Your website is doing a great job by providing an outlet to the personnel of various services to vent their grievances against real or perceived (In most cases real) discrimination of one's service vis-a-vis other services in matters of promotion etc. Indian Forest Service-wallahs feel let down vis-a-vis the other two All India Services, Group A services feel discriminated vis-a vis IAS, Engineering services consider themselves worse off than the other group A services. Central Secretariat Service officers have their own grouse against slow promotions. The latest is the comparison among Armed Forces and other Paramilitary forces. Everyone seems to be disgruntled and angry .This is definitely not conducive to good performance by the government machinery .The whole system appears to be rusty. The Sixth Pay Commission and Second Administrative Reforms Commission should have gone deeply into this problem in the interest of healthy administration. Those who are incharge of the personnel policies need to reflect on this. A discontented workforce can not deliver. It is therefore necessary to first create a good climate for performance and then devise all those high-sounding and complicated Performance Monitoring and Evaluation systems. The Government should take note of all these anomalies among the services and take corrective measures to bring about a balance among different services .After all each one has an important role to play in the governance of the country.
Aarti Khosla


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Decision of new Cabinet Secretary next week ?
Decision of the appointment of new Cabinet Secretary is now expected to take place only next week.
Will Lt Gen Naresh Kumar be DG AFMS ?
Will Lt Gen Naresh Kumar succeed Lt Gen Naresh Parmar as DG - Armed Forces Medical Service (AFMS) in August ? Though Lt Gen Bhargava is senior to Lt Gen Naresh Kumar, the later is reportedly ahead in the race.
Three Additional Secretary level postings soon
Three Additional Secretary level postings in the Government of India are going to take place in a week or two.
Ms. Neeta Kapoor empanelled as Secretary
Ms. Neeta Kapoor, an IDAS officer of the 1973 batch, has been empanelled as a Secretary in Government of India (GOI).
Yogesh Agrawal appointed Chairman, PFRDA
IDBI Chairman Yogesh Agarwal has been appointed as Chairman of the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) .
(We said this on January 8, 2010)
Consent letter of Malla for IDBI Chairman sought
Consent letter of R.M. Malla Chairman and Managing Director (CMD), SIDBI
has been sought for his appointment as Chairman of the IDBI.
Gupta is back to IB
R N Gupta is back to the Intelligence Bureau as Special Director. He is 1976 batch IPS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.
Will Siddharth be JS Commerce ?
Name of Siddharth is doing the round for the post of Joint Secretary Commerce. He is 1983 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.
Dhesi is also in run for JS Commerce
D S Dhesi is also reportedly in run for the post of Joint Secretary Commerce. He is 1982 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.
Dr. R. K. Sinha appointed Director, BARC
Dr. R. K. Sinha will be new Director, BARC. At present he is Group Director for Reactor Design & Development in BARC. His appointment order was issued on May 15, 2010.
 
K. Verma is Jt Director, IB in Delhi

A. K. Verma who so far was Joint Director (JD) Intelligence Bureau  in Jammu & Kashmir is now joined Delhi head office in the same capacity. He is an IPS officer of the 1986 batch who belongs to the Bihar cadre.

Ms. Rita Sinha to hold additional charge

Ms. Rita Sinha, IAS (UP-73), Secretary, Land Resources will hold the
additional charge of Secretary Department of Drinking Water Supply
till May 23, 2010 as Ms.Rajwant Sandhu, IAS (HP-75) is on leave.

IAS changes in Himachal Pradesh on the anvil

A large scale transfers of IAS officers are on the anvil in Himachal Pradesh. This will include shifting of certain district collectors (DCs) as well.
 
