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Who will be CMD of GAIL ?
Who will be new CMD of the GAIL ?.Tie is said to be between B C Tripathi and A K Purwaha. Possibility of a dark horse is also not ruled out.
Anshu Vaish is Secretary School Education and Literacy
Ms Anshu Vaish will succeed A K Rath on February 1 as Secretary School Education and Literacy in the Government of India. She is 1975 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.
( We said this on January 6 )
K N Srivastava is DG Archaeology
In all probability, K N Srivastava will be new DG Archaeology on February 1. He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.
( We said this on November 6,2008 & also on January 7,2009 )
Raju to head NIA
In all probability R V Raju will be new chief of the NIA. He is 1975 batch IPS officer of J & K cadre.Raju is presently posted in J & K as DG Vigilance.
Rajiv Mathur is new DG NCRB
Rajiv Mathur has been appointed new DG of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). He is 1974 batch IPS officer of Chhattisgarh cadre.
Sabarwal to head National Police Mission
P C Sabarwal will now head the National Police Mission. He is 1976 batch IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
Medhekar to be ADG BSF
R K Medhekar has been appointed new ADG BSF. He is 1975 batch IPS officer of Kerala cadre.
Bali is now Addl DG in CISF
The post of IG (Airports) on which M.S.Bali is presently posted has been upgraded to the rank of Additional DG (ADG) in CISF.Following issuance of formal orders regarding this he has assumed new charge. Bali is an IPS officer of the 1976 batch who belongs to the Uttar Pradesh cadre.
Anirudh Uppal is now ADG,ITBP
Anirudh Uppal who so far was IG in the NSG will now be Additional DG in the Indo Tibetan Border Police(ITBP).He is an IPS officer of the 1976 batch who belongs to the Himachal Pradesh cadre.
Vijay Raman to be ADG,CRPF
Vijay Raman who so far was ADG Special Armed Force(SAF) with MP Government will be new Additional DG in the CRPF.He is an IPS officer of the 1975 batch who belongs to the Madhya Pradesh cadre.
Vaid is IG BPR&D
S P Vaid has been posted as IG BPR&D.He is 1986 batch IPS officer of Jammu & Kashmir cadre.
Naidu appointed IG NCRB
P R K Naidu has been appointed IG NCRB. He is 1987 batch IPS officer of Jharkhand cadre.
Dr.R.P.Sharma is IG Administration,NSG
Dr.R.P.Sharma on his elevation from DIG has become IG Administration in NSG.He had joined NSG from NDC in 2008.He is an IPS officer of the 1986 batch who belongs to the Orissa cadre.
Decision regarding Kerala CS delayed
Contrary to reports Kerala Chief Minister V. S. Achutanandan was unable to decide successor to P.J. Thomas Chief Secretary on January 13, 2009. As it is Thomas is set to go to center as Secretary Parliamentary Affairs.There are chances of a decision on January 14, 2009.
Umesh Kumar is IG Airports(Sector),CISF
Umesh Kumar is IG (Airports) on which M.S.Bali was posted earlier & has now been promoted as Additional DG (ADG) in CISF.Umesh Kumar was so far IG South Sector with his posting in Chennai.He is 1984 batch IPS officer of the Assam- Meghalaya cadre.
Devi Prasad gets proforma promotion
Devi Prasad on being promoted to the senior administrative grade (SAG) has been given proforma promotion. He is Director in the Bangalore located Karnataka Government's Fiscal Institute of Policy. He is an Indian economic Service (IES) officer of the 1982 batch.
Will Chandak be DG AIR News ?
Mohan Chandak is likely to be appointed DG AIR news next month after the superannuation of P K Bandopadhyay . He is 1982 batch IIS officer.
P K Bharadwaj promoted in IB
P K Bharadwaj has been promoted to the rank of Joint Director in the Intelligence Bureau. He is 1987 batch IPS officer of UT cadre.
Meghalaya Govt has no plans to have new PRC
As the grapevine has it, Meghalaya Government has no plans to appoint any new officer as Principal Resident Commissioner (PRC) in Delhi. SS Gupta so far occupied the slot. As it is the Meghalaya Government has Alok Jain as Resident Representative who is an IAS officer of the 1974 batch. He belongs to the Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
Corrigendum about IP & TA officers' promotions
Certain officers of 1992 batch, Indian Post & Telecom Accounts and Finance Service, Grp A about whose promotion it was inadvertently reported without their having been promoted to SAG on Adhoc basis,earlier.Inconvenience caused to concerning officers is deeply regretted.
A S Rao goes to SWR
1989 batch IRTS officer A S Rao Joshi has been transferred to South Western Railway to officiate in SAG .
