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Who will be new BSF DG ?
Home Ministry has reportedly short-listed DG NSG N P S Aulakh and Special Secretary Home Raman Srivastava for the post of DG BSF.
Mohan Parasaran to be re-appointed Additional Solicitor General
Mohan Parasaran is being re-appointed one of the Additional Solicitors-General (ASG).
Gopal Subramaniam to be Solicitor General!
In all probability Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam will succeed Gulam Vahanvati as Solicitor General.
Chandok to be Additional Solicitor General!
Name of Amarjit Singh Chandok is now doing the round for the post of Additional Solicitor General.
Vahanvati appointed Attorney General
Goolam E.Vahanvati, Senior Advocate has been appointed as Attorney General for India for a period of three years with effect from 8th June 2009 (forenoon).
IAS officer quits
Dinesh Kumar Tyagi has resigned from service to join the private sector. He is 1981 batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.
Samar Ray appointed SAT Member
Sanar Ray has been appointed Member of the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT).He is 1973 batch IA&AS officer.
( We said this on January 20 )
Praveen Kakkar is OSD to Kantilal Bhuria
Praveen Kakkar former police officer of Madhya Pradesh Police has joined as O.S.D.to Indian Tribal Affairs Minister Kanti Lal Bhuria.
Manoj Kumar Agrawal is PS to Mrs.Krishna Tirath
Manoj Kumar Agrawal is Private Secretary (PS) to Mrs. Krishna Tirath Indian Minister for Women & Child Development. Earlier, he had joined as PS to Indian Tribal Affairs Minister Kanti Lal Bhuria.
Rajesh Kumar is PS to Veerappa Moily
Rajesh Kumar, IAS -1988 batch, Kerala cadre has joined as Private Secretary (PS) to Veerappa Moily Indian Law and Justice Minister. Sources said since Rajesh is empannelled will Joint Secretary with Government of India (GOI); shortly he will join as OSD to the Minister.
Kamal Nayan Chaubey likely to shift
Kamal Nayan Chaubey, IPS, 1986 batch, Jharkhand cadre who is currently working as OSD to Prafful Patel Indian Civil Aviation Minister is likely to go with some other Minister as Private Secretary (PS).
J.K. Saha is EDPG to Ms.Mamta Banerjee
J. K. Saha a railway cadre officer has Joined Ms. Mamta Banerjee, Indian Railway Minister as EDPG.
Tapan Ray is APS to Ms.Mamta Banerjee
Tapan Ray a former officer of Govt. of India has joined Ms. Mamta Banerjee Indian Railway Minister as APS.
Rakesh Singh is PS to Muniappa
Rakesh Singh, IAS - 1989 batch, Karnataka cadre has joined as Private Secretary (PS)to Minister of State for Railways, Muniappa .
Hemant Katwar is PS to E Ahmed
Hemant Katwar, Indian Foriegn Service (IFS) has joined E. Ahmed, Minister of State for Railwaysas as Private Secretary (PS).
K. N. Yadav shifted to Railway Board
K. N. Yadav who was JDPG to former Indian Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav has been transferred to JD (Vigilance) Traffic in Railway Board.
Vijay Kumar to be promoted in NPA
K. Vijay Kumar is being promoted to the rank of DG in the National Police Academy, Hyderabad. He is 1975 batch IPS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.
Will Bal Apte be new BJP President?
Grapevine has it that Bal Apte is being appointed new President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is considered close to the RSS.
Ministers will not dictate appointment of secretaries
It is now clear that this time around, the Ministers will not have much say in the appointment of Secretaries. They will not be able dictate terms as has been the case in the earlier regimes.
Bala Bhaskar joins MEA
Bala Bhaskar on his return from RPO Hyderabad has joined as Director in the Latin America Division of MEA. He is 1993 batch IFS officer.
