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Resignation of Prasar Bharti Chairman accepted
Finally resignation of Prasar Bharti Chairman Arun Bhatnagar has been accepted.Bhatnagar had tendered resignation in March.
Ms.Sujata Saunik appointed as Advisor to NDMA
Ms.Sujata Saunik has been appointed as Advisor to National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) of Government of India. This post is equivalent to Joint Secretary level. She is an IAS officer of 1987 batch who belongs to the Maharashtra cadre.
R.S.P. Sinha, CMD, MTNL gets 3 months extension
R.S.P. Sinha, CMD, MTNL has got adhoc extension for a period of 3 months.
A.K. Sinha appointed Joint Director (Technical)in UD
UPSC recommended the name of A.K. Sinha for the post of Joint Director (Technical), Directorate of Printing, Ministry of Urban Development. He is likely to join this post by December 21,2009.
Shortage of Drivers in Railways
There is an acute shortage of drivers and guard in Indian Railways these says.
Mishra is back to UP
Joint Director in the CBI Rajni Kant Mishra is back to the parent Uttar Pradesh cadre after completion of central deputation tenure. On return 1984 batch IPS officer Mishra has been appointed IG STF.
G Dharmenrda goes to Hong kong
Joint Secretary (DISA) in the Ministry of External Affairs has been moved to Hong kong in place of Counsel General Lalduhthiana Raite. Posting of Raite is yet to be made.
Asit Gopal likely to be Dy. Director, FSI-Kolkat
As the grapevine has it Asit Gopal on central deputation is likely to be posted as Deputy Director in Kolkata located office of the Forest Survey of India (FSI), Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF). He is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1990 batch who belongs to the Madhya Pradesh cadre.
AP Mishra’s posting as GM, Eastern Railway is significant
Posting of A.P.Mishra Advisor Vigilance Railway Board as new General Manager (GM) Eastern Railway (ER) Kolkata is quite significant. He is IRSE officer of the 1974 batch. It is so because Mishra was considered blue-eyed boy of former Railway Minister & present Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar & was haunted during the tenure of previous Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav. And now Indian Railways Minister Ms. Mamata Banerjee has taken Mishra to her home turf.
Ms.Meira Kumar exuberates confidence
Ms.Meira Kumar Speaker Lok Sabha invited media people at high tea in Delhi on December 18, 2009. In the meeting, it was noticed that she has more self-confidence and will power.
IPS officers to be posted in Maoist-affected areas in Maharashtra
Maharashtra Government has made mandatory for all newly recruited Indian Police Service (IPS) officers to serve in Gadhchiroli and other Maoist-affected areas of the state as their first posting.
Yogesh Deshmukh to be Zonal Director in NCB
Yogesh Deshmukh on central deputation will be joining the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) as Zonal Director. Presently he is posted as SP Khandwa. Yogesh Deshmukh is an IPS officer of the 1995 batch who belongs to Madhya Pradesh cadre.
M Ponnuswamy empanelled in GOI
M Ponnuswamy is one of the seven officers of Indian Revenue Service(C&CE)
of 1983 batch who has been empanelled in Government of India (GOI) for holding the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent under the Central Staffing Scheme (CSS).
Gupta is OSD Coal
Rajneesh Gupta has been appointed OSD Coal in the Ministry of Coal in Government of India. He is 1990 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.
IDAS officer Das empanelled for the post of Jt. Secr or equivalent
J N Das, IDAS officer of 1983 batch,  has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent under Central Staffing Scheme.
Mukul eligible to hold Jt Secr or equivalent post under Central Staffing Scheme
The name of Mukul Kumar, officer of 1982 batch of Indian Railway Store Services (IRSS), has been recommended for holding the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent under Central Staffing Scheme
ISS officer gets new posting on promotion
ISS officer Vijay Kumar, Director, Ministry of Water Resources, New Delhi, has been posted as DDG, Ministry of Water Resources, New Delhi.
Ashok Gupta of SAG/IRSE transferred to NCR
Ashok Gupta of SAG/IRSE  has been transferred from NR to NCR/Jhansi, vice Pankaj Kumar SAG/IRSME
Shree Prakash of SAG/IRSME transferred to CLW
Shree Prakash of SAG/IRSME  has been transferred from SWR to CLW and posted in the cadre.
Anil Kumar of SAG/IRSME transferred to IROAF 
Anil Kumar of SAG/IRSME  has been transferred from NR to IROAF and posted in the cadre
Committee for selection for in Information Commissioner to meet next week
As the grapevine has it the committee for selection of candidate for Information Commissioner (IC) will meet towards the middle of next week.
