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Delay in 1977 batch IPS empanelment due to IAS postings
Delay in empanelment of 1977 batch IPS officials, it is said, is because postings of IAS belonging to 1979 batch was yet to be completed.
Srivastava is new CMD of NALCO
Former CMD of the Cement Corporation A K Srivastava has taken over as new CMD of the NALCO.
( We said this on August 3 )
B.P.Rao assumes charge as BHEL CMD
B.P.Rao has assumed the charge as Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD)BHEL on October 1,2009. Hitherto he was Director Industrial Systems & Products( IS & P).
(We said this on August 22 )
Atul Saraya is Director-Power,BHEL
Atul Saraya who so far was Executive Director (ED) Power in BHEL has assumed the charge as Director Power on October 1, 2009.
(We said this on May 25,2009 )
Deputation tenure of Gopalakrishnan extended
Deputation tenure of R Gopalakrishnan, Joint Secretary in the Prime Minister Office, has been extended upto June 23, 2011 .He is 1979 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.
Mishra returns to cadre
Premature repatriation of SN Misra, IDAS(79), presently working as Joint Secretary in Department of Defence Production, has been approved for availing benefit of promotion to the Higher Administrative Grade in IDAS.
Mandeep Surie to be Spokesman of MEA ?
Grapevine has it that senior IFS officer Mandeep Surie is being appointed Spokesman of the Ministry of External Affairs. He is likely to be recalled from Johnseberg.
Will Nikhil Kumar be Governor ?
Retired 1963 batch IPS officer and Congress leader Nikhil Kumar is likely to be appointed Governor of a North-Eastern state.
34 contenders for the post of CMD ITDC
As many as 34 contenders are there for the post of CMD,ITDC.
Uma Bharti and Bhagwat Meeting on October 4 ?
RSS Supremo Bhagwat and Uma Bharti are reportedly meeting in Delhi on October 4.What is the indication ?.
Sumathi Ravichandran posted in Postal Directorate
Former Regional Passport officer in Chennai, Sumathi Ravichandran, has joined as Director Projects Management Unit in the Postal Directorate.
Juhi Mukherjee moves to Delhi
2007 batch UT cadre IAS officer Juhi Mukherjee has been moved from Andman-Nicobar Islands to Delhi.
Mrs. Thapa selected for UNMIT
Mrs. Jamuna Thapa, SI, Delhi, has been selected for UN Mission in Timor L'ste. (UNMIT).
Book of IPS officer is now quite popular
A book 'The Funny Side Of Police Life' written by Dr D V Guruprasad,1976 batch Karnataka cadre IPS officer, has just now been reprinted. In order to make more people read it, it is priced only at Rs.50/- (Fifty only). The book is a collection of 24 short essays mostly dealing with his life as a police officer. It deals with many situations like catching drunken motorists by cops smelling the breath, cops 'arresting' cattle and keeping in police station as per the boss's directive, inspection of the office by the big boss, how his own subordinates treated him during his inspection, how police wireless creates funny situations, how not giving a hot cup of tea to the boss made an officer get transferred etc.
Qureshi in Governing Body of St Stephens
Election Commissioner of India SY Qureishi has been appointed Member of the Governing body of the prestigious St Stephen's College Delhi.
Punjab IAS Association
1982 batch IAS officer Sarvesh Kaushal has been elected President of the Punjab IAS Association. Kusumjit Sidhu and Suresh Kumar will be Senior Vice President and Vice President respectively.
Lt Gen Bharadwaj is new Vice Chief of Army Staff
Lt Gen P C Bhardwaj,PVSM,AVSM,VrC,SC,VSM has taken over as Vice Chief of Army Staff.
Lt Gen Jaiswal is GoC Northern Command
Lt GEN B S JAISWAL,AVSM has taken over as Goc Northern Command at Udhampur.
Lt Gen Lamba is GoC ATC Shimla
Lt Gen A S Lamba has taken over as GoC-in-C Army Training Command Shimla.
IAS postings in Orissa
R N Senapati has been appointed APC.J K Mohapatra has been posted as Principal Secretary Finance.
