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& <mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com> What an idea to dislodge Manmohan Singhji ? AICC
president Ms. Sonia Gandhi has been suggested to appoint a woman as the Prime
Minister to boost the party image vis-à-vis Women Reservation Bill. Two
names have been put forward to Madam Gandhi –Delhi CM Mrs. Sheila Dikshit
and Lok Sabha Speaker Ms. Meira Kumar. National
Advisory Council revived National Advisory Council (NAC) has
been revived and Congress President Sonia Gandhi was appointed Chairperson with
the rank of Cabinet Minister.Her tenure would be co-terminus with that of the
NAC. File
of ITDC chief in PMO As the grapevine has it, the file pertaining
to appointment of new Chairman of ITDC is lying with the Prime Minister’s
Office (PMO).The only question is-who will make it ? number one in the panel or
number two ?. T.C.A. Ranganathan appointed new
CMD, Exim Bank TCA Ranganathan, who is currently Managing Director(MD)
of the State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur has been appointed as Chairman & Managing
Director (CMD) of the Exim Bank. (We said this on December 9, 2009 and
again on March 27 ) What is Ms. Sushma Swaraj
up to? What is Ms. Suhma Swaraj leader of Opposition in the Lok
Sabha up to? This question was hotly discussed during a high profile party as
she has been in Bhopal for the last one week and that too when the Lok Sabha session
was on. It may be noted that she is a Lok Sabha MP from the Vidisha parliamentary
constituency. CBEC Member’s post revived As
the grapevine has it, cabinet note for revival of one post of Member Central Board
of Excise & Customs (CBEC) has been cleared. Indian Finance Minister Pranab
Mukherjee had revived one post of Member CBEC. Once this was revived the CBEC
will have seven members as used to be the case earlier. It may be stated here
that two posts of Members in CBEC & Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) were
surrendered as part of austerity measures adopted two years ago. The posts of
CBDT members were revived earlier. H. S. U. Kamath
to be CMD, Vijaya Bank H. S. U. Kamath, Executive Director (ED),
Canara Bank, is going to be new Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) of the
Vijaya Bank. Complaints against Secretaries to
be scrutinised by group headed by CS Dilemma
of 3 IAS officers of UP cadre Three IAS officers of the Uttar
Pradesh cadre are in a big dilemma. They are: Desh Deepak Verma, Dr V Rajagopalan
and Arun Sinha. All three have got postings on central deputation in Government
of India (GOI), yet the UP Government has not relieved them so far. If they are
not relieved then the threat of being debarred by the GOI looms large on them. It is widely believed
that G J Rao, Chairman of the Tuticorin Port, is going to be new Chairman of the
Paradeep Port Trust. He is a Port Cadre officer.Name of Rao has reportedly been
cleared for the post. Why delay in empalelment
of 1990 batch IAS ? Mystery shrouds in the delay of 1990 batch
IAS officers to the rank of Joint Secretary in the Government of India. It is
believed that Home Minister P Chidambaram has some reservation on certain names
.File is currently pending with the Home Minister. AAI
to get new Member Air Navigation Services The Airports Authority
of India (AAI) of which Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) is VP Agrawal is
going to get new Member Air Navigation Services (ANC). DD
Sharma poised to be Joint Secretary AYUSH DD Sharma, Director
Ayush in Government of India (GOI), is tipped to become Joint Secretary in AYUSH.
