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Lt Gen V K Singh appointed new Army Chief
Lt Gen VK Singh, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, ADC, presently GOC-in-C, Eastern Command has been appointed the next Chief of the Army Staff in the rank of General with effect from the afternoon of March 31, 2010. The present COAS General Deepak Kapoor, PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, ADC retires from service on March 31, 2010. Lt General VK Singh was commissioned into the Rajput Regiment on June 14, 1970. During his long and distinguished career spanning nearly 40 years, he has served in a variety of Command, Staff and Instructional appointments. He participated in the 1971 operations and IPKF operations. He is presently serving as the Eastern Army Commander. Prior to that, he commanded a Corps in the Western sector. Besides being an ‘Honours Graduate’ of the US Army Infantry School, Georgia, USA, Lt Gen Singh studied at the Defence Services Staff College, the Army War College and the US Army War College, Carlisle. He is recipient of PVSM, AVSM and YSM awards. He is also one of the Honorary ADCs of the President of India. Lt General Singh is married to Mrs Bharati and the couple has two daughters. The elder daughter is married to an Army Officer while the younger one is working in the corporate sector.
       ( We said this on May 21,2009 )
Sumit Bose is new Secretary Disinvestment
Sumit Bose has  been appointed Secretary Disinvestment in the Government of India .He is 1976 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre. He will succeed Sunil Mistra who is moving to the North Block as Secretary Revenue.
Mrinal Pande to be new Chairperson of Prasar Bharti
Veteran journalist Ms Mrinal Pande is going to be new Chairperson of the Prasar Bharti.  Name of Ms Pande was cleared on Friday at a meeting of the Selection Committee Chaired by Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari.
Promotions & Transfers of CCITs/ DGITs
As many as 46 Commissioners of Income Tax (CITs) were promoted & posted as Chief Commissioners of Income Tax (CCITs)/ DGITs, by Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).Apart from this 36 CCITs were also shifted. Those who were promoted on late evening on January 22 , 2010 are : B.S.Sondhi –CCIT Kanpur, Naresh Kumar-CCIT XII Mumbai, Jamil Ahmed –CCIT Raipur, N.C.Mohanty- CCIT XI-Mumbai, Pankaj Gupta- CCIT Panaji, S.S. Bajpai DGIT(Inv)Lucknow, K.K. Mohapatra CCIT Bhubaneshwar, Sat Paul –CCIT Dehradun,  J.R. Sharma- DGT(Inv) Delhi, Jaswant Singh- CCIT Surat, V.K. Mangotra – CCIT IV Ahmedabad, P.K.Sarangi- CCIT Trichi,  J.C.Mishra- CCIT III Bangalore, D.Ravindran- CCIT IV Chennai, B.N. Dutta –DGIT (Inv) Ahmedabad, K.V. Chowdhary- CCIT Vizag, Ms.Anita Kapur- CCIT IX Delhi, G.Rajeshwar Rao –DGIT(Inv) Bangalore, Arun Kumar Jain – CCIT Baroda, Ms. Bulbul Sen- CCIT XI Delhi,  M.K. Mirani –CCIT OSD Lucknow(he will take over CCIT Lucknow on February 1,
2010 vice S.C.Gangwar),  K.A.. Gopinathan – CCIT V Chennai, D.C.Pant  -CCIT IX Kolkata,  U.K.Shukla- CCIT Allahabad, G.S. Randhawa- CCIT Ludhiana, S.K. Sen CCIT(OSD) (he will take over as CCIT Ranchi with effect from February 1, 2010, P.K. Ray – CCIT Shillong, M.N. A. Chowdhary- CCIT XII Delhi, A.K.Jain – CCIT Durgapur, B.L.Razdan - DGIT(Inv) Chandigarh, A.L.K.B. Chand – CCIT X Kolkata, Ms. Deepa Krishan – CCIT Bareily, A. Soorianarayanan – CCIT Mumbai, G.R. Sofi- CCIT Amritsar, Parvinder Behuria – Thiruvanthapuram, Dilip Shivpuri – CCIT Jodhpur, Ms. Sujata Pant- CCIT XI Kolkata,  T.K. Shah- CCIT X Mumbai, K.S. Pathania- CCIT VI Chennai, L.R. Nayyar- CCIT Shimla, Mukesh Kumar – DGIT (Inv) Hyderabad,  Digvijay Kumar – CCIT II Patna, E.T. Luckose- DGIT(Inv) Kochi, M.D. Kabra – CCIT Nagpur, N.C. Joshi-  CCIT  IX Mumbai, S.K. Sahu CCIT Guwahati.

