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Empanelment meeting of 1977 batch IAS did not take place
Meeting for the empanelment of 1977 batch IAS officers to the rank of Secretary in the Government of India did not take place on Saturday.
1989 batch IRS (IT) empanelment  takes place
Empanelment of 1989 batch IRS (IT) officers to the rank of Commissioners has taken place .
Appointment of Bank CMDs this week
New chiefs for seven public sector banks, including Canara Bank, Corporation Bank, UCO Bank, and Indian Overseas Bank  are being appointed this week.S. Raman ED Union Bank of India, will assume charge as CMD of Canara Bank.  M. Narendra, ED, Bank of India, will move to Indian Overseas Bank as CMD.Ramnath Pradeep, ED, Central Bank of India, will  be CMD  of Corporation Bank . Arun Kaul, ED, Central Bank of India, will  head UCO Bank.R. Ramachandran, ED, Syndicate Bank, will assume charge as CMD of Andhra Bank.  H.S.U. Kamath, ED, Canara Bank, will move  to Vijaya Bank as CMD. Nagesh Pydah, ED, Punjab National Bank will be CMD of Oriental Bank of Commerce.
Rakesh to be JS Rural Develment
Sanjay Kumar Rakesh being tipped to be Joint Secretary Rural Development in the Government of India. He is 1990 batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.
Garg to be JS Water Resources
Sudhir Garg is being appointed Joint Secretary Water Resources in the Government of India. He is 1990 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
B K Patnaik to be new CS of Orissa
In all probability, B K Patnaik will succeed Tarun Kanti Mishra on September 1 as Chief Secretary of Orissa. He is 1976 batch IAS officer.
IPS officer suspended in Gujarat
2001 batch IPS officer Vipul Aggarwal has been suspended by the Gujarat Government.
Bhupindra Kumar moves to Milan
Bhupindra Kumar has been moved from the MEA to Milan as Counsellor.
Ms.  S Rajani AG (C & RA) Tamil Nadu transferred  
Ms. S Rajani, Accountant General (C & RA), Tamil Nadu, Chennai, on her relief by Ms. Subhashini Srinivasan, is transferred and posted as Principal Director of Audit, Southern Railway, Chennai vice Ms. Kavitha Kestur.
Why no extensions given in Oil sector PSUs?
Why no extensions to Chairman cum Managing Directors (CMDs) of PSUs in
oil sector were? This question is hotly being discussed among senior
executives of the oil sector.
K.L. Balbani  to join Settlement Commission
K.L. Balbani, CCE Bhubaneshwar, is poised to join Settlement Commission in Kolkata
Hunt is on CEO of the Lok Sabha TV
A hunt is on for Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Lok Sabha run television channel.
Extension to Cabinet Secr –six batches are out
Extension to Cabinet Secretaries on the past two occasions has proved to be dearer to six batches of IAS. First, when BK Chaturvedi was given extension, 1967, 1968 and 1969 batches lost their promotion chance and now when KM Chandrashekhar’s term has been extended, 1971, 1972 and 1973 batches are all set to suffer.
Dhiraj Srivastava is OSD NAC
Rajasthan Civil Services officer Dhiraj Srivastava has been appointed OSD in the National Advisory Council.
IAS changes in Uttar Pradesh
Mukesh Meshram will be new DM of Kanpur. Amrit Abhijat has been made DM Kanpur. Mritunjay Kumar has been appointed Vice Chairman of the Lucknow Development Authority..
1997 batch IAS get Selection-Grade in UP
1997  batch IAS officers have been given Selection-Grade in Uttar Pradesh.
Over fifty per cent staff in banks to retire in three years
Over 54 per cent staff up to the general manager level will retire from public sector banks in the coming three years.
C-DOT, NTRO to develop tapping equipment
Recently voice interception led to significant leads in a scam that allegedly ate into thousands of crores of Rupees, government money in thin air; but encrypted servers hosted in erstwhile USSR and hi-tech anti-surveillance Israeli equipment concealed the money trail. C-DoT has been entrusted to develop advanced voice interception solutions (codenamed: SPECT AR) while the NTRO will focus on Internet monitoring software (Codenamed: TEMPT NR) to keep a closer and foolproof track on anti-national elements.
CBI’s top sleuth to takes charge of Central Region, Mumbai
Vineet Aggarwal, the 1994 batch Maharashtra cadre IPS officer, will take charge as Additional Commissioner – Central Region, Mumbai Police next week. Aggarwal who was instrumental in making significant leads in the Rs. 60,000 crore spectrum scam while at CBI Delhi was abruptly transferred to Andamans in midst of the high profile investigation. On completion of his deputation with the CBI in April 2010 Vineet
Aggarwal was waiting for a posting in Maharashtra police. His well deserved posting comes soon after a high level police reshuffle in Maharashtra that took place following retirement of State DGP A.N. Roy.
IAS officer in film “Rajniti”
1980 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre Pukhraj Maroo can be seen as an actor in the film “Rajniti”. The Madhya Pradesh Government had given permission to Maroo to act.
Andhra Pradesh will bounce back: CS
