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Justice Garg to be CJ of Uttarakhand High Court ?
Justice R S Garg, senior-most Judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, is likely to be appointed Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court.
Will Justice Khehar move to Karnataka ?
Grapevine has it that Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court Justice J S Khehar is moving to Karnataka in the same capacity.Name of Acting Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court Justice Madan B Lokur is also in circulation for the post of CJ Karnataka High Court.
Karnataka CJ to go on leave ?
The Supreme Court Collegium is believed to have advised Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran to go on leave.
Will Eqbal be CJ of Madras High Court ?
Senior-most Judge of the Jharkhand High Court Justice M Y Eqbal is likely to move as Chief Justice of the Madras High Court.
Justice Gokhale to be Judge of SC
Chief Justice of the Madras High Court Justice H L Gokhale is reportedly moving to the Supreme Court of India .
A K Singh is new Chief Secretary of Jharkhand
Dr Ashok Kumar Singh has been appointed new Chief Secretary of Jharkhand.He is 1977 batch IAS officer.
Shiv Basant replaces Singh in Jharkhand
Jharkhand Chief Secretary Shiv Basant has been shifted to State Academy of Administration as DG. He is 1976 batch IAS officer.
IAS changes in Uttar Pradesh
Secretary to Chief Minister Kamran Rizvi has been transferred to Technical Education Department. Special Secretary to the Chief Minister Ashok Dixit will now be Additional Commissioner Rural Development.CDO Siddharthnagar Tahir Iqbal has been made Special Secretary to the Chief Minister. Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, D S Mishra has been given additional charge of Secretariat Administration.
Secretary Power to retire
Secretary Power in the Government of India H S Brahma is superannuating on April30. He is 1975 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.
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.
13 in fray for ICFRE’s post
The search committee constituted by the Ministry of Environment & Forests in its recent meeting had short listed 13 candidates for the post of Director General (DG) ICFRE interviews for which will be held on April 7,2010 .The committee intended to find candidates with proven scientific credential to head the ICFRE. The scientists of ICFRE and many Indian Forest Service (IFS) officers are happy that it is a welcome departure from the previous practice of posting only senior IFS officers without research credentials. IFS officers have around 350 PhDs with considerable exposure. One of the short listed candidates is VC of a University in Karnataka. This is being attributed to the new professionalism of Jairram Ramesh, Minister of Environment & Forests.
Gopal Sharma is now Advisor to Manipur CM
Former Director General of Jammu and Kashmir and former DG of SSB Gopal Sharma has been appointed as Security Advisor to Manipur Chief Minister Ibobi Singh.He is 1972 batch IAS officer of J & K cadre.
1992 batch IDAS promoted
The 1992 batch of IDAS has been promoted to Senior Administrative Grade. The IDAS is doing good cadre management lest JAG promotion which is 2 years late.
West Bengal is short of IAS officers
West Bengal is short of IAS officers. As against the required number of 296 the state is having 237 officers.
Abhishek Singh to move MEA Hqs
Second Secretary in Indian Embassy at Beijing, Abhishek Singh, has been moved to the Ministry of External Affairs Headquarters.
Ravi Sinha to return to West Bengal
Director in the Department of Drinking Water in the Government of India Ravi Sinha is returning to the parent West Bengal cadre after completion of deputation tenure this month end. He is 1985 batch IFS officer.
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.
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 )
Number of Judges in Calcutta HC drops
The number of judges at Calcutta High Court has now dropped to 28 after the retirement of the senior-most judge of the court, Justice Debi Prasad Sengupta. The high court has a sanctioned strength of 58 judges.
IA & AS Officer Kamalajit transferred
Kamaljit Singh Ramuwalia, Deputy Accountant General, in the office of Accountant General (A&E)-II, Maharashtra, Nagpur, is transferred and posted as Deputy Accountant General (Admn) in the office of Principal Accountant General (Civil Audit), Uttar Pradesh, Allahabad vice Pravindra Yadav.
Ponnuswamy gets Jt Secr level post
M Ponnuswamy, 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.
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 .
IAS reshuffle in Andhra Pradesh
Altogether 37 IAS officers have been reshuffled in Andhra Pradesh.New postings are Mssrs P. Venkateshwarlu Collector Adilabad, Muddada Ravi Chandra Collector of East Godavari, N. Gulzar Collector Hyderabad, N. Nageswara Rao Collector Khammam,M. Purushottam Reddy Collector Mahabubnagar, G.D. Aruna and S.S. Suresh Kumar Collector at Karimnagar and Medak districts, respectively,Ahmad Nadeem CMD A.P. Eastern Power Distribution Company Limited, Visakhapatnam. Gopal Krishna Dwivedi Special Commissioner, Commercial Taxes, Hyderabad,Navin Mittal Special Commissioner, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, V. Usha Rani Director of Women Development and Child Welfare Department,B. Venkatesham Vice-Chairman & Managing Director, A.P.Scheduled Castes Finance Corporation Limited,. B. Ramaiah Vice-Chairman & Managing Director, A.P.Backward Classes Cooperative Finance Corporation, Hyderabad,K. Damayanthi Secretary, A.P.Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society, Hyderabad ,K.S.Sreenivasa Raju Additional Project Director, Outer Ring Road, Hyderabad,L.Sasidhar Chief Executive Officer, Rythu Bazars, Hyderabad ,Sandeep Kumar Sultania Vice-Chairman & Managing Director, A.P.Tourism Development Corporation, Hyderabad,P.Satyanarayana Reddy MD A.P.Foods, Hyderabad, Dr. A. Ashok ED Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board, Hyderabad,Ch.Vijaya Mohan Deputy Secretary Industries & Commerce Department , M.Raghunandan Rao Additional Chief Executive Officer, S.E.R.P, Hyderabad,V.Radha Chief Executive Officer, EGMM, O/o Commissioner, Rural Development, Hyderabad.A.Sharath Joint Collector, Guntur,Dr. Gaurav Uppal Joint Collector of Krishna district, P.S.Pradyumna Joint Collector, Chittoor.H.Arun Kumar Joint Collector, Vizianagaram district ,Dr. Jyoti Buddha Prakash Joint Collector, Kurnool district,T. Vijaya Kumar Joint Collector, Medak , P.Bhaskara Joint Collector, Visakhapatnam, K.V.Satyanarayana Secretary, Andhra Pradesh Tribal Welfare Educational Institutions Society, Hyderabad.K.Nirmala Joint Collector, Karimnagar, Dr. M.Padma Director, DWCRA, O/o Commissioner, Rural Development, Hyderabad,P.Usha Kumari Deputy Secretary Home Department, P.A.Shobha Chief Executive Officer, Zilla Parishad, Visakhapatnam district,
Former IAS to join politics
Former 1973 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre Mohammad Anees Ansari is joining the active politics.