Gift for life
Railway Ministers were unlucky during elections. Ministers of State Rathwa and Velu lost their safe seats. The then Cabinet Minister Laloo could retain his seat with a narrow margin. To compensate for this, just before leaving, Lalooji passed an order that all ex-Railway Ministers will be entitled to absolutely unlimited number of free passes for any number of journeys till they die. And, the free journeys are not for them alone. Ex-cabinet Ministers will be entitled to four berths and ex-Ministers of State to two berths in First AC class. Who says Indian politicos lack vision and foresight?
Ministers are opposed to predecessors
It seems most of the Union Ministers are opposed to their successors. And, that is the reason every new Minister wants to undo selections made by their predecessors.
Anand Sharma changes entire set up of Kamal Nath
Is Commerce Minister Anand Sharma allergic to his predecessor Kamal Nath? This is evident from the fact that Sharma has changed the entire official set up right from top to bottom in the Commerce Ministry.
Mileage points earned on official tours not to be used for private travel
The mileage points earned on account of travel for official tours/visits shall not be used for purposes of private travel in the form of free companion tickets or other variations thereof by a Government servant or members of his (or her) family failing which a government servant would be liable for departmental action.
Hunt for new ITDC chief commences
Search committee has finalised broad parameters for selection of new Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) of the ITDC. As it is incumbent CMD Pervez Dewan is serving his extended tenure that was extended for one month more. He is an IAS officer of the 1977 batch who belongs to the Jammu & Kashmir cadre.
Promotion of Postal Service officers in SAG soon
As the grapevine has it nearly 30 officers belonging to the Indian Postal Service (IPS) will soon get elevated to Senior Administrative Grade (SAG). The file is lying with the Minister for Posts.
APPA course to commence on July 1, 2009
Nine month long APPA course in the New Delhi located Indian Institute of Public Affairs (IIPA) will commence on July 1, 2009.
Incumbent for NSG (OPS) to be finalized by June 20
As the grapevine has it new incumbent for the post of IG (Operations) in National Security Guard (NSG) is going to be finalized by June 20, 2009. There are three Major Generals of the Indian Army who are in fray for the slot. They are: Kataria, Gill & Bhardwaj. As it is Maj. Gen. Abhay Kumar Gupta who is IG (Operations) with National Security Guard (NSG) is due to retire on June 30, 2009.
Alok Kumar is CVO of Sports Authority of India
Alok Kumar has been appointed Chief Vigilance Officer in the Sports Authority of India. He is an IRS (IT) officer of 1990 batch.
Chakravarty to retire this month end
S. Chakravarty DG rank officer in Maharashtra is retiring by this month end. He is 1972 batch IPS officer.
Ms Ranjana Jha to return to the cadre
The GoI has approved the proposal of the Department of Consumer Affairs for premature repatriation of Ms. Ranjana Jha, IRS(C&CE:87) from the post of Chief Vigilance Officer in the Bureau of Indian Standards.
IAS Trainees Cross Bharasu Pass
A group of IAS Trainees from the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration Mussoorie crossed the 19300 Ft high Bharasu Pass connecting Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh on 3rd June, 2009. The team of 12
Trainees, including two women was led by Supreet Singh Gulati, an officer trainee of the Punjab Cadre. Crossing the Bharasu pass in June is considered extremely tough due to the early melting glacier exposing the deep crevasses. The team which set off from Mussoorie on May 29 started at Naitwar and crossed the pass after setting up three consecutive base camps after Har ki Dun. Carrying a backpack of 16 Kilos average, the team faced stiff upward 72 degrees climb from second base and withstood harsh weather conditions for four days.
They used roping and ice axe regulated glide-downs during the equally tough decent. The LBSNAA organizes such occasional high altitude expeditions in addition to its regular Himalayan trekking programme conducted every year. Its teams have crossed most of the in-country high altitude passes including Lamkha pass, Bunder poonch and Black peak. Bharasu was attempted after a gap of ten years.
