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DG level posts increased after IPS cadre review
DG level posts have been increased by One per cent after IPS cadre review which is now complete.
Chaturvedi moves Commonwealth Games
Outgoing Additional Secretary Banking G C Chaturvedi is joining Commonwealth Games Secretariat as Special DG Finance and Accounts. He is 1977 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.Orders have been issued.
( We said this on February 26 )
IPL row casts its shadow on GOI working
The ongoing IPL controversy has cast its shadow on working in the
Government of India (GOI).
Panda appointed Chief Secretary of Tripura
S.K. Panda will join as new chief secretary of Tripura on April 30. Official orders have been issued. 1980 batch IAS officer Panda is presently Joint Secretary AYUSH in the Government of India. He will be the 19th chief secretary of the state after Tripura became a full-fledged state in 1972.
( We said this on April 20 )
Former IAS officer is now top Mediaman
A former Rajasthan IAS officer Jagdish Chandra ,who took VRS in August,2008 to take over as CEO ,ETV ,Hindi Channels ,is redefining television in the North India, with a great success story. In these 18 months ,Chandra has brought a complete turn around in the Editorial popularity and marketing potential of the channel in the Hindi States of Rajasthan, UP, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. In Rajasthan ,the channel has an almost monopoly in the regional network, where even the State Government is using the channel as an instrument of governance. In Rajasthan, UP and Bihar , the channel’s TRP ratings are at No 1and in Madhya Pradesh it is usually at No 2 position. Chandra’s new editorial experiment in the area of “ Breaking News/Taaza Khabar” has proved to be hit in the Editorial world of Hindi heartland. Infact, everyone in the media world is really surprised over the meticulous emergence of a former bureaucrat on the media map of entire North India.
AGT in CBDT by mid May
As the grapevine has it, annual general transfers (AGTs) of officers working under the umbrella of Central Board of Direct taxes (CBDT) will happen by middle of May 2010.
Akhil Jain is now Member CAT
Akhil Jain, IAS, former Secretary General national Human Rights Commission has been posted as Member(A) at Patna Bench of CAT and will join on the 29th of April. He is retired 1973 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.
3 months extension for M Venugopalan MD & CEO, Federal Bank
Three months extension has been granted to M Venugopalan Managing Director & CEO of the Federal Bank. He was due to retire this month.
PM award is no surety to empanelment
PM award to a bureaucrat doesn’t necessarily means that he would also be empanelled for the post for which he is due. The case in point is of Kamal Kumar Dayani who is a PM awardee but not empanelled for the rank of Joint Secretary. Gujarat cadre 1990 batch IAS officer Dayani had also been Director in the PMO.
IAS fraternity is top heavy
Government stress on promoting young blood notwithstanding, the number of IAS officers below 26 years, in the country, is merely seven as compared to 1381 in the 56 – 60 age group.
IA&AS officer V Kurian transferred
V Kurian, Accountant General (WF&RA), Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, on relief from his present duties, is transferred and posted as Accountant General (C&CA), Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, against an existing vacancy.
25 Railway officers figure in panel for GM
As the grapevine has it, there are 25 officers of Indian Railways who figure in the panel for being appointed as General Managers (GMs).
Verma to move to MEA Hqs
D Bala Venkatesh Varma, Minister PMI Geneva-CD Wing, has been moved to the MEA Headquarters.
IRS officer Uday Bhaskar to go to Singapore
Uday Bhaskar is all set to go Singapore on a foreign posting. He is 1990 batch IRS (CE&C) officer.
4 in race for the slot of SBI’s, MD
As many as four candidates of Deputy Managing Directors (DMDs) rank are in fray for the slot of Managing Director’s (MD’s) in State Bank of India (SBI) interviews for which were held recently. They are: Hemant Contractor, P. Chaudhary, Krishna Kumar & Diwakar Gupta.
Vimal Kumar is number two in panel of NMDC
The PESB is reported to have put the name of Vimal Kumar number two in the panel for the post of Director (Personnel) NMDC. He is presently in the BHEL.
DRM transfers next month
Transfer-postings of about one dozen DRMs are expected to take place in May.
