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Shortage of 2000 CPMF officers
If informed sources are to be believed, there is a shortage 2000 officers in CPMF which is causing greater problem in developmental works particularily in rural areas and naxel affected areas and management of international border along with China , Myanmar Bangladesh and Pakistan .
IAS officer seeks VRS in Punjab
Jasbir Singh Bir has applied for VRS in Punjab.He is 1989 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre.
Justice Garg is CJ of Assam High Court
Senior most Judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court Justice R S Garg has been appointed Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court.
IJS in the offing
Like the Indian Administrative Service and the Indian Police Service, now Indian Judicial Service (IJS) is also in the offing.
Ahmad promoted as Joint Financial Advisor
G U Ahmed, IDAS, has been promoted as Joint Financial Advisor to GOC-in-C Central Command and has been conferred with Army Commanders commendation.
Meenaxi Rawat is Director Atomic Energy
Meenaxi Rawat has joined as Director Atomic Energy.She is 1993 batch Indian Economic Service officer.
New post of Jt. Secr (Health)
A new post of Join Secretary is being created in the Union Health Ministry.
Kabirpanthi gets Jt Secr level post
K K Kabirpanthi, officer of Indian Revenue (C&CE) Service of 1983 batch, has been recommended for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent under Central Staffing Scheme.
Alok Kumar to join Arunachal Pradesh Government
Alok Kumar, DCP of Special Cell in Delhi, has been relieved to join the Arunachal Pradesh Government. He is 2000 batch IPS officer of UT cadre. Shibesh Singh will succeed him in Special Cell.
Vivek Joshi relieved to join GoI
Vivek Joshi, a 1989 batch Haryana cadre IAS, has been relieved to join the Government of India on a newly created post of Joint Secretary (Integrated Child Development Services), in the ministry of women and child development
MP to get lion’s share  in PM’s award
Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officers are going to get lion’s share in this year’s slot of Prime Minister’s Awards. Three out of nine awards have been won by bureaucrats from MP. They are : O.P.Rawat(1977 batch)Vice Chairman Narmada Ghati Vikas Pradhikaran & Additional Chief Secretary, Narmada Valley Development Department who shares the award in the group category along with Jaideep Govind (1984 batch) Principal Secretary Higher Education and Technical Education, Rashmi Shami (1994 batch) Director Projects NREGA, Anil Oberoi (Indian Forest Service) Director TADP and Ashok Upadhyaya Additional Director Tribal Welfare. Other awardees include Sanjay Dubey (1993 batch) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) & ex-officio Secretary (P&RD) to Madhya Pradesh Rural Road Development Authority & Gulshan Bamra (1997 batch) Collector Jabalpur.
CCIT 1 Mumbai to retire next month end
Chief Commissioner Income Tax 1 in Mumbai, R K Singh, is superannuating in May end. He is 1973 batch IRS officer.This post is considered to be very powerful in the IRS hierarchy.
Shyam goes to Dhaka
B Shyam First Secretary in Indian High Commission Colombo has been moved to Dhaka.
Heads to roll in Karnataka Congress
In the wake of Congress party’s debacle in recent polls for the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palika (BBMP), heads are going to roll in the Congress.
Karnataka Chief Minister’s detractors get a jolt
Outcome of polls for the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palika (BBMP) that went in favour of BJP has come as a jolt to detractors of Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yedyurappa.
Anup Banerjee DMD, SBI National banking to retire
Anup Banerjee Deputy Managing Director (DMD) & Group Executive (GE) of State Bank of India (SBI) national banking is going to retire on April 30, 2010.
One post in IMF curtailed
Finance Ministry is reported to have curtailed one post in the IMF. Earlier there were four posts for the Indian officials.
Shahzad Hussain is MD, CIDCO to retire
Shahzad Hussain recently joined Maharashtra Government as MD of the City and Industrial growth Corporation  (CIDCO) is going to retire on April 30, 2010. He is an IAS officer of the 1976 batch who belongs to the Maharashtra cadre.
ISS officer gets additional charge
Dr.S.P.Sharma, an ISS officer of 1980 batch, and presently posted on deputation at SAG level post as Commissioner, Economics and Statistics in Department of Planning, Eco. & Stats. in Govt. of Madhya Pradesh has been given additional charge of Economic Adviser in the Department of Finance. Dr. Sharma was earlier posted in TRU, CBEC, Ministry of Finance in Govt. of India and he is Ph.D. in Econometrics( Input-Output Analysis) from IIT Kanpur.
AAI may have 2 EDs Engineering
As the grapevine has it the Airports Authority of India (AAI) of which Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) is V.P.Agrawal may have two Executive Directors (EDs) for Engineering wing.
Who will be the next DGP of Maharashtra ?
