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Post of Secretary Financial Services down-graded
Post of Secretary Financial Services in the Government of India has been down-graded t the rank of Additional Secretary.
( We said this on April 27 )
G C Chaturvedi is now Additional Secretary Financial Services
Girish Chandra Chaturvedi who made a mark as Director Rural Health Mission in the Government of India has been moved as Additional Secretary Financial Services. He is 1977 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
1979 batch IAS officers empanelled
Finally on Friday empanelment of 1979 batch IAS officers to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India has taken place.
Naresh Narad to relinquish office on May 4
Chairman of the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB), Naresh Narad, will relinquish office on May 4 after completion of his successful tenure. He is retired 1968 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.
MK Narayanan tipped to be Governor
As the grapevine has it, in the corridors of power it is being said that MK Narayanan NSA is likely to be appointed as Governor in any of the states. This is going to be done because the Congress is skeptical about getting very good results at the hustings.
Ms. Manjari Jaruhar is now ADG,CISF
Ms. Manjari Jaruhar, IPS (JHK: 1976), who on being promoted as Additional Director General (ADG) in CISF was looking after the charge of IG/PERS in addition to her own duties, is now looking after her duties as ADG, CISF.
SB Singh is IG/PERS in CISF
SB Singh (IPS, NL 1986 cadre) after joining CISF has now started discharging his duties as IG/PERS.
Surviving ICS officer of British era (5) VMM Nair
VMM Nair of Bihar cadre is one of the few surviving Indian Civil Service (ICS) officer. He belonged to 1941 batch.
Top level changes an SBI
Postings of officers in top Executive Grade Special Scale-I in State
Bank of India have been changed. They are:Shyamal Acharya Chief General Manager Mumbai Circle, R. Venkatachalam Chief General Manager Patna Circle, Arundhati Bhattacharya Chief General Manager Bangalore Circle, S.K. Sehgal Chief General Manager Kerala Circle, R.K. Garg Chief General Manager (Mid Corporates) Mid Corporate Group Mumbai , S.M. Joshi Chief General Manager (Stressed Assets Management) Corporate Banking Group Mumbai, B.S. Bhasin Chief General Manager (SME Business Unit) National Banking Group Mumbai , J. Chandrasekaran Chief General Manager (Rural Business) Rural in Business Group Mumbai , R.K. Saraf Chief General Manager (Information Technology) Corporate Centre Navi Mumbai & B.V. Chaubal Principal State Bank Staff College Hyderabad.
Sasidharan promoted and posted in CAG HQs
1982 batch IA&AS officer K P Sasidharan has been promoted and posted as Principal Accountant General (Commercial) in CAG Headquarters.
IAS officer takes pre-mature retirement in West Bengal
1974 batch West Bengal cadre IAS officer Ms. Mira Pande has taken pre-mature retirement. She has joined as State Election Commissioner.
New Office bearers of IOWA
Mrs Anju Chandra is new Secretary of the All India IAS officers Wives Association. Ms Huma Agrawal will be new Joint Secretary and Ms Anubha Goyal Treasurer. Ms Jaya Chandrasekhar is the President.
CVC penalizes Ex-AO, ICAR
CVC has ordered reduction to a lower stage by one stage for a period of two years with cumulative effect in the case of an Ex. AO, Indian Council Of Agricultural Research Reduction (ICAR).
Congress: A party with a difference
What is the difference between Congress party & other political parties of India? Well, unlike other political parties, the Congress has singular command of its president i.e. Mrs. Sonia Gandhi.
Gazetted officers of Delhi police feel the pinch
The Gazetted officers (GOs) in Delhi Police are a hassled lot these days because orderlies working with them have been withdrawn by an order of the CP. A great resentment is brewing among the GOs in Delhi Police because this has disturbed normal functioning of office.
Nine Civil Service officers to get IAS in Himachal Pradesh
As many as nine State Civil Service officers are being awarded IAS in Himachal Pradesh. 3 SPS officers in Maharashtra selected in IPS
As many as three state police service (SPS) officers of the
Maharashtra cadre have been selected for induction into the IPS. They are : Ranade, A.S. Patil & Rahane
Combined Defence Services Examination (II), 2009
The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) will hold the Combined Defence Services Examination (CDS) (II), 2009 on September 13, 2009 for admission to Indian Military Academy, Naval Academy and Air Force Academy for the Courses commencing in July 2010 and Officers Training Academy, Chennai for the Courses (Men and Women) commencing in October, 2010.For details regarding the eligibility conditions, syllabus and scheme of the examination, centers of examination, guidelines for filling up application form etc. aspirants must consult the detailed notice of the examination published in the Employment
News/Rozgar Samachar dated April 25, 2009. Details are also available on UPSC website i.e.http://www.upsc.gov.in.
