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Aaj Ki Aawaz
Some New Year resolutions by the high and mighty for 2009!!!!
Of course these are imaginary…. mine!!!

Sonia has resolved,
This year Rahul's marriage paheli will be solved!!!

Rahul has resolved that he'll change his chocolaty image!!
And drop some in his inner circle who have caused his image mein damage!!

Mohna says if he retains PM's post he'll ensure his puppet image changes!!!
And if he does retain PM's post then he vows to be seen at Lectures and golf ranges!!!

PC says he'll try to feel at home in Home!!!!
And outside Finance Ministry he will not aimlessly roam!!!

Pranab Da has vowed to change his accent!!!
Reminds all that when he said Charge Shit its Charge Sheet what he meant!!

Laloo has vowed that he'll try to become Papa once more!!!
With his present lot ho gaya hai Laloo bore!!

Pawar has vowed that this year he'll learn how to bat and bowl!!!
And now plans to play in India 's Politics and Cricket Big Daddy ka role!!

Karuna has decided that this year he'll adopt someone!!!
To stop the infighting between his kids this is being done!!!

Balasahib and Raj will now fancy dress like a sher!!!
After 26/11 ho gayi hai dono ki sher waali image dher (fallen)!!

Advani has vowed to get a billion Advani masks!!!
If Modi could make it with masks why not me he asks????

Jaitley has vowed that this year with Kapil Sibal the gloves will be off!!
And he's going to respond Kapil's scoff with we bigger scoff!!

Karat and wifey have vowed to wear Red this year!!!
And with the clothes they will carry red personal gear (purse and briefcase)!!!

Yechury has promised wear Marx T'shirts!!!
Inconvenient to carry the Marx statue you get to see behind him when he blurts (in front of cameras)!!

Maya has vowed that she'll wear a Mukat from her treasury everyday!!!
And for seeing their Goddess in her finery Dalits will have to pay!!

I'm not mighty or powerful but still I'll let you in on my New Year vow!!!!
I'll try to be more unbiased from now!!!!