The other members of the team included Dr. B Ashok (Deputy Director), Dr. Mayank Badola (Medical Officer), S.S. Rana (Chief Physical Training Instructor), Gokul Singh (Assistant Physical Instructor) and officer trainees Niraj Kumar Bansod (Chattisgarh), Dr. Karthik (Uttarakhand), Prakash Wadnere (Tamil Nadu), Ramandeep Chaudhary (Bihar),
Ram Singh (Assam), S. Vishwanathan (Assam), Ms. Irene Cynthia (MP), Sandeep Kadam (HP), Rajan Vishal (Manipur), Naval Kishore (Maharashtra) and Ms. B. Chandrakala (UP). ITBP provided logistical support and the Centre for Disaster Management, LBSNAA, Tele-communication. The returning team was given a warm welcome by the faculty and Director Rudhra Gangadharan.
Did Kamal Nath pull up IAS officer?
Did Surface Transport Minister Kamal Nath pull up an IAS officer at the first meeting with leading infrastructure developers of the country. The officer is from Rajasthan cadre.
Mohan Kumar is back to Orissa
G. Mohan Kumar is returning to the parent Orissa cadre after completion of central deputation tenure. He is 1979 batch IAS officer of Orissa cadre.
1984 batch IAS gets PS rank in Haryana
All the seven 1984 batch IAS officers in Haryana have been promoted to the rank of Principal Secretary . They are Mssrs :-Navraj Sandhu Roshan Lal , S.S. Dhillon, Hardeep Kumar, S.S. Prasad, R.P. Chander, and Sunil Kumar Gulati.
IAS postings in Jharkhand
Aditya Swarup has been appointed Principal Secretary Welfare.A P Singh has been given additional charge of Animal Husbandry.
IAS changes in Punjab
There is IAS reshuffle in Punjab. New postings are :- Mssrs Meghraj DC Hoshiyarpur,K K Yadav DC Derozpur,N K Wadhvan Special Secretary Technical Education,R L Mehta MD Sugarfed and V K Bhalla Special Secretary PWD.
IAS changes in Sikkim
There are IAS changes in Sikkim. R. Telang, IAS, Secretary, Food Security & Agriculture Development Department and Horticulture Cash Crops Development Department has been appointed as Secretary, Human Resources & Development Department. Vishal Chauhan District Collector, East, Gangtok, will now be Secretary, Animal Husbandry, Livestock, Fisheries, and Veterinary Services Department. D. Anand District Collector, South, Namchi has been posted as District Collector, East, Gangtok and A. K. Singh Additional District Collector, West, Gyalshing transferred and posted as District Collector, South, Namchi.
CBEC promotes 12 officers as Commissioners
The Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC) has promoted 12 officers. They are :Santosh Kumar Pandey, Deepak Kumar, S. N. Prasad, R. K. Vig, A. K. Chaturvedi, J. S. Luthra, Alok Tiwari, Sanjay Kumar, Mallika Arya (Ms), S. Kannan, Alok Shukla & Satish Kumar Agarwal
32 Commissioners transferred by CBEC
A. K. Chaturvedi UOP Cochin CX(A-I) to Chennai Airport & ACC (A) A. K. Chaturvedi On promotion to Patna CX(A) A. N. Sharma Delhi CX-III(A) to Mumbai CX-III Alok Shukla On promotion to Audit, Chennai to Alok Tiwari On promotion (currently on Deputation) to Tuticorin Cus(P), Anil Kumar Mehra Ludhiana CX to Chandigarh CX-II(A) , Anup Kumar Srivastava (Dr) UOP o tMeerut CX-II(A) to Meerut CX-II , Birendra Kumar Singh UOP to Audit, Delhi to CESTAT, Delhi , Chandrahas Mathur UOP to Goa CX(A) to Retention in Goa CX till ,Charanjit Singh DGICCE, Delhi to Ludhiana CX , Chitrang Dube UOP to CESTAT, to Allahabad CX (A) Deepak Kumar On promotion to Valuation, Mumbai Inder Singh UOP to Bangalore CX-II(A) to Bangalore CX-II(Adj) , Indrajit Das Gupta UOP to Ahmedabad CX-III to Mysore CX , J. S. Luthra On promotion to Surat CX-II , Jayant Misra UOP to Amritsar Customs to Service Tax Adjudication, Delhi (Post to be diverted from DGICCE, Chennai) ,Mallika