It is a very good site to pour out one's grievances. I would like to request that the leave encashment policy should be extended when any one goes on leave or on tour also. This will facilitate many needy government servants. And the money can be put to real good use. Will the government please explore the possibilities to accommodate this request?
V Raghavan

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30 IAS officers retired in April
As many as 30 IAS officers have retired on April 30. They are Ms. Parul Debi Das and Anurag Bhatnagar (Assam – Meghalaya), Priyadarshi Dash and Harishankar Brahma (Andhra Pradesh), Hemchand Sirohi, Narsing Upadhyaya and Jiwan Kumar Sinha (Bihar), R K Thusso (Jammu and Kashmir), C K Vishwanathan and M N Gunavardhanam (Kerala), Syed Shahzad Hussain (Maharashtra), Dr. Sundeep Khanna (Madhya Pradesh), Sudhir Sharma (Manipur – Tripura), Ujal Singh Bhatia, Ms. R Rajalakshmi, Jagar Singh, Pramod Kumar Mohanty and Jagdish Prasad Agrawala (Orissa), Piara Ram and R L Mehta (Punjab), Vinod Kapoor and Jagdish Chandra (Rajasthan), Ms. Thangam Sankaranarayanan and K S Sripathi (Tamil Nadu), Surendra Pal Gaur and Shashi Kant Sharma (Uttar Pradesh) and Asok Mohan Chakrabart, Baidur Bakhat Siddiqui and Sundar Majumdar (West Bengal).
Umashankar is new Secretary Power
Finally suspense is over.P Umashankar has been appointed new Secretary Power in the Government of India.1976 batch UP cadre IAS officer Umashankar is presently CMD of the Rural Electrification Corporation. He will succeed H S Brahma who retired on April 30.
Sudha Pillai is now Member Secretary Planning Commission
Secretary Planning Commission Ms Sudha Pillai has been appointed Member-Secretary Planning Commission.1972 batch seniormost serving IAS officer Ms Pillai was to retire on April 30.
Arun Mishra promoted in Planning Commission
Arun Kumar Misra has been appointed as Addl.Principal Secretary Ministry of Palnning Commission Government of India .He is an IAS officer of the1976 batch who belongs to the Uttar Pradesh Cadre.
TamilNadu Chief Secretary gets six months extension
TamilNadu Chief Secretary K S Sripathi has been given six months extension in service.He is 1975 batch IAS officer.
IRS officer Bal is quitting
Commissioner Income Tax in Surat A K Bal has reportedly put in his papers. Grapevine has it that 1983 batch IRS officer Bal is joining the Mukesh Ambani Group. He had been Deputy Chairman of the Mumbai Port Trust and Special Director Enforcement.
Cadre of IPS officer Vikas Pathak changed
Cadre of 2008 batch TamilNadu cadre IPS officer Vikas Pathak has been changed to Rajasthan cadre.
Sandip Khanna is now Advisor to MP Government
DG of Academy of Administration Sandip Khanna who superannuated on April 30 has been appointed Honorary Advisory to Madhya Pradesh Government to advise in the formation of new Institute for Research in Public Administration.
Jawaid Akhtar appointed new Chairman Coffee Board
Jawaid Akhtar has been appointed new Chairman, Coffee Board, Bangalore .He is 1989 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.
( We said this on April 28 )
Raghvan appointed Joint Secretary (Biotechnology)
Sreeshan Raghvan has been appointed as Joint Secretary (Biotechnology) in the Ministry of Environment and Forest. He is an IFS officer of the 1983 batch who belongs to the Orissa cadre. Raghvan has replaced Nandan Singh Samant, IAS officer of the1986 batch who belongs to the AM Cadre.
Garg returns to parent Railways dept
Sudhir Garg, Director, Ministry of Defence is back to Railways department to avail promotion. He is an IRSEE Officer of the 1987 batch.
Sroha moves to Khartoum
Ram Dhari Singh Sroha, Consul in Hong Kong, has been moved to Khartoum as Second Secretary.
Satya Prakash is now ACS in Madhya Pradesh
Principal Secretary Satya Prakash has been promoted to the rank of Additional Chief Secretary in Madhya Pradesh and posted in Commerce, Industries and Employment Departments. He is 1977 batch IAS officer.
IA & AS officer B Pradhan transferred
B Pradhan, Deputy Director in the branch office Patna of the office of Director General of Audit, P&T, Delhi, is transferred and posted as Deputy Accountant General (IC-I) in the O/o Principal Accountant General (Civil Audit), Orissa, Bhubaneswar.
Railway official Juneja applies for VRS ?
M.P. Juneja, Addl. Member (Railway Stores) at Rail Bhawan, is believed to have applied for VRS.
IDAS officer to join UIAI
Ms Rajalakshmi Devaraj is joining the UIAI as ADG. She is 1998 batch IDAS officer.
KK Gupta is new Director (Production) ITI
K K Gupta has taken over as new Director (Production) of the ITI on May 1.
( We said this on November 25,2009 )
IAS changes in Nagaland