DDG level changes in Prasar Bharti likely
DDG level changes in the Prasar Bharti are expected to take place in may.
A.K. Bhattacharya for Development tourist spots in totality
A.K. Bhattacharya who recently assumed charge as Chief Executive Officers (CEO) of the M.P. Ecotourism Development Board (MPEDB) for the second time wants to do prioritized development of destinations in totality. Bhattacharya who is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1985 batch was maiden CEO of the MPEDB. He told whispersinthecorridors.com that destinations falling under the ambit of EDB would be developed in totality so that guests visiting those places were engaged in activities at local level. A.K.Bhattacharya who belongs to the Madhya Pradesh cadre in response to a question said, “our things will definitely move at a faster pace because Avani Vaish
present Chief Secretary with the MP Government was earlier Principal Secretary (PS) Forests in MP.”
Shakeel Ahmed to return from Moscow
Shakeel Ahmed, an IAS officer of the Meghalaya cadre, who is currently on a foreign assignment to Moscow, is shortly returning to his parent cadre.
Alok is Director Power in GoI
Alok has been appointed Director Ministry of Power in the Government of India. He is 1993 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.
IAS changes in Uttar Pradesh
Manoj Kumar Singh will be new CEO of Greater NOIDA.Mukul Singhal CEO Greater NOIDA has been shifted to Allahabad as Member (Judicial) Board of Revenue.L Venketeshwar Lu will now be Divisional Commissioner Moradabad.
Another bureaucratic reshuffle in MP this month end
Another bureaucratic reshuffle is going to take place in Madhya Pradesh this week end.
Interviews for Director R & D, IOC on May 4 & 5
Interviews for the post of Director Research & Development (R & D) in Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) will be held on May 4 & 5, 2010.
Six Vacancies of Judicial Members in CAT vacant
Six Vacancies of Judicial Members in the Central Administrative Tribunal, one each at Principal Bench (Delhi), Guwahati, Calcutta, Chandigarh and two at the Ernakulam Bench are proposed to be filled up.
Ms.Shilpi Agarwal bags Minister's Award for 2009-10
Ms.Shilpi Agarwal, Dy.CAO(T)/NR; Vivek Gupta, Sr.DFM/Jhansi/NCR; Dr.V.V. Satyanarayana, Dy.CAO (T)/SCR and Hira Ballabh, Sr.DFM/Bhopal/WCR have bagged Minister's Award for 2009-10.
Commodore M. Jitendran not seeking extension
Commodore M. Jitendran Chairman of the Cochin Shipyard, Cochin whose term will end shortly is not seeking extension.
Sujoy Majumdar to join GoI
Sujoy Majumdar is joining the Government of India as Director Drinking Water.He is 1991 batch IFS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.
Ashok Tandon is Spl. Advisor to Nitin Gadkari.
Ashok Tandon, trusted lieutenant of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, ex-PM has appointed as Special Advisor to BJP president Nitin Gadkari.
Cadres to IPS officers of 2009 batch allotted
Cadres to all 136 IPS officers belonging to the 2009 batch have been allotted.
DPC for promotion to DG in UP held
DPC for promoting IPS officers of the 1976 batch as DG was held recently in Uttar Pradesh. However, as of now it is clear that Shailendra Sagar will be promoted first.
IPS changes in Himachal Pradesh
Kuldeep Kumar will be new SP Hameerpur.Kapil Sharma will be SP Bilaspur.Abhishek Duler will be ASP Mandi.Punita Bharadwaj has been made SP CID.Gurmeet Singh will move to IRB.Bhagat Singh will be ASP Bilaspur.
DPC for promotion to ADGs in UP held
DPC for promoting IPS officers of the 1982 batch as ADG was held recently in Uttar Pradesh.
Bureaucratic changes in Tripura
Debasish Bose has been posted as joint secretary in the department of Rural Development Sahadeb Das has been appointed as ADM (North). Ashutosh Das, joint resident commissioner in Salt Lake Tripura Bhawan , has been posted in the same post in Tripura Bhawan at Pretoria Street. He is being replaced in Salt Lake Tripura Bhawan by Rajiv Dutta.
Rao returns to parent Bihar cadre
J.R.K. Rao Deputy Director General, Unique Identification Authority of India(UIDA) has returned to his parent cadre Bihar to avail benefit of promotion in the cadre. He is 1985 batch IAS officer.
H.S. Das of Assam in 13th Finance Commission's panel
Himangshu Shekhar Das has been included as a member in a high-level committee of the 13th Finance Commission headed by Prime Minister’s Economic advisor Dr C Rangarajan.Das is an IAS officer of the 1982 batch who belongs to the Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

