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How out Netas are relaxing....
Sonia is contemplating, sipping cups of coffee and getting a facial done!!!
And then she's going to an eating joint in South Delhi for a meal with her beti and son!!
Mohna is listening to Mirza Ghalib's poetry on his Ipod and overseeing some packing!!!
Just in case UPA does not get the numbers or he does not get the required backing!!
Advani is in total recall mood and recalls old times to his wife or biwi!!!!
She nods her head as if she listening to him but she's actually glued to the TV!!
Pranab Da is burning the telephone lines and in between he takes naps!!!
Pranab Da ko electioneering really saps!!!!
Pawar is using an 'unkown' number to politick and as he does this he sips wine!!!
Later on a total Maratha fare with family he's going to dine!!!
PC refuses to get out of his night-suit and is lazing!!!!!
Contemplating about what will happen and emptily gazing!!!
Laloo has locked himself in his residential dairy and is questioning his soothsaying cow!!!
He keeps asking the cow ' What will happen now'?????
Jaylalitha is playing TT with Sashikala and trying to get politics off her mind!!!
Later on she's going to exercise by kicking a Karuna dummy in the hind!!!
Maya's busy taking stock of how many of her statues have come up and counting her crowns (mukats)!!!
She takes stock of her houses in major Cities and she spends time planning houses in towns!!!
In Amar's car Mulayam and Amar are being driven about Dilli!!!!
And stop time again for fruit juice and chat that is extra chilly!!!!
Karat and Brinda sit in opposite corners in their bedroom!!!
He's views reruns of Manchester United matches and she apne receding hair ko karti hai groom!!!
Naveen Patnaik refuses to get out of the bath tub!!!!!
Grime of electioneering karr raha apni body se scrub!!!
Chandrababu Naidu is on the computer scanning computer and agriculture Site pe Site!!!!
And stops momentarily to grab a bite!!!!
Hooda has locked himself in a room ….some say Venod Sharma is in the room too!!!!
Time and again there is groaning and then a flushing sound from the loo!!!!
Badal … Papa and Beta…… are in deep discussion and topic is excuses for loosing!!!
Very soon from a short list excuses for loosing in Punjab they will be choosing!!!!
Karuna is driving his self propelled wheelchair at home…. literally whizzing about!!!!
And after he gets tires he sits in a corner with a pout!!!
Confucius says…… politicians relaxing in the lull period before the aandhi!!!!
In this period Confucius too relaxes thinking will it be Lal Krishna ' Bhagwat' or Manmohan 'Gandhi'????

Bharat Kumar

Who will be new PM?

Who will be the new Indian Prime Minister , after results of the 15th
Lok Sabha election were declared on May 16,2009 ? This was the
only topic of discussion in Government offices since May 15 morning.

Why can't India have an eve as PM too ?

At a high profile party, it was being discussed that why can't India have a lady incumbent other than Ms. Sonia Gandhi -Congress chief ,as the next Prime Minister after May 17, 2009 ? And the consensus was reached on Delhi Chief Minister Ms. Sheila Dixit. She has all qualities & attributes of entering the 7 Race Course, felt those present in the party. Will she make it or not is a million Dollar question.

Mayawati is unlike other politicians

Mayawati is unlike other politicians. There is no doubt about it. She doesn't believes in hear and say and cross checks everything unlike other politicians.

Importance of being Pranab Mukherjee

How much important is Indian External Affairs & Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee? This can be gauged from the fact that senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel went to call on the former in his South Block office in Delhi. However, what transpired between two leaders could not be known.

B. Majumdar is Member, MAT

B. Majumdar, who had been appointed as a Member in the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal (MAT), has assumed his new charge on May 15,2009. Majumdar so far was PCCF Wildlife to Maharashtra government. He is a 1973 batch Indian Forest Service (IFS) of Maharashtra cadre.

(We said this on March 22,2009)

S Sood to be acting PCCF Maharashtra

The Maharashtra Government has appointed S Sood as PCCF till CS Joshi returns from abroad. He has succeeded B Majumdar who assumed his new charge on May 15, 2009 as Member in the Maharashtra Administrative tribunal (MAT). He is Maharashtra cadre Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1976 batch.

CS Joshi to be new PCCF Maharashtra

CS Joshi who is currently abroad, on his return next month, will assume the charge as PCCF Wildlife to Maharashtra government. He is Maharashtra cadre Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1975 batch.