M. Kithan has been appointed Home Commissioner. He is relieved of the charge of Transport and Communication department. Temjen Toy Commissioner & Secretary, Urban Development, P & AR/J & L departments is relived from the charge of Urban Development department.Achum Ngullie is relieved of excise department A. Jami has been posted as Commissioner & Secretary, Soil and Water Conservation department, Imkonglemba will hold the additional charge of excise department, L. H Thangi Manen will also hold the charge of Veterinary and Animal Husbandary, M. Yanthan has been transferred as secretary, Transport and Communication, K.T Sukhalu . Norman Putsure has been made Secretary, Urban and Women Development.
632 IAS officers in 46 – 50 years age group
As many as 632, of the 4443, IAS officers in the country are in the age group of 46 – 50 years.
Arushi murder case to hit headlines once again
Arushi murder case may hit the headlines once again as the grapevine has it that CBI has got some vital clues from the report of Gandhinagar, Gujarat Lab.
What a coincident - HP to have 2 ladies as CS in a row?
It is a coincidence that Ms. Asha Swarup, Chief Secretary with the Himachal Pradesh government who retires in June, will be succeeded by Ms. Rajwant Sandhu as Chief Secretary on July 1, 2010. While, Ms. Swarup belongs to 1973 batch of IAS, Ms. Sandhu is an IAS officer of the 1975 batch. Presently Ms. Sandhu on central deputation is Secretary Drinking Water Supply under the Rural Development Ministry.
Supreme Court Judges Appointed
Chief Justice of the Madras High Court Justice Hemant Laxman Gokhale, Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court Justice Gyan Sudha Misra, and Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court Justice Anil Ramesh Dave have been in that order of seniority appointe4d Judges of the Supreme Court of India.
Justice Sarosh Homi Kapadia appointed as Chief Justice Of India
Justice Sarosh Homi Kapadia, Judge of the Supreme Court, has been appointed Chief Justice of India with effect from the 12th May,2010 (Forenoon).
Ahmedabad ready for Gujarat's Golden jubilee celebrations
Ahmedabad is ready for Gujarat's golden jubilee celebrations titled "Swarnim Gujarat". Entire city has been decorated with a series of illuminations. Decoration is far better than what one sees during the Diwali festival. Chief Minister Narendra Modi's target is to project achievements & progress of Gujaratis. It is noteworthy, that he is not going in for his projection . A series of functions will be held commencing on April 30,2010. For NRIs and Non resident Gujaratis, special counters have been opened at the railway station & Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel International Airport.
Bihar Chief Minister becomes a teacher
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has set out on a "Vishwas Yatra" from Champaran in Bihar on April 29, 2010. Basically it is to ascertain how far he has been able repay the trust that was reposed by people of Bihar in the state Government that Nitish Kumar has been heading for more than four and a half years. Nitish Kumar who seems to be emulating Mahatma Gandhi on day one inspected a school where he asked questions in English & arithmetic. Students answered all questions. Nitish Kumar will be spending a day & a night in each of the 38 districts as part of his "Vishwas Yatra".
Ishwar Singh to join in Chandigarh
IFS officer Ishwar Singh is joining Regional Office of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests at Chandigarh on Central deputation.
Efforts of Ms. Renu Sahni Dhar brings them together
Officers of 1970 batch of all services meet regularly every month for a luncheon meeting. It is largely due to the efforts of Ms. Renu Sahni Dhar (IAS:1970:UT), presently Election Commissioner for UTs.
Dutta is Director of Kaziranga National Park
Senior IFS officer Surajit Dutta has been appointed new director of Kaziranga National Park.
Major Gen Nair is new HAG
Major General C.S. Nair is taking over today as the 14th Judge Advocate General (JAG) of the Army.
Bureaucratic reshuffle in Tamil Nadu deferred
Bureaucratic changes in Tamil Nadu, expected to takeplace in the first week of May, have been deferred.
TN Chief Secretary gets additional charge of Vigilance Commissioner.
Chief Secretary, Govt of Tamil Nadu, K S Sripathi has been given the additional charge of Vigilance Commissioner . The present incumbent to the post Thangam Sankaranarayanan retired on April 30.
Major reshuffle in Delhi and Daman
Altogether 18 officers in Delhi and Daman have been reshuffled by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Saha is Ambassador to Kazakhstan
Homai Saha, presently Ambassador of India to Slovak Republic, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Kazakhstan.
Bhojwani appointed Ambassador to Cuba
Deepak Kishinchand Bhojwani, presently Ambassador of India to Colombia, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Cuba.

