You also seem to have been bitten by "Bureacracy and Police" bug called Durbaari. You are now-a-days singing Italian and Manmohana Raag Durbaari. Some pretence of fair play is requested.
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BJP to be single largest party ?
The BJP will be the single largest party as predicted by whispersinthecorridors.com, last week. It has been well taken by the media and in the War Room of the BJP. The smile on the faces of the BJP War Room Managers is widening day by day as May 16 is drawing nearer. They have started visualizing that prediction will come true with the support of total approximately 92 MPs of Nitish Kumar, Mayawati and Jayalalita. It will completely change the political scenario .
Brahma is new Secretary Power
Harishankar Brahma who was appointed as new Secretary Power in the Government of India(GOI) will assume charge at 11 am on May 12, 2009. He is an IAS officer of 1975 batch who hails from the Andhra Pradesh cadre. Hitherto, he was Special Secretary, National Disaster Management, Ministry of Home . He has succeeded U. N. Panjiar Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources who was holding additional charge of Secretary Power, in April 2009 after the then Secretary Power V. S. Sampath took over as the new Election Commissioner.
President to be MIMP personality from May 16 onwards
Indian President Mrs.Pratibha Devi Singh Patil is going to be the most important (MIMP) figure in the country once results of the ongoing Lok Sabha polls were declared on May 16,2009.
Claims & Counter claims
As the gruelling election to the 15th Lok Sabha nears an end, two major political parties are making claims and counter claims. While, Congress camp feels that it should finish with a tally of 165 seats, in Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) there is a feeling that the BJP should get 160 seats.
Free for all at the Center
With barely five days left for declaration of result for the 15th Lok Sabha polls, it's free for all at the Centre.
Decision regarding DGs to RBI in new regime
As the grapevine has it, the final decision - regarding two vacancies of Deputy Governors (DGs) in Reserve Bank of India (RBI) - would be taken after formation of the new Government. This is irrespective of the fact that whatever appointments had to be done, have taken place.
Rao redesignated in MEA
C Gururaj Rao (IFS 1989) has been redesignated as Joint Secretary in the Northern Division in MEA after his promotion
Srivastava empanelled !
S K Srivastava is reported to have been empanelled to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India during the last review meeting. He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
Cabinet Secretary to clear all files
Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar is back from Shirdi. All pending files are to be cleared in a couple of days.
Omita Paul to join CIC this week
Ms Omita Paul is likely to join the Central Information Commission as Member this week.
Three in the race for the slot of NSG (OPS)
There are three Major Generals of the Indian Army who are in fray for the post of IG (Operations) in NSG. 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.
Sudhir Chandra is Member (Investigation)in CBDT
In the wake of allocation of work Sudhir Chandra has been made Member(Investigation) CBDT.
( We said this on April 29 )
C.S.Kahlon is Member (A & J) in CBDT
In the wake of allocation of work C.S.Kahlon has been made Member (A &J) CBDT.He has also been assigned regions of Delhi & NWR.
Promotion of CE&C officers of 1987 batch delayed
As the grapevine has it, there is going to be a delay in promotion of Central Customs & Excise officers of 1987 batch.
SS Dayal's name cleared by Mahrashtra
As the grapevine has it, the Maharashtra Government has cleared its ADG
rank IPS officer S.S. Dayal's name for central deputation to Government of India (GOI). Roy belongs to the 1977 batch.
Section Officer/Assistants to have seven year tenure
The combined tenure of CSS officers in a particular ministry/department shall be seven years in the case of Section Officer/Assistants.
One DG post vacant in BSF
One post of special DGs is lying vacant in the Border Security Force (BSF).
Surviving IP Officer of 1942 batch (2) Ranjit Gupta
Ranjit Gupta is the surviving Indian Police Officer of 1942 batch.
One Orissa cadre IPS officer empanelled for DIG level post
1994 batch IPS officer of Orissa cadre, Yoshwant Kumar Jethwa, has been empanelled to hold DIG and equivalent level posts under the Government of India.
Sudha Malhotra repatriated from SBI, London
Sudha Malhotra repatriated from SBI, London, as General Manager will move to the Mid Corporate Group, Regional Office, Chandigarh.
Prabhu is AG (C&RA) Tamil Nadu
S Prabhu (IA&AS-84), on expiry of his leave has been transferred and posted as Accountant General (C&RA) Tamil Nadu, Chennai.