Recently he had got additional charge of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the
Delhi based National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB). Sharma is an Indian Forest
Service (IFS) officer of the 1984 batch who belongs to the Jharkhand cadre. Mid
career training of IPS officers next month Two months long mid
career training of IPS officers belonging to batches of 2000, 2001 & 2002
is going to commence at the Hyderabad located National Police Academy on April
5, 2010. However, many of them face the threat of their increments/ promotions
being stalled if their respective parent cadres did not relieve them. Paliwal
gets extension in inter-cadre deputation Inter-cadre deputation
tenure of 1981 batch UP cadre IAS officer Hari Krishna Paliwal from UP to UT cadre
has been extended till February 28,2013. Bala Prasad
tipped to be CEO, National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB) As the
grapevine has it, Bala Prasad tipped to be CEO of the Delhi based National Medicinal
Plants Board (NMPB). Prasad is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1983
batch who belongs to the Manipur-Tripura (M-T) cadre. Project
Arrow short-listed for PM’s award As the grapevine has it,
the project arrow of the Department of Post has been short listed for the Prime
Minister’s award for excellence in public administration under the slot of
organizations. The project arrow was the initiated as the behest of Ms. Radhika
Doraiswamy Secretary (Posts) & Chairman PS Board. It was launched for up gradation
of core activities under mail, saving bank activities & improving look of
post offices in 1000 identified post offices. There is a target to cover 5000
posts offices by March 2012. Large scale IAS changes
on the anvil in Rajasthan As the grapevine has it, large-scale
changes of IAS officers are on the anvil in Rajasthan in April. IA
& AS officer Jairam Bhojwani transferred Jairam Bhojwani,
Assistant Accountant General in the office of Accountant General (C&RA), Rajasthan,
Jaipur, on completion of orientation training course at NAAA, Shimla, is transferred
and posted as Deputy Director (Ins-I/Admn :adhoc) in the office of Principal Director
of Audit, Scientific Departments, New Delhi. Second Secretary in Astana D C Manjunath has been
moved to the Ministry of External Affairs Hqs. Post
of Member (Non-Life), IRDA to fall vacant The Post of Member
(Non-Life) being held by K. K. Srinivasan in the Insurance Regulatory and Development
Authority (IRDA) has been advertised. Srinivasan is due to retire in May, 2010. KK
Gupta to be Director –Production,ITI Devender Dhodawat Secretary Agriculture to Kerala Government
has got additional charge as Director Agriculture as well.He is 1993 batch IAS
officer. IRS Assn meet to discuss DPC for promotion
among other things Indian Revenue Service Association’s
(IRS - All India Body) meeting of the Central Executive Committee and President
& General Secretary of all state units of IRS Association which is now being
held on April 9, 2010 at 11.00 a.m. in the Conference Hall, 5th Floor, Mayur Bhawan,
New Delhi, under the chairmanship of Sunil Chopra, President, IRS Association
would separately discuss holding of DPC for promotion of officers to the grade
of CsIT among other things. Upgradation of posts of CCsIT in Apex Scale &
HAG+ Scale, Direct Taxes Code – Inputs from the IRS Association and Empanelment
and selection of IRS Officers at the level of Joint Secretary under Central Staffing
Scheme would also be given special weightage during the meet. Dr
Gupta is MD WBPDC Dr. Krishna Gupta IAS Officer 1991 batch of
West Bengal cadre has been apointed as MD West Bengal Power Development Corporation. Kaushik
posted in NCR Air
Chief Marshal takes over as Chairman of COSC CORPORATE KK
Maheshwari is going to succeed Shailendra Jain as GRASIM President on April 1.
Maheshwari will however, function from the corporate office, Mumbai. Shankar
is CEO Standard Chartered Online
advertising market to surge Aaj
Ki Aawaz Flash..... the 1984 injustice continues as SC refuses to 'interfere'
on Sajjan Kumar's bail! And
its time that Sonia realized the duality that Congress is indulging in!!! Congress
cannot question Bachchan on his role in the 1984 genocide!! If you live in India be prepared
to accept injustice!! Bharat
Kumar Forum
Civil Engineers are always the servants, necessary
but not trusted. This is in-spite of the fact that nearly 35% initial capital
budget of any Government or department has to pass through Engineers. Engineers
are supposed to be corrupt, inefficient and lazy. Remarks of Secretary UD do not
come as a surprise. I would suggest this bureaucrat or any body else to get their
children educated or treated for diseases, construct a house or conduct daughter’s
wedding with the procedures that are set to Engineers. Nobody is held responsible
for all the delays that take place before the AA & ES. That happened with
booths to issue icards to voters in Delhi. All the alteration and construction
work in > 70 places all over Delhi was asked to be completed in 30 – 45
days disregarding the fact that concrete laying after dismantling takes at-least
a week and it takes further 21 days for it to gain strength before next operation
in cement. There were at-least three minimal operations. PWD engineers were forced
and threatened with punishment undeserved. No punishment for delays thus far.