KM Gupta is Advisor ,Ministry of Labour
KM Gupta on being promoted to the senior administrative grade (SAG) is Economic Advisor to the Ministry of Labour. He is an Indian economic Service (IES) officer of the 1982 batch.
S K Sharma goes to ECR
1989 batch IRTS officer Sanjeev Kumar Sharma has been transferred to East Central Railway to officiate in SAG .
Vardarajan promoted in BSNL
D Vardarajan ITS officer has been promoted to SAG. He is now GM Tamil Nadu Circle.
Bihar CM to launch "Vikas Yatra"-to stay night in villages
Nitish Kumar Chief Minister of Bihar is going to launch "Vikas Yatra" (Development journey) from January 19, 2009. The first comprising five days will CM & Government officials stay overnight in different villages. To begin with he will go to West Champaran where from Mahatma Gandhi had launched his march. Nitish Kumar after night stay in different villages will be interacting with them in morning. Bihar Chief Minister had conducted a similar exercise three years ago while being out of power. At that time it was christened "Nyaya yatra." Basically, through his ensuing exercise, he will get the first hand feel of where all he need to take corrective measures in public interest said sources close to Nitish Kumar.
Record -breaking MoUs in Gujarat
In two days mega event Vibrant Gujarat Global Investor Summit 2009, Chief Minister Narendra Modi's Government has been signed record-breaking 8500 MoUs from top business houses of India and abroad worth Rs 12 lakh crores and will generate 25 lakh jobs in Gujarat.
Brar is Chairman of Punjab Electricity Board
H. S. Brar has been appointed Chairman of the Punjab State Electricity Board. He has succeeded former Chief Secretary Y. S. Ratra whose term expired on Tuesday.
Sanjay Vikram Singh is no. two in panel for CMD, NSC
Sanjay Vikram Singh Director in the Agriculture Ministry. is number two in the panel for the slot of Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) of the National Seeds Corporation (NSC).
Dy./Asst.Commissioners transferred by CBEC
The Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC) has transferred certain Deputy/Assistant Commissioners.Those who have been transferred are: Tajveer Singh CX Lucknow to CX Meerut J.K. Paul CX Ranch to CX Kolkata.(Bolpur Commissionerate) Ravindra Kumar Das CX-Kolkata- to III CX Bhubaneshwar
N.V.T.D. Prasad CX-Kolkata to CX Hyderabad C.P. Vijayadharan CX-Vadodara to CX Mumbai-I Suman Kumar Kujur CX-Lucknow to CX Chennai Gopal Singh Purohit CX-Shillong DPPR, Delhi V.N. Lad Customs-Mumbai-III to CX Pune N.V. Udai Kumar On return from deputation to CX Coimbatore . Debojit Bose CX-Kolkata to Vigilance Kolkata Kulwaran Singh CX Chennai to CX Chandigarh J. Raja Manohar CX Bhavnagar to CX Hyderabad ( 'B' station . Dr. Manjula D. Hosmani CX Vizag to CX Hyderabad Hitesh Godara Customs(Prev.) Lucknow to CX Kolkata
. Pritee Chaudhary CX Lucknow to CX-Mumbai-II Sachin Jain CBEC Customs(Prev.), Delhi (to be posted in Delhi) and. Dilip Goyal CBEC Customs-Mumbai-I
K.K.Garg poised to be Director,IRCON
K.K.Garg who is currently with the Sutlej Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN) is poised to be a Director with IRCON International Ltd.
Sodhi appointed High Commissioner
K.J.S. Sodhi, Ambassador of India to Suriname has been concurrently accredited as the next High Commissioner of India to St. Lucia, with residence in Paramaribo (Suriname).
Arun Bongirwar,is a Director,AAI
The Government of India (GOI) has appointed Arun Bongirwar,IAS (Retd.) as a non official Director in the Airports Authority of India(AAI)of which Chairman is Vijai P.Agrawal. Bongiwar is ex- Chief Secretary of Maharashtra & belongs to the 1966 batch of IAS.
IAS Changes in MP
In a minor bureaucratic reshuffle MP government has appointed Shiv Shekhar Shukla collector Ujjain as collector Bhopal Ajatshatru Shrivastava who is in CM s secretariat will be collector Ujjain & sachin sinha Director Rajiv Gandhi Mission for watershed will be collector Dewas.

CORPORATE
SK Roongta is no. One in panel for CMD, NSC
SK Roongta, Chief General Manager (CGM) Marketing, with the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI), is number in the panel for the slot of Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) of the National Seeds Corporation (NSC).
