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Major reshuffle in organization and Government in May
Cabinet reshuffle, Reshuffle in the AICC, Appointment of Governors and constitution of the National Advisory Council is expected to take place between May 15 and 30.
Justice Deepak Mishra to be CJ of Delhi High Court
Chief Justice of the Patna High Court Justice Deepak Mishra is reportedly moving to Delhi High Court/
Justice Rekha Doshit to be CJ of Patna High Court
Seniormost Judge in the Gujarat High Court Justice Rekha M Doshit is reportedly going to Bihar as Chief Justice of the Patna High Court.
Seven IPS officers retiring in April
As many as seven IPS officers are retiring in the country in April 2010. They are Ashok Kumar Bhan (Jammu & Kashmir), Inderjeet Singh Chauhan (Madhya Pradesh), Amitabh Kar (Manipur Tripura), Bidya Bhushan Mahanti (Orissa), KP Jain (Tamil Nadu) and Debendra Sukul and Sishu Ranjan Pal (West Bengal).
Ms Lakshmi Venkatachalam appointed VP ADB
Lakshmi Venkatachalam has been appointed as Vice-President (Private Sector and Co-financing Operations) ADB for a term of three years. She is 1978 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.
Gujarat’s Golden jubilee to mark projection of Gujarat’s achievements
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi who is famous for having done many innovations, this time has adopted a unique approach in highlighting what potential for growth Gujaratis have besides what they have achieved. The celebrations to mark 50 years of foundation of Gujarat titled “Swarnim Gujarat” commencing on May 1, 2010 will also be an occasion to pay tribute to all those martyrs who gave supreme sacrifices during the Maha-Gujarat movement by honouring their family
members. Opening Ceremonies to be launched with jubilant crowds, filling Sardar Patel Stadium with joy and enthusiasm. Governor of Gujarat Dr. (Mrs.) Kamla will preside over the sparkling-festivity. Special arrangements are being made for live-telecast of the event, at all the district places. Former Deputy Prime Minister L.K.Advani, Leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley and many other invited dignitaries will also be a witness to the historic moment. Narendra Modi has also decided to felicitate those who have contributed in Gujarat's growth. In the morning on May 1, 2010 the Governor and Chief Minister will be paying tributes to Mahatma Gandhi, at Hriday-Kunj Sabarmati Gandhi Ashram that will be followed by pledge taking ceremony. On the eve celebrations i.e. on April 30, 2010 a mega convention of Non Resident Gujaratis –Non Resident Indians on the theme of "Golden-Gujarat- Global Gujarat" will be held at the Gujarat
University Convention Centre. It is the culmination of vision; the Chief Minister will enlighten audience about the year- long festivities and also about series of events during the year in their respective countries and states.
A.K.Singh is DIG in Madhya Pradesh
A.K.Singh has been posted DIG Selection & Welfare in Madhya Pradesh. Earlier, he was Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) with Western Coalfields Ltd (WCL) & was based in Nagpur.
Search Committee to meet on Monday
The Search Committee meeting to select the Chief Statistician of India is scheduled for 26th April, 2010.
Das is Director Textiles
S S Das has joined as Director Textiles in the Government of India. He is 1989 batch Indian Trade Service officer.
M.K.V. Rao elevated as ED in NTPC
M.K.V. Rao who so far was General Manager (GM) with NTPC has been elevated
as an Executive Director (ED).
Medical test of selected IFS in May
As the grapevine has it, medical test of those candidates who have been selected for Indian Forest Service (IFS) recently will be conducted in May 2010.
Bureaucratic reshuffle in Maharashtra on the anvil
As the grapevine has it, a bureaucratic reshuffle in Maharashtra will take place once ongoing budget session of the State assembly ends on April 23, 2010.
Ram Mohan Mishra to return to Meghalaya
Ram Mohan Mishra, who is on central deputation as Joint Secretary in Ministry of Water Resources (WRD), will return to his parent Assam-Meghalaya cadre by the end of April 2010.He is an IAS officer of the 1987 batch.
IA&AS officer KS Subramanian transferred
KS Subramanian (IA&AS-90), on repatriation to the department and on his promotion to the Senior Administrative Grade (PB 4 : Rs. 37400-67000 with Grade pay Rs. 10000), is transferred and posted as Accountant General (WF&RA), Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram. He will be appointed to officiate in the Senior Administrative Grade w.e.f the date of taking over charge of the post .
Justice Mishra is fourth woman judge of SC
Newly appointed Judge of the Supreme Court Justice, Gyan Sudha Mishra, is the fourth woman judge of the Supreme Court after Fatima Beevi, Sujata Manohar and Ruma Pal, who retired in June 2006.
Posting of new IPS officers in Uttarakhand
Renuka Devi has been posted in Dehradun, Nivedita Kukreti Kumar has joined in Udham Singh Nagar and Barjinderjit Singh in Haridwar.
Vipul to move Geneva
