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Overhaul of Higher Education bodies likely
An overhaul of apex higher education bodies, like University Grants Commission (UGC), the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the Teacher Education Council is on the cards.
A K Singh to be new DGP of Karnataka
A K Singh will be new DGP of Karnataka. 1974 batch IPS officer Singh will succeed R Srikumar on February 1
Kuldip Chaturvedi is new GM SWR
Kuldip Chaturvedi will be new General Manager of the South Western Railway. He will succeed Praveen Kumar.
Praveen Kumar appointed Member (Mechanical) Railway Board
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 yesterday)
Verma appointed Ambassador to Yemen
Praveen Verma, currently Consul General of India in Istanbul, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Yemen.
Who will be new CEO Gujarat ?
Gujarat Govt has sent three names for the post of Chief Electoral Officer to Election Commission, New Delhi after sudden resignation of Vinod Babbar. Candidates are Anita Karwal, Raj Kumar & Mr Sinha. It is learnt.
D K Tiwari is MD, CITCO-Chandigarh
D.K. Tiwari on inter state deputation has assumed the charge as Managing Director (MD), Chandigarh Industrial & Tourism Development Corporation (CITCO), Chandigarh. So far he was Special Secretary, Finance with the Punjab government. He is an IAS officer of the 1994 batch who belongs to the Punjab cadre.
(We said this in December 2008).
Purkayastha is Joint Secretary Agriculture
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
D Basu, General Manager (South), B&R has been appointed Director (Project Management), Bridge & Roof Company (India) Limited (B&R), Kolkata.
Mohan Das gets Additional charge of Secretary Parliamentary Affairs
K Mohandas, Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, has been given additional charge of the post of Secretary, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs till PJ Thomas, IAS (KL:73) assumes charge.
Walia shifted to SWR
Ministry of Railways have with the approval of the President decided that Happy Walia, Selection Grade/IRSME/ Northern Railway, be transferred to South Western Railway in the same capacity.
M.Saran takes over as Member OPSC
Manoranjan Saran, who retired on October 31, 2008 as Special Secretary, GAD has been appointed as a member of the Orissa Public Service Commission (OPSC). He was an IAS officer of the 1995 batch whose cadre was Orissa.
IRTS officer C Balachandran gets SAG
1998 batch IRTS officer C Balachandran has been promoted to the SAG in SR itself.

B Bishnu Bhat re-appointed Director MPEDA
B Bishnu Bhat has been re-appointed Director of MPEDA for further three years.
IPS officers shifted in Tamil Nadu
DIG Madurai Range, SS Krishnamoorthy SP Madurai, M Manohar and Deputy Superintendent of Police, Thiruparankundram, M Sundaresan have been transferred.
Gautam takes charge
PL Gautam has taken over Chairman, National Biodiversity Authority, located in Chennai.
Former IAS officer is no more
Former IAS officer Khader Ali Khan has passed away in Hyderabad. He was 87.
Pramod Kumar to be Chairman of Reforms Commission in Punjab
Dr Pramod Kumar is going to be appointed chairman of the Administrative Reforms Commission, Punjab.
Bureaucrat quits to join politics in Orissa
Additional Secretary of the Orissa Public Service Commission (OPSC), Bhikari Charan Biswal, has quit the service to join politics.
Why did Election Commission support TN CEO ?
The Election Commission of India has publicly expressed full confidence in the functioning of Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Naresh Gupta . Any reason ?.
Bureaucratic changes in MP soon
A bureaucratic shake up is likely to take place in Madhya Pradesh.
IAS changes in Maharashtra
In a minor reshuffle by Maharashtra Government Rajiv Jalota (1988 batch)Chief Executive Officer(CEO)Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC)has been transferred as Commissioner Local Self Government.He will be replaced by K.Sivaji(1986 batch) who is Secretary Information Technology(IT).
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.

CORPORATE
Indian Veterinary Association office bearers
APS Nair has been elected president and Fiji Ferdinand Francis elected general secretary of the Indian Veterinary Association.
DS Chauhan GM,NHPC goes to Delhi
DS Chauhan General Manager (GM) of the NHPC who was on deputation with the NHDC, Bhopal has been shifted to Delhi as GM Human Resource (HR).

