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Vijay Kumar to move Delhi?
As the grapevine has it K. Vijay Kumar who is Director of the Hyderabad located National Police Academy (NPA) is moving to Delhi next month as either Police Commissioner Delhi or as head of NIA as its incumbent chief Radha Vinod Raju will be retiring shortly. Vijay Kumar is 1975 batch IPS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre.Names of B K Gupta and Neeraj Kumar are also doing the round for the post of Police Commissioner Delhi.
Alok Perti to be Mission Director?
Alok Perti is likely to be appointed Mission Director of the National Rural Health Mission in the Ministry of Health. He is 1977 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
Amitabh Verma gets another extension
Amitabh Verma Joint Secretary in Department to Financial Services has been granted another three months extension beyond June 30. He is 1982 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.
Raghuvanshi is new ATS Chief in Maharashtra
K.P. Raghuvanshi has been appointed as the chief of the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS)in Maharashtra. He is 1980 batch IPS officer.
IPS officer on compulsory wait
West Bengal Government has put Basudev Bag on Compulsory wait. He is 1990 batch IPS officer.
Meena is new Commissioner BBMP in Karnataka
Bharat Lal Meena has been appointed Commissioner of the BBMP in place of S Subramanya. He is 1985 batch IAS officer. S.S. Pattanashetty has been appointed Managing Director, Rajiv Gandhi Housing Corporation Ltd., Bangalore, in place of H.V. Parshwanath.
IPS postings in TamilNadu
R Nataraj will now be DGP (Fire and rescue services). Shyam Sundar has been appointed DG in charge of prisons.
IPS reshuffle in Jharkhand
There is IPS reshuffle in Jharkhand. New postings are Mssrs:-Sudhir Kumar Jha SP Sahebganj, Akhilesh Jha SP Chaibasa, Narendra Kumar Singh, SP , Parmeshwar Ravidas SP Special Branch, Mohit Bundas SP Palamau, another rebel zone. Saket Kumar Singh SP Garhwa,Kranti Kumar Gardesh SP Koderma, T. Kandaswamy SP (rail), Dhanbad, Anup T. Mathew SP (rural), Vijay Lakshmi SP of Ranchi city, Richard Lakra SP (rail) in Jamshedpur. Kamlesh Kumar SP (traffic) in Ranchi while Dadanjee Sharma will replace him, Jatin Narwal SP PHQ,.Nandu Prasad, waiting for posting, has been made DIG in the special branch.
Pillai joins as OSD in MHA
Gopal Krishna Pillai has joined as the officer on special duty in the home ministry and will assume the charge as the home secretary after present incumbent Madhukar Gupta retires on June 30. He is 1972 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.
Mr Pillai, a 1972 batch IAS officer from
Chaubey is now PS to Dinesh Trivedi
OSD to Union Civil Aviation Minister Prafulla Patel,. Kamal Nain Chaubey has Joined as Private Secretary (PS) to Union Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare, Shri Dinesh Triviedi.He is 1986 batch IPS officer of Jharkhand cadre.
IPS officers get SAG
Over two dozen Indian Postal Service officers have been given SAG.They are Mssrs :- AK Poddar (1987) to be GM RPLI PLI Dte,Gautam Bhatacharya (1987) to be PMG Kolkota city region, Smitha Kumar (1987) on deputation,SC Barmma (1987) on deputation,.B Chandrasekhar (1987) to be PMG (MR) Mumbai,LN Sharma (1987) to be PMG (Ops) Delhi circle,Alka Jha Mishra (1987) to be PMG Fgn Post Delhi,PK Swain (1987) on deputation, SM Alexander (1987) on deputation, SR Meena (1987) to be PMG Kanpur Region, UP,Anurag aindri (1988) to be DDG (CP), Dte,. HC Aggarwal (1988) on deputation, Anjali Anand (1988) PMG Rajkot GJ, Sanjay Saran (1988) on deputation, VP Singh (1988) on deputation,V Rajarajan (1988) to be PMG Coimbatore, M Sampath (1988) to be PMG Vijayawada, AP, PD Tshering (1988) on deputation, Manju Pandey (1988) on deputation,DV Mahesh (1988) on deputation,RK Kashyap (1989) to be DDG (PG) Dte, Anju Nigam (1988) on deputation, VK Tewari (1988) on deputation, Meera Tshering (1988) on deputation and Sharda Sampath (1988) to be PMG Vizag, AP.
