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Deepak Bagla to succeed Kohli ?
In all probability Deepak Bagla will be new Chairman, India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd (IIFCL) that is currently being headed by S. S. Kohli ex-Chairman Punjab National Bank.Interviews were held for the post on March 31. He is presently Director Infrastructure,31 India.
Islam to increase leaps and bounds in Europe ?
Islam is expected to increase leaps and bounds in Europe, latest reports say. It is estimated that in the next 20 years, there would be 60 percent Islam and 40 percent Christianity in European countries.
1990 batch IAS empanelment reaches to PM
After a noting from Home Minister P Chidambaram,the empanelment file of 1990 batch IAS officers has now reached to the Prime Minister.Now the final approval is awaited.
Ms. Sonia Gandhi gets stronger
Ms.Sonia Gandhi Chairperson UPA after becoming head of National Advisory Council (NAC) has emerged much stronger.
Ms. Vijai Lakshmi Sharma is CBEC’s member
Ms. Vijai Lakshmi Sharma who so far was Director General (DG) of Directorate General of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Delhi  has joined on the new post of Member Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC). The post was revived recently. Ms. Sharma who is a 1975 batch officer of Indian Customs and Central Excise service was maiden lady chief of DRI.
( We said this on March 15 )
Political turmoil in Karnataka
Political turmoil has gripped Karnataka as dissidents are up in arms against Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa.
AK Shrivastava is IG Forests
AK Shrivastava who so far was Joint Secretary in the National Commission for Economically Backward Classes has assumed the charge as IG Forests in the Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) . He is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1980 batch & belongs to the Jammu & Kashmir cadre.
(We said this in February 2010)
S. Prabhakaran ED, ECGC to retire in June 2010
S Prabhakaran, Executive Director (ED) with the Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India Limited (ECGC), is going to retire in June 2010.
Will there be a dark horse for Chief of IIFCL?
Will there be a dark horse for post of Chief of India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd (IIFCL)? Grapevine has it efforts are afoot to get an IAS posted there.
Sahu to move to Beijing
Counsellor in Indian Embassy ,Tehran Arun Kumar Sahu has been moved to Beijing.
1984 batch IPS to get ADG rank in Haryana
1984 batch IPS officers are being promoted to the rank of ADG in Haryana.
IGNOU launches project
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has launched a nationwide project towards enhancing Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in Higher Education in the country under the leadership of Dr.Vijay Kapur,IAS, Bihar-1977, a 2009 recipient of prestigious 'Palmes Academiques' Award by the Republic of France for his manifold contributions to international education who is currently deputed as Advisor to the Vice Chancellor Prof.V.N.Rajasekharan Pillai. 
Why did DoPT not circulate vacancy ?
Why did the DoPT not circulate vacancy of the Chairman of the Paradeep Port Trust? This question is being asked in the bureaucratic circles.
Manoj Tiwari goes to Competition Commission of India
IT officer Manoj Tiwari posted in Bhopal will go on deputation to Competition Commission of India, New Delhi, as an Assistant Director.
IA & AS Officer Parate transferred
RJ Parate, Deputy Accountant General, in the office of Accountant General (Audit), Chhattisgarh, Raipur, is transferred and posted as Deputy Accountant General(A/cs, VLC) in the office of Accountant General (A&E)-II, Maharashtra, Nagpur.
67 IAS vacancies in Jharkhand
There are 67 vacancies of IAS officers in Jharkhand. The state has at present only 76 IAS officers as against the cadre of 143.
IA & AS officer AN Das transferred
AN Das, Deputy Director in the branch office Bhillai of the office of Principal Director of Commercial Audit & Ex-officio Member Audit Board, Ranchi, is transferred and posted as Deputy Accountant General (Comml/RA) in the office of Accountant General (Audit), Chhattisgarh, Raipur.
Now no Bihar lobby exists in Delhi
As the grapevine has it, there is no Bihar lobby in corridors of power.
Chhattisgarh gets 22 new IPS posts
After cadre revision, the posts of IPS in Chhattisgarh have now increased from 81 to 103.
Raghav Chandra gets additional charge in Madhya Pradesh
Raghav Chandra Principal Secretary Urban Administration departnment (UAD)to Madhya Pradesh has been given additional charge of Sports & Youth Welfare. He is an IAS officer of the 1982 batch who belongs to the Madhya Pradesh cadre.
Ashok Kumar gets Jt Secr level post
Ashok Kumar Pandey, 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.
Naveen Patnaik to launch ITBP’s work
Naveen Patnaik Chief Minister of Orissa will perform bhumi poojan for establishing one battalion of Indian Tibet Border Police (ITBP), on April 26, 2010. Orissa Government has given land to ITBP free of cost. Ranjeet Bhatia, DGP, ITBP will also attend this function.
Home Minister’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh postponed
Home Minister P. Chidambaram’s four days visit to Arunachal Pradesh slated to commence April 1, to review the situation of North East Areas, has been postponed.
Air Marshal Raha takes over as Senior Air Staff Officer, Western Air Command
Air Marshal Arup Raha has taken over as the Senior Air Staff Officer at Western Air Command, New Delhi. An alumnus of National Defence Academy, Khadakvasla, he was commissioned into the fighter stream of the Indian Air Force on 14 Dec 1974. He has approximately 3400 hours of flying to his credit.
Guru C Ray to return to Railways
IRTS officer of 1982 batch, Guru C Ray, who is Commissioner Rail Coordination in Orissa Government will be returning to Delhi.
Railways transfers and postings
Sanjiv Handa of IRSME has been transferred from GM/ECR as Member(Mech)/RB and ex-officio Secy.to the Govt of India until further orders, HK Jaggi of SAG/IRSE has been transferred from NWR to be posted as CE(COORD) on NWR, Laj Kumar of
SAG/IRSE has been transferred from ECOR to be appointed as HAG and posted as PCE on ECOR itself, VK Sangal of SAG/IRSE has been transferred from SECR to HAG and posted as PCE, Dr. Renu Jaggi of SG/IRMS has been transferred from NR as Sr. DMO/Ambala to NWR on her own request, S. Gangarin of SAG/IRTS has been on return from deputation transferred to SWR, NK Sachan of SAG/IRTS has been transferred from NFR and posted as CFTM on NFR, Utpal Kanti Bal of SAG/IRTS has been transferred from NFR to ER.
Kerala Transport Commissioner shifted
Kerala Transport Commissioner Prem Shanker has been shifted to Film Development Corporation. V P Joy has been given additional charge of Transport Commissioner.
1986 batch IPS get ADG rank in Nagaland
Two 1986 batch IPS officers S N Achumi and L Thechamo Lotha  have been promoted to the rank of ADG in Nagaland.
Mishra  is new Director of Manav Sangrahalaya ,Bhopal
Prof K K Mishra of Hyderabad  has joined as new Director of the Manav Sangrahalaya ,Bhopal
   ( We said this on October23,2009 )
Lepcha new Member of PSC Sikkim
Lhendup Dorjee Lepcha has  been appointed as a Member of Sikkim Public Service Commission.
Verma relieved to join CBI
Sikkim Government has relieved Gyanendra Kumar Verma, IPS (SK-2001), Superintendent of Police, South, Government of Sikkim  to join the CBI.

