This is a web site which keeps bureaucrats busy. Really, good site to know more whispers in the corridors.
Kumar

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Will Yogesh Aggarwal be Vigilance Commissioner ?
Name of CMD IDBI Yogesh Aggarwal has started doing the round for the post of Vigilance Commissioner in the Central Vigilance Commission.
Dr. S. Ayappan appointed as Secretary, DARE
Dr. S. Ayappan noted scientist has been appointed as Secretary, Department of Agriculture Education and Research (DARE), in Government of India (GOI).
Sunil Kumar to be Additional Secretary Higher Education
Sunil Kumar is being promoted to the rank of Additional Secretary Higher Education in the Ministry of HRD.He is 1979 batch IAS officer of Chhattisgarh cadre.
Additional Secretary rank IAS to be MD, FCI
As the grapevine has it once the post of Chairman & Managing Director was bifurcated in Food Corporation of India (FCI) then an Additional Secretary rank IAS officer will be posted as MD of the FCI.
Gurudev Singh is Secretary, NCME
Gurudev Singh has been appointed as Secretary NCME in Government of India. This post is equivalent to Joint Secretary level officer. He is an IRAS officer of 1979 batch.
Manoj Yadav tipped to be Jt.Director SIB, Delhi
As the grapevine has it in State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) Delhi, that Manoj Yadav could be posted as Joint Director, SIB in place of Rajiv Jain who is presently, Joint Director, SIB. The latter may be shifted to another post shortly. Manoj Yadav is an IPS officer of 1988 batch who belongs to Haryana cadre while Rajiv Jain is an IPS officer of 1980 batch who belongs to Jharkhand cadre.
Two posts of Joint Secretaries vacant in Agriculture Ministry
As many as two posts of Joint Secretaries are vacant in the Indian Agriculture Ministry. These posts fell vacant following departures by SK Pattanayak to Rome & that of Jiji Thomson to Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee (CGOC).
DoPT yet to send panel for Joint Secretary Agriculture
The Department of Personnel & Training is yet to send panels for filling up two vacancies of Joint Secretaries in the Indian Agriculture Ministry. These posts fell vacant following departures by S.K.Pattanayak to Rome & that of Jiji Thomson to Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC).
Who will GM, Punjab in FCI?
Who will be General Manager (GM) Punjab region in Food Corporation of India (FCI)? This question is hotly being debated. One of the pre conditions for one to be a GM of any region is that the incumbent should hail from that state or should from that cadre state where the post exists.
Golf is getting popular amongst bureaucrats
Significantly, golf is getting popular among Indian bureaucrats too, as there are about 700 IAS and IPS officers who play golf regularly.
Post of Deputy Director(Admn.) in AllMS like Institution – Patna is being filled up
Post of Deputy Director (Administration) in the Project Cell of the AllMS like Institution being set up at Patna, under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, is proposed to be filled up. Officers of the rank of Deputy Secretary/Director in the Government of lndia or equivalent level are eligible for the post.
 AS Gill to retire in January 2010
AS Gill, Director General of Police, CRPF will be retiring on January 31; 2010.He is an IPS officer of 1972 batch who belongs to the Rajasthan cadre..
D Swaroop to retire in January 2010
D Swaroop, Chairman Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA), will be retiring on January 31, 2010. He belongs to Indian Audit and Account Service.
Alok Paul also in race for BSNL CMDs post
 BSNL CGM (Maharashtra Circle) Alok Paul is also in race for the post of CMD in the organization. The post will be falling vacant in 2010 with the retirement of Kuldip Goyal.
 Where does brilliant Sujit Banerjee stands today?