Sunil Tandon bereaved
Rajinder Bahl, father-in-law of 1983 batch former IAS officer Sunil Tandon has passed away in Delhi. Madhukar Gupta launches ITBP's expedition
Madhukar Gupta Secretary in the Ministry of Home of Affairs (MHA)
launched an ITBP's expedition by handing over flag to Harbhajan Singh ITBP's DIG Expedition in Delhi on May 1,2009.
DG ITBP,Vikram Shrivatava (in the Centre) was also present on the occasion.
D.D.Sharma Director AYUSH, bereaved
D.D.Sharma Director Ayush in Government of India (GOI) has lost his wife on May 1,2009. Sharma is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1984 batch who belongs to the Jharkhand cadre.
Y. S. Mayya is new CMD, ECIL
Y. S. Mayya, who so far was Director (Technical) Electronic Corporation of India Ltd (ECIL), has succeeded K.S.Rajasheker Rao Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) of ECIL. Rao had retired on April 30, 2009.
A.K.Sharma is Director (Production), NALCO
A.K.Sharma who so far was Executive Director (ED), NALCO at Angul on elevation has assumed the charge as Director (Production) NALCO.
Prashant Kumar Rautray Director (Production), NALCO retires
Prashant Kumar Rautray who was Director (Production), NALCO had retired on April 30,2009.

CORPORATE
Datta is ED Power Grid South
S. K. Datta has taken over as Executive Director, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd., Southern Region.
Nayar appointed MD of SBI Patiala
Ashok Nayar has taken over as Managing Director of State Bank of Patiala.

Aaj Ki Aawaz
This time majority of TV interviews Advani has given while traveling by air!!!
How ironical….. because in these interviews he builds castles in air!!!!
But Advani off and on lets us peep into his mind via his body language or statement!
Though when he realizes it and he pumps up his chest or says this is not what he meant!!!
Fact is BJP's cadres are not enthused!!!!
And RSS cadres feel by BJP during elections they are used!!!
And then Advani's candidature has taken the air out of the balloon or gubaara!!!!
Though some BJP Leaders say at this juncture there was no other chaara!!!!
Second rung are not ready and Modi would make Allies run away!!!
So Advani was the only choice they say!!!
Though I feel Modi has the capability to enthuse BJP's vote bank!!!!
And pull voters who today stand in the flank!!!
I feel had Modi been at the helm BJP would have crossed the 200 mark!!!!
Progressive Hinduvta he could spark!!!
Congress's 'wolf cry' that Advani is just Modi's mask has actually done BJP good!!!
Seems Modi's 'vote catching' ability Congress has misunderstood!!!
Don't know why BJP is not responding to Congress's Jai Ho with Bharat Mata ki jai!
Jingle should say ' Bharat Mata ki vijay mein and Bharat-waasiyon ki vijay'!!!
Congress too is being too optimistic!!!
Though some say now Sonia is pessimistic!!!
That's because some calculations have gown awry!!!!
And Sonia now feels that for prices Congress should have said sorry!!!!
Bottom line…… Sarkar will be made by the one who bags Allies!!!!
Sorry ….. not bags but buys!!!!
After all Allies are going to drive a hard bargain!!!!
Politics of gain!!!
Who will Maya and Jaya join????
Can they be two sides of the same coin????
A dithery Alliance Sonia will avoid and she'd prefer to sit it out!!!
In such a case she'd prefer indirect power without a doubt!!!
So if she feels Alliance would be standing on sand!!!!
She'll extend to Third Front her supporting hand!!!
After all it's expected that Third Front (including fence sitters) will cross 120!!!!!
Don't forget for power there will be 'joiners' aplenty!!!
The calculation that BJP will get 160 is based on BJP doing well in Rajasthan!!!
And in UP coming at second sthaan (position)!!!
But in the end States like Gujarat , MP, Karnataka and Chattisgarh will determine!!
