I have been told by government officials - those papers not official/CBI at all- apparently from whispers in the corridors! BIZARRE!
Barkha Dutt in Twitters

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Gauri Kumar to be AS & FA Forests and Environment
Ms Gauri Kumar is being appointed new Additional Secretary and FA in the Ministry of Forests and Environment. She is 1979 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.
Anil Kumar to move to Planning Commission
Special Secretary Power is not moving to the Department of Urban Development. 1976 batch Nagaland cadre IAS officer Anil Kumar is all set to join the Planning Commission as Principal Advisor.
MHA sends empanelment list of IPS officers of 1989 batch to ACC
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has completed empanelment process for the central deputation of IPS officers belonging to the 1989 batch and it has sent its proceedings to ACC for approval. The proposal will reach ACC within a week’s time.
Saurabh Vijay debarred from central deputation
Saurabh Vijay who had been appointed as Director, Census Operation, Maharashtra, but, had failed to join so he has been debarred from central deputation for a period of five years. He is an IAS officer of the 1998 batch who belongs to the Maharashtra cadre.
Dr. K. Srinivasa Rao appointed as Counsellor, London
Dr. K. Srinivasa Rao has been appointed as Counsellor, High Commissioner of India in London. He is a Scientist (F) background officer.
Rajneet Iliyas appointed as Counsellor Washington
Rajneet Iliyas has been appointed as Counsellor, Indian Embassy in Washington. He is a Scientist (F) background officer.
Maj. General R.S. Pradhan appointed as IG –Training, NSG
Maj. General R.S. Pradhan, SM, VSM, PARA has been appointed as IG (Training), National Security Guard (NSG).
S. Anantha Chandra Bose gets one-year extension
S. Anantha Chandra Bose, Chief Port Administrator (CPA), Port Management Board (PMB), A&N Administration, Port Blair has been granted one-year extension.
Ms. Swati Bandopadhyaya appointed as CVO, IRCON
Ms. Swati Bandopadhyaya has been appointed as CVO, IRCON for a period of three years. She is IDAS Officer of the1983 batch.
H.R. Banerjee, CVO- CIL gets extension till May end
H.R. Banerjee, CVO, Coal India Limited (CIL) has been granted extension up to 31.5.2010.He is an IAS officer of the 1981 batch who belongs to the West Bengal cadre.
A.K. Yadav gets charge of Naxal Management in MHA
A.K. Yadav Joint Secretary HR in Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has got additonal charge of Naxal Management in the wake of Kashmir Singh, Joint Secretary (Naxal Management) having gone on a foreign tour for a period of one month. A.K. Yadav is an IAS officer of the1987 batch who belongs to the Sikkim cadre.
2 theories in circulation regarding CVC
As the grapevine has it, 2 theories in circulation regarding Chief Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) as tenure of existing incumbent Pratyush Sinha is to conclude in a couple of months. One theory is that he may be given extension. Second, theory is to have a new incumbent as CVC.
H.K. Sahoo gets additional charge in UYRB
H.K. Sahoo, Senior Joint Commissioner, Upper Yamuna River Board (UYRB) has taken over additional charge of Member-Secretary for a period of six months.
Ajay Kumar appointed as Director, Statistics and Programme Implementation
Ajay Kumar has been appointed as Director in the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation for a period of five years. He is an IDES officer of the1984 batch.
N.R. Das DG, CISF approaches the MHA for Bali’s elevation
N.R. Das, Director General (DG) CISF has approached the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to grant DGs rank to M.S. Bali, Addl. DG, CISF.Bali is an IPS officer of the1976 batch who belongs to the UP cadre.
N.R. Das DG, CISF approaches the MHA for Ms.Jaruhar’s elevation