48 Addl/Jt. Commissioners in Customs & Central Excise transferred
As many as 48 officials in the rank of Additional / Joint Commissioners in Customs and Central Excise have been transferred. They are Akhil Kumar Khatri from Delhi Dir RI to Kolkata CX, Arati Srinivas from Ahmedabad Dir RI to Delhi Dir RI, Ashok Kumar Ranjan from Meerut CX Patna to Cus-P (Lucknow), Ashok M. Sarvi from Mysore CX to Bangalore-Cus, B.V. V.T. Prasad Naik from Bangalore CX to Kolkata Cus, Babulal Rajak from Bangalore CX to Kolkata Cus, Bamin Tari from Kolkata CX to Shillong CX(Guwahati), C. Ramkumar from Bangalore Cus to Vizag, D. Balasubramaniam from Chennai Cus-P to Chennai CX, D. Venkateswara Reddy from Bangalore Cus to Chennai NACEN, Devarapalli Purushotham from Vizag to Hyderabad DGCEI, Gaddala Sree Harsha from Coimbatore CX to Hyderabad CX, Gaurav Masaldan from Mumbai Dir Sys to Bhubaneswar CX, Hans Raj Garg from Hyderabad CX to Mumbai Dir Sys, Harbir from Delhi Dir Sys to Bhopal CX, Harcharan Singh from Delhi Cus-P to Ahmedabad CX, J. S. Chandrashekar from Hyderabad CX to Coimbatore CX, K. Ramamurthy from Kolkata CX to Patna Cus-P, Kiran Verma from Patna Cus-P to Mumbai Dir Sys, M. Senthamil Selvan from Kolkata CX to Chennai CX, Md. Khawaja A. K. Mohiddin from Chennai Dir Val to Ahmedabad CX, Metta Rama Rao from Vizag to Delhi NACEN, Mihir Kumar from Vadodara CX to Delhi Dir Vig, Naveen Kumar Upadhyay from Bhubaneswar CX to Kolkata Cus, Navin K. Sharma-II from Chennai CX to Vadodara CX, P. S. Uma Mahesh from Mysore CX to Bangalore Cus, Pappu Elango from Ahmedabad Cus to Coimbatore CX, Pothapu Suresh Kumar from Vadodara CX to Mysore, Prempath Shamrao Rajput from Ahmedabad CX to Mumbai CX-I, R. Ajith Kumar from Chennai Cus to Cochin, R. Guru Nathan from Chennai CX to Mumbai CX-I, R. K. Gupta from Lucknow CX to Delhi CESTAT, R. Manohar on return from deputation to Hyderabad CX, R. S. Chandel from Lucknow CX to Kanpur NACEN, Radhey Shyam Sangia from Patna Cus-P to Ahmedabad CESTAT, S. Joseph from Bhopal CX to Mysore CX, S. Palaniyandi from Ahmedabad CX to Coimbatore CX, Satya Srinivas from Ahmedabad CX to Delhi Dir Sys, Shambhoo Dayal from Pune CX to Mumbai Cus-II, Subir Kumar Chakraborty from Shillong to Kolkata CX (Siliguri), Surendrakumar C. Mankoskar from Vadodara CX to Pune, Suresh Chandra Gupta from Ahmedabad CX to Bhopal CX, Surinder M. Sonune from Kolkata CX to Mumbai Cus-I, T. Rajendran from Chennai CX to Coimbatore CX, Tapan Kumar Das from Bhubaneswar CX to Kolkata CX, Thomas Rajan from Coimbatore-CX (Salem) to Coimbatore-CX (Coimbatore), V. Soundararajan from Chennai Dir ICCE to Mumbai Cus-II and Vijay Kumar Singh - I from Vadodara CX to Mumbai CESTAT.
Conference of SPs, Collectors in Rajasthan postponed
The conference of SPs and Collectors slated to be held in Rajasthan on April 28 and 29 has been postponed.
CBEC Commissioners transfer list shortly
The list of transfers of Commissioners in CBEC is likely to be announced shortly.
Chirayu Amin is interim IPL chief
Chirayu Amin proprietor of Alembic a leading pharmaceutical company & president of the Baroda Cricket Association has been appointed as the interim chief of the Indian Premier League (IPL), in place of Lalit Modi.

