During the last phase of election you seems to be sidelining with the BJP. I wish being a well reputed web site like yours, keep the balance in so far as political affiliations are concerned.
Sunny Varghese

Prasar Bharti Chairman Arun Bhatnagar resigns ?
Grapevine has it that Chairman of the Prasar Bharti Arun Bhatnagar has resigned.Term of former 1966 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer Bhatnagar was normally upto April ,2011.He is believed to have been very dissatisfied with the functioning of the Prasar Bharti.
Will Commerce Ministry be bifurcated ?
There is a move to bifurcate Commerce Ministry in two parts-Commerce and Industries. Decision will be taken this week.
Kamlendra Prasad to succeed D M Mitra
Kamlendra Prasad is going to succeed D M Mitra as Director of the NICFC. He is 1981 batch IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
Goutam Sanyal to be OSD to Railway Minister
As the grapevine has it, Goutam Sanyal, Joint Secretary Food Processing, is going to be Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Railway Minister Ms. Mamta Banerjee. He is a CSS cadre officer of the 1978 batch.
Chidambram to have new PS
Rajiv Mittal is reportedly not going to continue as PS to Home Minister P Chidambaram. He is 1998 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre. Who will be the choice of P Chidambaram ?.
Rizvi to continue as OSD to Chidambaram
Safi A. Rizvi is going to continue as OSD to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram.He is an IPS Officer of 1989 batch, UP Cadre and has IB background.
Mitra to return to MP
Director of the NICFC, Kamlendra Prasad, is returning to the parent Madhya Pradesh cadre after completion of central deputation tenure. He is 1983 batch IPS officer.
Chaubey to be ADG SCOPE ?
Grapevine has it that GAIL CMD, U D Chaudey, is being appointed ADG of the SCOPE.
Ms. Mamta Banerjee is upset with recent transfers
As the grapevine has it, newly inducted Railway Minister Ms. Mamta Banerjee is quite upset over transfers of GMs & DRMs that took place in last two weeks or so. She is quite puzzled that while previous Minister was busy with Lok Sabha poll then with whose approval those transfers took place.
V S Singh empanelled
VS Singh is reported to have been empanelled to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India. He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.
Prasanna Kumar Pradhan empanelled
Prasanna Kumar Pradhan has been empanelled to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India. He is 1977 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.
IA&AS officer empanelled for JS post
IA&AS officer, V Ravindran, 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, Gajedra Bhujbal, of 1981 batch has been empanelled for the post of Joint secretary in the GoI. Paul Sunder Ingty, SBI DGM goes to Corporate Centre, Mumbai
Paul Sunder Ingty Deputy General Manager (Marketing & Cross Selling), National Banking Group, Mumbai, has been shifted as Deputy General Manager (Corporate Social Responsibility), Corporate Centre, Mumbai. Parvinder Singh goes to the Netherlands
Parvinder Singh, whose voluntary retirement effective from June 5 ,2009 has been accepted, will be joining in the Common Funds for Commodities & will be based in the Netherlands (Holland).He is an IAS officer of the Rajasthan cadre who belongs to the 1982 batch.
New Search Committee system
The bureaucracy is superbly innovative when it comes to devising ways to appoint favourites to important posts. The "search committee" system is the current preferred system. The vacancy for the post of Managing Director of the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Corporation was never even advertised and a "search committee" went on to complete the selection, at the convenient time of the elections, when the Minister was busy in electioneering.
Bhoria in RBI going as RD to Mumbai
J B Bhoria in RBI has been transferred from Kanpur to Mumbai as Regional Director.
Rakesh Gupta is ADG, BIS
Orders regarding appointment of Rakesh Gupta as Additional Director General (ADG) in the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) have been issued. At present he is C.V.O. in the National Cooperative Consumers Federation of India (NCCF). He is 1986 batch IAS officer of the Jammu & Kashmir cadre.
New posting for ADG Navdeep Singh
Navdeep Singh, who so far was ADG Armed Battalion, has been shifted by
the Rajasthan Government to join as ADG Provisioning, Law & Order . He
is an IPS officer of the Rajasthan cadre.
Verma to be Minister Economic Indian embassy London
Anil Verma, an IAS officer of the West Bengal cadre who belongs to the
1989 batch, is poised to go to the London based Indian Embassy as
Minister Economic.
Ashok Kumar is new Director Mining GoI
G. Asok Kumar is joining the Government of India as Director, Mines .He is 1991 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.
1981 batch IPS is ADG in Karnataka
Two officers of the 1981 IPS batch, Om Prakash and Kempaiah, have been promoted to the rank of ADG in Karnataka.
IPS changes in Karnataka
G.M. Hayath will now be IG Karnataka State Reserve Police, Bangalore. P.S. Sandhu has been posted as IGP, Fire Services, Bangalore.Jayaprakash V. Nayak has been promoted to the rank IG and posted in Planning & Modernisation, Bangalore.Mohammed Wazir Ahmed has been promoted to the rank of IG and posted as IGP, Directorate of Civil Rights Enforcement Cell, Bangalore.Gopal B. Hosur has also been promoted to the rank of IG.Sunil Agarwal has also been promoted to the grade of IGP and posted as IGP & Director (Personnel & Environment), Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation, Bangalore. C.H. Pratap Reddy has been given pro forma promotion to the grade of IGP.N. Shivakumar has been promoted as IG and appointed IGP & Commissioner of Police, Hubli-Dharwad.K.H. Srinivasan will be Deputy IGP & Joint Commissioner of Police, City Armed Reserve, Bangalore.Paul Amrit has been promoted to the rank of Deputy IGP and posted as Deputy IGP & Commander, Anti-Naxalite Force, Udupi. Arun Chakravarthy has also been promoted to the grade of Deputy IGP and appointed Director (Security & Vigilance), Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation. Umesh Kumar has been accorded pro forma promotion. Syed Ulfath Hussain has been promoted to the grade of Deputy IGP and posted as Deputy IGP, Recruitment & Training, Bangalore. R.S. Harihar has also been promoted to the grade of Deputy IGP and posted as Deputy IGP, Railways, Bangalore.
16 DRMs posted
Orders of the appointment of 16 DRMs have been issued.
DEBATE: Is there a challenger to Rahul Gandhi?
The results of the general elections 2009 has seen the transition of Congress leader, Rahul Gandhi, into a mature and strong leader with a vision whose efforts for changing the political landscape of the country by encouraging youth has been endorsed by the voters. While Rahul has made it clear that he would like to stay away from the cabinet for now and instead would like to concentrate on reviving and building the Congress party cadres with an eye on future the opposition parties seem to groping in dark with no youthful face who can take on Rahul.
The debate for this fortnight is - Who do you consider a potential competitor to Rahul Gandhi from all the non Congress parties in the country?
Is there a name that comes to your mind from any party or any combine? If yes, do write to us at
mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com and
suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com.