IPS changes in Assam
SN Singh IG of the Northern Range, has been  posted as the IGP of the Central Western Range.  Pallav Bhattacharyya will now be Northern Range IG.Ramanidhar Barua DIG has also been transferred to the Northern Range.
IAS changes in Orissa
Satya Prakash Nanda has been appointed Member of the Board of Revenue.Rabi Narayan Senapati will now be APC.G Mathiavathan  has been appointed Special Secretary to the Chief Minister.S P Thakur will be Secretary Labour.Pradeep Jena has been moved to ADOL.

CORPORATE
Drew Kelton is President in Bharti Airtel
Drew Kelton has been appointed by the Bharti Airtel as President –Enterprise Services (India & South Asia).
Wadhwa is new MD Timex Group
V. D. Wadhwa has taken over as the new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Timex Group India Ltd..

Aaj Ki Aawaz
BJP ke mooh mein aa gaya paani...... Jharkhand ka raaj!!!
And like its often seen in politics there is no laaj (shame)!!!
 
BJP's forgiven Soren and the stand is he's paid the fine!!!
So all is fine!!!
 
Ghadkari will say 'See Soren gave us the CM's post and apologized'!!
'Gave BJP the CM's chair which all this time he prized'!!!
 
Soren's sorry was ' I suffer from bhoolne ki illness'!!!
'And my illness got me into this mess'!!!
 
Netas sometimes do not accept a straightforward sorry!!
And sometimes they conjure up a sorry from an insult and say all is 'honky-dory'!!
 
Its power that makes 'their merry- go - round' go round and round!!
Each one of them is like a ‘power seeking hound’!!
 
In the 2G Spectrum allotments Raja was in a tearing hurry!!!
And now by saying ‘there was complete transparency’ the hurry he is trying to burry!
 
Mohna had written to him but he ignored Mohna’s letter!!
Of course Karuna will say Raja is a go-getter!!
 
Basically Raja flouted Mohna’s directions and a probe should be ordered!!!
If it were a Ship on mutiny his actions bordered!!
 
But numbers may save Raja like numbers have saved Pawar and Praful!!!
Moral…. if you have the numbers you are allowed to fool (about)!!
 
PC says ‘ no authorized tapping took place’!!!!
He said this with such a smug look on his face!!
 
Tapping is a continuous process and phones are tapped all the time!!
One of the biggest tools to fight crime!!
 
Every Government indulges in tapping!!!
So I do not know why Opposition is yapping!!
 
Barkha Dutt says she fears that her phone is tapped off and on!!!
Now this is the kind of tapping that ‘is simply not done’!!
 
RJD is a collection of mad caps and they prove this all the time!!
And for propriety they do not care a dime!!
 
Recently at a price rise protest rally RJD Leaders beat the heat with Beer!!
Drank it and poured it on themselves as on prices they did jeer!!
 
And the excuse they gave was that in Bihar Beer is so cheap!!!
So at the price rise protest rally it was like tears of beer that RJD Netas did weep!!
 
Jaya Pradha they say is back to her roots!!!!
Now with her political mentor she is in cahoots!
 
Now she’s left SP and Amar behind!!!
Very soon on TDP stages her you will find!!
 
She’s now polishing up her Telegu and getting herself a new wardrobe!!
Herself in a silk saree now she will robe!!
 
Confucius says…. in politics there are no permanent boyfriends or girlfriends!!
Only power every Neta befriends!!

Bharat Kumar

FORUM
Delhi varsity VC should be sacked
Vice chancellor of Delhi University who has owned moral responsibility as per media reports should be sacked immediately for his failure to prevent sale of radio active machines lying in chemistry lab of Delhi University as scrap to unsuspecting scrap dealers leading to death of poor labourers for no fault of theirs. This is required to send a loud message to heads of all institutions using radio active material that any negligence will be dealt with severely. When we cannot handle even small small quantity of radio active material lying in our labs, one shudders to think what will happen when nuclear energy is used on a significant scale given our poor standards of safety.