RTI
All DPC’s are Null and Void
The above statement may seem outrageous, but is made on the basis of
facts. Let me explain how:-
1.   In Dev Dutt v. Union of India (Civil Appeal No. 7631/2002), the Supreme Court held that every entry (not merely the adverse entry) in the ACR must be communicated to the person reported upon within a reasonable period. Even the government servant getting a “good” or “very good” grading should be given an opportunity of making a representation for its upgradation. All such representation must be decided fairly and within a reasonable time period.
2.  The above said judgement only clarifies the legal position (not merely prospective) and is applicable in respect of all the ACR’s.
3.  In the past, no opportunity was given to the government servants to make any representation against the gradations in the ACR. Therefore, if any officer has been denied promotion on the basis of “just adequate” / “good” grading without giving an opportunity of making a representation, it is bad in law. Without following the
principles of natural justice, denial of promotion cannot be done. 4.   Therefore, any such DPC where an individual was denied promotion is not legal and all the subsequent DPC’s would need a review.
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Where is the Public Relation system going ?
It is now being discussed in various parties in the higher echelons that where is the Public Relation system going with the passage of time. There was a time when people I PMO used to wait for people like R Vaidyanathan. Now it s just the reverse.

Aaj Ki Aawaz
The phone tap tapes should be made Public….can RTI be used????
Phone tap tapes will show how Ministership and power by Netas is blatantly abused!!
 
In fact Pawar’s phone tap tapes can be used to show how system is abused!
To educate IAS and IAS probationers the tapes can be used!!
 
Diggy says Mohna would never allow this tapping!!
Diggy is just yapping (boasting)!!
 
Fact is all Sarkaars indulge in tapping!!
So why are Karat yapping (a kind of bark.... not a bite)???
 
Karat forgets that Commies got UPA in its previous Avtar to tap Baba Ramdev’s phone!
Commie's allergy to Baba Ramdev is well known!!
 
I am 100% sure as HM Advani got phones tapped left and right!!
Now on UPA's tapping he says ‘ Emergency is in sight’!!
 
They should tap each others phones and hopefully a slip could occur!!
Then we all will come to know how they make Nation ka sucker!
 
In the phone tapping hamaam all are nangaa!!
Party in power will tap your phone if it feels you have potential to take with it pangaa!!
 
Enough is enough…now please put an end to cricket woes!!
90% of the time of the Nation in IPL matches and controversy surrounding it goes!
 
Modi has info that he feels is explosive and he has threatened to spill the beans!!
And Pawar and his kind are trying to stop this by any means!!
 
By the way our cricket team is not one that can be called ‘National Team’!!
It’s BCCI’s Team so it does seem!!
 
And I do not understand why is the betting and fixing angle not being investigated??
As the highest betting tournament IPL is being rated!!
 
A tap of Yuvi’s and his Mum's phones would have spilled the gambling and fixing beans!
Would have brought out the extent and the means!!
 
Yuvi is fast emerging as the most crooked one in the cricketing bunch!!
And this is not just a hunch!!
 
Bindra has a CD on Yuvi’s match fixing!!
Gambling with playing he’s been mixing!!
 
Tharoor went to Kerala and now IBN is going gaga on the turnout!!
He would get a huge reception in Kerela ‘without a doubt’!!
 
Whenever a Mantri is sacked!
He runs to his electorate to show that by his electorate he is backed!!
 
Rent a crowd is the best way to arrange an electorate turnout!!
And in every constituency you will find for rent a crowd many a tout!!
 
IBN’s Sardesai and his wifey seem to be very close to Tharoor!!
And it was Rajdeep who had said ‘Tharoor as PM’ this day is not durr (far)!!
 
Seems he too is a Member of Tharoor's ‘ I, me mine pseudo Club’!!
For those who are extremely egoistical and practice hypocrisy this Club is a hub!
 
