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Bihar ready for the State Foundation Day (UPDATE)
The Bihar Government being headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is ready to celebrate the Bihar foundation Day that falls on March 22, 2010. Theme of this year's celebration is preserve & strengthen "Bihari identity" ,said sources close to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. It may be stated here that the state of Bihar was founded on March 22, 1912. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has decided that from now onwards the foundation day will be celebrated every year.

IPS retiring in March 2010
As many as 10 IPS officers are retiring in March 2010. They are Deep Chand, K D Singh, Ujjwaleshwar Misra, L S Sandhu and R Yomcha (AGMU), Amaredra Raj Kumar (Assam Meghalaya ), S S Ahire (Maharashtra), M Karanjit Singh (Manipur Tripura) and N N Ngullie and Zambemo Lotha (Nagaland). Deepak Bagai (HP).
Ms. Zohra Chatterji moves from I & B Ministry
Ms. Zohra Chatterji Joint Secretary I&B has been appointed as Secretary, National Commission for Women (NCW). This post is equivalent to Additional Secretary. She is an IAS officer of the 1979 batch who belongs to the Uttar Pradesh cadre.
( We said this on February 17 )
Samirendra Chatterjee posted as Commissioner, CPFC
Samirendra Chatterjee Secretary, National Commission for Women (NCW) has been appointed as Commissioner Central Provident Fund Commissioner (CPFC). He is an IAS officer of the 1976 batch who belongs to the West Bengal cadre.
Ms.Mayawati to remain unscathed
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Ms.Mayawati who heads the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) also will emerge unscathed from the row relating to her being garlanded with currency notes of Rs.1000 denomination, say legal experts. This amount can be shown as a gift. However, in that case she will be liable to pay Income Tax (IT). Section 56 (C) of the IT Act says cash received as gift is an Income of the beneficiary & he/she is liable to pay tax. However, this can be shown as voluntary contribution by party workers. For example each worker contributed Rs. 1000 or so. Then there are two scenarios. First, IT sleuths will have to interrogate thousands of workers, which is totally impractical. Second, the party worker’s voluntary contribution under Section 13 of the IT Act is tax-free.
Vohra is new Ambassador to Poland
Deepak Vohra, Ambassador of India to Sudan, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Poland.
Shekhar Vidyarthi goes to Haryana
Inter-Cadre transfer of Gujarat cadre IAS officer of 2004 batch Shekhar Vidyarthi to Haryana cadre has been approved by the Government of India.
Sikkim cadre IAS Officer Ms Bhasin moves to Haryana
The Government of India has approved the Inter-cadre transfer of 2007 batch IPS officer Ms. Nazneen Bhasin from Sikkim to Haryana cadre.
Bhujabal appointed Secretary of BIFR
Gajendra Bhujabal has been appointed as Secretary for Industrial & Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) (Joint Secretary level) under the Department of Financial Service.He is 1981 batch IES officer.
Second sub city of Delhi on the anvil
Second sub city of Delhi is on the anvil between Chhatarpur farmhouses to Gurgaon on the Gurgaon-Faridabad road.
Police Commissioner system in Rajasthan soon
Jaipur and Jodhpur in Rajasthan are likely to have Police Commissioners soon.
Post of GM, Nagaland & Manipur vacant in FCI
The post of General Manager (GM) for Nagaland & Manipur in Food Corporation of India (FCI) is lying vacant. It has now been circulated.
5000 crores for Judicial system
Government of India has earmarked Rs 5000 crore for the improvement of Judicial system in the country.
No takers for JNPT chief’s post in Maharashtra
As the grapevine has it, there are no takers from IAS fraternity of Maharashtra as far as the post of Chairman Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), Mumbai was concerned.
Sheikh is new Regional Director RBI, Kanpur
Bazil Sheikh is going to Kanpur as Regional Director of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
Shahare to move MEA Hqs
DCM in Riyadh Rajiv Sahare has been moved to the Headquarters of the Ministry of External Affairs.
Panda to go to Tokyo
Sanjay Kumar Panda Director (EA) in the Ministry of External Affairs has been moved to Tokyo as DCM.
RPF official Mishra promoted as IG
SK Mishra, DIG (CSC/NER), has been promoted as IG cum CSC/ECOR in
RPF at Bhubaneshwar. He is a RPF Police Cadre officer in Ministry of
Railway, Government of India.
Kamle to be ED NHAI in Bangalore
MR Kamle is likely to be appointed Executive Director equivalent to Joint Secretary in National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) in Bangalore. He is 1986 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.
RA Rajeev in run for MD’s slot in CIDCO
As the grapevine has it, RA Rajeev  is one of three Maharashtra cadre IAS officers who are in the reckoning for the post of Managing Director (MD) in the City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra Ltd(CIDCO).
MHA issues circular for Director (Security), Lok Sabha
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)has issued a circular to state governments seeking names of  IPS officers who are willing for appointment of Director (Security) in Lok Sabha Secretariat. This post is equivalent to DIG level.
Das joins as Director Textiles
S S Das has joined the Textile Ministry as a Director. He is 1989 batch Indian Trade Service officer.
Can Ajay Sahai DG, FIEO be absorbed?
Can it Ajay Sahai Director General (DG), Federation of Indian Export Organisation (FIEO) be absorbed after his voluntary retirement (VR) was approved? This question is hotly being debated in corridors of power because as per Government rules one has to take Government’s permission to join after seeking VR.  And cooling off period is one year.