N.R. Das, Director General (DG) CISF has approached the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to grant DGs rank to Ms. Manjari Jaruhar, Addl. DG, CISF. Rauhar is an IPS officer of the1976 batch who belongs to the Jharkhand cadre.
GM’s empanelment to be delayed in Railway Ministry
As the grapevine has it, there is going to be a delay regarding empanelment of officers as GMs in the Indian Railways. Sources attribute it to a case that Rajeev Bhargava has been fighting in the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) regarding his super cession during last year’s empanelment
Randhawa is new Ambassador to Tunisia
Parampreet Singh Randhawa, presently High Commissioner of India to Nairobi, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Republic of Tunisia in succession to Basant K. Gupta.
IRS officer quits ?
Saraswati Padmanabhan is believed to have put in her papers. She is 2004 batch IRS (IT) officer.
BSP leaders are in touch with Digvijay Singh
Several BSP leaders are keen to join the Congress party. They are reportedly in touch with AICC General Secretary in-charge of UP Digvijay Singh. One can only wait and watch.
DMK wants Assembly elections in Jan or Feb ?
DMK is reportedly now keen to have next Assembly elections either in January or February instead of scheduled May. What could be the reason ?.
Two police officers unlikely to join CBI
One Gujarat cadre IPS officer and another State Police Service officer are unlikely t join the CBI following non-clearance of vigilance cases by the Gujarat Government.
IA & AS officer YV Sundar Raj transferred
YV Sundar Raj, Deputy Director in the branch office Visakhapatnam of the office of Principal Director of Commercial Audit & Ex-officio Member Audit Board, Hyderabad, is transferred and posted as Deputy Accountant General (Comml/SEB) in the office of Principal Accountant General (C&CA), Karnataka, Bangalore, against an existing vacancy.
Padmaja to go to London
Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs Padmaja has been moved to Indian High Commission as First Secretary.
Santosh Kumar poised to go to Jharkhand
As the grapevine has it, Santosh Kumar an IAS officer of the 1994 batch who hails from the Maharashtra cadre is poised to go to Jharkhand on inter cadre deputation.
Tenure of CVO MECL, Nagpur extended
Deputation tenure of Uday Borwankar, IRSME(90) as Chief Vigilance Officer in the Mineral Exploration Corporation Limited (MECL), Nagpur has been extended for a period of two years beyond June 4.
Interviews for EDs in AAI after May 15, 2010
Interviews for Executive Directors’ (EDs’) slot in Airports Authority of India (AAI) being headed by V.P. Agrawal are reportedly going to take place after May 15, 2010.
IDAS officer to be Dy Secretary Fertilisers
Manish Tiwari is joining the Ministry of Fertilisers as Deputy Secretary. He is an IDAS officer.
Sarangi gets CS rank in Orissa
Ms Madhur Sarangi has been promoted to the rank of ACS in Orissa. She is 1975 batch IAS officer.Meanwhile,her batchmate Satya Prakash Nanda has been moved to the Board of Revenue.
119 Dy /Asst IT Commissioners transferred
As many as 119 officers in the grade of Deputy/Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax are hereby ordered with immediate effect and until further orders. The new postings are Sachindra Das - Guwahati, Bhaskara Reddy - Bangalore, M. Narasimhulu - Chennai, V.G. Irkal - Bangalore, Shankar Prasad K - Bangalore, S.P.G. Mudaliar -Nagpur, Prabal Chowdhury -Kolkata, Dranupbiswas -Kolkata, Nidhi Sharma -Kanpur, Rahul Dhawan -Chandigarh, Rakesh Kumar -Chandigarh, Amrik Chand -Chandigarh, Bhopal Singh Bist -Mumbai, Nilujaggi -Mumbai, Shivendra Kumar Gupta -Hyderabad, Rajeshwari N. Motwani - Mumbai, Rajeev S Kesarwani -Mumbai, G.Nantha Kumar -Chennai, subhrajyoti Bhattacharjee -Guwahati, A.N. Honavar -Pune, Mohan L. Naik -Pune, V B Sargar -Pune, K. Sadanandan -Chennai, Neil Philip -Mumbai, Balaga Kurmi Naidu -Hyderabad, Solgy Jose T. Kottaram -Bangalore, Esther Ninghauvung Hanghal -Bangalore, K. Mohandas -Mumbai, Praveena S -Pune, Nidhi Verma Singh -Lucknow, Rajesh Meena -Jaipur, D. K. Gon -Nagpur, Bhawani Shankar -Delhi, Vuay Kumar Jiwani -Delhi, Akhilesh Bidalia -Delhi, Arkenora Singh -Delhi, Ranu Biswas -Lucknow, Anita Suresh Hardasani -Mumbai, Ohule Kishor Sakharam -Mumbai, Om Prakash Meena -Ahmedabad, Neelima V Nadkarni -Mumbai, Sudha Ramachandran -Mumbai, Ms.Agnes Puthooran Thomas -Mumbai, Premsingh Bahadursingh Chouhan -Bhopal, Ashesh Rajesh Rewar -Ahmedabad, S.J. Koli - Mumbai, Suresh Lilaram Tekwani -Mumbai, Veo Prakash Mishra -Bhopal, Shailesh Thakur -Bangalore, Ashish V. Pophare -Mumbai, R.Mohan Kumar -Hyderabad, S.P Walimbe -Pune, R.R. Nagdeve -Mumbai, Ramu Kondu Dhadga -Pune, Mukesh Kumar Jha -Pune, A. R. Ninawe -Mumbai, R A Dhyani -Mumbai, K P R R Murty -Mumbai, V. Muralidharan -Mumbai, Ashok Kumar Koli -Bhopal, Gitesh Kumar -Bhopal, V. R Rao -Hyderabad, Dr. Mahesh Deoram Akhade -Pune, Antony Pariath -Ahmedabad, Sanyogita Nagpal -Ahmedabad, Suhas S Kularni -Pune, V J Boricha -Ahmedabad, Pradip Kumar Mondal -Kolkata, Dipak Kumar Mukherjee -Kolkata, Arvind Kumar -Jaipur, Anil Kumar Sharma -Kanpur, Praveen Kumar -Delhi, S P Gupta -Delhi, Mrinalini Kaur Sapra -Delhi, Vijay Choudhary -
Delhi, Munshi Ram -Delhi, Amrit Lal -Delhi, A L Prasao -Delhi, S M Sarfarazut Tadheed -Patna, Sapna Bhatia -Mumbai, Manjeet Singh -Chandigarh, Sanjeev Kumar Dev -Ahmedabad, Sukhjit Singh -Chandigarh, Sita Ram Meena -Mumbai, Sanjay Kumar -Delhi, V K Chakravarty -Ahmedabad, Shiv Nath Sharma -Chandigarh, O.P. Verma -Kanpur, Gl Banwari -Bhopai, Badicala Yadagiri -Hyderabad, N. Sukumar -Bangalore,
G.N. Bhat -Bangalore, Ajit V Thite -Bangalore, Milan Ruchal -Kolkata, H. Ananda -Bangalore, M P Ravindranatha Kumar -Cochin, V Swayam Prakash -Hyderabad, V Rammohan -Hyderabad, M. Jayaram -Cochin, M Naraya Rao -Hyderabad, Manhapara Lakshmi Bai -Cochin, K. Gireesha -Bangalore, P Suresh Rao -Bangalore, Sumit Kumar -Ahmedabad, Narinder Singh -Delhi, Laui Singhyadav -Kanpur, Yatender Singh -Delhi, Vachashpati Tripathi -Delhi, Anil Kumar Dhondial -Mumbai, M.K Jain -Delhi, Virender Kumar -Delhi, Rajeev Kumar -Delhi, N.D. Gupta -Delhi, Guru Bhashyam -Bangalore, Anil Dhaka -Jaipur, Chanchal Nag -Guwahati, Vrunda M Desai - Lucknow, A. N. V. Iyer -Delhi and Rajesh Damodar Menon -Delhi
Cadre allotment of 2008 batch IPS officers
Cadre has been allotted to those Indian Police Service Officials who have qualified the Civil Services Examination, 2008. The details are as follows :
AGMUT
Jasmeet Singh, Ms Manusmriti, Ms. Monika Bhardwaj, K. Balaji, R. Sathiya Sundaram, A. Koan,
Ved Prakash Surya and Gaurav Sharma
Andhra Pradesh
Rama Rajeshwari R., Bhaskar Bhushan, Koya Praveen and Ambar Kishor Jha
Assam – Meghalaya
Shiladitya Chetia, Ms Amanjeet Kaur and Nimbalkar Vaibhav Chandrakant
Bihar
Naveen Chandra Jha, Ms. Harpreet Kaur, Narendra Kumar and Saurav Kumar Shah, Jayant Kant,
Babu Ram and Pushkar Anand
Chhatisgarh
Kamble Amit Tukaram
Gujarat
Vaghela Vishal Kumar Baldevbhai, Karthik Kashyap, Virendra Singh Yadav and Ms Vidhi Choudhary and Ms Baddipudi Vijaya Jyothsna.
Haryana
Rahul Sharma
Himachal Pradesh
Gaurav Singh
Jharkhand
Indrajeet Mahatha
Jammu & Kashmir
Imtiaz Ismail Parray, Shailendra Kumar Rajesh Mishra, Rahul Malik and Manavjit Singh Dhillon
Karnataka
S.D. Sharanappa, M.N. Anucheth, Shantanu Sinha, C.Vamsi Krishna, Borase Bhushan Gulabrao, Abhinav Khare, B. Ramesh, Iada Martin Marbaniang and Ravi D. Channannavar
Kerala
Thomson Jose, Srinivas A, Manjunath H, T.K. Shibu and Dipak Ranjan
Madhya Pradesh
Navneet Bhasin, Tarun Nayak, Amit Singh and Rudolf Alvares R.J.
Maharashtra
Anil Subhash Paraskar, Abhinav Diliprao Deshmukh, S Nirmala Devi and Prashant Vilasrao Holkar, M. Ram Kumar, Ms N. Ambika, Shashi Kumar Meena
Manipur-Tripura
P. Goulungmuon Singsit
Nagaland
Ms Priyanka, Vikas
Orissa
Brijesh Kumar Rai, Charan Singh Meena, Akhileshvar Singh
Punjab
Naveen Singla, Kuldeep Singh and Swapan Sharma
Rajasthan
Ms. Shaveta Dhankhar , Ms Preeti Jain, Ajay Singh, Yogesh Yadav, Pankaj Kumar Choudhary and Kuwar Rastradeep.