Bharat Kumar
aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

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Will Chatterjee be Additional DG ASI ?
Upamanyu Chatterjee is likely to be appointed Additional DG of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).He is 1983 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.
Sudhir Chandra to be Member of CBDT
In all probability Sudhir Chandra will be new Member of the CBDT in January. He is 1973 batch IRS officer.
All parties gearing up for Lok Sabha polls
With mini general election over, all political parties are now gearing themselves up for the final assault i.e. Lok Sabha polls to be held before June.
Who will be new Member (Mechanical) Railway Board?
Who will succeed R K Rao as Member (Mechanical) Railway Board ? Praveen Kumar is ahead in the race.
TS Narayansami has backing of Chidambaram ?
As the grapevine has it, TS Narayansami, CMD, Bank of India (BOI), who is in the race for the post of Deputy Governor in the Reserve Bank of India(RBI) has the backing of Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram. He is one of the five candidates for the slot that fell vacant following retirement of Leeladhar from the post on December 5, 2008.
Five CS level vacancies in three months in Maharashtra
At least five Chief Secretary level vacancies are going to arise in the next three months in Maharashtra because of the retirement of Mssrs Satish Tripathi, Dr J Sankaran, Neela Satyanarayana and Chitkala Zutshi. One officer Dr Gopal Rama Murthy has already retired early this month.
Laptops to Additional CITs
Additional Commissioners of Income Tax (CITs) are being laptops. Those Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officers who belong to the batches of 1988,89 & 90 could collect them by January 5,2009.Those who belong to batches of 1991 to 1993 could do so between January 6, 2009 and January 9, 2009.
Will Takru move to Ahemdabad ?
Name of DG NIFT Rajiv Takru has started doing for the post of Chief of the National Institute of Design , Ahemdabad. Will 1979 batch Gujarat cadre IAS officer Takru move to Ahemdabad ?.
Ms Subbarao is new CVO of Air India
Ms Urmila Subbarao has taken over as new CVO of the Air India. She is 1975 batch IPS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.
(We said this on September 24 )
How to make Agriculture Ministry effective ?
The pressure has been mounting to also hold bureaucrats accountable for 26/11 after Sharad Pawar, Agriculture Minister, raised the issue in one of the Cabinet meetings early this month. The Home Minister is learnt to be not averse to bringing in some changes in his Ministry. But he wants to first cut through/reduce the bureaucratic maze in his Ministry. He has asked all the officers above JS level to give suggestions on how the Ministry can be made effective.
Haryana cadre IAS to join HRD Ministry
1991 batch Haryana cadre IAS officer is likely to join the Government of India as Director in the Ministry of HRD.
Three vacancies of Administrative Members in CAT
Three vacancies of the Administrative Members in the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) have been notified.
IPS men are Regional Passport Officers
India at least has two IPS officers as Regional Passport Officers (RPOs). They are Vittul Kumar-Chandigarh and Zahur Zaidi - Lucknow. Kumar is an IPS officer of the 1992 batch & belongs to the Uttar Pradesh cadre. Likewise, Zaidi is an IPS officer of the 1994 batch & belongs to the Himachal Pradesh cadre.
Puneet Kansal poised to join GOI
As the grapevine has it Puneet Kansal is poised to join Government of India (GOI) on central deputation. He is an IAS officer of the 1996 batch who belongs to the Sikkim cadre. At present he is New Delhi based OSD, Tourism to Government of Sikkim.
IRTS officer Prabhakar gets SAG
1998 batch IRTS officer V Prabhakar has been promoted to the SAG in SR itself.
Lieutenant General Noble Thamburaj is Vice Chief of the Army Staff
Lieutenant General Noble Thamburaj assumed the office of Vice Chief of The army Staff on January 1,2009. Lieutenant General Noble Thamburaj a 1969 batch officer had a distinguished career spanning 38 years. Associated with the Services right from childhood, this second generation officer is an alumnus of King George's Military School Chail, Sainik Schools Amravati Nagar and Jamnagar, and the 34th NDA Course, before he was commissioned into the Bombay Sappers. An alumnus of Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, the General has done his Senior Command, Higher Command and NDC Courses. He is also accredited with higher Technical qualification, M Tech (Bldg Sc) from IIT Delhi and M Phil (Defence Studies) from Indore University. For his distinguished service, the General has been awarded Sena Medal and Chief of the Army Staff Commendation Card twice in his career.In his chequered career spanning 39 years, the General has seen action during Indo-Pak War, Counter Insurgency in North East and Jammu & Kashmir.