Who will be the next DGP of Maharashtra ? This question is being asked in the bureaucratic circles since the present incumbent to the post AN Roy is retiring in May and his successor is yet to be decided.
Post of SGI is yet to be filled up
Surveyor General of India. Department is without any head for the last three years. Is this post insignificant ?.
Jharkhand PSC Chairman removed
The chairman of Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) Dilip Prasad has been removed.
IA&AS officer R Preman Dinaraj transferred
R Preman Dinaraj (IA&AS-84), on expiry of his leave, is transferred and posted as Accountant General (Audit), Bihar, Patna. He will relieve AK Singh.
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 .
Chugh gets additional charge in Jharkhand
Member of the revenue board A.K. Chugh has been given additional charge as chairman of the State Staff Selection Commission .He is 1974 batch IAS officer.
Jaswant’s book release in Islamabad on April 14, 2010
Former Indian Minister for External Affairs Jaswant Singh will release his controversial book on Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Pakistan, at Islamabad Club on April 14, 2010.
Goa CM to meet Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Chief Minister of Goa, Digambar Kamat will be meeting Montek Singh Ahluwalia Deputy Chairman Planning Commission of India to finalize Annual Plan 2010-11 of the state.
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.
Manohar Ram to move to Riyadh
Manohar Ram has been moved from Brussels to Riyadh as DCM
Dr Pandey is new Secretary Forests in MP
Dr V N Pandey has been appointed new Secretary Forests in Madhya Pradesh. He is 1982 batch IFS officer.
IAS reshuffle in Jharkhand
Debashish Gupta has been appointed chief electoral officer. N.N. Pandey has been given additional charge of transport. P. K. Jajoria has been given urban development department. He will also be holding additional charge as civil aviation secretary and Managing Director Greater Ranchi Development Authority. N.N. Sinha has been transferred to the road construction department. Arun Kumar Singh has been made Secretary agriculture department. Amendra Pratap Singh has been posted to the industry department. J.B. Tubid has been given additional charge of cabinet (Vigilance) department. Rajbala Verma has been given additional charge of commercial taxes department. Vishnu Kumar has been given additional charge of revenue and land reforms. R.S.Poddar has been given additional charge of the co-operative department and Sheela Kishu Rapez has been given additional charge of Palamu Division.
Major IAS reshuffle in Rajasthan
In a major bureaucratic reshuffle the Rajasthan Government has
transferred over 32 IAS officers. They are Rajiv Sharma who has been posted as Principal Resident Commissioner – New Delhi, BB Mohanti – Member Revenue Board –Ajmer, Mrs. Aditi Mehta – Principal Secretary Social Justice and Social Security – Jaipur, GL Sandhu – Chairman and Managing Director – Rajasthan Finance Corporation, Jaipur, Rajendra Prasad Jain – CEO and Commissioner, Jaipur Municipal Corporation, Damodar Sharma – Indira Gandhi Nahar Pariyojana (IGNP), Rajasthan, Jaipur, Sohan Lal – Secretary – State Election Commission, Rajasthan, Jaipur, Ajit Kumar Singh – Principal Secretary – Science and Technology, Jaipur, Manohar Kant Kalohiya – Principal Secretary – Labour and Employment, Jaipur, Dr. Lalit Mehra – CMD – Rajasthan State Warehousing Corporation, Jaipur, BN Sharma – Principal Secretary – Health and Family Welfare, Jaipur, Rajiv Swarup – Principal Secretary – Information and Public relation, Jaipur, Sudarshan Sethi – Divisional Commissioner – Jodhpur, madhukar Gupta - Divisional Commissioner – Bharatpur, Yaduvendra Mathur – Secretary, Finance Department – Jaipur, Deepak Upreti – Commissioner Transport, SK Agarwal – CMD – Rajasthan State Electricity Distribution Corporation Ltd, Jaipur, Niranjan Kumar Arya - Commissioner – Commercial Tax Department, Jaipur, Ramesh Kumar Jain – State Insurance and Provident Fund department, Rajasthan, Jaipur, Vaibhav Galriya – Project Director – Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project, Jaipur, Bhawani Singh Detha – District Collector and District Magistrate, Churu, Dr. Krishna Kant Pathak – Director – Ground Water Development and Conservation department, Rajasthan, Jaipur, Bhanu Prakash Aturu – Additional Commissioner, Commercial Tax department, Jaipur, Ravi Jain – Commissioner – Jodhpur Development Corporation – Jodhpur, Mrs. Poonam – State Project Director – DPIP – II, Jaipur, Gaurav Goyal – District Collector and District Magistrate, Badmer, Arti Dogra - District Collector and District Magistrate, Boondi, Rohit Gupta - District Collector and District Magistrate, Pratapgarh, V sarvan Kumar - District Collector and District Magistrate, Dholpur, Mrs. Shilpa – Deputy Secretary, Urban Development, Rajasthan, Jaipur and Ms. Tina Soni – Sub-Divison officer, Mount Abu (Sirohi).