Bureaucratic reshuffle in Maharashtra this week
Bureaucratic reshuffle is expected to take place in Maharashtra this week.
A.J. Kurian to return to AGMU cadre
A.J. Kurian, an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer who is private secretary (PS) to Indian Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal, will be returning to his parent cadre of AGMUT as his central deputation tenure is coming to an end next month. He belongs to 1987 batch.
IPS changes in Himachal Pradesh likely
As the grapevine has it, few IPS changes are going to take place in Himachal Pradesh.
4 in race for NCSC's Chairmanship
As many as four incumbents are in the race for the post of Chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC). They are: Ashok Ram Congress Legislative party (CLP) leader from Bihar, Mahavir Prasad ex-Minister, Ms. Satya Ben & K.C. Lenka
Who will be MD of CIDCO in Maharashtra
Who will head the prestigious  post of MD CIDCO? Tie is said to be between R A Rajiv and Manu Srivastava. Name of Uttam Khobargade is also being mentioned.
Vijay Singh goes to Lusaka
Second Secretary in Kuwait Vijay Singh has been transferred in the same capacity to Lusaka.
Gautam Gupta shifted to MEA Hqs
Gautam Gupta Second Secretary in Lusaka has been transferred to MEA Headquarters.
MEA’s revised guidelines strict for State Governments
Revised guidelines on the channels of communications between foreign government’s or their representatives in India have come as a blow to state governments. From now onwards for such any communication state governments will have to strictly route through the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). However, these guidelines have been further liberalized for departments of the Government of India (GOI).
Appointment of Rao rejected ?
Shipping Ministry has succumbed to the pressure of the IAS lobby and reportedly rejected the appointment of G J Rao as Chairman of the Paradeep Port Trust. The name of Rao, Chairman of the Tuticorin Port Trust, had been cleared for the appointment. He is a Port Cadre officer.
IA & AS officer MK Isac Kutty transferred
MK Isac Kutty, Assistant Accountant General in the office of Principal Accountant General (C & CA), Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, is transferred and posted as Deputy Accountant General (adhoc)  in the office of Senior Deputy Accountant General (LBA&A), Maharashtra, Nagpur.
Why inutes for DG, ICFRE's post not yet fnaliised?
As the grapevine has it, Bt Brinjal controversy seems to be stalling the selection of DG ICFRE. The Secretary Sience and Technology, a member of the search committee is siting over the minutes for the last 20 days? Will the Indian Minister of State for Forests & Environment Jaiiram Ramesh sort out to end the uncertainty which has led to RTI questions .It may be stated that interviews for the post of Dehradun based Director General (DG) ICFRE that were held on April 7, 2010.
GMs ahead in race for EDs  post in BHEL
Grapevine has it that at least 10 general Managers are going to be promoted as Executive Directors in Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) this year. Those ahead in the race are Ranjan Sahi, Vijay Kumar, Rajiv Kumar, UK Das, R Krishnan, Prabhat Kumar, RK Wanchoo, Jainendra Kumar, V Raghvan and Arun Singhal.
AI to effect changes at senior level
As the grapevine has it, India’s national air carrier National Aviation Company of India Limited (NACIL) i.e. Air India of which CMD is Arvind Jadhav, is going to transfer senior level executives including General Managers (GMs).
Sivaji Ghosh left in the lurch
Sivaji Ghosh, whose proposal for central deputation as IG in RPF for East Central Railway (ECR) was cleared two months ago, has been awaiting issuance of orders by the Railway Board for the last two months. It may be stated here that Minister for Railway Ms.Mamta Banerjere had mooted the related proposal in accordance with which ACC had cleared it. Ghosh is 1985 batch IPS officer of West Bengal cadre.
MHA’s notice to 500 officers & employees
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has served show cause notices to its 500 officers & employees for non-adherence to punctuality as far reaching on duty was concerned. They reached office after 9.30 a.m.
Sroha goes to Khartoum
Counsel in Hong Kong, Ram Dhari Singh Sroha, has been transferred to Indian Embassy Khartoum.
