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C R Deb

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Empanelment meeting of 1989 batch IPS today
Empanelment meeting of 1989 batch IPS officers to the rank of IG in the Government of India is taking place on Wednesday. Review of the officers of other batch will also be made.
Talleen Kumar to be JS IPP
Talleen Kumar is being tipped to be new Joint Secretary Industrial Policy and Promotion in the Government of India. Kumar is 1987 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.
Keshav Chandra to be GM NF Railways ?
Keshav Chandra is being tipped to be new General Manager of the North –Frontier Railways.
Chances of Dr. SK Jain NPCIL’s CMD getting extension brighten
As the grapevine has it, chances of Dr. SK Jain Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) getting extension have brightened. He is due to retire in May 2010.
Kamath to be CMD, Syndicate Bank
HSU Kamath, Executive Director (ED), Union Bank of India, is going to be new Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) of the Syndicate Bank.
Deputation tenure of Alok Joshi extended
Deputation tenure of Alok Joshi in the Cabinet Secretariat has been extended till 31 August 2013. He is 1976 batch IPS officer of Haryana cadre.
Budhalakoti is new GM Northern Railway
S K Budhalakoti has taken over as new General Manager of the Northern Railway on Tuesday.
( We said this on January 19 and again on March 27 )
Mittal to head RDSO
Former Secretary Railway Board K B L Mittal has been moved to Lucknow as head of the RDSO.
( We said this on November 19,2009 and again on March 27 )
Whom Baba Ramdev’s political party will damage?
Whom Baba Ramdev’s political party will damage? This question was hotly discussed during a high profile party. Consensus was that his party would damage the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) –the most.
Three in the run for slot of Police Commissioner Jaipur
As the grapevine has it, three IPS officers are in the run for the post of Police Commissioner Jaipur. Two of them are: Ajit Singh (1982 batch) & K Garg (1983 batch) ATS chief.
Ms. Selja & Kapil Sibal in the same boat
Two Indian Ministers are sailing in the same boat as far as getting officers of their choice posted in their respective ministries were concerned. Ms Kumari Selja is Minister for Tourism & Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation while Sibal is holding the portfolio of Human Resource Development (HRD). Both of them are reportedly not getting desired support from the Government in the said matter.
Who will be Chairman of Tuticorin Port Trust ?
Who will succeed G J Rao as Chairman of the Tuticorin Port Trust ?.Tie is said to be between Deputy Chairman of Tuticorin Port Trust Subbiah and Tamilvanan Chairman of the Mangalore Port Trust.
Empanelment of six batches done in two years
Though the empanelment for the post of Joint Secretary is being done after two years, empanelment of six batches – three each for Secretary level and Additional Secretary level - was done during the period.
Five names not included in 1990 batch empanelment list
Five names could not be included in the list, for empanelment of 1990 batch IAS officials for the post of Joint Secretary, for want of vigilance clearance. They are Rajesh Rajora, Manoj Agarwal, Ashok Shah, Jyoti Kalash and C Uma Shankar.
Preparations for CWG to be reviewed on April 2
A meeting has convened by Cabinet Secretary K.M.Chandrasekhar on April 2, 2010 to review the progress of different department with their updated report who engaged in the projects relating to Common Wealth Games 2010.
Ray to join UIAI
Guru Dutta Ray has been appointed as Assistant D.G., Unique Identification Authority of India(UIAI) for the period of 5 years.He is an IOFS Cadre officer of the 1988 batch.
D.S. Chauhan joins as IG, SSB Patna
After working for four years as Additional Commissioner BCAS, D.S. Chauhan has joined as IG SSB Patna Frontier in Patna. His work in restructuring of BCS and in raising the training standards of AVSEC personnel in India was also highly appreciated. His role in training personnel of CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY of Nepal in Kathmandu was also highly appreciated.
Jharkhand to have 208 IAS officers
It has been decided that Jharkhand will have now 208 IAS officers.At present cadre strength is 143.
IA & AS officer Naskar transferred
Pardyut Kumar Naskar, Assistant Accountant General in the office of Principal Accountant General (Audit), West Bengal, Kolkata, on completion of orientation training course at NAAA, Shimla, is transferred and posted as Deputy Director (adhoc) in the branch office Bhillai of the office of Principal Director of Commercial Audit & Ex-officio Member Audit Board, Ranchi.
AK Singh to return to MP
Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) in Western Coalfields Limited (WCL), Nagpur, A K Singh under the Ministry of Coal is returning to the parent Madhya Pradesh cadre. He is 1992 batch IPS officer.