Amitesh's name cleared by Mahrashtra

As the grapevine has it, Maharashtra Government has cleared its SP rank IPS officer Amitesh 's name for central deputation to Government f India (GOI). Roy belongs to the 1996 batch.

Three WB cadre IPS officers empanelled for DIG level post
As many as three West Bengal cadre IPS officers of 1994 batch have been empanelled to hold DIG and equivalent level posts under the Government of India. They include Bashab Kumar Talukder, Man Singh and Niraj Kumar Singh.

Sharad Sharma goes as GM, SBI Global Markets Unit, Kolkata
Sharad Sharma, SBI General Manager, Network - II, Local Head Office, New Delhi, has been shifted as General Manager, Global Markets Unit, Kolkata.

Barack Obama's deep concern over climate change

The new U.S. presidential administration of Barack Obama has increased
attention to climate change in advance of the upcoming United Nations
Climate Change Conference to be held in December 2009.

Naveen Kumar posted in Hubli

M Naveen Kumar, Principal Director of Commercial Audit and ex-officio Member Audit Board, Bangalore, has been transferred and posted as Principal Director of Audit, South Western Railway, Hubli.
Sandeep Prakash joins Airports Economic Regulatory Authority
Sandeep Prakash who so far was Director Civil Aviation to Government of India (GOI) has assumed the charge as Secretary of the newly created "Airports Economic Regulatory Authority(AERA)" of India. He is Central Excise & Customs Officer of the 1990 batch.
R P Meena gets additional charge
R P Meena, Principal Secretary (PS), GAD, to the Tripura Government will
now hold additional charge as PS Food. He is MT cadre IAS officer of the
1984 batch.
Rahul Sarin appointed Secretary CAT

Secretary Personnel Rahul Sarin has been appointed Member- Secretary of the Competitive Appellate Tribunal.He is 1974 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre.
( We said this on May 13 )

Will Haldea head PPP Regulator ?

Despite opposition from various ministeries, Planning Commission Vice Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia is reportedly pushing hard for setting up a PPP Regulator: If the proposal gets a nod it will be headed by his favourite bureaucrat, retired IAS, Gajendra Haldea. (IAS,RJ, 1973).

Justice Pasayat appointed Chairman of head Competition Appellate Tribunal

Outgoing Judge of the Supreme Court of India Justice Justice Arijit Pasayat has been appointed Chairman of the Competition Appellate Tribunal.
( We said this on May 13 )

PM to meet President on May 17

According to informed sources, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has sought appointment with President Ms Pratibha Patil on May 17.One can only guess.

Praveen Tripathi to join CAT

1973 batch IA&AS officer Praveen Tripathi has been appointed Member of the Competition Appellate Tribunal which comes under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.

Rajni Razdan to get Additional charge

Secretary Administrative Reforms Ms Rajni Razdan is expected to get additional charge of the Secretary Department of Personnel in the Government of India. She is 1973 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

Three names short-listed for Competition Commission

Names of Mssrs Anurag Goel - Secretary Company Affairs, Murari Lal Tayal - Principal Secretary to the Haryana Chief Minister and Subas Pani - Secretary Planning Commission have reportedly been short-listed for the post of Member Competition Commission.

J S Sarma takes over as Chairman TRAI

J S Sarma has taken over as new Chairman of the TRAI on Thursday.1971 batch Andhra Pradesh cadre IAS officer Sarma has succeeded Nripendra Mishra.
( We said this on May 7 )

Sinha to join UNICEF

Rajiva Sinha is reportedly joining the UNICEF. He is 1986 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Gupta to succeed Tirkey in Defence Ministry

A K Gupta 1981 batch IAS officer of TamilNadu cadre will succeed Ajay Tirkey as Joint Secretary in the Defence Ministry. 1987 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer Tirkey is returning to the parent cadre next month after completion of central deputation tenure.

Singh Couple joins LBSNAA

1994 batch Punjab cadre IAS officer Tejveer Singh and his wife Jaspreet Talwar, who is 1995 batch IAS officer, have joined the LBSNAA, Mussorie.
Whom the President will invite to form Government ?
Its too early to decide about modalities regarding formation of the next Government at the Centre after results of the 15th Lok Sabha polls were announced on May 16,2009 .However, in corridors power a debate has begun on a question. Whom Indian President Mrs .Pratibha Devi Singh Patil will invite to form the next Government ? Whether, single largest political party will be considered first or single largest group will be invited first to the President House ? It is hotly being discussed.