CORPORATE
Atul Saraya to be Director Power
Atul Saraya is going to be Director Power in BHEL, as his file has been cleared.
Ashok Hotel ,Delhi to get more facelift
The main building of the Ashok Hotel, Delhi is going to be refurbished. As such, all rooms in that building will also be closed.
Shrivastava is new CEO
Deepak Srivastava is the new CEO, mobile services, of Bharti Airtel for Calcutta, Bengal and Orissa zones.
Mahalingam is Director TATA AIG
Suresh Mahalingam has taken over as managing director of Tata AIG.
Atul Sobti has been appointed C.O.O & M.D. Ranbaxy
Former top shot of Hero Honda Atul Sobti who joined Ranbaxy four years ago as Marketing Head has been promoted as C.O.O & M.D. of Ranbaxy.
Malvinder Singh quits, Dr. Tsutomu Une succeeds as chairman and CEO of Ranbaxy
Malvinder Singh has resigned from the post chairman and CEO of Ranbaxy.
Most notably Malvinder Singh has worked for Ranbaxy for over four decades.
Tsutomu Une has succeeded as news chairman and CEO of Ranbaxy
Dr. Tsutomu Une was inducted as a Director on the Board of Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited on December 19, 2008 and appointed as Chairman on May 24, 2009.
Naresh Jhangiani, quits Satyam BPO,
Naresh Jhangiani, Global Head of Human Resources at Satyam BPO, has resigned from his post. Jhangiani has over 20 years of intensive work experience, of which 17 are in global HR practices.
Sogani is ED Dalmia Cement
Deepak Sogani is new Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Executive Director at the Corporate Office in New Delhi.
Natrajan is MD of DCB
Murali M. Natarajan has been appointed MD and CEO of Development Credit Bank .

FORUM
Priorities of the Government
Manmohan Singh has stated that Economy is his top priority. If Advani had achieved his ambition, he may have declared tackling terrorism to be his top priority. And Whispers? Well, two days before the new government took office, Whispers reported that the priority of new Government will be to increase the babus' retirement age within 100 days! This, inspite of the fact that Whispers credibility had been badly damaged by false reporting on this issue during the last year of the previous government. 6 times it was falsely reported that the proposal is under consideration, when everyone knew that there never was any such proposal. For power obsessed bureaucrats, especially the IAS, retirement is like death. Few months before retirement, they start living in an imaginary world of their own where there is no retirement in sight. It is not expected from a person reputed for integrity to oblige these liars for the sake of friendship, scoops or advertisements and feed false news to its readers.
V. C. Mehrotra

I have never written on your site
I, who retired as Secretary, Planning Commission in 2002,am told that someone with the same name as mine has been writing on your website on issues like the age of retirement, the role of Indian Economic Service, etc., and many of your readers are confusing the writer with me. I wish to clarify that I have never written any piece on your website.
Dr N C Saxena