Sikkim
Ram Niwas Yadav
Tamil Nadu
Samant Rohan Rajendra, Ms. Bharati Hollikeri, Santhosh Kumar Meena, G. Dharmarajan, Sibichakravarthi M.R, J. Mahesh, Vijaya Kumar C, Durai M, P. Vijaya Kumar, Ms Vijayanta, Harish N., Ziaul Haque, Ms. Disha Mittal and Abhinav Kumar

Uttar Pradesh
Atul Sharma, Keshav Kumar Choudhary, Ms Neha Pandey, Rahul, Ajay Kumar Sahni, Pawan Kumar, Anees Ahmad Ansari, Akhilesh Kumar Chaurasia, Shivasimpi Channappa, R. Venkatesh Kumar, P Dinesh Kumar, G Muniraj, Babloo Kumar, V. Ramparasath Manohar and Rohan P. Kanay.
Uttarakhand
Kundan Kumar
West Bengal
Ms Debasmita Das, Rupesh Kumar, Amit Kumar Singh, Nagendra Nath Tripathi, Akash Magharia Sumit Kumar, Rathod Amit Kumar Bharat, Awadhesh Pathak, Ms Anjali Ahuja, Sunil Kumar Yadav, Avvaru Ravindranath, Badana Varun Chandra Sekhar, Suresh Kumar Chadive, Nimbalkar Santosh Uttamrao, Sudeep Sarkar and P. Sridharan

Khushi Ram appointed CVO MTNL
Khushi Ram, IRSEE(81) has been appointed as Chief Vigilance Officer in the Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited, New Delhi.
Retd Jt Commissioner Income Tax gets selection grade
RC Gupta, Joint Commissioner of Income Tax (retd) has been given selection grade (non-functional) w.e.f. January 1, 2006.

Aaj Ki Aawaz
I’m sure most Indians feel corruption in Judiciary is worrying!!
But CJI via his ‘corruption in judiciary is miniscule’ corruption he is burying!!
 
