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Who will be Secretary Telecom ?
Who will be new Secretary Telecom on October 1 ? Latest information says that 1973 batch Kerala cadre IAS officer P J Thomas, 1974 batch UP cadre IAS officer Ajit Seth and 1975 batch Andhra Pradesh cadre IAS officer Rentala Chandrasekhar are in the reckoning.
Rajwant Sandhu is new Secretary Drinking Water in GoI
Ms Rajwant Sandhu is new Secretary Drinking Water in the Government of India.She is 1975 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.Ms Sandhu will succeed Shantanu Consul.
Meghalaya CS to join GoI
Meghalaya Chief Secretaryi Ranjan Chatterjee has been appointed as Consultant in the Planning Commission in the pay of Additional Secretary for a period of three years.He is 1976 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
Lalit Kumar to be IG, RPF
As the grapevine has it the Lalit Kumar who is currently DIG in the Railway Protection Force (RPF) is going be elevated as an IG.
Mangotra is Additional Secretary and FA Food
A K Mangotra has been appointed Additional Secretary and FA Food in the Government of India in the department of Food and Public Distribution..He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Manipur Tripura cadre.
( We said this on September 8 )
Ashish Bahuguna is Additional Secretary Agriculture
Ashish Bahuguna has been appointed Additional Secretary Agriculture in the Government of India in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary.He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.
( We said this on September 8 )
Govindan Nair to head NCDC
Govindan Nair has been appointed MD of the National Cooperatives Development Corporation ( NCDC ) in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary. He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
( We said this on September 8 )
Alok Perti is Additional Secretary Coal
Alok Perti has been appointed new Additional Secretary Coal in the Government of India. He is 1977 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
( We said this on September 8 )
Vinod Agrawal is CVO Engineers India Ltd
Vinod Agrawal will be new CVO of the Engineers India Ltd.. He is 1980 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre.
Indian Army's new policy entails administrative duties only for staff stream
Having changed its promotion policy for Major Generals and Lieutenant Generals - categorizing them into staff and command streams respectively - w.e.f. January 1, 2009, Indian Army would now give administrative duties only to senior officers from staff stream
IFS steals march over IPS, revenue services
Though the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) continues to be the hot favourite of the civil service recruits, te IFS has stolen a march over Indian Police Service (IPS) and the revenue services.The first candidate to opt for the IFS, in the past four years, has always been ranked above the first to join the IPS or a revenue service.
Lack of proper planning has lead to shortage of IPS officers
Lack of proper planning between 2000 and 2004 is believed to have lead to shortage of IPS officers in the country. The recruitment of IPS officers was lesser by 49 for each year. IPS officers are allocated to state police forces and also central forces like the CRPF, BSF, SPG and the ITBP among others.
VHP & Bajrang Dal likely to be banned
Libraham Commission's Report will be a hot issue for debate in the coming session of Parliament. Sources said, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal would be banned because the Commission has indicted both organisations. As a result of imposing of ban on these two groups, stocks of a political party could go up.
West Bengal CM is annoyed
As the grapevine has it, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is angry with his party due to unnecessary interference in working of the Government.
Rahul Gandhi is surprised
During last visit of his constituency, Amethi, AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi was surprised to know that a sum of Rs. 450 crore was spent on development of roads in Amethi. However, in ground reality it was missing. Immediately, after coming back to Delhi, he summoned officers of Central Road Fund, said sources. UPA chairperson Ms.Sonia Gandhi had already taken steps on this issue. After enquiry 72 officers were charge sheeted of which 13 were arrested and others 59 were facing action on different charge.