Govind, Shami, Oberoi, Upadhyaya share PM’s award in group category
The IAS officers who have been selected for the Prime Minister’s award in the group category along with O.P. Rawat, Vice-Chairman NVDA and ACS 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.

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Grey appoints Hari Krishnan as vice president
The renowned advertising firm Grey has appointed Hari Krishnan as its vice president and branch head Prior to joining Grey, Krishnan was with Star TV as vice president (marketing).
Karanth promoted in Karnataka Bank
M.V.C.S. Karanth, Deputy General Manager of Karnataka Bank Ltd, has been promoted as General Manager.

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Kabaddi..Kabaddi…Kabaddi…. Politics 
India has never been a great sports loving country and never ever sports person barring cricket have caught frenzy of ordinary Indians. More so traditional Indian sports like wrestling, malkham , weightlifting ,kabaddi etc  had limited audience and  very limited patrons and as a consequence home grown talent faded into oblivion resulting into domino of disenchantment among  promising  players who had talent to perform. 
World Kabaddi Cup  was great gamble  that Punjab Government and powers that be took to revive the sagging political fortunes . Though it will premature to fathom the real impact of the Kabaddi mania had on the rural and the urban youth and its benign impact on Akali rural vote bank , but it definitely was a mammoth exercise that almost mobilized  5 to 6 lakh   people across Punjab . Its geographical spread to coincide with political epicenters of Majha, Doaba and Malwa, the bigness of prize money involved and the media rage unleashed to catch the imagination of rural youth and their guardians is a deft political move that is reminiscent of Roman emperors who to elude public ire due to ill governance offered them entertainment through mega sporting events. 
Entertainment is a cheap and less laborious alternate to development and an effective tool to nurture one’s vote bank. This entire Kabaddi charade must not have costed state more than Rs.15 to Rs.20 core ( with host of sponsors chipping in) , a very cheap alternate to a development model wherein a capital expenditure of hundreds of core is required to bring about same level of pleasure experience. 
What this Kabaddi craze will probably do is that soon in every nook and corner of Punjab, undereducated and unemployable youth will vie for patronage from local Akali leaders as kabaddi will be projected as one’s passport to prosperity and popularity. Also this battery of young well built youth will act as personal army of the political warlord to bulldoze any voice of dissent  vying for development and clean governance. 
Are congress masters listening and learning or they still dream of sliding into power ? Most of congress workers of Punjab really wonder at the slumber and the latitudinarian attitude of their masters……..  
RAMAN 
Inappropriate  
Comments made regarding the Army are not appropriate. Army chief was completely right in his statement. Army officers and soldiers are dying every day in the line of duty, a fact of life which is new to the Central Police Orgs. Also, it is ridiculous to the point of dishonesty, to say that Army officers may never see a war in their lives. Since independence, we have had wars or warlike situations in 1948, 1962, 1965, 1971, 1980s (IPKF/Punjab), 1990s NorthEast (Assam, Mizoram, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland), Jammu & Kashmir, 1999 (Kargil), 2002 and ongoing ops in Kashmir, and Northeast. Who handled all these situations? The CPO's? I dont think so. Every generation of Army officers has seen MORE than one war!

CRPF has grown to 200+ bns. How many of their officers have any combat/insurgency experience at all? How many are capable of leading a company in war or anti terror ops? Furthermore, Kargil may have started out bad, but it finished in victory. And that it was not the failure of the Army, was amply pointed out by the KRC. And where failure was identified, the responsible (Senior) Army officers were dismissed from the service. This is scarcely something we see in other arms of govt. Will the DIG/IG who was responsible for the Dantewada disaster be dismissed from service? Impossible! In other arms of government, even child molesters are made DGPs and given medals, forget being given the sack!
-Aditya
“ Prove your mettle as Chairperson NAC-II: An open appeal to Ms Sonia Gandhi !!!”