(We said this in November & on December 18,2008)
27,1976 batch IPS officers empanelled
This is now official. Altogether 27 IPS officers belonging to 1976 batch have been empanelled to the rank of ADG in the Government of India. Those who figure in the list include Mssrs Balwinder Singh (AP), V Raj Gopal (UT), P Mahindru (Chhattisgarh), Aniruddh Uppal (HP), A K Bhan (J&K), Manjari Jaruhar (Jharkhand) Yashovardhan Azad( MP), D Sivanandan (Maharashtra), H C Meena ( Rajasthan), M M Prahraj (Orissa), Udayan Parmar, M S Bali, S P Srivastava and Alexander Danial (Uttar Pradesh), Subhash Chandra Joshi, J S Pandey, Satyavrat Bansal and Renuka Muttu (Uttarakhand), B V Wanchoo (West Bengal), K N Sharma (Gujarat), S K Upadhyay (Tamil Nadu), Dr D V Guruprasad (Karnataka), Neeraj Kumar (UT), N Mukherjee (West Bengal), Anil Kaushik (Punjab), R N Ravi (Kerala) and K Subramanyam (Maharashtra).
Justice Suresh Chandra Sinho appointed Madhya Pradesh High Court Judge
In exercise of the powers conferred by Clause (1) of article 217 of the Constitution of India, the President has appointed Justice Suresh Chandra Sinho, Additional Judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, to be a Judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office.
New IB chief Rajiv Mathur assumes office
Rajiv Mathur, a 1972 batch Indian Police Service officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, Thursday took over as the chief of India's Intelligence Bureau (IB) from P.C. Haldar, who retired Dec 31. Mathur, who was serving as the special director of the IB, has served the agency for nearly three decades, including 15 years in Washington. Mathur, 59 will carry out function as the intelligence chief for the next two years. His name was cleared by the appointments' committee of cabinet headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in early December.
( We said this on May 22 )
Former Kerala DGP joins Lok Satta Party in AP
Former DGP of Kerala Upendra Varma has joined the Lok Satta Party in the presence of its president, Jayaprakash Narayan in AP.
Lt. Gen. B.S. Jaswal is new GOC-in-C ARTRAC
Lt Gen B.S.Jaswal General Officer Commanding of the Tezpur-based IV Corps has taken over as GOC-in C of Army's Shimla based Training Command (ARTRAC). He called on Himachal Pradesh Governor Mrs. Prabha Rau, on January 1, 2009 at Raj Bhawan, Shimla. His wife Mrs. Reetu Jaswal was also present on the occasion.
(We said this on December 18,2008)
Mohan Das gets Additional charge of Secretary Parliamentary Affairs (UPDATED)
K.Mohandas Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs has been given additional charge of the post of Secretary, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs till Shri P.J.Thomas, IAS (KL:73) assumes charge.
Purkayastha is Joint Secretary Agriculture (UPDATED)
Atanu Purkayastha has been appointed Joint Secretary in the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation in the Government of India. He is 1983 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre
Basu appointed Director (Projects ) B & R (UPDATED)
D.Basu, General Manager (South), B&R has been appointed Director (Project Management), Bridge & Roof Company (India) Limited (B&R), Kolkata,
Praveen Kumar appointed Member (Mechanical) Railway Board (UPDATED)
Praveen Kumar, IRSME, General Manager, South Western Railway, Hubli has been appointed as Member(Mechanical), Railway Board, and ex-officio Secretary to the Government of India.
( We said this only this morning)
NBCC to assist in IDPL's revival
An MoU between NBCC, the largest Construction PSU, under the Ministry of Urban Development and IDPL, a BIFR Company under the Ministry of Chemical & Fertilizer has been signed on January 1, 2009 in New Delhi. Through this MoU, NBCC will assist IDPL in realizing the maximum value out of their land holding to enable them to generate the resources for upgradation of their existing facility and also creation of state of art & modern facilities. Arup Roy Choudhury on behalf of NBCC and Dr.(Ms) Jayashree Gupta, IDPL agreed through this MoU to develop a pilot project, Construction of ITPC related complex in Sector-20, Gurgaon, in which NBCC is expected to bring in resources of Rs.400 crores plus for development of this complex.

