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S Srinivasan

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Ms Neela Gangadharan to be Secretary Justice !
Chief Secretary of Kerala Government Ms Neela Gangadharan is all set to join the Government of India as Secretary Jusice.She is 1975 batch IAS officer.
Ms Bhupinder Prasad to move to Inland Waterways Authority !
Secretary Justice Ms Bhupinder Prasad is moving to Inland Waterways Authority as Chairperson. She is 1976 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.
Desiraju is Additional Secretary Health
K N Desiraju is being appointed new Additional Secretary Health in the Government of India. He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Uttarakhand cadre.
Venkatachalam moves to Agriculture
V Venkatachalam, IAS Additional Secretary Ministry of Health has been moved as Additional Secretary Agriculture.He is 1977 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
( We said this only yesterday )
Will Ahmad return to Manipur as Chief Secretary ?
Anwar Ehsan Ahmad IAS, currently Secretary Border Areas is likely to replace D.S.Punia as Chief Secretary, Manipur,if the Centre has its way.He is 1976 batch IAS officer of Manipur –Tripura cadre.
Dr P. Prabakaran poised to be new CS, Kerala
As the grapevine has it, Dr P. Prabakaran Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) Finance with the Kerala Government is poised to be new Chief Secretary of Kerala. He is Kerala cadre IAS officer of the 1978 batch.
No foreign vacancy available in Ministry of Finance
There is no foreign vacancy available for officials in the Ministry of Finance in the Government of India.
Kotia relieved from MHA
Joint Secretary (P) in the Ministry of Home Affairs D K Kotia has been relieved to join the parent Uttarakhand cadre on Monday. He is 1981 batch IAS officer.He is joining as Principal Secretary to the Uttarakhand Chief Minister.
( We said this on March 9 and again on April 6 )
Lavasa gets additional charge of JS (P) in MHA
Ashok Lavasa has been given additional charge of Joint Secretary (P) in the Ministry of Home Affairs.He is 1980 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.
Gopal Bagley is new Director in EAM officer
Gopal Bagley has been posted as Director in the office of EAM M R Krishna in place of Abhay Thakur of the same batch. Thakur will leave for posting to Vietnam. He is 1992 batch IFS officer.
Gopala Krishnan to be Additional Secretary in PMO
R Gopala Krishnan is being promoted to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Prime Minister’s office this month. He is 1979 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.
O.P. Rawat selected for PM’s award
O.P. Rawat has been selected for the Prime Minister’s Award in the group category along with four other officers from Madhya Pradsh. This will be conferred on them during Civil Services Day function to be held in Delhi on April 21, 2010. He will be getting the award on his following work “ Implementation of “The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006” while he was Principal Secretary Tribal Welfare with the MP Government . Presently O.P. Rawat is Vice Chairman armada Ghati Vikas Pradhikaran & Additional Chief Secretary, Narmada Valley Development Department. He is an IAS officer of the 1977 batch & belongs to the MP cadre. Other officers who share the award with Rawat include Jaideep Govind (1984 batch) Principal Secretary, Higher Education and Technical Education, GoMP for his work while he was Commissioner Tribal Development, GoMP, Rashmi Shami (1994 batch) Director Project NREGA who was earlier Director TADP, Anil Oberoi (Indian Forest Service officer) CF-IT and Ashok Upadhyaya Additional Director Tribal Welfare.
Sanjay Dubey selected for PM’s award
Sanjay Dubey Chief Executive Officer(CEO) & ex-officio Secretary(P&RD) to Madhya Pradesh Rural Road Development Authority has been selected for the Prime Minister’s Award in the individual category. This will be conferred on him during Civil Services Day function to be held in Delhi on April 21, 2010. He will be getting the award on his following work ( while he was Collector Jabalpur ) “Removal of Encroachments of Structures of Different Religions-Maintaining Communal Harmony, Madhya Pradesh.’’ He is an IAS officer of the 1993 batch & belongs to the MP cadre.
Gulshan Bamra selected for PM’s award
Gulshan Bamra Collector Jabalpur has been selected for the Prime Minister’s Award in the individual category. This will be conferred on him during Civil Services Day function be held in Delhi on April 21, 2010. He will be getting the award on his following work that he did while he was Collector Balaghat “ Involvement of Community Under National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Naxalite Affected Areas, MP”. He is an IAS officer of the 1997 batch & belongs to the MP cadre.