Dr.Amarjit Singh yet to be relieved by Gujarat Govt.
Dr. Amarjit Singh who on central deputation has been appointed as Executive Director (ED) in the "Jansankhya Sthirata Kosh" (JSK) (National Population Stabilisation Fund)has not been relieved by his parent cadre Government so far . Dr.Singh is an IAS officer of the Gujarat cadre who belongs to the 1982 batch. At present he is Secretary, Family Welfare and Commissioner, Health and Family Welfare Department, Government of Gujarat.
Senior IAS officers protest in Karnataka
Barring Mr Ramaswamy all the seven superceded IAS officers remained absent when the new Chief Secretary S V Rangnath took charge.
Corporation Bank CMD gets award
J.M. Garg, Chairman and Managing Director of Corporation Bank has been conferred Dr Sir M. Visvesvaraya National Parisara Ratna 2009 award by the The Shimoga-based Kuvempu University.
Rajeev Kumar Dasot is IG Kota
Rajeev Kumar Dasot who so far was IG Rules at PHQ,Jaipur has been transferred by the Rajasthan Government to Kota as IG.
Panjiyar to hold additional charge of Parliamentary Affairs
U.N. Panjiyar Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources will hold the additional charge of the post of Secretary, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs for a period of three months .He is 1973 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.
Deputation tenure of Bhaskar extended
Central Deputation tneure of V. Bhaskar Joint Secretary 13th Finance Commission has been extended for a period of three months.He is 1981 batch IAS officer of AP cadre.
Bhullar gets three months extension
Deputation tenure of B.S.Bhullar who is presently working as Joint Secretary in the 13th Finance Commission has been extended for a period of three months. He is 1986 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.
P Kamal to return MP cadre
The GoI has approved premature reversion of Prabhanshu Kamal presently working as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs, to his parent Madhya Pradesh cadre with immediate effect in order to enable him to avail the benefit of promotion to the next higher grade in the cadre. He is 1985 batch IAS officer.
Sujatha Rao to hold additional charge of NACO
Ms. K. Sujatha Rao Secretary, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, will hold the additional charge of the post of Secretary, Department of AIDS Control, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.She is 1974 batch IAS officer of AP cadre.
Ms Khullar to hold additional charge of Youth Affairs
Ms. Sindhushree Khullar Secretary, Department of Sports, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has been given additional charge of the post of Secretary, Department of Youth Affairs, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.She is 1975 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.
Purwaha is new CMD of Engineers India Ltd
GAIL director business development A.K. Purwaha has taken over as CMD of Engineers India Ltd..
( We said this on June 8 )

CORPORATE
Tata Steel Group splits
MD of the Tata Steel Group B. Muthuraman has stepped down from his post today,Now there is a split and Kirby Adams, CEO of Corus, and Hemant Nerurkar, CEO and executive director of Tata Steel India and South East Asia will hold responsibility of the Company.
I.C.Sharma ED New Horizons India Limited.
I.C.Sharma Has taken over as Executive Director New Horizon India Limited. New Horizons is one of the USA's biggest IT & Soft Skill Training Company with network wide, employee strength of 25000, 300 centers consisting of over 5000 class rooms spread across 65 countries. Each year New Horizons imparts more than 3 million days of training worldwide through a variety of flexible training programs. New Horizons brings to India unique Integrated Learning Approach that blends classroom instructions with e-learning to deliver customized IT training solutions for the corporate and including Government of India and state Governments. Previously he was associated with ESSAR group as Group Vice President.
Mathur is new ED of RDCIS
O S Mathur has taken over as new ED of the RDCIS. He has replaced Nand Kishore Jha who has been moved to Bokaro.
Major reshuffle in CCL
Altogether 38 officers of the CCL have been transferred.
HUDCO Pays Dividend
Seen in the picture are Kumari Selja, Minister of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation and Tourism, Mrs. Kiran Dhingra, Secretary, MoHUPA, KL Dhingra, Chairman & Managing Director, HUDCO, Pankaj Joshi, Director (Housing), MoHUPA and T Prabakaran, Director Finance, HUDCO.