Badal Chatterjee replaces Mishra as DPR UP
Badal Chatterjee has been appointed Executive Director Public Relations in Uttar Pradesh.He has replaced A N Mishra who has moved as Special Secretary Labour.
A post of ED to be abolished in the NHB
One of the newly created posts of Executive Directors (EDs) of the National Housing Bank (NHB) is going to be abolished. As the grapevine has it Prabal Sen Chief General Manager (CGM) with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) who was appointed as Executive Director (ED) of the National Housing Bank (NHB) is unlikely to join the NHB. As it is one year has elapsed ever since he was appointed in the NHB. It may be stated that the NHB has already got one ED. Moreover as per new norms only that Public sector bank can have two EDs whose asset worth is over 100 crore.
Training on RTI for the Nodal Officers and CPIOs
The Department of Personnel and Training is organizing three- days Training on RTI for the Nodal Officers and CPIOs under the Centrally Sponsored Plan Scheme on "Strengthening, Capacity Building and Awareness Generation for effective implementation of the RTI Act" in the third week of April.
Residential Training Programme for the Chief Liaison Officers and others
The lnstitute of Public Administration, Bangalore is organizing a Residential Training Programme for the Chief Liaison Officers, Liaison Officers for SC/ST/OBC employees /CAOs/AOs/Eos/other officers on Reservation Policy of Government of lndia from
April 26 to 28, 2010 at Goa.
Sobha Nambisan is now Director of Arts Gallery in Bangalore
Sobha Nambisan has been appointed as Director of Bangalore chapter of National Gallery of Modern Arts by the Union Ministry of Culture. Sobha is retired 1976 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.
Tenure of Ajoy Kumar extended
Deputation tenure of Ajoy Kumar presently working as Chief Vigilance Officer in the National Fertilizers Limited (NFL) has been extended for a period of two years beyond April ,8 as special case on humanitarian grounds.He is 1984 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.
Murthy to get post-retirement job in Karnataka
Additional Chief Secretary to Finance department M R Sreenivas Murthy is all set to get post retirement job in Karnataka. 1976 batch IAS officer Murthy is retiring this month end.
Meshram posted in Raipur
Dr Anurag Meshram APO/NGP/SECR has been promoted and posted as WPO/WRS/Raipur.
Dr Guha to be VC of Aryabhatta University in Bihar
Dr. Shambhu Nath Guha is being appointed first Vice Chancellor of the Aryabhatta University in Bihar.
Nine Addl Commissioners of Income Tax granted proforma promotion
As many as nine Additional Commissioners of Income Tax have been granted proforma promotions. They are Ms. Neena Singh Pandey, Ms. SS Bansia, Ravindra Sai, Gurijala R reddy, Simanchala Dash, Mrs. Seema Raj, Praboth Seth, Ratna Dasgupta and YK Singh.
14 IDAS officers transferred
As many as 14 IDAS officers have been transferred. C Zothankhuma (IDAS : 1991) has been transferred to CDA Guwahati, Sanjay Kumar Singh (IDAS : 1992) has been transferred to CDA Patna/IFA HQ (EC) Kolkata, Lalloo Ram (IDAS :1992) to PCDA (P) Allahabad, MC Chakraborty (IDAS :1993) to CDA (IDS) New Delhi/IFA (ANC) Port Blair, Pramod Kumar (IDAS : 1995) to PCA (Fys) Kolkata, Anant Prakash (IDAS : 1995) to CDA Patna, Dr. (Mrs) Shivalli Malhotra Chouhan to CGDA New Delhi, Dilip Kumar (IDAS : 1997) to CGDA New Delhi, Mrs. Anjali Ellis Shanker (IDAS : 1998) to PCDA Bangalore, Sanjay Verma (IDAS : 1998) to PCDA (WC) Chandigarh, Dr. Sudip Kumar Bhadra (IDAS : 1998) to PCA (Fys) Kolkata, Mrs. Kavita Garg (IDAS : 1997) to CDA Jabalpur, Mrs. Molly Sengupta (IDAS : 1999) to CDA Patna and SP Singh (IDAS : 2003) to PCDA (BR) Delhi Cantt.
Mrs. Vandana Kumar posted as Addl IFA
Mrs. Vandana Kumar, IDAS, DFA has been posted as Additional IFA in the office of the IFA (WNC), Mumbai.
IDAS officer Kamal Chowdhery gets posting in Shimla
Kamal Chowdhery, IDAS, Additional CDA, presently attending 35th APPPA in the ITPA, New Delhi, has been posted as Additional IFA in the office of the IFA (ARTRAC), Shimla, on completionof the programme.
IDAS officer Ms. Vandana Srivastava posted in Jaipur
Ms. Vandana Srivastava (IDAS : 1978) PIFA in the office of the PIFA (Navy), New Delhi, has been posted in the office of PCDA (SWC) Jaipur.
Official list of Empanelment of 1976 batch IPS officers
Empanelment of 1976 batch IPS officers to the rank of DG in the Government of India has taken place.Official list says that altogather 40 officers of this batch have been empanelled. They are ;-Mssrs Jyoti Swarup Pandey, Satyavrat Bansal, Renuka Muttoo and Subhash Joshi ( Uttarakhand ), Ashok Kumar Bhan (J&K), Praveen Mahendru ( Chattisgarh), Bharat Vir Wanchoo, Naparajit Mukherjee and K S Shankarnarayan ( WestBengal ), Deepak Swarup (Gujrat ) Mahavir Singh Bali , S P Srivastava, Atul , Udyan Parmar, Alaxander Daniel, Padman Singh and P C Sabarwal (Uttar Pradesh ), M. M. Praharaj ( Orissa ), K Subramanyam, D. Shivanandan and Alaxander Daniel ( Maharashtra), Neeraj Kumar, V Rajagopal ( UT ), SK. Upadhyay (Tamil Nadu ), S P Ramesh, DV Guruprasad ( Karnataka), Balwinder Singh ( Andhra Pradesh), Manjari Jaruhar and Rakesh Jaruhar ( Jharkhand ), Yashovardhan Azad and Nandan Dube ( Madhya Pradesh ), R N Gupta, Anirudh Uppal (Himachal Pradesh ), Ravindra Narayanan Ravi (Kerala ), Harish Chandra Meena and K J Bains ( Rajasthan ), B V Singh and Alok Joshi (Haryana), R K Shukla (MT), and Latika Saran (TamilNadu).
( We said this on February 15 )
Four ASPs promoted in Uttarakhand (UPDATE)
Fours ASPs Mssrs Anant Shankar Takwale, Arun Mohan Joshi, Rajeev Swaroop and Sweety Agarwal have been promoted to the rank of Superintended of Police in Uttarakhand.

