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Over half a dozen 1975 batch IAS waiting to be Secr
Over half a dozen 1975 batch IAS officials are still waiting to be Secretary in the Government of India. They are BS Meena, Rajvant Sandhu, Rudra Gangadharan, Bhaskar Chatterji, Chandramauli ,S Krishnan and D K Sikri.
Appointments of 1975 batch IPS officers delayed
Appointments of IPS officers 1975 batch to the rank of DG in theGovernment of India are expected in a couple of days. Though, thePrime Minister had cleared the appointment file, Ministry of Personnel had reportedly found some discrepancies regarding insitu promotion in
the order. It is understood that orders will be issued shortly.
Empanelment of 1995 batch IPS takes place
Empanelment of 1995 batch IPS officers to the rank of DIG in the Government of India has taken place on Wednesday.
( We said this on Tuesday )
Ms. Vijaya Lata Reddy to be Secretary (West), MEA
As the grapevine has it, Ms. Vijaya Lata Reddy who is currently posted as Indian Ambassador in Bangkok is tipped to be Secretary (West) in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). She is an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer of the 1975 batch.
Vijay Gokhle to be High Commissioner to Malaysia !
Joint Secretary (East Asia) in the Ministry of External Affairs Vijay K Gokhale is likely to be appointed Indian High Commissioner to Malaysia.
Defence Minister yet to open cards
Defence Minister AK Antony is yet to open his cards on the age issue of Lieutenant General VK Singh whose three letters in this connection have already been passed on to the Minister by the present Army Chief Deepak Kapoor.
Rajgopalan Nair in fray for Lok Sabha's slot
As the grapevine has it, Rajgopalan Nair is also in fray for the slot of Secretary General to the Lok Sabha.
Ms.Sonia Gandhi steps in to resolve cabinet tangle
As the grapevine has it UPA Chairperson Ms. Sonia Gandhi has given direction to all Cabinet Ministers that they distribute suitable work amongst the Ministers of State (MOS) at once.
Harish Rawat has no work
Harish Rawat, Indian Minister of State for Labour has no charge of Labour Ministry. From morning to evening and from residence to office people want to meet Rawat for their problems, but MOS gives only assurances to people. But people want results, now the people saying
that you were better before becoming the MOS.
35 Jt. Secr level officials required for UID Commissioner's posts
As many as 35 Joint Secretary level IAS officials are required to be posted as Commissioners in UID Authority of India. They will be posted in each state capital and union territory.
Seven Indian Police Officers selected for UN Mission in Sudan
UNDPKO through PMI to the UN has intimated the selection of the following 7 Indian Police officers for deployment with UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) for a period of one year w.e.f. August 1, 2009. The officers are Anil Kumar Singh, Srimannarayan Rao and Krishna Kumar Tyagi of CISF, K Giri and Harsa Nandan Joshi of BSF, Lal Shankar Chowan of Andhra Pradesh Police, MNBR Prasad of Karnataka police.
Alok Mishra to be CMD, BOI next week
As the grapevine has it file regarding appointment of Alok Mishra Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) of the Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) as CMD Bank of India (BOI) has been cleared. A formal notification is expected early next week.
(We said this on April 6,21 & June 17,2009)
Nikhil Kumar to join Mizoram Government
Nikhil Kumar is shortly being relieved to join Govt. of Mizoram.n He is 2002 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.
Sinha returns to Gujarat
B.K. Sinha Development Commissioner (Handlooms) in the Government of India has been prematurely re-patriated to the parent Gujarat cadre. He is 1975 batch IAS officer.
( We said this on July 23 )
Shekhar Dutt gets extension
Shekhar Dutt, IAS(MP:69) (Retd), Deputy National Security Adviser in the National Security Council Secretariat Shekhar Dutt has been granted extension for a period of six months with effect from 1st August. He is retired 1969 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.