Prasad resigns from Satyam Board
Former Cabinet Secretary T. R. Prasad, who was on the Satyam Computers' board till it was scrapped has resigned as an independent director in GMR Infrastructure.
Rajesh Verma appointed CVO REC
Rajesh Verma Joint Secretary & F A in the Ministry of Power has been appointed Chief Vigilance Officer, Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) .He is 1987 batch IAS officer of Orissa cadre.
( We said this on November 19 )

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Who will run the industries?
Please do the entire country a favour by letting the people know the circumstances which led to the strike. Are bureaucrats going to run the industries of the country or the technocrats. It is shameful that a trusted website has fallen prey to the poisonous fruits being offered in the powers of the corridors and are in turn spitting it on the common man.
Vidyasagar
CPSU strike was not in good taste
May I suggest that fellow colleagues in government also keep in view the following :
1. CPSU employees do not get pension. CPF given to them is less than even commutation lumpsum moey that we get in government.
2. CPSU employees do not get adequate medical facility on retirement, unlike we in government, who continue to get the same medical facility after retirement.
3. Oil officers have never gone on strike in past 50 years. Most of them are professionals from reputed institutes including IITs & IIMs. Many of them hold 2 professional degrees and have gone thru tough competitive processes at various stages..
4.For most of officers in CPSU, scheduled working hours are 48 per week. Actual hours are more, being in production oriented organisations. In govt. most of us have scheduled hours as 40 a week.
5. Working requirement for most of them are inside a big factory,/ chemical industry. Factory working is generally considered more demanding, time pressured and physically hazardous than office working.
6. Will it not be worthwhile to examine the reasons that caused these professionals to go on strike.
7. It was stated in media that entry level person gets Rs.. 1 lakh a month. Media should give at least one concrete example of a live person along with name and organisation to give some credibility to it. Otherwise average figure actually drawn by entry level people say upto 2 year experience be told to people, to be fair to all. Infact annual report of companies tell how many people are actually highly paid. Not to support such claims with data is being not fair with CPSU staff.
Mani
Have they changed their opinion?
Till about a year ago, top political leaders, including the PM and Cabinet Ministers, and corporate heads were asking government and PSU officers to emulate the example set by the private sector in India , Hope they have a different opinion now.!
S Rajan
It's 'unbelievable
It is most unbelievable to note that oil sector officers resorted to strike at a time when PM is trying to shield the country from the impact of turmoil in the business world. A time has come when drastic action need to be taken against those responsible, from the Navratna PSU.
Dr K C Rathore
Few doubts
Is it a attempt to demoralise the three best performing PSUs,A plan to allow subsidy to private oil Co.( much needed by them) or a power tussle between Minister and Secretary ? Such act was also not seen in emergency days.
B K Singh
Raw deal for pre 2006 pensioners by ministry of personnel, public grievances & pensions
While the 6th CPC has upheld the 'one rank, one pension' principle enunciated by the 5th CPC earlier, and also accepted by the Government, an arbitrary modification by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions has inexplicably removed the parity between pre and post 2006 pensioners dealing a cruel blow to the hopes of the pre-2006 pensioners. While in para 5.1.47 of its Report, the CPC held that revised pension "in no case shall be lower than 50% of the sum of the minimum of the pay in the pay band and the grade pay thereon corresponding to the pre-revised pay scale from which the pensioner retired", a position accepted by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions in their OM dated 1.9.2008, the Ministry has reversed its position in the OM issued by it on 3 October 2008. The words "corresponding to the pre-revised pay scale from which the pensioner retired" have been arbitrarily removed and "irrespective of the pre-revised scale of pay" added.
Due to this arbitrary modification, Joint Secretary level officers also stand to lose. As per pay Fixation Tables in the OM of the Finance Ministry dated 30.8.08, the minimum pay in the revised pay scale is tabulated as per the accepted formula. For Joint Secretaries (pre-revised basic in Rs 18400-500-22400 scale) the revised pay becomes Rs 44700+10000= Rs 54700 in the scale of Rs 37400+10000 Grade Pay at the minimum of which the pension @ 50% works out to Rs 27350. As per the interpretation in the OM dated 3.10.08, the pension works out to Rs 23700 (50% of Rs 37400+10000= Rs 47400) since the fixation of pay in the revised scale is erroneous which amounts to a difference of Rs 3650.
Officials retire at different points of time and the time scale enables fixation of pay differentially. This is a principle accepted by the 5th CPC and accepted by the 6th CPC. This principle will apply to all services including the 3 All India Services viz. the IAS, IPS and IFS. Difference in pension of a Director & a Joint Secretary in the IAS will be Rs 650 and between a Director and an Additional Secretary Rs 1650. This would apply in the case of a SSP and DIG and SSP and IGP in the IPS and a Deputy Conservator (Selection Grade) and CCF and Additional PCCF in the case of the IFS. There would be a similar impact for the Central Secretariat Services. This is not the case of post 2006 retirees.
