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Three dozen 1979 batch IAS officers empanelled ?
Altogether three dozen 1979 batch IAS officers are believed to have been empanelled to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India. Those who reportedly figure in the list include Mssrs Anup Kumar Thakur and Jitesh Khosla (Assam-Meghalaya), P K Mohanty and I Y R Krishna Rao (AP), Afzal Amanullah and B Bhamathi (Bihar), Sunil Kumar (Chhattisgarh), Rajiv Takru ,Dr C I Joy and Gauri Kumar (Gujarat), Ashok Kumar Sarkar (Jharkhand ), E K Bharat Bhushan and V Somasundaran (Kerala), Dr C S Kedar and Anita Kaul (Karnataka), A M Khan and Dr Amitabh Rajan (Maharashtra), Arvind Joshi, R Gopalakrishnan, Bimal Julka , Snehlata Kumar and Rajan Katoch (Madhya Pradesh), Nilanjan Sanyal, Jugal Kishore Mohapatra, G Mohan Kumar and Vandana Kumari Jena (Orissa ) Ravi Mathur , Meera Mehrishi and Sudhir Bhargava (Rajasthan), Kush Verma , Siraj Hussain , Vijay Shankar Pandey and Zohra Chatterji (UP), S Ramasundaram (Tamil Nadu) and Dr S K Sarkar (West Bengal).
PM clears 1976 batch IAS file
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has cleared the empanelment file of 1976 batch IAS officers to the rank of Secretary in the Government of India.
PM yet to clear 1979 batch empanelment file
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to clear the empanelment file of 1979 batch IAS officers to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India this week.
Surviving ICS officer of British era (6) P P Agrawal
PP Agrawal of UT cadre is one of the few surviving Indian Civil Service (ICS) officer.
MHA to review IPS deputation (tenure) in R &AW
As the grapevine has it, Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) will soon review the policy of R&AW regarding the IPS officers serving on deputation.
Rashmi Shukla Sharma to join GoI as JS Panchayati Raj
Ms Rashmi Shukla Sharma is joining the Government of India as Joint Secretary Panchayati Raj. She is 1984 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre. Orders of Ms. Sharma have reached the State Government. .
Rajeev Gupta is Director, Power
Rajeev Gupta on central deputation is now Director, Power (Hydro). He is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1988 batch who belongs to the AGMUT cadre.
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.
Now 14 CRs are required
Now 14 CRs are required to get empanelled in the GoI. Earlier 10 CRs were taken into consideration.
Four EDs interviewed for Bank CMD post
ED's of different banks were interviewed for the post of CMD of PSU Banks. They are Mssrs J P Dua of Allahabad Bank, T M Bhasin of UBI, Bhaskar Sen of Dena Bank and G S Vedi of Punjab and Sindh Bank.
Nandkeolvar is new PAG Gujarat
On promotion and repatriation to the department, 1982 batch IA&AS officer S Nandkeolyar has been transferred and posted as Principal Accountant General (C&RA) Gujarat, Ahmedabad.
Achal Kumar Gupta chosen as CGM, SBI
Achal Kumar Gupta, who so far was a General Manager, has been selected for elevation as Chief General Manager (CGM).
FSB to meet next month
Foreign Service Board (FSB) is expected to meet next month. Last meeting of the FSB had taken place in February.
Phonsog to be senior-most member of PESB
There is going to be no acting Chairman of the PESB. Till he is not appointed as Chairman, C Phonsog will be senior most Member .He is retired 1972 batch IAS officer of J & K cadre.
Sunil Bahal to be Director (Finance) in WCL
Sushil Bahal, who is currently General Manager (GM) Finance in Coal Videsh, Delhi, is going to be new Director Finance in the Western Coalfields Ltd (WCL).
BK Singh to be DIG in NSG
BK Singh is all set to join the elite National Security (NSG) as DIG. He is an IPS officer of the 1994 batch. He will look after Administration.
Haryana DGP to join GoI ?
