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30 Secretary level vacancies in GoI in 2010
There are going to be 30 Secretary level vacancies in the Government of India during 2010.It means empanelled 1976 batch IAS officers to the rank of Secretary will be given postings next year.
Vacancies of IPS officers go up to 150
Indian Home Minister, P Chidambaram, has announced to increase the number of vacancies of IPS officers (Civil Services) from 130 to 150 from this year due to shortage of Police Officers in police forces.
3 years condition for Additional Secretary & above
It is mandatory for an IAS officer aspiring to be empanelled as an Additional Secretary in Government of India (GOI) to have put in three years of service at the centre.
Bhamathi to succeed Ahmad ?
B Bhamathi is likely to succeed A E Ahmad in the Ministry of Home Affairs as Additional Secretary. She is 1979 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.
Ramesh Singh elevated as IG in BSF
Ramesh Singh DIG-CSWT,Indore in BSF has been elevated as IG & posted as IG Frontier Headquarter, Tripura. He is a BSF cadre officer of the 1973 batch.
Government is toying with the idea of relaxing rules in Banks
As the grapevine has it the Government of India (GOI) is toying with the idea that those incumbents in public sector banks may be considered for elevation from Executive Director (ED) to Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) whose service period left is less than two years.
CMD TCIL Interview today
PESB will hold interview for the post of CMD TCIL on Wednesday.
Basu is Additional CGDA
Abhijit Basu has taken over as Additional Controller General of Defence Accounts .He is 1975 batch IDAS officer.
Alok Ranjan’s central deputation unlikely
As the grapevine has the central deputation of Alok Ranjan is unlikely though he has been selected for appointment as an Additional Secretary in Government of India (GOI). He is an IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh (UP) cadre.
Post of Director Port HRD vacant in GOI
A post of Director Port Human Resource Development (PHRD) is vacant in Government of India (GOI).
Panels of IAS officers sought for 2 posts in Shipping
As the grapevine has it, a panel each of IAS has been sought from Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) for filling up two vacancies of Director in Shipping Ministry.
PC Meena poised to join BSF as DIG
As the grapevine has it, PC Meena who was appointed as DIG, BSF, will be shortly relieved to join the Government of India (GOI).He is an IPS officer of the 1991 batch who belongs to the Uttar Pardesh cadre.
Ms. Anupma Kulshreshtha promoted
Ms.Anupma Kulshreshtha, Assistant Director, National Police Academy, Hyderabad, has been promoted & posted as Deputy Director. She is an IPS officer of the 1995 batch who belongs to the Uttar Pradesh cadre.
D.S. Bisht returns from HRD Ministry
D.S. Bisht, Secretary, National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), Ministry of HRD, on completion of his deputation period has returned to his parent cadre. He is an IPS officer of the 1982 batch who belongs to the Bihar cadre.
Rakesh Hooja's new book on IAS at work.
Rakesh Hooja, IAS 1974, Rajasthan cadre, presently Chairman Board of Revenue presented a copy of his latest, newly edited book 'Bureacracy and Society: the IAS at Work' to Rajasthan Governor Mrs Prabha Rau at Jaipur. The book is a collection of reminiscences of 13 retired and one serving IAS officer including T N Chaturvedi (former governor), former chief secretaries R D Thapar, Arun Kumar and Inderjeet Khanna, and V I Rajagopal, Bhupendra Hooja, V Nath, R S Kumat, K K Saxena, I C Srivatava, P N Bhandari, V N Bahadur, Kusum Prasad and Meenakshi Hooja.
As editor Dr Rakesh Hooja has provided an introduction to the book as well as  3 sectional introductions on Careers in the IAS, on Districr Tenures , and on Expectations from the IAS and espirit de core.This the 29th authored or edited book by Dr Rakesh Hooja to be published.
Bindra moves to CAG Hqs
SR Bindra, Deputy Accountant General (Commercial/RA/AB), has been transferred and posted as Deputy Director (Inspection) in the CAG office. He will relieve Chandra Mohan.
Kojeen is Director Census
Hage Kojeen has been appointed Director Census Operations. He is 1993 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.
Three more cadre posts of DG in Bihar
Bihar is soon likely to get three more cadre posts of DG. With this the total number of DGs in Bihar will go up to six.