Aparna Vaish promoted as DDG in Akashwani
Marketing Head in Mumbai, Aparna Vaish, has been promoted to the rank of Deputy Director General (DDG) in the Akashwani.
S D Sharma is new State Election Commissioner Jharkhand
Former 1972 batch IAS officer S.D. Sharma has been appointed new Chief State Election Commissioner Jharkhand. He will  replace Manoj Kumar Mandal.
IAS reshuffle in Uttarakhand
There is major IAS reshuffle in Uttarakhand.Rajiv Gupta will now be Principal Secretary Home. Anup Wadhawan will be new Principal Resident Commissioner in Delhi. Alok Kumar Jain has given additional charge of planning.  S Raju has been given additional charge of housing, urban development and IT.Radhu Raturi has been given additional charge of Trade Tax Commissioner. S Ramaswami has given additional charge of MD, SIDCUL. Umakant Pawar will be Secretary Medical, Health & family welfare and Medical education. Dr Rakesh Kumar has been transferred as Secretary Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and Cooperative. MD, Kunal Sharma  has been made Kumaon Commissioner. AS Nambiyal has been made Garhwal Commissioner.SS Rawat has given additional charge of Agriculture.  PS Jangpangi has given additional charge of irrigation. Purushottam  has been given additional charge of Director Training. L Fennai has been given additional charge of Women Empowerment and Child Development. Shailesh Bagoli  has been made MD KMVN. Ashish Joshi has been given additional charge of employment exchange. CS Napalchayal has been given additional charge of Medical Education. Secretary Haridwar Development Authority Harish Chandra Semwal has been transferred as Secretary Lake Development Authority, Nainital and Additional Commissioner Nainital.
IAS changes in Tripura
Brijesh Pandey has been appointed as DM (West). Santanu Das will now be Special Secretary of SC, OBC Welfare Department.Samarjit Bhowmik has been transferred as DM of South. Swapan Saha has been made Special Secretary of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).Sommya Gupta will now hold the DM’s position of North Tripura district .Kiran Gitte will be DM (Dhalai). Pradip Chakraborty has been made CEO of Agartala Municipal Council.Kishore Ambuly has been given additional charges of Special Secretary to ICAT and Higher Education department.L. Darlong has been made as Special Secretary Health .
IAS reshuffle in Uttar Pradesh
Principal Secretary (Rural Development) Shri Krishna has been given additional charge of Rural Engineering Services.Vrinda Swarup would also look after the Non-Conventional Energy Sources Department.Deepak Kumar has been moved to the Home Department . Mahesh Kumar Gupta will now be Excise Commissioner. Radha S Chauhan will be new Secretary (FDA). Sudhir M Bobade has been made Divisional Commissioner Agra.Kamran Rizvi had been appointed Cane Commissioner.
Faiz Ur Rehman is CPMG, Maharashtra circle
Faiz Ur Rehman is CPMG Maharashtra circle..
D. Suresh is Administrator ,HUDA
D. Suresh is now Administrator Haryana Urban Development Authority
(HUDA), Faridabad. He is an IAS officer of the 1995 batch who belongs
to the Haryana cadre. Earlier he was Director (Estate) on central deputation
in the Ministry of Urban Development.
TRAI requires 3 Deputy Advisors
Three posts of Deputy Advisors for different divisions of TRAI are proposed to be filled up through deputation from ministries and departments of central government / public sector undertakings / statutory and autonomous bodies initially for a period of two years.
Ms Ranjan gets additional charge in MoEF
Ms. Shally Ranjan, IFS:2001 has been given the charge of the Reserach & Training Division in MoEF in addition to Externally Aided Projects Division and Forest International Cooperation. This has happened consequent upon relieving of Rajan Sehgal, IFS:1992 to join as Director, Food & Public Distribution.
Chandra Prakash is S.P.Hathras
Chandra Prakash has joined as S.P.Hathras in Uttar Pradesh .He is an
IPS officer of the 2004 batch who belongs to the Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Deputation tenure of Minz extended
Deputation tenure of  Solomon Yash Kumar Minz, IPS(MP-97) Chief Vigilance Officer in the Metallurgical & Engineering Consultants (India) Ltd. (MECON), Ranchi has been extended for a period of three months beyond  April 20. He is 1997 batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.
Addl CIT Surat goes to NMDC