Johny Joseph creates a record
Johny Joseph, Chief Secretary of Maharashtra, has created a record of sorts. He has worked with five Chief Ministers including Narayan Rane, Manohar Joshi, Vilas Rao Deshmukh, Sushil Kumar Shinde and Ashok Chavan in the same capacity.
Roy to be DGP of Maharashtra on August 1
This is now certain that A.N. Roy will again take over as Director General of Police of Maharashtra on August 1 after the retirement of S.S. Virk. He is a 1972 batch IPS officer.
40 Ministers forward names of their PSs
Out of 79 Indian Ministers, only 40 have forwarded the names of their private secretaries (PSs) to the Ministry of Personnel for their appointment. As per sources, some ministers are looking for younger and some for trusted people, which are causing the delay in proper staffing.
Ritesh Kumar Singh to be Director, DEA
Ritesh Kumar Singh on Central deputation is poised to join as a Director in the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) in July. He is an IAS officer of the 1996 batch who belongs to the Karnataka cadre.
Edwin K.Majhi is poised to be Jt. Secy in GOI
As the grapevine has it Edwin K. Majhi who is Director Revenue on Central deputation is poised to join as a Joint Secretary. He is an IAS officer of the 1989 batch who belongs to the Kerala cadre.
Ms.Upma Shrivastava to join APPA course next month
Ms.Upma Shrivastava who was Joint Secretary Agriculture is set to join nine months long APPA course in the New Delhi located Indian Institute of Public Affairs (IIPA). It will commence on July 1, 2009.
Shankar joins GoI
Bhagwan Shankar Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Sports & Youth Affairs Department Sikkim Government has joined the GoI as Director, Census Operation, Sikkim, Gangtok, on deputation. He is a 1988 batch IAS officer.
Order for posting Meena as NHRC Joint Secy issued
According to sources orders of J.P. Meena, who is Principal Secretary Agriculture and Agriculture Production Commissioner (APC) with the Assam Government, for going on central deputation to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has been issued. He will be Joint Secretary in NHRC. He is an IAS officer of the 1983 batch & belongs to the Assam cadre.
(We said this on April 23, 2009)
Vivek Harinarain joins MARG Constructions
Former IT Secretary of Tamil Nadu Vivek Harinarain has reportedly joined MARG Constructions as Executive Director-Industrial Parks at a reported salary of Rs.1.5 crores per annum. He had resigned from the IAS some time ago.
Book on Education by Pawan Agarwal
Pawan Agarwal, IAS (1985) has written a book - Indian higher education: Envisioning the future, published by Sage (India) recently. He was Director in the HRD Ministry and then Financial Advisor (UGC). He was Fulbright New Century Scholar on higher education from India in 2005-06 and now the recipient of the Australian Endeavour Executive Award. With special thrust on higher education, this book is likely to be a useful resource to inform policy both for the centre and states.

CORPORATE
Post of Director (Pers) vacant in ECIL
The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) is seeking qualified candidates for the post of Director (Pers), Electronics Corporation of India Ltd. (ECIL). Applications of the aspirants for the same are required to be forwarded to PESB by July 6, 2009 along with their updated bio-data (in the prescribed form).
Ashit Kukian elevated as President-Sales of Radio City
Ashit Kukian has been elevated as President-Sales of Radio City
Kukian has over two decades experience in media industry.
Yannick Colaco elevated as COO Nimbus Communications
Yannick Colaco has been elevated as Chief Operating Officer of Nimbus
Communications, Nimbus Sport. Yannick Colaco was the Executive Vice President in the company. Colaco is now going to look after Nimbus Sport's including the Indian cricket board's media rights, commercial partnerships with the Asian Cricket Counci.
etc,

Aaj Ki Aawaz
No end to BJP's pain!!!