“We are working on a two pronged strategy to empower people and to ensure that they get the know-how and confidence to lead their lives comfortably in future.” This was stated by S.V. Prasad, IAS, Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh in an exclusive interview with our Magazine Editor, Prakash Pillai in Hyderabad.  Prasad an IAS officer of the 1975 batch is a straight forward person who is an optimist to the core. Despite the slowdown in the state’s economy during the last couple of years, he is confident that the state would be able to achieve a turnaround and come back with a boom.
Here are some of the excerpts of the interview-
Q: What happened to the Andhra’s growth story?
A: Nothing, some unprecedented disasters coupled with a severe drought have, pegged our growth a bit. But there is nothing to worry. We are on the right track and by the next financial year would again be back on top. The impact of global economic slowdown and natural disasters in the form of drought and later unprecedented floods have been a bit too tough on us as it had greatly impacted our revenue receipts while,  expenditures had gone up.
Q: Experts say Andhra Pradesh is cash-strapped as of now and it may force the government to cut down its expenses in the social sector. Is it true?
A: No, we are tight on revenue front , but that doesn’t mean that we will cut down on the welfare projects. The fact is that we have some of the most innovative social welfare programmes in the country and we are committed to run them. The problems with these schemes are that they are pretty expensive in the long run. Our project of health
insurance for all poor is being replicated elsewhere in the country now. We are providing a cover of Rs Two lakh to each of the poor to cover up his medical needs in case of critical ailments. So is the case with the Indiramma programme which aims at providing houses to each individual. In Chinese there is an old saying when you come
across a hungry person what will you do, give him some fish or fishing rod?
Andhra Pradesh government is working to provide the hungry with a fish
to meet his immediate need and a fishing rod to train him to meet his
future requirements.
(To read the interview in detail, read June 2010 issue of the Whispers in the Corridors Magazine)
No Chief Minister shares platform with Baba Ramdeo now
No Chief Minister now seems to be sharing a platform with Baba Ramdeo ever since he has disclosed his political ambitions. There was a time when these Chief Ministers used to feel proud in being present with him at one or the other function.
Official working paralysed in Jharkhand
Official working has been badly paralysed in Jharkhand which on June 1, 2010came under Central rule with President Ms. Pratibha Patil accepting a recommendation of the Indian Cabinet after the Congress and the BJP gave up efforts to form an alternative government
following the resignation of Chief Minister Shibu Soren.The Assembly has been kept in suspended animation during President's rule, which has been imposed for a second time in two years.
Delay in appointment of Advisors to the Jharkhand Governor
Though, Jharkhand came under President’s rule on June 1, 2010 advisors to the Governor have not yet been named. It is worth mentioning that last year while President’s rule was clamped Advisors were not only appointed but had even started functioning within a week’s time.
P V Maiya is Member of Vigilance Advisory Council
P V Maiya, Ex-Chairman, ICICI Bank is the Member of the reconstituted Vigilance Advisory Council,  first set up by the Commission in the year 2004,  with persons of great eminence as its members to advise and guide the Commission from time to time in the discharge of its statutory duties.
Bhupendra Kumar goes to Milan
Bhupendra Kumar has been moved from the MEA Headquarters to Milan as Consul.
All five ministers  re-nominated
All the five Union Ministers Mssrs A K Antony, Ms Ambika Soni, Anand Sharma , M S Gill and Jairam Ramesh  have been re-nominated to the Rajya Sabha.
   ( We said this on March 8 )
IPS officers promoted in Manipur.
1983 batch IPS officer V Zathang, 1984 batch IPS officer N Shyamananda Singh have been promoted to the rank of ADG in Manipur, T Panchuau also been promoted to the rank of IGP.
Saxena is new IG BSF in Kolkata
RC Saxena  has been IG BSF  Assam and Meghalaya frontier. He joined the BSF in 1971 as an officer.
Capt Gustav Baldauf agreement with Air Indiia signed
The National Aviation Company of India Limited (NACIL) of which CMD is Arvind Jadhav (IAS, 1978 batch –Karnataka cadre) has signed its agreement for three years with Capt Gustav Baldauf as its first chief operating officer (COO). He is an Austrian national. He was senior
director, marketing, with Air Canada before joining the NACIL. However, Capt Baldauf's first Indian posting was with Jet Airways in 2005 as vice-president, flight operations. He has over 26 years of flying experience in Austrian Airlines and has been a type rated examiner/instructor.
 Justice Iqbal to be CJ of Madras High Court ?
Acting CJ of the Jharkhand High Court Justice M I Iqbal is being tipped to be new Chief Justice of the Madras High Court.