The services of Kumar Hrishikesh, Additional Commissioner of Income Tax, Surat, have been placed at the disposal of New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC), New Delhi, for a period of one year. He has been selected as Director (Tax) in NMDC.

Resignation of K Kamlakar accepted

Resignation of IRS officer, K Kamlakar, Additional DIT (Inv), Unit 1, Hyderabad, has been accepted.

CCIT Mumbai gets VRS

The notice of voluntary retirement of RK Singh, IRS (IT : 73), CCIT, Mumbai, has been accepted to enable him to join as Member, Settlement Commission (Income Tax/Wealth Tax) with headquarters at Chennai.

FM accepts Mankad Committee recommendations
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is believed to have accepted Piyush Mankad Committee report. Accordingly present vacancies in CBDT, CBEC will be filled up as per existing rules. Now two –year tenure for Board Members will be required.

RTI

Duties and functions of the office
The Appellant was informed that “the duties and functions of the audit department of the Public Authority have not been specified and hence cannot be provided”. The CIC directed the Public Authority to define the duties and functions of the audit department and put it on its website in discharge of its obligation under Section-4 of the RTI Act.
Comments
Ordinarily, questions do not constitute information and cannot be raised under the RTI Act. However, the Public Authority cannot claim non-availability of information as an excuse for its inability to provide the same in all cases. An assertion that a Public Authority is not expected to create information will not hold against fulfilling the responsibility under section 4. (The readers may recall that section 4 calls upon the Public Authority to suo-motu disclose information about itself on a reqular basis).
[Mr Sanjay Chiripal v. O/o the Registrar Cooperative Societies, New
Delhi in Decision No. CIC/SG/A/2010/000471 and 000472/7527]

-A new decision of CIC brought to you every Monday by Mrs. Anuradha
Verma (dranuradhaverma@yahoo.co.in), Co-author of the book: RIGHT TO
INFORMATION – LAW AND PRACTICE by Taxmann. (The views are Personal)

CORPORATE
Three CEOs to join Board of Tata Sons
Ravi Kant of Tata Motors, S. Ramadorai of Tata Consultancy Services and B. Muthuraman of Tata Steel are likely to join the board of the Tata group.They are all former CEOs.
Rakesh Mohan to join Nestle Board
Dr Rakesh Mohan's name has been approved by the Nestle Board of Directors as a Non Executive DIrector of  the company. Dr Mohan is currently senior research fellow of Stanford Centre for International Development, Standford University ,
Hari Prakash is now CEO ISS Pvt Ltd
Hari Prakash is now Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Integrated Solar Solutions Pvt Ltd, Bhopal  apart from his current responsibility as CEO, Omega Industries Pvt Ltd, Bhopal. He is an alumni of University of  Pennsylvania--The Wharton School.
Narula  is now VP (Corporate Affairs) Aptech
Sonia Narula is now Vice President (Corporate Affairs) at Aptech Ltd. She was earlier posted as Vice President (Corporate Communications).
D  V Singh is Director (Technical ) THDC
DV Singh has taken over the charge of Director (Technical) of Tehri Hydro-electric Development Corporation India Limited (THDC).
( We said this on January 8 )
Bajpai to take charge on June 1
Dev Bajpai will assume charge as Executive Director (Legal) cum Company Secretary of Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) with effect from June 1, 2010. He is currently Senior Director (Legal and Compliance) with ICICI Venture.
Raju Venkataraman is VP Disney Media Distribution
The Walt Disney Company in India has appointed Raju Venkataraman as Vice-President and General Manager of  Disney Media Distribution.
Vineet Mittal is now Business Head  (Rural Marketing) BIG Live
 Reliance Media World Ltd.( RMWL), has  appointed Vineet Mittal as Business Head ( Rural Marketing) BIG Live.
ate Bank, Chennai region.