Grapevine has it that Haryana DGP, R S Dalal, is joining the Government of India soon. He is 1974 batch IPS officer.
CSB recommends Sreekumaran's name for JS empanelment
CSB has reportedly recommended the name of CSS officer, GN Sreekumaran, for his empanelment for holding the post of Joint secretary or equivalent in the Government of India.
MS Dhakad to join UNIDO
MS Dhakad, who is currently a Director in the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, is all set to join as Programmer Officer, UNIDO in Delhi. He is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1989 batch & belongs to the Madhya Pradesh cadre.
PESB failed to select Chairman of Hindustan Shipyard
PESB did not find an eligible candidate for the post of Chairman in the Hindustan Shipyard. Now fresh applications will be invited for the post.
NHAI incurs heavy losses
The National Highways Authority of India's (NHAI) has incurred losses of over Rs 1,550 crore per annum.
Punjab DIG Vigilance Jain to go on leave
The Election Commission has directed DIG (Vigilance) Bathinda, Jitendra Kumar Jain, to proceed on leave for a week. He is 1993 batch IPS officer.
Vice Admiral Bhasin takes over
Vice Admiral, Sanjeev Bhasin, has taken over as the flag officer commanding-in-chief of the Western Naval Command from Vice Admiral J S Bedi on Sunday.
Air Commodore takes over charge
Air Commodore P.S. Mann has taken over the command of 408 Air Force Station Hakimpet from Air Commodore Naseem Akhtar.
Case registered against a Lt Colonel
The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against a Lt Col in a major wheat purchase scam in the Army .

CORPORATE
Top level changes in 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, SK Sehgal Chief General Manager Kerala Circle, RK Garg Chief General Manager (Mid Corporates) Mid Corporate Group Mumbai , SM Joshi Chief General Manager (Stressed Assets Management) Corporate Banking Group Mumbai, BS Bhasin Chief General Manager (SME Business Unit) National Banking Group Mumbai , J Chandrasekaran Chief General Manager (Rural Business) in Business Group Mumbai , RK Saraf Chief General Manager (Information Technology) Corporate Centre Navi Mumbai and BV Chaubal Principal State Bank Staff College Hyderabad.
YS Mayya is new CMD, ECIL
YS Mayya, who so far was Director (Technical) Electronic Corporation of India Ltd (ECIL), has succeeded KS Rajasheker Rao Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) of ECIL. Rao had retired on April 30, 2009.
AK Sharma is Director (Production), NALCO
Arun Kumar 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.
Harit Nagpal has switched over to Vodafone Group
Harit Nagpal, who was Director-Marketing with Essar, has switched over to Vodafone Group, UK. Nagpal will be responsible for global marketing functions of the group.
Sanjoy Ghosh relinquishes association of 15-years with Dainik Jagran
Sanjay Ghosh has reportedly put his papers after having served Dainik Jagran for 15 year. Ghosh was holding a key position in the management and he had played major role in the growth and establishment of Dainik Jagran.
Deepak Pandit, quits STM
Deepak Pandit who was Country Manager, India, for STM, has resigned from the company. STM is an NMC which is involved in satellite networking operations, India.
O&M appoints Subramanian as head of client service
O&M has appointed Subramanian as head Client Service. He has vast experience in the domain of advertising industry. Subramanian has earlier worked with Interface Communications & Lintas.
Sinha moves to WCL
Material Manager posted in CCL Head Office, Vijay Kumar Sinha, has been moved to the WCL.
Mathew to join Suzlon Energy
Former MD of the Ford India A Mathew, is set to join Suzlon Energy.
Arvind Jhadav assumes charge as CMD, Air India on May 4,2009
Arvind Jhadav newly appointed Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) National Aviation Company of India Limited (NACIL) i.e. Air India has assumed charge on May 4,2009. Jadhav was earlier a Principal Secretary with his parent cadre Government of Karnataka & belongs to the 1978 batch. He succeeds E.K. Bharat Bhushan who was discharging duties of CMD Air India in place of Raghu Menon. Bharat Bhushan is Joint
Secretary & Financial Advisor, Ministry of Civil Aviation.Bhushan is an IAS officer of the 1979 batch & belongs to the Kerala cadre.