Deputy Secretary in the MEA Vipul will be going as First Secretary to PMI Geneva CD Wing.
IAS & IPS officers facing trial on the Criminal charges in CBI cases
The number of IAS and IPS officers facing trial on the Criminal charges in CBI cases as on March 31,.2010 are 84 and 33 respectively
Cases being investigated against IAS and IPS officers by CBI
The number of cases being investigated against IAS and IPS officers by CBI, as on March 31, 2010, are 21 and 6 respectively.
Kolkata Port Trust Chairman who? Dada’s candidate or Didi’s
It is being discussed in the power circles that who will be the next Chairman of Kolkata Port Trust. Will he be the candidate of Dada i.e. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherkjee or the candidate of Didi i.e. Ms. Mamta Banerjee.
Defence Investiture Ceremony – II on April 26, 2010
Defence Investiture Ceremony – II for the presentation of Gallantry awards and other decorations will be held in Rashtrapati Bhawan on April 26, 2010.
Editorial Board for IT dept’s national digest reconstituted
The Editorial Board for National Digest of the Directorate Of Income Tax (O&Ms), ‘Let us Share: A compilation of Best Practices & Orders Vol III’, has been reconstituted. While B.P. Gaur - DGIT (Inv) – Mumbai is its Chairperson, Ms. Nishi Singh - CIT (Vig.)- CBDT, Akhilesh Ranjan –CIT – Shimla, Suraj Bhan Nain - CIT (A) I, Bhopal, Alpana Saksena - CIT (A) – Mumbai, Monica Bhatia - Additional CIT - New Delhi are its members and Kesang Y. Sherpa - Additional DIT (O&MS) is its Member Secretary.
Two posts of Administrative Members in the CAT vacant
Two posts of Administrative Members in the Central Administrative Tribunal, one each at the Ahmedabad and Patna Bench, are vacant. Applications for both the posts have been invited.
Mamta Kundra to return in June
IA&AS officer Mamta Kundra is returning from Geneva in June.
Post of NHFDC CMD proposed to be filled up
The Joint Secretary level post Of Chairman Cum Managing Director, National Handicapped Finance And Development Corporation (NHFDC) at Faridabad (Haryana), under the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Is proposed to be filled up. Officers empanelled to hold joint secretary or equivalent posts at the centre under central staffing scheme are entitled to apply for the post within four weeks from now.
Mrs. Vandana Singhal gets Accounts & Finance Management Shield for best Zonal Railway 2009-10
Mrs. Vandana Singhal, FA&CAO/North Central Railway has bagged Accounts & Finance Management Shield for best Zonal Railway 2009-10.
Discrimination in providing monetary incentive to Group A officers in North East North East Central Services Co-ordination Committee, Guwahati, is sore over the exclusion of Group 'A' Central Services officers in providing additional monetary incentive. In a letter written to the Secretary - Department of Personnel & Training, New Delhi, the Secretary - Department of Expenditure, New Delhi, the Chairman - CBDT, North Block, New Delhi and the Chairman, Railway Board, New Delhi, Mehtab Singh – President, North East Central Services Co-ordination Committee, has said that while the decision to grant the additional monetary incentive of 25% of the basic pay to all India Service officers actually working in the NER is a welcome step; the decision not to include officers belonging to the Group 'A' Central Services is discriminatory. “Also in some Departments, officers on deputation from All India Services are drawing this allowance, whereas the officers from within the Department are not entitled for the same which is further demoralizing because Group 'A' Central Service Officers are also serving in an identically difficult & challenging environment. Hence the need to attract & retain competent officers from these services also exists”, Singh has said.
Filling up of Under Secretary post in CBDT
A panel of officers is being proposed to be prepared for appointment as Under Secretary in Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) in the Department of Revenue against existing and vacancies arising in near future.
Training programme of nodal officers in DoPT on Apr 27
A training programme for nodal officers who have been nominated by the concerned ministries/departments/offices on APAR monitoring system for CSS officers. The programme will be conducted by NIC in the conference room, 2nd Floor, Lok Nayak Bhavan, on April 27.
IPL grounds Pranab Mukherjee’s tour to USA
The ongoing IPL controversy has grounded the tour to USA that Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee was to undertake recently. That would have been his maiden trip to USA as the Indian Finance Minister.
Call Siddeey for interview- CAT orders
A Bench of CAT, comprising Chairman Justice VK Bali and Vice Chairman (A) L K Joshi has directed that Mr. Siddeey, DG, NSSO, who was not called for the interview of Chief Statistician of India, should also be provisionally interviewed.Mr. Siddey had approached the CAT complaining that he was not called for interview though he is the senior most ISS officer.
Kar is ADG in Tripura
Amitabha Kar has been promoted  to the rank of  Additional Director General of Police  in Tripura.