He’s trying to bury all the allegations!!!!
An above board judiciary is the hallmark of Democratic Nations!
 
Justice for all and favor to none!!
In Democratic Nations this is how Justice is expected to be done!!
 
Retired CJI Sabharwal still has a dark cloud over his head!!!
But rather than facing the music his sons are buying property after property instead!
 
His sons will pay Rs. 90 crores to buy a property in Lutyen’s in the Capital!
Biyaana or down payment has been given and they are arranging  the capital!!
 
Mohna too had vowed Judicial Reform!!
But now for Judiciary backward flips karr raha hai Mohna perform!!
 
He wants RTI amended so that CJI is taken out of RTI purview!!!
Mohna’s ‘judiciary reform’ on view!!
 
MP Naveen Jindal is now the rep of Khaps!!!!
Khaps are responsible for heinous paaps (sins)!!
 
But Khaps have a clout and control a huge vote bank!!
So you can say this is Congress’s prank!!
 
Cry foul on Khaps and at the same time get its MP to take their side!!
This is known as ‘taking Public for a ride’!!
 
Chautala too has spoken up for Khaps so Jindal may just be an antidote!!
To Khaps Jindal will go to ask for votes for Congress when it is time to vote!
 
Jindal can go blue in his face but how can he explain Khaps heinous acts!!
And these acts are well recorded facts!!
 
Jairam Ramesh has always had a Commie streak!!!
You can say like Mani he too is a ‘Commie in Congress clothes’ kind of freak!
 
In China Ramesh’s Communism got the better of him!!
And what he said is indeed grim!!
 
He said India’s Home Ministry is paranoid and alarmist!!
He does not like PC so seems even PC’s tail he tried to twist!!
 
When UPA’s previous Sarkaar was being formed!!!
‘I’ll be the FM’ to many Ramesh had (mis)informed!!
 
He may fib his way out and say Chinese served him ‘voodoo laced food’!!
That got him into a pro China mood!!!
 
Mohna has taken him to task but for such a grave error shouldn’t he get the sack?
On foreign land and 'enemy soil' kiya India ki Home Ministry ko attack!
 
Confucius says.... in Congress is foot in mouth spreading????
Spread of foot in mouth Congress High Command must be dreading!!
Bharat Kumar
aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

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Caste and Subcaste also
Apropos the caste census, the correct thing to do would be to seek information about their "caste"(Yadav/ Gujjar/Jat/Rajput/Pathan) and "subcaste" from everyone enumerated and not their "category"(General/ OBC/SC/ST). This would give a correct picture of the population. For example, caste should be enumerated as "Yadav" for Mulayam Singh and "dusadh" for Ram Vilas Paswan and "Brahmin" for Sushma Swaraj instead of "OBC" for Mulayam Singh and "SC" for Ram Vilas Paswan and "General" for Sushma Swaraj . The reason is that these categories are not fixed for all time to come, but caste is. For example, Gujjars in Rajasthan want "ST" status, but are currently "OBC". They should be counted as "Gujjars" and not "OBC' or "ST", since in some parts of the country, Gujjars are "ST", so a category count would give a wrong picture of Gujjar population (half being OBC and half being ST) reducing their numbers by half in the count, similarly, in some parts of India, "Baniya" is "OBC", in other parts it is "general", so a category count would not give the correct picture of Baniya population in India, reducing its numbers in the count. Similarly, the population of Brahmins is 5% of the total population, but "General" would artificially inflate the count. For Muslims also, the caste should be enumerated instead of category, otherwise, the total population of Muslims in the country would not be taken correctly, since some Muslim castes are OBC, while others are General, reducing their numbers in the count. A correct caste/ subcaste census would also indicate whether for example, the "Yadavs" are getting an advantage disproportionate to their population (at one point of time, the three most populous states of India were ruled by "Yadavs"(Mulayam Singhji-UP, Laluji-Bihar and Babu Lal Gaurji-MP) who are descended from Lord Krishna, the most powerful of Hindu Gods (which means they cannot claim to be socially backward as much as the Kurmis/ Koeris etc who do not have that lineage) at the cost of all others like Lodhs/ Kurmis/ Koeris/ Gujjars etc, or whether the "Dusadhs" are getting a disproportionate advantage at the cost of all others like Jatavs/Valmikis/Musahars or whether the "Meenas" and some of the North Eastern tribes are getting benefits disproportionate to their population at the cost of bhuiyans/ gujjars/ bodos/ mundas/ bhil/ chenchu tribes. Why not seek a clear cut enumeration rather than half measures intended only to help the Yadavs?
Vijay Kumar
Revive old culture
Long years ago, the Foreign Secretary used to interact on a regular basis with the Under Secretaries in the Ministry of External Affairs. Of course, most of these Under secretaries then used to be young IFS officers who learnt the ropes by such informal interactions. Slowly, this system fell into disuse. The Home Secretary (his father was also an ICS officer) might possibly consider reviving this old tradition and have a quarterly tea with officers upto/including Under Secretaries/ Desk officers. The reason is that an informal setting is useful for exchange of concepts which normally would not flow easily from the top down the hierarchy.
A K Singh