Loss's pain raises its head again and again!!!
Advani should let go and retire!!!!
In fact post election results I felt apne aap ko Advani karre ga fire!!!!
Advani should realize his continuance is preventing BJP from rebounding!!!!!
Very morose BJP Leaders are sounding!!!
Confidence is low and BJP Leaders seem to be confused!!!!
Bhawandar is the word that is being used!!!!
For BJP to recover first its disease/s have to be diagnosed and then comes the cure!!!
But with Advani refusing to let this happen the disease/s BJP will have to endure!!!
As I see it just for the trappings of power Advani is sticking on!!!
He's not listening to his inner voice but heeding advice of his biwi, beti and son!!!
Rahul hope you've noted that inexperience made Omar handle a recent flashpoint badly!!
He simply did not have the experience sadly!!!!
Had there been an experienced person in the Chair!!!!
Public's outcry he would not dare!!!
That is why I keep saying that you should get experience …and plenty of it if I may say!!
Don't got the Omar way!!!
As a Minister in Vajpayee's Sarkaar it was all fun and games for him!!!
Page 3 parties, holidays, wheeling and dealing and gym!!!
Its Laloo's 62nd birthday and NCP's tenth anniversary and both have nothing to celebrate!
In fact its time to deliberate!!!
Laloo should deliberate on 'what now'????
He should help form his soothsaying cow!!!
By the looks of it he's not going to make a comeback in Bihar!!!!
For him its going to be haar pe haar!!!
NCP needs to contemplate on returning to the Congress fold!!!
In its fortress (Maharashtra) it's loosing its hold!!!
And by now Pawar should realize his PM dream is unrealistic!!
And time he became realistic!!!
Pawar is definitely not PM material and now he knows he's just an 8 seat 'mini' player!!!
And Pawar is cribbing under the external calm and unruffled layer!!!
Thankfully this FM does not have a 'Stock Market' fixation like the previous one!!
And he does not have a 'Stock Market' fixated son!!
If the Stock Market thinks that this FM will do everything to get from them a 'thumbs up'!
Then this is just one more Brokers gupp!!!
My prognosis is that Markets will go from bubble to bubble!!!
Make a bubble and the bubble bursts and Market karre ga tumble!!!
Then again a bubble will be made and again it will burst!!!!
So like they say when you drive 'safety first'!!!
They say if you are not greedy ho nahi sakthe aap rook!!!
Take the example of this Jadeja who in the garb of a Godman was an ordinary crook!!!
But I'd say many of his victims were desperate,
Some had to get daughters married and some money for treatment that could not wait!
Confucius says……. for the greedy lot …..dal roti khao Prabhoo ke gunn gao!!!!
Aur Bhagwan ji janta ko aise dacoits se bachao!!!
Bharat Kumar
aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

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Govt of India is the largest litigant

It is indeed shocking that there are 45,000 cases pending before the 17 CAT benches. These are obviously the cases filed by the disgruntled civil servants, most of who do not belong to IAS. The CAT bench comprises of a Judicial member and an Administrative member, who has done 5 years in the Additional Secretary scale .This clearly means that officers from services other than IAS seldom become eligible now for posting as CAT members. This institution requires to be strengthened so that there is time-bound disposal of cases and the number of benches required to be increased manifold so that the pendency is reduced substantially. The eligibility condition also requires to be modified so that it is not loaded in favour of IAS. One can have Administrative members, who have completed the qualifying service of 33 years in Group A. Any grievance even if wrong requires early redressal to boost the morale of the work force, and a delayed arm chair response without accountability will never help the cause.
Ranjan Sahay
Initiate administrative reforms
Well following this site for quite some time I came across police reforms and age extension many times. I am apalled that even after 26/11 IAS brass and politicians are still so soporofic on administrative reforms. Despite the presence of great institution builders like Manmohan Singh and others sycophants in the form of babus and TBM (as reffered by Laloo) netas have emerged victorious in blocking these reforms as passing of these will lead to reduction of their powers. I request all such people to rise above all these malpractices otherwise there will be no difference between such people (netas and babus) and the terrorists.
