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Kaun Banega TRAI Chairman ? (2) Nripendra Mishra
Talks of present Chairman Nripendra Mishra getting second term are also in the corridors of power. Infact , there is no bar on his getting the second term. Telecom Minister would however not like the second term of Nripendra Mishra.
Watch out-March 31 and April 20 ?
Watch for these two dates-March 31 and April 20.Reason - appointment of new Home Secretary and Member of the Election Commission on these two dates. Bureaucratic scenario in the Government of India will be clear.
Is there pre-poll survey by the IB ?
Media has started pre-election survey quoting the Intelligence Bureau. It says that the Congress will get 155 seats and the BJP about 140. Can it be true ?.
Aruna Sharma is new DG Doordarshan
Ms Aruna Sharma has taken over as new Director General of the Doordarshan. She is 1982 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.
( We said this on December 8 )
Sudhir Vyas to be HC in Pakistan ?
Sudhir Vyas is likely to succeed Satyabrat Pal as Indian High Commissioner in Pakistan.Pal is joining as Member of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).
Will Gupta move to Geneva ?
Now the name of Neeraj Gupta has started doing the round for the post of Special Representative WTO in Geneva. He is 1982 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
Dey appointed Secretary Security
Meghalaya DGP BK Dey will take over as Secretary Security in the Government of India on Wednesday.1973 batch Assam-Meglayala cadre IPS officer Dey will succeed K C Verma.
Kulbir Krishan to be DGP of Meghalaya
Kulbir Krishna will succeed B K Dey as DGP of Meghalaya. He is 1976 batch IPS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
Political turbulence in Rajasthan hits Government working
A tug of war between Ashok Gehlot Chief Minister Rajasthan & State Congress Committee chief PC Joshi has reportedly adversely hit working of the state government.
Yetinder Koel CBI SP transferred to Bhopal
Yetinder Koel who is Delhi based SP in Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has been transferred to Bhopal in the same capacity.
Did Punjab Governor talk to political bosses in Goa?
Did Gen. SF Rodrigues, Governor Punjab & Administrator of the Union Territory (UT) of Chandigarh, talk to political bosses in Goa? As the grapevine has it, the former did talk to the latter. However, what transpired between the two is anybody's guess. Gen Rodrigues understandably advised him not to take Pradip Mehra as Chief Secretary Goa who is continuing as Advisor to him (Rodrigues).
Efforts afoot to sabotage NIA ?
Are efforts being made by the IPS lobby to sabotage officers the newly created National Investigation Agency (NIA) of which maiden head is Radha Vinod Raju (IPS)? This question is hotly being discussed in corridors of power.
No takers for two posts of Addl Secretary at Centre
As the grapevine it there are no takers for two posts of Additional Secretary at the Centre one of them is the post of Additional Secretary Inter State Council.
Anil Kumar Shrivastava empanelled in GOI
Anil Kumar Shrivastava an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1984 batch who belongs to the Madhya Pradesh cadre has been empanelled, in Government of India (GOI).
J & K Government is against extension
Jammu and Kashmir Government has reportedly rejected the request of the Centre to extend the deputation of one of its officer at present on deputation to the CBI.
Pact between HKS & IIM-Ahmedabad likely to be renewed
As the grapevine has it pact between the US based Harvard Kennedy School(HKS) in collaboration with the Ahmedabad based Indian Institute of Management(IIM)to conduct training courses for bureaucrats & others is going to be renewed.
IAS changes in Maharashtra
D G Jadhav has been appointed Joint Managing Director of the City and Industrial Development Corporation. CIDCO . S D Shinde has been posted as Divisional Commissioner of Amravati. Sham Wardhane will be Collector Sangli and Rajendra Chavan as Director ,Sports.