Whether BJP will be out or in!!!!
Mumbai voters have shown that they prefer holidaying for a long weekend than voting!
Mumbaikars lackluster turnout the Nation is noting!!!!
Weren't these the people that took to the streets post the 26/11 attack????
Giving the Government for its inaction flack!!!
Now these very people have shown their inaction on voting day!!!!
For a 4 day holiday they've imprisoned themselves for 5 years many would say!!!!
Confucius says…. all the ads for coming out to vote came to a naught!!!!!
Shamelessly holidaying Mumbaikars were caught!!!
Bharat Kumar
Aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

Forum
Morality be brought in the government
A letter posted on your site reads as under :" If some sort of morality is brought in the Government like stoppage of all kinds of misuse of office perks & facilities, telephones and personal staff (posted in excess against the entitlement), people become sincere towards their duty and the Ministers/High level official shed their feudalistic tendencies (which exists even after 60 years of independence); then only things will start looking brighter and there will be no cause for cribbing." I make two points here. One, any hare brained hypothesis on any thing under the sun is exclusive domain of the government officials. Two, any disjointed logic can only be effectively expressed in officialese and no other form of language. I bet that the piece of gem came from a present or past government worthy.
Caren
Mismanagement government has done
The kind of mismanagement this government has done in issues like household and foodgrain price rise, pay revisions, defence, infrastructure development, widening of poor and rich gap etc, this congress government deserves to be rooted out fully and new government needs to be installed having BJP at the helms of the governance. India does not need a puppet prime minister like Manmohan Singh. At present, the kind of face lift & development, Narendra Modi has given to Gujarat, he deserves to be the PM for the development of India.
R B Rakesh
No party in India is really secular
The Communists not only live on borrowed ideology, if any, they are also befooling the people. If UPA government was so bad, why did they support it for almost full term? Any answer? For all their actions and words they only give one reason i.e. keeping communal forces out. No political party and politician deserves to be called secular. Only one thing is common in them - taking the Muslims for a ride. They are a confused lot. It is only Manmohan Singh versus Karat., nothing else. The most common excuse for all their actions is that they want to keep communal forces out. No party is really secular in India. For the politicians, secularism means criticising BJP and making false promises to the Muslims. All political parties take the Muslims for a ride.
Bishan Sharma
Audit should be given more powers
I think audit should be strengthened and given more powers of enforcement so that the ill doings in revenue department can be brought to light. All concerned citizens should support.
R Vinay
It is an eye-opener
I read the article Travails Of Seema Prahari. This article is an eye-opener for those who are still in the state of intoxicated sleep and doing nothing for the man who is standing days and nights for maintaining sanctity of the motherland. I think 6CPC has failed to give due share to BSF. It is a matter of great concern that Seema Prahari is becoming weaker day by day. I am very annoyed because there is nobody who can reduce pains and atrocities of Seema Prahari. The persons sitting at higher levels are least bothered. What to say to them "Log To Bacche Goad Lete Hain, BSF Mein Toh Baap Goad Liye Hua Hain". Till they are there Seema Prahari will suffer. Oh God you only can save the poor Seema Prahari.
Rajesh
An appeal to director, CBI !!!
The Quattrocchi affair is now an infamous saga of intrigues, falsehood and sycophancy par excellence! Milon Banerji ,it appears, has no qualms about denigrating the Constitutional position of Attorney General ,he holds, at present.. Instead of giving an independent ,just and fair opinion to the CBI ,he acted as per His Master's Voice. The Union Law minister, a die hard politician, faithfully passed on the buck to the CBI on the plea that he did not interfere with its autonomy! Can, lies plus damned lies make one Truth? Yes, of course! At least, so thinks the present Law minister of the present lame-duck Government! Due to compulsions of real-politik, the CBI (Prosecution wing) sought two months extension from a Delhi court today( April 30,09) to firm up its stand on the Interpol's so called ' red-corner notice' , in sync with the approach of, hopefully, the new Law minister. What next? The new coalition government ! New faces, new marriages of conveniences with newer hidden agenda ! The Public memory is invariably short.. However, the 'public interest is permanent'. And so is the 'Civil Service' .It is here that the role of Director ,CBI, the premier investigation agency of India, assumes importance. His credentials as an honest , straight-forward IPS officer is well known. I appeal to him to come out clean with his version of 'Truth' in larger public interest particularly as to why the court was consistently misled with half-truths. He must also reveal the role of his illustrious predecessor, who has since been rehabilitated as the Central Information Commissioner, on his retirement. Quid pro quo deal , if any, should be a matter of investigation? I know, Ashwini Kumar, CBI Director, has no axe to grind .A word of caution here. In view of the Model Code of Conduct, let the facts be brought out by CBI Director, immediately after the General elections but well before the fierce political horse trading and formation of the new government at the centre. Ashwini Kumar will surely be worth his salt, as a Civil Servant !