Housing & Urban Development Corporation Ltd. paid the final dividend cheque of Rs. 31,30,32,600/- for the financial year 2008 - 09 to the Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation. A cheque to this effect was presented to Kumari Selja, Minister of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation and Tourism the other day.
Besides paying the dividend of Rs. 31,30,32,600/- to the Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, HUDCO has also paid a dividend of Rs. 4,56,06,800/- and Rs. 9,37,90,000/- to the Ministry of Urban Development and the Ministry of Rural Development respectively.
Thus the aggregate dividend paid by HUDCO amounts to Rs.45,24,29,400/- for the financial year 2008 - 2009.
Karnataka Tourism's golf itinerary an instant hit in Japan
There has been a very good response to the golf itinerary & golf links on routes of "The Golden Chariot" a luxury train of the Karnataka Tourism Development Corporation (KTDC).Vinay Luthra Managing Director of the KTDC had led a team from Karnataka tourism to Japan .Luthra told <whispersinthecorridors.com> that the "Golden chariot" will now for one week to Tamil Nadu & Kerala from October 2009. Vinay Luthra is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1979 batch & belongs to the Karnataka cadre. Others who toured Japan were Director Tourism to Karnataka Government K. Vishwanath Reddy IAS ,(1997 batch) & Executive Director (ED) of the Jungle Lodges R.K.Singh IFS(1986 batch). It may be stated here that 1000 tourists rode "The Golden Chariot" during last one year. Besides, the team attended the PATA Travel Mart 2009 at World Trade Centre Zhejiang (China).
NTPC pays highest ever dividend
National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) being headed by R.S.Sharma, has paid a total dividend of Rs.2968.36 crore for the financial year (FY) 2008-09, which amounts to 36% of its paid-up capital. This is the highest ever dividend declared by the company. The Shareholders of the Company had approved a final dividend of 8%, amounting to Rs.659.63 crore at the 33rd Annual General Meeting held recently. A cheque amounting to Rs.590.37 crore was presented by R.S.Sharma, CMD, NTPC to H. S. Brahma, Secretary (Power), being the share of Government of India towards final dividend for the FY 2008-09 in New Delhi. Other senior officials from Ministry of Power and NTPC were present on the occasion. This is the 16th consecutive year that NTPC has paid dividend.

Aaj Ki Aawaz
Rule number 4 of unwritten Indian political SOP…..investigate acts of omission and commission!
For this either hand over case to CBI or appoint a Commission!!
Rule number 5 …….. No Political Party or Neta will be made to pay for such acts,
Political Parties will not go beyond a limit and between themselves they can enter into pacts!!
Rule number 6 says…… Political Parties can embarrass and harass each other in such cases!!!
But should not forget that in time they could be exchanging places!!!
So this means that on corruption Political Parties do 'noora kushti'!!!!
But to send a Neta to jail for corruption there's never any chusti (eagerness)!!
CBI's SOP is .....the ruling Party is 'Mai Baap' or 'Mummy and Daddy'!!!
And every Opposition Party is a baddy!!!
And CBI's SOP its clear.......no Neta should be sent behind bars!!!!
SOP clearly bars!!!
SOP for Commissions is try to last as long as is possible!!!
And word the report in such a way that 'concluding conclusively' is impossible!!!
Congress has timed closure of Q's cases just right!!!!!
Opposition is in no position to put up a fight!!!
Though in Haryana and Maharashtra this matter will be raked up!!!!!
But Congress knows people today are more worried about prices that are going up and up!!
Congress feels it'll be able to counter the price rise blame!!!!
In Haryana it'll shift on Pawar the entire blame!!
In Maharashtra it's expecting MNS to counter balance its 'price rise' vote leak!!!!
Already Shiv Sena is looking weak!!!!!
The Q matter has a shelf life of a couple of weeks and then it'll go off the shelf!!!!!
And this will happen by itself!!!
But the headline …….. Bofors ghost buried ......says it all!!!!!
If Bofors could be buried then Bofors ko ghost nahi karte call!!!!
The Bofors stain is on the Gandhis for keeps!!!!
Of and on from the bottle the ghost of Bofors leaps!!!
