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List of 1990 IAS empanelment cleared by PMO
As the grapevine has it empanelment list of IAS officers
belonging to the 1990 batch to the rank of Joint Secretary in the Government of India has been cleared by the PMO .
Alok Pateria gets extension in CBI
Alok Kumar Pateria, Joint Director in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), has been granted extension in deputation tenure for a period of two years. He is 1986 batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.
Ms Mattoo to be promoted this month
Ms Renuka Mattoo is being promoted to the rank of Special Director in the Intelligence Bureau this month. He is 1976 batch IPS officer of Uttarakhand cadre.
CCIT - IV Ahemdabad Mangotra granted VRS
The request for voluntary retirement by VK Mangotra, Chief Commissioner of Income Tax – IV, Ahmedabad, has been accepted. He thus stands retired from his services with effect from April 30,
IT Commissioner Mrs. Alpana Saxena gets VRS
The request for voluntary retirement by Mrs. Alpana Saxena, Commissioner of Income (Appeals) -I, Mumbai , has been accepted. He thus stands retired from his services with effect from April 30,
IPS is CVO of NHAI
Aloke Prasad has been appointed as Chief Vigilance Officer in the National Highways Authority of India, New Delhi vice R Mukundan, IRPS(84). He is 1984 batch IPS officer of UP cadre.
(We said this on March 17, 2010)
Jha to move to Brussels
Counsellor in Indian High Commission Colombo Santosh Jha has been moved to Brussels.
Senior officers taste rugged terrain as they ride motorbikes
Senior officers had visited the site where naxalites had killed CRPF men on
Tuesday. Those officers were: Kashmir Singh Joint Secretary (Naxal
Management);  Vijay Raman  Special
DG Task Force; Vikram Srivastava DG CRPF and DG Chattisgarh. The place where
this incident happened is not accessible by car, therefore they reached the
site by motorcycles & that with a great risk. One of ID mines was also
found on spot during their visit.
Work among CBEC members reallocated
Upon the appointment of Mrs. Vijai Lakshmi Sharma as sixth Member of CBEC, the work amongst the Members in the CBEC has been re-allocated. Accordingly Mrs Chitra Gouri Lal will be Member (Legal & Judicial), P.N. Vittal Dass - Member (Personnel & Vigilance), S.D. Majumder - Member (Central Excise), Y.G. Parande - Member (Budget & Computerisation), S.K. Goel - Member (Customs, RI&I, Exports & Safeguards) and Mrs. Vijai Lakshmi Sharma - Member (Service Tax).
Ms. Hilda Abraham elevated as CPMG Orissa
Ms. Hilda Abraham who so far was Post Master General (PMG) at Calicut on promotion will be CPMG Orissa.
Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yedyurappa’s stocks go up
Outcome of polls for the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palika (BBMP) that went in favour of BJP has bolstered the image Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yedyurappa.
Infighting led to Congress defeat in Banagalore civic body polls
Outcome of polls for the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palika (BBMP) that went in favour of BJP is being attributed to infighting in the main opposition Congress party
Himachal Pradesh DGP to retire
Himachal Pradesh DGP G S Gill is superannuating on June 30.He is 1974 batch IPS officer.
A.K. Goyal’s deputation to end in June
A.K. Goyal who is serving Government of India (GOI) as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Environment & Forest (MoEF) will be completing his deputation on June 18, 2010. He is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the Kerala cadre who belongs to the 1981 batch.
IA & AS Officer S Satyanarayana transferred
S Satyanarayana, Deputy Accountant General (Pension/Funds), in the office of Accountant General (A&E)-II, Maharashtra, Nagpur, is transferred and posted as Deputy Accountant General (Admn) in the office of Principal Accountant General (A&E), Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad.
Ms Rina goes to Norway
Ms. Akoijam Rina (IAAS-1997) has been deputed to the INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI) in Oslo, Norway, for appointment as Programme Manager.