Dr. Samit Sharma selected for PM’s award
Dr. Samit Sharma has been selected for the Prime Minister’s Award in the individual category. This will be conferred on him during Civil Services Day function be held in Delhi on April 21, 2010. He will be getting the award on his following work “Making Medicines Affordable, Rajasthan”. “ He is an IAS officer of the 2004 batch & belongs to the Rajasthan cadre.
Vijay Singhal selected for PM’s award
Vijay Singhal has been selected for the Prime Minister’s Award in the individual category. This will be conferred on him during Civil Services Day function be held in Delhi on April 21, 2010. He will be getting the award on his following work “River Linking Project at Jalgaon’, Maharashtra”. Presently Vijay Singhal is Municipal Commissioner, Kolhapur (Maharashtra). He is an IAS officer of the 1997 batch & belongs to the Maharashtra cadre.
Rajesh Lakhani selected for PM’s award
Rajesh Lakhani has been selected for the Prime Minister’s Award in the individual category. This will be conferred on him during Civil Services Day function be held in Delhi on April 21, 2010. He will be getting the award on his following work “Cervical Cancer Screening Evolving A New Methodology-A Life Saving Initiatives of Chennai Corporation’, Tamil Nadu . At present Rajesh Lakhani is Commissioner, Chennai Corporation,  Chennai. He is an IAS officer of the 1992 batch & belongs to the Tamil Nadu cadre.
Dr. Alok Shukla & Gaurav Dwivedi
Dr. Alok Shukla & Gaurav Dwivedi have been selected for the Prime Minister’s Award in the group category. This will be conferred on them during Civil Services Day function be held in Delhi on April 21, 2010. He will be getting the award on his following work “ “Computerisation of decentralized paddy procurement and public distribution system in Chhattisgarh. While Dr. Alok Shukla is Joint Secretary in the Election Commission of India (ECI), Gaurav Dwivedi is Deputy Director at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie. Dr. Alok Shukla (1986 batch) & Gaurav Dwivedi (1995 batch) are IAS officers of the Chhattisgarh cadre .
S.S. Khan selected for PM’s award
S.S.Khan Member (IT) inCentral Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has been selected for the Prime Minister’s Award in the group category. This will be conferred during Civil Services Day function be held in Delhi on April 21, 2010. The award will be given for  his following work “ Integrated Tax Payer Data Management System (ITDMS) –A Data Mining Tool.”
Project Arrow chosen for PM’s award
The project arrow of the Department of Post has been chosen for the Prime Minister’s Award in the organisation category. This will be conferred on Ms. Radhika Doraiswamy  Secretary during Civil Services Day function be held in Delhi on April 21, 2010. It is being given for excellence in public administration under the slot of organizations. The project arrow was the initiated as the behest of Ms. Radhika Doraiswamy Secretary (Posts) & Chairman PS Board. It was launched for up gradation of core activities under mail, saving bank activities & improving look of post offices in 1000 identified post offices. There is a target to cover 5000 posts
offices by March 2012.
Justice Ghosh is new CJ of Sikkim High Court
Jammu and Kashmir High Court Chief Justice Barin Ghosh would be sworn in as Chief Justice of the Sikkim High Court today.
Will an IFS officer be new Jt Secretary MoEF?
Will an Indian Forest Service (IFS) office be new Jonit Secretary in the Ministry of Environment & Forest (MoEF)? Deputation tenure of A.K. Goyal, present incumbent concludes on June 18, 2010.
IA&AS officer moves to Addis Ababa
Ms. Reema Prakash (IAAS-1991) has been deputed to the United Nations for appointment as Auditor in the Internal Audit Division (IAD), Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), United Nations Economic Commission of Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Chief Commissioners transfers in CBEC by April end
As the grapevine has it, the Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC) is going make changes of Commissioners by end of April 2010.
Criteria for CBDT Member
If informed sources are to be believed, criteria for the appointment of the Member CBDT will be same which is applied for the empanelment to the rank of Secretary in the Government of India. Last ten CRs will be taken into consideration.
Vikram Thakur tipped to be Deputy Director, SIB- Delhi.
As the grapevine has it Vikram Thakur is soon likely be appointed as Deputy Director, SIB, Delhi. Presently he is looking after the work of Deputy Director (Counter Terrorism), IB. He is an IPS officer of the 1996 batch who belongs to the Uttar Pradesh cadre.
