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Who will be new Secretary Defence ?
Who will succeed Vijay Singh on August 1 as Defence Secretary ?. Tie is said to be between 1972 batck Haryana Cadre IAS officer Pradeep Kumar and 1972 batch Kerala cadre IAS officer G K Pillai.
Rajwant Sandhu promoted in GoI
Ms Rajwant Sandhu has been promoted as as Special Secretary in the rank and pay of Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj. She is 1975 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.
( We said this on May 18 )
Raghupathy promoted in GoI
N.K. Raghupathy has been given in-situ promotion as Chairman, Staff Selection Commission in the rank and pay of Secretary. He is 1975 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.
( We said this on May 18 )
Upadhyay gets in-situ promotion
A.K. Upadhyaya has been given in-situ promotion as Special Secretary, Department of Agriculture Research and Education, Ministry of Agriculture. He is 1975 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.
( We said this on May 18 )
Meena promoted in Steel Ministry
B.S. Meena, has been promoted Special Secretary and Financial Adviser, Ministry of Steel in the rank and pay of Secretary. He is 1975 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.
( We said this on May 18 )
Padamvir Singh promoted in LBSNAA.
Padmavir Singh has been promoted to the rank of Additional Director LBSNAA, in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary. He is 1977 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.
( We said this on May 19 )
Srivastava is now Additional Secretary Labour
S.K. Srivastava has been promoted to the rank of Additional Secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment. He is 1977 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
( We said this on May 12 )
Anil Verma to continue as PS to Pranab Mukherjee
Anil Verma is going to continue as PS to Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. He is 1989 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.
S M Krishna in search of PS and OSD
New Foreign Minister S M Krishna is in search of a talented PS and OSD.
Chidambaran to write states for young IPS officers
Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram is keen to bring young IPS officers in the IB and the R& AW facing shortage. He will be writing to State Governments to send young IPS officers to Central Deputation to cope up with this situation.
Pankaj Jain empanelled
Pankaj Jain has been empanelled to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India.He is 1978 batch IAS officer of J & K cadre.
( We said this on May 6 )
Sarangi empanelled
CMD of NABARD Umesh C Sarangi has been empanelled to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India. He is 1977 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.
Malik to get one year extension
Pakistan High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik is getting one year extension .
IA&AS officer empanelled for JS post
IA&AS officer, Mukesh P Singh, 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, MR Anand, of 1981 batch has been empanelled for the post of Joint secretary in the GoI.
Shree Prakash Singh shifted to SBI National Banking Group, Mumbai.
Shree Prakash Singh, PS to DMD & GE (National Banking), Corporate Centre, Mumbai, has been shifted as Deputy General Manager (Marketing & Cross Selling), National Banking Group, Mumbai.
Six new IIT Directors
Six new IIT Directors have been appointed by the Ministry of HRD. They are Mssrs :- Madhusadan Chakravarty Bhubneshwar,Prof Anil Bhaumik Patna,Prof Prem Kumar Kalra Rajasthan,ProfU B Desai Hyderabad,Prof M K Surappa Ropar and Prof Sudhir Kumar Jain Gandhinagar.
IAS changes in Goa
K S Singh will now be Secretary Cooperation.Mihir Vardhan has been moved as North Goa Collector.G P Naik has been made Collector South Goa.
Satya Gopal gets additional charge of Lakshdweep
Satya Gopal will look after Addl. charge of Lakshadweep Administration. He is 1988 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.
Jyotsana Varma Ray is now CVO
Jyotsana Varma Ray is new CVO in the Handicrafts and Handloom Export Corporation. She is 1992 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre.
Ananda in RBI going as RD to Chennai
R Ananda in RBI has been transferred to Chennai as Regional Director.
Om Prakash joins as JS in Chemicals and Petro-chemicals
Om Prakash has joined as JS (Pharmaceutical, Price Rice) in the Ministry of Chemical and Fertilizer.
Jayakumar to join GoI
Sikkim Government has relieved K Jayakumar to join the Government of India as Joint Secretary in the Department of Science & Industrial Research/Council of Scientific & Industrial. He is 1987 batch IAS officer.
Ms. Mamta Banerjee to concentrate in West Bengal
As the grapevine has it Railway Minister Ms.Mamta Banerjee is going to concentrate in West Bengal where assembly polls will be held two years from now.
SK Jain posted on new post
SK Jain, a Rajasthan cadre Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the Rajasthan Government, has been assigned the task of looking after job on newly created post of OSD Projects Implementation.
Aradhna Chak posted in Central Railway
Aradhna Chak is back from IIPA. On return SAG/IRAS officer Chak has been posted in Central Railway.