Sudhir Chopra

The Radioactive Delhi University !
The Gamma irradiator was procured by the Chemistry department of DU in 1968 while I was pursuing my post-graduation .This was expected to give a fillip to pursuit of Nuclear Science in my department. Overpowered by the feeling of déjà vu, I made a trip to my alma mater. Much to my chagrin, I noticed more political activity than radio activity. Smear campaigns, witch- hunting, blame games, whispers in the corridors et al. After having served the GOI for 35 years, it was easy to imagine, how could the condemnation committee have cleared the old muck for disposal to local junk dealers? The Delhi police officers, always eager to steal the limelight on TV, have been over- active to register the complaint against the ‘Chemistry department’. So untypical of them! Quoting a DU Professor of Chemistry ( Ramesh Chandra), the TOI’s  front-paged report (30th April) captioned “DU buried 20 Kg radioactive stuff on campus”, was most shocking. Is this media hype? No, it was media over-reach! Better, call it un-ethical journalism. How could the TOI reporter be so in-sensitive and irresponsible as to report something so sensational without verifying the authenticity of the news-item and worse, without verifying the credentials of the Professor, who made the statement? Let the Professor know that that a radioactive isotope (including Cobalt-60) has an infinite life despite having the half-life of 5.6 years. How could he mis-calculate the life as 52 years without knowing the mass of radioactive material stored in it. Let us not create sensationalism in the name of media one-up-manship. The scientific fraternity of DU (particularly the Chemistry deptt) is a demoralized lot today. Let us not treat them as criminals without knowing the findings of the nuclear experts. There are enough offenders and criminals in this country masquerading as politicians. Let the media not lose sight of them and distract public attention.   
A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)

Example of bonhomie

All officers, across all services, of the 1990 batch (who did Foundatinal Course together) meet on every first Wednesday of the month in Delhi. A better example of bonhomie of all services, and not exclusive to a service

Ashish Gupta

Society must pause and think

There is point of time in history when a society must pause and think what is it doing and in which direction it is moving? It is high time that we as a society should start thinking the same before it is too late for us. It is a sad commentary of our existence today that we woke up to a scam a day and no institution has been left untouched by the shameful deeds of its esteem members. Army has its Sukhna, Judiciary is grappling with Dinakaran, Civil Services with arrests of its senior members across the services, Medical with MCI scam, police selling corpses, Corporates with Satyam & IPL gate while political corruption has an unending tale. The list is growing and the unfortunately the trend growth rate is just becoming unthinkable. It is a sad commentary where a few years back a government could fall on a bribery allegation of 54 crore ruppees now not a ripple is caused by scams of much larger magnitudes. Today probably a small civil servant accumulates more the wealth that entire Bofors controversy talked about. One is even loosing the perspective as to how this trend can be arrested? Whether the solution lies in better enforcement? Whether it is better internal controls? Whether less discretions would do? or withdrawal of government from service delivery? or a combination of all? Whatever it takes government must chalk out a concrete course of action on this front and initiate the war against this malaise before it is just too late. As Mail Today in its editorial rightly said today that there is no point in having a government which is headed by one of the most honest PM's of all times if the levels of corruption under him are rising at this phenomenal rates.

MB

Congratulations !

Congratulations to Gupta Ji and Wapcos both. I had an opportunity to work with him and knew that he will put Wapcos on growth path with 5th gear.

Rajesh Kumar

Another week full of depressing news

This week like the previous one has been full of depressing news. IPL had just left us when broke the bad news of other scams-of MCI. Two senior officers in the Home ministry caught taking bribe.(Cases of Corruption now no longer shock the citizens).The worst was however the treachery by a woman officer found spying for Pakistan. How could the lady in question play with the security of the country. Her forays into the dangerous world Of ISI by passing on information to their agents is mindboggling. What is worse is that she is not repentant at all. Her alibi that she did this to take revenge from her senior officers is something one fails to understand. How are these officers harmed by her passing on the state secrets to the enemy. While Madhuri Gupta deserves severest punishment for the damage she has done to the national interest, there is need to find answers to some other serious questions. How come that her activities in Pakistan went unnoticed for so long ? How come she could drive all by herself in a Pakistan registered car all the way from Islamabad to Sunderbani near LOC to meet the doctor couple? Why nowhere on Wagah border or J&K border she was checked? The Pakistan number of the car itself should have aroused the suspicion. What if any militant with a fake number had such a free run through these sensitive areas? A thorough enquiry needs to be done into this. It is also necessary not to ignore her allegations about her seniors as general peep at the sickening way the seniors treat their juniors across all services. It is a common complaint of senior officers dirt-treating their junior officers, humiliating them, denying leave even when legitimately required and burdening them with extra work causing tensions which play upon their health and even family life.Of course that is no excuse to turn people into traitors and betray their country but that does make them frustrated and resentful losing interest in work.The Conduct rules should have a provision against such perverted behaviour of the bosses causing unhappiness and destroying many a meritorious careers. Good governance is outcome of small corrections and proper behavioural patterns rather than high-sounding monitoring mechanism or tinkering with the well-laid procedures and regulations.

Aarti Khosla

Delay breeds corruption.

40 lakh cases pending at High Courts make the lives of non-influential citizens miserable at not getting justice. National Shame at our failures on justice front.

Babubhai Vaghela Ahemdabad

Why army officers don’t get rank that fast ?
I can explain this. IPS Officers become DIG in 14 years while army guys don’t because while 30-100 officer are selected every year to the IPS every year, 1000s get into the army. You should compare yourself with the DySPs of state or the Asst Commandants of the CPOs not AIS. Period.

Ram Singh Gill
National shame