IAS changes in Madhya Pradesh
In a bureaucratic reshuffle, the Madhya Pradesh government has shifted a dozen IAS officers.They are: Jaideep Govind Commissioner Tribal Welfare to Principal Secretary (PS)Village Industries, Horticulture and Food-Processing, P.C. Meena Commissioner to PS Law and Legislative Affairs-Elections, Prabhakar Bansod Commissioner Treasury and Accounts to PS Public Grievances Redressal & General Administration (Human Rights), S.P.S. Parihar Chief Minister's Secretary and Secretary Horticulture and Food-Processing to Managing Director (MD)Madhya Pradesh Energy Development Corporation and ex-officio Secretary (Energy), Shailendra Singh Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Rural Roads Development Authority& Secretary Panchayat and Rural Development to Commissioner Commercial Taxes, T. Dharmarao Secretary Home to Commissioner Ujjain, K. C. Gupta MD State Civil Supplies Corporation Commissioner (Labour) , Sanjay Dubey Additional Chief Election Officer & Secretary Law and
Legislative Affairs-Elections to CEO Rural Roads Development Authority & Secretary Panchayat and Rural Development, Vivek Agarwal MD Mandi Board to hold additional charge as Additional Secretary to the Chief Minister.
Six UPA ministers trying to compete with Sibal
As the grapevine has it, six ministers of UPA government were trying to compete with Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal. As it is, Sibal & MOS for HRD Ms. D Purandeswari were appreciated by Prime Minister. Kapil Sibal has won a lot of appreciation for his skills.
Preparations for Commonwealth games affected
Preparations for next year's Commonwealth Games, to be held in Delhi, are affected due to clash of ego between Commonwealth Games Organising (CGO) panel's chairman Suresh Kalmadi & its vice chairman Randhir Singh.
One post of NHAI to be filled up
Process has been started for filing up of one post of Member Administration in the NHAI. Deadline for filing applications is September 30, 2009.
P C Meena to be Chief Electoral officer Madhya Pradesh
P C Meena will be new Chief Electoral Officer Madhya Pradesh.1984 batch IAS officer Meena will succeed J S Mathur who is joining the GoI as Joint Secretary Drinking water.
IFS cadre in UP raised
Number of IFS in Uttar Pradesh has been raised from 199 to 220.
Birendra Singh is new DC of Chandigarh
Birendra Singh has taken over as new DC of Chandigarh. He is 1998 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.
( We said this on July 24 )
Three IFS in Rajasthan transferred
As many as three Indian Forest Service (IFS) officers in Rajasthan have been transferred. While PK Upadhyaya has been posted as Forest Conservator, Medicinal Plant, Jaipur and SS Tiwari has been posted as Deputy Conservator of Forest & Honorary Deputy Secretary, Environment department, Jaipur Regional Forest Conservator, Ajmer, Munish Kumar Garg has been made Regional Forest Conservator, Ajmer.
Anurag Agrawal is DC of Gurgaon
Anurag Agrawal will be new DC of Gurgaon. He is 1994 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.
Pariat to be Chief Secretary of Meghalaya
W M S Pariat is likely to succeed Ranjan Chatterjee as Chief Secretary of Meghalaya.1977 batch IAS officer Pariat is presently ACS in the state.
Bhutia is new Secretary to Sikkim Governor
K N Bhuita will replace 1977 batch IAS officer S D Basi as Secretary to the SIKKIM Governor. Basi will now be Principal Secretary Transport.
Ranjay Dawar to head TAAI for MP & CG
Ranjay Dawar Director of Midland Travels has been elected as chairman of the "Travel Agents Association of India"(TAAI)-Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh unit during recently held polls. While, Amit Dang of Indore was elected secretary, Kapil Jain of Raipur was elected as its treasurer.
Minor IAS reshuffle in Madhya Pradesh
There has been a minor IAS reshuffle in Madhya Pradesh. Accordingly, Manoj Govil is the new Commissioner-cum-Director Archaeology and Museum, Vishwa Mohan Upadhyaya - Secretary (Home), Arun K Bhatt - Commissioner-cum-Registrar, Cooperative Societies with Additional Charge of the MD of Rajya Tilhan Sangh and Vijay Anand Kuril is the new Collector of Betul.

CORPORATE
Non-executive directors in Tata Sons' board will now continue till 75 years age
Under the revised guidelines for the composition of the Tata Sons' board of directors, non-executive directors can continue till the age of 75 years. Tata Sons is the apex holding company of the group and has substantial stakes in the group's frontline companies.