A Hung House in Lok Sabha may endanger national security

All those who are concerned regarding growth & development in India are quite apprehensive regarding increased internal security threat perception if there is a fractured verdict on May 16, 2009. Reason for this worry is very simple. India is beleaguered by threat from different neighbouring nations.

Brijesh Mishra unlikely to get much importance
Former Security Advisor, Brijesh Mishra is unlikely to get much importance this time even if NDA comes to power at the Centre. Reason; His relations have never been so cordial with the NDA's prime ministerial candidate LK Advani.

Sandeep Dixit shows the way

Sandeep Dixit Congress nominee from Delhi East, who has sought re-
election from Lok Sabha seat of Delhi East, did not indulge in any
kind of high profile, campaign. On the contrary he campaigned through
mass contact programme. His poll expenditure will obviously be on a
lower side when compared with other incumbents of ilk. It's an open
secret that he is the only son of Delhi Chief Minister Mrs. Sheila Dixit.

30 IRS officers promotes as Commissioner C&CE
The government promoted 30 IRS officers (Customs and Central Excise) as Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise in the Pay Band-4 (Rs.37,400-67,000/-).
Those promoted include A. G. Rao Shakkarwar to Aurangabad CX (A), Anil Kumar Jain to Guwahati CC, Ashok Kumar Mehta to NACEN, Faridabad, B. Hare Ram to Trichy CX, Balesh Kumar to Jodhpur Cus (P), Bharati S. Chavan to Surat CX-II (A), Chagan Lal Mahar to Surat CX (I), G.V. Krishna Rao to Hyderabad CX-II (A), Himanshu Gupta to Commissioner (Service Tax) CBEC, Inder Singh to Bangalore CX-II(A), Jayant Kumar Jha to Jamshedpur CX, Manoj Krishna to Chennai CX-III, Naresh Penumaka to Chennai Port (Export), Om Prakash Dadhich to DGEP, Delhi, Raj Bans Singh to Chennai CX-II, Raj Pal Sharma to Chennai CX-II, Rajiv Talwar to Ranjan Kumar Sahoo to Kolkata CX (A-II), Ranjana Jha to Commr (PAC) (DGICCE), Delhi, Reena Arya to NOIDA CX, Sailaj Ray Baruah to Shillong (Cus) P, Sandeep Kumar to Kolkata Airport, Shankar Lal Meena to Belapur CX, Suchitra Sharma to Lucknow, CX, Sunil Kumar Das to Siliguri CX, Vasa Sesha Giri Rao to DRI, Kolkata Vimal Kishore Verma to Raipur CX (A), Vinod Kumar Saxena to CESTAT, Delhi, V.P.C. Rao to Calicut CX, Yog Dhyan Banga to CESTAT, Mumbai.
88 IRS (C & CE) transferred
The government transferred 88 IRS officers (Customs and Central Excise) of the rank of Commissioners. Those transferred are as follows-
A. Vijay Anand Kolkata On Study Leave to DGICCE, Kolkata, Ajay Kumar Prasad Mumbai CESTAT to Mumbai Daman CX(A), Amal Kanti Das Nasik CX to Nhava Sheva (Import), Arun Kumar Misra Jamshedpur CX to Allahabad CX, Arvind Kumar Agarwal Madurai CX to Cochin CX(A-I), Ashok Kumar Pandey Chennai CX-IV to Nasik CX (A), Banibrata Bhattacharya Mumbai Systems, Mumbai to Bangalore Cus., Bhikhoo Ram Trichy CX to Thane CX-I, Bhupendra Pal Singh NACEN, Hyderabad to Settlement Commission, Mumbai.
Bipin Kumar Sinha Bolpur CX to Nhava Sheva (Export), Birendra Kumar Singh CESTAT, Mumbai to Audit, Delhi, Chandra Prakash Srivastava Delhi ICD Cus to Mumbai CX-I, Chhitar Mal Chandolia NACEN, Patna to Ahmedabad CXI (A), Devender Singh Jammu J&K CX to CEI, Delhi 3, Donald Dilip Ingty Cochin Cus(P) to Shillong CX, Gautam Ray (Dr) CESTAT, Kolkata to NACEN, Faridabad, Harinder Bansi Meerut CX-I to Ghaziabad CX, Hemant A. Bhatt Kolkata CX-VI to TAR, Nagpur, Janaki Arunkumar Aurangabad CX(A) to Tirupati CX, Jayant Misra Delhi CX-III, (Gurgaon) to Amritsar Customs, Karan K. Sharma CEI, Delhi to Directorate of Logistics, Delhi, Kusum Satapathy Kolkata CX-I to Haldia CX.
M. V. B. Rao Hyderabad CXIII(A) to Madurai CX, M. Vinod Kumar Delhi DGEP to Cochin CX, Manmohan Singh Bangalore CX-III to Meerut CX-I, Narayan Basu Allahabad CX to NACEN, Kolkata, P. R. Chandrasekharan Mysore CX to NACEN, Hyderabad, Parminder Singh Sodhi Chennai Airport & ACC to J&K CX Praveen Jain Delhi CX-I to Indore CX-I(A), Pullela Nageswara Rao Tirupati CX to Hyderabad CX-IV, R K Sharma-I Chandigarh CXII(A) to Directorate of Legal Affairs, Delhi R. Periasami Rajkot CX-I (A) to Chennai Airport & ACC, Rakesh Misra Surat Surat CX-I ADG to Service Tax, Mumbai, Ranjit Singh Surat CX-II to Meerut CX-II.
S. N. Balakrishnan Cochin CX to NACEN, Chennai, Sandeep Mohan Bhatnagar Chennai Port (Export) to Kanpur CX, Sanghamitra Panda Audit, Mumbai to Vapi CX, Kishan Gaule Chennai CX-III to Surat CX-II, Subhash Chandra Jana Kanpur CX to Bolpur CX,. Talkeshwar Singh Amritsar to Cus Kolkata CX-VI, Verinder Kumar Garg Service Tax, Delhi to Chandigarh CXII(A), Wilson L. Hangshing Belapur CX to Guwahati CX(A).