Inter regional transfers have affected following CCITs : S.P. Swain DGIT(Inv) Hyderabad to DGIT(Inv) Delhi, P.P.Srivastava – CCIT Chennai to CCIT III Mumbai, M.P. Varshney - CCIT Bhopal to CCIT VI Delhi, Kamlesh Argal - CCIT Raipur to CCIT Bhopal, R.K. Tewari – CCIT Ludhiana to CCIT Ghaziabad, S. C. Jaini- CCIT VI Mumbai to CCIT III Hyderabad, K. Madhavan Nair – DGIT(Inv) Bangalore to CCIT kochi,  A.P. Srivastava - CCIT Shillong to CCIT Nasik, K.P.Singh -CCIT Surat to CCIT Rajkot, M.P.Singh – CCIT Shimla tio CCIT Hubli, R.N. Tripathi- CCIT  IV Chennai to CCIT VIII Kolkata,

Local changes affected following CCITs : Laxman Das-  CCIT III Delhi to CCIT II Delhi, M.C. Joshi CCIT IV & LTU Delhi to CCIT  III Delhi, Qaiser Shamim –DGIT(BPR) Delhi to CCIT IV & LTU Delhi, L.Sailo – CCIT  VI Delhi to DGIT(BPR) Delhi, M. Sailo- CCIT IX Delhi to DGIT (Intelligence) Delhi, Milap Jain – DGIT (Inv) Delhi  to DGIT (Int Tax ) Delhi,  A.P. Saxena – DGIT (Inv) Ahmedabad to CCIT  III Ahmedabad, Karan Singh-  CCIT III Mumbai to CCIT II Mumbai, Sri Ram Singh- CCIT V Mumbai to CCIT VI Mumbai, Hardeep Srivastava – CCIT  XII Mumbai to CCIT  V Mumbai, P. M. Vasan – CCIT  II hennai to CCIT   I Chennai, G.C. Jain – CCIT VI Chennai to CCIT  II Chennai, Manoj Mishra- CCIT IX Kolkata to CCIT- III Kolkata, Jaspal Singh – CCIT  Amritsar to CCIT Panchkula &  T. B. C. Rozara CCIT X  Kolkata to CCIT IV Kolkata,
Sunil Mitra is new Secretary Revenue
Secretary Disinvestment Sunil Mitra has been appointed new Secretary Revenue.He is 1975 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.He will succeed P V Bhide who is retiring on January 31.
   ( We said this on December 1 and again on January11)
B K Sinha is new Secretary RD in GoI
B K Sinha has been appointed new Secretary Rural Development in the Government of India. He is 1975 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre. Sinha had also a long meeting with the RD Minister on Friday.
    ( We said this on January 4 )
A N Roy is again DGP of Maharashtra
Anami Narayan Roy has been again appointed DGP of Maharashtra. He is 1972 batch IPS officer.
( We said this on November 10,2009 )
Three Cities to have Police Commissioner system in Punjab
Three cities in Punjab Amritsar, Jalandhar and Ludhiana will have police commissioner system.
IAS changes in Haryana
Rajan Kumar Gupta has been appointed as Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary of Higher Education and Languages Department. Surina Rajan will now be Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, School Education Department and Labour & Employment Department and Chairperson, Haryana Minerals Limited, New Delhi.V S Kandu will also look after the work of Special Secretary, Finance Department. P K Das has been posted as Project Director, Prathmic Shiksha Pariyojna Parishad and Rastriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA).
Mathew to go to Hyderabad
C K Mathew presently Special Secretary and FA Chemicals and Petrochemicals  will succeed B K Sinha  as  Director General (DG) in Hyderbad located National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD).  He  is 1976 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.
Mangotra to move to Commerce Ministry
A K  Mangotra is moving to Commerce Ministry as Additional Secretary.  1978 batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre Mangotra is presently AS & FA in the Ministry of Food.
Verma to be AS and FA food
Desh Deepak Verma  is joining the Government of India as Additional Secretary Commerce. 1978 batch UP cadre IAS officer Verma will replace A K Gopalan.
4 IPS officers shifted in Gujarat
The Gujarat government has transferred four IPS officers of IG's rank. They are: P C Thakur STSC cell IG  to IG (jails), H P Singh IG (jails) to IG Communication, S G Bhati Principal of police training college (PTC)  to IG Coastal Security and Intelligence Bureau & G S Mallik Joint Commissioner of Police (special branch, Ahmedabad)  to Vadodara ACP.
Why Governors’ appointment finally happened last week?
Why appointment of new Governors’ finally happened last week? As the grapevine has it, the related notification was issued because Governors take salute on the Republic Day parade (January 26, 2010) in their respective states.
VM Pargi’s central deputation on the anvil
The Government of India (GOI) has retained the name of VM Pargi in the offer list. He is an IPS officer of the 1988 batch who belongs to the Gujarat cadre.
Sanjeev Chaturvedi gets certificate for RTI
Sanjeev Chaturvedi has been given certificate of appreciation for his contribution for RTI by "Public Cause Research Foundation floated by Magasaysay awardee Arvind Kejriwal. At present he is DFO Hissar He is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 2004 batch who belongs to the Haryana cadre.
Suman Dubey to be Member of Prasar Bharti
Senior Journalist Suman Dubey is going to be new Member of the Prasar Bharti Board. He is considered close to Ten Janpath.
Muzaffar Ali to be Member of Prasar Bharti
Padam Shri Muzaffar Ali is being appointed new Member of the Prasar Bharti. His name has been cleared by the Selection Committee on Friday.
Shyam Benegal to be Member of Prasar Bharti
Noted Theatre personality Shyam Benegal is being appointed new Member of the Prasar Bharti. His name has been cleared by the Selection Committee on Friday.
DP Reddy is Joint Secretary I & B