WHISPERS SURVEY
Should BJP and CONGRESS join hands for forming a national government ?
DATE WITH RTI
RELATIONS WITH A FOREIGN STATE
On the directions of the CIC, the Ministry of External Affairs constituted a Committee to look at some documents to determine if any part of the information sought is sensitive or is likely to affect adversely India's relations with a foreign State. The Committee was mandated to record why disclosure would affect relations with a foreign State so as to be exempted under Section 8(1)(a) of the RTI Act.
The CIC held that it is within the exclusive domain of the Ministry to decide and determine as to whether such disclosure is likely to have any impact on India's relations with a foreign State or not. The role of the CIC is only to determine whether the public authority has arrived at this conclusion after the exercise of due diligence.
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Aaj Ki Aawaz
Very embarrassing' Mohna's Q statement,
But this is not what he meant!!!
Here contacts can get you away with murder is the message sent,
India 's image ko kiya Q's case ne dent!!!
Mohna's Q and Rahul has PM qualities statement ……why!!!!
Mohna kya Sonia se brownie points karr rahaa hai buy????
Were these his own observations or was this Sonia's order which he could not defy!
Hearing Mohna many an Indian would have let out a sigh!!!
Rahul has still a lot to achieve!!!
Mohna could have said in Rahul's potential I believe!!!
Rahul still has no experience of the administrative weave!!!!
He still has to pass through the Leadership sieve!!!!
Congress says with Left tie up is possible!!!
Left says this is impossible!!!
I'd say tie up is plausible!!
When this bridge comes I'm sure it will be crossable!!
Yes if Congress sees that 'kitchen' will be full of cooks!!!
Then Congress will prefer to sit it out it looks!!!!
Congress would prefer to support form outside 'bunch of crooks'!!!!
Congressmen will be unhappy as being powerless sure spooks!!!!
Seems in Congress pessimism as already set in!!
Statements that Mohna and Diggy have made 'shout' that Congress will not win!!!
Mohna says canceling the Nuclear Deal will be an unpatriotic sin!!!!
And Diggy says Congress is ready to sit in Opposition with a worried grin!!
Kalyan says he's with SP to send BJP to its grave!!!
But he and SP are in the grave he dug for BJP and from there karr rahe hai rant and rave!!
Amongst Muslims there is an anti SP wave!!!!
Last ditch effort ....Kalyan, Mulayam and Amar have stopped to shave (Muslim beards)!!
Kalyan has made SP loose from it's MY vote bank the M alphabet!!!!
This time in UP its Waterloo SP has met!!!!
Amar has already started to fume and fret!!!!!
Many wonders…..for this Kalyan caper what did SP get????
In UP where will SP's Muslim Vote bank go????
Into Congress say those in the know!!!!
Into Congress most of the vote bank will flow!!!!
In UP Congress is bound to glow!!!!!
BSP's Brahmin Voters have a problem with Mayawathi!!!!
They feel she does not get off 'the haathi'!!!!
From afar she keeps shouting to them ' I'm your saathi'!!!
They lament 'apart from statues of herself kuch nahi Mayawathi laathi'!!!!
Congress and BJP will in all probability end up very close to each other!!!!
But to get Allies for BJP it will be a real bother!!!!
And now JD(U)'s Sharad Yadav is calling Commies ' big brother'!!!!
Though Sharad says ' we are with BJP…. kasam on my mother'!!!
Can Naidu justify repeating 'a mistake' again???
Naidu has been trying to wash off the support to NDA stain!!!
But then politics is the art of gain!!!
So ' we joined NDA to stop BJP's Hindu agenda' again he will feign!!!
Confucius says….. after post results get ready for jodh todh ki raajnithi!!!
Allies will decide Congress ya BJP jeethi!!!!
Our mandate will be like 'raath beethi baath beethi'!!!!!
Aaya Ram gayaa Ram hai humaare Netaon ki neeti!!!!
