Excellent work. Keep it up. Good job is being done !
Col Kenu Patankar

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A corporate house takes care of the medical expenses of officials and even pays their policy premium if required if they have a health insurance policy. Guess the name.
NHAI Chairman interview on July 20
Interview for the prestigious post of Chairman of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will take place on July 20.
Majumdar is new Director in Drinking Water
Sujoy Majumdar has been appointed new Director in Drinking Water in the Government of India. He is 1991 batch IFS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.
( We said this on April 26 )
Chaudhary joins HRD Ministry
Rashmi Chaudhary has joined the HRD Ministry as Director Higher Education. She is 1989 batch IRPS officer.
Sanjeev Kumar is Dy Secretary Chemicals
Sanjeev Kumar has joined the Department of Chemicals and Petro-Chemicals in the Government of India. He is 1999 batch ISS officer.
Shukla joins UIA
Alok Shukla is joining as ADG Unique Identification Authority of India for five years. He is 1989 batch Indian Telecom Service officer.
Praveen Verma appointed Ambassador
Praveen Verma, presently Ambassador of India to Yemen, has been appointed as the first Ambassador of India to Guatemala.
IAS posting in Madhya Pradesh
On return from Washington assignment Rajeev Ranjan has been appointed Commissioner Higher Education. Ashish Upadhyay will now be Commissioner Town and Country Planning. Sanjeev Singh will go to Indore as Additional Commissioner Commercial Taxes.
Who will be DGP of Uttarakhand ?
Who will succeed Subhash Joshi as DGP of Uttarakhand ? A couple of names have been doing the round. Picture will be clear next week.
Sujata Chaturvedi to join IIPA
Director in the Ministry of Urban Development Ms Sujata Chaturvedi is joining the IIPA course.
Sinha gets extension
Deputation tenure of Sanjay Sinha, IPS(MT-78), as Minister (Personnel & Community Affairs) in the Embassy of India, Washington has been extended till his successor is appointed. He is 1978 batch IPS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.
Alok Kumar to go in Inter-State deputation

1997 batch J & K cadre IPS officer Alok Kumar is going on inter-state deputation to Bihar.

