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Ms.Vibha Puri Das is new Secretary Higher Education
Ms.Vibha Puri Das has been appointed new Secretary Higher Education in the Government of India. She is 1976 batch IAS officer of Uttarakhand cadre.
(We said this on November 18 & again on November 21, 2009)
Mohan Das to be Secretary Shipping
Secretary Overseas Affairs K Mohan Das has been appointed as new Secretary Shipping. He is 1974 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.
(We said this early this on November 17 and again on November 22, 2009)
Ms. Bhupinder Prasad gets in situ promotion as Secretary
Ms. Bhupinder Prasad Additional Secretary, Department of Justice has got in situ promotion as Special Secretary Department of Justice. She is 1976 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.
Ramesh Chandra Mishra gets in situ promotion as Secretary
Ramesh Chandra Mishra has been promoted from Additional Secretary & FA to Special Secretary & FA in Department of Information & Technology. He has got in situ promotion. He is 1976 batch IAS officer of Orissa cadre.
13 IPS officers of 1976 batch empanelled in review
As many as five IPS officers belonging to the 1976 batch in review were reportedly empanelled to the rank of DG in Government of India (GOI). They are Mssrs Nandan Dubey and D.G.Kapdeo (Madhya Pradesh), Swaranjeet Singh (Haryana), K.S.Bains (Rajasthan), B.V.Singh (Haryana), Rakesh Jaruhar (Jharkhand), Prem Chand Sabharwal, R.K.Tiwari (Uttar Pradesh), Deepak Swarup (Gujarat), Alok Joshi (Haryana), , K.S.Shankaranarayan (West Bengal), U S Dutt (Bihar) & M.N Achyutanandan Rao (Karnataka).
Bhaskar Sen poised to be CMD United Bank
As the grapevine has it, Bhaskar Sen Executive Director (ED) with the Dena Bank will soon be elevated as the Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) of the United Bank.
AERA seeks candidates for Deputy Secretary & others
Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) of which maiden Chairman is Yashwant S. Bhave has sought applications from different candidates on deputation basis  who want to serve as Deputy Secretary, Senior Principal private secretary (PPPS), PPPS , private secretaries etc. Bhave is a retired officer of Indian Administrative Service (1972 Batch). Government had ,early this year, constituted the AERA for economic regulation of the airport infrastructure sector. In terms of the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India Act, 2008, the AERA has been assigned the functions of determining the tariffs for aeronautical services rendered at all major airports, including for air navigation services, the fixation of Development Fees and Passenger Service Fees.. AERA will also monitor the set performance standards relating to quality, continuity and reliability of services at these airports. AERA is expected play a crucial role in economic well being of the
 vital airport infrastructure sector in the country. The present downturn in the aviation sector is likely to pose an immediate challenge to AERA as it will have to ensure that the airport charges are calibrated so as not to unnecessarily burden the airlines and passengers and at the same time are remunerative enough for airport operators who are investing heavily in up gradation and modernization.
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar bags business reformer award
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has bagged the “business reformer” award to be conferred by “The Economic Times”—a member of the pink press, early next year.
Alok Jain to take up teaching assignment in Oxford !
Alok Jain , Assam cadre 1974 , IAS, who is retiring this month end will be taking up a teaching assignment in Oxford University, his alma mater, as visiting Professor of linguistics and speech therapy.
Medhi is number two in panel for the post of Director (Finance) CIL
The PESB has reportedly put S R Medhi number two in the panel prepared for the post of Director (Finance) Coal India Ltd..
Milind Mulay of SBI to continue as CVO, Bank of India
Milind Mulay who was recently promoted from the rank of General Manager (GM) in State Bank of India (SBI) as Chief General Managers (CGMs) will continue as Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO), in Bank of India (BOI).
Bureaucratic reshuffle in Himachal Pradesh this week
A bureaucratic reshuffle is expected to take place in Himachal Pradesh this week.
One post of DIG vacant in ARC
One post of Deputy Director equivalent  to DIG is lying vacant in ARC (Cabinet Sectt.) .The post is to IPS officers of all cadres.
Prof Bhalla is non-official Director of BEL
Prof U S Bhalla has been appointed part-time non-official Director of the BEL for three years.
Files jam in the Railway Ministry
As the grapevine has it, there is a files jam in the Railway Ministry. Only those who can accept Railway Minister Ms. Mamata Banerjee or her staff are lucky or else files of others are pending for a pretty long time.
2 posts of non-official Directors in LIC to be filled up
As many as two out of six posts of non official Directors lying vacant in the LIC are going to be filled up.
Will Harinder Rana be ED Northern Region Air India ?