( We said this on July 24 )
Amber Sen gets extension
Amber Sen Strategic Intelligence Adviser in the Cabinet Secretariat has been granted extension for a period of three months with effect from 1st August.He is retired1970 batch (RAS) officer.
Dilip Biswas re-patriated
Dilip Biswas presently working as Additional Financial Advisor in the Ministry of Defence(Finance) has been re-patriated to his parent cadre with immediate effect in order to enable him to avail the benefit of promotion to the next higher grade in the cadre. He is 1977 batch IDAS officer.
IPS officer 's deputation extended
Inter-Cadre deputation tenure of Ms Shobha Ohatkar, IPS(BH:90) from Bihar to Maharashtra has been extended for a period of 2 year beyond 30.6.2008.
Inter-cadre deputation tenure of IPS officer extended
Inter-cadre deputation tenure of Chitrangad from Uttarakhand to Uttar Pradesh has been extended for a period of two years beyond 25.8.2008.Chitrangad is 1996 batch IPS officer of UP cadre.
Anjali Prasad appointed JS IPP
Ms. Anjali Prasad has been appointed Joint Secretary, in the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion. She is 1983 batch IAS officer of Uttarakhand cadre.
Raut to join Election Commission
Akshay Kumar Rout has been appointed as Director General (Information Education & Communication), Election Commission of India (Joint Secretary level).He is 1984 batch IIS officer.
DRM's post in Delhi to fall vacant
With Delhi DRM BD Garg already on extention, DRM's post in Delhi is to fall vacant soon.
Five IG level vacancies in GoI
There are five IG level vacancies for IPS officers in the Government of India.
No IAS in Rail Bhawan
It is perhaps for the first time that there is no IAS in Rail Bhawan and the Railway Minister Mamta Banerjee is perhaps the only Minister not to have any IAS so far.
Strength of judges per million population may be increased
The strength of judges per million population may be increased from 10.5 to 50 judges per million, as per the recommendation of Law Commission,.
NRAA launches pilot projects
The NRAA has launched pilot projects in Chattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu, Tripura and Maharashtra for the integrated management of the forest land and the adjoining non forest land both private and public land for better productivity of agriculture sector, water yield, micro-enterprise and forest regeneration to find "out of box solutions" for the development administration and conservation of biodiversity.
1977 batch has dominance in Defence Ministry
It would not be an exaggeration to say that 1977 batch officers these days have dominance in Defence Ministry. They are RK Mathur, Sundaram and Shekhar Agarwal.
Process for Directors in Civil Aviation yet to commence
It is almost since the Civil Aviation Ministry has sought two incumbents to be appointed as Directors, but the process is yet to begin.
Rulmblings for Delhi Gymkhana club polls on
Rumblings & lobbying are going for the election of Delhi Gymkhana club to be held in September 2009.
IAS officer seeks clarification in West Bengal
1977 batch IAS officer AB Chakraborty, principal secretary of Paschimanchal Unnayan Affairs department in West Bengal has sought explanation from the Personnel and Administrative Reforms department why he was superseded for the ACS despite being the most senior of the lot .
Maliwal promoted in West Bengal
1983 batch IPS officer A.K.Maliwal is reportedly promoted to ADG without changing his substantive charge of C.M security.
IAS postings in West Bengal
D. Mukhopadhyaya Pr. Secretary, Finance will P.K.Pradhan as Pr. Secretary, U.D.Department today. Pradhan is moving to the GoI new assignment of D.G, NRHM. G.D.Gautam Will take over as Principal Secretary Energy . C.M.Bechawat, will be elevated to Pr. Secy, Finance.
IPS changes in Andhra Pradesh
R. Eswar Reddy will now be Inspector General, Intelligence Security. Batti Lal Meena will continue as Director, Vigilance and Security, APSRTC. V.V. Srinivasa Rao will be Joint Director of Andhra Pradesh Police Academy. Jitender has been posted as DIG (Training). N. Siva Sankar Reddy and Stephen Ravindra have been posted as SP of Karimnagar district and DCP of East Zone in Hyderabad city respectively.