CORPORATE
IAS is MD AFC in Assam
Senior IAS officer M.S. Manivannan has taken over as the MD of the Assam Financial Corporation.

Aaj Ki Aawaz
Agriculture and Aviation have taken huge hits under Ministers from NCP!!
Napping, Corruption and Pariwaarwaad is the actual analogy of NCP!!
 
Praful’s email to Tharoor was aimed at making Kochi withdraw!!!
From this what inference will the sane draw????
 
Praful had an interest in either the Adani or Videocon Bid!!
Aim being Kochi ko karro rid!!!
 
Rumor is Praful was doing this for Adani and he used his beti to get inside info!
And aim was get rid of a foe!!!
 
Many say Praful already has a proxy stake via Shell Companies in the Bangalore team!
Other’s say  Praful’s share is ‘ghoos equity’ ….so it does seem!!
 
He’s so close to Mallya that maybe his share was sealed with a friendly hand shake!!!
Quid pro quid….as Mantri quite a few decisions to benefit Kingfisher he did make!
 
This is the rumor that is doing the rounds…Mallya gave Praful a share!
For Praful helping out Kingfisher…… ‘abs fair’ (sic)!!!
 
Its often said in the Cabinet NCP Mantirs outdo others in money making!
‘As the sun shines hay both have been furiously raking’!
 
In fact many say both of them are classical examples of 'greed is a vice'!!!
The afflicted want to make money at any price!!!
 
Like see Praful ......he put his 24 year old beti in the line of fire!!!
Something that all Papas would consider as dire!!
 
Then they say a Neta’s kid naturally takes to siyaasat and aims to become a Neta!
See for yourself what lessons Papa apne kids ko hai detaa???
 
As inflation rages and AI struggles to pay salaries and settle its dues!!!!
The responsible Ministers are on a trip of their own ‘making full use’!!!
 
And now there are allegations that AI diverted a plane for Praful’s beti!!
Its well known in AI circles that Praful’s beti orders hai detti (gives)!!
 
Of course AI will do a cover up job ….like say this was a charter contract!
AI before denial will try to detract!!
 
What’s really pathetic is our FM sleeping all this time!!!
Closing ones eyes to crime is also a crime!!
 
How is it possible that so much money going 'up and down' did not raise an alarm?
Or maybe on FM Modi laid his charm!!
 
You buy a car and you get a notice from Income Tax Department!!
For all the money that was going up and down was a Notice ever sent???
 
Pranab Da talks of due diligence!!
But how come such a huge scam Finance Ministry and its Agencies did not sense!!
 
Maybe the markers and alarms did not work!!
Or duty some people did shirk!!
 