Passport Officer to move to Colombo
K Muraleedharan, Passport Officer, Malappuram, has been moved to Indian Embassy in Colombo.
ISS officer gets new posting on promotion
ISS Officer Suvendu Hazra, Director, R&S wing, DIT, L&R, Ministry of Finance, New Delhi, has been posted as DDG, R&S wing, DIT, L&R, Ministry of Finance, New Delhi.
Gajbhiye gets additional charge
P C Gajbhiye, SAG/IRSME/South Central Railway, has been asked look after the duties of the post of CME/South Central Railway.
Two more IPS to be prosecuted in UP
The UP Government has sought permission to prosecute two IPS officers.
Pankaj Jain is Addl. Secretary ,Statistics & Programme Implementation
Pankaj Jain has taken over as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, in the Government of India. He has made important contributions in the infrastructure sector in his previous Central Deputations. To note a few, he authored the Port Privatisation Policy on BOT basis as Director Port Development Ministry of Shipping in 1996, also initiated the  Sethusamundaram  Ship Canal Project,  and started Tuticorin Deep Dredging Project, also  set up the Tarriff Authority for Major Ports, under the guidance of  S Sunder and Yogendra Narain I.A.S.(then Secretaries of M/o Shipping). He also functioned as first Member-Secretary  under S Satyam, Chairman, Tariff Authority.  He was a member of infrastructure committee of Ministry of Environment, was also responsible  for environment clearances of Ports. As Joint Secretary Housing, Ministry of Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation, he initiated the National Urban Renewal Mission under the able guidance of A.N. Tewari (then Secy UEPA),presently  Information Commissioner in Govt. of India, Jain was the first Mission Director for Basic Services to the Urban Poor), also framed the “Urban Reforms Incentive Fund” , the National Slum Policy, the National Street Vendors Policy and the National Habitat Policy.  He conducted the first Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference with India as host in 2006, where Housing Ministers of over 40 countries attended, and which was inaugurated by President of India. Pankaj Jain belongs to 1978 batch of Jammu & Kashmir cadre. He has represented India in a number of conferences abroad, and has held important assignments in the past.
IPS reshuffle in Bihar
There is IPS reshuffle in Bihar. New postings are Mssrs:-Tejeshwar Pandey zonal IGP of Tirhut. R. Bhatti IGP (Special Branch , Vinay Kumar zonal IGP of Bhagalpur, Sujit Kumar SP of Vaishali, Vinod Kumar Commandant BMP-2,U K Sinha SP Buxer, Jitendra Rana SP Railways Patna, S M Jain SP Bagha and Garima Mullick Wireless.
5000 NCC cadets picked up for Commonwealth games
Five thousand NCC Cadets will help organise the forthcoming Commonwealth Games. Selection process for this has already been completed and training for this purpose will start very soon. This was stated by the Director General NCC Lt Gen RK Karwal in Delhi on January 5, 2010. Addressing a conference coinciding with the NCC Republic Day Camp 2010, General Karwal said that the NCC Delhi Directorate will start the Yamuna Pollution Awareness Campaign next month. The earlier Ganga Pollution Awareness Campaign, organised from Haridwar to Bihar, was a huge success, he added.
Vacancies of Director (Ministerial) in DDA
Vacancies of Director (Ministerial) in DDA are to be filled up on deputation basis from officers, belonging to central/State government, holding analogous posts or those with five years service in their revised pay scale for a period of one year which is extendable upto five years on year to year basis.
Swaminathan elevated as CEO, Infosys BPO
Infosys, the second largest Information Technology company in the country, has elevated Swaminathan D., Chief Operating Officer (COO) and senior vice president, Infosys BPO as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director, Infosys BPO.
Gummaraju elevated as Head KPO practice
Kishore Gummaraju AVP and head of consumer packaged goods solutions, Infosys has been elevated as head of Knowledge Services (KPO practice).
Nair is Secretary Rubber Board
V. Sreekumaran Nair  has taken over  as the Secretary, Rubber Board.
A joint Director in the state Planning Board, he had been working on cadre posting as Chief Planning Officer in the Scheduled Caste Development Department.
2007 batch IPS get posting in Orissa
Five 2007 batch IPS officers in Orissa have been given postings.
IAS transfers in Tamil Nadu