Rahul says Political Parties lack internal Democracy and what does Congress's spokesman say?
'Please do not look at this specifically but in a generic way'!!
It's indeed becoming a bit too much… Rahul says something and Congress says 'not what he meant'!
And Rahul's statement by Congress Spokesmen is twisted , turned and bent!!
Every Party in India including the Commies is autocratic within!!!
Speaking up against the Party Bosses is an unpardonable sin!!
In most Parties suggestions are taken as abuse!!!!!
Of being undisciplined those who make suggestions Party Bosses karte hai accuse!!
Indiscipline ….. take Tharoor's case....... why did he not toe the Party line???
And via his twitting why did he whine and whine???
Had he made suggestions to Sonia and left it at that it would not be indiscipline!!!
And there would not have been demands ke iss ko karro discipline!!!
In Haryana now the two Lals are fighting for the Opposition taaj!!!!
Looking at their past both have really fallen and aani chahiye dono ko laaj!!
Imagine they've already given up the fight for the throne of Haryana State!!
This is called fate!!!
Praful Patel should be sent packing from Ministry of Aviation!!!!
He's single handedly run aground Airline of the Nation!!
Confucius says...Like Pawar's dubious role in price rise Praful has a dubious role in AI's fall!!!
And imagine apni Party ko 'Nationalist' karte hai call!!!

Bharat Kumar
aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

Forum
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It is incorrect
Your assertion that the rank of Colonel in the army is no longer a selection grade rank is incorrect. It is very much so a select rank, and must be so, because several crucial command and staff appointments are held by officers of the selfsame rank. On the contrary, the time scale upgradation to the rank will occur only when promotion by selection has not occurred. It is, therefore, an Assured Career Progression, being offered in a service, which due to pyramidical structure, allows an officer less chances for assured progression than available to their fellow officers in civilian services like IAS/IPS/Central Services. Superseded officers who were not able to make the selection grade for colonel, are likely to be offered much less important establishment posts than Selection Grade Colonels.
Aditya
BOFORS 'Burial is Ravana's victory for a change!!!
The Quattrocchi fiasco is another feather in the Gandhian cap of Congress party-A landmark achievement of sort! The Ravana (Read as corruption) has emerged victorious ! It is the victory of Untruth over Truth, The God has failed once again. The BJP leaders should now learn to keep their mouths shut and gracefully concede victory to the Congress party. The BJP could achieve nothing on Bofors quagmire during the NDA regime and thus have no moral right to speak on this matter. They are, anyway, busy fighting among themselves for power. The country' image is the only casualty in this melodrama where the corrupt are protected and the honest victimised. If the Congress's governance is bad, that of NDA was worse.
A K Saxena ( A retired civil servant
An open letter by FONE
To:
Chairman Sir,
At the outset, on behalf of the Cabin Crew, we welcome you to Air India and thank you for the opportunity to finally talk to you, and hear from you the reasons for the drastic announcement last fortnight. We must say that we were totally shocked to hear on the TV the news that Air India was not going to be able to pay salaries in June !
What was probably as much a shock to the system was the fact- that the news came from a TV channel and NOT direct information from Management, but Sir, that probably typifies the state of Industrial relations in our Airline today. Sheer Sambles.
The AICCA are a part of FONE, and are a group of 5 employee Unions affiliated to the Shiv Sena. 4 others who could not make it today and we must comment on the fact that the IR game of recognized/ unrecognized unions is still being played out- even as, we understand, our Airline is gasping for survival.
We have met the Director-Personnel and his teamand made clear our total displeasure over the unilateral decisions, dramatic announcements by some Management persons, and most-importantly the action of not arranging an "all union meeting" with the CMD earlier (its been 46 days since you took over), and this despite knowing that every single CMD from Raghu Raj, Rajan Jetley, Michael Mascarenhas, J.N.Gogoi, Sunil Arora, Thulasidas, to Raghu Menon (including Bharath Bhushan) had called all unions, as stakeholders, to discuss the state of affairs of our Airline.
It was wrong to send the 12th man, to speak to Unions, we want to hear the bitter truth from the Captains.