Bharat Kumar
Aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

Forum
Need for revamping PESB !!!
The relinquishment of office by Naresh Narad as Chairman, Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) with effect from 4-5-09,is bound to adversely impact the independence of the PESB, unless an equally competent and experienced substitute, who could stand the administrative and political pressures, is located. This statement is based on my hands-on experience as Secretary (PESB) for six years .The present Government is expected not to rush through the appointment and instead leave the decision for its successor. I am of the view that there is a crying need for revamping the PESB as also its empowerment by according it a Statutary status on the lines of the CVC.
A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)
Why should IPS perform non cadre, unrelated functions?
It seems to me that the purpose of the IAS is to administer and provide higher level administration at the secretariat level. The purpose of the IPS is policing functions.
The IPS has a unique position in the Indian governance system, owing to its function as a professional All India Service, created for policing our land. Why should they perform non cadre, unrelated functions, sitting in a ministry? It makes no sense at all. IPS should stick to its mandate of providing law and order, instead of looking to catch plum posts in ministries, else it will lose its professionalism.
Aditya
Will BSP be third largest party ?
I think somebody is forgetting BSP and it's supremo Mayawati. Who will win maximum seats in this Lok Sabha elections, Congress or BJP? may not be certain. But BSP will be third largest party in this parliamentary elections is certain.
Prince
Pay parity to Organised Group A Services - An utopian possibility?
Finally DoPT has come up with an Order to address the pay - parity to Organised Group 'A' Services with two years junior IAS officers, corresponding to Resolution of Cabinet on 6th CPC. The hard work put in by DoPT is clearly visible. The Resolution provided only one eligibility criterion, that is, the officers of Organised Group A Services should be two years senior in batch to the batch of IAS officer posted on deputation to Centre (which in itself means disparity of 3 to 4 years as IAS gets SAG in State after 16 years)as it was a Non Functional upgradation only but the DoPT posed all the eligibility conditions of the Recruitment Rules of that Service, in its Order. It is worth mentioning that in many Services officers got Director Scale after 20 years of service and because of this 'Eligibility' conditions, they have to further wait for three to seven years more to get SAG grade meaning thereby, that Central Services will get SAG after 23 - 26 years of service whereas IAS gets in 16 year in State or 18 -19 years in Centre. What a parity! This gap will be widening in subsequent grades as 'Residency Clause' be operative. The 'Resolution's intention was very clear and was to provide SAG to Central Services after 20 - 21 years of service. All Services should be collectively fight it out with DoPT.
Rajesh Kumar
Cadre management in CPMF
An officer of CPMF does not pick up his first promotion before 8th or 9th year of service when he becomes a Deputy Commandant although the prescribed minimum is 4 years. The 2nd promotion to the rank of second in command does not come before the 15th year of service even though the prescribed residency is only 11 years. The next rank of Commandant comes in the 20th or 21st year of service whereas the prescribed minimum is only 14 years. This rank is equivalent to that of SSP which an IPS officer or the officers of any organised group A service get in their 13th year of service on a time scale basis. The situation will further worsen because they have increased the numbers of Deputy Commandant authorised in the units to 6 from 4 without any corresponding increase in the vacancies at higher levels.
It is only a few who are able to reach the level of DIG after putting in more that 30 - 32 years of service although the prescribed minimum is only 20 years.
Becoming IG is a dream come true for a cadre officer. Only about one officer per batch of 50-60 is able to reach this level. Beyond that the there is no scope.
As Cadre officers, we do not seek any parity with any other service specially not with the IPS because we do not want to be equated with a service which does not have the trust of public at large and even their own ground level Police constabulary. We also know that the organisational pyramid will preclude most of the officers from reaching beyond DIG.