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Open the Pandora Box ?
When the very first Census of India was undertaken by the British there was a separate coloumn for Hindus and Muslims. This finally led to the partition of the country, for who are the Pakistanis but ex-Hindu OBCs? So Pakistan and Bangladesh are really OBC states carved out of India. The demand for independent tribal Christian states in the Northeast also follows a similar pattern. By enumerating castes in the Census there will be political demands in the not too distant future for a Dalitistan, a Yadavgiri, a Jatland and so on. Should we open one Pandoras box after another?
D Choudhury
It looks appalling
Social discrimination is not restricted to India alone and for that matter to Hindus alone. In USA African Americans are looked down so are Hispanics. In Britain Catholics are looked down. Why in our own Kerala, Syrian Catholics look down on Latin Catholics. Most of the discriminations are due to their respective way of living, hygiene and cleanliness playing a major part. These discriminations will reduce only when the down trodden communities understand their weaknesses and correct them. Some of the leaders who flash their community card for upward mobility always look for marriage from upper castes. We have seen Ex.President Narayanan marrying a Burmese who kept his community people away from him. We have Paswan who kicked out his SC wife to marry an OBC. There are several instances in bureaucracy also. Sixty years of reservation has resulted in creating a creamy layer amidst the reserved classes. There are instances of even three generations of the same family reaping benefits. Therefore to show few odd cases and cry discrimination is tragic. Let me ask. How the Dalit got into UN when there are thousands of people including upper castes trying for it? Was there any disrmination there? Founding fathers of our constitution including the icon of SCs, Sri Ambedkar meant the reservation only for a brief period. They knew that continuing it indefinitely as now will adversely affect the quality of administration which will directly affect the down trodden.
N K Nair
Casteism is in Indian constitution
Those who have interaction with international bodies may very well appreciate how casteism has been introduced in Indian Constitution by Dr B. R. Ambedkar. Here everybody talks very freely about " Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe & Other Backward  Castes" both inside and outside parliament of India. Because it is there in our constitution. Not only that India has reserved seat in Parliament & government jobs based on castes of people. And Government employees know how it divides them in treatments & promotions because of their differences in castes. This reservation is based on 1931 Census done by Census Commissioner Lord Risley.
 Had India become averse to casteism, it should not have used this data and caste-based policies & programmes would not have been formulated till date. Rather India should apologise  to Lord Risley for accusing him of dividing India based on caste.
 No civilised nation other than India discriminates her citizens legally based on castes & religion. Caste based reservation is not even secular. While Hindu SC/STs enjoying reservations since independence their Muslim counterparts have no such reservation in jobs till date despite being far below in development index. And faulty reservation policy has prompted Historian Rama Chandra Guha to comment " Once in permanently in". Further FICCI Secretary General has written few years back that 37% of Industrial Units are controlled by SCs/STs.
So there is nothing new or wrong in caste-wise census in India.
While an Indian Muslim can have four wives at a time; even Muslim Nation like Pakistan can not allow one to have more than one wife at a time. India has gove to any extent to appease minorities & caste-certificate holders.
So go ahead with caste wise census.
RD
Opinion of an affected individual  
A comment in Whispers dated 14th that  making civil servants  accountable and subject to RTI will make the service unattractive in future, seems to be the opinion of an affected individual. In fact, the civil servants  have been hiding under their rules and have so far not been held accountable for whatever they do. For wrong decisions, the blame is mostly put by them on the people's representatives who head the ministries. For  acts of corruption, wrongdoing, lethargy and inefficiency, even now there is no prompt accountability and punishment. Therefore, in fact, there is need to further strenghten the rules. If some persons do not join civil service fearing accountability, such persons are not needed in any case.
M. Ashar
Of what use the report is?