Name of 1990 batch topper doesn’t figures in empanelment list
The name of 1990 batch topper, Sanjay Malhotra of the Rajasthan cadre reportedly doesn’t figures in the list of IAS officials empanelled to Joint Secretary level. His name is now likely to be included during the review.
Pradeep Gupta is CVO MOIL
Pradeep Gupta is new CVO of the Manganese Ore India Ltd (MOIL).He is 1995 batch IPS officer of Chhattisgarh cadre.
High Level meeting
G.K. Pillai Home Secretary to Government of India (GOI) chaired a high profile meeting  regarding naxalites problem on April 12, 2010. Mainly it was attended by: Rajiv Mathur Director -IB, R.K. Bhatia  DG -  ITBP, Raman Srivastava DG – BSF & Praveen Mahindru Additional Director – IB.
Singh is new PGE
K A Singh has joined the Government of India as Protector General of Emigrants under the Ministry of Overseas India Affairs. He is 1994 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre.
R.R.P Singh to be CPMG in Rajasthan
R.R.P Singh who so far was Chief Post Master General (CPMG) in Jharkhand will now be CPMG Rajasthan circle.
Will Mallick join Commonwealth Games
B B Mallick is likely to join the Commonwealth Games as ADG. He is 1986 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.
Yadav to go to Colombo
Birender Yadav Counsellor in Indian Embassy in Paris is going to the Indian High Commission Colombo.
Malhotra appointed Member SEBI's Appellate Tribunal
P.K. Mishra Secretary Ministry of Law & Justice(of ILS ) has been appointed as a Member of SEBI's Appellate Tribunal (SAT).
(We said this on November 5, 2009)
Kumar promoted in IDAS
H S Kumar has been promoted to the rank of Additional Controller General of Defence Accounts. He is 1975 batch IDAS officer.
Panel for Jt.Commissioner Kendriya Vidyalaya yet to come As the grapevine has it so far no panel has been received for the slot of new Joint Commissioner Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS).
8 GMs elevated as EDs in NTPC
As many as eight General Managers (GMs) were elevated as Executive Directors (EDs) in the NTPC.
Interviews for EDs in AAI on April 17, 2010
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) of which Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) is V.P.Agrawal is going to hold for interviews Executive Directors (EDs) on April 17, 2010. An ED each for Engineering & Finance is to be selected.
Amitabh Agnihotri to be Director, Delhi Zoo
As the grapevine has it, Amitabh Agnihotri is poised to become new Director of the Delhi Zoo. Presently he is posted in Sidhi at Sanjay Gandhi National Park . Amitabh  Agnihotri is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1988 batch who belongs to the Madhya
Pradesh cadre.
Ranjit Popli to be Jt. Director, FSI
As the grapevine has it, Ranjit Popli is poised to be Joint Director in the Forest Survey of India (FSI). He is 1988 batch Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
ONGC Security Advisor gets extension
ONGC Security Advisor TN Mishra has been granted extension in his tenure. He is 1965 batch IPS officer.
IA&AS officer P Mukherjee transferred
P Mukherjee (IA&AS-80), on completion of his deputation term and on repatriation to the department, is transferred and posted as Principal Accountant General (C&RA), Gujarat, Ahmedabad, against an existing vacancy.
Central PSUs to adhere to disclosure and accounting norms
Central PSUs will now be mandatorily required to adhere to disclosure and accounting norms to check financial misappropriations and frauds, if any, in corporate entities owned by the government.
Minor changes in Gujarat
In a minor bureaucratic reshuffle the Gujarat government has transferred  B.V.Raval Collector Patan to Gandhinagar  as Joint Secretary GAD. J.G.Hingrajia who is presently DDO Mehsana will be Collector Patan while Rakesh Yadav Additional Collector (Coordination) Surendranagar will replace Hingrajia as DDO Mehsana.
IPS changes in Uttar Pradesh
Bhanu Pratap Singh will now be IG (PAC-East zone) . Gurdarshan Singh, will now be IG (Vigilance) in Lucknow. RP Singh will take over as IG, Varanasi range.
IAS changes in Punjab
Ajit Singh Pannu is new MD Markfed Arunjit Singh Miglani is new Deputy Commissioner, Ropar. Priyank Bharti goes as Deputy Commissioner, Jalandhar. Prithi Chand has been made Deputy Commissioner, Gurdaspur.Dharam Dutt Ternach will be Additional Secretary, Power.Karamjit Singh will be the new Secretary, Punjab State Agricultural Marketing Board. Manisha Trighatia has been posted as Project Director, National Rural Health Mission.
IAS postings in UP
Majid Ali will now be Principal Secretary Revenue.S N Shukla has been appointed Principal Secretary Institutional Finances.
Six Additional Judges in Delhi High Court appointed