Pandey is new Ambassador to Sudan
Avanindra Kumar Pandey, presently Special Secretary at Headquarters has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Sudan in succession to Deepak Vohra.
Manipur Chief Secretary Manipur will also be RC in Delhi
Manipur Chief Secretary, DS Poonia has also been given charge of Resident Commissioner of Manipur Bhawan, New Delhi. He is 1978 batch IAS officer.
Chennai DRM changed-Anurag is new DRM
DRM Chennai IRSE officer S K Kulsrestha has been changed. IRTS officer Anurag will be new DRM, Chennai.
1994 batch IAS get super-time scale
1994 batch IAS officers in Orissa have been given super-time scale in Orissa. They are Mssrs Santosh Kumar Sarangi, AK Baishnab, Aparajita Sarangi, G Mathivathanan, Pramod Chandra Patnaik, Rashmi Ranjan Patnaik, Paresh Chandra Nayak, Kashinath Sahu, Harihara Panigrahi, Sudarshan Nayak and Ranjan Chopra.
IPS reshuffle in Jharkhand
There is IPS reshuffle in Jharkhand.Deepak Kumar Verma has been transferred as the DIG of PTC Hazaribagh. T Kandamasi will now be ADC to the State Governor.Dadan Ji Sharma has been transferred as SP Vigilance Bureau . Amarnath Khanna (SP Godda) will be SP, CID.Deo Bihari Sharma has been shifted as SP STF. Manoj Kausik will be the new SP of Khunti. Asim Bikrant Minz has been made the new SP of Godda.Prabhat Kumar, ADC to the Governor, will be the new SP Chatra. Mohit Bundas, Rural SP Ranchi, has been moved to CID as SP. Kiriburu, Michael Raj, has been posted as Rural SP, Ranchi.Narendra Kumar Singh has been given additional charge of Commandant IRB 4. Babban Singh will be the new SP of ACRB. Anjlesh Indwar (Commandant JPA 8 Palamu) has been given additional charge of Commandant IRBP 5 Palamu.and Sashikant Kuzur will be SP Rural Jamshedpur.
IAS changes in Uttar Pradesh
Neeta Chaudhri and Sanjay R Bhoos Reddy have been moved as. Member (Judicial) in Revenue Board. Principal Secretary (Finance) Manjeet Singh has been given the additional charge of Institutional Finance department. Kush Verma will be Principal Secretary Administrative Reforms department. Bhupendra Singh is Secretary Secretary of Social Welfare department .Deepak Kumar has been posted as Secretary Food and Drug Control.Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Durga Shankar Mishra, has been given additional charge of Principal Secretary (Taxation and Registration). Secretary (Revenue) MVS Ramireddy has been made new Housing Commissioner.
IAS shake-up in Uttarakhand
Eight IAS officers in Uttarakhand have been transferred . On return from deputation SK Mattu has been appointed Principal Secretary Revenue, Disaster Management, Social Welfare Commissioner, Managing Director Multipurpose Finance Development Corporation, Uttarakhand Minority Welfare and Waqf Development Corporation.
PC Sharma has been given additional charge of Higher Education and Sanskrit Education.Manisha Pawar has been made Secretary School Education, Child Development and Women Empowerment .MC Upreti has been given additional charge of MD Tarai Development Corporation.Amit Negi has been given additional charge of Additional Secretary Finance.Manjul Kumar Joshi has been given additional charge of Director cooperative Committee and Additional Secretary cooperative.
CDO Udhamsinghagar Umesh Chandra Kabadwal has been made MD Tourism.
Shivraj Singh is GGM Catering IRCTC
Shivraj Singh is new GGM Catering Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC).
IRPS officers required for foreign posting
IRPS officers all grades(SAG, SG,JAG,SS,JS) are required by RITES for posting in Riyadh and New delhi corporate office.
PESB to hold interviews for Director-R & D first
As the grapevine has it, PESB is planning to hold interviews for the slot of Director Research & Development (R & D) in Indian Oil Corporation (IOC).
Dewangan is back to Manipur
Director in the Ministry of Petroleum Vivek Kumar Dewangan is back to the parent Manipur-Tripura cadre after completion of deputation tenure. On return 1993 batch IAS officer Dewangan has been made Secretary Sericulture.
Goel to join UN assignment