In corridors of power it is hotly being debated by business circles that why Sujit Banerjee, IAS (UP.72), who is Secretary Tourism to Government of India (GOI) does not figure in race for top bureaucratic slot. Sujit Banerjee who is not only a topper of his batch but has given a scintillating performance in tourism sector of the world is rated as a soft spoken, fast and dedicated bureaucrat. Sujit Banerjee had won a lot of accolades because under his tenure Indian tourism sector newer heights despite of the shameless terrorists carnage in Mumbai on November 26, 2008; barely three weeks after Sujit Banerjee became the Tourism Secretary. Captains in the tourism sector have described the rapid strides that tourism took during his tenure have been quite unprecedented. Earlier, he was Secretary to the Government and Chairperson, National Authority on Chemical Weapons Convention, Cabinet Secretariat. Sujit Banerjee as Secretary, Ministry of Tourism had assumed charge in November 2008 .
Shubranshu posted in Railway Board
Shubranshu, SAG/IRSME/Western Railway has been transferred to Railway Board and posted as Executive Director Mechanical Engineering (Traction), Railway Board vice K K Atal transferred.
IAS changes in Haryana
Arun Kumar has been posted as Mission Director, National Rural Health Mission,Director, Environment. Chander Parkash, Deputy Commissioner, Jhajjar has been appointed as Deputy Commissioner, Mahendragarh .Satyaprakash, Deputy Commissioner, Rewari has been posted as Director,Industries and Commerce and Mines and Geology. R S Kharb has been appointed as ADC-cum-CEO, DRDA, Mahendragarh. A Sreenivas, Deputy Commissioner, Mahendragarh has been made Deputy Commissioner, Rewari.Ms A Mona Sreenivas, will now be ADC-cum-CEO, DRDA, Rewari.
D P Sinha shifted in UP
DG Police Training Directorate D P Sinha has been shifted to the Department of Rules and Manuals.
103 Astt Commissioners of Income Tax get senior-scale
As many as 103 Assistant Commissioners of Income Tax have been given senior-scale. They are Anupam Kumar Suman, Ravi Prakash, Pankaj Kumar, Neha Chaudhary, Rajesh Ojha, Shalini Verma, Somnath S Ukkali, Madhu Malti Ghosh, Belu Sinha, Kumar Panda, Mahaungappa, Mohammed Rizwan, Dheeraj Garg, Sanjay Joseph, Airiju Jaikaran, Girish Bali, Amrita Singh, Neil Jain, Mohan Reddy R, Bharat Bhushan Garg, Maurya Pratap, Shramdeep Sinha, Prajna Paramita, Riddhi Dasani, Ravinder Sindhu, Patil Vidyasagar R, Manisha Kinnu, Abhishek Pal Garg, Vivek Aggarwal, Katragadda Haritha, Salunke Sandip Kumar Ratan, Pathade Prakash, Laxmanrao, Shashi Saklani, Suman Malik, Balvinder Kaur, Saraswati Padmanabhan, Ved Prakash Mishra, Sambit Mishra, Amit Dhaka, Rohit Mehra, Pooja Rastogi, Vikash Kumar Agarwal, Shailesh Thakur, Saravana Kumaran S, B Satyanarayana Raju, Amit Kumar Sharma, Mohammed Gayasuddin Ansari, Rishpal Bedi, Anand Kumar Singh, SR Karuppuswamy, Manjit Singh, Shovan Krishna Sahu, Kailash Dan Ratnoo, Robin Rawal, Vijay Kumar Soni, Mahesh Kumar, Mankoskar Santhosh C, Balakrishnan N, Manish Kumar Singh, Rajesh K Dhanesta, Dhule Kishor Sakharam, KC Selvamani, Mukundraj Marutirao Chate, Vijay Kumar Singh, Gargi Sharma, Shrikant Namdeo, Bharti Mahajan, Durga Dutt, Bangar Sujit Sudhakar, G Hukugha Sema, Pophare Ashish Vinayak, Badicala Yadagiri, Rajesh Kumar, Parveen Kumar, S Senthil Kumaran, Shiva Sewak, Sundaresan S, Anil Dhaka, Arvind Kumar, Sunil Kumar Agarwal, Puja Rajvanshi, Mrinalini Kaur Sapra, Nongothung Jungio, Gadekar Prashant Pandurano, Biju MK, Jai Singh, Imlimeren Jamir, Kachoo Mehboob Ali Khan, Garima Choudhary, Ankush Kapoor, Lalvidiya Jeevan Lal, Vijay Choudhary, Rajesh Meena, Patel Keyur M, Prashant Khambra, Pradeep Shoury Arya, T James Singson, Katta Kiran, B Srinivas Kumar, Ila Govindbai Parmar, Vijayaprabha S And S Maruthu Pandian.
Deputation tenure of CVO BHPV extended
Deputation tenure of A. Gnanasekaran, IP&T AFS(90) as Chief Vigilance Officer in Bharat Heavy Plates & Vessels Limited (BHPV), Visakhapatnam has been extended for a period of two years beyond 07.11.2009 and up to 07.11.2011.
Rakesh Sahni Chief Secretary MP,concludes foundation course at RCVPNAAM,Bhopal
Rakesh Sahni Chief Secretary to Madhya Pradesh Government concluded foundation course for 78 All India service officers in Bhopal on December 10, 2009. It had commenced on August 31,2009. It was opened by Vinod Rai, CAG at the RCVP Noronha Academy of Administration & Management (RCVPNAAM) Bhopal of which Director General (DG) is Dr.Sundeep Khanna, IAS . Such a training course was held in Bhopal for the first time.The function was chaired by Durgesh Shankar Member Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). Muktesh Varshney Director of the RVCPNAAM was also on the stage during the valedictory function.The best all rounder participants's shield was bagged by Santosh Nimbalkar -IRS-Income Tax.