Maj Gen Krishnan is new IG Assam Rifles (South)
Major General CA Krishnan has taken over as the Inspector General of Assam Rifles (South). He has replaced Major General A K Choudhary.
Paliath gets additional charge
M D Paliath  HAG (PCDA) Pune has been given additional charge of PCDA (O) Pune.
Prof. J.K. Chauhan took oath as Chairman H.P. S.S.B.
Prof. J.K. Chauhan was administered the oath as Chairman of the Himachal Pradesh Subordinate Service Selection Board, Hamirpur at a simple but impressive ceremony held in the Mini Secretariat at Dharamshala on December 18, 2009 . Chief Secretary, Himachal Pradesh Mrs. Asha Swaroop administered the oath. Diljeet Singh Dogra, Secretary Personnel conducted the proceedings of the ceremony. Chaman Lal, Chairman Himachal Pradesh School Education Board, senior officers of the state government and large number of well-wishers of  Chauhan were present on the occasion.
Justice Siddiqui is Chairman again
Justice M S Siddiqui has been given second five year term as Chairman of the Commission for Minority Educational Institutions.
Mishra to be Director Corbett National Park ? 
Mr. Ranjan Kumar Mishra an IFS officer of 1993 batch Uttarakhand cadre is being appointed as Director Corbett National Park. At present he is addl secy forests & environment govt of uttarakhand.
SAIL Finance Director bags GSBA- Top Rankers Excellence Award
Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) Director (Finance)Soiles Bhattacharya was conferred with the GSBA- top rankers Excellence award 2009 under the ‘Best Finance Professional’ category at a function held in Delhi on December 18, 2009 . Saugata Roy Indian Minister of State for Urban Development presented the award to Bhattacharya in recognition of his multi-faceted entrepreneurial skills and for his contribution in helping SAIL register a spectacular performance setting new landmarks in physical and financial performance. Instituted by management consultants top rankers, in association with the Graduate School of Business and Administration (GSBA), Greater Noida, the GSBA- top rankers excellence award is conferred annually to top industry professionals for their outstanding contribution in the fields of HR, marketing and finance.During the meltdown in 2008-09, converting challenges into opportunities, Shri Bhattacharya helped SAIL to earn a
respectable profit before tax of Rs. 9,403 crore. Bhattacharya’s able guidance, SAIL and its plants both at corporate and unit categories received a number of awards for excellence in cost management in manufacturing sector for 2008.
BEML to build 500 houses for flood victims in Karnataka
BEML LIMITED, the Public Sector Company under the Ministry of Defence, headquartered at Bangalore is having its production units at Bangalore, Kolar Gold Fields and Mysore, all located in Karnataka. In response to the call of the Govt. of Karnataka, BEML has immediately contributed Rs. Two Crore to Chief Minister’s Relief Fund being its mite comprising to a day’s wages of employees and executives of the company’s contribution towards rehabilitation of the victims affected by the recent floods in the northern part of the State. Further, in response to the call of Chief Minister of Karnataka, BEML has also committed to construct around 500 dwelling units to rehabilitate the flood affected poor people who lost their properties. These houses would be constructed in Raichur district as allotted by the Government at a total cost of Rs.five Crore and would be named as “BEML BLOCK.’ After construction, these dwelling units would be maintained by
BEML for a period of 5 years through a service provider as a part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) .
24 IPS officers transferred in Madhya Pradesh
As many as 24 IPS officers were transferred in Madhya Pradesh. Those who were transferred on December 19, 2009 were: A.K.shrivasyava IG Rewa to IG Training Bhopal, H.S. Panwar IG Training Bhopal to IG Narcotics Indore, G. R. Meena IG Narcotics Indore to IG Rewa , Adarsh Katiyar DIG Ratlam Range to Senior SP Bhopal, Jaideep Prasad SP Bhopal to AIG PHQ Bhopal, Yogesh Deshmukh SP Khandwa to AIG PHQ Bhopal, Yogesh Chaudhary SP Sagar to SP Bhopal, V.K.Suryavanshi SP Tikamgarh to SP Sagar, R.S. Saket SP Neemuch to SSP Rail Indore, Dr Rajendra Prasad AIG CID Bhopal to SP Shivpuri, Ms.Deepika Suri SP Hoshangabad to AIG PHQ Bhopal, Santosh Kumar Singh SP Morena to SP Bhopal, M.S. Jamra SP Datia to Commandant 32 nd Battalion SAF Ujjain, S.P.Singh SP Katni to SP Dewas, Nawal Singh Raghuwanshi SP Dindori to Commandant 6th Battalion Jabalpur , Hari NarayanChari Mishra SP Balaghat to SP Khandwa, Gaurav Rajput SP Dewas to SP Morena, Sanjay Kumar SP Shivpuri to SP Balaghat, Ms.Ruchi Shrivastava Additional SP Bhopal to SP Hoshangabad, Ms. T Amongla Iyyer Additional SP Indore to SP Neemuch, Akash Jindal Additional SP Indore to SP Dindori, G.G.Pande SP Rail Indore to SP Dindori, Anil Sharma SP AJK Chambal to SP Datia & Manoj Sharma AIG Special Branch Bhopal to SP Katni.