Grapevine has it that Ms Harinder Rana is being appointed ED Northern Region of the Air India.
Now three vacancies of GM in Railways
There are going to be three vacancies of General Managers in Railways after the retirement of GM SER on November 30.
Traffic service officers to manage production units
For the first time in the history of Railways, two officers of Traffic Service KK Saxena and K P B Murthy have been made head of the production units Diesel Locomotive Works Varanasi and Chittaranjan Locomotive Works . Traditionally, the production units are headed by officers from various engineering services of the Railways.
42 IPS officers of 1977 batch empanelled for ADG’s post
As many as 42 IPS officers belonging to the 1977 batch were empanelled in Government of India (GOI)for ADG’s post. They are: Ajay Chadha, Ms Kanwaljeet Singh Deol, Bheem Singh Bassi, A.S. Khan (all from UT cadre) A. Shiv Shankar, Umesh Kumar, Alok Shrivastava (all from Andhra Pradesh), Abhay Aanand, Shafi Alam, U.Narayan, Arun Chaudhary (all from Bihar), V.K.Gupta, K.Nityanandan, S.K.Saikia (all from Gujarat), Prem Singh, Anil Pradhan, Subhash Goswami (all from Asaam – Meghalaya), K.R.S.Sundaram (Tamil Nadu), U.N. Rai, P.K.Mehta (from Haryana), D.S.Minhas (Himachal Pradesh), Omendra Bhardwaj, M.K. Devrajan (from Rajasthan),  Arvind Rajan (Kerala),  S.S.Dayal, K.Gokul Chandran, P.N.Dixit( from Maharashtra), J.C.Dabas(Manipur-Tripura), Jyoti Trehan , Shashi Kant(from Punjab),  Prakash Mishra (Orissa), V.K.Panwar, S.A. Ibrahim (from Madhya Pradesh), Gauri Shankar Rath (Jharkhand), N.K.Singh, Rajendra Singh, A.S. Jairaman , Wageesh Mishra (from West Bengal, B.M. Saraswat, S.Balaji & Brij Lal (all from Uttar Pradesh).
5 IPS officers of 1975 batch empanelled in review
As many as five IPS officers belonging to the 1976 batch were reportedly empanelled to the rank of DG in Government of India (GOI) in review.They are: Rajendra Singh Dhillon(Uttar Pradesh), Dinesh Kumar Sharma (Uttar Pradesh), P Gautam Kumar (Andhra Pradesh) ,H K Sarin (Madhya Pradesh) & R.M.S.Brar (Gujarat).
Retired CRPF officers to head battalions in Tripura
Four retired officers of CRPF are reportedly joining as commandants of four TSR battalions of Tripura.
Empanelment of 1977 batch IRS complete, 40 CCIT posts to be filled soon
Now since the empanelment of 1977 batch IRS officers, for the post of Chief Commissioners of Income Tax (CCIT) has been completed, those empanelled are likely to get the postings soon. As many as 40 posts of CCIT are lying vacant at present.
PLI investments cross the mark of Rs.100 crore
The Postal Life Insurance (PLI) on November 23, 2009 has crossed the mark of Rs.100 crore as far as its investments in different business enterprises was concerned. This had happened within two weeks of launch of the initiative .
1994 batch IPS officers promoted in Uttar Pradesh
13 ,1994 batch IPS officers have been promoted to the rank of DIG in Uttar Pradesh.
Prof CN Rao reluctant to go to the Rajya Sabha
As the grapevine has it, Prof. CN Rao is reluctant to get nominated to the Rajya Sabha. Otherwise, his name was actively under consideration in the category of 11 nominated members to the Upper House. Presently, Prof. Rao is Principal Scientific Advisor to Indian Prime Minister Dr. Man Mohan Singh.
Chief Commissioner (Customs) Bangalore gets addl charge of Vishakhapatnam
Mrs. Lalitha John, Chief Commissioner of Customs, Bangalore, gets additional charge of Chief Commissioner, Vishakhapatnam.
Chief Commissioner of Central Excise, Delhi, gets addl charge of DG (Systems)
Mrs. Sreela Ghosh, Chief Commissioner of Central Excise, Delhi, gets additional charge of the post of Director General (Systems) .
A K Srivastava is new Joint Secretary Revenue
Anoop Kumar Srivastava has been appointed as Joint Secretary, in the Department of Revenue.He is 1981 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
Savita Anand is Joint Secretary Land Resources
Ms . Savita Anand has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Department of Land Resources in the Government of India. She is 1981 batch Indian Forest Service(IFS)officer of Rajasthan cadre.