Anoop Shukla is new Managing Director, TCGL
Anoop Shukla who till recently was Director (CF), Central Gujarat Vij Company and was promoted to CCF on deputation has assumed the charge as as Managing Director(MD), Tourism Corporation of Gujarat Ltd (TCGL). The TCGL post had been lying vacant since its incumbent P. D. Vaghela's appointment as the Kandla Port chairman on Central deputation. He is an Indian Forest Service(IFS) officer of the 1983 batch who belongs to the Gujarat cadre.
Kolkata Port Trust CVO gets extension
Deputation tenure of Manoj Kumar CVO, Kolkata Port Trust, Kolkata has been granted extension upto April 6. He is 1990 batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.
NTPC achieves highest ever generation
NTPC of which Chairman cum Managing Director(CMD) is RS Sharma has achieved highest ever monthly generation of 19.2 billion units in January ,2009 with Eight power stations of the company achieving more than 100% Plant Load Factor (PLF). These NTPC stations are Rihand, Tanda and Dadri (coal) in Uttar Pradesh, Korba in Chhattisgarh, Vindhyachal in Madhya Pradesh,, Simhadri in Andhra Pradesh, Ramagundam in Andhra Pradesh and Talcher Thermal in Orissa.With 19.11% of the country's installed capacity, NTPC accounts for 28.51% of the total power generation in India. Company has a total installed capacity of 29894 MW and is poised to become a 75000 MW plus power utility by 2017.
Air travel to be costlier from March 2009
The Indian Government has approved the levy of Development Fee (DF) by the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) @ Rs.1300/- per departing international passenger and @ Rs.200/- per departing domestic passenger with effect from 1 March, 2009. The DF which is being levied purely on an adhoc basis, is inclusive of all applicable taxes and is for a period of 36 months only. The amount collected through DF would not in any case exceed the ceiling of Rs.1827/- crores (NPV as on 1.3.2009). The ceiling amount would be exclusive of taxes, if any.
Mumbai episode exposes carelessness by ground staff
Experts feel that the incident involving Air India's flight no IC 866 at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST)Mumbai & the special chopper flight of President Mrs. Pratibha Devi Singh Patil, on February 9,2009 has exposed careless on part of ground staff.
Efforts on to find an scapegoat in Mumbai episode
Efforts are on to find an scapegoat regarding the incident involving Air India's flight no IC 866 at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST)Mumbai & the special chopper flight of President Mrs.Pratibha Devi Singh Patil, on February 9,2009.All communication between air traffic control (ATC)& pilots of concerning flights has reportedly been sealed.
Kudos to Capt SS Kohli
Capt SS Kohli's decision for applying brakes in emergency while the Air India's flight IC 866 was ready to take off at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST)Mumbai on February 9,2009, has been widely hailed. Whether he will be suitably awarded or not? It is a million Dollar question.
India Senior Crisis Management Seminar at Washington DC commenced
US Embassy has offered ATA-6863, India Senior Crisis Management Seminar under Anti Terrorism Assistance Programme of the US Government to be conducted at Washington DC, USA from February 9-13, 2009. As many as 19 officers have been nominated for participating in this training course.
Arvind Mayaram was the first to get posting
Arvind Mayaram was the first in 1978 batch IAS to become Additional Secretary in the Government of India. He joined his new post in Sept. 2008 itself.
Praveen Kumar gets additional charge
Praveen Kumar, Member (Mechanical), Railway Board, would now look after the duties of the post of Member (Staff), Railway Board in addition to his own, until further orders, vice S S Khurana, appointed as Chairman Railway Board.
Jaiswal transferred to central Railways
S N Jaiswal, SAG/IRSME, Railway Staff College, has been transferred to Central Railway and posted as ADRM/Nagpur vice K P Somkuwar, SAG/IRSME, already posted to RDSO.
Gopal Kumar posted to NorthEast Frontier Railway
Gopal Kumar, SAG/IRSME, on his return from training, would be posted to NorthEast Frontier Railway as ADRM/Katihar, vice N Raghvendra Rao, SAG/IRSME.