DP Reddy has assumed the charge as Joint Secretary Information & Broadcasting (I & B) on Friday . He is an  IAS officer of the 1985 batch who belongs to the Punjab cadre
     (We said this on November 17,2009 )
Nitin Gadkari is an intelligent & a sharp leader
It is now acknowledged in the  BJP circles  that Nitin Gadkari, newly inducted national president of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), is an intelligent & a sharp leader.
Army Officers Training Academy in the offing
An Army Officers Training Academy is in the offing. It is likely to become functional in 2011, mainly, to train people joining the army through Short Service Commission (SSC).
Deputy Accountant General promoted
Bharat Bhushan, Deputy Accountant General (Ad-hoc) in the office of Accountant General (Audit), Uttarakhand, Dehradun,  has been promoted and posted as Deputy Accountant General in the same office.
ISS officer gets new posting on promotion
ISS officer Sher Singh, Director, CAD, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, New Delhi, on being promoted to SAG has been posted   as DDG, NSSO (FOD), MOSPI, Jammu.
Prasar Bharati correspondent’s post in Kathmandu to fall vacant
The post of Prasar Bharati correspondent in Kathmandu is falling vacant in 2010 as the tenure of 1984 batch Indian Information Service (IIS) officer Dorjee is coming to an end.
Praveen Kumar to retire as Member Mechanical, Railway Board
Praveen Kumar Member Mechanical in the Railway Board is going to superannuate on March 31, 2010.
Sinha transferred to Gandhi Nagar
MK Sinha has been transferred to Gandhi Nagar as Additional IFA. He is 1991 batch IDAS officer.
State Information Service officer to join UIAD
Awadhesh Kumar Pandey, a 1986-batch Jharkhand  state information service officer, has been appointed assistant director-general (ADG) of the National Unique Identification Authority of India (NUIAI) by the Centre.
Judge to head Pay Commission in Kerala
A retired high court judge is likely to  be appointed  as Chairman of  the pay commission in Kerala.
Naveen Saxena to move to Belgrade
Second Secretary in Panama Naveen Saxena is moving to Belgrade in April.
Acting CJ of Kerala High Court
Justice Kurian Joseph has been appointed Acting Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court as Chief Justice S.R. Bannurmath retired on Friday. 