Two new Additional Judges of Chhattisgarh HC
Prashant Kumar Mishra, and  Manindra Mohan Shrivastava  have been appointed Additional Judges of the Chhattisgarh High Court, for a period of two years in that order of seniority, with effect from the dates they assume charge.

Two new Additional Judges of Chhattisgarh HC
Prashant Kumar Mishra, and  Manindra Mohan Shrivastava  have been appointed Additional Judges of the Chhattisgarh High Court, for a period of two years in that order of seniority, with effect from the dates they assume charge.
Mamata and Sonia Share an intense Emotional Bond

Both, Indian Railways Minister Ms. Mamata Banerjee and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi share an intense emotional bond. In last more than a decade, there has never been a single birthday of either of them on which each other has not personally wished by a telephone call or through a private meeting. This December 9 was no exception when Ms. Mamata Banerjee modified timings of several important meetings to be with Soniaji in late evening at her 10 Janpath residence. Sonia Gandhi, as always, warmly responded by coming out of a crucial  political meeting on Telangana issue, to hug Ms. Mamata and gracefully accept a Baluchori Saree and a box full of Bangla Mishti besides several moments of handholding and bonhomie. Is this the reason of discomfort of several key Congress Leaders from Bengal…?

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Santosh Kumar Roongta is CMD,SFCI
Santosh Kumar Roongta Chairman cum Managing Director(CMD) National Seeds Corporation (NSC)a Government of India Undertaking, has been given additional charge of CMD, State Farms Corporation of India Ltd.,(SFCI) under the administrative control of Ministry of Agriculture w.e.f.
December 1, 2009.
Nayyar is new Chairman Mahindra Satyam
Vineet Nayyar has been appointed Chairman of Mahindra Satyam.
TCA Ranganathan poised to be new CMD, Exim Bank
As the grapevine has it, TCA Ranganathan is poised to be next Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) of the Exim Bank.  Presently, he is Chief General Manager (CGM) of Gujarat circle with posting in Ahmedabad.
BK Batra to be DMD of IDBI Bank
As the grapevine has it, BK Batra who is currently Executive Director (ED) & Group Head-. Corporate Banking of IDBI Bank is going to be elevated as Deputy Managing Director (DMD) of the same Bank.