Meghalaya DGP to continue
Latest information says that Meghalaya DGP Anil Pradhan is not been changed.
Former IAS convicted in Himachal Pradesh
Former 1979-batch officer, Rajmanai Tripathi has been convicted in Himachal Pradesh.
15 IPS get new postings in Uttar Pradesh
There has been an IPS reshuffle in Uttar Pradesh in which Superintendants of Police have been changed. The new postings are Alok Singh - Barabanki, RP Chaturvedi - Kanshiram Nagar, Sriparakash Tripathi - Jalaun, Vijay Kumar garg - Fatehpur, SR Aditya - Hathras, Om Prakash Sagar - Hardoi, Ramkumar - Sitapur, Pritinder Singh - Sonbhadra, Mrs. Manjit Saini - Mahoba, Upendra Kumar Agarwal - Commandant, 35th Batallion PAC - Lucknow, GP Kannaujia - Commandant, 37th Batallion PAC - Kanpur, Ramshankar - Commandant, 44th Batallion PAC - Meerut, Navnit Kumar - Commandant, 27th Batallion PAC - Sitapur, Kripa Shankar Singh - Commandant, 32nd Batallion PAC - Lucknow and Jitendra Prasad Singh - SP (Railways) Gorakhpur.
IAS reshuffle in Uttar Pradesh
There has been a major IAS reshuffle in Uttar Pradesh. The new postings are Santosh Srivastava - Special Secretary (Home), JB Sinha Secretary (Home), J Silvakumari - Joint Magistrate Jhansi, Roshan Jacob - Special secretary (Appointments) and Amit Gupta - State Project Director, Sarv Shiksha Abhiyaan. Besides, 15 District Magistrates have also been reshuffled. The new postings are K Ravindra Nayak - Lakhimpurkhiri, Anil Garg - Shahjahanpur, Pawan Kumar - Basti, Shankarlal Pandey - Sultanpur, Dinkar Prakash Dubey - Sant Kabir Nagar, Radhakrishna - Kanshiram Nagar, P Guruprasad - Fatehpur, Mrs. Samyukta Samaddar - Rampur, Saurabh Babu - Jalaun, Ranvir Prasad - lalitpur, AV Rajamauli - Bijnor, Vikas Gothwal - Barabanki., Rigjiyan Samphil - Pratapgarh and Balkar Singh - Hardoi.
Rina Ray appointed MD DTTDC
Secretary Arts and Culture in the Delhi Government has also been appointed MD of the DTTDC. She is 1984 batch IAS officer.
Nandita Das appointed Chairpersin of Children's Film Society
Ms. Nandita Das has been appointed as Chairperson of Children's Films Society of India for a period of three years.
1983 batch IA&AS officers get SAG
Ten officers of the 1983 batch of Indian Audit & Accounts Service (IAAS) have been promoted to the new Higher Administrative Grade (SAG), i.e. Rs. 67000-79000. Out of these 10 officers, 4 have been granted promotion on an NBR basis, as they are already either on deputation or on foreign postings
Sridhar is new Chairman of CBEC
V Sridhar has been appointed new Chairman of the Central Board of Excise and Cutoms (C&CE). 1973 batch IRS officer Sridhar will succeed P C Jha.
( We said this on June 16 and again on July 15 )
Vithal Das assumes charge as CBEC member
P.N. Vittal Das, IRS, Chief Commissioner of Central Excise, Vishakapatnam has joined as member Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) on Friday.
Majumdar assumes charge as CBEC member
S.D. Majumdar, Director General, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence who was recently appointed member Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) assumed charged on Friday..

