking Raja's Spectrum Scam aggressively????
It's taking this issue very passively!!
Some say BJP is worried about its past….. Mahajan's stint!!!!
And some say its showing friendship to DMK and hoping DMK gets the hint!!
On the galloping kitchen inflation BJP is mum!!!!
Maybe Advani will give us one of his gems by saying 'khao kumm'!!
BJP after the general election feels it was the Aam Aadmi that made Congress win!!!!
And in two general elections Aam Aadmi has done BJP in!!
BJP's vote bank is the traders who are raking it in!!!!
And they don't feel that Sarkaar inflation ko karre pin!!
If BJP protests the rising prices it'll be hitting at its trader vote bank!!!!
And from the trader community support and votes will tank!!!
NREGS is being blatantly misused as a way to make money!!!!
Kids and even dead peoples names on the list of recipients is indeed funny!!!
In fact experts say a major portion is being siphoned out!!!!
And on an emergency footing this chori needs to be sorted out!!
Mohna needs to use his experience to come up with a way to check this chori!!!!!
Plug the chori waali morri!!!!
Our health Minister is more worried about Sharukh Khan smoking on screen!!
And seems he could not see the swine flu attack behind the smoke screen!!
Health Ministry was caught sleeping!!
A check it should have been keeping!!!
Hospitals should have been issues advisories everyday!!
For a Minister whose got his priorities mixed up Indians will pay!!
Mahesh Bhatt is crying foul because kisser Hashmi has not got a Building Society's approval!!
He says it is on religious grounds but others say its Hashmi's image that is behind the disapproval!
People do not want Filmstars in their buildings….. horrible influence!!!!
In actors there's loose morals or liberal attitude and ego ka confluence!!!
Would you like an individual known for his kissing to be your neighbour….. no chance????
These people don't even walk like us…… their walk is either a dance or a prance!!!
And on Societies practicing religious bias…. what about the Parsee Societies in Mumbai!!!!
You have to be a Parsee if in these Societies a flat you want to rent or buy!!
Dr. Mehrotra and Bharat Kumar ki hai Jodi ajeeb!!!
Have never met each other but still are kareeb!!!
The bond is to appraise readers of what is going on!!!!
And for the love and affection we've got 'thanks a tonne'!!!
Confucius says….. bouquets and brickbats from readers have to be taken with a bowed head!!!
After all they are Judges as by them our work is read!!
Adds……. And please do let me know what is wrong in Aaj ki Aawaz!!!!
Brickbats come from readers and how can a columnist let a reader be naraaz???
Bharat Kumar aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

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All the observations were factually correct.
This is to respond to Vijay Kumar, Secretary(Retd.) MEA observations
on this site.
It seems he has been asked by retired Foreign Secretary to defend him after his
deeds were outlined. All the observations were factually correct.
1) It is true that Menon was responsible for providing administrative leadership and advice to political leaders. If he felt the action of Political leadership was not correct he could have resigned. Several diplomats in US and UK did so against Foreign Policy of political leadership on the decision to go to war against Iraq.In Menon's case, he was hankering for a post-retirement post and hence did not have the guts to oppose or give frank advice. He failed his tasks as he tried to offer advice after reading the mind of his superiors rather than offer frank advice, for which people of India pay him.
2) Vijay Kumar may publish on this website the figures of OBCs/SCs/STs along with percentages recruited to the IFS during tenure of Menon. As for appointment of OBCs/SCs/STs as Ambassadors, it is not benefaction of Menon, but their due which people like Menon have denied for years. There is no Obama or Voltaire in Foreign Service who can talk about caste relations like Obama did on race.
3) Menon had his favorites.He rewarded his pets to posts like Deputy High Commissioners, during their posting tenure. He also posted his men to places like Washington, New York etc while denied others any respite or rather was vindictive.
4) As to "Mehrotra having dared to write while Menon having been in service". This language is symptomatic of Menon's dictatorial attitude. He didn't quite like contrary
opinion and free press even if based on facts was given to him.
5) The present system of promotions is based on facts and can be verified from the Ministry.Vijay Kumar benefited from earlier regime and does mind a worse off deal for current incumbents in the Indian Foreign Service.We may like to ask him how many juniors did he ask to make "samosas" for him during his tenure. If Vijay Kumar wants, he may do a secret ballot in the IFS as to how many approve of the new system of promotions and he will get his answer.
6) Vijay Kumar having served in MEA I am sure realises that the statements are drafted by diplomats and it their onus to give a "good draft". If Foreign Secretart wants to hide behind cloak of Ministerial responsibility, then he is merely saving his skin to get a post-retirement post. Loss of power is difficult to digest after all.
In the end, Government should take its decision based on the facts and the aspirations and feeling of billion of Indians whose faith has been wounded after 26/11.
RT
'Bad draft, still worse logic" carries no substance
The views captioned "Bad draft, still worse logic", carry no substance but only bombastic words. These writings of pseudo- intellectuals can influence Dr Mehrotra Ed-in-chief but not the serving and retired career diplomats.I request you not to encourage any Tom Dick and Harry to touch on a sensitive subject like diplomacy to which they have no clue.
S K Mishra, IFS (Retired)
Army unwilling to face the truth ?
My son Major Ankit Bhardwaj was brutally murdered in Manipur on 15-7-2008 in suspicious circumstances but till today inspite of my requests to all in army, a narco-test has not been conducted on the 'killer' Havaldar Ashok Kumar to know the real reasons for the murder. 80 such murders of army officers have taken place in the last about 4 years but not a single narco-analysis test has been conducted on the 'killers'. How then the army will stop the killing of officers and encourage young men to join the forces if they are unwilling to face the truth .
R Bharadwaj
CCIT, Delhi
Dear Sirs, Nice to know that Government needs 35 Commissioners for UID Authority. Since this is a temporary time frame job, it should be handled by private technocrats/professionals so that they can go home after the job is done. Wish this happens as soon as possible.
Harish Kumar
Half truths of Agriculture Minister
As commented few days back, it is now clear that the Agriculture Minister fed half truth when he talked about reduced production of sugar, which is resulting in a price spurt even in international market and of course in retail domestic market. It is interesting to read the press release of the Indian Sugar Mills Association which gave the overall supply situation which appears to be comfortable. ( see http://www.indiansugar.com/briefings/index.htm). Therefore, the statement by the minister was only meant to alarm everyone and push up prices. Can the people rely upon such ministers to solve the problems of agriculture?
I Khan