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Aaj Ki Aawaz
Poll bugle ho gaya hai sound!!!!!
From now on in hyper mode Indian politicians will be found!!!
Sonia's eye twitches will go up and her fancy dressing will commence!!
Dressing up like the locals does in her dictionary makes a lot of sense!!!
Mohna will have a read cross on his chest to elicit pity!!!!
And will give a look of being very gritty!!
Advani will now keep going down the memory lane!!!!
He's been told his 'samaran' habit is bad but it will not wane!!!
Pranab Da will be at his angry best!!!!
And Pranab Da's patience Media should not test!!!
PC will be seen with a calculator wherever goes!!!!
Hinting he's the next FM to friends and foes!!!
Shivraj Patil will dress in clothes that are torn and tattered!!!
He'll try that his 'dainty and pansy' image is shattered!!!
Pawar will have PM inscribed on the pocket of his shirt!!!
And whenever he can ' I'm the next PM' Pawar will blurt!!!
Laloo will be suited and booted!!!!
This is to tell all that now in Dilli he's well rooted!!!
Mulayam and Amar will now speak in tandem and behave the same way too!!!!
Only time they will be separated is when they have to use the loo!!!
Rahul Baba will for the next month not eat at home or sleep in his bed!!!
He'll be eating and sleeping outside to garner votes instead!!!
Commies will be low key!!!!
And rather than saying CPI or CPI(M) or RPI they'll say 'we'!!!!
Amma Jaya will throw her weight around!!!!
And now more sarcastic she's going to sound!!!
Maya will now give up her purse and start carrying a briefcase!!!!
And lo and behold she's going to show grace!!!
Pakistan has again shown why it's called a Rogue State !!!
A State that spews hate!!!
The Sri Lankan Team was attacked!!!
Maybe this attack was LTTE backed!!!
LTTE and Taaliban have a common interest apart form terror…. drugs!!!
Same network of mugs and thugs!!!
Pakistan now deserves to be declared 'terror zone'!!!!
And US should now send into Pakistan Drone pe Drone!!!!
Because if something is not done Pakistan is going the Afghanistan way!!!
And for this the entire neighborhood will pay!!!!
Confucius says….. a stitch in time saves nine!!!!
Or be prepared for a very harsh fine!!!!
Bharat Kumar
Aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

Kaun Banega Secretary Home?
One thing is now almost certain either Secretary Commerce Gopal Pillai will be new Secretary Home or present Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta will be given extension for two months in view of the Lok Sabha polls. Madhukar Gupta had been in touch with the Election Commission on the question of deployment of Para-military forces in the poll.
N. K. Raghupathy appointed Chairman SSC
N. K. Raghupathy has been appointed Chairman, Staff Selection Commission in Ministry of Personnel and Training. He is 1975 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.
Sangma appointed Secretary NEC
Uttam Kumar Sangma will be new Secretary North East Council .Shillong.He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre.
Upamanyu Chatterjee to be JS (P&IC)
Upamanyu Chatterjee who has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Defence, will look after the desk of Planning and International Cooperation. He is 1983 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.
CCIT-I Delhi yet to be finalized
Incumbent for the slot of Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (CCIT), Delhi, is yet to be finalised.
Did Anita Chaudhry say "No" ?
Did Additional Secretary Home, Anita Chaudhry politely refuse to accept the responsibility of VIP Security ? She is 1976 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.
Promotion orders for CCITs on the anvil
As the grapevine has it, promotion of Commissioners of Income Tax (CITs) to the rank of Chief Commissioners of Income Tax (CCITs) are expected soon. Nearly 30 incumbents will be made CCITs by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CDBT).
Dr. U Venkateshwarlu poised to go to Centre
As the grapevine has it, Dr. U Venkateshwarlu, who is presently Principal Secretary Animal Husbandry & Dairy Development to the Tripura Government, is poised to go to Government of India (GOI) on deputation. He is Tripura cadre IAS officer of the 1986 batch.
TRAI invites applications for Principal Advisor (Financial Services)
TRAI has invited applications for the post of Principal Advisor (Financial Services) on foreign service terms for a period of two years.
Competition Appellate Tribunal soon
The Competition Appellate Tribunal which is likely to be constituted soon will have at least One Supreme Court Judge or Chief Justice of any High Court and two other members.