Department of Administrative reforms recently got a survey done on 'State of Civil Services in India'. The findings of survey are quite interesting but given our track record on implementation of administrative reforms in all probability the report would be consigned to the big dustbins of Govt. of India particularly because the survey has highlighted the frustration prevailing in Central and other AIS services against the manipulative ways of IAS. Cab Sec has a given a lip service forward and some other statements would also come out from some other forums but gradually everything would fade out and things would continue to be as they are because the big boys would never allow any meaningful reforms to ever take place. Sample this as example there was a lot of noise on empanelment process in the Central services and finally IAS managed to hold on to the informal two years advantage they had built in the system. However even that did not satisfy them and they have informally ensured through their control over DoPT that this advantage extends to more than 5 years so today when 1990 batch of IAS has been empanelled for JS only the 1985 batch of other services has been considered for empanelment. In my opinion this facade of administrative reforms should now be given up and a rule should be brought out that other services can not form part of central staffing excepting at DS/Director levels which of course our big boys don’t like to man given the clerical nature of the job content at this level. Dear Cab Sec also need not waste his precious time on such lip services when even a child knows that there is no possibility of real administrative reforms in a regime where 'might is right' is the principle norm of governance.
Ruhan
Why always IPS?
IPS seek their elevation as DG by sneaking into paramilitary forces and shattering their dreams of higher posts. These forces are engaged with never finishing duties unlike army .still these forces don’t have CSD facility, Free Ration provisions and so on because their none to take up their case. Even in MHA, IPS are advisories although they are far apart from the ground realities of the forces. Why always IPS IG (Pers)?-To enjoy their deputation &desired postings.
 Asit
Another scandal ! 
According to a report released by Housing and Land Rights Network-a group of NGOs the total cost for the Common Wealth Games has gone up almost 15 times the original estimated cost at the time of bidding. Named "Whose Wealth? Whose Commons' the report gives out what is feared to be another scandal in the wastage of public money. Games are important and  our national prestige and pride are at stake but what is being done in the name of beautification in the run-up to the Games is so very ugly. Lot of money has been wasted in what is called 'street scaping'. Pavements have been uprooted, border stones removed and new stones laid in many cases shortening the width of the main roads as the dividers are also two row dividers leaving the gap in between perhaps for plants or foliage which so far are nowhere in sight. The old pavements were good enough. A good scrub and paint would have been nicer than the present ugly looking stones. Commuting daily through the roads where work is being done one gets dismayed by lack of imagination, planning and coordination in this streetscaping work.one departments puts the iron railings dividing the street. A few days later you find some of them removed maybe landing up at Kabadiwala' shop. Then the railings and stones are removed and the earth dug to lay the electric lines for new street lights.one garish example of this beautification is the saffron and yellow 6-inch tiles being plastered all around the wall of the complex behind which there is a godown, a temple and a junk yard when you get down the Safdarjung flyover towards Laxmibai Nagar. The 'malba' the barriers, the dug pits and stones are strewn all over. When are they going to clean up? The waste of money is so very evident .I hope the Games go off well but the cost of the Games is indeed going to be very high.
Aarti Khosla
Great News
This was urgently needed. Forests and Environment was headed by non professional. This decision is in interest of nation.
H S Singh
Whose fault it is ? 
It is strange that an officer is made to suffer for a missing ACR, though it is not his fault. Invariably, officers submit their self-appraisal  but reporting officers either fail to record or delay their reports. New PAR system has further complicated it because a number of reporting officers do not record their report because they can not face the consequences subsequent to conveying of the report to the officers and likely appeal or review thereof...they prefer not to write the report or their report is not objective...Also the present reporting system has a major lacuna as it does help to capture or bring on record inefficiency or doubtful integtriy of officers....because of inherent subjectivity in the system or intellectual dishonesty on the part of some of the reporting officers...notwithstanding instructions of DOPT, these ills of the systems need something like external or third party honest and independent evaluation to assure officers of their objective annual assessment.
Suresh Kumar
Wanted only scientist with research management experience
Scientists in ICFRE are opposing non scientist DG for ICFRE. They insist that only scientist with research management experience can understand explore best of scientist working there. They also made a point that in December 2009 minister told that DG ICFRE should be scientist of Dr. M S Swaminathan's calibre. In January 2010, Dr. Manmohan Singh stated that science should be free from red tape. Scientist in ICFRE wants Dr. Singh to keep his word. Presently, no scientist could make to the top post since 21 years after creation of ICFRE.