47 Commissioners of Income tax transferred
As many as 47 Commissioners of Income Tax have been transferred. They are Anil Kumar from CIT(A)-11 to CIT(ITAT)-5, Ahmedabad, Sridhar Karavadi from CIT(ITAT)-5 to CIT(A)-11, Ahmedabad, Kaushalendra Kr. Singh from CIT(A)-1 to CIT(ITAT), Indore, Mukesh Chand Singhal from CIT(A)-2 to CIT(A)-1, Indore, Raj Kumar Choudhary CIT(ITAT)to CIT(A)-2, Indore, Y.A. Mabrukar from CIT-2 to CIT-4 Pune, Sunil Kumar Mishra from CIT-3 to CIT-2 Pune, Amresh Chander Shukla from CIT-4 to CIT-3 Pune, Tajinder Singh from CIT(A)-1 to DIT(TP)Pune, Surendra Kumar Pandey from DIT(TP) to CIT(Audit), Pune, Bommareddy Gangadhara Reddy from CCIT(CIB) to CIT{A)-1 Pune, Mitali Madhusmita from CIT (Audit) to CIT{CIB) Pune, R. Ravichandran from ADDL.DGIT (TRG)-1,NADT to ADDL. DGIT (TRG)-2 NADT Nagpur, M Tirumala Kumar from ADDL DGIT (TRG)-2, NADT to ADDL DGIT (TRG)-l, NADT Nagpur, V K Mishra from CIT-26 to CIT-14, Mumbai, Shiv Dayal Srivastava from CIT (ITAT)- 8 to CIT(A)-13 Mumbai, K C Ghumaria from CIT(ITAT) to CIT(A)-24 Mumbai, Anil Kumar from ClT(ITAT)-11 to CIT(A)-27 Mumba, Om Prakash Meena from CIT (ITAT)-12 to CIT(A)-31 Mumbai, Satyakam Mishra from CIT (OSD) (ITAT) to CIT(A)-15 Mumbai, Chet Ram from CIT(A)-13 to CIT(ITAT)-5 Mumba, Subachan Ram from CIT(A)-15 to CIT(OSD) (ITAT) Mumbai, Rang Nath Jha,ClT(A)-24 to CIT(ITAT}-8 Mumbai, Kumud Ranjan Das from ClT(A)-27 to CIT(ITAT)-11 Mumbai, Yeshwant U. Chavan from CIT(A)-31 to CIT(ITAT)-12 Mumbai, Satbir Singh from CIT(A)-1 to CIT(CIB) Chandigarh, Poonam Khaira Sidhu from CIT(CIB) to Director (RTI) Chandigarh, Neeraj Vinay Bansal from Director (RTI) to CIT(A)-1 Chandigarh, Subhash Mehra from CIT-3 to CIT(A)(C) Ludhiana, Kishore Kumar Sinha from CIT(A)(C) to CIT-3 Ludhiana, Surbhi Sinha from CIT-3 to to CIT(C)Jaipur, JL Basumatary from C1T(C) to CIT-3 Jaipur, Tapas Kumar Dutta from CIT-4 to CIT(lTAT)-2 Chennai, Bhagwan Das Gupta from CIT(ITAT)-2 to CIT(A)-1 Lucknow, Rajesh Chandra Sharma from CIT(A)-1 to CIT( AUDIT) Lucknow, Vivek Mishra from CIT (AUDIT) to CIT(ITAT)-2 Lucknow, Archana Ranjan from CIT-1 to CIT - 2 Agra, Neena Kumar from CIT-2 to CIT{A)-2 Agra, Hemant Kumar Sarangi from CIT (A) 2 to CIT(ITAT) Agra, Pomela Bali Prasad from CIT(ITAT) to CIT-1 Agra, D.P. Semwal from CIT(A)-1 to CIT(A)-2 Dehradun, Amalesh Bandopadhya from CIT(A)-2 to CIT(A}-1 Dehradun, Anand Kumar Agarwal from CIT(A)-2 to CIT(CO) Kanpur, Raj Kumar Lachhiramaka from CIT(CO) to CIT(A)-2 Kanpur, Suniti Srivastava from CIT(TDS) to CIT(AUDIT) Kanpur, Shyam Kumar from CIT (AUDIT) to CIT(TDS) Kanpur and Tejram Meena from CIT(DR) to CIT-15 Kolkata.