Arya (Ms.) On promotion (currently on Deputation) to Delhi CX-III(A) , Praveen Jain UOP to Indore CX-I(A) to Audit, Delhi, R. K. Vig On promotion to CESTAT, Mumbai ,Raj Pal Sharma UOP to Patna Cus (P) to Ahmedabad CX-III , Ranjit Singh UOP to Meerut CX-II to Amritsar Customs ,S. Kannan On promotion to Tirunelveli CX , S. N. Prasad On promotion to Audit, Mumbai , Sanjay Kumar On promotion to Systems, Chennai , Santosh Kumar Pandey On promotion to Guwahati CX(A) . Satish Kumar Agarwal On promotion (Currently on Deputation to Raipur CX(A) Shankar Lal Meena UOP to Belapur CX to CESTAT, Mumbai , Shivendra Singh Rana-II Tuticorin Cus(P) to Vigilance, Chennai , Shri Kishan Gaule UOP to Surat CX-II to Mumbai CX (Adj) (Service Tax) , Verinder Kumar Garg UOP to Chandigarh-CX-II(A) to DGICCE, Delhi, Vimal Kishore Verma UOP to Raipur CX(A) to Indore CX-I(A) , Yog Dhyan Banga UOP to CESTAT, Mumbai to Mumbai CX-II(A) .

As many as as 32 Commissioners were transferred by the Central Board
of Excise & Customs (CBEC) on June 9,2009. They are:
17 DRMs transferred
As many as 17 DRMs have been transferred. They are: D K Sharma, SAG/Iresee/On return from Deputation to (Division) Nagpur/Central Railway (Remarks) A K Kapoor, SAG/IRSEE D K Gayen, SAG/IRSME/On return from Deputation to (Division) Asansol/Eastern Railway (Remarks) B Deva Singh, SAGIRSE A S Upadhyay, SAG/IRTS/Eastern Railway to (Division) Dhanbad/East Central Railway (Remarks) Ambrish Kumar Gupta, SAG/IRTS Sanjeev Garg, SAG/IRETS/On his return from Deputation to Division Khurda Road/East Coast Railway (Remarks) R. Venkadasamy, SAG/IRSE Jogesh Sondhi, SAG/IRSE/Railway Board to (Division) Lucknow/Northern Railway (Remarks) Chahatey Ram, SAG/IRSE S K Agarwal, SAG/IRSME/East Central Railway to (Division) Allahabad/North Central Railway (Remarks) Deepak Dave, SAG/IRTS Satyender Kumar, SAG/IRSSEE/EASTERN rAILWAY, DRM/SEALDAH to (Division) Rangia/Northeast Fronter Railway (Remarks) D Gupta, SAG/IRSME Ajit Pandir, SAG/IRSE/WEst Central Railway to (Division) Lumding/Northeast Frontier Railway (Remarks) S S Narayanan, SAG/IRSE Sanjay Das, SAG/IRTS/on return from deputation to (Division) Ajmer/North Western Railway (Remarks) R K Tandon, SAG/IRTS P N Ram, SAG/IRSE/North Central Railway to (Division)( Salem/Southern Railway (Remarks) S Mohan, SAG/IRTS R D Sharma, SAG/IRTS, on return from deputation to (Division) Trivandrum/Southern Railway (Remarks) TITUS P KOSHY, SAG/IRTS S N Agarwal, SAG/IRSE/Southern Railway to (Division) Nagpur/South East Central Railway (Remarks) S C Jethi, SAG/IRTS B P Swain, SAG/IRTS/South Eastern Railway to (Division) Raipur/South East Central Railway (Remarks) P Chandra, SAG/IRSME B B Verma, SAG/IRAS/Railway Board to (Division) Mysore/South Western Railway (Remarks) S Vijayaraghavan, SAG/IRAS Vedpal SAG/IRSEE/on return from deputation to (Division) Rajkot/Western Railway (Remarks) R P Nibariya, SAG/IRSEE A K Srivastava, SAG/IRTS/Northern Railway to (Divisionj) Vadodara/Western Railway (Remarks) Ms. Suhas Kumar, SAG/IRTs Purushottam Guha, SAG/IRTS/Railway Board to (Division) Sealdah/Eastern Railway (Remarks) Satyender Kumar, SAG/IRSEE posted as DRM/RAngia vide ITEM No.7

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Srivastava to be Director (Operations) Oil India
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David Hopcroft is new GM Shangrila Hotel, New Delhi
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Singh is new GM SBT
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Anil Srivatsa resign from Meow FM
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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)
Fused Bulbs?