V.Thulasidas is Special Officer Kannur International Airport
V.Thulasidas former Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) of Air India is Special Officer with Kerala Government's Kannur International Airport. V.Thulasidas is also heading the Rajiv Gandhi Aviation & Technology Academy, Thiruvananthapuram. He is a retired IAS officer of the 1972 batch who belongs to the Manipur-Tripura cadre.
Meena & Jaat community feel happy in Rajasthan
As the grapevine has it, people belonging to the Meena & Jaat communities are quite happy in Rajasthan. Ms.Kushal Singh who was recently appointed as Chief Secretary by Rajasthan Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot, belongs to the Jaat community. Likewise, newly appointed DGP of Rajasthan H C Meena is from the Meena community.
Dr. Swaraj Bir Singh poised to be IG,CISF
As the grapevine has it, Dr.Swaraj Bir Singh is poised to join the CISF as IG in Headquarter at Delhi. He is an IPS officer of the 1986 batch who belongs to the Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
S Sridhar will be CMD NHB as well
As the grapevine has it, S Sridhar, who has assumed the charge as new Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) of the Central Bank of India (CBI), will hold concurrent charge of CMD, National Housing Bank (NHB). Prior to NHB he was with the Exim Bank. The slot has been filled up two months after Ms.Daruwala had retired as CMD, CBI.
Hardip Singh Kingra to join SAI as OSD
Hardip Singh Kingra Indian Forest Service Officer of 1980 batch Himachal Pradesh is set to join in the Sports Authority of India (SAI) as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) for next year's Commonwealth Games.At present he is Managing Director of HP State Small Industries & Export Corporation Ltd. He also holds additional charge of HP State Handicrafts & Handloom Corporation Ltd.
Swayam Prakash Pani joins NIA
Swayam Prakash Pani who so far was Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kathua (Jammu & Kashmir) has joined newly created National Investigating agency (NIA) of which head is Radha Vinod Raju. Swayam Prakash Pani is an IPS officer of the 1998 batch & belongs to the Jammu & Kashmir cadre. He is the second IPS officer, first being Sajid Farid Shapu, an IPS officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre (1988 batch).
(We said this on February 15,2009).
Garib Das is SSP Kathua
Garib Das who was earlier Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kargil has assumed in the same capacity at Kathua (Jammu & Kashmir). Garib Das is an IPS officer of the 1998 batch & belongs to the Jammu & Kashmir cadre.
R.K.Sud is MD, SSIEC in Himachal Pradesh
R.K.Sud has assumed the charge as Managing Director of HP State Small Industries & Export Corporation (SSIEC). Sud is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1977 batch & belongs to the Himachal Pradesh cadre. Earlier, he was MD of the HP Forest Development Corporation.
R.K.Gupta is MD Forest Development Corporation,HP
R.K.Gupta who was earlier Additional PCCF Human Resource (HR) with the Himachal Pradesh Government has now assumed the charge as Managing Director (MD) of the HP Forest Development Corporation.R.K.Gupta is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1977 batch & belongs to the Himachal Pradesh cadre. R.K.Gupta is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1978 batch & belongs to the Himachal Pradesh cadre .
S.S.Negi is MD Milkfed in Himachal Pradesh
S.S.Negi is Managing Director (MD) of the HP Milkfederation. Negi is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1983 batch & belongs to the Himachal Pradesh cadre .
Ashutosh Joshi to be Director Urban Development
Ashutosh Joshi , 1994 batch IA&AS officer, has reportedly been selected for the post of Director in the Ministry of Urban Development.
1979 batch IPS gets DG rank in Nagaland
1979 batch IPS officer M Obanglemba Ao has been promoted to the rank of Director General of Prison (ex-cadre) with effect from March 1.
Shashi Kiran moves to NWR
Shashi Kiran, Senior Scale /IRSME/ South Western Railway, has been transferred to North Western Railway in the same capacity.
Anoop Srivastava promoted
IDAS officer Anoop Srivastava has been promoted to the SAG.1989 batch officer, Srivastava, has been posted as Controller of Finance ,Ordnance Factory Board, Kolkata.
Five promoted as Chief General Managers in RBI
Five officers of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have been promoted to the rank of Chief General Manager. They are Mssrs Sujata Prasad, S Kulsreshtha, Kamla Rajan, R C Sarangi and Arnab Roy.