CORPORATE
Shah is CEO of GE Capital

Anish Shah has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Capital in India.

Shah is CEO of GE Capital

Anish Shah has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Capital in India.
Reyad Fezzani appointed Chairman of Tata BP Solar
Tata BP Solar India Ltd. Has appointed Reyad Fezzani, as chairman of Tata BP Solar, Fezzani's predecessor was Syamal Gupta, who has quit company.
P Nandagopal quits Reliance Life,
P Nandagopal who is CEO of Reliance Life has reportedly resigned from the company.
Presently Malay Ghosh Deputy CEO has taken over charge for some time.
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Shailesh Rao appointed as Chairman IAMAI

Shailesh Rao who is M.D. of Google India has been appointed as Chairman of industry body The Internet and Mobile Association of India

Forum
BJP will top !
Despite the claims of experts and pundits, the BJP will emerge as the single largest party ( 160 or nearabout) and NDA the largest group ( 220 or nearabout. They are most likely to form the government

S Chatterjee

The squirrel and the elephant
Commies stretching their muscles and squeaking(Roaring) after climbing on AIADMK,BJD,SP and now Congress reminds one of the old story of the squirrel and the elephant.

N Krishnan

Next 24 hours for humour
TV/newspapers are killing with boring stories and are unlikely to stop in the next 24 hours. Can we enjoy some of Murphy's laws:
1.The worst political candidate will become President.
2.No matter who gets elected, government always gets in.
3.Someone always gets the good job first.
4.Your current boss is the worst you've ever had until the next one.
5. When you don't have much work...all your colleagues will be busy.

M L Gupta

Ghost Of Ramadoss

The ghost refuses to die ( never thought ghosts live till eternity). His influence on the Ministry of Health and outside is intact. Look at the politicians ( Maran, Kanimojhi ) being hopeful of his return. In the MOHFW the bureaucrats too ( especially those from TN or TN cadre) are hoping for his return

Kumar Sanjay

Using IES

It is really interesting to learn that many of the Group A services of Government of India including IES are doing similar job except sharing of administrative power on equal footing. It is also not just the knowledge and use of econometrics but rather the overall economic and general assessment of various social, economic and technological aspects fitting in decision making and administrative efficiency and their relevance in given conditions matters most as far as Economic generalists like IES are concerned. Indian Economic Service (IES) means something greater rather than a simple group of analyst specialised in use of econometric tools focussed on one particular aspect. It is not just profit and loss of an household or a small firm but rather something very great of national and international relevance that need to be and can be taken care of by the IES officers. But narrow and selfish minds tend to attribute narrow dimensions and can see only very small images even of Himalayan sized objects. It is wrong to assume it a specialised service as its officers have to take into account all technological, administrative, legal, national, international, micro and macro, regional, intraregional and almost all other aspects while performing their duties. Reducing IES to simple econometric dimensions is not at all desirable. Proper administrative economic advising would be best with practical experience of economic advisers in various economic administrative offices. Their training also needs their real extensive exposure to all the economic fields and not just few jumbled inadequate guidelines. Creating something is easier than using and putting it on right tracks. The wisdom behind great creations was perhaps greater than the suggestion to dispense with it mainly due to inability and incapability of its proper use.