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Aaj Ki Aawaz
I simply do not understand why Rahul aur Varun ko karte hai compare!!!
One gives hope and the other despair!!!
 
One has positioned himself as a Hand Chopper,
And the other by his actions is today Congress’s showstopper!!
 
Both are in totally different trajectories!!
Totally different ‘stories’!!
 
Okay both are Gandhis but the similarity ends here!!!
One gives hope and the other fear!!
 
Varun’s Mom is an animal lover and tries to save all ‘creatures great and small’!
And son apne aap ko Hand Chopper karta hai call!!
 
And I wonder what Ghadkari saw in Varun to give him a Party post!!!
Maybe ‘a Gandhi scion is with us’ could be BJP’s boast!!
 
Not that Rahul is faultless but he’s on the right path!!!
Look at where they are and remember both started siyaasat saath saath!
 
What a pitiful sight.... foodgrains rotting!!!!
Double whammy because prices are 'hotting'!!
 
We all know why Silos have been kept at bay!!!
And in this a crucial role FCI officials past and now play!!!!
 
Hundreds of crores are wasted from field to retail!!!
Lost, pilfered or simple go stale!!
 
Tharoor and Praful are planning to buy IPL teams!!
Don't know about Tharoor but Praful with cash in busrsting at the seams!!
 
I feel both should be ordered that from IPL they should keep away!!!
Away from this tamaasha Mantris should stay!!!
 
Owning an IPL team will be a huge distraction and should not be permitted!!!
To their jobs as Mantris they should be 100% committed!!
 
Mohna should tell them 'it is IPL or your being a Minister.... choose'!!!
Add.....'Either one you will have to loose'!!
 