Padsalikar to go to Washington
D.D. Padsalikar has been appointed as Minister (Personnel & Community Affairs) in the Embassy of India, Washington (Joint Secretary level) under the Ministry of External for a period of three years. He is 1982 batch IPS officer of Maharashtra cadre.
Jannat Hussain to be CIC Andhra Pradesh
Principal Secretary to the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister,Jannat Hussain is taking over as new Chief Information Commissioner next week.He is 1977 batch IAS officer.
( We said this on July 15 )
Rajesh Kundan is CVO of RCF
Rajesh Kundan has been appointed as Chief Vigilance Officer in Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Limited, Mumbai. He is 1988 batch IRS (IT) officer.
Rao is CVO of CONCOR
Rajeshwar K Rao, presently working as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, has been appointed as Chief Vigilance Officer in the Container Corporation of India Limited (CONCOR), New Delhi. He is 1988 batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.
Sujata Chaudhary is CVO of HIL
Ms Sujata Chaudhry has been appointed, IPos(86) as Chief Vigilance Officer in Hindustan Insecticides Limited, Delhi. She is 1986 batch IPos officer.
One more post of DG in Karnataka
One more post of the Director General of Police has been approved by the MHA for Karnataka.
Post of development commissioner at Falta Export Processing Zone vacant
Post of development commissioner at Falta Export Processing Zone at Kolkata (West Bengal) is vacant on deputation basis. The officers who are eligible to apply by August 14, 2010..
Post of Secretary, Damodar Valley Corporation vacant
Post of Secretary, Damodar Valley Corporation, Kolkata, under the Ministry of Power, is lying vacant. The officers empanelled to hold Joint Secretary or equivalent posts at the centre under central staffing scheme are eligible to apply by August 14.
Srinivasan moves to Chennai
K Srinivasan has been given the charge of additional central PF Commissioner, Employees' Provident Fund Organisation for Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Kerala.
Transfer of DCIT, Delhi as OSD in CBDT cancelled
Transfer of B Sriniwas Kumar, DCIT, Delhi as OSD in CBDT (V & L division) has been cancelled.
Sivanandan posted as OSD in CBDT
Suresh Sivanandan, DCIT, presently working as OSD in the office of CCIT (CCA), Delhi, has been posted as OSD in CBDT (V&L division).
Two Asst Commissioners of Income Tax appointed
Balendra Kumar Dixit and Sampoornanand have been appointed as Assistant Commissioners of Income Tax.
316 DGMs in BHEL promoted as AGMs
As many as 316 Deputy General Managers (DGMs) in BHEL have been promoted as Assistant General Managers (AGMs). Those who have been promoted are C Chelladurai, C Ramiah, G Thyagarajan, K C Madhavan, P Ponnusamy, P Ravikumar, S Anilkumar, S Kannan (Transferred to Corporate Office, New Delhi), B P Singh, N K Soni, V K Agarwal, V K Raizada, Amitva Roy, A K Sarkar, Amit Pal, B Mishra, B S Anant, B Uma Prasad, D Sudhakar (Transferred to EPD, Bangalore), Koushik Acharya, M K Shah, N Majithia, P C Mishra, P I R D Iyer, Pramod Kumar, S M Arora, S Satish Rao, Shipra Mallick, T S Murali, F Lakra, Satya Bhushan Narang, A Balakrishnan, A K Balasundaram, B S Narasimha Prasad, B S Ramesh, Druva Apasangi, G Murali, Gautam Sarkar, Jayateerth Agarkhed, K Ramnath, K Vijayakumar, M G Koppikar, M Ramaswamy, Rakesh Sharma, S H Suryanarayana Rao, S K Ranganath, S Seetharaman, S K Premachandran, V K Sriram, V M Yadunandanan, V Santha Kumar, A Nedunchazhian, P Louis Raj, Salilkumar Biswas, A K Ghosh, A K Saxena, A K Singh, Anand Thaker, Anil Singh, Atul Garg, B K Basu, B M Purty, H P Roy, I J S Sandhu, J R Cuard, Jawed Alam, K B Batra, Lalit Mohan, Laxmi Chand, M K Garg, M R Bhardwaj, Malvinder Singh, N C Taneja, Nanak Singh, P K Bansal, P K Jain, P K Saxena, P K Tyagi, Pawan Kumar, Priya Ranjan, R K Mehta, Rajeev Gulati, Ratiranjan Sharma, Rekha Joshi, S B Bhengra, S C Agrawal, S D Nagar, S K Baveja, Sanjay Goel, Sanjay Saxena, Sudhir Kumar, U K Kamila, Vinod Kumar, Vivek Kumar, A K Bhatt, A K Dave, A K Jain, A K Kiyawat, A K Varshney, A K Verma, Alok Gupta, Amitabh Dubey, Ashutosh Gupta, B K Singh, C H Nandgave, C P Jaiswal, D K Mishra, Himanchal, Kushal Nandy, M G Soni, M N Ramkumar, Mohan