Sir, there are many issues we would like to talk about, and that would take an extremely long time- so I have prepared a letter to hand over to you, and as FONE unions, would request a half an hour's time during the coming fortnight to present a white paper on the Merger, its effects, and the colossal waste of money by conflicting work practices, wastage, and sheer carelessness and also include what we believe is part of a larger solution to our Airline's woes.
I must strongly disagree with you, with great respect, that the past is past, and lets start with a clean slate. "It is said that those who forget the mistakes of history, are condemned to repeat them", and today, If you are asking me to go to my 3000 cabin crew members in AI & IAC, OR even to the members of the AIEU to tell them to eat 2 rotis less, because someone robbed us, They/We all would want to know Why ? and Whom?
I would like to point out that about a year ago, the precarious financial health of the Company had been discussed by all unions a year ago in july 2008, when Oil hit $120/- at a similar meeting with the then CMD & DF, and the future consequences described in detail by us in a bulletin and by other unions. Despite that the Management had gone to sleep and allowed our Airline to slide into terminal decline.
It has been purely the sheer mismanagement of the Airline over the last few years that have resulted in the current situation, and there are scores of reasons for the Airlines downfall, none of which are the employees fault. Some reasons such as the Global recession, and drop in Aviation demand, High Oil prices etc are just the tip of the Iceberg, but there are many other reasons like transfer of bilateral, open-sky policy, the questionable contracts and record order of 111 aircraft and Financial Gymnastics in our balance sheets which totally defy reasonable logic and thus need a detailed investigation by an independent body.
It is no secret that this merger has perhaps been one of the biggest non-starters, and we have lost probably twice what we have gained-so far. This is a classic case of mixing "Chaas and Champagne". AI & IAC both had two different systems of working and very distinct cultures, but both the erstwhile Indian and Air India had great cultures and great systems for their environments. The forced & rushed merger have brought about opposition, differences, and a total internal opposition to the change that was thrust on us.
We followed ACCENTURE, despite reasoned protests by trade unions, that the AT Kearney report had actually paved the way for the strategic synergy between the 2 organisations to encase them in one flag, one brand, and one management, but operate them as two parts of the entire whole - domestic and international airlines. Demerged- but yet a single entity, in much the same way that BOAC-British in the early years; KLM-Northwest ; Renault-Nissan and many other merged entities worked out. I use the Renault-Nissan model for the very important reason, that neither the French nor the Japanese tried to change the others cultures or integrate their souls.
Sure there have been some immediate gains- on taxation, on a few offices in the Gulf and far east, but what about the losses ?? in terms of employee morale, in terms of work ethic, in terms of market share- domestically, and in the Gulf. Today the merged carrier is drawing a lower seat factor and a lower percentage of market share that the sum of the earlier two carriers, where they flew together on the same routes, and it is either the private carriers or Etihad, Emirates or Singapore Airlines that have stolen our market share.
Merger promised us savings - but instead of becoming leaner- we grew- from a total corporate cadre of 48 General Manager's & 33 Executive Directors Pre-merger to 90 General Managers & 43 Executive Directors after merger. Our targets were to be at least 40% lower.
Merger promised us a bigger fleet- yet we ended up opting for a disastrous Aircraft leasing policy ! We took on Expensive lease agreements for low-yeild aircraft, and to justify the dubious leasing's, we underutilized or grounded Air India's own fully depreciated and PAID-UP aircraft. Who is going to investigate this? What assumptions were these leases based upon?
Merger promised us a Unified Airline- we don't even have a unified website yet, leave alone an Airline Code. In fact, we don't even have a common standing orders for workmen, neither do we have a uniform IR-Trade Union policy ? we are working like 2 peas in 2 pods !
Look into Our questionable Aircraft selection Policy, and the serious reluctance to reschedule Aircraft deliveries despite global meltdown are both serious issues.
Despite leasing such expensive metal, and buying even more aircraft - how so many new Air India aircraft sit on ground, either due to lack of Pilots, or the downturn, and yet newer deliveries continue to flow in.