Manmohan Singh, Rajiv Sahai Endlaw, Jag Jivan Ram Midha, Rajiv Shakdher, Sunil Gaur and Mool Chand Garg have been appointed as as Additional Judges of the Delhi High Court, in that order of seniority, for a period of two years.

Judge of Calcutta High Court appointed

Harish Tandon to be a Judge of the Calcutta High Court, with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office.

Three Judges appointed in Rajasthan High Court

Justice Kishan Swaroop Chaudhari, Justice Mahesh Chandra Bhagwati and Justice Chand Mal Totla, Additional Judges of the Rajasthan High Court have been appointed Judges of the Rajasthan High Court, in that order of seniority, with effect from the dates they assume charge of their respective offices.

13 Judges appointed in Allahabad High Court

Justice Surendra Singh, Justice Arvind Kumar Tripathi, Justice Shashi Kant Gupta, Justice Bala Krishna Narayana, Justice Rajesh Dayal Khare, Justice Shabihul Hasnain, Justice Abhinava Upadhya, Justice Suresh Chandra Chaurasia, Justice Syed Nazim Husain Zaidi, Justice Ved Pal, Justice Brahma Nand Shukla, Justice Raj Mani Chauhan and Dr.Justice Satish Chandra, Additional Judges have been appointed Judges of the Allahabad High Court, with effect from the dates they assume charge of their respective offices.

Railways transfer and postings

S. Venkateswaran group `B`officer has been on return from deputation transferred to SR in the cadre, Shashi Kant Gupta group `B’ officer has been on return from deputation transferred to NWR in the same capacity, DK Singh of SAG/IRTS has been on return from deputation transferred to WR in the cadre and Mrs. Rajni Bala Hasija of SAG/IRTS has been on return from deputation transferred to NR in the cadre.

Mrs. Srujan Mohanty, STO (IT), granted proforma promotion

Mrs. Srujan Mohanty, presently working as STO (IT), Department of revenue, on deputation to ex-cadre post to the grade of Joint Commissioner of Income Tax, CBDT, has been granted proforma promotion.