Two new Vice Chancellors in UP
Shiban Kishen Kak, Professor of Electronics Engineering, Institue of Technology, BHU, Varanasi has been appointed Vice-Chancellor of Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut.Satya P. Gautam, a professor of philosophy at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi has been made the Vice-Chancellor of Mahatma Jyotibha Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly .
Gaur appointed CEO of Food Authority
Joint Secretary Home (Police) V.N. Gaur has been promoted to the rank fo Additional Secretary and appointed as CEO, Food Authority, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Nagaland cadre.
( We said this on February 9 only)
Sudip Banerjee is no more
Sudip Banerjee has passed away in New Delhi on Tuesday.He was 62. Former 1971 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer Banerjee retired as Secretary Higher Education in the Government of India two years back.He leaves behind wife Rubina and Son Gaurav ,Vice President of the Star India.

CORPORATE
Ms.Shubhlakshmi to be GM, Hotel Lakeview Ashok -Bhopal
Ms.Shubhlakshmi who is presently Bhubaneshwar based General Manager (GM) with Ashok Kalinga has been transferred by the India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) to, Hotel Lakeview Ashok -Bhopal, in the same capacity.
Post of Director Finance vacant in BSNL
The post of Director Finance is vacant in BSNL ,as previous Director
Finance , SD Saxena retired in January 2009.
Will Kapoor make it ?
It is a widely believed in the BSNL corridors that S R .Kapoor is going to become Director (Finance), BSNL.
Bindra on L& T Board
Jeet Bindra has been elected to the L&T board as independent non-executive director.
Bokaro MD inaugurates new Air Separation Plant
A new 1,250-tonnes per day (TPD) Air Separation Plant has been installed by M/s Inox Air Products Ltd at Bokaro on build-own-operate (BOO) basis as part of the modernisation & expansion plan of SAIL's Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL). BSL Managing Director V.K. Srivastava inaugurated the new plant on February 9,2009 in the presence of Vice President (Inox AP) Robert Dixon, Senior Advisor Wayne Hinman, President (Air Products Asia) Wilbur Mok, Vice President (Air Products Asia) Carlos Almeida, Chairman & MD (Inox AP India) PK Jain, Director Siddhartha Jain, General Manager A Adhikari, Project In-charge AK Khan and other members of Inox AP India. Executive Director (Projects) NK Jha, Executive Director (P&A) Jeevesh Mishra, General Manager (Utilities) Shyam Mohan, General Manager (Town Services) R Kumar, DGM (Oxygen Plant) THC Mouli and other members of Projects and Oxygen Plant of Bokaro Steel Plant were also present on the occasion.

Aaj Ki Aawaz
Sonia is now all fired up for the general polls!!!!
And she's trying to stitch up in Congress's vote catching net the gaping holes!!!
The huge hole on internal security will be impossible to stitch!!!
Because perception is that in the war against terror Congress created a hitch!!
And the hitch was created to appease its vote bank!!!
Of being anti India and Indians this appeasement stank!!
On inflation too she'll have to do some crafty stitching!!!
Because about prices the common man is still bitching!!
Prices may have come down but people have not forgotten the recent past!!
When money came in slowly and evaporated very very fast!!!
Aam Admi running away from Congress has also left a gaping hole!!!
So in the stimulus package or backdoor Budget Aam Admi can expect substantial dole!!
The 123 Deal is a dead issue on both for and against fronts!!!
And no one is going to pay heed to Commie taunts!!!
Speaking of Commies…. Karat says Congress is the fountainhead of ghoos-khori!!
And he says BJP comes second in this chori!!
But bottom line is Commies will support Congress if the need arises!!!
To grab power Communism always rises!!!
The sob story they will give is that this is being done to keep anti secular forces at bay!!!
Fact is what India really needs is that the pro China lot be kept away!!!
CBI now is trying to conjure up an 'internal' way to free Mulayam in the DA case!!!
On this conjured way its case for dropping of Mulayam's case CBI will base!
Rumored that conjured way will show that Mulayam was a victim of a witch hunt!!!!