16 DRMs appointed (UPDATED)
India's Ministry of Railways has posted 16 SA grade officials as Divisional Railway Manager. The new postings are D K Sharma - Nagpur (Central Railway), R D Sharma - Asansol (Eastern Railway), A S Upadhyay - Dhanbad (East Central Railway), B P Swain - Khurda Road (East Coast Railway), Jogesh Sondhi - Lucknow (Northern Railway), S K Agarwal, Allahabad (North Central Railway), Sanjiv Garg - Rangia (North East Frontier Railway), Ajit Pandit - Lumding (North East Frontier Railway), Sanjaya Das - Ajmer (North Western Railway), P N Ram - Salem (Southern Railway), S Anantharaman - Trivandrum (Southern Railway), S N Agarwal - Nagpur (South East Central Railway), D K Gayen - Raipur (South East Central Railway), B B Verma - Mysore (South Western Railway), Ved Pal - Rajkot (Western Railway) and A K Srivastava - Vadodara (Western Railway).
14 Cabinet Ministers to take oath on Thursday
As many as14 Cabinet Ministers will take oath on Thursday. The new cabinet ministers include three former chief ministers - Virbhadra Singh (Himachal Pradesh), Vilasrao Deshmukh (Maharashtra) and Farooq Abdullah (Jammu and Kashmir). Three leaders from the DMK, the Congress' ally in Tamil Nadu, also find place - Dayanidhi Maran, M.K. Azhagari and A. Raja. The others are the Congress' Mallikarjun Kharge, Kumari Selja, Subodh Kant Sahay, M.S. Gill, G.K. Vasan, Pawan Kumar Bansal, Mukul Wasnik and Kantilal Bhuria.
45 Ministers of State to take oath on Thursday
As many as 45 ministers of state, seven of whom will hold independent charge, will take oath on Thursday. They include NCP's Praful Patel and the Congress' Prithviraj Chavan, Sriprakash Jaiswal, Salman Khurshid, Jairam Ramesh, Krishna Tirath and Dinsha Patel. The 38 other ministers of state are E. Ahamed, V. Narayanasamy, Srikant Jena, Mullappally Ramachandran, D. Purandeswari, Panabaka Lakshmi, Ajay Maken, K.H. Muniyappa, Namo Narain Meena, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Jitin Prasad, A. Sai Prathap, Gurudas Kamat, M.M. Pallam Raju, Mahadev Khandela, Harish Rawat, K.V. Thomas, Saugata Ray, Dinesh Trivedi, Sisir Adhikari, Sultan Ahmed, Mukul Roy, Mohan Jatua, S.S. Palanimanickam, D. Napoleon, S. Jagathrakshakan, S. Gandhiselvan, Preneet Kaur, Sachin Pilot, Shashi Tharoor, Bharatsinh Solanki, Tusharbhai Chaudhary, Arun Yadav, Prateek Prakashbapu Patil, R.P.N. Singh, Vincent Pala, Pradeep Jain and Agatha Sangma.

CORPORATE
Bhutani's file referred for legal view
As the grapevine has it, the file relating to appointment of Bhutani as Director (ERD) in BHEL , has been referred for legal view .
( We said this on April 30 )
Chattopadhyay is MD of Tata Refractories
AK Chatto-Padhyay has been appointed Managing Director of Tata Refractories.
Ashok M Advani e re-designated as Executive Chairman of Blue Star
Ashok M Advani has been re-designated as Executive Chairman of Blue Star, India's largest central air-conditioning company with an annual turnover of Rs 2270 crores.
Suneel M Advani to continue as V.C. and M. D. of Blue Star
Suneel M Advani Will retain the post of Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Blue Star.
Satish Jamdar, promoted as Managing Director of Blue Star
Blue Star's Deputy Managing Director Satish Jamdar has been promoted as Managing Director of the company.
T Gouri Sankara Babu to continue as Deputy Managing Director Blue Star
T Gouri Sankara Babu will continue as Deputy Managing Director of Blue Star.
K N Venkatasubramanian resigns from Meghmani Organics Ltd Board
K N Venkatasubramanian has resigned from the post Director of Meghmani Organics Ltd.

Aaj Ki Aawaz
India gave Congress a verdict that was very decisive!!!
However in Government formation Congress has funnily turned indecisive!!!
Seems now High Command is trying to sort out the internal demands for Kursi!!!
And it's for the Kursi that Congressis do High Command ki chaaplussi (sycophancy)!!!
Now it's rumoured to keep the old lot happy Governors are going to be announced!!!!
Not being included in Mohan's A Team many faithfuls felt that their chaplussi's been 'trounced'!!
Maybe Sonia wants Mohna to lower the bar …… Mohna is majoboori ka dossra naam!!!!!
After all for coming to power he has to pay some personal daam (cost)!!
So Mohna will have to tone down his 'educated' and 'not tainted ' demand!!!
And orders for this have come straight from High Command!!
Sonia also wants to balance the State representation in the Cabinet… some States are overrepresented!!
And this by other States is being resented!!
Rebellion and protest run in Mamtha's khoon!!!
This is the objective of her joon (birth)!!!
Now she says that Railway's will be run from the City of Joy!!!!
With Railways Mamtha is going to literally toy!!!
She thrives on being 'off the path' track!!!