Deshmukh, Mukesh Arora, P K Agarwal, P K Mishra, P L Gajbhiye, R C Shrivastava, R K Agarwal, R Mitra, S K Gupta, S K Srivastava, S Neelam Bhogal, S P Kapoor, S Tiwari, S V Narayanan, S Y H Rizvi, T K Bagchi, V K Jain, Vinay Nigam, Vinita Bahel, Jai Prakash Singh, A P Madhavan Kutty, A Shanmugam, B Balasubramanian, B Shoba, Biswajit Sarkar, G Ravichandran, K Asokkumar, K Ganesan, K Mohan, K Nagarajan, K R Sankaran, K Ravishankar, K S Swaminathan, K Sugumaran, M N Vasudevan, M Nataraj, M S Ravishankar, M V Selvan, N Karuppusamy, Nirmal Kumar Narjari, P Elangovan, P Manoharan, P Nagamanickam, P Raguraman, R Somasekar, S Anantharamakrishnan, S Anbalagan, S Arumugam, S Auruyir, S Chandrasekaran, S Gowrisankar, S Mohanram, S P Vijay Kumar, S Ramakrishnan, S V Srinivasan, T R Suchindra Babu, T Ramanathan, U Revisankaran, V Prabhakaran, V Sridharan, A Ravindranath Babu, A V M Rao, A Venkatesha, Amit Kerketta, Anil Ranade, Ashok Barad, B Laxmipathi, B Srinivas, C Suresh Kumar, D Nagesh, Dipak Chandra Das, E Satyanarayana, G Annaji Rao, G Appanna Sastry, G Kishore Kumar, G Sudhakar Reddy, K Adiseshu, K Sudarasana Rao, K Vyaghreswara Sarma, M Israel Raju, M Kalikeswaraiah, M Subramanyam, M V Balram Murthy, P Badarinarayana Rao, P Madhu Babu, P P Sharma, P S Murthy, S Basu, S Bhaskara Rao, T S Varadarajan, Anshu Shailayan, K Daniel Smith, Subodh Gupta, V.K. Agarwal, S.K. Sarkar, Vinay Prakash, D V Rao, Jai Prakash Srivastava, Jawahar Lal Bhatia, Manoj Kumar Sinha, Rakesh Kumar Garg, Sanjay Manohar Patil, B R Dinesh, K B Kulkarni, M Krishna Moorthy, N Prasanna Keshava, S Narayanan, T Kalai Selvan, V Rajendraiah, K Madan Mohan, S S Prakash, Amarnath Sengupta, Asim Kumar Das, Debashis Roy, Dilip Mahapatra, Guna Kanta Borah, H N Tagore, Manoranjan Das, Mihir Kumar Majilya, Nirmal Kumar Chowdhury, Partha Pratim Saha, Pulak Mukhopadhyay, Suvamay Halder, R K Goel, R Soman Pillai, Vinod Puri, Ashok Kumar Jain, Gahudas G Shelkar, Madan Mohan Soni, Mayank Dimri, Piyush Chaturvedi, Prakash Tulsani, Rabindranath Pal, Rakesh Kumar Srivastav, Ramashankar Prasad Srivastava, Salil Arya, Senthamaraikann Sunderrajan, Shravan Kumar Singh, Sita Ram, Surinder Singh, Umesh Chander Mangla, Vinod Kumar, A N Singh, Alka Tuteja, H S Sehgal, Jacob James, Meena Kesri, P D Pandey, Perminder Singh, Pradip Gupta, R Phull, S B Naithani, S Balaji, Shashank Malviya, B Tiwari, HM Naghdhar, NP Sinha, Upinder Singh Matharu, Arup Maity, K Raghuraman, M Sudhakar Rao, MN Chandrashekar, P Muthu, PN Krishna, RN Sarangi, CL Bhagat, SN Bhattacharya, V Mohan, N S Tomar, S K Gupta, A K Saha, B Mahto, B Swain, M Sadagopan, Narendra Kumar Gupta, S N Shrivastava, Sadanand Mandal, Sanjeev Kumar Agarwal, Santosh Nair, V Govindan, Anil Kumar Saxena, CV Kameswara Rao, GV Subba Rao, K Sivarama Prasad, Kulvir Singh, KV Hanumantha Rao, MRK Raju, RV Phadke, S Chakravarthy, SG Prakash, SVR Sarma, A K Vajpeyi, J N Sahay, Rajiv Sharma, Bhagwant Singh, K Swayam Prakash, Madhu Sudan Mandal, Mahesh Kumar, Palmaner Vyaghrapuri Sridharan, H K Verma, M K Khare, R K Saha, R N Jha and Rajeev Gairola.
Official list of 1977 batch empanelment
This is the official list of the empanelment of 1977 batch IAS officers to the rank of Secretary in the Government of India. Mssrs D K Mittal,G C chaturvedi,Shekhar Agrawal,M Haleem Khan,Loretta Mary Vas,P K Sinha ,Nita Choudhury(UP )Raj Kumar ,P K Chaudhary,Manik B Sonawane (Haryana),Alok Rawat (Sikkim) Naved Masood ,R K Mathur(MT) j Jose Cyriac (Kerala) R N Senapati, N C Vasudevan (Orissa) S S Brar, D S Kalha (Punjab) Subodh Kumar ,G B Pradhan,U C Sarangi (Maharashtra) Parvez Dewan (J & K)Gururkar Sudhir (AP) Sudhir Krishna (Karnataka) Surajait Mitra,Alok Perti,Sharad Gupta (AM) Rakesh Kackar ,M Sarangi,Ajay Bhattacharya (TamilNadu) O P Rawat,Vishwapati Trivedi, D R S Chaudhary (Madhya Pradesh ) P K Tripathi,A K Mathur ,Shumsher K Sherrif (UT) Vilasini Ramachandran (Gujarat)P K Deb ,Sangita Gairola(Rajasthan) P Joy Oommen (Chhattisgarh ) P K Pradhan ,A S Lamba (West Bengal) Ashok Thakur (Himachal Pradesh ).
Eight 1977 batch IAS in Secretary Equivalent list
Noor Mohammad (UP) J P Singh (UT) D A Coutinho (Karnataka) C V Ananda Bose (Kerala) Jayant M Mauskar (AM) Chinmay Basu (Orissa) Sundaram Krishna (Punjab) and Sarojini Thakur (Himachal Pradesh).