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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 SS Kohli, ex-Chairman Punjab National Bank. Interviews were held for the post on March 31. He is presently Director Infrastructure,31 India.
Ramamurthy is CFO HUL
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Bahl is now CDO
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Venu appointed Additional Director
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Aaj Ki Aawaz
As BJP goes on with is triviality Sonia’s working to a game plan!!!
Capturing votes of the underprivileged is her plan!
 
Right to Food and Right to Education are aimed at this goal!!!
And she hopes that results will show up in the next general poll!!
 
And what will BJP have to show…..zero????
Yes it’ll boast ‘but we have with us this century’s  Hero’!!
 
Ghadkari forgets that Modi is popular because of his honesty and work!!!
Bachchan for him is more like a perk!!!
 
Okay he’s been bitten by the flimy bug of late and he’s been wearing filmy attire!
Or the attire of a high flyer!!
 
But bottom line is he delivers!!
And that is why when you take his name Gujarat’s Congress literally shivers!!
 
Though now it’s being said Congress is planning in Gujarat a mass contact plan!
But unlike other States it’ll not be led by anyone from the Gandhi clan!!
 
Do you think CBI went soft on Laloo on its own?????
CBI is a tool in the hand of the Party in power in Delhi is well known!!
 
So Laloo needs to go to 10 Janpath and kiss the ground at the gate!!!
He knows had Sonia not come to his aid what would have been his fate!!
 
Laloo says Baba Ramdev has gone bonkers …..rotten always abhor good!
Laloo hatred for Ramdev needs to be understood!!
 
Ramdev wants to clean up Indian politics and Laloo does not like this!!
He feels politics is to make money and this opportunity only a fool would miss!!
 
Commies had looked for scum on Ramdev but could not find anything!
They forced UPA to order Agencies to use a comb & microscope but came up with nothing!
 
Ramdev feels Yoga on everything and anything works like a charm!!
Okay he has his yogic fundas but he does no harm!!!
 
Mohna has made his monthly call ‘control prices and inflation’!!!
And its been heard and forgotten by the Nation!!!
 
Very soon Fibber Montek will be brought into the act!!
And he’ll do his prices will come down in a month fibbing act!!!
 
Food prices will go up and people are going to cry in pain!!!
Inflation is not going to wane!!
 
Congress's image is taking a beating because of inflation!!!
Though inflation primarily is Pawar's creation!!
 