Gupta is new Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina
Gauri Shankar Gupta, Ambassador of India to Hungary has been concurrently accredited as the Ambassador of India to Bosnia and Herzegovina with residence at Budapest

Mrs Anuja Sarangi posted as CIT (OSD) under CCIT (CCA), Delhi
Mrs Anuja Sarangi, Coommissioner of Income Tax has been posted as CIT (OSD) under CCIT (CCA), Delhi, during the period of her sanctioned leave upto Oct 31, 2011. Mrs. Sarangi shall report to the Board on Nov 1, 2011, on the expiry of her leave.

Tenure of Sadhu extended
Deputation tenure of  V.K. sadhu, CSS(76), Principal Commissioner(Joint Secretary level), Delhi Development Authority under Ministry of Urban Development has been extended  upto December next year.
Ramachandru  gets extension
Central deputation tenure of  T.Ramachandru, IAS(OR-84), Joint Secretary, Department of Defence Production has been extended for a period of 3 Months beyond June 12.
BHEL achieves major milestone in the Middle East
India’s largest Power Project exporter, BHEL has achieved another milestone in international operations with the completion of two power projects in the Middle-East region. This includes BHEL’s first ever Power Project in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The 2x42 MW Gas Turbine-based power project of Al Ghail Power Company is situated in Ras Al Khaimah, one of the seven emirates of the UAE. BHEL’s scope of work in this project included supplies of Gas Turbine Generating units with auxiliary equipment and supervision of erection and commissioning. The other milestone has been achieved at Oman with the successful commissioning of a 26 MW Gas Turbine Generator at Oman Refinery and Petrochemical plant in Muscat. Another BHEL unit of similar rating is also in an advanced stage of commissioning at the same project. The first of their kind in Oman, these units will provide captive power generation for the Oil refinery. In the Middle East, BHEL has set up 14 Power Projects, besides substations and supply of a host of equipment for the power and the oil & gas sectors.

RTI
 
Cost of Postage
For the alleged deemed refusal on the part of the CPIO to provide information, the Commission observed that the appellant was provided
with proof of dispatch of the CPIO’s order (certificate of posting). Therefore, the Commission did not impose the penalty proposed on the
CPIO. The Commission ruled that there is no provision for charging cost of postage from the appellant as per the notified rules under the
RTI Act.

