The information coverage for most of the central services is very good and the managers of the site deserve kudos. I request you to include the information pertaining to Indian Ordnance Factory Service (IOFS) also on your site.

Ravi Kant
Nirupama Rao to be new Foreign Secretary
Appointment of S M Krishna as External Affairs Minister is clear indication that Nirupama Rao is going to succeed P Shivshankar Menon as Foreign Secretary. Husband of Ms Rao is an IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.
Seven vacancies of the Governor to be filled up
New Government is going to appoint seven new Governors in a couple of months. The Governors whose tenures are coming to end include Nawal Kishore Sharma (Gujarat), S S Sidhu (Goa), Balram Jhakar (Madhya Pradesh), S S Barnala (Tamil Nadu), Gopalkrishna Gandhi (West Bengal), D N Sahay (Tripura), S F Rodrigues (Punjab), R L Bhatia (Bihar) and R S Gavai (Kerala).
Ajay Mittal joins MEPZ
Ajay Mittal has joined as Development Commissioner, Madras Export Processing Zone (MEPZ). Mittal is an IAS officer of the 1982 batch & belongs to the Himachal Pradesh (HP) cadre.
(We said this earlier & on April 29,2009)
Praveen Singh joins as CVO; NHPC
Praveen Singh has assumed the charge as Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) of the
National Hydel Power Corporation (NHPC). So far he was IG Lucknow.
Praveen Singh is an IPS officer of the 1982 batch who belongs to the
Uttar Pradesh cadre.
(We said this earlier & on April 29,2009)
Harminder Raj Singh empanelled
Harminder Raj Singh has reportedly been empanelled to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India. He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
Sudhir Kumar empanelled
Sudhir Kumar has reportedly been empanelled to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India. He is 1977 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.
IA&AS officer empanelled for JS post
IA&AS officer, Ms. R Rajalakshmi, of 1983 batch, has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary under the Central Staffing Scheme.
IES officer empanelled for JS post
IES officer, Rajpal Bhagaria, of 1981 batch has been empanelled for the post of Joint secretary in the GoI.
Rail Bhavan is shaken badly
In the wake of Ms. Mamta Banerjee becoming Railway Minister, the
officials lobby in the Rail Bhavan is badly shaken.
Mamta looking for Old Aide in Rail Bhavan
Newly inducted Railway Minister Ms. Mamta Banerjee is yet to make up
her mind regarding her private secretary (PS). Mamta wants Sunil
Chaturvedi back in her fold after quitting this plum assignment. Her
old trusted Lieutenant Sunil Chaturvedi is a soft-spoken, quiet IAS
officer of West Bengal Cadre who had left IAS last year and had joined as
Chief Operating Officer (COO) of $ 5.5 bn Bharat Forge group chaired
by noted Industrial tycoon Baba Kalyani. Even if Chaturvedi does not
immediately quit and join her, grapevine has it that he may play a
pivotal role in devising her policy framework in Railways from behind
the curtains.
Ghosh in RBI going as RD to Delhi
Sandeep Ghosh in RBI has been transferred from Pune to Delhi as Regional Director.
Govt servant will get annual increment on joining on first working day
If a Government servant was to join post in a grade pay on appointment/ promotion on January 1st of a year, but could not because it happened to be a Sunday or gazetted holiday, he will be treated to have completed 6 months of service on July 1st of that year for the purpose of granting annual increment if he joins on the first working day of the year.
Taori shifted as Principal, State Bank Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad
K J Taori, General Manager (Agri Business Unit), Rural Business Group,
Mumbai, has been shifted as Principal, State Bank Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad.
Mrs.Kamini Chauhan Ratan poised to join MP on deputation