CCIT – IV Mumbai Chattopadhyay gets VRS

The request for voluntary retirement of SK Chattopadhyay, IRS (IT :74), CCIT – IV, Mumbai, has been accepted to enable him to join as Member, Settlement Commission ( Income Tax/Wealth Tax) with headquarters at Kolkata.

Ojha posted in PM Security
A K Ojha has been posted as DCP PM Security. He is 1998 batch IPS officer of UT cadre.
Jaiswal is new Add DCP North-West Delhi
B Shankar Jaiswal has been appointed new Additional DCP Delhi North-West.He is 2001 batch IPS officer of UT cadre.

Winners of SAIL Golf tourney

Winner of the SAIL Open-2010 golf tournament Richard Karlberg (extreme right) of Sweden celebrates his victory (20 under - 268) while (from extreme left) 1st runner-up Shiv Kapur (15 under - 273), SAIL Chairman S.K. Roongta and Union Minister for Steel Virbhadra Singh look on. Jyoti Randhawa was a close 2nd runner-up (14 under - 274). 156 players from across the world participated in this Asian Tour-PGTI tournament of which SAIL was the title sponsor for the third consecutive year. Total prize money awarded amounted to US$ 300,000. The SAIL Open-2010 was hosted at the Delhi Golf Club from 30th March to 2nd April, 2010.