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CORPORATE
MSJ Sinha is new GM (HR) NHDC
MSJ Sinha will be new General Manager (HR) in the NHDC. He will succeed D S Chauhan.
Rawal takes over as CMD of Dena Bank
DL Rawal has taken over as Chairman & Managing Director of State-owned Dena Bank. He has replaced PL Gairola, who superannuated on Wednesday.
Uppal is MD of L&T Power
Ravi Uppal has been appointed as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of unit L&T Power.
Kartikeyan is Secretary of ICAI
T Karthikeyan has been appointed secretary of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI).
Rahul Welde to be VP,HUL at Singapore
Rahul Welde who so far was General Manager (GM) with charge of Media in the Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) will soon be in Singapore to assume charge as Vice President. Besides Asia he will look after Africa, Middle East and Turkey.
Ms. D. Chaudhary to handle Media in HUL
Ms. D. Chaudhary who so far was with Marico will handle Media for Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL).

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Forum
Retirement age to increase with increase in life span
Retirement age will increase as life span increases. That will happen and should happen. What many people do not realise is that seen society wise, the working population of any society actually shoulders the burden of the non working population. So, it is imperative to have a fixed percentage of population of any society working. When life spans go up, the fixed percentage being the same, numbers of working people will go up commensurately only if retirement is extended. In the debate over young vs. old, government servants vs. non government servants, we tend to take myopic views.
Uday Pratap
Retirement age once again
The issue of increasing the retirement age has once again bloomed up. Many have come forward with its positive effects like services of experienced personnel for further 2 years. But what after that? Will the GOI stop functioning? This is absurd. As it is government is giving the pension benefits to its employees. Let the younger generation step forward and take your place. Who knows, one of them might be your own son or daughter. And if you have calibre, experience and the strength to do more work, you must head towards private sector because at this stage, when you are financially secure and all your responsibilities over, can you venture towards a new sector. Prove your worth there.
Seema
Centralized examination in railway required
We would like to raise our voice regarding examinations of Group B and C posts filled up in Railway by various zonal railway recruitment board throughout the year. In these days confrontation has been seen during examination on various parts in Assam and Maharashtra. It may be ignored by centralized examination for these posts on the line as Staff Selection Commission and Union Public Service Commission, Delhi, organized the recruitment examination. It may also be recalled that in Mumbai during the railway recruitment board examination, there was a very serious law and order situation created by MNS activists and its so called leader Raj Thakaray and crores of rupees of public property was destroyed by the protesters. Implementation of Centralized examination in railway will also improve our recruitment process. Centralized examination will be enable to solve all this problems and as it is easier for examiner and examinee both. Various responsible posts in central government has been filled up by SSC/UPSC and they have been doing it very fair manner.. It is our earnest request to Prime Minister, Railway Minister and all other concerned authority to direct the railway board for conduction of centralized examinations as SSC and UPSC. It will also reduce the confrontation between one region to another which has been seen in recent time and it also reduce the issue of law and order. It is also convenient for the students who want to appear in this examination and they may be able to appear at nearby examination centre. It should also be reduced the expenditure , physical and mental problems faced by the candidates in traveling long distances and passengers will also be facing a lot of problems during the railway examination and probably they intend to cancel their tickets which ultimately lead loss of revenue of this country and Railway as well. It may also out of mentioned here that a yearly calendar should be issued and Headquarters Delhi (Railway Board) should organized all such examination on one date for similar posts and common merit list prepared based on it so that no one shown his finger on this examination.
Prabhakar Mishra
A sad experience
I was recently member of a DPC for promotions in a group A organised cadre of Government of India. I wish to share my sad experience of the episode which I would like to forget. The majority of other members were retired senior bureaucrats who have been reemployed for reasons which have been highlighted in this newsletter several times. I do not wish to add anything on that aspect. Among the candidates, there were few who were not found fit for promotion since the entry was just "Good". I specifically went through the self appraisal of those officers. From the self appraisal, I could make out that they appeared to be the best of the lot, having specifically claimed several outstanding achievements. However, even the reporting officer as well as reviewing officer, after having said that they agree with claims made by the officer reported upon, the final grading was "good". This did not have to be communicated to the officer concerned. Other DPC members were least bothered, more interested in sight seeing the place, smug in thought of getting DA paid for visit and commenting that " Clerical staff has already compiled the results, who would like to go against it" etc. The fate of the officers are determined by officers who do not know English, Clerks who are doing their duty to the best of their Ability(?) and people on extension who have neither official nor moral responsibility. No wonder we are a poorly managed soft state which is target of all types of humiliating ranking in the world.
Ram Kumar
TAIL-PIECE
There once was a king who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The king looked at all the pictures. But there were only two he really liked, and he had to choose between them.
One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect mirror for peacefully towering mountains all around it. Overhead was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. All who saw this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace. The other picture had mountains, too. But these were rugged and bare. Above was an angry sky, from which rain fell and in which lightning played. Down the side of the mountain tumbled a foaming waterfall. This did not look peaceful at all. But when the king looked closely, he saw behind the waterfall a tiny bush growing in a crack in the
rock. In the bush a mother bird had built her nest. There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, sat the mother bird on the nest-in perfect peace.
Which picture do you think won the prize? The king chose the second picture..
Do you know why?
"Because," explained the king, "peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart. That is the real meaning of peace."
"When Life gives you a thousand reasons to cry,
Show that you have a million reasons to smile."

Contributed by-Satya Singal