Aaj Ki Aawaz

Monsoon’s are failing, sea water rising and glaciers melting!!!
On account of climate changes India is in for a severe belting!!!
As monsoon fails and water table recedes it’s the Indian coast that will become farm land!!
Massive desalination plants will pump water to water the coastal land!!
And every year a part of the coastal land will keep going sea ke under!!!!
To rising seas land will surrender!!!
Melting glaciers will cause havoc in the Northern parts!!!!
And once this happens huge ‘migration starts’!!!
Imagine very soon we could be forced to import fruits and veggies too!!!!!!
So if you love your kids then some things you must do!!!!
Stop wastage of power and water and keep per capita emissions within a range!!
Green power and rain water harvesting are two ways to fight climate change!!!!
Car pooling and usage of public transportation rather than driving around!!
‘Reducers in emissions’ these options have been found!!!!
Industry too has to downsize its carbon footprint …..from size US 14 to US 8!!!!
Or we have a doomed fate!!!
We also need to get our  ‘green cover’ back!!!!
On a war footing this fall in green cover India needs to attack!!!
After yesterday’s session PC went home with a spring in his step but a throat that was sore!
And funnily Rajanth after Sushma’s speech was feeling Sushma is a ‘ spotlight chor’!!!!
Rajnath may have a booming voice but his speech was low in content!!!!
And like a broken record on and on he went!!!
Sushma showed she’s a debater par excellence!!!
And what she said sure did make sense!!
8 crores Liberhan Commission burnt up and now add two days that Parliament wasted!
And outside Liberhan’s home the total figure should be pasted!!!
Now that even Sarkaar has left it to Public’s perception please bury this Report!!!!!
Or be secular and burn part of it, bury another part and the rest consign it to sea at some port!
Pranab Da is  right when he says Commies are out of sync!!!
And on being anti Indian on many issues they stink!!
Communism in India is a ‘lost case’!!!!
These guys should shift base!!!
They should got to the Country that is their role model!!!
The Country which they want that itself India should model!!
In Punjab Congress and Akalis fought on the floor of the Vidhan Sabha!!!!
In the end Punjabis ask ‘ dono noo kee labha’ ( what did they get)!!
Sukhbir says to counter Amrinder’s road show Bhattal resorted to a ‘floor show’!!!
She ended up giving the proceedings a ‘new low’!!!
Though it’s also well known that Bhattal does resort to noora kushti with the Akali Dal!!
Surely she would have told Badal a day in advance ‘ lenn waali haa mein panga kall’!!!
Happy 63rd Birthday Sonia Gandhi and via Aawaz I’m sending you this imaginary cake!
Eggless, sugarless, flour-less .... with just air and water kiya cake bake!!!
Confucius says…. I’m sure you will be cutting a real cake!!!!
Just think of the scores of hungry children before cutting the cake and before the cake you partake!
Adds....After blowing the candles wish ' no kid should go bhooka'!!!!
While giving food to her kids no Mom's eyes should go wet and throat go ek dum sooka!!!!

Bharat Kumar

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(The views expressed in this column are of the contributors. We do not owe any responsibility, whatsoever, of the views of our surfers as they are their personal opinion)
Minister and PSs
It should be co-terminus.
B Narzary

Indian bureaucracy needs the followings:-
(i) They should first shed their feudalistic attitude.

(ii) They should be honest, hardworking and not indulge in mis-use of office perks & facilities.

(iii) They should be regular and punctual in attending office.

(iv) Periodically they should interact with public in a disguise to gather information about how people are suffering, especially the poor.

(v) This will enable them to realize the pain and become more realistic and lprudent in the official dealings.

Automacitcally the bureaucracy will become a changed lot in the country.
B B Srivastava

Demands of Fair Administration
The unwillingness of the Supreme Court Collegium to disclose information regarding appointments to the judiciary are likely to be followed by civil administration-and that would be the greatest damage to public administration. The ills of poor governance in this nation emanate from such secret operations, at least on the civil side. The draft allegations against a judge contain some indicators of real practices in civil administration. They include (1)Not passing orders on a file for years. It includes all delayed panels for higher appointments, which are intentionally delayed for years by the DPCs/High Powered Boards e.g. the Civil Services Board/Senior Establishment Boards etc(2)Passing dishonest administrative orders(3)Taking dishonest administrative action(4)Acting against the interests of the nation/government to ingratiate with the dishonest minister or his coterie(5)Verbal misconduct with colleagues(6)Acting only when approached through dishonourable quarters of agents of all kinds. There can be others with which the experienced WIC visitors are familiar. But if the SC holds on to its present stand, it will legitimise the unconstitutional conduct of the civil authorities, who are employed only to act as per the law and not outside the law.
M L Gupta