DG Forests, PR Mohanty to retire on May 31, 2009
Director General (DG) Forests, PR Mohanty, is going to retire on May 31, 2009.
Mathew to retire this month end
Kerala Chief Secretary K J Mathew is retiring on May 31. He is 1975 batch IAS officer.
Tenure of Sadyal extended
Tenure of KC Sadyal, Chief Vigilance Officer in Satluj Jal Vidut Nigam Limited (SJVNL), has been extended upto 24.05.2010. He is 1986 batch IPS officer of Himachal Pradesh.
Justice Verma is now Judge of the SC
Justice Deepak Verma was sworn in as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India on Monday.
( We said this on March 24 )
Justice Chauhan is new Judge of the SC
Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan was sworn in as Judge of the Supreme Court of India on Monday.
(We said this on March 25 )
Adm Nanda passes away
Admiral Nanda passed away late last night (May 11,2009 ) at Fortis Hospital Vasant Kunj.Funeral will take place at Brar Square at 1600 hrs on Tuesday May 12,2009.He was living with his son Suresh Nanda at 4, Prithvi Raj Road, New Delhi , Tel: (011) 23012502, 23013897.
43 Deputy/Assistant Commissioners of Income Tax transferred
As many as 43 Deputy/Assistant Commissioners of Income Tax have been transferred. They include K.A. Jamadar to Karnataka, N. Gopi Krishna to Nagpur, V.S.Jayathi and G.N. Raohvendra Rao to Tamil Nadu, Chandip Singh to Mumbai, Pankaj Kumar to Karnataka, V.I. Mehta to Gujarat, N. K. Mehta to Mumbai, D.K. Meena and Inderlal Maheswari to Rajasthan, Sukumar Mondal to West Bengal, Mekala Venkata Saibaba to Andhra Pradesh, Saraswati Padmanabhan to Mumbai, Suresh Sivanandan to Delhi, Sanjay Joseph to NADT Nagpur, Himanshu Kumar Pandey to U.P.(E), C. K. K. Nair to Kerala, Raj Kumar Bhatia to M.P. & Chhatisgarh, Satya Narayan Kabra and Mahender P Ahuja to Nagpur, Beena Dinesh to Pune, Rajan Bahadur to NER, Yogender Prasad Verma to Bihar, Y.D. Gohil to Nagpur, P.K. Srivastava to West Bengal, Babu Deo Naik to Nagpur, S.S. A. Rafiyoodi, Deepak J. Mehta, Arun S. Shenoy, Dibyendu Kumar Deb, Robert, P.C. Sethy and Michael Kullu to West Bengal, K.V.K. Singh to Delhi, Anil Kumar Sharma to M.P. & Chhattlsgarh, H.S. Lall to U.P (E), Robin Rawal to Gujarat, Adrash Kumar Taneja to Delhi, Milind R. Chahure, N. Senthil Kumar, S. Saravana Kumaran and Rajnish Dev Burman to Mumbai and Rishpal Bedi to N.W.R.
11 Deputy/Assistant Commissioners of Income Tax transferred to DIT (Vigilance)
As many as 11 Deputy/Assistant Commissioners of Income Tax have been transferred to respective Directorate of Vigilance. The new postings are A. Sundarrajan - DIT (Vigilance), South Zone, Chennai, A.J. Vaz - DIT (V1gilance), West Zone, Mumbai, Ms. Ashna Paul - DIT (Vigilance), North Delhi, Saroj Kumar Dubey - DGIT (Vigilance), Delhi, Nimesh Yadav and Prashant Kumar Jha - Delhi, K.V. Ravinamboodiri - Mumbai, Radha Krlshan and S.O.S. Bhadoria - Delhi, J.C. Sehgal and Rakesh Kumar - DGIT (Vigilance), Delhi.
PM in waiting deploys his team for post poll pact
Prime Minister in waiting Lal Krishna Advani has deployed his team of trusted members to liaison with NDA constituents & prospective partners for post poll alliance.
Ms.Sushma Swaraj to talk with Orissa CM
Ms Sushma Swaraj former Minister has been deputed to talk with Naveen Patnayak Orissa Chief Minister because she has good relationship with Patnayak.
Jaswant Singh & Kulkarni to approach TMC
Former Minister Jaswant Singh & Sudheendra Kulkarni have been given the responsibility of talking to Trina Mool Congress(TMC) leader Ms. Mamata Banerjee.