CORPORATE

Balyan takes over as CEO and MD of Petrolet LNG Ltd
Ashok Kumar Balyan has taken over over as the chief executive officer and managing director of Petronet LNG Ltd, the nation’s largest liquefied natural gas importer.
Desai is new MD of Kotak Life Insurance
Pankaj Desai has been appointed as the Managing Director of the Kotak Life Insurance.
Iyenger appointed Head (Marketing) Sun Direct 
Venugopal Iyengar of  Walt Disney has been appointed marketing head at Sun Network's DTH arm Sun Direct.
Marico appoints Non Executive Independent Director
Marico Limited has appointed  B. S. Nagesh, Customer Care Associate & Vice Chairman - Shopper's Stop Limited, as a Non-Executive Independent Director on the resignation of Bipin Shah from the Board of Directors of the Company .
Mohapatra quits Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizer Co
Guruprasad Mohapatra, IAS has tendered his resignation from the Board of the Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizer Company and also relinquished the charge of the Managing Director of the Company effective July 15, 2010
Patel to be MD of Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizer Co  
H.V. Patel, IAS, Managing Director, Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd., and Director of the Company, assumed additional charge of Managing Director of  Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizer Company effective July 15, 2010. He will formally be appointed as Managing Director of the Company at the ensuing Board Meeting to be held on July 31, 2010.
Tata Nano price raised
Feeling the pinch of  rising input costs Tata Motors has raised the price of small car Nano by Rs 6,000 
Ruby Mills appoints Company Secy
The Ruby Mills Limited has appointed Dharmendra Parmar as Financial Controller, Compliance Officer and Company Secretary.
Cera Sanitaryware appoints Additional Director 
Cera Sanitaryware Limited has appointed Govindbhai P. Patel as an additional Director of the Company with immediate effect.
Thanngamayil Jewellery appoints Addl Independent Director
Thangamayil Jewellery Limited has appointed T.R. Narayanaswamy as Additional Independent Director to the Board in the Board meeting held on July 15, 2010.
Jhala resigns as Independent Director, Anik Industries
Surpalsinh Jhala has resigned from the post of Independent Director of Anik Industries Ltd w.e.f. July 10, 2010.
 