K. Negi
It was wrong
Barghava Director CCMB Hydrerabad delivered a high profile lecture amongst the so called policy makers of HP, in a small hilly state of North India with unconfirmed facts largely targeting top scientists and bureaucrats, which was totally wrong.
Paulrasu
Director
Foods & Civil Supplies
Himachal Pradesh 
Will PMO act?
I must thank the whisper for bringing the selection of DG ICFRE a Secretary rank post to public domain. We scientists and IFS working in ICFRE are in the crying need for a good DG who should join immediately. The post is vacant for the last almost one year Can the dynamic Minister intervene to sort out things as other bureaucrats are sleeping. Will PMO pull the wires????
Anant Bora
Never ending woes
I am CSS officer.  The personal secretariat of Senior Officers are to be maintained only by the CSSS officers.  By the might of their bosses the CSSS officers get LDCs, UDCs & Assistants posted in their establishment.  This against rules. Through an RTI Application I have obtained the copy of the latest orders of the entitlement of personal staff of Ministers, Secretaries, Additional Secretaries.  I have also obtained information from various Ministries/Departments that how excess staff are posted in the personal section of officers.  I am an honest tax payers of the country and I have full right to ensure that the Government's money is not spent in an injudicious manner in the form of posting of excess staff.  The CSSS officers are warned to be ready to face hard days.  I propose to file a PIL in the Court to end the malady of excess posting of staff with the Senior Officers including from the PSUs, attached and subordinate offices.  I will also fight all the Court cases filed by the CSSS in various courts for their entry into the CSS every tooth and nail till the end of my life.  If the CSSS get any benefit from the Court (I am sure this cannot happen), I will take some drastic action.
Anju Srivastava
Non Functional Grade Fiasco!
The IPS / IFS ( Pay ) Rules have been amended recently to incorporate provision regarding grant of higher grade / grade pay on non functional basis to members of these services in their respective States whenever any IAS officer of a particular batch, who is two years or more junior to such members of IPS / IFS,  is posted at the Centre to a particular grade carrying a specific grade pay in PB-3, PB-4 or HAG scale. The Central Government has sought to restrict the applicability of this provision, in the Pay Rules by issuing instructions dated 16th March, 2010 that the provision shall be applicable against only those IAS officers who are empanelled under the Central Staffing Scheme for posts of DS / Director / JS / AS or equivalent! This Association had pointed out that the restriction placed by the GOI vide letter dated 16th March, 2010 was against the letter and spirit of the Rules, and therefore needed to be withdrawn. But, no action has been taken as yet.
In this regard, attention of all IPS / IFS officers is brought to the Circular Dated 12th March, 2010 issued by the DOPT regarding fixation of pay of AIS officers appointed as DS / Directors / JS / Additional Secretary under the Central Staffing Scheme.
The said Circular conveys the GOI's  decision that in the case of appointment of an AIS officer to a lower grade at the Centre or in the case of proforma promotion to the next higher grade i.e. super time scale or above the super time scale, or in the case of their proforma promotion to any of these grades, their pay may be fixed in the grade / grade pay to which they were promoted in their State cadre / given proforma promotion by the State cadre authority.
In essence, an IAS officer, who is promoted / given proforma promotion  to supertime scale or above supertime scale, prior to or after joining the Centre on  a lower grade post, is entitled to higher grade / grade pay. So an IAS officer working as Director / Joint Secretary in the Centre is permitted the higher grade / grade pay to which he was promoted in the State. He is also permitted to draw higher scale if he gets proforma promotion in the State during his tenure in the Centre. In nut shell, he is entitled to higher grade on NON FUNCTIONAL BASIS!