Haldar to go to Athens
Second Secretary in Indian High Commission in Dhaka Somnath Haldar is going to Athens in place of I P Mohanan who is retiring.
IAS up in arms against posting of Port Officer in Paradeep
IAS is up in arms against the posting of a Port Cadre officer as Chairman of the Paradeep Port Trust. Even Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has shot a letter to the Government of India against the move.
Home Minister to visit Arunachal Pradesh
P. Chidambaram, Union Home Minister, Government of India will be visiting Arunachal Pradesh for four days beginning April 1 to review the situation of North East Areas .
Directors and Director level officers in Ministry of Forests and Environment
The condition of Director/Deputy Secretary in Ministry of Environment and Forests is so bad and most of them are having negligible work. Still Ministry of Environment keeps on demanding more Director level officers.
The charge distribution and number of Directors:
Director Finance         2
Director Plan Coordination   1
Administration/GA/GC  3
Forest Administration    1
Forest Establishment     1
Administration of BOtanical Survey and Zoological Survey  1
Animal Welfare       1
International Cooperation     2 
International Cooperation in climate change  2
and most amazingly one Director only for Indira Paryavaran Puruskar
Director for Environment Education   1
One Director is making only National Environment Protection Act.
 This is besides 40 odd other Director level officers for host of other issues.
Still the Ministry keeps on asking for more Directors from DoP&T.  Nice for Directors who are enjoying lives and getting paid for coming to office and sleeping.
Posts required in FIU-IND
Financial Intelligence Unit - India (FIU-IND) under the Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue is looking for Additional Directors (PB4 +10,000) , Joint Directors (PB3 + 7600), Deputy Directors (PB3+6600) and Assistant Directors (PB3+ 5400) on deputation basis. All posts are based in Delhi.'
Pakistan SC issues contempt notice
The Pakistan Supreme Court has issued contempt notice on 29 March 2010 to the Secretary and Additional Secretary (Interior Division), JS (Establishment) and the DG FIA in a corruption case. Ahmed Riaz Sheikh Head of the Economic Crimes wing in the FIA was convicted on charges of corruption and dismissed from service iin 2002. He was reinstated in service after promulgation of the National Reconciliation Order (NRO) by Pervez Musharraf in 2008. The NRO was recently declared as illegal and set aside by the Pakistan Supreme Court. However the government instead of removing Sheikh from service promoted him as Additional DG FIA resulting in the issuance of notice by the supreme court for non compliance of its order.
CCIT VI, Mumbai made CCIT – IV, Mumbai
Sri Ram Singh, CCIT VI Mumbai, has been made CCIT - IV Mumbai.
CCIT – XIII, Mumbai made CCIT – VI, Mumbai
AP Pawar, CCIT – XIII, Mumbai has been made CCIT – VI, Mumbai
CCIT (Central) –I , Mumbai made DGIT (Inv), Mumbai
BP Gaur, CCIT (Central) –I , Mumbai made DGIT (Inv), Mumbai
CCIT Guwahati made CCIT (Central) - I, Mumbai
SK Sahu, CCIT Guwahati has been made CCIT (Central) - I, Mumbai
Interviews for Chairman, IIFCL
Interviews for new Chairman, India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd (IIFCL) that is currently being headed by S. S. Kohli ex-Chairman Punjab National Bank, is being held on March 31, 2010.Six bankers & certain IAS officers are appearing for it. Kohli is Chairman & Managing Director of IIFCL since March 9, 2006. Among bankers are: A.C.Mahajan, J.M.Garg, G.S.Vedi, Satish Gupta & S.A. Bhatt.
Book by IPS officer looks into Human Trafficking
Dr. P.M. Nair, IPS looks into the complex issue of Human Trafficking and impact it has on the society in his new book Human Trafficking : Dimensions, Challenges and Responses. The 1978 batch Bihar cadre IPS officer, Dr. Nair is an expert on the subject having been associated with the issue of human trafficking with the UN as Project Coordinator, Anti Human Trafficking, UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), New Delhi. He is presently on deputation to the CRPF.

The book published by Konark Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi and priced at Rs. 600, was released at a glittering function by the Home Minister P. Chidambram recently.. The various chapters of the book look into the complex issue of human trafficking and prescribes practical and doable programmes and methods in addressing the issues and redressing the grievances. The indicators of measurement and parameters of assessment have been scientifically developed. It is a panoply of the issues, dimensions, problems, manifestations and extent of human trafficking, coupled with the best methods of addressing and redressing them.