Headley has literally plea bargained his way out and escaped both extradition and The Chair/Injection!!!
For India there is reason for dejection!!
 
Interrogating Headley in US will be of no use!!
Even if interrogators say please Headley will shout 'abuse... abuse'!!!
 
Wonder if US will agree to India using ‘Gitmo Bay’ mode of interrogation on Headley!
Hear this mode was indeed very effective and deadly!!
 
Sorry but my take is via Babri demolition a historical wrong was corrected!!!
Muslims should have offered to get the Mandir resurrected!
 
But sadly this was not done!!!
Otherwise a big battle in the fight against communalism would have been won!!
 
Muslims must realize in Mecca no other religion’s place of worship is allowed!!
To Hindus wishes in their holiest of holy places Muslims should have bowed!!!
 
Confucius says...... what was needed was understanding on both sides!!!! But seems when it comes to inter religion relations fairness simply hides!!!!
Bharat Kumar
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Views full of errors
The views on the selection of Chief Statistician of India expressed in your website  (18th March) are full of errors.  Firstly, there was no member of the National Statistical Commission known as Nagchandran (please see the NSC Secretariat link in www. mospi.gov.in) who claimed to be a member of the NSC. Secondly, though it is true that Dr. Sen is an erudite scholar with poor administrative acumen and control, none of the eight applicants of the service ( out of which one retired last September and two are retiring in coming June) seems to have a better perspective of good governance and PR required at the level of CSI-cum-Secretary. The army of SAG and HAG level officers feeling too complacent with quicker promotions talk more gibberish than of vision as they are having traits of managers not leaders.  Insiders of the service always prefer an outsider to head as they have rightly experienced that their service members cannot display impartiality and might settle scores once get selected in this slot.
P Gupta
Chief Statistician of India
I know my comments will make several enemies. But truth will come out one day. A strong person who can push senior officers to deliver the goods is the need of the hour. The only name I can suggest is my mentor, T.R. Mohanty, who saved me from the biggest danger in my life. Even though he is junior-most, he only can do this.
Dheeraj Kumar Ojha
"Say good-bye to deadwood in Indian bureaucracy!!!"
The deadwood in the Indian governmental bureaucracy is like the non-performing assets. The nationalised Indian banks have failed to overcome this problem on their sides due to lack of pro-active approach. At least, the GOI must lead by examples by chopping off the deadwood by strengthening its performance appraisal system and applying it effectively before it is too late. Its application must be across the board and irrespective of the organised Service to which the laggards belong. This will cut down the existing strength of bureaucracy by 40% and removing corruption in the process. Unfortunately, we can't apply the same guillotine to the political executive due to compulsions of real-politik!!!
A K SAXENA(A retired civil servant)
Deprived of regular promotion
It is very unfortunate of Gr.D. Stenographers working in the Central Government who are deprived of their regular promotion even after 20-25 years of regular service in the same grade. Even in the British rule there was a set rules for promotion for all the employees working the in the GOI. Gr.D Stenographers are the great sufferers due to wrong policies of the post-independent GOI. Time has come to bring this to the notice of the higher authorities of the GOI and request them to kindly look into it. It is also requested that they may be given regular promotions within stipulated time, i.e., at least after 12 years of service in the same grade. This may be treated as most urgent so that they may not suffer any more.
Deep
Performance and accountability are interlinked
I agree with observation that performance and accountability are interlinked. This statement stands tested by doing a simple comparison of performance of Govt. bodies with that to private sector. Since private sector's survival is interlinked to its performance in the market and hence it tends to get more work out of its workers/managers who also have no other option but to perform for self preservation. On the other side of the spectrum are govt. officers and employees who have very low level of accountability and this reflects on their performance levels with inefficiencies galore at almost every level of government.
Within government sector as well if one compares the performance levels of State and Central Public sector Undertakings the difference is quite perceptible due to the fact the CPSE managements are largely professional and their performance is closely monitored by Central Ministries while state PSU's are headed by non-professional managements who treat these PSU's as milking cows and personal fiefdom's. Since the officers who head these state PSU's are largely from All India Services who everyone knows are law onto themselves and score very low on accountability index, therefore the working style of these PSU's is largely ad-hoc and internal controls extremely weak. One report of the ministry of Corporate affairs indicate that more than one thousand of twelve hundred odd state PSU's do not even prepare their accounts which speaks volume of quality of the management they have.
The mute point therefore is that every officer of the government has to be made accountable for the work assigned to him/her irrespective of his/her title and only then we would be able to provide good governance to the country. I hope Rahul Gandhi reads this column and do something to change our systems.
Prashant