And now for a fall guy to pin this witch hunting CBI's on the hunt!!
From Jail Bharo now it's Pub Bharo or fill up Pubs!!!!
For a new kind of independence new hubs!!
Renuka needs to go incognito into Pubs!!!
And she'll realize that Pubs have become vice hubs!!!
But going incognito will not be easy as she's difficult to hide!!!
Both very loud and very wide!!!
After Slumdog's big win at BAFTA Big B must be in a very sour state of mind!!!
To slam Slumdog something he will surely find!!!
And all because he's not a part of Slumdog!!
Had he been the publicity he'd have loved to hog!!
Confucius says…. Big B has just I, me and mine on his mind!!!!
No wonder on Slumdog's success he's just whined and whined!!!
Bharat Kumar

Forum
Retirement age
Enough debate is on on what the retirement age should be. Chairman of tribunals retire at 70, college teachers at 70, science secretaries in government at 65, doctors at 65, but government is mum on government employees. Perhaps, the idea is that they should join MNC by selling their souls.
Singh
E-governance still a dream
The Union D/o Administrative Reforms has been in the business of promoting e-governance for about a decade now. It can be legitimately expected that it must have succeeded in implementing e-governance in all departments of the government of India and Delhi government. It has, however, not. The experience with public services departments is disappointing. Try reaching the number of the Nodal Officer given on the back of the monthly telephone bill and experience non-response always. The number is just to put off the consumers, it never responds. Same can be experienced in most public utility services. The websites do not carry up-to-date information and telephone numbers.
It was expected that e-governance would cut down on the time taken in service delivery. A recent visit to the office of the Regional Provident Fund Commissioner in the NCR revealed that there is no saving in time spent in getting one's dues without undergoing a humiliating wait and waste of valuable time. Employees are transferable from north to south and east to west, landing them in problems in getting their dues at one place from different zones. Time, which is valuable in real terms i.e. anywhere between rupees 3000 per day to 10000 per day, for the present day generation producing wealth for the nation through the IT industry, will be saved. They are to reach an office in an obscure corner of a neglected locality to file their application for all PF related claims, where they have to form long queues and waste their whole day. Why? Why do the government service providers inflict pain, duress and harassment on citizens, employees and creators of wealth for the nation? Only to provide employment to battalions of unproductive manpower! Why can't the entire PF work be assigned to nationalised banks or post offices, who will issue passbooks/statements and can be accessed on line to see if credits reach the account of the individual regularly every month or get lost in some Satyam type creative venture? If e-governance fails to provide relief to the people, it is useless and a burden on the tax payer. The D/o A.R is going to organise the 12th national conference on e-governance on 12-13 Feb in scenic Goa (Happy V-Day guys!).We can hope genuine and authentic e-governance after this national conference!
M L Gupta
Jubilation amongst ad-hoc Under Secretaries
There is Jubilation amongst ad-hoc Under Secretaries of CSS who have been awaiting their inclusion in the Select List for the year 2003 as it had been pending since long because of proposed move on the part of CS Division of DOPT to include Junior Direct Recruit SOs in it by granting them relaxation not covered under CSS Rules. After hearing both the parties (DRs and Promotees), MOS has directed that the Select List be prepared without any relaxation i.e. as per CSS Rules. However the file is not being sent down by interested party working in the Office of MOS (PP).
Prashant
6th PC in BIS only for employees
You were nice enough to carry an item on Whispers about Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) being the only body not to have implemented 6thPC - within days, it got implemented - but only for employees. Even today, it has not been implemented for pensioners - on the pretext of the government approval not having been received. BIS, which is India's flagbearer in quality of products and services has set new benchmark in harassing pensioners - actively abetted by a callous Department of Consumer Affairs. An organization that earns nearly RS 200 crores per year and does not depend on the government for even a pie is unable to implement 6th PC on its own - so much for autonomy!!!
Will the Minister Sharad Pawar, to who the pensioners have represented, hold someone to account.
A concerned pensioner