C. Kamraj posted as Collector Madurai in TN

C. Kamaraj  Director Information and Public Relations and Ex-Officio Deputy Secretary to Government, Tamil Development, Religious Endowments and Information Department has been transferred by the Tamil Nadu Government & posted as Collector, Madurai District vice Dinesh Ponraj Oliver, District Revenue Officer, holding additional charge .

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Macquarie Capital Advisers appoints Gaurav Gupta as head in India
Macquarie Capital Advisers has appointed Gaurav Gupta as head of its operations in India. Gupta who has over 12 years experience in investment banking and transactions advisory was earlier with Nomura where he was looking after telecommunications, media and financial services for India.
Banga is CEO of Mastercard
MasterCard Inc has appointed Chief Operating Officer Ajay Banga as chief executive.He will take charge in July.
Few posts of Executive Directors in BHEL to fall vacant soon
Few posts of Executive Directors in BHEL are falling vacant in the next few months.
NBCC Chief gets award
President of India Ms.Pratibha Devisingh Patil giving away SCOPE Meritorious Award for CSR & Responsiveness for the year 2007-08 to Arup Roy Choudhury, CMD, NBCC on April 10, 2010.

Aaj Ki Aawaz
RTI was a jewel in UPA's crown!!
With this act Mohna should not have been allowed to clown!!

CJI will be kept out of RTI and now frivolity will become an excuse!!
An excuse that those under scanner will use to refuse (RTI application) !!

Honest man who doth side with the dishonest!
Cannot and should not expect to be considered honest!

Sonia has all her engines fired for the Women's and Right to Food Bills!!!
With these two Bills she is up to her gills!

So seems she has conceded to Mohna's demands on the RTI act!!!!
Or there also could be a pact!!!

Mohna says change the act and Sonia says no!!!!!!
That's why when people say Mohna got his way with Sonia people say 'is that so'?

Because the perception is that 'Mohna don't have the guts to say no to his Boss'!!
This line he can never cross!!

Ghadkari needs to look in the mirror before opening his gob!
'Rahul is not knowledgeable on many issues' his new high lob!!

As president of BJP he's at sea on practically everything!!
Seems his qualifications are he can cook and sing!!

I was surprised to read that PC is PM in waiting!!
This if I am not mistaken Rajdeep 'IBN effect' Sardesai has been stating!!!

PC is a wily fox and a Vakeel!!!
Make him PM and from Sonia authority he will try to steal!!

If Sonia does make him PM she will soon learn the hard way!!
Why 'do not let a hungry fox in your hen pen' they say????

Yes I too wonder if the GDP goes up to 9% it will only widen the gap!!!
Between the 'well to do' and 'hand to mouth chap'!!

Our growth is not inclusive!!
And as FM PC started the trend of tailor making policies for the 'exclusive'!

In fact if you ask me in the surge of Naxalism PC the FM has a hand!
In the accused dock he doth stand!!

He forgot about the India which lives in the villages!!
Where 'reality' really pillages!!!

The fool concentrated on lifting stocks and pro Corporate reforms!
At that time the cry was 'only for the rich PC performs'!!!!

They say those who live by the sword perish by it too!!!!
Tharoor lived to twit and now him in Modi's twit could do!!!

The Kochi bid has a 18% stake of one of Tharoor's associates!!
This is what Modi's tweet states!

And Tharoor has already twitted saying in Kochi's bids he has no stake!!
So Modi's twit makes Tharoor's claim a fake!

I feel Tharoor should be set free to twit, manage his IPL team!!!
And party with Delhi's cream!!!

Confucius says..... man who thinks no end of himself!!
Can think of nothing but self!!

Adds..... ask Tharoor's previous two wives and this is their grouse!
'He's one big egoistical louse'!