To investigate IPL JPC will be just a waste of time and paisa!!
As there has been all round failure outsource probe…. kyaa ho saktha hai aisa??
 
In the past JPC has been used as a burial tool!!!
Less to find out and more to befool!! 
 
Otherwise in the end the big fish will get away and a few small ones caught!
And witnesses threatened or bought!!
 
Confucius says…… Pawar and Praful should resign or be sacked!!
Its high time dono ka boriya bistar from the Cabinet is packed!!
 
Adds…… Sarkaar has egg on its face!!
Feel to redeem itself ……to take action it should race!!
Bharat Kumar
aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

 
FORUM
Think of city governments
The time has come for us to think of city governments because cities will be the engines of growth in the future. It is time for us to adopt the city government approach in India in toto (though municipal corporations do exist, the model is nowhere near workable). We must empower city governments, with elected mayors at the helm of affairs and police commissionerates in the cities to supplement the mayors. The rural districts may still remain under the District Magistrates but the system is too unwieldy and dated in so far as cities are concerned and will have to be substituted by the Police Commissionerates.
Arjun Mallik
IPL Scam - JPC inquiry is a must
Enough is enough. The public can’t take it anymore. Why did the FM, PM and the Chairperson UPA-II suppress the truth from the public? Why did it keep the income tax report (about the IPL) under its wrap for six months? Were they waiting to use, sorry, misuse it for arm-twisting, sorry, blackmailing its coalition partners, just, in case, they start showing their teeth? The inquiry is, anyway, three years too late! The demand by the Opposition for a JPC probe into the IPL super scam is considered appropriate considering the gravity of multiple offences committed by multiple agencies and individuals including those who are part of the present coalition regime. The credibility of the on-going governmental probe will always be under cloud particularly as political big-wigs are involved including serving ( Read as looting) ministers and their kins.A governmental inquiry is always fraught with the uncertainty of getting bogged down by legal entanglements. On the contrary, a JPC inquiry can proceed without hindrance. The recommendations of the JPC would not be binding. But, it would surely supplement the findings of the various investigative wings like the IT, Custom, Central excise, FEMA, ED, CBI et al before taking concrete action against the accused under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The GOI will have a lot to explain as to why no action was taken by it on the IT report submitted six months back. What were the political compulsions? Fear of losing power or embarrassment or both? What about the country's image? Do you ever feel concerned about it? What happens to your oft-repeated slogan of 'transparency' in governance? Is this for public consumption only? The public is not interested in your sharing personal rapport with Obama. But, skeletons of corrupt deals tumbling out of your cupboards, in quick succession are, surely, disturbing in a parliamentary democracy.
A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)
Politicians should look more stupid !
Politicians, if they have to survive, should look more stupid than they actually are. We have for example that icon of SCs, Babu Jagjivan Ram who admitted having forgotten to file his IT returns for ten long years .And then we have Lalloos, A.Rajas, Sorens, the list is long. Fault of Sashi Taroor is that he looked more smart than he actually is.
N K Nair
Shameless IPS officers
IPS officers talk of political interference in policing and then join political parties in the most shameless manner.
Amitabh Agarwal
Apathetic CGHS
I fully agree with readers' observations on CGHS. One is treated like cattle. CGHS Doctors have absolutely no compassion whatsoever. However, one thing certainly goes in their favour. They don't discriminate, whether one is in active service or a pensioner. They're rude to both. Treat you like a beggar. Government should institute an award as to who is the most rude Doctor. I'm certain there will be a very long list to select from. I'm a pensioner retired after 4 decades. All these years I've been suffering tyranny of the CGHS. Even by mistake I can’t utter the word CGHS before my wife.
M L Chauhan
Another publicity stunt
Come On. Another publicity stunt. He continued to take the HRA for two/three years. He should actually be penalised for taking government money. There must have been some complaint or RTI question and to prempt it he has deposited it.
Pankaj Garg

The transfer fiasco goes on every year, on an yearly basis. The current tussle between the powers tat be, will unanimously delay the process, as it always happens. So much for the unhappy news. Good bye to such news.
Raaghurane