Decks have been cleared for Mrs. Kamini Chauhan Ratan -the maiden lady Collector of the Meerut district to join Madhya Pradesh cadre on inter state deputation. The Meerut batch district has a history of 150 years. Mrs.Kamini Chauhan Ratan is an IAS officer of the 1997 who belongs to the Uttar Pradesh cadre.
Arun Mishra to go to Montreal ?
Now Arun Mishra is being tipped to be the new Indian Representative to the Council of International Civil Aviation organization, Montreal, Canada. He is 1986 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.
Seven UP cadre IPS officers empanelled for DIG level post
As many as seven Uttar Pradesh cadre IPS officers of 1994 batch have been empanelled to hold DIG and equivalent level posts under the Government of India. They are L V Antony Dev Kumar, Jai Narayana Singh, Asim Kumar Arun, Dhruva Kant Thakur, Akhil Kumar, Binod Kumar Singh and Akshay Kumar Singh.
Joint Secretary MHA crediting money to himself for tribunal sittings ?
Is it true that a Joint Secretary in the Government of India is taking a handsome fee running into tens of thousands of rupees for every sitting of a government committee / tribunal of which he is a member? Is this allowed?.
IAS reshuffle in Bihar
There is IAS reshuffle in Bihar. New postings are Mssrs :- S P Keshav chairman-cum-member, Board of Revenue, Anup Mukherjee Development Commissioner, S Sidhu Commissioner, D Enquiry, Personnel and Administrative reforms department Deepika Padda DG, Bihar Public Administration & Rural Development Institute, K C Saha Agriculture Production Commissioner, V K Verma, PS, Social Welfare department, Alok Kumar Sinha additional member, Board of Revenue. Sinha will also be examination controller, Bihar State Combined Entrance Examination Board, Ashok Kumar Chauhan Commissioner, Vigilance Department, Jairam Lal Meena Principal Secretary, Environment and Forest department, Vijay Prakash Principal Secretary of Rural Development Department , Shishir Kumar Sinha Bihar State Finance Corporation MD, Arun Kumar Singh Munger Commissioner , Sanjeev Kumar Sinha Magadh Commissioner, K P Ramaiya SC & ST Welfare Department Secretary, Sudhir Kumar Purnia Commissioner, S Shivkumar Saran Commissioner, R K Khandelwal Cooperative Department Secretary, Brajesh Mehrotra Building Construction Department Secretary, Deepak Prasad Panchayati Raj Department Secretary, S M Raju Tirhut Commissioner , Amarendra Narayan Singh Bhagalpur Commissioner, Rana Awadhesh Singh Darbhanga Commissioner, Vijaylaxmi Additional charge Bihar State Women's Development Corporation MD, B Rajendra Director, Agriculture, Ramesh Lal IG (Prisons) , Dayashankar Pandey Secretary, Board of Revenue, Arun Prasad Employment and Training Director, Anand Kishore Additional charge of Additional Director, Bihar Administrative Reforms Mission. Pradeep Kumar MD, Bihar State Food and Civil Supplies Corporation, Sanjeev Hans DM, Saran, Jeetendra Srivastava DM, Begusarai, N Sarwan Kumar Director, Animal Husbandry. Kumar Ravi DM, Supaul and Kuldeep Narayan DM of Gopalganj.
IAS changes in Uttar Pradesh
Radha S Chauhan, who was awaiting her posting has been appointed Divisional Commissioner, Meerut. L Venkateshwar Lu will now be Divisional Commissioner Kanpur. Dipika Duggal has been posted as Secretary GAD. Ramashankar Sahu has been posted as District Magistrate, Mau replacing AV Rajamauli, who has been made special secretary APC. Valkar Singh will be DM of Ferozabad. Lokesh M has been made district magistrate Kaushambhi.
CORPORATE
Jamestin is number two in panel for GAIL's Director(HR)
N S Jamestin of the ONGC is number two in panel for the slot of Director -Human Resource(HR) in GAIL.
SAIL to offer 4000 jobs this year
(SAIL) is going to offer 4000 jobs in the current year.
Salary of PSU Chiefs raised
The Kerala Government has raised the salary and honorarium of Chief Executives, Managing Directors and Non-Executive Chairmen of State public sector undertakings.
Singh promoted in Taj Hotel
Veer Vijay Singh has been promoted as the Chief Operating Officer Taj in Mumbai. Earlier he was GM in Taj New Delhi.