Aaj Ki Aaawaz
PC's back from US and he says righteous Cops will be protected!!!
To select righteous Cops will the Righteous Commission be appointed or elected???
Some would even say this work should be outsourced!!!!
So that by political or other pressures the appointed or elected Commission is not forced!!!
Remove political pressure and don't award Cops for doing their job!!!!
Courts should do their bit and Media should be alert to every sob!!!
Look at it this way….. in the past when Cops went overboard in enforcing the law!!!
Or when 'the law took the law in its hands' in the old days there was a flaw!!!
Media was not that vigilant and so Cops got away with a lot!!!
But now for killings answers by the 'omnipresent Media' are sought!!!
Though Politicians and Cops decry Judicial activism but its good!!!!
And now by the Courts 'accountability' too is slowly but surely being understood!!
So improvement is there …… though still lots more is needed!!!
But you can say 'change for the better' has started or you can say has been seeded!!
How is India going to respond the Chinese Land grab or you can call it Chinese takeaway???
Quite India cannot stay!!!
First and foremost if the Chinese have marked stones in India's territory,
Why isn't India defacing these markers and erase these ... end of story!!
And Krishna seems to be too busy with his accommodation and his wig,
In the meantime China on Indian land karr raha hai pig!!!
Now even in Uttrakhand the Chinese are attempting to grab zameen!!!
India needs to do something to send a message to Cheen!!
How about attacking China with North and South Indian cuisine????
I feel the Chinese mind is warped because of the cuisine on which they dine!!!
Change their eating habits and we could change the way they think!!!!
The barbarism in their eating habits and their gobble-gobble hothe hai link!!
They eat anything that can walk, crawl or fly!!!!
They'll catch it and eat it raw or karre ge iss ko steam ya 'fly' (Chinese for fry)!!!
Maybe our food will change their mindset!!!!
And like us peaceful and happy with what they have they will get!!!
Ambition is good up to a limit and beyond this is bad and causes harm!!!!!
And on mindsets of humans what we eat works as a curse or a charm!!!
In Gujarat despite the fact that Modi did not campaign BJP's done well!!!
Of a clear victory Modi did foretell!!
So Modi is delivering and that's why he was able to win 5 Congress held seats!
Congress must realize that banging Modi is one of the causes for its defeats!!
Advani banged Mohna and see where the banging ne kiya Advani ko land!!
Literally bajaa diya Advani ka band!!
Its time that Congress too put its vote bank politics on the side!!!
And when it comes to Terror stand solidly on India's side!!!
Modi's formula this time - work at the grassroots and make right candidate selections!
And this is how Modi stomped home in these bye-elections!!
Advani has nothing to do with BJP doing well in these bye-elections!!!
He did no canvass and he did not even make the candidates selections!!
He will try to hijack Modi's jeeth but will not succeed!!!
Though to the Media his coterie stories karrenge feed!!
Advani locked himself up in his house and hugged the walls and doors crying!!!!
And to stay on he was also desperately trying!!!!
Jaya Pradha was in her constituency and got caught in floods!!
And she started wailing and out of her eyes tears ke there were floods and floods!!
Chalo she got a taste of what people face!!!
Now to her defense from Singapore Amar will race!!!
Maybe he'll blame Azam Khan for Jaya's tears!!!
He'll say she's been telling him of being liquidated by Azam her fears!
Pawar squeezed himself in a cattle class seat!!!
And stress test with flying colors seat did meet!!!
Pawar looked uncomfortable and irritated!!!
Made it clear that this forced travel he hated!!!
Confucius…. You can place Pawar in cattle class but you can't take out the 'wont for first class' in him!!!!
In his brain now he has a permanent First Class for Five Star SIM!!
Adds..... Pawar is an example of a Politician who is abs rotten!!!
And he's also exemplifies the words 'ill gotten'!!!