Bharat Kumar
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Shortage of IPS
If the information regarding shortage of IPS officers in Maoist affected area is true, why these officers are going on deputation to other organisation e.g. CPMF. It is two way loss.
They are stooping these organisation officers from coming on higher posts and on the other hand these post are lying vacant in naxal affected areas.
Ajay

Who is responsible for the killings ?
One wonders how a reputed force like CRPF become cannon fodder for an irregular force like Maoists. I feel the reason must be low morale and lack of acclimatization and training. Like the Kargil affair, so far no higher-ups in CRPF has been made accountable for this tragedy. Government should review the method of selection of the Chiefs of paramilitary forces. It is a tragedy that a DGP who was considered as a joke in one of the southern states is presently heading one of the forces. At the same time one of the best IPS officers from the south who was instrumental in liquidating dreaded Veerappan and his gang is rotting as a Principal of one of the Police Institutes! The latter due to the pressure from DMK.
N Sriram

Reform in services required
There is need for reform in the Services, all Services should have equal opportunity to man senior positions of Joint Secretary and above equally. Presently, this is so theoretically and all posts of Central staffing are theoretically open to all services, but in practice, the IAS hogs all. It does not even allow the Indian Foreign Service to get in. The IPS and the IRS are also deliberately delayed by the vicious tactics of the IAS (empanelment itself is delayed by half a decade or more). Till there is equality in this, a quota needs to be reserved for the Other backward services (OBS i.e. non IAS viz. IPS/IRS/IForeignS etc ) in manning these posts.
Vijay Kumar

It is worrisome
It is indeed worrisome to find IRS officers so demoralised. One of the main causes for bad governance in the country is a very serious divide between the All India services, particularly the IAS and other Group A Services recruited through the same Examination by the UPSC. Then there is wide gap for promotion even among the Group A Services. For Example ,while 1994 batch is being considered for promotion to SAG in IA&AS in IRS they would have got selection grade only recently. Among the Accounts Services themselves, there is a wide gap. Of the four Accounts Services in Group A IRAS is way behind IDAS,P&T finance and of course the IA&AS. The cadre controlling authorities are equally to be blamed for not managing the cadre well. In case of IRS what are the CBDT and CBCES doing? Why are they letting their officers get frustrated? Somebody has to give serious thought to this. The Ministry of Personnel which is under the Prime minister is required to consider all aspects of personnel policies including transfers and promotions but unfortunately the whole machinery has become so personalised that no one thinks of the Administration as a whole thus leading to malfunctioning of the entire set-up. Good Governance needs good human beings and that is what we do not have.
Aarti Khosla

Many experts without ground knowledge
The problem with our country is, there are many experts without ground knowledge. Gen V K Singh, COAS need to tell the nation what made him to construe that training in CRPF is poor and 62 Bn was not well equipped to face the naxals? Where is this expertise with our holy Army. So in that case the Army first need to gain expertise and then get in to the troubled water. What a pity? The irony is that after Dantewada incident there is competition among the top Brass of Army, Air Force, Home Secretary, Ex- DGPs and various government functionaries to score points over each other. No one criticised the entire Army for their blunders in Kargil, failure of Air Force to deliver on the high altitudes. Country is spending handsome amount on their facilities and equipments. Who knows in their life time they may not fight a war. So why this ho-hulla about deployment of AF and Army in naxal area. In a way are they considerate and have the apprehensions of failures against naxals. This is understandable. It is hard for them to digest and answer their failures. Those who are writing the posts must acquire basic knowledge about the functioning of CPMFs. CPMFs are centre's least neglected employees. The leadership provided to them is spineless and totally selfish. We are still facing various crisis as far as functioning of CPMF.
Dentan

How can Dr Poonia be resident in New Delhi ?
Apropos Dr Poonia, IAS of Manipur cadre being appointed resident Commissioner at New Delhi How can Dr Poonia be resident in New Delhi while serving as Chief Secretary in the Manipur Secretariat which is not in New Delhi or may be is being shifted to New Delhi.

Prof P C Mathur.
Jaipur April, 11,2010