Aaj Ki Aawaz

Pranab Da should tell PC to stop commenting on MOF issues!!!
And when he tells PC this he should keep handy some tissues!!!
That's because PC's going to cry!!!!
For the MOF desperately karr raha tha try!!!
And Mr. PC please concentrate on the Ministry you've be given!!!!!
Also please do keep in mind from MOF out you've been driven!!!
And Mr. P.C you are not an economist but a vakeel!!!!
Apne aap ko expert on economic matters how and why do you feel!!!
What is Mohna going to do about Ms. Tantrum or Mamtha Banerjee????
She plays to the gallery to the hilt abh takk toh yehi karra hai see!!!
And responsibility is not going to make her change!!!!
Mamtha can at times act very very strange!!!
Mohna should advice her not to keep her undated resignation ready!!!!
And to come and talk to him whenever she starts to feel unsteady or heady!!!
The Master of hay making has got the portfolios he had last time!!!
And for propriety and probity we know Pawar cares a dime!!!
Public have still not forgotten the red wheat that was imported!!!!
And strangely this jiggery pokkery Mohna supported!!!
Hopefully this time Pawar will be careful as he simply is not in a position to dictate terms!!
And Pawar cannot afford another can of worms!!!
He aspired to be the PM and was taught a lesson!!!
In NCP's bastion (Maharashtra) NCP ki seats ho gayi lessen!!
This Sarkaar has had a ominous start!!!!
Cabinet berth pangs at the very start!!!
Chalo hope these are just teething troubles and now matters will improve!!!
And soon Cabinet will get ' into the groove'!!!!
Seems in Kanuna's family unemployment is rampant and so the Cabinet berth bullying!!!!
Who is the goggled man fooling????
He says Balu and Raja have been done in Newspapers and Television!!!
This is what is the real meaning of 'goggled vision'!!!
He's a goggled Dritrashtra... but this one has seen everything!!!
But behaves he seen nothing!!!!
Really pathetic that Karuna wants to force on the Nation his uneducated son?
Simply not done!!!
Amar Singh is back to his old tricks again!!!!
Says Congress was not polite during swearing in ceremony and treated him with disdain!!!
Seems he expected a seat in the front row and expected Congressis to mill around him!
Seems this man needs to change in his brain the 'SIM'!!!
SP is now out of power in UP and Dilli!!!
And expecting to be 'in demand' is being plain and simple silly!!!
Or was he upset that his Fourth Front partners Laloo and Paswan got seats in the second row!!!
Well they were Ministers in the previous cabinet this Amar should know!!!
Well by the looks of it Amar is again going to get verbal joolab!!!
And I understand his health has gone even more kharaab!!!
Why does he not give politicking a break!!!
And a 'health break' why does he not take???
Confucius says….. health is the real wealth!!!
Without health you cannot even enjoy your wealth!!!
Adds….. your servants can enjoy khulam khulla the sweet things of life!!!!
And you try to sneak in something sweet in your gob hiding from you kids and wife!
Bharat Kumar

FORUM

Excellent work by Data Base Cell, CBDT
1. The data base Cell of CBDT has developed a computer programme to convert the transfer policy in to actuals.
2.With the program a data has been prepared showing which officer is due for transfer and why.
3. The result has been displayed on the website of department.
4. Officers can send representation if they want any correction.
5.Though since the software is new there would be some error which can be corrected.
6.This is an excellent step in the direction of transparency, I congratulate CBDT, Secretary Revenue and DBC for promoting transparency in a highly contentious area.
7. I hope CVC will take note of this and ask other Government departments to follow suit.
Ravi
Gerentocrats to the fore
You have been making a fool of yourself for quite some time by repeatedly publishing a false 'news item' that the age of retirement of government servants is being increased. There never was any such proposal. The only limited proposals have been to extend the age limit in respect of officers dealing with security (Home/Defence etc.) and how to get rid of some government servants before they are 60. Even before the new government took office, your geriatric friends persuaded you to publish a false news item that increase in the retirement age is the new government's top priority. Some of your readers suspect that you published this 'news' even when you knew it to be false. It is OK to oblige the friends and advertisers from time to time, but deliberate insertion of a false news is not one expects in Whispers. There is a need to re-establish credibility of your site.
M.P. Baur
Kyon Na Jhagada Hi Khatam Karein ?
This enhancement of retirement age, propping up intermittently has elicited reactions from hilarity to hope to disappointment to outright anger! Why not finish this debate once for all? The government has really been unfair and unjust in giving post retirement appointments to the highest categories of courtiers (Darbaris/dyodhiwans) for 5 years in one go and unjustly denying legitimate promotions to the sincere government servants for 5 years or more! The rumour about increase/decrease in retirement age gains nuisance value in such complex government behaviour (CSB/ACC especially).The government can end this wrangling or jhagada in one go-retire at 60 but with full salary as pension. Please do not laugh. Afterall, all government servants are equally, fully and justly eligible to get it, but only at their 100th birthday. The government has very kindly accepted the VIth CPC recommendation in this regard. The only flaw in the orders is that the increase in pension is 20% at a time till the 100th b'day. So the real jhagada is about 39 sweet golden years of fruitful enjoyment of service rendered or otherwise by a government servant. Once this humble recommendation from an ordinary government servant is accepted and implemented, without getting it stamped from melord, nobody will indulge in gossip or scheming of any kind in this regard, there will be no heartburning, no inter-services mudslinging! It will cost the exchequer half the amount it is spending on looking after reemployed babus, who in the first place should never have found a place in the lists prepared by the UPSC!! As far as giving some work to employees retired at 60 with 100 salary as pension, is concerned, I get stimulus from the great invention of the judicial mind in the form of Notary Public for lifelong employment/engagement of retired judicial officers not finding employment on any inquiry commission and suggest that all such employees be permitted to attest photo copies of original documents for free as a service to society to compensate for service not done upto age 60 or if done was badly done !Ab bus jhagada khatm karo
M L Gupta