CORPORATE
Bansal is Chairman of Investment Banking
V K Bansal has been appointed as Chairman by the Morgan Stanley of its investment banking in India.
Mukerji is head Bharat Engiineering
Pronob Mukerji has joined as head of the Oil and Gas SBU, McNally Bharat Engineering
BHEL’s capability hiked to deliver 15,000 MW annually
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) notched its highest-ever turnover of Rs.34,050 Crore, registering a growth of 21% over the previous year. Profit Before Tax (PBT) surged 31% at Rs.6,353 crore, during the year, moving past the Rs.5,000 crore mark for the first time. This was disclosed by B. Prasada Rao, Chairman & Managing Director, BHEL, at a press conference, in Delhi on April 1, 2010. Addressing media people, he said that BHEL has developed the capability to deliver 15,000 MW of power equipment per annum. Further augmentation to 20,000 MW per annum is underway and is expected to be completed by March 2012.According to Rao net profit (PAT) for the year is Rs. 4,287 Crore, as against  Rs.3,138 crore of last year - a growth of 37%. An interim equity dividend of 110% on the enhanced equity capital was paid for fiscal year of 2009-10, maintaining the track record of paying dividends uninterruptedly since 1976-77, said
B.P.Rao. Earnings per share (EPS) was Rs.87.60 an increase of  37% over that of 2008-09, while net asset value (NAV) per share stood at Rs. 321.20, post-bonus, reflecting the intrinsic strength of the company. The total export turnover (physical + deemed) touched rs. 14,436 crore. BHEL CMD also stated that the BHEL  secured orders worth Rs.59,031 crore while operating in competitive domestic and overseas markets. At the end of the year, total orders in hand for execution in 2010-11 and beyond, stand at about Rs.1,43,800 Crore - the highest-ever, he said..
Bhat to head multi-state organisation
A S Bhat ED of Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Co-operative (Campco) Ltd, has taken over as the MD of the multi-state organization. He has succeededP Madhusudan Rao.
Vivek Mohan is President
Vivek Mohan has been appointed as President of Alcatel-Lucent’s global services business.
Bajpai is Company Secretary of Hindustan Unilever
Dev Bajpai has been appointed as Company Secretary and Compliance Officer of the Hindustan Unilever Ltd.. Company.

Aaj Ki Aawaz
From being the unofficial Boss of UPA now Sonia is once again the official one!
Status quo when it comes to her son!!!
 
He remains the PM in waiting!!!
You can say the PM’s post he’s still dating!!!
 
And by the looks of it for this term of UPA PM's post he will continue to date!!!
Though there is some positioning of him taking the next logical step of late!!
After 62 years a basic right which is RTE has been born!!!
To make it a reality expenditure by Sarkaar will have to be borne!!
Another basic right ....Right to Food is stuck because of differences on who is poor!!!
So maybe a team of SC Judges and Netas will embark on a fact finding tour!!
To define poor they will spend crores on travel and stay!!!!
And funnily for this in a way the poor 'or the ones defined' will pay!!
The past month has been traumatic for Congress!!!
Congress has been in stress!!!
 
It started with the Women’s Bill and then the Nuke Civil Liability Bill!!
Going has been uphill!!
The Women's Bill was taken up in a tearing hurry and caused a unnecessary flurry!
The Civil Nuke Liability Bill was the real worry!!!
 
Media may be making a big hullabaloo about the Congress Bachchan fight!
But on the importance of this issue on the part of the Media there’s been oversight!
 
This Congress Bachchan fight was only on the minds of 2% of this great Nation!!
98% had on their minds inflation!!!
 
On TV, blogs and twits this fight was being fought!!
98% were more concerned about prices, jobs and it’s getting too hot!!
 
The real India does not bother about Congress and Bachchan ki ladai!!!
They have more serious issues like ‘aaj kya ghar mein biwi ne daal hai chadhayee(cook)’!!
 