CORPORATE
Nagarajan is Director (Finance) Power Finance Corporation
Nagarajan will now be Director (Finance ) in Power Finance Corporation India
SAIL registers PBT of Rs. 2005.91 in Q1
The Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) registered a profit before tax (PBT) of Rs. 2005.91 crore in Q1 of 2009. This is a significant drop of 28 per cent as compared to the figures the last year. Announcing the Q1 details Chairman and Managing Director of SAIL S.K. Roongta attributed the slowdown to the general global recession. Announcing the Q1 results, Roongta said: "In spite of downturn continuing in global steel markets, the overall demand scenario in India is encouraging. Although input cost pressures are easing now, SAIL's thrust on operational and cost efficiencies will be intensified in the current and subsequent quarters and we aim to achieve best ever capacity utilisation during the year."
Roongta said that PAT registered was Rs 1326.09 crore (lower by 27.7%) during Q1 of the current financial year. The company's net turnover at Rs. 8,950.64 crore was lower by 16.5% over the corresponding period last year (CPLY). These unaudited financial results of SAIL were taken on record here today by the company's Board of Directors.
The adverse impact of input price increases, especially of coking coal by almost 49% (Rs. 868 crore), and drop in steel prices was partially neutralised by higher production and sales volumes, increase in special/value-added steel production, improved operational parameters and aggressive cost efficiencies, resulting in savings to the extent of about Rs. 570 crore during Q1. Domestic sales grew by about 5% over CPLY with best-ever Q1 sales of value-added products.
CMD NACIL Arvind Jadhav is hopeful of a turn around in one year
Arvind Jadhav Chairman and Managing Director of National Aviation
Company of India Limited (NACIL) i.e. Air India is hopeful of a turn
around in Air India in 12 months. Jadhav who is an IAS officer of the
1978 batch from the Karnataka cadre had assumed charge in May 2009 &
that too when the company's losses touched all time high mark. Jadhav
is working very hard & is hoping that the scenario will change.
In an interview to <whispersinthecorridors.com> he shared his views.
Here are excerpts of his interview:
Do you believe that a turn around in National Aviation Company of
India Limited (NACIL) i.e. Air India is possible?
Answer: We have got instruments, facilities & manpower. With all these
three factors being there the company may be able to achieve a turn
around if we are given a proper direction & proper platform.
What is needed for the turn around?
Answer: Unfortunately there has been complacency in the system besides
lack of financial control and a weak supervision have led to such a
situation. Even faulty business processes contributed for losses.
What do you intend to do?
Answer: I want to empower officers & engineers so that decision
making is decentralized.
Will Havelkar be Special Secretary R&AW ?

Forum
(The views expressed in this column are of the contributors. We do not owe any responsibility, whatsoever, of the views of our surfers as they are their personal opinion)
PM mislead !
The only conclusion that emerges out of PM's reply in the Lok Sabha on 29/07/09 is that he has been ill briefed on Indo-Pak relations! India cannot afford a disoriented satellite for a Prime Minister. First the epic blunder of signing a very badly drafted joint declaration at Sherm (it is the foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon who has admitted publicly that the text of the declaration was badly drafted)and later justifying the unjustifiable, defending the undefendable, selling clarifications no one is prepared to buy.