Confucius says…. Journo who takes himself to be a power center ends up with egg on face!
Politicians in due course show him his place!!
Bharat Kumar
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PM post will be rotated by 2030 !
Rahul Gandhi will never be the PM of India. By 2030, caste equations will become so prominent that the post will be rotated among various caste groups. Thus whoso ever gets the rotation, will be the Prime Minister of India, duly concurred by the then US administration.
Deepak
CVC needs advice
CVC should also be advised to give reasons for closure of the case as thousands of cases are closed without telling reason for closure. Whistle blowers are not in a position to do anything under such circumstances and crores of rupees public of so are going into drain.
SK
Cabinet reshuffle due
Cabinet reshuffle in various categories of functional organisation, politically, was very much due. This is necessary, otherwise, also to streamline the political stability and feasibility to attain better atmosphere in the governmental ministerial angle.
I wish Prime Minister and AICC Chief Mrs Sonia Gandhi to jointly take appropriate and accurate people in the organisational and governmental level to ensure win the confidence of the general masses and defuse the scrupulously entered in politics and ministerial levels including in Advisory Council.
Let the people see new faces when reshuffle will take pace.
H S Bhalla
A new Skelton every day
Every day a new Skelton is coming out of the cup-board (in fact out of a go-down) of IPL Scam. I however think that the din will die down once a new story of wrongdoing surfaces. A deal will be struck, maybe already done ,between Lalit Modi and the two Cabinet Ministers. Modi will resign and the two ministers remain where they are helping him in giving a quiet burial to all the cases against him. The government will accept the demand of the opposition for a JPC on the issue. That will give them more than a year time. By that period there will be a new Scam, a fresh story of Corruption or any other unsavoury saga to keep our TV channels busy. We have seen this pattern for all these years. What is important for Government is its own survival not probity in public life. Who cares about corruption? What is so unusual about it? Have you not read only today that the head of Medical Council of India who was held for a bribe of 2 crores for extension of approval to a medical college in Punjab was caught for the same crime in 2001(That time the sum was 65 lakhs. He has to be compensated for price increase during all these years!)was let off by CBI on flimsy grounds after, as is reported, he employed a kin of a CBI official. Take the case of Mayawati, the CBI gave an affidavit in the Supreme Court only last week that it had enough proof to nail her in DA case but the other day the same agency told the same Court that they can consider her plea of discrimination filed by her before the Court. It is said for getting the help of her party on the cut motion on the Finance Bill as threatened by the opposition. We can only wring our hands in despair for the kind of Governance we have. Ours is definitely a Banana Republic.
Aarti Khosla
IPS Officers are real bosses
Of late, we are reading in this column about grievances of CPMFs' Officers about their promotions. Fortunately, they are getting speedy promotions too. But their condition is still pathetic by virtue of their own deeds. They always remained scare of IPS bosses just to enjoy a good posting. I can give you a simple example. One DIG level officer incharge of Establishment Branch in one of the large CPMF, has not been able to transfer a Constable in field due to terror of his IPS boss. If he has no authority for such lower level work, why he has been made to sit at HQ ? A clerk can do that job easily. There is no difficulty to be a "yesman". Who will tell these fellows that what is use of such promotions, while you do not have any power/authority to exercise. Powers are not presented in plate like sweets, these are to be snachted & exercised. Instead of hankering after promotions, these officers should learn to exercise their own power/discretion, without having malice towards IPS bosses otherwise they will continue to govern you and you will be happy only seeing your stars before a mirror !
Sat. B.
Ombudsman to look into corrupt & unfair practices required
We need an ombudsman to look into corrupt and unfair practices by powerful bureaucrats. Most of them are above law and nothing happens to them despite being inefficient, stinkingly rich by amassing public money and with no respect to law of the land. Even in UN and other big institutions ombudsman play an important role in exercising checks over rampaging officials.
Manish
It was not honesty
D.K. Pandey returns the HRA drawn over a period of nearly 3 years to the Government. It is not honesty and you should know it well. It was an attempt to grab the undue Government money which, when he apprehended would be caught, was deposited back. Was he not aware that if he is availing a PSU accommodation, he can't get HRA? Surely he was. There is another such thing for usage of vehicles. Many officers take vehicles from PSUs and also draw transport allowance. Will some one keep an eye on that?
MM