A K Saxena ( A retired civil servant)
TAIL-PIECE
Listen to your 'shoe'!
I'm mightier than a pen! Gone are the days, when I would silently lie beneath your feet. I speak now. Haven't you heard me through cartoons, newspapers, TV discussions, debates etc these days?
For years, you have walked, jumped, or ran on me. You have put me through indignities by walking over stones, mud and muck (tobacco stains are the ones I abhor). But now I have found my voice. Do not take me for granted, I am a deadly weapon now. Whenever the deaf needs to be woken up from stupor, use me.
You may criticize me and my ways, but you can't deny that I am highly effective. The moment I strike, my voice becomes national headlines. My voice can disrupt public meetings, conferences, press meetings and shake the hell out of laid-back people.
Credit goes to Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi for giving me my new found status. I was lying low, but he suddenly lifted me from oblivion into the spotlight, as he hurled me towards none other than the former US President George Bush - the most powerful man on Earth. Well, I admit I was nervous, shaken and thinking of the consequences as I went flying towards him. The then US President dodged me, but Zaidi became an instant hero to many throughout the world, thousands of whom raised me in demonstration of support. The incident became a rage, and I, a superstar (lookout for the countless blogs, cartoons, and articles on me).
Gosh, it felt nice to have made such a grand entry. Well, there was no looking back after that journey from Zaidi's smelly feet to Bush's head! And now in India, I have become a 'missile of discontent' to say the least.
My stint with stardom in India began when I was hurled towards the Home Minister P Chidambaram. Jarnail Singh, the angry journalist in a fit of rage, hurled me towards unsuspecting Chidambaram during a press conference at the Congress headquarters. Jarnail Singh was fuming over the issue of Jagdish Tytler being given a clean chit in the 1984 Sikh riots case by the CBI. As the temperature soared during the conference, Jarnail Singh, in true 'Singh is King' fashion, took me off from his size 9 feet and before I knew, I was inches away from the target, who was smiling blankly.
I was more than happy over my success, when Congress asked Tytler not to contest elections. The public blurted, 'it took a shoe-throwing incident to put forth a point' and I smiled at myself.
Another claim to my stardom was through a 64-year-old retired school principal, who used me as symbol of attack on India's political system. Rajbal Singh Saharan's son had lost his job and there was the Congress party lawmaker Naveen Jindal delivering a happy speech during a rally. How could he tolerate it? The old man tried to shout but his voice remained subdued, so he thought of speaking through me. I laughed as I tried to focus on Naveen Jindal, while merrily being thrown at him.
This was followed by my sister's (the slipper) attack at the veteran politician and prime ministerial candidate, Lal Krishna Advani. He is a man of great stature, but my sister dislikes his 'communal' undertones. So, she readily became Pawas Aggarwal's tool of attack, when he aimed her at Advani during a public meeting. Poor Pawas Agarwal was retorting for being "removed from his post due to groupism within BJP" and he surely made an impact. I rolled with laughter, when the usually outspoken Advani, who had challenged the PM for a verbal duel, took to silence and refused to comment on the embarrassing occurrence.
It is being said that the media is making much of shoe-throwing incidents and giving it undue coverage that's why such acts are becoming a regular.
Whatever, they say, one can't deny at the enormity of my effect. After blog-wars there will be shoe-wars. "Flying footwear are now the weapons of mass distraction," said a headline in a newspaper. I have become the highest form of protest in the country. Strict measures are being taken to stop 'shoe-hurling' incidents. I am on cloud nine!
So, I warn you, do not consider me an ineffective little accessory fit only for your feet. My power is growing by the day. They say, I am being misused, I say I love to be used in anyway. I do not care about moral or immoral stance; I am just enjoying being the 'shoe' - a powerful symbol of protest, just as much of comfort.
Contributed by-Anita Saxena