Aaj Ki Aawaz
Really why is India talking to Pakistan????
One does not talk to a ‘shaitaan’!!

One either avoids a shaitaan or takes him on!!!
I feel too soft on Pakistan India has gone!!

Congress for its vote bank is keen on building bridges with Pakistan!!
And Pakistan uses these same bridges to attack Hindustan!!

Like Pakistan uses trade to dump fake currency and bombs and guns!!
Freer borders mean more terrorists enter from camps of terror that Pakistan runs!!

And Krishna did not defend Pillai as either during the Press Conference he was asleep!
Or he could not get High Command’s approval so to Pillai’s defense he could not leap!!

Though Pakistan says with Delhi Krishna was constantly in touch!!
Nirupama Rao says this is far from the sach (truth)!!!

Now the Pakis call Indian Kashmir as ‘occupied’!!!
Is POK unoccupied????

Compare POK and Indian Kashmir and its clear!!!
Indian Kashmir has progressed and POK is in reverse gear!!

India should call off peace talks!!!!
Doves cannot fly where there are hawks!!

Mani Shankar Aiyer thinks he is a Foreign relations maverick!!!
The man is mentally sick!!

There should be no dialogue till Pakistan turns off the terror tap!!!
This Structured Dialogue talk by Mani is a load of crap!!

Confucius says……if you keep hitting me and I keep saying let’s talk it out!!
You are going to hit me more and more without a doubt!!!!

Adds..... laatho ke bhoot kabhi baathon se nahi maanthe!!
Aur yeh baath humm sabh bahut achchi tarah se hai jaanthe!!

Bharat Kumar

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Rajiv Gandhi was the best PM
That’s why Rajiv Gandhi was the best PM of India till today. His death was a great damage to the country which will take another 50 years to reach that place which he would have given us within 10 years. No one today in India realizes the damage caused to this country with his death.
Lachit Kr Das

Hatsoff to our beloved Late
Rajiv Gandhi and my Salute to him for his braveness .
Manish

Caste census
I would like to give my comments on caste census. There is an imperative need of the country to carry out caste census, which will reveal the details of economically backward peoples among all the castes. After the assessment of economic backward among various castes, welfare schemes can be framed by the government which will result in development of backward people. In a nutshell, there is urgent need to carry out caste census immediately.
Ram Naresh

Mukherjee is the best serving IFS officer
Asoke Mukherjee is one of the rare brightest IFS Officers ( I had the good fortune of serving with him in Dubai in 2000-01.
Kishore Dudani

Who is responsible for mess?
Commonwealth games preparation are lagging behind. Civil construction work is of poor quality. The Media is after the sports minister M.S Gill & chief minister Mrs Sheila Dixit. Both are very honest & sincere. But who is responsible for mess? No one is asking Jaipal Reddy about his poor performance. His lacklustre tenure has been riddled with scams like DDA house allotment scam, Directorate of Estates CBI raids yet why no one gunning for him? He has failed in JNNURM implementation & also commonwealth games. Prime Minister should remove him at once replace him with Ghulam Nabi Azad who has good experience of working in Urban Development as Azad is honest & efficient, no nonsense person. There will definitely be improvement.
Dimpy Chopra

Unfair comments
The comments of Srinivas on the proposed merger of CSSS with CSS are unfair and bias. The fear behind opposing merger is that CSSS officers are well qualified and well conversant with all the official duties. The merger is requested for because the officers with mean mentality had overlooked the interests of the CSSS. In other words, the acute stagnation in CSSS, particularly the Stenographer Grade 'D' have been kept waiting deliberately for their regular promotions despite the fact the CSSS officers promoted on ad-hoc basis in 1996 are allowed to be continued under the pretext of non-availability of vacancies. Now, CSS Officers have devised another formula to fill the vacancies by outsourcing it. My humble request is that if there is no vacancy in the Ministries/Departments then why the outsourcing of Data Entry Officers/Stenographers are being appointed in the Government. Concerned Officers in the CS Division may kindly look into the matter expeditiously and take remedial measures.
V p Sharma