IA&AS officer R K Goel is expected to get UN assignment .He may join UN body in Hague next month.
Bureaucratic reshuffle in Orissa next week
Bureaucratic reshuffle is expected to take place in Orissa next week.
IIS to get JAG
1999 batch Indian Information Service officers are expected to get JAG soon.
Prasar Bharti Board meeting on April 24
Next meeting of the Prasar Bharti Board is expected to take place on April 24.
Deputation of Rajeev K Agarwal as Member Forwards Commission extended
Deputation of Rajeev K Agarwal as Member Forwards Commission, Department of Consumer Affairs, has been extended for two years till June 19, 2012.
Railways transfers and postings
Dr. MN Ramakantha of SG/IRMS has been transferred from SWR to SG, Suresh Gupta of SAG/IRSE has been transferred from IRICEN to WCR and posted as CTE, SK Gupta of AG/IRSE has been transferred from SR to SCR and posted in the cadre, SB Ninave of SAG/IRSE has been transferred from WR to SECR, Mahipal Singh of
SAG/IRSE has been transferred from ECOR to NR and posted in the cadre, Ashish Apte of SG/IRSSE has been on return from deputation transferred to CR, AL Prabhakar of SG/IRSS has been on return from deputation transferred to SR in the cadre, Dr. SK Rastogi Sr. DMO has been transferred from NCR to NR on his own request, Vikram kumar of SS/IRAS has been transferred from NER to NR and posted in the cadre, Vishnu Bajaj of SS/IRAS has been transferred from ECR to NWR and posted in the cadre, Dr. Krishna Das Sr. DMO/APDJ has been transferred from
NFR to SER, Dr. Lalit Sanga of JAG/IRMS has been transferred to NFR, Rajiv Rajvanshi of SAG/IRSE has been on return from deputation transferred to ECOR in the cadre, Raj Kumar Sharma Group`B` officer on return from deputation should be posted to WR, Ravij Seth of SAG/IRAS on return from duties has been sent to CORE/ALD against the newly created SAG/IRAS post, Ateek Ahd of JAG/IRMS has been transferred from NR to to JAG, RN Verma of GM has been transferred from WR to look after the duties of the post of GM/CR in addition to his own.
Transfer of Rly official AK Shrivastava cancelled
Transfer of AK Shrivastava of SS/IRSE from NR ER for a period of two years
Has been canceeled
Transfer of Rly official Ram Janam cancelled
Transfer of Ram Janam of SAG/IRSE who was transferred from NER to ECR has been cancelled.
Deep Shankar Rudrakasha inducted into IPS cadre
Deep Shankar Rudrakasha, State Police Service (SPS), West Bengal has been inducted
in IPS cadre of the 2009 batch.
Chittranjan Nag inducted into IPS cadre
Chittranjan Nag, State Police Service (SPS), West Bengal has been inducted
in IPS cadre of the 2009 batch.
BSNL transfers 17 ITS officers (UPDATED)
The BSNL transferred 17 ITS (Indian Telecom Services) officers in SAG “Group A”. Those transferred include messrs H.R. Shukla GM (NWP &O) to GMTD, Aligarh, UP, W. Circle, A.K. Gupta GMTD Aligarh, UP, W. Circle to GMTD, Kota, Rajasthan Circle, H.S. Sharma GMTD, Kota, Rajasthan Circle to GMTD, Agra UP-W Circle, Ravi Kant GMTD, Agra UP-W Circle to GM (BP)-CM, BSNL Co New Delhi, Md. Nizamul Haq GM (BP)-CM, BSNL Co Guwahati to GM (NWP &O) –CFA, CO Lucknow, UP East Circle, Adesh Kumar Gupta GMTD, Noida, UP-W to GM (WLL/WMax & Passive Infra), Co, Dehradun, Uttaranchal Circle, A.K. Sahu GMTD, Chandrapur, Maharashtra circle to GMTD, Raipur Chhattisgarh circle, Daya Shankar GMTD Farrukhabad, UP East Circle to GMTD, Chandrapur, Maharashtra circle, Sheo Prasad Shukla GM (EB), CO Lucknow, UP East to GMTD Farrukhabad, UP East circle, A.K. Kanaujia GM (NWP-CM) CO Patna, Bihar circle to GM (S&M)-CM, CO Lucknow, UP East circle, Rajesh Kumar GM (S&M)-CM, CO Lucknow, UP East circle to GM (NWP-CM), CO Patna, Bihar circle, J.B. Singh GM (WLL/WiMax & Passive Infra), Dehradun , Uttranchal circle to GM (EB) CO, Lucknow, UP East circle, G. Kuppuswamy GM (North), CHTD, Chennai to GMM, STR, Chennai, G.C. Pandey GM, TCIL, uwahati circle to GMTD Bhopal, MP Circle, R. Radha GM (NOW-Wst) CHTD, Tuticorin, TN to GM (EB) CO Guwahati, Assam circle, Imtiaz Ahmad GM (O & M) Jammu, J&K to GM (CFA), CO, Bhopal, MP circle and Mahesh Shukla GMTD, Bhopal, MP Circle to GM (NWP-CM), CO, Jammu, J&K.