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The cost of postage has to be borne by the respondents. This fact has been amplified in CIC Full Bench Decision in F.No.CIC/WB/C/2007/943 &
CIC/MA/A/2008/0108 (hearing on 23/09/2009 and decision on 30/10/2009) wherein it is clearly stated that no causes other than those listed in
the rules will be charged to the appellant.

[Shri M. P. Srivastava v. EPFO, Ranchi (through Audio Conferencing) in
Appeal No. CIC/DS/A/2010/000289]

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Orders of C S Verma  as new CMD SAIL today
BHEL's Director Finance C S Verma has been appointed for the top job at steel maker SAIL. C. S. Verma has been the finance director with BHEL for the last five years. He is believed to be a financial ace . He is going to replace S.K.Roongta who retired on May 31, 2010. Verma served as Director for Finance of ITI Ltd. from February 2002 to August 31, 2005. During his service of more than three years in the Telecom major, Verma through adroit management of funds and strategic deployment of scarce resources, lent the much needed financial muscle required for ITI to operate in the highly competitive telecom markets. He has over two decades of professional experience and is credited to be an expert in funds mobilization having raised huge resources for the Indian Railway Finance Corporation and served as its Group General
Manager.  Verma served as General Manager of Delhi Stock Exchange (DSE) for about four years and served in a Financial Institution for about 9 years. He has handled a number of foreign issues, swap transactions and derivative products. A widely traveled Verma , is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and also an Associate Member of the Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India. He studied Masters degree in Commerce, a Masters degree in Management and a Bachelors degree in Law.
    ( We said this on May 5 )
Sinha to join Royal Bank of Scotland
The Royal Bank of Scotland has appointed Abhinav Sinha as Executive Director for Institutional Equity Derivative Sales, Asia Pacific, in London. He is an MBA from The Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
Corporation Bank GM gets award
General Manager of the Corporation Bank B.R. Bhat has been awarded Dun & Bradstreet's CTO Award 2009.
Tata group to hire more locals in Gujarat
Grapevine has it that the Tata Group will soon take up an aggressive hiring exercise for management personnel locally in Gujarat for the Sanand  plant which rolled out the world's cheapest car 'Nano' on June 2, 2010.
ITC Chairman gets award
Y. C. Deveshwar, Chairman, ITC Ltd has been given award by the he US-India Business Council (USIBC) of the US Chamber of Commerce, for his commitment to empowering India's rural agricultural community.
B S Murthy replaces R K Pandey as Independent Director in Sanghi Industries
Sanghi Industries Limited has filled the vacancy of  B. Satyanarayana Murthy on his exit from its Board by appointing  R K Pandey as Independent Director.
Sujoy Sircar no longer Compliance Officer of Bajaj Hindustan
Sujoy Sircar, Deputy Company Secretary of Bajaj Hindustan Ltd  has ceased to be the Compliance Officer w.e.f. April 1, 2010 consequent upon his transfer to another group Company.
Stephen Cronin is Head (HR) Citi India
Citi India Stephen Cronin has been appointed as Head (HR) for the India Cluster.
Michael Perschke to be India Head of luxury car maker Audi 
Michael Perschke will take over as its new head of Audi's India operations from July 1, replacing Benoit Tiers who is moving to France to look after German carmaker's operations in that country.
Rajiv Srivastava is COO Hewlett-Packard India
Hewlett-Packard (HP) India has appointed Rajiv Srivastava as Chief Operating Officer. 

Aaj Ki Aawaz
City Corporation's MD Dehspande is a Pawar flunky!!
Or in simple terms Pawar is the madaari and Deshpande is his monkey!
 
Pawar’s daughter is a stinking rich gal who puts up middle class ka drama!
She like her Dad thinks she too can make all the time everyone’s ‘mama’ (fool)!!
 
She had said , ‘ We have no links with any IPL bid’!!
Now it’s out that the truth she hid!!
 