Ravi Shankar Prasad and Jaswant Singh to talk with Jayalalitha
Former Ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad and Jaswant Singh are going to Chennai to hold parleys with AIDMK chief Ms. J. Jayalalitha. Ravi Shankar Prasad is ex-advocate of Ms. Jayalalitha.
Venkaiah Naidu to approach TDP
Former BJP president Venkaiah Naidu will approach TDP chief
Chandrababu Naidu. Moreover, L.K. Advani is also liaising with Chandrababu Naidu.
Advani in touch with Ms.Mayawati
In order to discuss with BSP Chief Ms.Mayawati & Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Prime Minister in waiting Lal Krishna Advani himself took command with the help of former Minister Arun Jaitley. It is a well known thing that Jaitley has good relation with Ms.Mayawati's loyalist
- Satish Chand Mishra.
SCI Vigilance division is now ISO certified
The Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) of which Chairman cum Managing
Director (CMD) is S.C.Hajra had received a Certificate of Approval
from M/s Indian Register Quality Systems (IRQS) certifying that the
Quality Management System of the SCI has been assessed and approved in
accordance with the requirements of ISO 9000:2001 with respect to the
following scope: owning. Managing and chartering of ships for
transportation of goods and passengers; offshore and marine advisory
services. The validity of this certificate is 3 years i.e. from 8th
May 2007 to 7th May 2010. However, the Vigilance Division of the SCI
was kept out of the purview of the ISO so far. It was only after
M.B.Sagar took over as SCI's Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO), vigilance
division had taken an initiative for introducing the concept of
Integrity pact in SCI which culminated into signing of MOU between SCI
and Transparency International India (TII) on March 26, 2009 for
adoption of Integrity Pact in SCI. M.B.Sagar said "we continued this
trend by getting the Vigilance Division of SCI to be ISO certified.
The most important reason is that ISO also epitomizes the
implementation of standardization of procedures. The Vigilance
Division. has on a few occasions in the past, stressed the need for
standardization of procedure including proper documentation policy,
maintenance of flies movements records and more importantly, updating
of existing manuals in the various divisions (for e.g. purchase
manual) and preparing such manuals in divisions where they did not
exist (for e.g. spare parts procurement manual did not exist).In view
of the following. Vigilance Division was audited by IRQS on April 23,
2009. This ISO audit was carried out for the process flow chart etc.
prepared in respect of complaint investigation process as stated
above. The Auditor viewed various files and systems followed in the
Vigilance Division and expressed satisfaction on the information
provided to all his queries. In the IRQS Observation Sheet, the IRQS
passed a Positive (+) Observation as follows: "in Corporate Services,
the vigilance department has been audited. The system of analyses of
the various complaints from vendors etc. is analyzed adequately." They
have given a + sign in the remarks column of their observation sheet.
Thus, SCI Vigilance division has become one among the first of the
Vigilance Divisions to be certified for ISO 9001:2000. M.B.Sagar, CVO
SCI said I am thankful to C&MD for his encouragement and VP (ISM&ISPS)
and his department. for their kind co-operation in this regard.
Candidates selected for post graduate programme in public policy and management
As many as 30 candidates have been selected for the post graduate programme in public policy and management for the year 2009-2011. Those selected include Prateek Motilal Rathi, Dinesh Sharma, Asvini Kumar Yadav, Mukesh Lal, Jyotsna Sitling, Sibendu Moharana, Debjyoti Roychowdhury, K Manohar Raja, Lopaudra Mohanty, Vipin Kumar, Anish Kumar, Jitendra Khare, Supriya Devasthali, Prakash Chandra Maithani, Gawali Sudam Ramakrishna, Neelima Rebecca Philips, Natarajan G, PM Saravanan, MA Saleem, Devendra Dutta Mishra, Arpita Khare, Laiit Mohan Sanwal, YGSC Kishore Babu, TV Venkatram, Sandhya Singh, Laxman Singh Ropia, Palamala Radhika, Samundra Singh, Gupta Chandra Bidika and Pawan Kumar Kalanwal.

Butola gets extension

ONGC Videsh Managing Director Ranbir Singh Butola has been given five year extension to his term in office.