And to move out apna boriya pistar always rakthi hai pack!!!
And when it comes to PM she is 'out of control'!!!!
She's going to play to the hilt her rebel role!!!!
What she needs to do is what Laloo did……let Officials run the Ministry!!!!
And then like makkan the Railways will run and why is no mystery!!!
Then she can have her rebel jollies and take credit for Railways performance like Laloo did!!!
Only requirement….. from Minister karr doh Railway Ministry ko rid!!!!
By the time Azagiri's term comes to an end he'll be able to spell Ministry of Chemical & Fertilizer!
A technical step though he's not going to end up any wiser!!!
He's here so that Stalin gets to run TN and there's no power overlap!!!
Family squabbles in TN Karuna's tried to cap!!!!
He too needs to do what Laloo did and give Officials a free hand ands enjoy his stint in Dilli!!!
And try to keep his trap shut or he'll let the cat out of the bag ' Mantri ji is abs silly'!!!
Viewing the quality of this Ministry Rahul should keep away from it!!!!
But in Parliament in the back benches he can no longer sit!!!
The feeling is that after Captaining Congress during the election,
On being the non Playing Captain post election he's made his selection!!
I still feel once this Government gets into the groove Rahul should take a Cabinet berth!!
However as of now berth pangs continue and Government ka nahi ho raha hai birth!!!
In US they say Uncle Ben will soon be going on a Dollar printing binge!!!!!
And Commodities excessive Dollars will unhinge!!
My feeling as Stock Markets fall commodities will rise!!!!
So going short on commodities is unwise!!!
Oil has the potential of going above 70!!!
Though oil is available aplenty!!!
Confucius says…... next round of uncertainty is just around the bend!!!!!
And again into a tizzy markets its going to send!!!
Flash..... Mamtha has taken over as Railway Minister in Kolkata ......but she has a excuse!
Cyclone excuse kiya Mamtha ne use!!!
Mohna Ji get ready as Mamtha is going to be a pain!!!
And Nation will sigh ' not again'!!!

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Do not fall into gameplan of Congress party
I agree with comments by some of the readers that 'whispers' is somehow trying to promote the congress party. The most recent indicator is the needless opinion-seeking as to who can be the competitor of Rahul Gandhi.
Rahul G. is so junior and inexperienced that to keep talking about him as if he is a big leader is only to promote him in a subtle way. Even within Congress party, there are many people against whom this boy cannot hold a candle.
Wish Whispering would not fall into the gameplan of the Congres party to promote the image of one person by constantly keeping him in news.
r swami
Increase retirement age to 62 years for ….
Instead of all this clamouring about whether to increase retirement age or not; a best solution would be to increase it to 62 for all officers of the rank of full Secretary to the Government of India; all Chief Secretaries to state Governments and other officers holding this rank. This would well serve the need of the Prime Minister of having with him for another two years the best top level talent which he is very comfortable with; and which was initially the purpose which he had in mind when the retirement age increase proposal was being discussed much earlier before the elections. This would also set to rest the allegations of promoting mediocrity by increasing it for all and sundry; as only the best officers reach this level both at the centre and the states. Later, this can be evolved into a well structured new retirement policy like in the Armed Forces where every higher rank has a higher retirement age; upto 62 (presently, which can be brought upto 65 later) for full General/equivalent. Thus providing greater incentive for better performance at every level uptill the top.
This can be done immediately by a cabinet decision. I would request you to expeditiously forward this proposal to the Hon'ble PM, mentioning of course, the writer.
Manish Chandra
Throw more light on retirement age issue
I happen to be a new reader of you site whispersinthecorridoors.com. It has been a different experience going thro your site informing about various activities in and around us. I could also see some whispers about retirement age of govt. employees which was seen as one of the possibilities being taken in hand by the new UPA govt in the centre. I would appreciate some more input in this regard as the matter had been almost at final stage in its previous regime. Looking forward to hear from you.
Vinod
Mileage for Senior Officers
Officers of the level of Secretary were allowed Staff Car for private use, for which they were required to pay Rs.500/- per month. After the Sixth Pay Commission, Officers of the level of SAG and above are entitled to a Transportation Allowance of Rs.7200/- per month which increases with the release of every DA instalment as DA is payable thereon. Most of the officers, for various reasons are compelled to avail the Staff Car for "pick up and drop from residence" and are forced to forego the Transportation Allowance of Rs.8780/- p.m. at the present rate of DA. I am sure many of them are compelled to use the car for their private use also. As they are foregoing a huge amount, the Govt. should favourably consider allowing certain mileage, say 500 Kms. per month, for their private use. Otherwise they would be only tempted to commit a technical violation and use the car for personal use clandestinely!!
V.K. Iyer
Is S M Krishna aware?
Your item on Nirupama Rao mentions her chances are bright because of her husband being from Karnataka cadre. But you must know that her husband is considered the right hand man of BJP chief minister B S Yedyurappa. Is S M Krishna aware of this?
A Mukerji

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