JAI HIND
TN
Rahul Gandhi's terror on cabinet !!!
I told you so, on this website. Some of the younger ministers will carry lot of head weight while dealing with bureaucrats. Stories have already started pouring in. It is now confirmed that now even the already thin dividing line between the GOI and the Congress party, has altogether vanished into thin air!
The IAS officers are being planted to keep a watch on their ministers and keep Rahul Gandhi informed about their misdemeanours, if any! Fair enough. But, the disturbing fact is that the expertise of IAS officers, if there is any, is being totally wasted by posting them as PSs, OSDs etc to ministers including those in the so-called "ATM"(Read as cash-rich) ministries. The postings of IAS officers as PSs, OSDs etc to ministers was, strangely enough, announced by your website with great fanfare as though Cabinet Secretaries were appointed. Are the ministers of no consequence! Some Ministers, barring a few honourable exceptions, cannot control the hard- core bureaucracy. Some cannot even record their views on files, in their own hand, let alone articulate them. Sometimes, I feel, can India not switch over to the Presidential form of democracy, instead of the existing Westminster's type?
These views are expressed without malice towards any one.
A.K. Saxena (A retired civil servant)
No Terror of Rahul Gandhi
It is useless to say that there is a Rahul terror among the Union Cabinet to contain corruption. Persons close to Rahul have started acts of corruption from the day one which were not heard during the time of last Ministers. As and when their deed will be made public by the media it will be a matter of great shame to you, who are doing chamchagiri and to Rahul if he is really serious about corruption.
Neelkanth
We expect proper deal
With taking over of the new minister for environment and forest the officers of Indian forest service are hoping to get proper deal. The service has suffered a lot because of severe domination of IAS in the ministry and deliberate mismanagement of IFS cadre. There is a need to overhaul the ministry where the same people keep coming again and again as they have developed vested interest.
A.K. Singh
Home Minister is absolutely right
If the whisper to the effect that the HM has asked the IB for inputs instead of mere English drafts is true, then he will be the first Home Minister of India to have recognised the tragic language deficit, which alone contributes to the extent of 98% of internal security problems faced by the MHA. Our English alone using services in their bureaucratic mindset want to hear only English, speak only English and write only English. While there can be no quarrel at all with the power of the English language in this century of globalised transactions, it never meant and does not mean that the "local" has lost all value or the global has rendered it irrelevant. On the contrary, it has enhanced the need of the local. What is presented to us as the "naxal" problem is the best example of this disconnect between the local(aspirations, dreams, frustrations, grievances, cries for justice social/economic/political/ judicial/human) and the "crats" handling it in the style of the old Britishers a-la the infamous Dyer or the treatment being meted out to peace loving Indian students abroad.
We have no clues to handle either, for we have accumulated excessively high amount of deficit on both counts. The very fact that naxal misguided response is being painted as a problem akin or perhaps worse than terrorism speaks volumes(naxalism is a mere metaphor and the numbers can go on adding from the dacoit problem in the Chambal ravines or insurgency in north, east or west or maoists elsewhere or leftism in West Bengal or underworld in metros or the mafiosis or drug peddling or bootlegging or stamp paper scam or stock market scam or banking scams or exam paper leaks or the leaking national character)is evidence of the disconnect. The only remedy lies in high skills in all the Indian languages, with special emphasis on Schedule VIII languages and due respect and rightful use of the Official Language of the Union of India. We know that our missions in foreign countries need to necessarily have officials who can handle local language(s) deftly.
The All India Radio broadcasts in more than 170 languages. The number of live languages in India exceeds 6000.Those not in use currently are even more valuable. In this scenario, the Home Ministry must have acquired the highest proficiency of all languages by now for the diligent discharge of its duties(the President of India & the govt. have to accept any petition filed before them in any language and it is the responsibility of the Home Ministry to get it translated into English or Hindi).