Uttarakhand CJ transferred to Karnataka (UPDATED)
Uttarakhand Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar has been transferred as the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court to replace Chief Justice P D Dinakaran.
( we said this on April 3 )
SAIL gets 2 SCOPE Meritorious Awards (UPDATED)
President of India Mrs. Pratibha Devisingh Patil presented two Meritorious Awards in Specialised Fields, instituted by the Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE) to Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL). The awards were received by SAIL Chairman S.K. Roongta at a glittering function held at Vigyan Bhawan , Delhi on the occasion of the first Public Sector Day instituted by the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) on April 10, 2010 . The two awards are in recognition of SAIL’s far-reaching initiatives in the areas of Corporate Social Responsibility & Responsiveness (2008-09) and in Research & Development, Technology Development & Innovation (2007-08).The SCOPE Meritorious Award for Corporate Social Responsibility & Responsiveness for the year 2008-09 has been conferred on SAIL for the fulfillment of stringent criteria on CSR policies, products & services, initiatives of the company to improve the quality of work life, environment, safety/security & well-being Of the employees and other stakeholders. Present on the dais for the award presentation ceremony were Indian Minister for Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises Vilasrao Deshmukh, BRPSE Chairman Dr. Nitish Sengupta, Indian Minister of State for Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises Arun Yadav, DPE Secretary Bhaskar Chatterjee, SCOPE
Chairman Arup Roy Chowdhury and DG, SCOPE Dr. U.D. Choubey.