There you go again
Few months before a high wattage bulb is about to fuse, the low wattage bulbs start ignoring it. So what does the fusing bulb do? Well, there is help from Suresh Mehrotra. For the sake of his friends, he is ready to sacrifice the credibility of his website. He knows that there never was any proposal for increase in retirement age and there is none now. But for the last several years he has been printing false news to help his friends.
M. P. Bauer

Padma Shree Awards must be given on merits
Padma Awards must be given as per performance of individuals Some people have good bio-data but they suffer due to lack of push. Some people retire from their field & then they get wake up call from big people after 20 years of retirement that they have got Padma Shree. Lok Sabha MP s & RS MP's or state minister etc & committee must see the profile of nominees first. Prime Minister should not interfere in this too much.
Ranjan Rai

No change need to be made on existing system
PS performs highly sensitive and personal cores of the Minister. Minister ought to have a choice in selection of his/her PS, None other than the person of his choice should be thrust on him/her as PS. PS's tenure should also be co-terminus with the tenure of the Minister. However, the credentials and integrity of the PS not belonging to any of the civil services should be got verified before issuing offer of appointment.
H G Upreti

Cadre based marriages !
There is a phenomenon called "cadre based marriages". The overriding reason for many AIS marriages is that parties are allocated to cadres where they do not wish to serve (of course, many such officers resign or spend years in Delhi sometimes 25 years at a stretch, in Ministries of Central secretariat, attached organisations, State Bhawans, IB, RAW, CBI, Ministry of Environment and Forests also). If, for example, an IAS officer is allocated to Nagaland cadre, he tries to find a match in the IAS or even the IPS or the Indian Forest Service in any other cadre and seeks transfer to get rid of the unwanted cadre. This is the most prevalent practice and the sole reason why many cadres have a severe and crippling shortage of AIS officers- Nagaland, Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur Tripura, Assam, Kerala, West Bengal, UP cadre (for officers from South), Tamil Nadu (for officers from the north) are examples of such cadres. Why should the Government suffer for these preferences? Simply because it is the AIS officers who do not want to go these cadres? Someone has to serve these cadres also, why should these people have their cake and eat it too?
Arjun Mallik

Why should it be a one way traffic?.
Why can';t the spouse IAS officers join their husbands in NE States?
Raman Srivastava
It is not good to apply service conditions to only one cadre
There are lacs of pair in the field of banking, teaching, PSU, state and central government offices at different stations. All need a sympathetic and considerate rules for all uniformally and not for one cadre alone.
Pt Ram Kanwar

Why the site is silent on people's struggle on Telangana>
This is with reference to suggestions of Sowmya that why the site is silent on people's struggle on Telangana. Every issue has its own pros and cons and the issue of Telangana is no different. Everybody must agree that in any democratic society the aspirations of people should be understood by the authorities at the helm. The people, perhaps politicians, of Telangana want to carve out a part of present State wherein the present State capital exists. If at all it is carved out, whom you are going to punish! definitely the people of the other major part leaving them without a capital. In independence India, States are carved/ formed out of administrative exegencies i.e. state capitals are far flung, avoiding mammoth babudom, etc. Uttarakhand is created so the people of that part chose Dehradun as their capital likewise Chattisgarh - Raipur & Jharkhand - Ranchi. So now you have well developed State capital like Hyderabad, that was shaped to this level through the efforts of all countrymen, in the heart of Telangana and everybody knows who contributed what and the contribution of Telangana people.
So it is left to the forum and to the wisdom of viewers whether it is wise or unwise to carve out Telangana State out of present Andhra Pradesh.
Madduri V K R

It is most misleading
The item captioned, "Army starts ruling MoD" is most misleading. We should never think in this narrow way and waste time on this kind of things. Ultimately, it the GoI who decides who has to be where and we believe their decisions are most suitable and correct for the country. Coming to the point at issue, I don't think the apprehension is based on sound knowledge.
Ujagar Singh