Quality of product delivered needs no guessing. Concern is also that some Engineers
revel in such situations Nagaraja B N Why does Air India
need a foreigner as COO ? There are many talented Indians who can fit
the bill. It is advisable that a foreigner who has expertise in the field could
be inducted as a director on board AI but the COO should ideally be an Indian. Parivartan Moorthy
is an outstanding officer S S L N Moorthy is known to be a fine, upright,
soft spoken, hard working, intelligent and outstanding officer. He embodies all
that is best in the finest traditions of the Civil Service. Though he has superseded
many, it is due to his virtues. This is a fact of life which happens in the Armed
forces, in the IAS, in the Foreign Service, the Judiciary and everywhere else. Arjun
Mallik Time to change posting of JS on political pull, or bureaucratic
favouritism It’s time this UPA government posts officers as JS
not on political pull or proximity to some officer but there inter se ranking,
merit, seniority, and core competence. Any listeners in the CSB, Cabinet Secretary,
PMO ? Raghav Excellent news RP Agrawal is one
of the best. He deserve more then it. All the best. RP Sir. Ghaus Mohammad Grade
Pay & Arrears : Is Finance Minister sleeping ? Recently Government
has increased the GP from 4200 to 4600 for Assistants/PA. It is nice that this
genuine demand has been met. But the surprising factor, is suddenly the pay fixation
benefit in the earlier Basic of Rs.7450/- has been given without any logic. Because
of this, persons with more that 20 years of service are getting nil benefit except
GP whereas persons with minimum number of service are getting more than Rs.2500
benefit every month and that too from 1.1.2006 resulting in the arrears touching
nearly Rs.1 lakh. This is something silly. Since the demand was only for increase
in GP, it is surprising how the question of fixation of a new basic has come up.
And Moreover, if the govt. wants to give this benefit then the arrears should
have been limited only to the difference in GP because the incurring amount will
be nominal and not the difference in fixation of basic which should be notional.
In steno line, persons within 5-10 years of service are benefited the most and
the persons with more than 20 years of service are not the beneficiaries of this
but they have to work with senior officers because of their experience and the
persons with less number of service will work with junior officers and leave home
on time with more financial benefit. Is this arrears of difference in pay required.
It would be better if the arrear amount is restricted only to the difference in
Grade Pay and difference in DA and not extended to the difference in fixation
of basic. Hope DOPT and Finance Ministry wakes up from slumber. M N Rao Army
officers most pampered professional group Army officers get free rations
all the time in addition to their pay and perks. They are the most pampered professional
group in India. So you should add the price of free rations for a family of 5
persons to the pay of a Brigadier. That is the real wage. Let us cut out this
hypocrisy that a rational discussion of these matters is un patriotic or that
our border defences will somehow collapse as e result of discussion. I have myself
seen Brigadiers hawking free quota sugar in the market place. The sugar was part
of the monthly quota. Another vegetarian army officer sold his monthly meat quotas
to dog owners! On top of all this they want to be equated 2 notches higher than
their civilian counterparts. We are not yet a military dictatorship and we must
keep the greed of army officers in check. D Choudhary Govt
officers out to loot the country In reference to report that in a move
that will impose more burden on ailing Air India, the civil aviation ministry
has decided to give all its previous secretaries life-long free upgrades on air
tickets to first class and access to lounges at any airport in the country, it
can only be said that seniormost officers of government are out to loot the country. Rajesh
Thackeray look into the grievance of officers This complaint
cell should also look into the grievance of officers upto the rank of Inspectors
facing hardship due to the harsh, rude and biased autocratic rule of senior corrupt
IPS Officers in Delhi Police Sooraj Sharma Modi's press
conference was impressive I am impressed by Gujrath CM Modi's press
conference after giving evidence (anti-Modi media calls it interrogation) before
the SIT.I wish we have more leaders like him. The media like NDTV, Times etc due
to their vested interests, have already concluded Modi is guilty and will blame
SIT or even SC if they found Modi not guilty. The bane of our democracy appears
to be politically biased media like NDTV. There should be some control over these. N K Nair |
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