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IAS officer is MD of OMFED
Saswat Mishra is new Managing Director of the Odisha Milk Cooperative Federation (Omfed) . He is 1996 batch IAS officer.
Mathai promoted as GM SIB
P.E. Mathai, Head of the Delhi Regional Office, has been promoted as General Manager. South Indian Bank.

Aaj Ki Aawaz
3 groups have been appointed to study our food woes!!!!
When you cannot do anything appoint a committee the saying goes!!
 
Fact is everything is known but the knowledge has not been applied!!
In fact the norms have been defied!!
 
Pawar has literally made us from a food secure Nation to a dependent one!
In two stints as Agri and Food Mantri this he’s done!!
 
The fib he dished out was Farmers are benefiting from the price rise!!
Pure blatant lies!!!
 
Farmers are being shortchanged and middlemen and retailers are raking it in!
And we too are taking it right on the chin!!
 
Hooda, Modi and Monty will head the 3 groups and no expense will be spared!!
On being thrifty all 3 have never cared!!!
 
Hooda Group will look into agri production!
In Haryana itself depletion of agri land bank has caused the reduction!
 
Modi Group will look into the farm and retail price gap!!!
Ghadkari may advice Modi ‘ do not get our traditional vote bank in a flap’!
 
Monty Group will look into delivery to BPL and how to make it effective!
And believe me knowing Monty he will make it even more defective!!
 
India is planning a anti torture law!!!!
Like offering the nefarious lot a paw!!!
 
Or maybe they'll centralize torture and create in Delhi a torture cell!!
That will be authorized for 'hit to make them tell'!!!!!
 
All those required to be tortured will be sent to Dilli!!
This anti torture law is silly!!!
This has PC written all over it!!!!
Only he can think of 'license to hit'!!!
And post the Dantewada massacre to puncture demands for his resignation!
PC's taken responsibility and apologized to the Nation!!
Seems Modi too has developed an allergy to Big B!!!!
Big Blob is how now he too deciphers Big B!!!
Gujarat is celebrating its 50 years and Big B has not been invited!!!
A wrong by making him the Ambassador for Gujarat Modi has righted!!!
Confucius says.... only Mukesh Ambani fits into this role!!!!
Because making Gujarat the Industrial Hub of India is Modi's goal!!!
Flash..... as expected to deflect demands for his resignation PC's offered to go!
And as expected Mohna's responded with an emphatic no!!!
Till Mohna's no did not come PC was in a tizzy!!!
Till the no did not come his throat was dry and kept asking form something fizzy!