This is an opportunity of a life-time for you. In UPA-I, the NAC-I headed by you, was mandated to monitor the NCMP. The alliance  was bound by powerful coalition partners. In UPA-II, the Chairperson  has  emerged as the most powerful politician. Its agenda  could possibly include:  Food security amendment Bill  to cover the urban poor, mis-use of NREGA funds by the States,  the un-finished agenda of NAC-I etc. Fair enough. But, could these objectives be achieved  under the present dispensation? Perhaps,never. India, as of  today, is  leaderless. There are centres surrounding sub-centres of power mush-rooming all around. Corruption has become a negotiable commodity. We hear of intra- and inter-ministerial wranglings among ministers. A no-holds-barred one-up-man ship of sorts. The Prime Minister, though personally honest, is as helpless as the Aam aadmi.  India badly needs a leader like the late Mrs Indira Gandhi, not, an academician-turned-politician. The public has grown intolerant to  corrupt politicians mis-using tax-payers’ money by shamelessly erecting statues, memorials and flaunting garlands of currency notes. Strangely, even the Supreme Court seems to be fed up with the melodrama when it brushes aside  such acts of misconduct as “ administrative matter”! Failure of Civil Service, its nexus with corrupt politicians and the absence of substantive agenda for the NAC is a serious matter. We do not expect   the ‘Law of Parkinson’ to create work for NAC-II .As a citizen of India, I offer a simple prescription in the form of  “Eik  Sutri Karyakram” for NAC-II.This could be a panacea for country’s multiple  ills. As Chairperson of NAC-II, I would urge upon you to don the responsibility. Please attack the decades old problem of India’s black money stashed in Swiss Banks and other tax havens. The NDA failed to tackle  it . UPA-I  also failed  due to compulsions of ‘realpolitik’. Our ‘promising’ PM and FM, suffering from  short-term memory lapses, seem to have  conveniently forgotten about their promises made  last year before General elections. As Chairperson of NAC-II, I would urge upon you to don the responsibility  as the Chairperson NAC-II  and strive hard to  get the black money repatriated to Indian shores. This parallel economy  could be utilised for funding several socio-economic and poverty alleviation programmes and the most vexatious problem of ‘Food Security’. Even the Maoists’ threat ,which is a byproduct of economic  disparity in the country, will be impacted. Your strength as Chairperson NAC-II should be used as an ‘opportunity’ rather than as a ’threat’ in this endeavour! Can you demonstrate the “political will”, to take up the challenge for the sake of Aam aadmi? I  am not sure? Please prove me wrong.If you succeed in achieving the “Eik Sutri Karyakram”, I shall be the first to propose your name for Bharat Ratna !
A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)
Reforms in Services

All organised Services should have equal opportunity to man senior positions of Joint Secretary and above equally. Hence a quota in proportion to the cadre strength needs to be reserved for the Other backward services (OBS i.e. non IAS officers) for manning these posts.
P Dash
It is understandable
The worry expressed under heading "it is worrisome" by Aarti Khosla about poor promotional prospects of IRS officers vis`a`vis other Central Services is understandable. She has rightly rued the fact that while 1994 batch is being considered for promotion to SAG in IA&AS in IRS they would have got selection grade only recently. However, if you see the conditions of some of the engineering services, the situation is so pathetic that the officers of even 1986 exam have not got the selection grade (Grade Pay 8700) till date. The officers of 1987 batch shall be getting the selection grade with effect from 2012 upto 2019. Even, in case of batch parity granted by the government as per 6th pay commission, so much confusion has been created by DOP&T (Read IAS) by imposing conditions not at all commensurate with the letter and spirit of 6th CPC and government resolution, that there is no relief in sight for these marginalized services. It is a pity that the Ministry of Personnel which is under the Prime minister is working so pathetically.
Samalochak
Message to the policy makers of central government
Stagnation in Gr.D Stenographers in the CSSS
It is very unfortunate for the Gr.D. stenographers in the CSSS that they have not been given promotions even after completing 25 years of their sincere and regular service in the grade. The policy makers of the Central Government are requested to kindly look into it and do something for the downtrodden class of Gr. D Stenographers of CSSS. Immediate action in this regard will be highly appreciated by this class of central government employees.
Deep
Vow. lucky guys.
In CPOs 1996 batch (that is counting from date of joining service) have not got their second promotions yet. If you actually use the same methodology of using the year of writing exams it is CPO 93 batch i am talking about. speak of some people being children of lesser gods. or is that we CPOs serve India and IPS serve their political masters???
Shekar
No sufficient infrastructural facilities
No sufficient infrastructural facilities provided in most of the branch office of the income-tax department. At the same time they are the highest revenue generating department. it may also appreciated to see that the total expenditure for the department is less than 1% of the total tax collection. This department has express its highest social commitment by unearthing the black money, which is injurious to the economic health of country. In most of branch offices through out the country faces acute shortage of man power caused by restructual programe. during the month of January, February and March 2010 all most all office were working from 8 am to midnight. Who cares it. At least the employees are deserving an appreciation in this regards. I am welcoming the negative views in this facts.
Shanu
End the distrust ?
Everyone in India and Pakistan is happy that Sania and Shoib are finally happily married! How much more wonderful it would be, isn’t it , if Sonia were to marry Yusuf Gilani and end the distrust between the two nations?
D Choudhury