As against it, the ministry, I deeply regret to state, has not handled even the Rajbhasha properly. The bureaucrat never wants a posting as secretary to the GOI (Rajbhasha). He bemoans his bad luck (exceptions are role models for all civil services, but the effective ones are the disgruntled lot). It is only when they are not getting adjusted anywhere else that they accept the posting, but start tireless efforts to get a "better" posting. The real powerful ones succeed soon, others in less than a year but some even three months before retirement( there being no chances of post retirement assignments here and any number there).Those who try to strengthen the organisation are actively discouraged. Even then, there is need for a language school of the MHA, to train the personnel from all wings of the MHA in languages. It alone will facilitate gathering relevant information for inputs for the ministry, analysis of the developing situations before they acquire the status of a problem and devise fair and just responses to them. Special pay packages will need to be allowed to personnel capable of handling more than three languages with felicity as a graduate in the concerned language would do. There is no turf war feared with the HRD ministry, whose jurisdiction covers teaching/learning languages, since MHA is devising specialised training in languages for application to real life situations ( so to say lab to land application).The MHA and for that matter the entire GOI loses significant data in translation, rendering official judgement vitiated and decision flawed. Consequences in such situations turn out to be costly. If police personnel understood the nuances of the language they would never use offending language; if they learn good manners and etiquette, they would hesitate to touch the person of a citizen of India on the basis of complaint or suspicion.
Where is the need to be rough and rude to the person if he willingly cooperates? I decided to write my IAS etc Exam after I overheard a police officer putting his danda on the tummy of his subordinate in the thana premises in full public view and delivering his honey quoted message thus "saale teri tond fod doonga...It was in the Lords 1961 but there seems to be no visible improvement. I now seldom visit my place, but whenever I go I try to see any signs of civility. Alas, I can give you no quote!
M.L. Gupta
CAT imposes fine on Road Transport &Highways Ministry
Reference the above named article in Whispers on June 3, 2009, it is really shocking how the bureaucrats are working deceitfully in Ministry of Road Transport & Highways. Whether such officers should be allowed to continue? Why government of India should not remove these officers? In June 4, 2009 edition of Leading National dailies, there are news items with heading "Indian Bureaucracy worst in Asia". The present Congress led Government has also made 100 days programme for giving "Clean Government". Even Rahul Gandhi, the future PM of India is also closely monitoring the efforts of the government to fight corruption. It is high time that all officers of Government of India irrespective of cadre and service join hands in removing bureaucrats who are working deceitfully and are bringing bad name to government.
Pranav Goel
Matter of concern
The runaway rise in sensex is a matter of concern, since it does not relate to any change in fundamentals, but perhaps only to FII inflow. Ordinary investors (small, that is ) should be careful, lest they lose their hard eaned money
S. Chatterjee
It is about government's intention to improve governance and to encourage private sector in critical infrastructure.
Regulatory bodies are an important innovation but the same people from the administrative ministry join it. How is it that the same people would perform better in the new institution while with their previous employer they failed the country?
Secondly, take the case of Airport Economic Regulatory Authority of India. Regulation can not miss pricing issue. Pricing is economics. The name of the authority highlights economic yet there are no posts of economists when 400 odd new posts are created.
This is how Government is led to function.
No wonder there is increasing disconnect between expenditure and outcome in this country. Laments all.
Ramarama Prasad
TAIL-PIECE
ONLY THE ENGLISH COULD HAVE INVENTED THIS LANGUAGE
We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
Then shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I speak of my foot and show you my feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that, and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim!
Let's face it - English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;
neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England ..
We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes,
we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square,
and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing,
grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend.
If you have a bunch of o! dds and ends
and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English
should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
We ship by truck but send cargo by ship.
We have noses that run and feet that smell.
We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway.
And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,
while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language
in which your house can burn up as it burns down,
in which you fill in a form by filling it out,
and in which an alarm goes off by going on.
And, in closing, if Father is Pop, how come Mother's not Mop?
And
IF PEOPLE FROM POLAND ARE CALLED POLES THEN PEOPLE FROM HOLLAND SHOULD BE HOLES AND THE GERMANS, GERMS!
By-A Visitor