 
Aaj Ki Aawaz
Lo jee….. New Year started with a bang!!!
This time in Assam with a bang in the New Year ULFA rang!!
Our Home Minister seems to be suffering form a crisis of identity!!!
He himself and others connected with MOF take him still to be FM and that's a pity!
Like today there are ads in newspapers by SBI on the opening of their 11,111 Branch!
And the ad has a pic of PC …. is MOF still feeling PC's aanch (heat)????
Wish he'd stop talking on matters of Finance and concentrate of Home!!!!
And we all know why to MOF his mind time and again karta hai roam!!!
How could cash just vanish from BJP's HQ in Dilly????
And missing cash has made Advani's and Rajnath's relationship even more chilly!!
Personal ambitions are now BJP's bane!!!
You get to see this again and again!!!!
Can't they put ambitions aside till the general poll!!!
Winning the polls should be their sole goal!!!
With every passing day I get the feeling Congress is getting stronger!!!
And the road to Dilli for BJP seems to be getting longer and longer!!!
BJP leaders have to realize their personal ambitions will trip BJP on the road to Dilli!
And if BJP does not get Dilli then all personal ambitions will end up willy-nilly!
Pakistan continues to demand evidence!!!
Or is Pakistan just behaving dense!!!
Into Pakistan sense can only be drilled in by Uncle Sam!!!!
For other's it cares a damn!
LeT changed to JuD and now its taken a new name!!!!
New name but objectives remain same!!
Today what is needed is the breaking up of Pakistan !!!
Like what the Brits did to Hindustan !!!
Its time Pakistan was cut to size!!!!
For making the terror element controllable in Pakistan this would suffice!!
In both J&K and in Bangladesh the fundamentalists have been beaten!!!
Humble 'veggie and not gosht biryani' they've eaten!!!
Back to some more vows for the New Year!!!!
Zardari has vowed that the end of his widower days are near!!!
Bush has vowed that he'll tour the World to fight for his Family's honor!!!
So that he can erase his family's 'wimp and chimp' dishonor!!!
Obama's New Year vow is to get White House exorcised before he shifts!!!!
And he'll do this by giving the Demons left behind by Bush gifts!!!
Indian Political Parties should vow not to demean us by giving tickets to Stars!
Examples....Govinda and Dharmendra have made their electorates see stars!!!
Confucius says…… Wish Nations take a vow!!!!
We'll mind our own business from now!!!!!!
Bharat Kumar
aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

Forum
Why CCS lost out?
Mathematical calculations bear out that, as reported in Whispers, most IPS/IFS officers will retire in the pay scale of 75,500 -80000 while CCS Class I will end up in 37400 - 67000 plus grade pay. Those who retired before 2006 in the scale of 22400-24500 (CCITs, CPMGs etc.) are feeling cheated. Those who retired / will retire 2006 onwards are not feeling the comparative disadvantage now. They will be suckered in 2016 when pensions are revised. The associations representing CCS class I officers did not do their homework and were not fully aware of the mechanics and formulae of pension fixation. IPS/IFS officers managed to persuade the union cabinet to give DGPs/PCCFs a scale that was not recommended by the pay commission. Had CCS seriously demanded a pay scale of 74,500 - 79,000 for the officers in the old pay scale of 22400-24500, they could have got it easily because financial implications were miniscule. These associations had a fixation for full parity with IAS and the foreign service. This kind of grandstanding and one point programme obviated the need to do some hard thinking for the benefit of the members and the pensioners. Playing to the gallery can be harmful. Even now, instead of trying to salvage the situation by hard thinking and effective lobbying, all that these lazy associations will do is to blame the IAS lobby.
M.P. Baur
There is no doubt that Rati Ram, IPS, who retired on December 31st was an outstanding officer. People who know him were always aware of his humble and simple nature. He believed in objectivity and therefore had served in sensitive posts during any parties tenure. Masses loved him for his dedication and for upholding justice with equity. Unfortunately, good officers like him in India are not given recognition which is a very bad system in India. But irrespective of all this they are always remembered and are role model for many. At the end it is their victory.
Ashok Kumar IRS
TAIL-PIECE
Old one but good one
Beggars' Classic from London
Parvinder and Habib are beggars. They beg in different areas of London. Habib begs just as long as Parvinder but only collects £2 to £3 every day. Parvinder brings home a suitcase FULL of £10 notes, drives a Mercedes, lives in a mortgage-free house and has a lot of money to spend.
Habib says to Parvinder 'I work just as long and hard as you do but how do you bring home a suitcase full of £10 notes every day?' Parvinder says, 'Look at your sign, what does it say'? Habib's sign reads 'I have no work, a wife and 6 kids to support'. Parvinder says 'No wonder you only get £2- £3
Habib says... 'So what does your sign say'?
Parvinder shows Habib his sign....
It reads, 'I only need another £10 to move back to Pakistan'.
Contributed by-Satya Singal