Lower fixation of pension will also result in lower fixation of family pension which would be a harsh and cruel blow to the widows of pensioners.
This differentiation between two categories of pensioners is iniquitous and arbitrary. It is also inexplicable since the 6th CPC itself has provided for special benefits for those surviving pensioners aged over 80 years.
Clearly, this is a case of an arbitrary interpretation of the intent of the Pay Commission. It is also against Article 14 of the Constitution.
Can the Ministry change a decision of the Cabinet which accepted the recommendations of the 6th CPC?
It is understood that this has been brought to the notice of the Anomalies Committee through representations by the three All India Services. Now that the Government has redressed the grievances of the Armed Forces, will it take up the case of those who retired prior to 2006?
Girish Chanda, IFS (Retd)
Retd. CCF, UP
"ACR: No More Confidential"- Supreme Court.
The ACRs play a very vital role in the career of a government servant. Timely promotion and recognition are the basic motivations for a government servant. So DoPT should evolve such a transparent Performance Appraisal System, which should have least subjectivity and no room of unfairness and prejudiceness. In Central Staffing Scheme, the DoPT has fixed mininmum bench-mark of ACR as 'VERY GOOD' for empanellment of Dy. Secretary, Director, Jt. Secretary. If some officer is appointed as DS/Dir/JS, it means his/her performance had been Very Good and above. So such officers are fully capable to deliver the results. Our duty is to provide congenenial environmement. There are examples in some ministries that some officers are not allowed to get adjusted in the new environment. Some high-headed people forget if such treatment was given to them, what would have been their reaction? First of all, provide them stage only then they can perform better. Moral of the story is that one should play with anybody's career. Moreover in the recent judgment of Supreme Court(CA No.7631 of 2002: Dev Dutt Vs Union of India), ACR in no more confidential document. It can be shown to the concerned official. The Supreme Court has held, "Non-communication of entries in the Annual Confidential Report of a public servant, whether he is in civil, judicial, police or any other service (other than the military), certainly has civil consequences because it may affect his chances for promotion or get other benefits. Hence, such non-communication would be arbitrary, and as such violative of Article 14 of the Constitution."
The DOPT is requested to issue, in this regard, necessary directions to all the Departments/ Ministries in the interest of the country as fear of ACR grading travels in the mind. The transparency in the ACR System will bring efficiency in the working of Government.
-Meenakshi Roy
ACR fear need to be avoided
The ACR plays a significant role in the career of a government servant. So DOPT should evolve a transparent Performance Appraisal System. It should not have any subjectivity. Our duty is to provide congenial environment to the officers so that they could perform better and effectively. In the recent judgment of Supreme Court(CA No.7631 of 2002: Dev Dutt Vs Union of India), ACR in no more confidential document. The DOPT should direct to all the Departments/ Ministries suitably in the interest of the country as fear of ACR grading travels in the mind of officers. Hope the transparency in the ACR System will bring efficiency in our country.
Y Mishra
If one number is tempered, complete series is bound to change
DDA draw should be scrapped in toto but only the fakes disqualified. From the text and realty also it is admitted and known that a fraud of massive scale had occurred in the draw and even a layman can tell that if one number is tempered in a computerized draw the complete series is bound to change. Further, the software happens to be developed by DDA with the help of IIT-students and professors and not the competent authority / GOI like NIC.
The above necessitate the DDA to cancel the draw. The exercise is needs to be again done with a certified software from NIC(National Informatics Centre) with the complete data of applicants already available with DDA.
Samir Bose
Citizens in India are never equal. The rules are shown to people or citizens as per their status. And my lordships are no way to be equated with ordinary folks. As they say blue blood is better than red. So trying to claim equality on trivial grounds is meaningless.
Arun Gupta
Penalize the auditors too
The Auditors who certified that Satyam's accounts were true and fair should be penalised as severely as Raju. Perhaps PWC should be blacklisted in India, and as somebody has suggested their account books should be scrutinised comprehensively by C&AG office in light of the present disclosure.
Also guilty are the regulators-the SEBI officials, Company Law Board etc and the powerful politicians/ministers who were promoting them.
The whole truth of Satyam should be out in a time bound manner or else public trust will be deeply eroded.
The high and mighty are able to get away with serious, heinous crimes unless their is public outcry. Raju cannot be sent to jail alone-let all his partners be exposed and accompany him.
Virika