No sensible Indian can ever be opposed to having friendly relations with our neighbours, Pakistan included. Similarly no one, excepting Dr Manmohan Singh himself, opposes any dialogue with Pakistan-composite or non-composite. The question is: was the Prime Minister insincere to the nation when he threatened not to have the composite dialogue with Pakistan after the attack on Mumbai on 26/11/08? Was it a mere ploy to fool the people, who were angry, hurt and sought credible action from the government? Did the government only fool the people to buy time by making such grandiose declaration in the belief that people will soon forget the carnage of 26/11 and the so called 'spirit of Mumbai' will take over as had in the past? Sherm was the orientation all through, one suspects. Is this how the internal security of India is assured by this government? What, then, is the justification of dropping the Home Minister Shivraj Patil from the cabinet? Can the Home Minister ensure internal security if he faces opposition from the Prime Ministerial establishment and ignorant foreign policy mandarins? Can a deterrent be ever substituted by a dialogue or a badly drafted declaration signed on a foreign land? Pakistan has always employed talks to buy time to reduce the heat on it and improve its image in the comity of nations, till it embarks upon another misadventure. It is not going to give up its well crafted foreign policy in relations to India merely because Manmohan Singh happens to be the interlocutor at a given point of time.
Including Balochistan in the declaration reveals total bankruptcy of foreign policy mandarins. But justifying it by saying Gilani complained and we said we are an open book and so included it in the declaration is childish lie. If the Indian foreign policy makers are so naive, better they are replaced without any fuss. They have angered the nation. Even the Kayani establishment must be laughing at us and complimenting their politicians for extracting from India what they have failed after fighting and losing several wars: saddling India with a feeling of guilt for acts not committed. Now it can go to its patrons and justify its demands for foreign aid and enlist their support against acts of terrorism against India in the name of perceived Indian military action in Kashmir or elsewhere on the border with Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Regan has been quoted without his dictum against India in Indo-Pak armed skirmishes. Has the foreign office forgotten the American statements in the backdrop of Indo-Pak war of 1965, 1971 and the Kargil war or they don't want to quote them or they too consider these wars, like some motormouths, as the wars of Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Atal Vihari Bajpaye and not this government's wars. Shall I quote for them what Babu Jagjivan Ram said in 1971 on receiving the threat of the moving of the 7th Fleet into the Indian Ocean? The foreign office can not and ought not be allowed to bracket Indo-American relations & Indo-Pak relations. The people of India understand the reasons for the cacophony of sweet relations with Pakistan, but too much of show does the actors in. Trust but verify is a fine example of diplomacy. It was okay for a country which had always treated the USSR as the 'devil'. Its entire policy was targetted at destruction of communism and disintegration of the Soviet Union. It made no bones about it. India's leanings towards the USSR were resented by America. America had come forward to help India in its movement for freedom and thereafter. India used to get most of its foreign technology from America. The Americans did not want their intellectual property to fall into wrong hands. India could not assure them of this simple precaution and was denied technology transfer after 1980. What for India indulge in the expensive luxury of trust and verify? We have no interest in Pakistan the way the Americans had in the USSR! So India can take no shelter behind the Regan quote. Our foreign policy mandarins need to extend their reading beyond what is imparted to them in the training programmes in the USA under the Indo-American fellowship programmes free, with liberal out of pocket expenses.
Pakistan has only a semblance of a democracy; it is not a full democracy. It can never be more than a semi-democracy and that too for a limited period. The real power is in the Army. Pakistan is a theocratic country and can simply not practice full democracy. Civilian as well as military governments will never have more room to practice democracy beyond a limit. That beats all claims of democracy in Pakistan hollow.
Why has India landed itself in this piquant situation? It is because we have compromised with well laid down principles of administration; especially recruitments, appointments, postings and promotions. We have in practice promoted the American spoils system at the cost of British system, which the institutional organisation of the Government Of India is supposed to practice. This organisation fails to accommodate the spoils system. And here lies the origin of such bad drafts, bad declarations, ill briefings of the PM or his Cabinet or his Ministers. The bitter truth is: nobody takes decisions. Nobody is prepared to open his/her mouth for the risks involved are too great.
Do you think I could have been so forthright were I serving the Government when Sherm was signed or defended in Parliament? You better know the answer!