IFS changes in J & K
Govt of J&K has effected major transfers in the rank of senior IFS officers. .
Mohit Gera is now Member Secretary, Pollution control Board.
Shafat Ahmed will now be Chief Conservator of Forests, Kashmir region.
Abdul Razaq has been made Director, Environment Dept.
Shamim Muhammad Khan has been posted as Director Social Forestry Department .
.B. Sidhartha will be General Manager, State Forest Corporation .
Asaf Mehmood has been transferred as Conservator of Forests, West Circle and .
Nisar Ahmad Darzi Conservator of Forests, Srinagar Circle.
IPS changes in Mumbai likely
G D Pol is being tipped to be commissioner of police, Navi Mumbai.Nashik police commissioner Himanshu Rai Likely to be moved to Mumbai as additional commissioner. Pune DIG Vinod Lokhande will move as new Nashik commissioner.
Has PM cleared file for pay revision in PSU?
As the grapevine has it Indian Prime Minister Dr.Man Mohan Singh has cleared the file pertaining to implementation of the 6th Pay Commission recommendations in Central Government run Public Sector undertakings PSUs). This reportedly happened in the afternoon on March 2, 2009 .However, it has been a hot topic of discussion in PSU circles that as to whether the PM cleared the file or not?
Will GOI run PSUs benefit from 6th Pay panel?
Will officers & employees working in Government of India (GOI) run Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) benefit from the implementation of the 6th Pay Commission recommendations or not ? This is hotly being discussed. As it is a big question mark in the sense will it go to the Cabinet which is going to meet in Delhi on March 5, 2009 or not? If it goes with Election Commission's clearance then will it be implemented or not?
Whisper opinion poll: No extensions, retirement age should be followed
The whispers opinion poll about the retirement age of Secretary level officers in Government of India or having a fixed term for them has evoked some strong responses from our surfers. Majority of the responses we received via e-mail have scoffed at the idea of increasing retirement age or granting extension in service to these officers.
The surfers have responded that instead selection process of Secretaries in the various departments in GoI should be transparent and fair and based on merit and not solely on seniority or ACR. It would be better if efficient officers having service period of about three years are considered so that they have sufficient time in implementing policies leading to continuity in working.
Mediocre performance and inefficiencies creep up within the system if officers at the fag end of their career are promoted and they are given a ray of hope by way of extension of service. Retirement age should be common for all officers and the process of extension should be done away with.
One contributor Lalit Suri says, 'tenure of a Secretary should be minimum of 5 years. After 5 years appraisal of his contribution be done, if no proper contribution is made by him, he should be made to suffer by way of substantial cut in pension benefits etc'.
Chaturvedi is new CVO MMTC
R.K. Chaturvedi has been appointed Chief Vigilance Officer in the Mineral and Metal Trading Corporation Limited (MMTC). 1987 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer Chaturvedi will replace K.K. Jha, IRS(IT:79).
BRAHMOS-IV likely to be test fired
As the grapevine has it the Indian Ministry of Defence is likely to test fire BRAHMOS-IV soon.
Top brass discusses national security
After the gruesome terrorist attack on Sri Lankan Cricket Team in Lahore on March 3, 2009, all the intelligence chiefs including that of FBI have reportedly met DIB to take stock of the security scenario.
Dr.S.K.Raju joins Punjab cadre
Dr.S.K.Raju, who so far on central deputation was PS to Indian Tribal Affairs Minister Paty Ripple Kyndiah, has joined the Punjab Government as Joint Commissioner Development. Recently, his cadre was changed from Chhattisgarh to Punjab. He will look after Rural Development related works & the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (NREGS) in particular. Dr.Raju is an IAS officer of the 1998 batch & belonged to the Chhattisgarh cadre. However, following change in his he had now joined the Punjab cadre.Dr.Raju who is a gold medallist from Andhra Pradesh Agriculture University, was earlier Joint Secretary National Rural Health Minission (NRHM) in Chhattisgarh.Dr.Raju has had the rare distinction of having served in three tribal districts of Chhattisgarh, namely: Surguja, Kanker & Raigarh.He is also member in the national committee on the "Panchayat Expansion in Scheduled (Tribal) Areas" (PESA). It may be stated that his wife Ms.Anandita Mitra is undergoing training, as Assistant Commissioner Kapurthala.She is an IAS officer of the 2007 batch.