Meaningless rumours
This is with reference to the whisper captioned, 'Army starts ruling the Ministry of Defence' (WIC 8 Dec 09). Such meaningless rumours do not behove a website of your stature and credibility. As a one time insider of MoD I can say that the Ministry of Defence like any other Ministry in the GoI is ruled by well laid out procedures of decision making and not by any specific group of stake holders or participants be it the Army, the bureaucracy or any of the other two Armed Forces under MoD. To spread rumours like the one in your whisper under reference serves no purpose other than creating confusion in public mind and breeding unwarranted rivalries amongst the bureaucrats and the Armed Forces, all of whom have their roles clearly cut out in the decision making process. Above all, if any one can claim to ‘control' the Ministry it is rightly and rightfully the Defence Minister who has the fullest possible capabilities to do so in terms of experience, maturity and, above all, professional, moral and intellectual honesty. I am sure the present set of insiders will have no reason to disagree with what I have stated.
N N Ojha

Army dithers in implementing orders
There are so many instances wherein orders issued by MoD, in recent past, have not been honoured by Army, despite the fact that these orders had the approval of Defence Secretary.
S Agrawal

The only achievement of UPA govt
This is regarding the whisper & newspaper reports of the Great Indian RTI Act being proposed for amendments by the high and mighty in the Government who have been using the Official Secrets Act till recently to cover up their deeds. The RTI Act is the single largest achievement of the UPA Government which has empowered the common man immensely. It is the starting phase of the application of this act and some improper use of the same cannot be ruled out. However, not divulging the information regarding decisions being taken by everybody and anybody who is public authority under the garb of being a constitutional body or whatever they call it will ultimately lead to the demise of this beautiful act for saving a few Mighty people in the Governance. All the bodies, individuals and honest people of the country should rise against all such attempts to dilute the RTI act in its present tone to avoid its rape to protect a few contitutional authorities so to say. They should realise that all the public offices how-s-oever small or big is a constitutional set up the why protect some individual offices/officers enjoying only authority and no responsibility from the ambit of the law of the land that is the RTI ACT. God save the RTI act.
Hoshiar Singh

Appointment of Prof. Kaushik Basu is heartening
The appointment of Prof. Kaushik Basu as Chief Economic Adviser is pleasing. It is also unique in the sense that he is a renowned theoretician unlike his recent predecessors.
Ashwini Kumar

How can a 'servant' be a 'privileged' person?
I fail to understand as to how our Judiciary has equated a Government servant as privileged.
Gill Baljit

Ministers’ large baggage of personal staff must be drastically truncated!!!
It is high time that the GOI cut its umbilical cord with the colonial past. Let the GOI Ministers no longer, be treated like Indian princes receiving fat privy purses (Read as salaries), a large number of freebies and a still larger complement of Personal Staff, to boot. Annual expenditure on Ministers’ personal staff runs into crores of rupees with no matching benefits. On the contrary, it facilitates corruption. Ghost man-power is ‘employed’ by ministers and salaries due to them pocketed. These are hard realities of the present political Executive of the Union of India and the federal states. Ministers heading economic and social sector ministries like Coal, Petroleum, and Heavy Industries, Banking, Finance, Commerce, Agriculture, HRD, Rural Development etc mis-use public utilities (including PSUs and PSBs) as personal fiefdoms utilizing their unlimited manpower, transport facilities etc. Their personal staff are deployed to facilitate misuse of powers. A minister who is confident enough to attend to official work, does not require any PS or PA. He /She is free to summon his ministerial officers for briefing or seeking clarification on any point. The fact that a large number of officers belonging to organized services vie for appointment as Private Secretaries to richly endowed ministers bear testimony to the lucrative business that it is! Honestly and seriously speaking, the requirement of a Minister in GOI can be met by engaging at the most three persons instead of the existing over ten. This includes a peon who should also be an Usher. The Prime Minister as the Cabinet Minister-in-charge of DOP&T must put a full stop to the existing practice of Ministers poaching ministries’ officers/ staff for deploying in personal section on informal basis, while pocketing the salaries earmarked for the regulars! This secret, I bet, may not be known to many Civil servants!
A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)

Really inspiring
Drishti website is really very inspiring and it shows the efforts of its creators in such a backward area with limited resources.
Prachi Jain