Ashok Chawla appointed Secretary Finance
Ashok Chawla, presently Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance has been appointed as Finance Secretary. He has also been given Additional charge of the Department of Financial Services since May 1, 2009. Shri Chawla belongs to 1973 batch of IAS (Gujarat Cadre). He has been Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs since September, 2008 and has also worked as Addl. Secretary, DEA from April, 2005 to January, 2007. Prior to joining as Secretary, DEA, Shri Ashok Chawla was Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation from February, 2007 to September, 2008.

CORPORATE
Vaidyanathan is MD & CEO of ICICI Prudential Life
V Vaidyanathan has been appointed new MD and CEO of the ICICI Prudential Life.
Kannan is MD of Bombay Stock Exchange
Madhu Kannan has been appointed MD and CEO of the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Raghavendran is Cisco Channel Head
B Raghavendran has been appointed Cisco Channel Operations Head.
Cisco appoints B. Raghavendran as Head India Channel Operations and Commercial Strategy
Cisco has on Monday announced the appointment of B. Raghavendran as Vice President, Channel Operations and Commercial Strategy, Cisco India & SAARC. He will be responsible for building and leading Cisco's partner efforts in the region and will also be responsible for focussing on reinforcing Cisco's presence in the commercial segment.

Aaj Ki Aawaz
Modi shook hands with Nitish on stage ….. what's the big deal????
So 'alarmed' why Media karr raha hai feel!!!
Modi is the democratically elected head of a State!!!
And as ' PM material ' kiya hai Industry ne rate!!!
How the Media would have loved it if Nitish gave Modi a snub!!!!
Would have given them an opportunity that into the snub wound salt they could rub!
Both Nitish and Modi behaved maturely …. partners in an Alliance !!!
And in an alliance to one another you don't show defiance!!
Congress is looking towards Nitish if NDA is not in a Sarkaar forming position!!!
They feel to become a UPA ally in such a scenario would be Nitish's disposition!!!
After all in Bihar Congress is not a threat,
And his demands for development funds by the Central Sarkaar will then be met!!!
Laloo got the Centre to turn mean towards Bihar!!!
So by allying with UPA Nitish would ensure money for development and Laloo ki haar!!
Of course this is only if NDA is not in a position to form a Sarkaar!!!
Then Nitish could go UPA's way ' just for Bihar'!!!
Laloo will then be even more marginalized!!!!
Totally downsized!!!
Laloo cites the Nitish - Modi handhsake and says Nitish has teeth in his tummy!!!
Meaning in being complicated in Nitsh there is no kammi!!!
Nitish should say that post election Laloo's going to be without any teeth!!!
Toothless or powerless Laloo is going to seethe!!!
'Nitish is a wolf' says Paswan but Public sabh jaanthi hai!!!
Paswan jaise 'barsaati maindak' ki baath nahi maanthi hai!!!
Amar Singh has shown his real color or rangh!!!!
At following statements in his recent poll speeches many ho gaye dangh (shocked)!!!
He said that if Jaya did not win she could commit suicide!!
And Public should not keep Noor Bano but keep Hoor Jaya on their side!!!
Amar is trying to say that Jaya should be elected for her beauty (sic)!!!!
In Amar's book 'MP's duty for a beauty like Jaya is to look like a cutie'!!!!
When people go to her with their problems they'll find her decked up like a bride!!!
She feels she'll bedazzle them and they won't feel they are being taken for a ride!!
She moves about in Rampur dressed up in red!!!
For such a sight ' budhi ghodi laal lagaam' has been very aptly said!!!
President will play 'The Role' in next Sarkaar's formation!!!
And President like Mohna is obliged to Sonia and this is not some new information!!
Will she call the largest Party or the first two or declare a free for all????
Well post election in Madam President's Court will land the ball!!!
Confucius says..... don't expect the impossible!!!
Remember Madam was a Congressmen ...need I spell out what for a Congressman is impossible and possible!!!
Flash ..... Mohna says cries for justice in the 1984 riots matter cannot go forever!!!
Mohna the cries will go on till from injustice 1984 matter Justice does not sever!!!
Sonia Gandhi demands in Gujarat riots cases justice!!!
And in 1984 genocide cases her minion says ' you cannot cry forever against injustice'!!
Aap ka jawaab nahi Sonia Gandhi......double standard ki hadh!!!!!
Why don't you realize such actions of your reduce your kadh (stature)!!!