Bharat Kumar
<aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com>

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Extend Chidambaram’s strategy to state police services also
Thiru P Chidambaram's strategy to induct IPS officers by having a limited examination confined to para military forces should be extended to state police services also. Why should the state police services not be allowed to take this exam? And why not allow officers from the armed forces to take the limited examination as well? Only central para military forces will be too narrow a choice. Unless it is intended to benefit only a chosen few from the CISF.
Arjun Mallik
Are these Maoists really our own countrymen?
It was heart-rending to see the images of grief of the families of those massacred in Dantewada operation. The sad part is that our jawans did not die fighting the enemy on the borders but were butchered mercilessly by their own country men. Or are these Maoists really our own countrymen? I have my doubts. The way they are armed with sophisticated weapons and the way they kill in such an inhuman manner gives credence to the doubt that they are set up by our enemy across the border.It is another matter that they found easy accomplices in our poor tribals who have been exploited all through. We have failed to stop the inflow of weapons from across the border as also the influx of foreign rogues coming to train them in the heart of our country itself. We seem to be sleeping to the dangers of this massive built-up within the country. We also failed to give better training to our forces. Then there was this utter failure of intelligence in knowing that these Naxals were in the vicinity of the Camp of our jawans in such large numbers. We simply pushed them into the jungle,as if,to get them killed.One wonders why no one has been held responsible for all that went wrong in this operation or is it that an omission of putting a wrong fullstop or a comma in a Government note more serious than this failure which gets 75 of our jawans and officers killed leaving so many widows, orphaned children and old parents with their backbone broken. Operation Greenhunt has turned out to be a real Botch-Up operation.
Aarti Khosla
Delay is demoralising the forces
Government should act if it does not want an LTTE like organisation to rule the eastern sector. Politicians are capable of sacrificing forces for keeping vote banks.
M.DON BOSCO
Really shocking
The nation is deeply shocked on massacre of 76 valiant Jawans including two officers of the CRPF by the unscrupulous Maoists. More than the shock is the damage to the confidence of the nation on the strength of this force which has been standing like a rock to quell internal security threats the nation has faced in the past four decades. There are valid questions the leadership needs to examine; a)Who's accountable for such flawed operation leading a whole lot of contingent into a trap where they got killed in one swipe? b)How is it that the coordination between the CRPF and state police is now being stated to be lacking? Why was the CRPF leadership accepting it? c)Why the incumbent of IG's post at Raipur/Dantewada allowed to function from Delhi until end 2009? What for IG COBRA force still functioning from Delhi when his force is meant for Red corridor deployment? There are many such questions. Will the government and the leadership of CRPF honestly examine the weaknesses which resulted in loss of such large number of men. 'All is well' being sung by the Chief of the force in the TV interviews does not seem to impress many.
SC Sharma
Time for government to wake up
The IPS lobby and politician will continue to institute such inquires and let PMF face such butcheries. Why don’t the government give powers to CPMF. Till now power only under arms act is given. The CPMF leadership also needs to be given to their cadres only as none of IPS can ever led from front. History has all the answers. Its time for government to wake up otherwise .
Vikrant
All kudos !
Kudos for reporting such a judgment. This will be a great help to all the hapless officers flooded with RTI applications
Anoop Dixit
"CSI's selection must be transparent!!!"
The suggestion based on personal experiences of A K Saxena who was at the helms of affair in MOSPI last time, in support of transparency,deserves careful consideration by the Prime Minister.If some junior person is selected ignoring the claims of Seniors,heavens will not fall.But,at least, all applicants must be called for interviews to prove their worth.Thanks.
A member of ISS fraternity
Person who runs a tea-stall is the best choice
So, according to Mr./Mrs. P. Gupta, the Search Committee should look for someone who cannot underscore in their commitments to excellence, intelligent planning and focussed efforts. The person who runs a tea-stall outside UPSC, therefore, is the best choice, is it not? Sorry, Mr./Mrs. Gupta, your logic is unfathomable; maybe you deserve a Nobel for inventing such a logic, but I will be the last person to buy such a logic. Have you ever wondered why Dr. Manmohan Singh became PM? Was it possible for him but for his CV, which only underscores his commitments to excellence, intelligent planning and focussed efforts to be selected as PM, by riding past political figures like Shri Pranab Mukherjee? (Incidentally, Shri Mukherjee was Dr. Singh's boss at one time earlier.) It is to be understood that seniority has nothing to do with leadership, but it is commitments to excellence, intelligent planning, focussed efforts and track record (whenever a chance was available to lead). May I ask, who is this Gupta who has repeatedly claimed that he is voicing the views of the insiders? Under what authority is he speaking this? He can neither identify himself nor the insiders. So I think there is no need anymore to entertain Mr./Mrs. P. Gupta on his suggestions to look (search?) for someone who lacks commitments to excellence, abhors intelligent planning and makes no effort.
E. Nagachandran
Pitiable condition of LDC/UDC
I would like to draw kind attention of Dop&T and Ministry of Finance regarding pitiable condition of LDC/UDC of Central Secretariat. The 6cpc has widened the gape more. In these days the difference between Basic Pay of UDC and Asstt is approx 10000/-. If we add other allowances in it, the gap between salary will widened more and it reached to Rs. 15000/- . while the work of LDC/UDC/Asstt is almost similar in central secretariat but on the front of salary they may not get equal treatment with Asstt. The lowest functionary of the Central Secretariat is LDC/UDC/Assistant. besides routine noting and submission of cases, is required to locate and collect other files or papers, information, data and material, if any, referred to in the receipt, or having a bearing on the issues raised therein, identify and examine the issues involved in the case and record a note. The section consisting of LDC/UDC/Assistant and Section Officer, while putting up a case, are required to see whether all the statements, so far as they are open to check, are correct; point out mistakes, incorrect statements, missing data or information(if any), draw attention to the statutory or customary procedure and point out the relevant law and rules; furnish other relevant data or information available in the Department; state the questions for consideration and bring out clearly the points requiring decision; draw attention to precedents; evaluate relevant data and information; and suggest, where possible, alternative courses of action for consideration. This all work has been done by LDC/UDC/Asstt and Section Officer but the credit has been always taken by Asstt.. The govt. of India should must think and amend the needful.
Prabhakar