CORPORATE
Prakash Kumar to be new Member of CLB
B. S. V. Prakash Kumar is being appointed new Member of the Company Law Board.
Atul Chandra is now Senior Advisor
President and CEO of Reliance Exploration and Production Atul Chandra has been moved to Chairman.s office as Senior Advisor on International business opportunities.

Aaj Ki Aawaz

At a dinner hosted by Mohna Laloo looked lost and worried!!!
Seems he knows that very soon his tall claims will be buried!!!
Mamtha will be presenting a White Paper on the ‘Railways she got’!!!
Laloo gave himself a 10 and the White Paper will give him a naught!!!
In old times there used to be a stampede when he entered!
On him every one’s attention was centered!!!
This time when he entered he found no one even bothering to give him a second look!
In fact he overheard someone say ‘here comes Laloo the crook’!!!
After his fall his sugar level has been up as he’s in a worried mental state!!!!
And now the fallouts of high sugar have started showing up of late!!
At one time he used to boast that if someone else were to face what he faced!!!
Then to death this person would have raced!!!
But now fall from power and worries are catching up!!!!
A man who used to haver an audience when he supped nowadays akela karta hia sup!
A fortune teller has told him the reason for his meteoric rise!!!!
He’s been told he rose as long there was increase in his and Rabdi's family’s size!!!
Now that ‘baby production’ has stopped!!!!
His fate has become langda and on one leg it’s hopped!!!
So if there is news that stork will visit the Laloo and Rabdi again!!!
Please do understand it’s not for the love of having one more kid but for political gain!
After Singapore ’s Mentor Lee’s visit to India seems Advani got a brainwave!
Via this brainwave Advani felt some face he’ll save!!!!
Like Mentor Lee now BJP has Mentor Advani!!!!
So for Advani when it comes to politics it’s not end of kahaani!!!
He feels via this mode he’ll keep his PM dreams alive!!!!
His ultimate dream is to live in 7 RCR and crazy this dream karr raha hai Advani ko drive!
Sushma will lead BJP in Lok Sabha and Jaitley in Rajya Sabha!!!
On hearing this Abhishek Singhvi and Sibal must have lamented ‘hai oh Rabha’!!!
Climate Summit is now more or less dead!!!
Though there maybe a miracle and it’ll arise from the dead its being said!!!
Hillary has offered a 100 billion lollipop and the Danish proposal has been rehashed!
But by the looks environment will continue to be bashed!!
Signal that Jairam has gone into neutral gear is his pocket which has only one pen!!!!
If he was in hyper mode he’d have in his pocket at least 10!!!
Confucius says….. play with Nature and get ready to face the outfall!!!
Nature’s justice iss ko karte hai call!!!
Flash.... Mamtha's White Paper shows that Laloo's 'Railways turnaround' was one big lie!
It was lies and window dressing and should have been expected from a chaloo guy!!!
Mamtha has exposed many of Laloo's wongs!!
Laloo's got egg on his face and will go after Mamtha hammer and tongs!!
Advani has assumed the role of Mentor and Sushma has taken his place!!!
But like I said earlier he's tactfully kept himself in the PM race!!
Though at present BJP shows no signs of staging a comeback!!!
In fact there are chances from being the main Opposition it could in due course get the sack!!

Bharat Kumar

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IS THE DEMAND OF SMALLER STATES JUSTIFIED ?
A wholistic and inclusive approach is need of the hour for carving out exercise of States. The yardstick of backwardness should not be only criteria. The deeds of present would shape the nation's future. But the past is more important; one can learn lessons from it by resorting to retrospection; it guides to nation's safe future. We inherited two somewhat quite contrast parts at the time of independence - one British India and the other India ruled under princely states. The British India is better than the regions ruled by princely states. If somebody argues his region, being backward, and wants a separate state. There would be no end. At least more than 100 new states have to be formed from 500 former princely states. Why should we only go back to 63 years ago. Somebody may ask to go back to 80 years and fight for unification of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma (present Yangoon) with India. Don't forget, we have surveillance rights over Tibet and our police personnel protected the porous borders of Tibet with China. Nehru disowned/ discontinued the responsibility and called back our personnel from Tibet. If we go back to 2400 years ago, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand were also part of India (Ashoka period). At different points of time, different regions might have separated/ unified/ remained backward. Strive for all-round development of all backward regions. Jai Hind!