IPS  postings in Sikkim
O. H. Subba  Addl. DGP/HQ will look after the work of Headquarter and Armed Police in Sikkim.  T. Norbu, Addl. DGP/Planning, Modn. & CSS will hold the additional charge of Fire & Emergency Services.

Padamvir Singh speaks to participants of foundation course in Bhopal
Padamvir Singh Director of the The Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie on November 24, 2009 addressed participants of the foundation course for All India services officers that is currently going on in RCVP Noronha Academy of Administration, Bhopal . Singh who is a 1977 batch officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre will also interact with participants on November 25, 2009. Officers of All India services like IRS-IT, IRS C & EC, Indian Postal Service (IPS) & different branches of Railways & Defence will undergo training till December 2009. The RCVP Noronha Academy of Administration, Bhopal of which Director General (DG) is Dr.Sundeep Khanna is hosting a such training programme for the first time. Dr. Sundeep Khanna is Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer of the 1972 batch.

CCIT Kanpur posted as DGIT (Vigilance) Delhi
Upon her appointment as CVO of Income Tax, Sudha Sharma – IRS (IT : 76), CCIT Kanpur, has been posted as DGIT (Vigilance), Delhi, for three years.
CCIT Lucknow gets additional charge
CCIT Lucknow , SC Gangwar, will hold the additional charge of CCIT Kanpur and CCIT Gaziabad.
CCIT-IV Delhi gets additional charge
MC Joshi, CCIT-IV, Delhi, has been given the additional charge of CCIT Dehradun.

CORPORATE
Ashok Kumar Sinha to be Director (Finance ) Coal India ?
Ashok Kumar Sinha is being tipped to be new Director (Finance) of the Coal India Ltd. The PESB has reportedly put Sinha on number one in the panel.
SL Bansal tipped to be ED United Bank
As the grapevine has it, SL Bansal, General Manager, Union Bank of India, is tipped to be  Executive Director (ED) of the United Bank
Ashok Dutt tipped to be ED Dena Bank
As the grapevine has it, Ashok Dutt, General Manager, Allahabad  Bank, is tipped to be  Executive Director (ED) of the Dena Bank.

Forum
(The views expressed in this column are of the contributors. We do not owe any responsibility, whatsoever, of the views of our surfers as they are their personal opinion)
IS INDIAN BUREAUCRACY WORST IN THE WHOLE CONTINENT ?
It is absolutely true that the Indian bureaucracy are the worst the reason being that there is no accountability and they get away with murder apart from that they are also corrupt and selfish. The few 5 percentage of officers who are honest and upright are not given the due importance and are looked down by the politicians.
Prithviraj
1. I wonder if such a comparison is possible without having any real world experience of other bureaucracies in the neighbourhood.
2. Indians seem to specialize in running certain professions down and hyping others (star struck by Bollywood, for instance). Its time to take stock of our own strengths and weaknesses, be more balanced, take pride in one's work and country, and work towards making work and nation worthy of the pride.....
M Shankar
Our bureaucracy is worst in all respect and the comparative developmental studies of countries became independent with us or thereafter can substantiate this very fact. The miserable failure of IAS, IFS and IRS officers in policy planning and implementation  kept our country, which had a great potential to become world leader, in disarray. While the IPS lobby went on to let one after another problem crop up and  today we are at the threshold of disintegration. We need to understand the psyche of Britishers who had created the present Indian bureaucracy but till date which can not be made people friendly or people centric and remains answerable to political establishments.
It is high time that radical reforms are introduced to shake up the bureaucracy and make it responsible to the citizens and archaic British provisions and mindset is done away with. The  bureaucrats should be charged for human rights violation for keeping the poor deprived of the basic rights and development.
V. Singh/ retd CRPF Comdt
Bangalore

Myth and Reality by RK Agarwal.
The article is purely on divide and rule based policy. The author is himself lamenting that 96% of the CSSS employees are languishing for want of their first promotion, so why is he so desperate to bring out flaws with PPS or PSO. He himself said Peon, LDC and UDC, Assistants getting faster promotions than CSSS. The author seems to be from assistant side and spreading false campaign against PSO. The fact is, he and his other clan does not digest the fact that a person is raised from Stenographer cadre holds good position. What about LDCs or UDCs (some may be peon level promotees) going upto the level of DS and brandishing like trained IAS or IFS etc. It is high time that the moot issue is raised wherein timely promotion for all whether Steno C, D or PPS or Peon, LDC UDC or Assistant or SO, everybody should be given equal and fair respect and opportunity. Above all, we must learn to respect each other rather than pulling each other's leg like rats.