Amar Singh is all dressed up but has nowhere to go!!!
All Parties to his requests that he be allowed to join have said an emphatic no!!
 
Now he’s trying to lagao maska to Sonia in a last ditch try!!!
And they say he’s even prepared to cry!!!
 
To say that Sonia was not in the know about Congress’s Bachchan ‘stage frights’!!!
Is indeed height or heights!!
 
But then Amar is illogical in both dosti and animosity!!!
He’s either illogically sweet or illogically shitty!!
 
Confucius says….. man who butter bread on both sides!!
Out of his hand the slice slides!

Flash...... now a temple for Maya!
At the gate you will be asked kyaa aur kitna laaya!!

If its below Rs.500 you will get from the Poojari a shout!
And if you go empty handed you will be kicked out!!

To get a darshan of Maya Devi in flesh and blood!!!
Mandir coffers you will have to literally flood!!

Run of the mill Darshan will cost Rs. 1000 and will be of a statue of Devi Maya!!
For Rs. 500 you will do darshan of statue's chaaya!

Bharat Kumar
<aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

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Free rations to senior Army Officers not required
I agree that free rations to the senior Army Officers particularly to those who are not on combat duties is not required as they are as well paid as other government officers and there are no specific hardships to these officers. In fact even the subsidized canteen facilities to senior officers has no meaning as they can well afford the market rates. However these rules are supposed to be applied equally to all services including IAS and IPS whose officers also tend to indulge into these feudalistic practices of having a retinue of servants to serve them at homes. IPS officers in particular has made this practice of having an 'ardali' attached to them as an officially permissible. All these practices are borrowed from the erstwhile "Raj" and have no place in the modern India. It is time that a stop is put to these archaic practices in every institution be it Army, IAS or Police forces.
MB

Dissatisfaction among CPO Cadres
One more cause of dissatisfaction among CPO cadres is the discrimination in Postings and transfers. The CPO Cadre officers who put in maximum years of service in tough field conditions are generally overlooked for posting to a peace station in favour of the IPS officers. So we have a situation where all the 6 or 7 IPS DIsG on deputation to BSF being posted to Delhi or Amritsar or home place like Sriganganagar for the just inducted DIG Meena. Anand who did not even spend 6 months in a very friendly field assignment at Gurdaspur has been posted to Adm Dte Delhi, Whereas the pleas of cadre officers fall to deaf years.
At higher levels , there is no post of Spl DG authorised for Delhi but Medhekar is continuing to stay at Delhi. It is specially surprising since he would have been otherwise at Kolkata which is an equally big metro town. But Delhi is what they want and manage to bend all rules to do that.Take another instance of Jain who is designated as the IG of Anti Naxal Operations HQrs. Which is supposed to be located somewhere in Chattisgarh/ Orissa but he continues to stay at Delhi. All the cadre people , the DIsg, the Commandants and all troops are sweating it out there but Sh Jain enjoys at Delhi. Even at that level these IPS deputationists do not want to go to field what to talk of the levels of DIsg . This they avoid doing while in the state police too. Where all the posts of Sp Operations from the time of Punjab an J&k militancy have been filled up by officers on deputation from the CPOs. This is being done even now in Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa and even West Bengal where names are being everyday asked for the CPO cadre Deputy Commandants and Commandants for deputation as SP Ops in these states.
Have a look at the postings of Is G in BSF. All the difficult frontiers of Srinagar, Tripura and Silchar are being commanded by CPO cadre officer. the IPS officers are commanding the frontiers where they do not have to take any critical decisions or they are at Delhi.
Why do we really need IPS officers on deputation in the CPOS after these forces now have a very large and experienced cadre of their own? Why is the Home Minister who has a reputation of a tough no nonsense go getter overlooking all these things. It is because the voice of CPO cadre officers is not heard in the corridors of power. They are being ruled by the IPS officers who have easy approach to the politicians. The CPO cadres are doomed. The courts appear to be the only alternative
Kapoor

But they continue to demand more !
It is no surprise that Director level officers in MoEF are peeved for no work but they continue to demand more. This is the way this Ministry functions. Even the new Minsiter is not able to move far enough as intense politicking is the rule. This is a scientific Ministry but is fiefdom for foreign visits and seldom merit is recognise here. Only wire pulling does the job no wonder more and more Directors and more and more visits abroad. My query under RTI on Mobile Bills ICFRE will shame the Finance Minister and Ministry but people are justifying in their reply from the Ministry. If I get support I can file a PIL in Supreme Court soon.
R Bora

To New COAS
Our heartiest Congratulations to General Vijay Kumar Singh PVSM, AVSM, YSM, ADC, on his being conferred the status of the only one on top of the 14 million professionals, the officers and the men, the gallant soldiers, the ONLY ONE Chief of the Army Staff of the Country. He is not only our Chief but Chief of Army Staff of 100 billion Indians and many other well wishers.