R Mahaya

An interesting debate

The debate about the role of IES and absorbing them into generalists category is interesting. After reading the views on this subject, it appears that the authors are satisfied with the performance of other services such as the IAS, IPS, Revenue and Customs. If their assessment was correct about the performance of these services then the governance structure in the country would have been much better than what we have today. Rent seeking, arbitrary decision making, complete disregard for the service orientation for the citizens are some of the few reasons for the total breakdown of the Governance structure. Most of the services which many of us think are doing their jobs well (except the IES) are responsible for such a Governance structure.

Deepshikha Rastogi

Assign appropriate role
There is no point in using IES officers for clerical work in the Ministry. Government should assign appropriate role to this elite service. Even now most of them are contributing a lot to each Ministry they are working but all the information generated by them are used up or owned by IAS officers from Director to Secretary in the Ministry so the credit goes to them. However, I do not agree that outsourcing of econometric analysis reflect their inefficiency, as they are not mandated to do primary research at all. If we consider in this way one may wonder how much of administrative and managerial works has been outsourced by various government officers that would reflect the serious weakness and inefficiency of IAS officers!!!

Suman Singh

An intelligent lot without specialist skills
IES officers are an intelligent lot without specialist skills and few other things he said. But I don't agree to his proposition to merge it with other generalist services. It is shortsighted and harm the long term interest of the country.
It is unthinkable to run any organisation without in-house economists. Name any progressive country or orgnisation that don't have full scale economists. Name US , UK governemnts, World Bank, IMF. Even in India many private entities have economists. The issue probably is not about the relevance of economists in Government but about these intelligent lot was groomed. They have their so called foundation training in a organisation consisting of professionals who would not be inclined to pass on modern methods( tools) of analysis to the young officers. It is gathered that there is animosity towards the young ones. I wonder how these young intelligent officers ,( 15 on an average) qualifying a tough competitive examination fail to become professionals. As usual the solution has to be found there not taking off the head if there is a headache.

Ramarama Prasad

Indian Econometric Service

If only econometricians can contribute to the process of informed decision making in the Government, surely, the Government of India should change the nomenclature of Indian Economic Service to Indian Econometric Service and accordingly the UPSC should modify the qualifications for entry to such a service and alongside also revise its recruitment policy commensurately. The effort worldwide is to continuously improve upon the worn out practices, systems, institutions, processes and mindsets. Also, radical reforms under the rubric of Business Process Reengineering have been tried and implemented successfully. Is it such a tall order for the Government of India and the UPSC if it helps in improving the quality of decision making?
Although, the alternative proposition of absorbing the IES officers who are not adept at using econometric software and advanced econometric techniques into Class I generalist services, as has been time and again suggested on this forum, does not appear feasible, prima-facie, yet assuming for a moment that it can be implemented, what about those officers who are adept at doing so? Besides, how would the so called econometric handicap constitute a sufficient dividend and necessary qualification for absorption elsewhere? And what leads us to conclude that the other Class I generalist services are performing in the highest tradition and have the absolutist right to continue as they are?
The assertion on the forum, "If it is a question of general knowledge of the economy at the level of the Economic Times or the Economist, or collating information on Excel, perhaps any CSS officer is good enough" is a revelation as also a grand tribute to the CSS, which appears to be oblivious of its potential and hidden talent and is unnecessarily whining and wailing through this forum. The Government of India must utilize this in-house resource more intensively to effectively address mundane issues at the level of the Economic Times or the Economist even as it decides on the optimal utilization the IES.

SK Tewari

Srivastva has always made a mark wherever he has worked, be it in GOI or in the state. In his previous posting in J & K, he has galvanised an otherwise sleepy and un responsive Department of Wild life.
Best Wishes for the new assignment

Sanjiv Chadha

Ministry of Railways have with the approval of the President decided that Shri V Kalyan Sundaram, SS/IRSME/ICF should be transferred to RWF in the same capacity.
Copy of orders: EOIII-2009_TR_160-300409.pdf
Ministry of Railways have with the approval of the President decided that Shri K D Mainrai, HAG/IRSME, presently working as CAO/COFMOW, should also look after the duties of the post of CAO/IROAF, in addition to his own, for a period of 45 days