The moot question is would IPS / IFS officers two years or more senior to such IAS officer be extended the benefit of higher grade on non functional basis as the Note 3 under Rule 3 of Pay Rules provides? Or, the DOPT shall issue fresh instructions to exclude such IAS officers from their scheme of granting higher grade / grade pay to IPS / IFS officers?
That's the way you can eat the cake and have it too!
President IFS Association Maharashtra
Elaborate
The deterioration in the standards of bureaucrats is alarming, more at TOP 2 whom yr portal spks,the route 2 ladder is full of wrongs, Please do elaborate that too.
J K Singhal
Isn't there anything between "sharmnaak haar & shandaar jeet"?
The unnecessary chatter of the city based English speaking media anchors is many a times more irritating than the cliches from our rogue politicians. The coverage of the Pakistani terrorist guilty of 26/11 massacre always makes top story and not the achievements of an Anand Kumar of Bihar! What priorities? And now, the low language used for the indian cricket team and its captain. I am sure the script for the "shaandaar vijay' must have been kept ready. But since it could not be used, the other script of "sharmnaak haar" was used. Does the fundamental right to speech & expression include use of words that are better avoided( without compromising on content) or loosen the tongue to utter anything that it is able to lick? Abominable, at times. Anger and desperation are understandable, but a healthy analysis is necessary. May be the other team proved itself superior or our players had insurmountable constraints or any other reason. Instead of doing that we tend to straight away reach for the throat of our object of anger. Unfortunately, we pay no attention to the enrichment of our language(s), but want to communicate the complexities of the contemporary times through our limited vocabulary. Hence, words like sharmnaak get used so freely at the drop of a hat. It would be interesting to subject the letters written on the official pads of the elected members against officers to language audit. That is why they make mockery of themselves whereas they could have set examples of dignified use of language. The leadership of the freedom movement displayed that venerable quality, which is fast disappearing.
M L Gupta
Tae cognizance
Doctor selected through UPSC stays temporary for full service. It was told by one  doctor friend that when Professor retired he was told that that he was not permanent after serving for more than 28 years. Ministry of Health which is a controlling body had not passed the order for him as well others doctors for permanency (substantive capacity) or years. These doctors also keep working without knowledge of service rules. Ministry must take cognizance of this. Almost half of doctors serving in CGHS may still be temporary.
Ram Naresh
Extension counter of the Army HQ ?
If the working of the office of Engineer-in-Chief (E-in-C) of Military Engineer Services (MES) is any indication, then it can be seen that the Ministry of Defence (MOD) has of late become an extension counter of the Army HQ. Many examples of the same can be found from the attitude of Engineer-in-Chief (an army officer of Lt General rank)of Military Engineer Services (MES). Whenever an issue concerning legitimate aspirations of or improvement in the career prospects of civilian officers of MES has been taken up by the MOD, the E-in-C with support from top brass of Army including Army Chief have done everything to scuttle the issue. Many orders of the MOD remain unimplemented by the E-in-C with impunity in spite of the fact that lot of time has elapsed after the issue of such letters. There is an open defiance of orders of the MOD by the E-in-C with connivance of Army HQ. The Cadre Review of Civilian officers initiated more than six years back has been completely derailed by the E-in-C at a stage when it had already been cleared by the MOD, Finance and DOP&T. The ministry appears to be helpless and unable to resist the pressure. Are we going Pakistani way?
Samalochak
Casteism is a joke in India."
Teacher-"What is your caste?"
Student-Pehle hum 'Singh'thay
        Phir Rajput huay
        Phir Sharma ho gaye
        Abhi hai darjee
        Aagay Mummy ki marjee
A K SAXENA  (A retd. civil servant)