Dr. Nair served Bihar for more than 15 years in various capacities from SP to IG and the CBI for a decade as SP and DIG. A graduate of the FBI National Academy, USA and the National Defence College, New Delhi, Dr. Nair has handled several crimes including Rajiv Gandhi assassination, International Arms drop at Purulia, Sanjay Ghose abduction, terrorist crimes, human rights violations and many interstate and international organized crimes, including human trafficking.
Fake orders on revised rate of Overtime Allowance circulated in Govt. offices
Fake orders on revised rate of Overtime Allowance are being circulated in Central Government offices. The Ministry of Finance has confirmed that that the order signed by S. Rajan Chandranaydu, Under Secretary to the Government of India and purportedly issued by Ministry of Finance is fake. The Ministry has clarified that no such instruction has been issued by it and advised the Ministries and Departments under the GoI not to take cognizance of the fake instructions being circulated.
Pandey wants to withdraw resignation
1987 batch Bihar cadre IPS officer Gupteshwar Pandey whoresigned from the Indian Police Service has made a fresh appeal to the Bihar government to allow him to withdraw his resignation.
Air Marshal Ajay Shriniwas Karnik to take over as DG (I&S)
Air Marshal Ajay Shriniwas Karnik would take over as Director General (Inspection and Safety) at Air Headquarters RK Puram, New Delhi on Wednesday (April 1). An alumnus of National Defence Academy, Khadakvasla, he was commissioned into the fighter stream of the IAF in Jun 1972. Air Marshal Karnik has flown over 3000 hours on fighter aircraft like MiG-21 Bis and MiG-29. A fighter combat leader and a qualified flying instructor he is also an alumnus of Air War College, University of United States Air Force (USAF), Montgomery, USA.

CORPORATE
Shailendra Jain to be based in Nagda
President of the GRASIM Shailendra Jain who is superannuating today is going to continue as Group Chairman of the Review Committee of the Birla Group. He will be based in Nagda.
Vijay Bhaskar to move to Bangalore
CGM in-charge of the Department of Banking Operations in the SBI Headquarters Vijay Bhaskar has been shifted to Bangalore as Regional Director.
Nayak floats new Media Firm
Raj Nayak, head of its advertising sales and marketing services subsidiary, NDTV Media has quit and floated his own media firm AIDEM Ventures.
Forester is new MD Tata Motors
Carl-Peter Forster is new Managing Director and Group CEO of Tata Motors from April 1.
Rangaswami resigns
A Rangaswami has resigned as Director from Non-banking finance company Sundaram Finance.
Acharya to succeed Rangaswami
Deputy Managing Director Srinivas Acharya will succeed A Rangaswami as Director of the Non-banking finance company Sundaram Finance.

Forum
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Media's impartiality
It is becoming a matter of past. The huge amount required to open a channel is clearly funded by vested interests. The question of black money in India and abroad is never touched by the so called Moghuls of media. Their heavy pay packages are funded by vested interests and they are blowing the trumpet of their masters. Impartiality may go to hell. It is the money every where so is the journalism these days.
Neelkanth
Army officers - most pampered professional group
I agree with the views of the contributors. There is an effort on the part of some military officers of the country to attach the label of "Bechara" to the soldier to further their own interest and to pressurise the government. The perks enjoyed by them in term of misuse of trained army manpower for menial tasks like dog-walking and attending to domestic chores of army officers are nowhere seen in civilian bureaucracy. Similar is the case with misuse of Government transport for ladies. The armed forces are equally (if not more)and ruthlessly corrupt as their civilian counterparts. The difference is that their is a screen because of which their misdeeds are hidden. It is high time the government wakes up to this menace lest it is too late.
Samalochak
Why DA at par with cibvilians ?
When Indian military personnel are getting free rations, what is the rationale for giving them DA at par with the civilians who do not get such a facility. Would some one be able to explain?