What we seek and humbly pray to the Government is that we CPMF officers must have an avenue available to grow in our own organisation. A lieutenant of army can theoretically aspire to become chief one day. An IPS can aspire and will become DG of his state. An IAS officer will become Chief Secretary one day and so on. Officers of all the services can aspire to reach the very top. But a CPMF officer is debarred by the rules from becoming Additional DG, Special DG and DG of the force. He is also debarred from most of the posts of DIG and IG. Why is that so? In what manner an IPS officer is better than a cadre officer of the CPMF to man only the higher level posts even though he does not have any ground level experience or knowledge of the work culture and ethos of the forces. How can he plan the personnel and training policies of these forces when does not know anything about these forces.
The pay commission had made some far reaching recommendations like 100% quota for the cadre officers upto the rank of DIG and 50 % quota from the ranks of IG and above. However, the IPS lobby is not letting these reforms be cleared. There are atleast 20 Commandants waiting in each of the CPMF waiting for the new cadre rules to be framed which the Government has ordained but the IPS lobby is not letting pass. So these unlucky officers can neither be promoted under the old rules and new rules are not being framed. This situation has blocked the entire chain down below and hundreds of officers are suffering. The Government also has sanctioned some posts of Additional DG for cadre officers but again for the last 9 months no cadre officer has been promoted as no rules have been allowed to be framed by the very same lobby. They (IPS) have but already been promoted on these new posts. Why are they not allowing these rules to be framed - the reason is simple - they had thought that these vacancies will accrue to them but the government decided to give a share to the cadre officers.
It does not need an IQ of 140 to decipher who the author of feed back(published on 1st May ) to travails of Seema Prahari could be. He belongs to the same tribe that has been subjugating the CPMF so far. If he was so familiar with the cadre management of CPMF why is he being so economical with the truth by hiding the facts brought out above.
Seema Prahari
So relevant, so nearer to the grassroot reports
Sir the choice to give it place in whispers shows your sense of greater responsibility. There is an error in the report which corrects as 20 for BSP, which is my working, gain of BJP in UP is loss of BSP. The U.P. result would be SP-29-30, BSP 22-23,Congress-5, RLD-3 and BJP16 = 77/80
B P Singh
I am amazed !
No offence intended, but I am amazed at 'Arun''s (whosoever he may be) effrontery. Okay, he has taken up the cause of the IPS. But who has given him the right to belittle other organised services such as the CSS? Our friend should know that CSS has its definite role to play as any other Service in the Government of India. It's not 'any Tom, Dick or Harry', but an organised band of dedicated officers in service of the nation at large.
Suman

Service conditions in BSF are more challenging
Service conditions in BSF are more challenging then any other Force, as BSF has to remain deployed continuously in field with no peace location unlike Army where provision of alternative deployment in filed and peace location are there. But this aspect has not been considered in the 6th Pay Commission at all i.e why Army has got Rs.6000 MSP and other benefits and BSF has been treated at par with Civilian with no extra financial benefits other then civilian.
Apart from that, it is even more demoralizing that any army officer having 13 years of service will get more pay and allowances due to time scale provision of Lt Carnal and Pay Band IV plus Rs. 6000 MSP in compression to a BSF officer having more than 20 year service
I hope there is no doubt about the sacrifices of BSF in fighting the external and internal aggression which can not be graded any way less then Army or any other Forces in India.
These anomalies are creating frustration and quite demoralizing particularly when the role and tasks of Army & BSF are quite comparable and treating BSF with a step modernly attitude. Though the issue for 15% allowance is pending with Government of India but even then, this will not be in parity with the pay and perks getting a contemporary Army officer in spite of fact that, the BSF officers are working in tougher condition then the army officers.
Sanjay
The differences brought out by Pawan Kumar between 'u and your boss' are too good. I am sure it is out of experience. They are however universally true.
Shailja Sharma
Travails of an unsung Seema Prahari Part II
1.Worst is in case of Jawans, after removal of Naik and Lance naiks ranks, it created a scenario where a Constable joining BSF does
not pick up even one promotion in twenty years. In a force like BSF, with rank comes respect, change in nature of duty, responsibility and less strenuous tasks. Now it is difficult even to think that a person doing such hard and monotonous duty for 20 years can maintain the same level of motivation and ability. It not only creates stress
but leads to indiscipline and even suicidal tendencies.