It is an unique status for which any one believing in Indian thoughts, philosophy, of life, reasons for existence, destiny and emancipation, would not mind taking 84 Crore births. His real position in the physical and material word has been jokingly downgraded by The materialistic but spiritually and idealistic downtrodden Babus of the Kalyuga, particularly claiming themselves to be of All India Class, but his moralistic position of the one heading majority of the selfless, virtuous, brave and those keeping common good, particularly the National Interests and its security over the self, is unquestionable. Alas, this institution has constantly been brought into disrepute and controversy by the Babus for good or bad reasons. However, I am sanguine, it will stand all these unprincipled and sacrilegious attacks in time. Black clouds fade due to persistance of the Sun. I hope, our good people would shine like Sun, always and every time, whether they are soldiers or Babus.

While he takes over the reign of the "matters military", people indulging in petty things of matters money, false ego, hunger for status due to having been kept away from it for millions of years, will always by nature let him down as ever like vengeful enemies. Today, nothing has changed to signal a better working condition for him and the Armed Forces. However, he can not afford to fail whatever may be the changed environment.

We wish him a happy and fruitful journey bound to be ridden with bureaucratic thorns. But soldiers are used to that and I am sanguine, the nation and the Army will benefit and emerge enriched at the end of his Command. I must, however, apprise the Chief, that the younger generation of Babus are less committed, less educated, less idealistic, more materialistic, badly and unmanageable egoistic, less stable and badly venomous than the senior lots who were compromising and sobers. There is an urgent need of realistic rapprochement as that is not good for all of us, particularly the Country and welfare of the Society. This new class of Babus are a danger to the system and need to tackled efficiently.

We wish the Chief and his institution peace, prosperity, security and success. He now has the widened responsibility of carrying the Baus with him for the good and security of the Country and welfare of all of us.
Good Luck and Happy Hunting.
N N Salute

Reward or punish them, but do something
Crores of rupees worth foodgrains are wasted every year deliberately, because the irresponsible have no fears at all( I refrain from using the word corrupt, since it has lost its meaning in India).This is the greatest crime that can ever be committed: remember that ann daan(donating food)is considered to be the highest form of donation and therefore, its wastage is the highest crime. This crime is against the aam aadmi, humanity, animals and birds--in other words all living forms. Nobody owns responsibility though everybody talks in the name of the aam aadmi, controlling prices of food grains, removal of hunger etc, but partners in the crime of destroying food grains. If the Economist PM of India has any responsibility towards the crores of hungry Indians, he must move fast in promulgating an ordinance to award death penalty for those responsible for destroying food grains. Otherwise it is no use repeating the concern for the hungry masses. The Food & Agricuture Organisation(FAO) must also come forward with suitable convention so that foodgrains are not destroyed anywhere in the world.It hardly needs reminder that the invaders of the past had resorted to burning of standing crops/granaries and stocks of grains, something being resorted to by criminals in the countryside, naxals and, please mark, is likely to be resorted to by the terrorists. When our own netas and employees are resorting to destruction of foodgrains, they will willingly partner even the terrorists.(Compared to the loss, free rations are nothing).Fires, robberies, floods are all used to justify thefts from the godowns of the FCI and also for substituting good quality new produce with rotten grains in an elaborate and complicated method that even the presence of the CBI has failed to stop in the last more than 50 years. Such bungling are not possible from small or medium businesses. They are the jobs of big businesses owned and run on behalf of the politician and the bureaucrats, exactly as private buses are run without permits in almost all state capitals, Delhi setting some excellent examples. Unfortunate that the country has not devised scientific methods of storing. If the government can not do so, allow private businesses to purchase foodgrains and they will store it properly, since they can not suffer losses the way FCI does. Compare it with the method of storing edible salt in Calcutta, where the British government built the Gola Hawras to store salt. This was the most essential item in British India. Calcutta was the port of import of salt from Liverpool. It was for suppy not only to Bengal, but to Assam and far beyond. It was so dear to the government then. But alas! even wheat and rice is not dear to our govt. Punishment for destruction of salt was severe. Remember also that Mahatma Gandhi had to start the famous Dandi march for salt. Those interested in the subject can study The Indian Salt & Central Excise Act(yes, salt before excise).
M L Gupta

Why delayed promotions to IRS-1994 batch IPS have become IG. But 1989 batch IRS are yet to become commissioners (which is equivalent). Why this discrimination.
Shantanu Ghosh