In a minor bureaucratic reshuffle, transfer of Dr. S. Karuthiah Pandian , Special Secretary  Home, Prohibition and Excise Department to Commissioner of Town and Country Planning, has been  cancelled by the Tamil Nadu government. Consequently, Dr. S. Karuthiah Pandian will continue to function as Special Secretary Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department. Pankaj Kumar Bansal, Joint Managing Director Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board and Project Director, Hogenakkal Water Supply Project has been posted  as Director of Town and Country Planning vice Ashok Dongre transferred.

CORPORATE
Vijay Kelkar and Hussain on Board of Tata,s
Vijay Kelkar, former Union Finance Secretary, and Mr Ishaat Hussain, Finance Director of Tata Sons have been appointed on the Board of Tata Consultancy Services..
Lalit Kumar likely to be shifted
Lalit Kumar, GM, Sales and Marketing, Northern Region, Air India, is likely to be shifted.
Prasad moves from CCL
V B Prasad has been shifted from the CCL to the Jharkhand Project.
Sharma shifted to CMPDI
The Coal India has shifted A K Sharma from Hazaribag to CMPDI .
Bakshi elected President
Keyoor Bakshi has been elected President of International Federation of Company Secretaries (IFCS) for the year 2010. He has been elected at the sixth Assembly Meeting of the IFCS held at Tanzania.
Ravi Shankar appointed Chairperson
T. Ravi Shankar has been appointed as Chairperson of Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunal, Chennai.

Aaj Ki Aawaz

Krishna needs to take up this killing of Indians with the Aussie Government strongly!!
His reaction  to the killing of the Indian student in Australia has been taken wrongly!!
The message he sent is India ’s taken it in its stride!!!!
Whereas he should have shown MEA is solidly on the Indian students side!!!!!
Krishna  should remember education is an Industry Down Under,
And to ‘its own interests Aussie Government will surrender’!!!!
Indian Government has just to threaten issuing an Advisory!!!!
And Aussie Government will be saying sorry!
In Today’s World turning the other cheek is taken as a sign of cowardice and weakness!
Or you can say of downright meekness!!!
And the Indians settled in Australia have let Indian students down badly!!!
When these NRIs come to India our Sarkaar bends back for them literally madly!!
Political Parties should realize that AP is on the verge of burning!!!
With every passing day the situation is worsening!!
It’s time that Political Parties stopped adding fuel to the fire!!
Lest they want to place AP on the pyre!!!!
PC should  be made the ‘Pointman’ and he should call all AP Parties for a meet!!!
And try to reduce the rising heat!!!
Telengana cannot be decided on overnight!!!
For Telengana it’s been a 10 year  fight!!!
Again States should not be divided on grounds that Telengana demand is being made!!!!
I think everything needs to be re-weighed!!
It’s well known why Jethmalani in the Ruchika matter has got his pants in a knot!!!
It’s because of Manu so irked he’s got!!
Had it not been for the Media he’d have got his client Manu walking free today!!!
And for his misdeeds Manu would not have had to pay!!
Imagine every murderer would have made a beeline for Jethmalani had Manu got away!
Sadly for Jethmalani the Media did its job and now for his misdeeds karr raha hai Manu pay!
Anuradha asked Jethmalani if his granddaughter was in Ruchika’s place what would be his stand!
Jehtmalani replied ‘ I’d be objective’ sounding pompous or grand!!!
Rest assured if his granddaughter had been in Ruchika’s place,
The case would not have lingered on for so long in the first place!!!
Jethmalani would have moved heaven and earth legally to make Rathor pay!!!
He’d have made one night and day!!
Yes ‘bottom pincher’ Gill’s medals should be taken back!!!
Though Gill says he molested a lady so he does not deserve Rathor’s kind of whack!!
Gill says how can there be the same punishment for molesting a lady and a minor girl????
On hearing that his medals could be revoked arguments karr raha hai Gill hurl!!!
Confucius says…. In the first place the awarding procedure needs to be corrected!!!
So that those who deserve the award and are worthy of it are selected!!!


Bharat Kumar

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It is questionable for deserving women
After castes, 33% reservation for our political representation for women is in the pipe line. There is Income tax rebate for women in India. Lot of women are working as CEO or executives, without any reservation for their selections. These women are deserving candidates. Reservation for Justice in the High court, Supreme or other courts is questionable for deserving women.
Ramesh Chhabra

Lady advocates may occupy more posts of Judges
Whether we like it or not, lady advocates are increasing in number. It appears that male advocates are not interested in becoming judges, as they are happy with their present work. Hence, a day is not far off that lady advocates may occupy the posts of JUDGES may be more than 50% in another 10 years of time.
T A Vaidyanathan

When will present Administrator of Chandigarh be relieved ?
When would the present Administrator of Chandigarh be relieved? People of Chandigarh as also Chandigarh Congress are eagerly waiting for this announcement.
Anu Chatrath
Mayor of Chandigarh

Total discrimination
There is total discrimination in the matter of treatment of Central Government employees. It is pertinent to point out that all its employees are not getting the benefit of CGHS dispensaries on the plea that the area does not come under CGHS jurisdiction. In a city/town some areas are earmarked for CGHS facilities, while some come under AMA jurisdiction. The employees those who come within the purview of CGHS dispensaries are lucky enough since they get top class treatment, while the other group which is a sizable section are getting low category treatment because they get the treatment from the AMAs. While the Government has given top most priority to health sector, it should think over how to wipe out the discrimination.
Tapan Kumar Banerjee