2. Why our system is so insensitive to these issues. Nobody is begging for more money or better facilities but what is rightful is being denied. Army propagated that a Lt Col is doing higher job than 2IC of BSF. Even a layman can see that and after Bagga Commission army officers accepted the time scale promotion of Lt Col in 13 years to get better benefits. After that each army battalion has four, five
or even six Lt Col few commanding companies, and senior most being 2IC
of the battalion. CO is a full colonel. In BSF there is post of only one 2IC who is second to the CO, who is equivalent to a Colonel. A BSF officer becomes 2IC after 15 to 16 years of service and commanding a company for so many years. Yet it is not visible to our government and after so much hue and cry and almost mutiny by the highest ranks of army they got PB -4 for Lt Cols.
3. If we are civilians, why we are governed with stringent BSF Act and Rules. We should be governed by CCS rules like our IPS bosses. If we are an Armed force we should be treated like one. In past few years a dangerous trend has started growing. On every opportunity where internal security situation or incidents took place, our defence forces have used all PR skills to gain ascendancy over civilian setup to
get more posts, budget and say in internal affairs. We are militarizing our nation. Rather than bringing police reforms and strengthening internal security set up by creating separate civil police for law and order and armed police for internal security, we are putting military in place, take example of Coastal Command where Navy could get the overall command of all assets for coastal security. Navy should have been preparing for Naval aggression and dominating high seas and blue waters and Coastal security be dealt by Coast Guards who are primarily raised for the purpose. Similarly Rashtriya Rifles, which was raised on an adhoc manner for Counter Insurgency sighting reasons by army that infantry units are required to prepare for war and not fight inside. But what exactly is RR. It is same army man who is
supposed to prepare for war, but on deputation at the expense of Ministry of Home Affairs and with more cost than even entire J&K Police. If the same amount of money and strength would have been given to BSF, CRPF or State forces it would have been a long term effect. Talking against defence is considered anti national in India, so it goes on and days are not far when like Pakistan we will be a Military Nation. Recent bargaining in pay commission and entire armys refusal to take their pay, despite getting much better than civilians is an eye opener. Writing all this may be considered a violation of the code but then what is the alternative. We cannot go to court, there is no tribunal, nobody represents us and we continue to suffer."
A Prahari
Armed Forces (AF) short circuited
The Armed Forces (AF) have been short circuited so badly that there is no way out of the present system and structure of AF cadres to meet the genuine aspiration of better and faster career progressions.
The only possible way out is making the AF as the feeder organizations for CPOs and PMF. That is the only way of managing the "Pension Bomb" as also making these rag tag forces professionals. PBOR and Officers in AF should be invariably screened at seven years service and then transferred to the CPOs / PMF.
This looks simple but has many hurdles, namely,
* Any recruitment to CPOs and PMF will have to be stopped. (that means many DGs will be less by many crores).
* The social Justice agenda of reservations in these organizations which is so rampant today and has sucked vitality out of good outfits like AR or ITBP, has to stop. CPOs must not be treated as merely employment generating outfits and mere social justice organizations..
* Officers intake has to be through CDSE and SSB without any distinction who on selection serve the AF till 7 years. AF then to carry out another selection on completion of seven years service. Opportunities to get into All India Services and GP A services is also provided at this stage.
* AF, thus, will be the recruiter, trainer and builder. CPOs and PMF to have only bare minimum training facilities.
* No one will retire from AF as a Lt Col and Naik or equivalent. Those will all retire from CPOs and PMF at sixty with pension to be paid by MHA.
* AF then will have Havildars and Colonels and above and their equivalents as their permanent cadre.
* Middle and higher leadership cadre of CPOs and PMF should be one third from the AF and two thirds from their own cadres (those who were shifted out of AF). This is necessary for retention of the military character.
* IAS and IPS will have to concede this territory of internal security. That would be minor adjustment physically but major adjustment psychologically.