How an entire brand-new 777 simulator sat in a box for months, just because no one could decide on where to install it- Mumbai or Hyderabad? We eventually Sold it, and now spend precious Currency on sending our Pilots to either London, Bangkok or Dubai.
How an Airline can misplace 16 engines- across its national network. Strange but true !
Why did we payout US$3 million dollars extra per aircraft, whilst returning the A-320 IAC leased Aircraft?
Why we took 3 dilapidated 777-200ER's from United States which lay in the Mojave desert, on a projection of minimum 10 hours utilization per day, per aircraft- and ended up using it only 4 hours daily.
Thereafter- why did we just renew the lease until 2012 ?
Or how we could continue to order spares (engine fins) for A-300 B4 aircraft engines, and send engines abroad for overhaul when the Aircraft itself has been phased out?
We spent almost 60 million to convert passenger aircraft into cargo freighters, and they lie unutilized, whilst Capt.Gopinath's Cargo, which we handle, is going full ?
Six of Our refurbished 747-400 aircraft with Thales Inflight entertainment systems, at a whopping cost of 6 crores per aircraft- are rotting in the hangar.
The reckless sale and transfer of Air India and Indian Airlines land assets in Kalina & Sahar to MIAL on a platter, by the Government, Ministry and others. More than 125 acres of prime Air India Kalina land being gifted to MIAL and GVK to develop Airport extensions, 5 star hotels and offices. This is worth almost Rs.60,000 crores ! A fraction would be enough to pay all our debts.
Sir, I don't want to go on- since our PresidentBharat Kumar Raut (M.P) has demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the mismanagement of Air India, and we shall follow that separately (especially the Thulasidas years) . We only wanted to point out that our Airline has been terribly mismanaged- whether by the Ministry or the management. These are neither the decisions of the employees, nor the unions- yet it is our members who end up paying the price.
Shockingly, whilst the management was talking about delaying salaries to employees, the same management had only 3 days prior paid out crores of rupees in PLI arrears (67 crores) to senior engineering executives. In fact, the AICCA was itself finalizing its own installment of June Arrears installment- 2 days before this order, with the GM-Accounts. It seems the left hand did not know what the right hand was doing ?
I must point out that the cabin crews are the only community of AI employees who have not got their arrears of the last 13 years, nor have the promotion exercises of the past 4 years been completed. In fact even a percentage of the flying allowances of the last 2 years are pending.
We hear of deferment of salaries by 15 days, perhaps no one has informed you that the cabin crew are the only flying category to get the normal flying allowance payment 45 days after it becomes due, and not on a flight to flight basis like other flying categories (pilots; engineers; AME's; Flight safety; technicians etc)
Our Air India was bleeding and dying for the past 3 years or more due to dubious Management decisions, but it was being covered up. These proposals of cost cutting had existed even a year ago, and was actually going to surface a few months back- but it was considered politically opportune to postpone the action until after the general elections.
Thus even before any suggestion is even made to a single workman of Air India to accept any wage cut/ reduction, we demand that the responsible executives be brought to Justice first. The Supreme Court has already shown us the way through the Lucknow Authority judgement, let us make an example of 1 culpable person, and it will pave the way and ensure that this never happened again.
Sir, we want our Airline to survive and flourish- we are all career Air-Indians, and we as cabin crew of this Airline want to assure that we come with an open mind, with the desire to work together under your leadership. However, what we look for is transparency and complete accountability in Management, and that can come through workers participation in management.
We need assurances that wage deferrals don't mean wage cuts, and leaner does not mean job losses. Our agreements have come over many years of Hard collective bargaining and with considerable productivity surrendered by our members. The clock cannot be turned back- as time & technology has flown us by. But we shall come up with honest answers and also pose serious questions to your Cost reduction committee of the ED-P; IR and GM-finance.
We look at participation in Management and if considered feasible - deep discount ESOP debentures - in return for our sacrifices.
In closing, I would like to thank you for the opportunity, and request that you make this all Union meeting a more regular feature -just as we have suggested before. We assure you that we will play a strong role in the Airlines revival.
A pained member of Air India
(The writer of this item and his ilk should think of officers of other services who are far more senior than those of the 1988 batch, are empanelled under CSS but are yet to be picked up. Its time to take off the IAS centric blinkers, look at other less fortunate officers and count their blessings.)