CSSS and CSS
If CSS people are so intelligent then why they are obstructing PAs to appear in SO Exam. Why are they amending CSS Rules 1962 and only to their advantage and sitting on files for years together. If merger takes place the CSS people will lag behind and become obsolete as CSSS people who are very active and fast in completing the official tasks will perform better. Why CSS people are against Executive Assistants. The Government should seriously consider appointing Multi Task Assistants who can do all jobs of putting up files, writing notes, dispatching letters, taking down dictations, sending routine reminders. This will be cost effective for Government and a lot of money of the exchequer would be saved. The present incumbents whether they are in CSS or CSSS should be given adequate training in disposing of the files, etc. So that they could provide secretarial/clerical assistance to the officers effectively. The Assistants should be given training in shorthand/taking down dictations and PAs should be given training in putting up files, etc in addition to their own duties.
R K Bansal

Merger of CSS & CSSS
Through his comments of 17th July, Srivastava has given an impression as if the pay commission report, which had recommended the merger of the two services, was prepared by CSSS officials. If that is so, we should be proud of CSSS, for most of us have praised the report. I hope he knows that in the past hundreds of Gr.C Stenographers have qualified Departmental exams for Section Officers and have been functioning to the full satisfaction of their bosses. Many of them are among the current Directors and Joint Secretaries too. If they can handle the work of CSS officers, even at officer level, why cannot others at UDC or Assistant level. And, that too, without any training received from DoPT unlike officers from CSS, who in spite of undergoing various trainings, have not so far achieved the efficiency that is expected from them. I would call the thinking of CSS officers as those of narrow-minded persons. By the way why do they compare themselves with CSSS officers and not with other All-India services officers like IAS, IES, IRS. Had they done so, they would never think of talking about slave and boss. I, therefore, do not hesitate to keep people like Srivastava in the group of people who are of the view that an officer’s son would always be an officer and a Class-IV employees son never or to put in Mr. Kumar’s word, CSS officers are Captain Saheb and CSSS officers poor babus. Pray god to enlighten CSS officials and look beyond CSSS.
C.Singh

Merger of CSS and CSSS
The rationale behind the merger is to have a single support system for the officers as in the private sector and to remove the red-tapist kind of attitude that CSS officers have adopted throughout. They interact only at the level of Clerks and Assistants. US/DS at maximum. the CSSS cadre interacts with higher officers throughout their tenure of service. Their noting and drafting skills are of far higher order. Moreover, no one in GOI even class IV is a slave of the other cadre. We are working together to serve the Government and people. Nobody has a right to say that only he/she is capable of running the system of government.
Gulati A

Why CSS officers are opposing merger ?
This is regarding merger of CSS and CSSS. I am unable to understand why the CSS officers are opposing the merger. The merger will not take away any of their post nor their promotion prospectus. Regarding the working and knowledge I know many CSS officers who are of no worth to the government. In each cadre there are intelligent oficers. I suggest that one exam should be conducted at PS/SO level and another at PPS/US level for further promotion. The officers of CSSS will prove their worth. The same happened with Asstt/PA exam for promotion to SO. When a member of PAs qualified for the SO's promotion, instead of improving their knowledge to compete with them, CSS officers blocked their entrance in the exam. This itself speaks about the knowledge of the officers my friend is proud of. As said earlier do not judge one by his post. Any one can be knowledgeable and intelligent and perform all duties given a chance. Unfortunately the CSSS do not get the opportunity to prove their skill inthe post manned by CSS. The CSS will not be loser by the merger as the merger will bring equal number of post. There are officers in the CSS also who are of no use they can be placed for secretarial duties and replaced by the knowledgeable and intelligent from CSSS cadre. The CSS is just opposing the move as they do not want others to get equal opportunities. They do not oppose when their posts are grabbed by mighty cadres.
Ramesh R