Age, promotions and transfers !
Age and transfers [not so much promotions] are what elicit the maximum interest in your channel/site. Those who don't want age, want early promotions and will quickly change their stand when they are 59.
Rita

It will be a healthy mix of young and old
The on-going pro and anti age extension lobbies can both be satisfied, if the retirement age is made 45 years and after that officers should be free to opt to serve on till 65 years. The heavily pro young service valas can reitre happily at 45 and join private sector or run mithai shops. Those who wish to make a long term career out of civil service should be allowed to serve till 65. This will make a healthy mix of young and old, just like in politics.
Sunita

A wake-up call for the Editor-In-Chief !!!
As an avid browser , I would urge Dr Suresh Mehrotra to consider the' advisory ' of Dr N C Saxena (May 22) a Civil Services topper of his batch , a member of think tanks set up by successive Central Governments, a former Member-Secretary of the Planning Commission and an intellectual to boot. This is necessary to protect the virtues of 'integrity' and 'credibility' , this website is known for! The criterion for assessing the popularity of a website ( like TRP rating in soap opera parlance) should not be judged on the basis of number of' hits' registered by the browsers , but by the 'quality of its viewership and their responses'. I have noticed, of late, that views are being invited by you on certain unimportant and hypothetical themes like "Who is best dressed civil servant", "Suitability of Rahul Gandhi for Prime ministership", "Survey of bureaucrats on the number of Parliamentary seats likely to be secured by different political parties" ,' "The possibility of BJP joining hands with its arch-rival, the Congress party for Government formation at the Centre" . As if the hurt was not enough, you have now re-incarnated the dead issue of "Raising the age of retirement" .This, in my humble view, is unethical as it only raises the "Revolution of Rising Expectations" among the "about to retire bureaucrats" and inviting the wrath of the "Rising generations of bureaucrats". This has again started the unhealthy controversy of views and counter-views. It is also noted that ,of late, imaginary characters like "Archie", VK,MK, Goldie ,and other pseudonyms are being created and inducted (God knows, by whom) to rebut a particular line of thought in the FORUM columns in blatant violation of rules framed by your own Editorial board showing explicit political bias! Do these pseudonymous contributions by imaginary characters, not require pre-screening? Much to my chagrin ,whistle-blowing cases of rampant corruption are at times not given the importance, these deserve! These are sometimes not even reported at all ! What are we scared of? If this goes on, then this site ,I fear , may not end up as a mere 'Notice Board' for informing about the latest postings and transfers of civil servants or their whispers in the corridors of powers! I wish this site to stand out as a mile from scores of other similar sites. I know of Dr Suresh Mehrotra, as a bold journalist. I leave the decision to him in the best interest of our website! I would request him to give space to my views on the website for the benefit of fellow browsers.
A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)

Identification mark for Pension papers
DOPT has in their instructions stated that identification marks should be 'till in left hand of second figure'. DOPT must send revised instructions for the fact that one may not have such a sign. Alternatively, scar etc. could be on feet/leg. There should be some flexibility in that. Hope DOPT does not take a rigid stand on that.
Bobby Kapoor

Due list of transfer in income tax department
Income tax has put on its website the list of officers who are due for transfer. The list is misleading and does not says anything about the officers who have not submitted their profile. Further ,those who are back from deputation are also not figuring in the list. The department is treating its officers like taxpayer, who provide info punish them. Those who don't provide them info go scot free. In fact the cases where no profile submitted should be transferred first and penalised.
Prasad Kumar
Yes I agree with TR Balu about Kisang's untimely death. In fact there are so many officers at CIT and Additional CIT level who are living out of suitcase due to apathy of the CBDT which cannot keep its officers happy. I don't find any logic in Posting an officer at Bilaspur when he could have been accommodated elsewhere. The CBDT can even find officers willing to go to Bilaspur, Raipur region but they are made to serve elsewhere. An officer must be given the place of his choice. At that place you may post him at any post. But what is the logic to send officers forcibly to places if they don't want to go. In no other service officers are discontented as in IT. In IAS you are either at state capital or at Delhi unless you willingly go for deputation. Same is for IPS and IFS(forest). Its only in IT and Central excise that you are forced to live away from your family.
Sanjiv Singh

Tail-Piece
THE IAS PROFILE (AS YEARS OF SERVICE INCREASE)
0 - 5 Years
I'll do no Wrong & I won't allow any one to do Wrong.
5 - 10 Years
I'll do no Wrong & I don't care what others do.
10 - 15 Years
What is Right and What is Wrong ?
15 - 20 Years
What is Right is Wrong & What is Wrong is Right.
20 - 25 Years
Nothing is Right; Nothing is Wrong.
25 - 30 Years
Do Nothing.
Contributed by -An IAS officer