Sheer contrasts
Our country can surprise anyone with its sheer contrasts even in the performance of its key constitutional institutions. For example the two institutions viz. UPSC and PPSC both meant to recruit civil servants, one at central and other at state level, stand at an entirely different footings in terms of their credibility and fairness. While UPSC systems enjoys extremely high level of credibility and ensures that every citizen of the country gets a fair chance of selection in the premier services, the PPSC on the other side of spectrum ensures that only those who have the 'capacity' (to pay or to connect) not capability are selected. I know for sure that some of us who could any day attempt and qualify civil services examinations would not even dare to think for PPSC exams as the results there were a forgone conclusion and everybody in the state used to know the names of candidates who were to be in the selected lists as only they could afford the fees charged by PPSC. Sad part is that broadly the administrators of this institution are the ones who themselves made into the system courtesy the fair selection process of the UPSC. This also is a sad reflection on our other colleagues in the civil services who indulge in corruption and nepotism in an blatantly open manner that if our esteemed institution UPSC had been corrupted they would not have got even the whisker of a chance to get into the civil services and a coterie would have been running the country now.
MB
“Media Circus over Kasab’s death sentence!!!”
The electronic media’s madness in announcing the Special trial court’s death sentence on Kasab on 6th May ’10, was positively boring, disgusting and simply abhorrent! How could the TV Channels be so irresponsible? Where was the need for jubilation? In the TV channels’ anxiety to raise their TRP ratings, it was funny watching the TV reporters falling over each others in order to be the first in announcing the death verdict. It looked as though Kasab was to be hanged publicly the same day. And, worse, in the midst of this unseemly competition, one TV channel was hell bent on claiming that it was the ‘first to break the news’. This media obsession had almost caused a mass hysteria. Reporters were speaking, sorry, preaching like ‘Pravachan Baba’. One wondered, when will these media reporters become extinct? I am not a media watchdog. But, the media hype generated by the so-called Fourth Estate was shockingly sickening. Several legal formalities have still to be completed preceding the Mercy petition and before sending Kasab to the gallows. Instead of jubilation, there is now an imperative need to be much more vigilant than ever against the sinister designs of terrorists. We must guard against air hijackings, kidnappings and mayhem by terrorist. Kandahar fiasco is not meant to be re-visited. There should be no room for complacency. Let the TV news channels behave more responsibly in shaping the public opinion rather than focusing at their TRP ratings. Another point. Ujjwal Nikam, the Public Prosecutor( Maharashtra govt) deserves kudos for doing justice to his job.But, his ‘public speech’ after the court’s verdict sounded more “political” than a “press briefing” .To quote Soli Sorabjee (IE dt 9-5-10), Nikam’s language should have been more “temperate”. Against this background, I would suggest a need for positive intervention by the MHA and the I&B ministry for issuing appropriate directions to all concerned. The WIC is popular among TV journalists (Barkha Dutt,a veteran journalist, registered her appreciation for the site). I am sure they will take due note of my views.
A K SAXENA (A retired civil servant)