S K Sharma
It doesn’t amounts to pampering
Army personnel receive a ration quota, simply because many of the places where they are posted, it is not feasible to acquire rations from any source other than the CSD/Military issue. Why not calculate what the cost of 2 eggs per day, or 1 bag of sugar a month comes out to? A few hundred rupees a month? That surely does not amount to "pampering". It is a requirement of service, established according to the wisdom of government. It is wrong to use inflammatory words like "pampered" etc., and such petty whining should be discouraged. Where does such argument lead? Many civil service officers have gone to Harvard/LSE/Etc etc, myriad foreign training courses, and various other visits at the expense of the public exchequer (It costs the taxpayer upwards of 40 lakhs for each of these officers to attend these courses), and several dozen go every year. But these are the requirements of their service. Ration is the requirement of the armed forces. And as for "bags of sugar" and "dog meat", it is very unlikely, and even if it were true, one can always say something of this sort about any govt servant, for eg, do civil service officers not sell off agricultural produce from the large houses (several acres) that government provides them in the districts? Surely wheat grown for free, on 8 acres of land is worth more than a kilo of dog meat! Army officers only ask that they not be degraded in status unnecessarily. The defence services are a crucial service, just as the civil services are. Most of the petty comments anyway come from personnel of the disgruntled lower level support services, who are consumed by jealousy, and should be ignored, or, if the need arises, severely disciplined.
Aditya
It reduces all India's concerns to nix
There is a major problem that we have now with the US favouring a deal with the Pak army due to its desire to vacate Afghanistan. The problem is that this deal reduces all India's concerns to nix. The US as always, in its short sighted pursuit of what it perceives as its own national interests will leave both India and concerns for terrorism aside and go sit in the lap of the Pak generals. High time we thought of the foreign policy imperatives this will bring in its wake.
A K Singh
“A wake-up call for UPSC !!!”
The UPSC, busy with the on-going Civil services interviews (22nd March to 28thApril 2010), seems to be out of sync with the technological advancement .At least, so it seems! Having served in UPSC as Joint Secretary (Confidential) in early nineties,I consider it my duty to inform the Commission about the alleged misuse of gadgetry by some Civil services aspirants during the interviews! It is understood that some interviewees by throwing all tenets of propriety to the winds, had used video camera pen/spy camera to record interview proceedings , for self assessment.Looks too strange to be true! One wonders whether such” brave-hearts” could be the Civil services material! The Commission is requested to introduce frisking before interviews without delay. Other Central and State recruitment bodies, across the country , would, no doubt, take similar precautions on their sides to ensure integrity of the examination system.
An advisory to UPSC: Prof Purshottam Aggarwal , Member, UPSC ,a Constitutional appointment, is requested to vanish from all TV/public debates .Let him keep his views close to his chest. One wonders, whether the Chairman UPSC advised him against the adverse implications of his no-holds-barred participation in public debates in the fair discharge of his Constitutional obligations? It is high time that a Code of Conduct is prepared for such Constitutional appointees ?
The PM as the Minister-in- charge of DOP&T is requested to look into these matters urgently.
A K Saxena (A retd Civil servant) 
Why should they be debarred ?
Officers from UP Government not relieved are not in fault . State should be penalised for disobeying the order of union by way of atough mechanism.The root cause of all ugly problems is unconstitutional powers derived through constitutional power
Aditya Shrivastava
I agree with RAO.
We request DOPT/MOF to look into the matter of upgradation of GP to 4600/- to all not withstanding DR/ Promotee. Please do necessary action in this regard at the earliest.
Dinana
Sm Subba Rao is competent enough to be selected as Surveyor General of India by UPSC because no major generals of Survey of India are fit. We don’t know why is the delay. Some one has to ask ministry for delay in appointment. It should be transparent.
Manoj
Some corrections
One post of Member in CBEC, now revived, was surrendered more than a decade ago, while there was no surrender in CBDT. Now each Board will have 6 Members apart from Chairperson. Readers will be able to guess the difficulty in creating posts for Central Services. While readers are aware with what ease posts of Secretaries and Joint Secretaries were created for IAS last year (though they technically fall under central staffing selections) by bifurcating and trifurcating ministries and departments in GOI!
Kanak Sharma
Take over of IITs
Retired IAS Officer appointed as Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIT Delhi may be start of government take over of IITs and IIMs. There are so many willing and amenable retired IAS officers at the disposal of the Central Government to work with committed loyalty and there will be no difficulty at all in appointing them as Chairman of IITs and IIMs. It is Sibal's contribution to so-called autonomy of IITs and IIMs. May God save these institutions from HRD Minister like Sibal and PM like Man Mohan Singh and UPA Chairperson like Sonia Gandhi. This move may further facilitate entry of foreign Varsities and institutions in India with no competitors at Government control. Our Finance Minister can match this Sibal type nationalism by abolishing 'sovereign guarantee' on insurance policies issued by the Life Insurance Corporation of India so that foreign insurance players get an even playing field in our country. In that case all insured persons in India will be at market risk. It is understood that foreign insurance players are already lobbying hard for this .
Keshav Prasad