Raj
DEBATE ON RETIREMENT AGE
Yes
G C Upadhyay gupadhyay@hotmail.com
I strongly feel retirement age should not be increased to 62.
K P Lall kplall1951@gmail.com
Yes, as the life span has enhanced. Moreover Judiciary is donig well with higher age group. Even after superannuation, many guys are on vital jobs in public/private sectors as well which is index of capacity to work after 60s as well.
Swaran swarangold@yahoo.com
Absolutely no. There is no dearth of talented, deserving and young generation. However, exception can be in selected field such as medical, science & technology field.
sonam angchu sonamangchu@hotmail.com
Yes, because most of the officers have good health and wider exposure of knowledge of ground realities and functioning with Political Executives in changing environment and expectations of the people. therefore, their services could be taken by the Government, provided officers/ employees are physical and mentally fit for further services.
S D Meena sdm57@rediffmail.com
Retirement age should be 55 so as to enable to face the problem of un-employment, crimes and country's worth
Mukesh Gupta OSD Energy
Yes, I agree that retirement age should be 62 instead of 60 years.
Y K Saraswat saraswat yk@gmail.com
Retirement Age should not be extended upto 62. So many persons in Govt. of India are not fully fit to discharge their duties at the end of their service, rather depend on young juniors to complete the works they deal.
Jagan jagan_jagan81@rediffmail.com
I am amazed at the debate on increasing the retirement age. In fact most of the officers nearing 55 suffer from several types of mental imbalances, idiosyncracies and physical disabilities. It would be in the national interest if the important jobs are left to the younger lot and dead woods are made to quit the arena honourably.
Surendra Kumar suren61@yahoo.com
There should be no question to raise the age upto 62years. It should be 58 years. We have to give chance to young generation. Even in political field, there should be age bar limit.
S C Dhawan sc_dhawan@hotmail.com
The retirement age should not be raised to 62 years, since it adversely affects the employment opportunities of a large number educated youth. Towards the end of the career the employee gets maximum pay whereas if in that post a young person is employed the pay will be minimum as well as the involvement in the job will also be more.
Thomas Mathew mathewthom@gmail.com
Retirement Age: 62 years
Yes
Mrs R N Sehgal rekhasehgal2000@yahoo.com
Retirement Age: 62 years
Yes
N K Sehgal nksehgal2001@yahoo.com
About retirement age, I am to state that the same should not be increased from 60 to 62 as this will hamper the employment opportunity of youths and also hamper the promotional avenues of the officials. Can you imagine a Section Officer or Assistant in Central Secretariat is frustrating for the last 15 years in the same post.
S B Tripathi sbtripathi10@yahoo.co.in
Yes
B P Gupta bp_gupta@yahoo.com
Debate on retirement age.
The retirement age should definitely be raised to 62 and further to 65 on yearly basis. Firstly, because the life span of every Indian has increased and secondly most of the bureaucrats / Civil Servants enter late in service and are not able to fulfill social /family obligations till retirement at the age of 60 . The children of most of the bureaucrats remain unmarried and unsettled till the age of superannuation. Moreover many other categories like technocrats/ educationist are being considered for retirement at the age of 65. The judiciary is asking even for more.
Ashok Kumar Goel IAS akgoel88@yahoo.com
Retirement age should be 60 as life expectancy has gone up.
S K Bhattacharya sk.bhattacharya@nic.in
I fully agree regarding increasing the retirement age of all the Govt. officers from 60 t0 65 across the Board. It is a well known fact that majority of the IAS officers after retirement are rather given more lucrative assignments in the Commission, committees and regulatory authority in almost all the fields for their in-service connections with the politicians. It will be good idea to ensure equity, social justice to all the non-IAS services. Hope you are not scared of posting this on your website fearing wrath of the IAS.
Hoshiar Singh hoshiar@yahoo.com
No
Ranjan panderanjan@gmail.com
What of retiring at the age of 62 years? Is it coming ?
Ashoka ashoka_gupta2000@yahoo.com