Some people in forum insist that retired government officials are not fused bulbs. Consider one service, the IAS. (1) The officer is in the habit of bossing over officers of other services from day one as a sub-divisonal officer. They continue to boss over other services more and the more as he goes up - mostly technical and non-technical services of the state governments but also some central services. (2) He has no home base. The way railways is home to a railway officer or the Police is to an IPS officer, an IAS officer flips from one sector to another and has no home. (3) Has no marketable skills. There are brilliant exceptions; some even take premature retirement, but most IAS officers only know 'general administration'. Under the circumstances, at 60, an intelligent, homeless, unskilled, egomaniac is a fused bulb. In anticipation, the light starts going out a few months before that.
M. P. Bauer
1990 batch IAS empanelment
This has reference to the item unsual delay in the promotion of 1990 batch IAS to the rank of Joint Secretary. Wow!! Bureaucracy is baffled. Sounds great!! After all unka khoon khoon hai aur CSS Walon ka Khoon paani hai. CSS personnel are languishing without promotions with nodody to care
R Bharadwaj
Excellent idea of the Government
It is excellent idea to give longer tenure to govt. savants to perform for Ministries/State govts. They have experience and knowledge of years to serve at this hour of crisis world wide. The bureaucrats at sixty are youngmen now days, with medical advancement, better health care and awareness on health. With increase in govt role to correct market position in the recession situation, job opportunities will increase in any case and young men with parents working for longer years would get more opportunities for higher studies. Sixth Pay Commission has given huge financial benefits to retired
Govt. servants. If babus want to work for few more years, government. should encourage them by allowing them to serve upto 65 years. The govt. would in this case get services against spending towards salary and will not allow huge unproductive spending on pensioner benefits. In Parliament, if cut off year of entry is kept as 60, like the babus, what will be the efficiency level? All these issues maybe brought before the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister for issuing the order in Budget Session.
A Banerjee
Yes it is true that the government itself is the biggest litigant
The Government officers intentionally drag their staff to go to courts. If the head of the organisation meets and listens to the grievances regarding service matters once in a month from the employees on a common forum alongwith the concerned officers , 99 % of the cases could be solved in the department.
But alas! He will be having no time .He must be busy with his appointments either in framing the tour programmes or must be on deputation abroad. These bosses visit foreign countries every now and then but do not try to imbibe the systems they have evolved in foreign countries to prevent the corrupt practices. These bosses are to be blamed for such litigations that cannot run their establishments properly and the staff working undue their control has to move to the courts.
I must say it is the highest person in the organisation who should be blamed for such litigations arising out of his establishment.
The performance of the said officers should be judged by the number of court cases in his establishment and his further promotion and assignments should be given as per this performance indicator too. DOPT should consider this and the law ministry must act to get this introduced in the performance indicators of the officers
More court cases the poor is the performance and management.
ZITNI
I am also a victim
I do agree with the view expressed by the Honble Minister. I am also a victim of such action in DEPARTMENT OF TELECOM
A surfer
THE WHISPER IS 100% TRUE
. 50% of the court cases emanate from the establishment and personal section of the department of Telecom pertaining to the service matters of the employees working under the iron fist of ITS Officers managing the personal department in telecom. The irony is that the acts of the such officers is with mind set and not mind application. For them it is all about ability to vitiate the system where procedure and not the outcome is paramount. For them the only religion is beauracratic apartheid against other cadres . Either way This is the result of Poor establishment in telecom department.
To prove the point I may be given the opportunity to discuss a typical case in your FORUM
Sudhir
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