Subject: Non Functional Up gradation of Organized Group A Service in PB-3 and PB-4.
It is revealed from DOPT OM No.AB.14017/64/2008-Estt. (RR) Dated 21st May 2009 that there are no offices from 1995/1996 IAS batch posted in the Central Staffing Scheme as Deputy Secretary level, as a result officers of 1993/1994 Organized Group A Service batch to be considered for Non Functional Up gradation of Deputy Secretary level w.e.f. 05.04.2007 along with the officers of 1995 Organized Group Service batch. This clearly shows that there is no difference between senior and junior officers and the up gradation completely depends on IAS batch posted in the Central Staffing Scheme.
This problem can be resolved through this simple formula:

1) Deputy Secretary Level Up gradation = Batch year of Organized Group A Service + 2 years + 9 years.
2) Director Level Up gradation = Batch year of Organized Group A Service + 2 years + 13 years.
And so on -------.
Please give wide circulation.

Tarun

Cadre review in CPOs. DOPTs website is an eye opener. It is a big surprise that no cadre review has been carried out in BSF after 1989. The DO written by CS all secretaries seems to be gathering dust. With such apathy being shown to these poor officers the morale is sure to take a beating.
Guru
Govt should clarify
The sixth pay commission allowed LTC travel by flight with a rider that it should be by Lowest Economic Class fare, but in Dec 2008 the clarification was issued that it would be as per NACIL rate which are artificially low and even specified for sectors which are not covered by Indian Airlines. This has caused lot of hardships to people who went on LTC with their family by FLIGHT on the pretext that they will get benefit from government. Can the government do something and clarify the matter in the larger interest.
N Kumar
Due list of transfers in Income Tax
The effort of CBDT to prepare and put the due list and the profile showing officers who have requested for transfers is commendable. However, as pointed out by Prasad Kumar, the CBDT is very much aware of the names of officers who had flouted their instructions by not submitting the profiles. I agree with Prasad Kumar that such officers should be penalised. On the other hand, I have seen that the revised profile put up on the net also shows as to whether the officer is eligible to get his option on request basis or not ,in terms of the Transfer policy. This is a very Good sign and possibly the officers making request ,but not due for transfer can hope of getting a change to one or the other place opted for and not die in harness as in the case of the commissioner at Bilaspur ,for which CBDT is being blamed
R Sahay
Pride for Madhya Pradesh
Really it is a pride for Madhya Pradesh. Now its potential is being recognised. I do not know whether short documentaries produced by me on Pachmarhi, Bedhaghat, Kanha, Sanchi, Bhimbaithaka, Bhojpur, Bhopal lake& Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya telecast from DD National Network more than 100 times have made any contribution to it or not.
S. N. Singh
Even arbitrator charges heavily
Whether this news is correct or incorrect remains to be verified, but it is a fact that even arbitrator appointed by law ministry charges the government departments thousands of rupees for one sitting.
Raj Kumar
Transparency required
The post for which Arun Mishra is slotted to join at ICAO Montreal should be duly advertised /circulated to all concerned. There should be complete transparency in the selection process.
Parivartan
Montek's liablity
Dr Montek Singh is likely to be retained as Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission. Mrs Gandhi and Rahul must counsel him of the social sector priorities and the need for Government to invest in health and education. He and his Advisor (G Haldea) have consistently opposed investment on the ground that there is need for PPP/PFI. When the world is starved of cash, the days of government and /or PSUs cannot be wished away. Let Dr Montek free himself of this mindset , before he is considered for Dy Chairman again. He should also free himself of the extra constitutional baggage ( his ex advisor), who has done him more harm than good.
Sanjay Verma
National Rural Health Insurance cover ( NRHIS)
The proposed cover is an excellent idea. Unfortunately , except for AP model there is nothing else to look forward too. GOI could do well to work out the contours of a rural health insurance cover keeping in mind the following
1. Introduce health cover to all those who are below poverty line ( for any In patient facility , for a family floater/limit of say Rs 30000 PER ANNUM). Let the beneficiary pay only a token fee of Rs 100 Per family
2. In addition cover all children less than 1year ( even those outside BPL), for any medical/surgical condition, without exception, say for 10000
3. Finally , cover all pregnant woman for EMERGENCY OBST conditions ( put a ceiling of say 10000 again)
This will address the key issues of IMR., MMR and out of pocket expense
For the model to be successful, it would be important to create a PSU ( Health Insurance Corporation), similar to what was done in agri/crop cover ( AIC). HIC should be owned ny MOF with a corpus of 500 Cr and a matching grant from MOHFW . The GIC and 4 Non life PSUs could be asked to invest 100 Cr each. The creation of HIC will help create capacity in rural areas( presently non existent in the existing set PSU/Private up). It will also ensure that private health insurance get competition, follow fair practices.
Dr Sanjay Kumar
TAIL-PIECE
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To show his patriotism during elections, a politician joins Army and he was given AK-47.
He's puzzled & asks Major: Sir, yeh bandook ki nali samne rakhun ya ulta?
Major: Kisi bhi taraf rakho, faida toh desh ka hi hoga.
Pawan Kumar