Resentment brewing among Oil Sector Executives
As the grapevine has it resentment among Executives of the Oil sector related companies is brewing. They are reportedly sore because five executives who were terminated during the strike last year are
yet to be re-instated. So is the case of 30 suspended executives of different public sector oil companies.
K Suresh gets extension
Deputation tenure of K. Suresh Chairman, Chennai Port Trust has been extended upto March 31. He is 1982 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.
Navin Chawla to be new CEC

The Government of India (GOI) has appointed Navin Chawla as Chief Election Commissioner(CEC) with effect from April 21, 2009.

Naveen Chawla to be CEC ! (We said this on Feb ,2 )

Recommendation of CEC N Gopalaswami to remove Election Commissioner Naveen Chawla is not being accepted. It is sure that he is going to succeed Gopalaswami.

CORPORATE
Will BFNTPC' Energy Systems Ltd have a CEO from BHEL?
Will the BFNTPC Energy Systems Ltd have an incumbent as Chief Executive Officer (CEO)from BHEL? It is a joint venture between Bharat Forge Group & National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC).
UN Khanna tipped to be CEO, BFNTPC Energy Systems
As the grapevine has it, UN Khanna, who is currently BHEL's Regional Director in Indonesia, is poised to be Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the BFNTPC Energy Systems Ltd. It is a joint venture between Bharat Forge group & National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC).

Forum
Olive greens and khaki
Our soldiers love to complain about the feudal lifestyle of IAS and IPS officers (ignoring their own) and about protocol. During the British era, the SP (Kaptan sahib) sported three stars on his shoulders. The epaulet changed to that of a Major, then Lieutenant Colonel and finally in case of senior SP's to that of a 'full' colonel. The point remains that with functional differences, is there no point in 'parity'. In most civilised countries, the police epaulettes are different from those in the armed services and there is no equivalence. It is time we buried this controversy.
V. C. Mehrotra
Government First Class First, PSUs Fail
In the year 1980, the ceiling on pension to government employees was @ Rs. 600 per month. Today a senior government officer gets pension @ Rs. Six Lakh per annum. Retired government employees are also given the same medical benefits as given to the serving employees. Government has taken very good care of long term interests of its employees. PSUs have failed to take care of long term interest of their employees.
Mani
Relevance of the Indian Economic Service (IES)
The Government of India has a very small cadre of officers from the Economics discipline recruited in the IES. The minimum educational qualification for entry in the IES is a Post Graduate Degree in Economics/Applied Economics/Business Economics/Econometrics. However, even as economic rationality is being infused in policy formulation, decision making and implementation, the role of the service has remained peripheral. Consequently, a discipline, which is in great demand elsewhere, has been sub-optimally utilized in the Government which is heralding the process of economic reforms.
Mathematics, Statistics and Econometrics aid Economics but do not substitute the discipline itself. Besides, the functioning of the Government is based on rules, procedures and precedents. Therefore, mere knowledge of abstract principles and theories be they about economics, ethics, physics or mathematics is not sufficient. Many high and mighty economists have joined the formal Government system but have been ill at ease adjusting to its requirements. Also, many bright economists were inducted by the Government in the IES at the time of its inception. However, most of them chose to quit subsequently whenever opportunity arose. The relentless exodus from the IES is not so much on account of the "pull" elsewhere as the "push" away from it.
Having recruited 21 candidates, hopefully bright and intelligent, through a selection process by the same Constitutional body, which recruits the other civil, defence and scientific personnel for varied jobs, and having also inducted them into an organized cadre for a specific purpose, what prevents the employer from providing these 21 government economists with the challenges and career opportunities to develop into 'real' professionals and analyze the 'hard' economic data? If graduates in other disciplines of pure science, social science and literature from the same Indian universities can be consciously groomed and carefully cultivated to become in-house financial wizards and economic experts in course of time, why is it that only 21 post-graduates in Economics, whom the President of India is pleased to make an offer to join the IES, should be doomed?
Sudhir Kumar
Lady IRS officers waiting for transfers
Lady IRS officers are looking forward to transfers of CIT so that they can join their husbands. IRS wives are in a state of collective depression and are hoping for good news.