Madduri VKR
Why are they dilly-dallying the appointment of governors ?
Is the congress govt thinking too-much about this ?
 or they are hoping to place a stooge instead ?
Semper Fidelis
Maj Ravi
This is regarding attending the climate change by IFS officers. .
 Why the Minsitry d9id not find the DG forest or any other IFs officer  suitable to attend this meeting ?. The ways of Env Minsitry are strange.
V B K
Dear Sir, This refers to the post on "CSI post must be handled by an academician" by Mr. B.S. Gupta. If he thinks ISS officers are useless, why does he not call for winding down the ISS? Why should he call for closing the debate? Or, am I expecting logic from where I should not?
The purpose of creating the post of Chief Statistician of India is indeed laudable; but what followed is what is unfortunate. CSI was to have three roles : Member-Secretary of the National Statistical Commission for definition of statistical standards on core statistics; Chief of all government statisticians on Non-Core Statistics and (Administrative) Secretary for the Ministry of Statistics. Mind you, Programme Implementation was not to be the forte of CSI. It should have been delinked from Ministry of Statistics. And anyway, till the other day you were paying a Principal Adviser in the rank and pay of Secretary - you might as well make it a Secretary level post for P.I. That is one part.
The Second issue is, will Mr. Gupta want us to look forward for a CSI who is not Secretary, Statistics, and an IAS officer for the post of Secretary, Statistics? Repetition of the historical blunder of dual Government of Bengal? Under Mr. Gupta's scheme of things, will Secretary, Statistics report to CSI or vice versa? Do you want two centres of power to confound the already confused minds?
The present incumbent is an acclaimed ECONOMIST and he never gave me an opportunity of seeing him talk STATISTICS, theoretical or applied (his talks on MINT or Economic Times were about economics); and his skills at mis-management has got him the thumbs down. He threw the Cadre Planning, Placement and Management Policy down the drain - his favourite Bengalis are now ruling the roost. He, instead of suspending, promotes officer against whom charges of bribery have been made. That officer continues in the Field Operations Division for decades together. That makes me wonder if he is also in the engine of the gravy train that is FOD?
FOR CSI, what you really need is a person who knows statistics and management, both. That probably brings the debate to a solution : Mr. T.R. Mohanty is a statistician, as well as doing a Ph. D. in Management.
By the way, did I see that someone wants to abolish 300 SAG posts in the ISS? I can only tell a story : There was party and some distance away, into the penthouse, went two persons. A little while later, three persons came out. The Chemistry student remarked, there must have been some chemical reaction, making two bunches of atoms into three. The biologist said, what is the big deal, they could have reproduced. The physics student remarked, my observation must have been faulty. The mathematician coolly said, send one person in and the room will be empty again.
E. Nagachandran
ISS DR-1999
Kasi and Mathura be given back to Hindus
What is this so called Ayodhya fiasco. The only bond that connects a Tmilian to a Kashmiri or an Assamese with a Rajasthani is the Hindu religeon. It is a historical fact that the invader Babar destroyed Ram Temple in Ayodhya just like other invaders have desecrated Mathura and Kasi Temples. Hindus have got freedom after almost 1000years of repressive rule by invaders and it is quite legitimate for them to try to get back their Temples of worship. To me their action is much delayed. We want Kasi and Mathura to be given back to Hindus. Can you ever think of a Temple in Arabia or Rome. The greatest enemies of Hindus are these secularists.
N Krishnan
Always. It has been proved beyond doubt that smaller administrative units are closer to the public. Politicians and bureaucrats are much more responsible and accountable. Development has also taken place in smaller states much more rapidly than in bigger states due to focused planning and implementation..............
Ram Manohar
Certainly it will help the Public sector Banks to get new blood to remain in the Banking Industry otherwise these will die soon with so much pressure
Rajiv Khanna
Reg Application of Government Rules .
Whether GoI rules are discriminatory?
Promotion of ITS Officers who have not opted for their absorption in BSNL  against the vacancies of STS, JAG, SAG, HAG etc that  are governed by the ITS R R s 1992 are being  filled up by promoting  ITS Group A officers  of DOT but the vacancies of JTS that will come up under the provisions of same RRs  to be filled up by promotion of TES Group B of DOT officers shall not be filled up because here a Group B officer is being promoted and there an ITS Group A officer is promoted .  The chain of promotion is restricted till STS and thereafter it is being stopped for Group B officers .
Why such a discrimination?
Siri