This sorts out many huge problems:
* Professionalization of CPOs.
* Huge reduction in pensionary burden.
* enhanced satisfaction of the PBOR and Officer cadre.
* Availability of huge military trained reserves for futuristic inevitability of onflicts in the Himalayas.
* Tackle Naxalism professionally and not in encounter specialist IPS style.
Do not forget that India will have to fight wars on borders, in Mumbai and Gaya / Buxar simultaneously and concurrently and none of those will be so trivial as to be within the capacity of present day CPOs.
This model is well known and workable.
Ravi
Shocking and painful
I do not know under what capacity some are looking after the career progression of BSF officers but if people look after career progression, how can there be any progression. Firstly,I would like to clarify that officers of BSF are selected directly as class-1 gazetted officers through All India Competetive exam conducted by UPSC. Hence they are not simple graduate. Graduation is the minimum requirement for appearing in other civil service exams which selects the elite IFS/IAS/IPS. People assume that officers of BSF are recruited under some banyan tree after simple graduation. Secondly, they mention that the officers gets timely promotions (4 in a span of 15 years).If that was the case there would have been no grievances. Let me enlighten that the time frame for promotion mentioned is the minimum required, as per the RR (framed by elite bosses from other cadre).The ground reality is even after 20 years of service a direct appointed officer is still holding the rank of Second-in-command (pay band-3) and still not sure of his next promotion. Thirdly, only rank of DIG and above is filled on the basis of availability of vacancy. Again I would like to enlighten that the complete rank structure from the humble constable to the overpaid officers are on the basis of availability of vacancy which is hardly there at the top. This is the reason for need to organise the cader properly. This point should not be interpreted as disgruntlement/dissatisfaction but is a requirement for smooth functioning of any organisation. Fourthly, BSF officers always remain with their troops in all sorts of condition and lead from the front. Proof of which is not regarded as casualty rate of officers is one of the highest in India. Fifthly, as mentioned that officers get incentive in the name of hard duties actually performed by constables, I would again Enlighten my friend that 95% of BSF(Officers & jawans) live in inhospitable and difficult terrains which is devoid of basic amenities. It is not that the officers live separately in some metropolitan/capital city and command their troops by proxy. They are with their troops ALWAYS on border posts. Of the 5% places available at various higher HQ in Delhi and other decent cities ,mostly is occupied by the top brass from non-cadre officers. The incentive that a borderman gets (jawans & officers)in the form of hard duty allowance is not any favour or gift, it is a compensation of the sacrifice they do in the form of duty. The only grievance is that there is a discrimination between an army man and a borderman performing the same duty. Lastly, as regards to the condition of the constables of the force and their promotions .I would like to point that the MAI-BAAP of the force are the IPS officers on deputation, who are actually the rule makers and policy framers of this force. A BSF officer has no say in the career progression of a constable to officer of BSF cader. Leave aside constables of BSF even in state Police the condition are no better.
Shashwat
Border guarding is a specialized job
The comments on "unsung Prahari" posted in WIC 01-05-09 reflects the sick mindset of the class echoing such views. Border guarding is a specialized job. The training , equipment , role and task and almost everything is different from what our masters in Khaki have seen, heard or done before coming on deputation. Even after joining the force there is little inclination to learn and imbibe the organisational ethos. The five years of deputation is spent on managing cushy postings, misappropriation and further manipulating the system. Except for a few exceptional gentlemen i cannot remember anyone from this so called elite service making a meaningful contribution to the force. The recommendation of 6th CPC for giving 100% DIG rank and 50% quota in the rank of IG and above has been smartly scuttled .Now going to the court seems to be the only option. If this elite lot thinks the career progression should be compared with constabulary then they should do the same in the state police. That would set a nice example. The abolishing of L/Nk and NK and further the dismal state of career progression for the constabulary reflects on the poor leadership being provided by these deputationist. Since no cadre officer is any position of importance , blaming them makes no sense.
Concerned Citizen
TAIL-PIECE
A Story About Everybody
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
Contributed by - Pawan Kumar