M L Gupta

She is a "VIDUSHI"
Vijay Laxmi Gupta is a Gold Medal winner at the N.D.C. People who have interacted with her know that she is a "VIDUSHI". The commission will very much benefit by this honest and upright officer. I congratulate the selectors for this right choice!
Brig. M. K. Purohit (Retd).
All others except the IAS brass are also slaves
This is regarding comments offered on second class citizens about recommendations of VI Pay Commission and its subsequent benefits. I fully agree. All others except the IAS brass are not only second class citizens but they are treated as slaves as it used to be during British Raj when there were two types of Government Servants i.e. A Gora and a Kala babu the culture has enormously widened the gap in 62 years of Independence. Thanks to Civil Servants who Rule this Country.
Harish Kumar
Who needs Air India?
The mess in Air India/ Indian Airlines/ Indian that has been plaguing this govt. owned public sector is not new and has been continuing for years. It is rightly said that the govt. has no business to be in business. About a decade or so ago there might have been some need of having a national carrier when private capital was either not forthcoming in a sector like this or the govt. wanted to have the private sector out. In the current scenario the bail out of a seriously sick organization seems to hold no logic. Who are the likely beneficiaries of the proposed largesse of the government? Is it going to benefit an ordinary air traveler or is it for the benefit of the vested interests in politics and bureaucracy? Is it a bail out package for those who are not willing to compete on any of the parameters of service deliverance and want to enjoy their lives at the cost of tax payer's money? In the interest of millions of poor of the country, it is time for the government to get out of this 'business' and spend the tax payer's money more wisely by creating better social infrastructure to provide education and health facilities which are still not available to millions of poor people even after more than six decades of independence.
R Singh
Implement transfer policy fairly
It is believed that CBDT wants to post CIT level officers according to seniority, i.e. juniors to ITAT and seniors to Appeal charges/Administrative charges. Even amongst appeal/administrative charges, it wants to post relatively senior CITs to corporate charges and juniors to non-corporate charges. All this is fine. But what CBDT should see is the posting profile of a CIT till now. If a CIT has already done corporate appeals/corporate administrative CIT work for two years or more ,it is time for him to move to ITAT or to non-corporate charges. Otherwise, the transfer policy can never be implemented in a fair manner.
D Singh
Meeting failed to produce new agreements
"Wrapping up two days of talks in Washington," a report in the Financial Times says, "the US and China sought to present a common front on economic co-operation but remained at odds over climate change at the end of top-level consultations that highlighted Beijing's growing confidence and assertiveness. While both sides hailed the importance of consulting with each other - and confirmed that President Barack Obama would visit China later this year - the meeting failed to produce any extensive new agreements."
The following Foreign Policy briefing book examines the US policy agenda and strategy toward China -- where and how the battle lines are being drawn between the "functionalists" and the "strategists." While the "functionalists" are winning now, will the "strategists" win over the longer term? That's a question that will be hotly debated both in the US and India.
Cheers,
Ram Narayanan
US-India Friendship
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Tail-piece
Does Management know their Staff?
On walking into the factory, the Managing Director of the company
noticed a young guy leaning against the wall, doing nothing.
He approached the young man and calmly said to him,
"How much do you earn?"
The young man was quite amazed
that he was asked such a personal question,
he replied, none the less, "I earn $ 2000.00 a month,
Sir. Why?"
Without answering, the MD took out his wallet
and removed $6000.00 cash and gave it to the young man and said,
"Around here I pay people for working,
not for standing around looking pretty!
Here is your 3 months salary, now GET OUT and don't come back".
The young man turned around and was quickly out of sight.
Noticing a few onlookers, the MD said in a very upset manner,
"And that applies to everybody in this company".
He approached one of the onlookers and asked him, "Who's the young man
I just fired?"
To which an amazing reply came - "He was the pizza delivery guy , Sir!"
Contributed by-Satya Singal