Deshpande did not bid on his own as he had Board's approval to do so!!
He cannot move an inch without Pawar’s approval say those who are in the know!
 
Pawar they say owns thousands of paper Companies to handle his money!!!!
After all the money cannot be kept in gunny after gunny!!
 
Pawar’s strategy is now to ‘weather this one out’!!!
He feels for how long will the Media and his detractors shout???
 
And Mohna is in no position to take him to task!!
Even ‘Pawar ji please explain your position’ Mohna cannot ask!!
 
I had said this in the past too … if a ghoos meter reading we take!
Then the most ghoos the two NCP Mantirs in Mohna’s Cabinet do make!
 
Praful too puts up ‘ I’m stinking rich so why do I need to take ghoos' act!!
Whereas those in the know will vouch that with the ‘Devil of ghoos he has a pact’!
 
His family takes AI to be their personal fiefdom!!
It is considered to be a part of their Business Empire or Kingdom!!
 
Humpty Dumpty Ghadkari says BJP suffers from sycophancy ki bimaari!!
More than that BJP suffers from posts ke liye maara maari!!
 
At least other BJP Leaders do chamchagiri BJP ke within!!
Isn’t doing chamchagiri of Leaders of other Party’s like a cardinal sin??
 
Ghadkari does Pawar’s chamchagiri and every now and sometimes shows this!!
Insiders say an opportunity to stand by Pawar he never does miss!!
 
Sarkaar wants to free the price of petrol!
But its wastage of petrol it refuses to control!!
 
And then what about our Oil PSU’s that bleed on account of wastage and ghoos?
Hundreds of crores on account of these two Oil Majors loose!!
 
India’s inflation rate is highest in the World and so timing stinks!!!
In this matter Pranab Da is behaving like one of the biggest fink's!!
 
Do not forget Mukesh met Pranab Da and Anil met PC some time back!!
If petrol price is decontrolled then in the retail trade of petrol RIL will be back!
 
At present RIL’s petrol pumps are in a ‘mothballed’ state!!!!
For decontrol of prices RIL karr rahi hai anxiously wait!!
 
Confucius says….. Sarkaar’s formula is take tough decisions now!!!
Splurge on appeasement just before general election jabh votes maangne ke liye jao!
 
 
Bharat Kumar

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Civil Services have undergone  moral degradation
Children of civil servants are the most ignored persons because mostly civil servants remain busy in exploiting their subordinates and making their career and they can't think of their child's future
While I would  not be able to comment on the choice  children of Senior Civil Servants, not joining the Civil Services.  I do not belong to that elite cadre but being in Government service, all I can say that while growing up our children have observed us behaving meekly in front of our seniors and do not have enough self respect.
Government officers or officials  are not given the due respect which they deserve by their seniors, politicians  or by the Society at large. A general feeling prevails that Government servants are useless bunch of people who are not interested in solving people's problems.  The Society do not understand the compulsions under which Government officials work  at all levels.  The children of civil servants also observe silently that most of the civil servants do not like their jobs and have no positive feedback to give it to them.  Not all but many senior civil servants do earn a lot of money, mostly by dubious means, for which they themselves are not proud of, and that is the reality.
Further more the type of responsibilities which Civil Servants have to undertake is much more than the meagre salaries which are given to them.  The status without enough financial rewards, does not bring well deserving candidates to the post.
These are some of the reasons why the children do not want to follow their parents in the civil service.  I am sure their may be many more reasons, like available opportunities in private sector where merit is the only consideration, as well as recognition of the worth of the individual, where he/she is not working under  bankrupt political leadership which changes colours with the number of seats the coalition partners can bring and the overall degradation of human values.
The present day generation is more happy in working for multi-national companies where the perks are great and the responsibilities are not enormous.  Their motto is to earn and enjoy life and not to waste it in the garb of social service to the nation by becoming civil servants
Vinod Passy