Sushil Kumar
Have patience
This is w.r.t. indepth study by RK Agrawal about CSSS. He is more worried about Gr.D and Gr.C and is trying to explain as if Sr.PPS and PSO have got promotions at the cost of Gr.D & C stagnation. The PSs who have scaled the promotional ladders are the examinees only, and not the slow walkers. So have patience and appreciate the efforts of seniors. all the best.
Lal Gulab
Dead/retired persons still in the Seniority List
I would request RK Agarwal to go through the DoP&T website and you will be aghast to see the dead/retired person still in the Seniority List. You will see there is no revision of list as far as Steno 'D' Seniority is concerned for more than three years. By the way DoP&T is directly under PM.
Rashid Jalil
RK Agarwal’s views on “Career Prospects of CSSS officers”
From RK Agarwal’s views, it appears he is not happy with the promotions of few officers from CSSS and hence is not in good taste. It would have been nice if he would also have suggested the solutions. The solution lies in the recommendation of the 6th PC which wanted the services of CSSS officials to be merged with the CSS services at lower level. I would instead like that services of officers of CSSS should be merged with that of CSS at all the level, i.e. merger of all PSs with SOs, PPSs with USs, Sr.PPSs with DSs and PSOs with Directors of CSS. This would create more chances for officers of CSS to get promotion. People like Agarwal would not have to waste time on research on timely (if it could be said timely), promotions of few officers of CSSS, had he instead sought report of Govt. on PC recommendation, as above.
Chandra
A great effort
You have written nothing but the truth which everyone seems to ignore. Also your article contains some other valuable information about which most of us were ignorant. But the point is things are written here only. Nothing seems to be going ahead for the underprivileged Stenos. Where is this going to end is a question which no one cares to answer. Things were not that bad. Many of my senior colleagues who joined as Gr. D Stenographers have become PSs much before their retirement and that too in the same Ministries. But later on everything seem to have come to a stand still. 27 years is a long time wait. Wake up DOPT.
Vandana
Our freind has mentioned every where of not getting regular promotion. Had the position on ad-hoc promotion been mentioned, the facts would have been more realistic.
G. Srinivasa Rao
Agarwal has dealt with the issues of stenographers holistically
By way of additional input, I would like to mention that earlier the highest post of stenographers was called Sr. PA(Rs. 650-1050) and his scale was short of the pay scale of the post of Section officer in the CSS(Rs. 650-1200). This was increased and made equal to that of a Section Officer (Rs. 650-1200) and was renamed as PS. Subsequently, another post higher than this was created equivalent to that of an Under Secretary in the CSS and was called as Principal Private Secretary. Then again another post equivalent to that of a Deputy Secretary was created for stenographer called as the Senior Principal Private Secretary[ sounds great]. Now we have the post of Principal Staff Officer in the grade equivalent to that of a Director. Anybody in the Government would know that the stenographers are heavily loaded at the level of Steno Gr. D and Gr.C and PS. The other posts are ornamental more so with the large scale computerisation in the Government. These posts have come to exist only due to the proximity of these stenographers to the senior officer and not for any other reason.
Rakesh
Trips by CBI officials
I wonder.... any one has gone into the statistics of number of officials of CBI who went abroad in connection with Bofors & Q, most number of trips by a particular official and the amount spent on these official tours?
Prasad
Absolutely correct
Their career disposition depends on how to say no to the proposal, lest it may be positive or negative. The whole concept of Indian administration in the hands of Indian bureaucrats, either IAS or any other services, depends on suspicion and "I am the great" feeling. They think that passing out of Mussouri, is something like climbing the Everest or sending a man manned Chandrayaan II to the Moon or Mars.
R S Sinha
All Kudos to Saxena
I refer to "the failed Indian bureaucracy"(dt 21-22 Nov,09) by A K Saxena. There is truth in what he says. As a 75 year old, retired IAS officer, the column articulates the views of a majority of long time retired civil servants belonging to all organised services including those of my own fraternity. The present day Indian bureaucracy has demonstrated growth only in their arrogance, sycophancy and lack of sense of service towards the poor. They have grown crorepatis, owning illegally acquired assets. I commend Saxena for exposing the down-right present day reality of Indian bureaucracy
A V Kamath
It is surprising to know that even questions like why and where can be asked under the RTI act. Thanks for the whispers
Raghvendra
Apropos Vijayakumar's letter "How many SCs/STs/OBCs/minorities/ women?".
Selection to Judiciary like bureaucracy should not be based on caste or religion but purely only on efficiency and merit. It is the down trodden who suffer when you select people based on SCs/STs/OBCs/ minorities/ women etc rather than meritocracy. It is surprising people comment like this even after 60 years of independence.
N K Nair