Sunita
Professionalism is the last thing respected in bureaucracy
After working a few years in the bureaucracy the reality of it starts dawning upon you. First thing that you realize is that 'professionalism' is the last thing that is respected in the bureaucracy where adhoc working and day to day handling of issues is what takes front seat. Two caste system is the integral part of our bureaucracy. The caste system operates at two levels first the different services work closely to protect their service interests with IAS leading the flock as they control the power strings. Two the traditional caste and regional identities are the dominant factors in decisin making process. Corruption has found acceptability in the system and nobody is now bothered to stem the rot. A sense of dejavu dawns upon you and then the roti-kapra issues compell you to carry on with the stupidity you are in.
AKS
Narrow way of looking at things
It is a rather narrow way of looking at things that age extension should be for Secretaries only. All government servants need to work and earn with honour till 65 so that they do not have to beg their children. Has whispers thought that 'who will employ a 60n year old retired lady peon?'. The thinking on this subject which is restricted to people's narrow greed for kicking out the old to make way for the young is truly a reflection of the poverty of thought of the civil [uncivil] service.
Rita
Why these double standards ?
On the one side, Cabinet Secretary says that no postings of Additional Secretaries till new Government takes over and ministers have their say in selection and on the other hand, the empanelment process to weed out the best ( so that next Govt. is run inefficiently) continues. Why these double standards. What about organised cadres Additional Secy panel, which was made a few weeks back. Give them NFS atleast. If you can not be fair, atleast try to appear to be fair.
Ram Kumar
Honest should not bother
On the subject of "using RTI to settle scores" it is stated that as long as one is honest and does not misuses the office perks & facilities, he or she should not bother much. Let people ask whatever the question they want.
A visitor
How long they will occupy the chairs of Delhi?
It is true that a few officers in all cadres are staying though they have completed their tenure. How long they will occupy the chairs of Delhi nobody knows. So far as potential of the officers are concerned, there is a saying 'empty vessel sounds much'. A person having no knowledge of rule position is taken as 'excellent'. So they are all 'Yes Minister'. Then why the question of shifting them comes?
Banerjee M
Skeletons in cupboards!!!
The lightning speed with which selection to 15 posts of VCs in as many Central Universities( IE,March2,2009) were finalised, smacks of corruption galore in the HRD Ministry. Some aspirants, it is reported, were inducted as Members in the Selection Committee. There was no transparency and no respect for rules. The entire selection process was merely a case of "pick and choose" and a saga of unethical practices. The conduct (Read as Misconduct) of HRD ministry, headed by a veteran like Arjun Singh, merits close investigation by an independent Inquiry Commission headed by a sitting Judge of the High Court. Several skeletons will tumble out of HRD ministry's cupboards, once all cases of releasing grants-in-aid to NGOs (owned by beneficiaries like retired civil servants and unscrupulous politicians) without following the prescribed administrative and financial procedures are first scrutinised by the Statutory Auditor like the C&AG.This will facilitate the judicial inquiry. Worse still, there is also a price tag for according the status of "Deemed Universities" to Private institutions. These are "open secrets" (not whispers) in the corridors of Shastri Bhavan. Only a judicial inquiry will help in bringing out the truth. The country's posterity in general and the academic community in particular will remember this act with gratitude. It is noteworthy that our political leaders are in the habit of throwing political bombshells, at random, to distract peoples' attention from their unethical practices. Also, such illegal practices are not possible without the covert support of the corrupt Civil Servants. The public needs to be extra vigilant during the remaining tenure of the present lame-duck Government. An RTI application or a PIL by the aggrieved parties will be useful in the given situation! A comparative statement detailing the CVs of 1400 applicants for 15 posts of VCs could be obtained under the RTI Act as the first step. The Court may also take suo motto cognizance of the report to get at the bottom of the Truth!
A K Saxena ( A retired civil servant)
Tail-piece
LAW OF QUEUE: If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.
LAW OF TELEPHONE: When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged one.
LAW OF MECHANICAL REPAIR: After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.
LAW OF THE WORKSHOP: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.
LAW OF THE ALIBI: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
BATH THEOREM: When the body is immersed in water, the telephone rings.
LAW OF ENCOUNTERS: The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.
LAW OF THE RESULT: When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will!
LAW OF BIOMECHANICS: The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.
THEATRE RULE: People with the seats at the furthest from the aisle arrive last.
LAW OF COFFEE: As soon as you sit down for a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold