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Vijaylakshmi Gupta to be next Secretary (Defence Finance ) !
Vijaylakshmi Gupta is slated to be next Secretary (Defence Finance) Ministry of Defence. 1974 batch IDAS officer Ms Gupta is presently Member (Finance) in the Tececom Commission.
Will Arvind Mayaram join ADB ?
Arvind Mayaram is expected to join the ADB on a newly created post of Vice President. He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.
Process for 1980 batch IAS empanelment for Addt. Secr starts
Process for the empanelment of 1980 batch IAS for the post of Additional Secretary in the Government of India has started.
Ms. Rajni Razadan's order as Member UPSC soon
As the grapevine has it formal appointment order of Ms Rajni Razdan as a Member UPSC is expected in a day or two . She was Secretary Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare. She is an IAS officer of the 1973 batch who belongs to the Haryana cadre.
( We said this on April 12 )
Anita Kaul to be AS Elementary Education and Literacy
Joint Secretary, Department of School Education & Literacy Ms Anita Kaul is being promoted to the rank of Additional Secretary this month .She is 1979 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.
Galhotra moves to Delhi from Kolkata
Joint Director CBI in Kolkata O P Galhotra has been moved to Delhi. He is 1985 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.
Desh Deepak Verma relieved by UP Government
Finally after a long battle Desh Deepak Verma has been relieved by the UP Government to join the Government of India as Additional Secretary Food and Public Distribution..He is 1978 batch IAS officer
Peeyush Pandey joins SPG
Peeyush Pandey has joined the SPG as DIG.He is 1993 batch IPS officer of West Bengal cadre.
( We said this on October19,2009 and again on February 25 )
File for Chairman, IIFCL reaches Finance Minister
As the grapevine has it, the file pertaining to appointment for the slot of new Chairman, India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd (IIFCL) has reached Pranab Mukherjee Indian Finance Minister. The panel has three names.They are : A.C.Mahajan Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) Canara Bank, J.M. Garg CMD Corporation Bank & S.K. Goyal CMD UCO Bank. It may be stated that Ms. Ravneet Kaur is acting Chairman and Managing Director of the IIFCL  .Ms. Ravneet Kaur is Joint Secretary in department of Banking & Insurance who looks after Industrial Finance. Ms.Ravneet Kaur
is an IAS officer of the 1988 batch who belongs to the Punjab cadre.
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.
Shortage of 11459 Army Officers
If informed sources are to be believed, there is a shortage of 11459 army officers(of the rank of captain or above ) in the country.
Scramble for the Secretary in NAC
As the grapevine has it, there is a scramble for the slot of Secretary National Advisory Council (NAC) of which chief is Ms. Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson - UPA. NAC has been revived .
Department of Post fixes a target of Rs.8000 crore
The Department of Post of which Secretary is Ms. Radhika Doraiswamy who heads PS Board has fixed a target of Rs.8000 crore for the year 2010-11 as against the last financial year’s target of Rs.6000 crore.
Vijay Kumar is JS Rural Development
T Vijay Kumar has joined as Joint Secretary (Rural Development) in the Government of India. He is 1983 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.
( We said this on March 4 )
SBI's Diwakar Gupta is DMD national banking also
Diwakar Gupta Deputy Managing Director (DMD) & Goup Exexcutive (GE) of State Bank of India (SBI) for Rural Banking will also hold additional charge as DMD & GE National banking. This arrangement has been done in the wake of Anup Banerjee's retirement on April 30,2010.
Congress trying to figure out how effective is JNNRUM?
As the grapevine has it, Congress leaders are trying to figure out that how effective is much touted Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) ? This has come into sharp focus in the wake of Congress party’s debacle in recent polls for the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palika (BBMP).
O.P. Maken elevated as ED in NTPC
O.P. Maken who so far was General Manager (GM) with NTPC has been elevated as an Executive Director (ED). Presently he is posted in joint venture of NTPC & Bharat Forge.
Many in fray for the slot of ED (Engineering) in AAI
As the grapevine has it there are many General Managers (GMs) who are in fray for two posts of Executive Directors (EDs) for Engineering wing in the Airports Authority of India (AAI) of which Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) is V.P.Agrawal. They are: V.K.Malhotra, Anuj Agrawal & A.K.Mishra.
P P Srivastava to be CCIT 1 Mumbai ?
P P Srivastava is likely to succeed R K Singh as Chief Commissioner Income Tax Mumbai 1.He is 1974 batch IRS officer. This post is considered to be most powerful post in the IRS hierarchy.
Six officers nominated for selection in Post Graduate Diploma Programe
As many as six officers have been nominated for their selection in the ninth Post Graduate Diploma Programe in Public Police and Management during 2010-12 at the Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore from June 1, 2010. Those nominated are C. Sylendrababum - IPS (TN:87), Chennai, Satyajit Mohanti - IPS(Orissa:88), IGP, Bhubneshwar, Abhay Chandra Singh, Commandant, CRPF, Patna (Bihar), Pankaj Kumar, Dy.Comdt., BSF, Tekanpur, A.N. Pandey - 2nd –in Command, CRPF, Srinagar and Tarun Kumar, Dy. Commandant, BSF, Raiganj (WB).
Maj Gen Chandra Prakash promoted
Maj Gen Chandra Prakash has been promoted to the rank of Lt Gen in the India Army under the Staff Scheme.
Maj Gen Hooda promoted
Maj Gen D S Hooda has been promoted to the rank of Lt Gen in the India Army under the Staff Scheme.
Maj Gen Bhalla promoted
Maj Gen P S Bhalla has been promoted to the rank of Lt Gen in the India Army under the Staff Scheme.
Maj Gen Dipinder Singh promoted
Maj Gen Dipinder Singh has been promoted to the rank of Lt Gen in the India Army under the Staff Scheme.
Maj Gen Guha promoted
Maj Gen A Guha has been promoted to the rank of Lt Gen in the India Army under the Staff Scheme.
Maj Gen Chopra promoted
Maj Gen Sanjeev Chopra has been promoted to the rank of Lt Gen in the India Army under the Staff Scheme.
Maj Gen Rameshwar Yadav promoted
Maj Gen Rameshwar Yadav has been promoted to the rank of Lt Gen in the India Army under the Staff Scheme.
Anurag Srivastava moves to Colombo
Deputy Secretary (Fin) in the Ministry of External Affairs Anurag Srivastava has been moved to Indian High Commission Colombo as First Secretary.
Will Rao be Chairman of JNPT ?
Will P Rama Mohan Rao be able to take over as new Chairman of the Jawahar Lal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT).He is 1985 batch IAS officer of TamilNadu cadre. Search Committee is believed to have cleared the name of Rao for the post.There is still uncertainty.
Rajendra Pal Singh has been posted as IG (Range), Varanasi.
Rajendra Pal Singh, IG (Intelligence) HQ Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh has been posted as IG (Range), Varanasi.He is an IPS officer of the 1987 batch who belongs to the Uttar Pradesh cadre.
Ms.Mamta Singh gets extension
Ms.Mamta Singh SSP (1) National Human Right Commission (NHRC) has been granted extension for 2 years. She is an IPS officer of the 1996 batch who
belongs to the Haryana cadre.
IA&AS officer AK Singh transferred
AK Singh, Principal Accountant General (Audit), Bihar, Patna, on relief from his present duties by Shri R Preman Dinaraj, is transferred and posted as Principal Accountant General (A&E), Orissa, Bhubaneswar, against upgraded post. Singh will also hold additional charge of the office of the Principal Director of Audit, East Coast Railway, Bhubaneswar, until further orders.
Srivastava to be Director (Finance) WAPCOS !
P P Srivastava is likely to be appointed Member (Finance) in the WAPCOS.The PESB has reportedly put the name of Srivasava number one in the panel.
All 264 Central PSUs to follow guidelines on corporate governance
All 246 Central PSUs will now be required to strictly follow guidelines on Corporate governance which include norms relating to composition of boards, formation and role of audit committees, functioning of subsidiary companies, disclosures, code of conduct and ethics, risk management and reporting.
Banerjee to be Director Hindustan Papers !
In all probability Amitabh Banerjee will be Director in the Hindustan Papers. The PESB is reportedly put his name number one in the panel.
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.
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).
Special trial court to pronounce its verdict on May 3, 2010
Special trial court on Mumbai attack case will pronounce its
verdict for cruel Kasab on May 3, 2010.
Coast Guard Region (NW) to conduct “Sagar Kavach”
The Headquarters, Coast Guard Region (NW) will be conducting a second joint CoastalSecurity Exercise "Sagar Kavach" on Apr 15 and 16 2010 along thecoast of Gujarat, Daman & Diu involving Indian Navy, Coastal Police, otherCentral and the State security agencies. The joint exercise in coastal areas ofGujarat, Daman & Diu would focus on synergy in operations, both over seaand land to test efficiency and validation of standard operating procedure. Various mock drills and situations would be injected to test the joint responseof the security forces against offensive actions spread over the sea and land.
Topden appointed Ambassador to Greece
Tsewang Topden, presently High Commissioner to Namibia has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Greece.
Srivastava  appointed Ambassador
D.N Srivastava, presently Ambassador of India to Democratic Republic of Congo, has been concurrently accredited as the Ambassador of India to Central African Republic and Republic of Congo with residence in Kinshasa.
Alok Kumar moves to Chandigarh
Alok Kumar has been posted in Chandgarh. He is 1996 batch IPS officer of UT cadre.
 

CORPORATE
Raja Kochar is MD, India, Eaton Corporation
Eaton Corporation has appointed Raja Kochar as its Managing Director, India. Kochar, who succeeds Shyam Kambeyanda, will report to Curt Hutchins, President, Asia Pacific. Kambeyanda, in the meanwhile, has been named regional president, Asia Pacific, for the hydraulics group.
Sudip to start new venture
Group President of the financial services arm of the Spice group, Sudip Bandyopadhyay, is said to be moving on to start his own venture.
Ravi Kapoor to head Investment Banking of Citigroup
Ravi Kapoor is set to head investment banking for Citigroup in India.

Aaj Ki Aawaz

I think its time Sonia told Mohna ‘drop Tharoor’!!!
And now he’s into more controversy because of his ‘hoor’ (love)!!
 
Okay Modi is neck deep in scum but he’s not a Minister but Tharoor is one!!
So he is answerable to the Nation for all that he has done!!
 
IPL should be made transparent!!
There is lot of jiggery pokkery going on in IPL and this is very apparent!!
 
Ownership of IPL Teams cannot be treated as secret of the State!!!
All details should be made public right from IPL’s inception date!!
 
Again Tharoor should be told to pack his bags!!!
And he can then to his hearts content twit and model for mags!!
 
Mohna is in cool climes and so is major part of his Cabinet!!
In cooler climes karr rahe hai hibernate!!
 
And of course you and I are paying for their ‘chilling out’!!!
Via RTI all details can be brought out!!!
 
Absentee Minister Azagiri went on a 11 day holiday!!
‘He went on Ministry work’ his Staff does say!!
 
The man cannot speak English and he’s an illiterate!!
Why are we being made to pay for this ‘deadweight’s’ freight?????
 
Rahul is back in the news with a bang…… war for Ambedkar is on!!!!
Any thousand rupee garlands for Ambedkar….. none!!!
 
Maya garlanded Ambedkar’s statue with flowers ki maala!!!
And Rahul ne statue parr flower petals daala!!
 
And please do note if you want to garland any statue in UP permission is required!!
Why do you think Maya is interested that guards for the statues be hired!! 
 
Gandhi is the Father of the Nation and Ambedkar is the Papa of a Vote Bank!
Ambedkar aim was unison for upliftment but Maya’s made it into a prank!!
 
This Louis Vuitton diamond wearing Dalit has make Ambedkar’s cause into a joke!
They say she needs mineral water when she has to take a soak (bath)!!
 
And she had the gall to say that Rahul bathes after staying at a Dalit home!
Basically she gets paranoid when in UP Rahul does roam!
 
Rahul on the other hand lives with Dalits with an eye on their votes!!!
Their grievances he does take notes!!
 
But after that there is no action and once in Delhi the ‘notes’ are kept aside!
It sure is an empty ‘Congress is on your (Dalits) side’!
 
Sometiems I feel our Netas do not want the poor get out of their 'hell holes'!
Keep them desperate and hopeful of help from you are the Netas goals!!
 
Take the Badals in Punjab!!!!
They want that their electorates haalath to remain kharaab!!!
 
You can say they want their haalath to remain khastaa!!
Or the electorate will show them ‘exit ka rastaa’!!
 
So grandiose promises are made but never kept!!
And this is not because Papa and Beta Badal are inept!!
 
Their philosophy is keep the electorate in a desperate state!
And then rule the State!!!
 
They use religion like a tool!!
To befool!!
 
Confucius says… for India’s progress these Badals, Chautalas, Thackreys, Karunas etc., must be canned!!!
We can do it after all the gates to power via out votes by us are manned!!!
 
Flash..... threat to Congress has received a threat himself!!
Or maybe it is 'threatening self'!!
 
He may be using this threat as a ploy to get sympathy!!!
For himself stage managing empathy!!
 
Dawood apart from protection and bumping off also makes threats as per client's will!
And the threats with expletive a sper client's choice he does fill!!
 
So for all you know Tharoor has got Dawood to theaten him!!!
And now his sidekick is terming the threats as grim!
 
And its Tharoor's money then remember in UN 'network of gravy trains' do run!
They say there is fixed rate to be paid before contracts are won!!!
 
If its Tharoor's money then how did he come into so much paisa????
Knowledgable sources say in UN hothaa hi hai aisa!! 
  
Bharat Kumar

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War of words
CSSS & CSS people are engaged in war of words. they must try to focus on their individual service benefits and not to look at the others. If CSS is getting something then it would be also helpful to CSS e.g. if number of posts of Director, DS etc. increase then subsequently the number of CSSS posts will also increase. Let the first thing happen then they can fight for their posts. don't go for false allegations but work hard for CSSS. No doubt it will not happen just by sitting and getting everything on the basis of CSS. Move out and act but not at the expense of CSS. Set your house in order don't poke your nose in CSS.
Rakesh

Leadership was responsible
Many think that what has happened on 06.04.2010 was because of poor leadership and low morale of CRPF. It is easy to comment instead of going into the field. Current leadership was responsible to get Transit camp at NDly Rly. Station, MT Part at Dte, transfer of Key locations from SSB, sophisticated Canteen and building of infrastructure for CRPF. There is absolutely no doubt that the current leadership will leave no stone unturned.
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