Bharat Kumar
Aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

Forum
It is a welcome news
It is welcome news that the new government will review recent PSU appointments. There have been blatant violation of Resolution/Rules/Guidelines laid down by PESB/DOPT just to accommodate political favour. Internal candidate being placed first in the selection panel meeting all the prescribed requirement was bypassed and the whole system could not do anything except accepting the political order. Is this not rampant blow to sincere, honest and devoted officers. This is what has the aam admi got from the Government. What now would the new government do? Have all the agencies including CVC, CBI closed their eyes and ears and just saw that the such aam admi's career and future is destroyed by these politicians. Why are they not scanning such cases and ensuring to provide justice. The file will speak if they just take the cases.
S Gupta
It would generate more losses !
The move is likely to generate more losses. Airline should follow the policy of Laloo Yadav and introduce the scheme of automatic upgradation. It will cost nothing except extra food of executive quality which otherwise also is not of very good standard
Pramod
Sadistic pleasures derived by DOPT
DOPT is sitting over a pile of 200 vacancies of Under Secretary. There are officers who have been awaiting promotions after rendering 13 years of qualifying service although the rules provide for promotion after 8 years. DOPT has taken a decision to prepare select lists and then only give actual promotions. DOPT has been preparing select list of 2003 for the last six months. There is no tangible progress in the matter except for the fact that some of the cases have been sent to UPSC. At this pace, it appears that DOPT would not be able to promote officers as US before 2011. By that time it appears that there would be more than 400 vacancies. It is evident that DOPT has no vision as to how they plan to run the ministries in the absence of manpower. Already , many ministries have been facing the difficulties but DOPT is hell bent upon following this policy. It is apparent that someone in the DOPT has decided to punish CSS and all these decisions are reflection of the mind set of that officer. Recently, DOPT has taken decision to implement their lateral transfer policy. It is not clear as to how they get time for these exercises when they don't have time for preparation of select lists and for promotion of officers.
A Visitor
If UPA is bad, the NDA was no better !!!
Transfer of CSS officials on promotion to other ministries is an old rule- as old as ten years. What the CSS division of DOP&T is not bothered about is that scores of officers belonging to the CSS, have been languishing in the same ministries for as long as 25 to 30 years. They are neither getting promotion due to acute stagnation in this slum-dog Service nor are they getting transfers to other ministries. Those, who are able to pull the strings manage to get transfers to more important ministries. Others remain stay-put. As a result, they have become fossilised. The decision-makers in the DOP&T, unfortunately, are insensitive to their plight nor are they interested in improving the efficiency of the management. Rotational transfer of officials in any Service is a sine qua non of Good Governance, so that they do not develop the so-called vested interests. The DOP&T mandarins (Read as IAS coterie) are merely bothered about providing plum postings to their own fraternity. The Cabinet Secretary is unabashedly biased in favour of his own clan, uncaring for the non-IAS officers. The CSS is the most neglected lot wherein officers empanelled as Joint Secretaries have to wait for four to five years for their postings. There is no Rule of Law. The panel of Additional Secretary containing the name of a single officer of CSS, is a saga of favouritism, manipulations, regionalism, bypassing the claims of seniors, who were no less meritorious. Wheelers and dealers are having a field day. The extra-constitutional centre of power is hyper-active. The Prime Minister, the head of DOP&T, is an excellent academician and intellectual but he is a week Administrator, under the influence of the caucus of civil servants of the elite Service, around him. The present UPA regime is uni-centric towards the invisible power behind the throne. The NDA regime was no better! There was corruption galore during their period with another invisible power behind the throne. The then Home minister, who is aiming at the post of Prime Ministership now, had ordered the stoppage of direct recruitment to the CSS through the Civil service examination. The committee of Secretaries was presented with an agenda after taking the approval of L K Advani, the then HM. The then Cabinet Secretary (Pandey) at the COS meeting merely uttered that "since the HM had already approved the proposal, the COS had nothing to contribute'. That was NDA style of functioning.
A K Saxena ( A retired civil servant)
TAIL-PIECE
Free Rail Pass For Spouse !
When Babu Jagjivan Ram was the Minister for Railways, he once piloted a Bill proposing free rail travel for MPs' spouses.
Atal Behari Vajpayee, the bachelor MP, asked the Minister if a bachelor could also take a companion with him free.
Babuji replied tongue-in-cheek: "The Hon'ble Member forgets that the proposed legislation is for spouse, not spice!"
Pawan Kumar