Is it a mere coincidence ?  
Has it ever occured to anyone that the Centre’s preoccupation with the Maoists is imited to only States run by non-Congress parties? They are West Bengal, Orissa, Jharkhand and Chattisgarh. How come for the last several years there has been no Central intervention in terrorist controlled states like Manipur and Nagaland? Is it a mere coincidence that they are Congress-run States? In these two States the writ of the government does not extend even to the corridors of the state secretariat as the Underground is fully equipped with mobile phones and laptops from where they make their threatening  extortion demands on an hourly basis. The terrorists demands have the full backing of corrupt Cabinets who also share the loot. This is called Rule of Law. If any officer of  the much maligned IAS and IPS dares to object he is either killed or maimed or his children kidnapped for ransom. Alternatively the officer himself is kidnapped for ransom and the ransom money is evenly distributed between the kidnappers of the Underground and his own departments Minister. Such is the level of synergy! This is known as Law and Order. When some valley based Underground groups issued an Ultimatum this year to all Indians to leave Manipur by 15 May and the exodus began the Centre was a mute spectator. Indians , mostly migrant labour and Marwari businessmen fled the state. The Marwaris were forced by the Underground to sell off all their properties at throwaway prices to, who else, but the CM of Manipur! When the Marwaris powerful friends in Delhi started pulling strings the Centre instead of imposing Presidents Rule ,permitted  Naga underground  leader T.Muivah to holiday in Manipur. Was it on LTC, visit to Home Town once every 4 years? This was like letting  the cat loose among pigeons. Immediately all hell broke loose and the situation in the state has gone from bad to worse. When the Union Home Minister toured the Northeast recently, he over flew Manipur because there was perfect Law and Order and  Rule of Law in the state.
D Choudhury
 
Dealing With Internal and External Security
It is not a secret that India has a very vast mountainous, difficult, jungle ridden and riverine unresolved land frontier / borders with four of hers neighbours. It is also no secret that China has developed a vastly superior capability to pose a grave threat to our Northern and Eastern borders. India would require as many as 30 Infantry Divisions to effectively thwart that Chinese threat. India at present can not afford to have 30 standing infantry divisions only in those areas. Hence, an alternative and effective means to overcome that deficiency must exist. The best and only alternative is to para militarise the CPOs such as BSF and CRPF. That would involve bringing them under military trained officers and their higher echelons being military officers or militarily integrated officers. These CPOs should remain under the Home Ministry only but not under the IPS but under militarised cadre. That would enable and empower forces like CRPF to face situations like Dantewada effectively and professionally. It is high time mandarins in MHA should ask themselves a question as to how a force under Home Ministry like Assam Rifles is so professional and successful but CRPF and BSF etc botch it up and allow situation to deteriorate into higher emergencies rather than solve those. Naming a force "para military" does not mean calling CPOs as Para Military without any thing military being in them. It is the officers which make the difference as men are almost the same. With present state of CPO officers and IPS, it is bound to result in glooms and dooms. They just do not know what it takes to apply a military force leave aside dealing with insurgencies. IPS empire needs diversion in many other fruitful areas and they should gladly vacate CPO regimes and CPO high posts. Para Miltarisation of CPO is long overdue to deal with our internal challenges and meet our strategic requirements. A para militarised force of 250 battalions under MHA is a very big force "in being" and "in readiness" provided our IPS walas allow them to be a "Force" rather than just be their personal guards. Let us keep our national interest in mind rather than spread IPS empire.
Jai Hind.
Ratnala Rohit
 
Developing tribal leadership
Politicians only export the tribals for their politics of vote. They are not genuinely interested in developing leadership in them. They would like to preside over their destinies.
S C Agrawal
 
Old wine in new bottle
This is regarding constitution of NAC under Mrs Sonia Gandhi. It is all old wine in new Bottle. I think some good Forest Officer should have been nominated to cater to livelihood and natural resources issues.
K L Tirkey

Wonders for media !
Ajai Kumar Srivastav, DGP, Karnataka, a refined and competent cop was right about the 'incident' of Sri Sri Sri.  Many other cops would have done wonders for the media!
Vijay Kumar