CORPORATE
Sreekumaran Nair takes charge as Secretary, Rubber Board
V Sreekumaran Nair has assumed charge as the Secretary, Rubber Board. A Joint Director in the State Planning Board, he was posted as Chief Planning Officer in the Scheduled Caste Development Department.
Priya Brat is CMD of IDCO in Orissa
Priya Brat Patnaik has been appointed CMD of IDCO in Orissa. He is 1976 batch IAS officer.
 Seema Rajarathnam joins Rediffusion Y&R as GM (PR) - South
Seema Rajarathnam has joined Rediffusion Y&R as General Manager, South and will work from Bangalore.
Naresh Gupta quits Publicis India
Naresh Gupta, national planning head, Publicis India has quit the agency.

Aaj Ki Aawaz

Was expected that in Maharashtra Congress would bowl a Marathi Manoos chinaman!
And the chinaman was ‘non Marathi speaking Taxi drivers pe ban’!!!
 
In Indian Metros Taxi Drivers are expected to be multilingual or speak Hindi and Angrezi!
So what Chavan has said sure sounds crazy!!
  
Chavan needs to do a survey and he’ll find Marathi Manoos hardly travel by taxi or cab!
But then still on this he would blab!!
 
Because it does not matter if the Marathi Manoos travels by cab or not!!!
Fact is MC elections are around the corner and Congress wants to woo Shiv Sena’s lot!!!!

Marathi Manoos themselves converse in 'tapori' bhaasha ...Sanjay Dutt ki talks like this!
Marathi ko toh even Marathi Manoos does give the miss!!
 
Mamtha is abs right …. who are Commies to demand that she attend Basu’s condolence meet???
And because of this  why with the ‘anti Bengali stick karr rahe hai Commies Mamtha ko beat'??

She skipped the funeral and she'll skip the condolence meet too!!!
And she has the lung capacity to counter every Commie boo!!
 
In fact Commies should remember they stopped Basu from becoming the PM!!!!
And this hurt him a lot though he did not show it and continued as WB’s CM!!
 
Why are the Commies crying foul when they know they and Mamtha are at loggerheads????
She’s vowed to rid WB of ‘the Reds’!!!
 
Seems Congress is planning to take on BJP on the price rise!!!
And I think this would indeed be unwise!!!
 
It’ll be sheer seena jorri,
After what many say is Pawar's blatant chori!!!
 
Okay prices went up during BJP’s time but nothing like now!!!!
It now strains purse strings of the Aam Aadmi to foot the bill for his and his pariwaar’s chow!
 
And in BJP’s time prices went up and then fell!!!
But in UPA's previous and present stints Indians are in a ‘spiralling prices hell’!!!
 
Mohna ji kuch toh sharam karro!!!!
Rather than politicizing and giving excuses inflation se ladho!!!
 
Maybe Mohna saw the ‘uninterested’ attitude of the BJP Netas who called on him!!!!
But I still feel Mohan doing a comparitive of prices during UPA and BJP regimes  is grim!!
 
Where’s Montek who said prices will fall!!!
Me feels the man’s image has taken another fall!!!
 
Whatever little credibility he had is now down the drain!!!!
Seems the Neta in him got the better of him and this Neta in a Bureaucrat’s garb could not refrain!

And he went public with his ' prices will ease'!!!!
Or did Pawar make a request to him ' help out please'????
 
The US economy is like a circus tent,
And its being held up by the 'stimulus' pole right in the middle that's now bent!!
 
Obama wants to stop this pole from bending and breaking!!
And so certain measures he's taking!!!
 
Wall Street is like a brat and when it does not get what it does want!!!!
It starts misbehaving as it simply cannot take 'you can't'!!!
 
Keep your eye on the Dollar!!!
Its got the World Economies by the collar!!!
 