Bharat Kumar

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Austerity measures of GOI : An open letter to Cabinet Secretary
I wish to congratulate the Government for initiating the measures and rightly so at the top , but the need is to make a positive impact and some savings. May I therefore suggest the following -
1. Allow deputations and assignments to international organisations, UN agencies, not for profit organisations, academic institutions etc . Officers should be encouraged to take such assignments, EOL, Leave without pay etc. Assuming we have 1% of the work force out on such deputations/assignments, we make that much as saving
2. Ban Overtime allowance except during parliament sessions. this is one scam the government must curb as it is largely misused and amounts to 1% burden on exchequer
3. Ban the use of government vehicles on weekends and restrict the POL BY 25% as this is another area of gross misuse
4. Restrict domestic travel (NIC should set up video links for video conferences. Likewise, the Indian delegations to international conferences should be kept bare minimum ( 1 delegate, esp to those places that have Permanent Missions, such as Geneva, New York, Brussels etc )
4. Allow officers to forego LTC and get 40 % cash advantage
These are a few examples of what all could be done. I am sure there are many more ways to curb unnecessary expenditure and make good savings
Regards
V. Kumar
A Civil Servant.
Why extensions?
What happens when a person is given extension is that the juniors, who would have otherwise been posted in his post, loose faith in the system as it is pure denial of opportunity to them. This itself contributes to make them inefficient to an extent. So the Government is itself a participant to make some officers redundant. Their performance may come down and then this becomes a good ground to deny them equal postings in future. And this is a vicious circle from which they may never be able to come out. I suggest that if an officer is really indispensable to the country then it is better to retire him first, then induct him in some commissions or institutions, or in politics by lateral entry. This will help in using his potential and yet not give heart-burn to anyone. Or create a post of Advisor in the same department to utilise this wonderful officer.
Ujagar Singh
Numbers alone don't make the world a better place to live in!
On Sep 14, 2009 NDTV online carried a news item titled "CAG report points at lapses in Games preparation". Herein it was stated that in some cases CAG found that only 42% of work on some CWG stadium were complete. First, CAG is only repeating CWG's own published data. Second, percentage completion is generally reckoned by accounts departments by the expenditure booked on each work. If 42% work has been completed whereas 80% payment has been released, fraud or undue advantage to the contractor has been given. However, if 42% work has been completed against 30% of expenditure booked, then there is a system failure. It is also likely that while civil works have stopped, electrical works may be 60% complete and holding up the civil work at 24% completion. To average the two and say that work is only 42% complete is untrue, even misrepresents the ground reality. Either way the CAG wins!! But how does the nation gain by mathematical prowess alone? Numbers alone don't make the world a better place to live in!
A Concerned Citizen
Lock up your daughters!
Beware! The Maneater of Nathari ,Pandher, is prowling the alleyways of Noida again. Lock up your daughters! Lock up your daughters! They say canniballism is not a crime under IPC. It is not an unnatural offence under section 377.It is only a matter of taste according to Pandhers friends in the police and in politics.Feasting on flesh wether human, sub human or titar or bataer is always welcome says Pandher. Lock up your daughters!
D Choudhury
Psychophancy at its nadir !
Psychophancy seems to be at its nadir now. For the last 5 years we have been tolerating seeing the photographs of Mrs Sonia Gandhi under the garb of UPA chairman in the Government advertisements being published at our cost. Now new Minister of Textiles has gone a step ahead. Recently, I saw an advertisement announcing inauguration of a Ministry's project in MP or Rajasthan with a photograph of CM of Tamilnadu in it. I would like to have the reaction of esteemed readers of this site and ways and means to lodge serious protest! Is there any end to it?
Amitabh
For allotment of 1st Floor in Lodhi Colony….
If you are in the waiting list for allotment of 1st floor(type-3) in Lodhi Colony, then meet the JE concerned for Lohdi Colony and keep him happy as he desires; then automatically he intimates the vacancy position immediately to Estate Office. In Estate Office, then get in touch with the dealing hand who once in a month updates the allotment for type-3 and compensate him; then without any difficulty your allotment is made. This is happening even when your allotment is due by turn.