From being a daily fare now Dal are become a luxury for most!!!
‘Aaj ghar mein Dal banni hai’ is the new boast!!
 
The Prannoys and Rajdeeps think they have the people’s pulse in their hand!!!
Ostriches with their heads in sand!!!
These Baba Logh TV Channels feel they run the Nation!!!!!
'IBN effect' or 'NDTV effect' they announce grandiosely with elation!!
 
As China spends on infrastructure India is still in planning mode!!!!
Its like China is progressing by air and India is stuck on the road!!
 
Politics and corruption have bogged India down!!!
And overseas investors say this afflicts all who are colored brown!!
 
Yellow skinned do not have these maladies!!!!
Long time back they got the remedies!!!
 
In China corruption is punishable with death!!!
And as we all know no sane man would put money above breath!!!
 
Politics makes our Sarkaar do strange things… take the golden quadrilateral!!!
It was taken to be a BJP project so UPA knocked it down lateral!!!
 
Tiger Woods is to come back to golf…… he is admired by ever US male!!
And is on the wish list of every US female!!
 
This is after his sex life was revealed!!
Though now he says from his ‘sex caused injury’ he has healed!!
 
He shoots ten under on the course and 12 over in bed!!!
Many would want to know by his dietician what is he being fed!!
 
Confucius says…..Or like they say here in India ‘ what chakki aata does he eat’!!!
That his game is so hot and he is always on heat!!
Bharat Kumar
<aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

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Why penalise group A officers...
Those joining in group A are most educated and retire in SAG grade or above..
i.e. at a salary of Rs. 67,000+10,000GP+35% D.A. i.e. Rs. 106,000 pm.
After 33 years of service, Gratuity works out to be Rs. 106000*33*15/26 = Rs. 20 lakhs. But he is given only Rs. 10 lakhs. i.e. less than half of his entitlement.
No other employees suffer such a heavy cut.
Mani
Adding salt to injury
I fully agree. This idea of granting non functional upgradation to Gr A officers should have been linked with the SAG which IAS officers are getting in various states else it will take longer than functional promotion .Nowadays, most Gr A services are lagging 6 to 8 years behind and this funny decision will add salt to injury. I don’t understand why the government wants to keep all other services inferior by almost a decade to the IAS whereas the maximum period is two years only ?
Neeraj
"Punjab & Sind Bank Zindabaad"!!!
A non-Sikh CMD in this bank. The credit for this achievement goes to your website which had a column by A K Saxena (27-3-10) opposing the age-old tradition of having a Sikh CMD. Your website is a rage in my branch in Delhi. Thank You. Please keep it up.

An officer of Punjab & Sindh Bank
Keep Babus and politicians away from education
Babus and politicians must be kept away from educational institutions, particularly prestigious institutions of higher learning.
Vijay Kumar
Response To Human Right Activist: A Must Read
A lady Canadian libertarian wrote a lot of letters to the government, complaining about the treatment of captive insurgents (terrorists) being held in Afghanistan National Correctional System facilities. She received the following reply:

National Defence Headquarters
Major Gen George R. Pearkes Bldg, 15 NT
101 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa , ON K1A 0K2 Canada
Dear Concerned Citizen,
Thank you for your recent letter expressing your profound concern of treatment of the Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists captured by Canadian Forces who were subsequently transferred to the Afghanistan Government and are currently being held by Afghan officials in Afghanistan National Correctional System facilities.
Our administration takes these matters seriously and your opinions were heard loud and clear here in Ottawa. You will be pleased to learn, thanks to the concerns of citizens like yourself; we are creating a new department here at the Department of National Defense, to be called 'Liberals Accept Responsibility for Killers' program, or L.A.R.K. for short.
In accordance with the guidelines of this new program, we have decided to divert one terrorist and place him in your personal care. Your personal detainee has been selected and is scheduled for transportation under heavily armed guard to your residence in Toronto next Monday. Ali Mohammed Ahmed bin Mahmud (you can just call him Ahmed) is to be cared for pursuant to the standards you personally demanded in your letter of complaint. It will likely be necessary for you to hire some assistant caretakers. We will conduct weekly inspections to ensure that your standards of care for Ahmed are commensurate with those you so strongly recommend in your letter.
Although Ahmed is a sociopath and extremely violent, we hope that your sensitivity to what you described as his 'attitudinal problem' will help him overcome these character flaws. Perhaps you are correct in describing these problems as mere cultural differences. We understand that you plan to offer counseling and home schooling.
Your adopted terrorist is extremely proficient in hand-to-hand combat and can extinguish human life with such simple items as a pencil or nail clippers. We advise that you do not ask him to demonstrate these skills at your next yoga group. He is also expert at making a wide variety of explosive devices from common household products, so you may wish to keep those items locked up, unless (in your opinion) this might offend him.
Ahmed will not wish to interact with you or your daughters (except sexually) since he views females as a subhuman form of property. This is a particularly sensitive subject for him and he has been known to show violent tendencies around women who fail to comply with the new dress code that he will recommend as more appropriate attire. I'm sure you will come to enjoy the anonymity offered by the burka over time. Just remember that it is all part of 'respecting his culture and religious beliefs' as described in your letter.
Thanks again for your concern. We truly appreciate it when folks like you keep us informed of the proper way to do our job and care for our fellow man. You take good care of Ahmed and remember, we'll be watching. Good luck and God bless you.
Cordially,
Gordon O'Connor
Minister of National Defense
Senior Army officers don’t deserve free ration
Free rations are being given to army officers all over the country including Delhi. Army officers also have the use of jawans as cooks and servants all over India. Some jawans have only seen service washing their boss’s wives saris. Free rations should only be given to jawans who are low paid , not to the officers who are well paid. Also jawans should not be provided to army officers for domestic duties. For this purpose army officers can afford to employ servants like anyone else. To say that an army officer cannot put on his clothes and uniform (the ostensible reason for providing them with orderlies) without the help of orderlies is sheer nonsense. And if an army officer cannot wear his own clothes by himself, something we learnt to do when we were 7 years old, then how can they be relied upon to protect the country from invasion in times of war? Neither the Navy nor the Air Force provide orderlies to their officers to help them to wear their uniforms. If we are seeing so many cases of mutinies and suicides among the troops these days, wrongly called fragging by the army brass, it is because there is a widening gap between the officers and the jawans these days. The army officer of today lacks the class and committment to troops welfare under him, unlike before. If the British, inspite of being hated foreigners, could command the loyalty of Indian troops even to the extent of using Garhwal Rifles troops to mow down civillians in Jallianwala Bagh , it was because ,after 1857,they were always close to their troops and genuinely cared for them. Todays officer class is far more selfish and self-centered than previously and therefore you have army officers obsessed with pay-scales , promotions and postings, without caring for jawans welfare at all. Imagine the plight of an army jawan who retires in his thirties to return to his village to see his land already grabbed by someone else in his abscence. His pension is a pittance and he has to support a family. He deserves free rations, not our overfed brigadiers and generals.
D Choudhury
Increase IT interface to reduce corruption
Another simple solution to the reduce corruption in the government would be to increase the IT interface. All public services be it driving license, ration card, electricity connection, gas connection, passports filing of FIR etc should be IT based and human interface be reduced to minimum. A timeline for sanction of each be fixed and concerned official shall have to explain for pending applications. Even police verification status should be monitored on-line and concerned policewallah shall have to explain reasons for delay in verifying details of the applicants wherever required. Some states like Delhi and HP have already taken some steps towards this and a close monitoring of this shall help curb corruption in public services to a large extent.
Second level of corruption where public is affected most is where too many discretions are vested with a government authority. experience is that most of the time these discretions are exploited and corrupt practices follow. Therefore every department of government be directed to review the discretions given at different levels and work out the possibilities of reducing/removing the same particularly in taxation departments both central and states which are hub of corruption. Simplification of tax laws and reinforcing the enforcement systems would help to reduce corruption to a large extent in the taxation departments this in-turn would kill the transfer posting industry.
Another major corruption level is award of contracts and even the
e-procurement has not been able to put stoppage to this corruption as criteria are manipulated to favour specific bidders. however while continuing the e-procurement and strengthening the same a third party quality checks. Tender committees shall invariably have an outside member to be taken by computerized draw from a list of prominent citizens maintained by every department.
MB