'Non State actors' is  the term that Pakis use for their bros who enacted 26/11!!!
And just see their besharm cries when no Paki player was bought by any IPL XI!    
  
Kudos to the IPL Team owners who gave Paki players the miss!!!!!
'We'll teach India a lesson' now Paki Netas karr rahe hai hiss!!
 
Confucius says..... Post 26/11 they kept asking us ' give us proof on Pakistan's involvement'!!!!
And they rejected whatever proof we sent!!!

Adds.... On the alleged bias we should now ask Pakis for proof!!!
And on TV you will get to see Imran Khan literally hit the roof!!!

Flash..... MS Gill says Games in Delhi will be better than Olympics held in Cheen!!
Manohar Sapne MS does mean!!

Pakis say that there can be more 26/11 type of attacks!!!
They say see our condition..... security to protect Paki citizens Pakistan lacks!!

Pakistan is a rogue State and something needs to be done because its a time bomb ticking away!!!
To 'handcuff' Pakistan 'the sane World' has to find some way!!

Had Pakistan been in US's neighborhood Pakistan wold have been flattened!!!
But as this is not the case by US Pakistan is literally being fattened!!!

Uncle Sam has a 'one track mind' and today its only fixated on Afghanistan!!!
And slowly but surely there will be no difference between Afghanistan and Pakistan!

Bharat Kumar

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Good work !
I somehow admire Agriculture Minister for his ingenuity for evolving a new system which cannot be challenged by any vigilance agency on earth. Good work sir!
MB
It is true
It is true that there is great difference between the grade of UD/Steno and Assistant/PA in Central Government. While the scale of Assistant was upgraded from 5500 to 6500, the same time lower grade should be upgraded accordingly to balance the difference. But the lack of any voice and quiet category the same could not be done. So I urge from the Government to see the impartiality on this matter. I have heard that the Government is contemplating to do something in this matter. It would be a welcomed by all the UDs and Stenos who have not any leader who can convey this message to the Government. Par we think- Jiska Koi Nahi Hota hai Uska Khuda Hota hai Yaron.. Jai Hind
Rana Mukesh Singh
Lucky NIRD !
Its great to see MC Kunnamkal as DG at NIRD.  This is his 3rd term in the minds of NIRD Community.  Lucky NIRD.
Dr Anjali
Thank GOD!
Thank GOD! Gen Rodrigues is gone from Chandigarh. People of Chandigarh, particularly the Congressmen, are very happy to welcome His Excellency Sh Shivraj Patil as Administrator of Chandigarh.
Anu Chatrath
Mayor of Chandigarh
NSA-the change of guard !
On the reported exit of M K Narayanan, the present NSA Shiv Shankar Menon (author of Sherm-el-Sheikh fiasco)is tipped to be the next NSA. His brief,it is believed,will, however, be severely truncated. Thanks to P Chidambaram's persistent efforts. The component of "internal security", will be justifiably hived off for merger with the MHA.Fair enough. Change must be for the good. One hopes, the accountability of India's intelligence gathering apparatus will be fixed and their performance kept under HM's scanner. The nomenclature of NSA must also be changed by jettisoning the word 'security'. Menon could, at best, be designated as the Foreign policy Advisor to PM. Intelligence is power. There is no point in aping the USA or UK in such matters. India does not lack human ingenuity to restructure its intelligence machinery to suite its specific requirement. Let India not fight shy of taking the cue from a small country like Israel to upgrade its intelligence gathering skill. One more suggestion. The National Security Council, which is presently reporting to the Union Cabinet Secretary, must be restructured to report to the Home Minister and the PM. The memories of joint failures of the present Cabinet Secretary and M K Narayanan, before and in the aftermath of 26/11 Mumbai attack, is not forgotten. They have still lot to explain to the nation before being rewarded with more plum assignments. There is an urgent need to empower the Union Home Minister with direct accountability to the people of India. The role of Cabinet Secretary must be confined to improving 'Governance' and Appointment matters alone.
I hope my suggestions for carrying out radical changes in the Security set-up of the country, through this illustrious website, will receive appropriate considerations by the power that be.
Shubhasya Sheeghram!
A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)