On the whole Ajay Maken must be congratulated because during his term as MOS in this UD Ministry, he was not bothered as to how the allotment was done.His predecessor Jagmohan regularly monitored this. Jaipal Reddy, though he is also a Minister for this Ministry and located in Delhi, must be in Andhra Pradesh only and not bothered about the government employees in Delhi waiting for allotment in a fair way.
Ravi Kiran
DEBATE ON AGE OF RETIREMENT
Yes, some government officials are corrupt and must be weeded out but we must have a mechanism in place whereby this is done at various junior stages. At senior levels, most officials can contribute greatly to the nation. It will be the nation's loss to lose them to a very long and idle retirement. In view of the increased longevity all the more so.
Deepanshu Shrivastav srivs75@yahoo.com
NO
Surinder Pal spal_1957@yahoo.co.in
In the light of the policy of filling up only one vacancy against three vacancies for the last many years - and that too taking a long time to fill up - causing shortage of staff, payment of arrears due to revision of salaries and the Govt. thereby facing financial constraints, existence of drought conditions in the country and increased spending to meet the situation, and lesser collection of revenues, it would be desirable to increase the retirement age to 62 to postpone payment of retirement benefits. Thereafter the issue of reverting to 60 years-retirement may be reviewed at the time of General Elections in 2014.
D P Hura dphura@indiatimes.com
In democracy, where in most of the cases is either 65 years (teaching/technical faculty) or 62 years, the natural justice demands that the retirement age for all the segments(irrespective of their class(particularly who no go father) - in case of Secretaries most of them get extensions or re-employment or posting)retire minimum at the age of 62 years.
Anil Kumar rainaanil19@google.com
I support enhancement of retirement age to 62/65 years for the reason:
Now a days education and attaining to other qualifications and made entry in service at late stage in cases even after 30 years of age, thereby leaving very less time to settle in life and at the time of retirement there are unfinished liabilities, particularly education of children, their marriage and other settlements.
Even if retirement benefits are much better then earlier (yet 50% cut in salary and in most of cases having no shelter) makes it very difficult to meet the requirements and fulfill the unfinished task.
Longevity has increased and so has the capability and capacity to deliver increased. Retiring at 60 is sheer wastage of capacity, capability and experience.
Anil Raina rainaanil2004@yahoo.co.in

TAIL-PIECE
There was once a washer man who had a donkey and a dog. One night when
the whole world was sleeping, a thief broke into the house, the washer
man was fast asleep too but the donkey and the dog were awake. The dog
decided not to bark since the master did not take good care of him and he (the dog) wanted to teach him (master) a lesson.
The donkey got worried and said to the dog that if he doesn't bark,
the donkey will have to do something himself. The dog did not change
his mind and the donkey started braying loudly.
Hearing the donkey bray, the thief ran away, the master woke up and
started beating the donkey for braying in the middle of the night for
no reason.
Moral of the story " One must not engage in duties other than his own"
Now take a new look at the same story...

The washer man was a well educated man from a premier management
institute. He had the fundas of looking at the bigger picture and
thinking out of the box. He was convinced that there must be some
reason for the donkey to bray in the night.. He walked outside a
little and did some fact finding, applied a bottom up approach,
figured out from the ground realities that there was a thief who broke
in and the donkey only wanted to alert him about it. Looking at the
donkey's extra initiative and going beyond the call of the duty, he
rewarded him with lot of hay and other perks and made him his favorite
pet.
The dog's life didn't change much, except that now the donkey was more
motivated in doing the dog's duties as well. In the annual appraisal
the dog managed "ME" (Met Expectations) .
Soon the dog realized that the donkey is taking care of his duties and
he can enjoy his life sleeping and lazing around.
The donkey was rated as " star performer". The donkey had to live up
to his already high performance standards.
Soon he was over burdened with work and being always under pressure
could not perform to the high expectations. He was fired.
Now is looking for a NEW JOB ...
Contributed by-Rajesh