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Very useful & informative site full of information. Cabinet Secretary to get six months extension ? Grapevine has it that Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar is being given six months extension. An amendment is likely to be made for extension in a day or two. Informed sources said that during his meeting with UPA Chief Sonia Gandhi last week Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had sought permission for granting extension to the present Cabinet Secretary. Empanelment meeting postponed Meeting for the empanelment of 1977 batch IAS officers to the rank of Secretary in the Government of India has reportedly been postponed. Meeting was scheduled to take place on May 28. Pathbreaking ruling by Pranab Mukherjee In a decision of far reaching consequences Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has ruled that from June 2010 onwards such incumbents will be only deployed for sensitive and senior positions who have at least two years of service to go . Mukherjee feels that it was essential to maintain continuity. Vivek Sahai Member Traffic Railway Board incurs Didi’s wrath As the grapevine has it, Vivek Sahai Member Traffic Railway Board has incurred wrath of Indian Railway Minister Ms. Mamata Banerjee on the issue of catering policy. As it is Sunil Mathur former Executive Director (ED) Railway Board was shifted because he had also incurred the Didi’s ire on the issue of catering policy. Names of new CMDs of banks to be cleared soon As the grapevine has it, the names of new CMDs of public sector banks will be cleared soon. Defence Minister yet to clear appointment of DG AFMS Defence Minister A K Antony is yet to clear the file pertaining to the appointment of DG Armed Forces Medical Service (AFMS). Tie is between l Lt Gen Naresh Kumar and Lt Gen Pradip Bhargava . Ramachandru to get extension Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Defence Production T Ramachandru is being given three months extension. He is 1984 batch IAS officer of Orissa cadre. Rakesh and Sanjeev are back to MEA Hqs Second Secretary in New York Rakesh Adlakha and Sanjeev Agrawal Second Secretary in Kuwait are now back to the MEA Headquarters. Senior officials seek CAT intervention ? DG,NSSO and DG CSO have reportedly sought the intervention of CAT,DELHI by against the recommendations of search committee for the post of Chief Statistian of India (CSI). IA & AS officer BK Mukherjee transferred BK Mukherjee, Senior Deputy Accountant General, in the office of Accountant General (RW & LBA), West Bengal, Kolkata, is transferred and posted as Senior Deputy Accountant General (Admn/Pens) in the office of Principal Accountant General (A&E)-I Maharashtra, Mumbai. Issue about appointing CVC hots up The issue pertaining to new Chief Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) has hot up as tenure of existing incumbent Pratyush Sinha is to conclude in a couple of months. L.M. Pande goes to IGNOU on deputation L.M.Pande Commissioner of Income Tax (CIT) Lucknow on Central deputation has been deployed with IGNOU for a three years period. He is an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer of the 1987 batch. Interviews for AAI’s Member Operations on June 20, 2010 Interviews for the post of Member Operations in the Airports Authority of India (AAI) of which Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) is V.P.Agrawal, are going to be held on June 29, 2010. Sanjay Garg to return Kerala ? After completion of Inter-State deputation tenure Sanjay Garg is all set to return to the parent Kerala cadre. 1994 batch IAS officer Garg is presently on Inter-State deputation to Chhattisgarh. Har Prasad extension in FCI not yet final As the grapevine has it, Har Prasad who on central deputation is General Manager (GM) with the Food Corporation of India (FCI) Assam region is still awaiting a final decision regarding his representation. He was appointed as GM by DoPT for five years while Food department in GOI had posted him for four years. He is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre who belongs to the 1982 batch. Rajesh Karnwal’s assignment changed in LIC Rajesh Karnwal who so far was Executive Director (ED) Banking Assurance in LIC has now been assigned E & OS/SBU/ EST. Why dearth of Director/Dy.Secretaries in GOI ? Why there is a dearth of officers at Director/Deputy Secretary level in Government of India (GOI)? The reason for this is that there were several vacancies. Two appointed in NHAI without interview ? Two officers have reportedly been appointed as DGM in NHAI without appearing in interview. No promotion to IPS officer in Railways Despite repeated directives by the MHA the Railway Board has not given promotion to Sanjay Kumar Director (Vigilance). He is 1985 batch IPS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre. Acharya to be relieved today to join Goa Government Additional Secretary to the LG Delhi,A K Acharya is being relieved on Monday to join the Goa Government. He is 1994 batch IAS officer of UT cadre. Will Ankita Mishra be Spl Secretary to LG Delhi ? Name of Ankita Mishra is doing the round for the post of Special Secretary to Lt Governor Delhi.She is 2001 batch IAS officer of UT cadre. HRD ministry fails to get suitable candidate for NCERT Director’s post HRD ministry has failed to get a suitable candidate for the post of Director in NCERT. In the last one year, since the post was advertised, the Ministry has though got 72 applications, 46 were not even eligible as they lacked five years of administrative experience. CVC recommends action against 13 Syndicate Bank officials CVC has recommended that major penalty be imposed on 13 Syndicate Bank officials. Rani Malick goes to Lagos Rani Malick US (Third Secretary) in the Ministry of External Affairs has been moved to Lagos. Kapil Sibal to deliberate with Bihar officials on RTE Law Human Resource Development (HRD) Kapil Sibal is going to deliberate with top officials of Bihar Government on how implement the Right to Education (RTE) law in Delhi on May 28, 2010. The meeting will be attended by Anjani Kumar Singh Principal Secretary (PS) School Education with the Bihar Government & Rajesh Bhushan Commissioner "Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan" (SSA) with the Bihar Government besides officials of the HRD Ministry. Kapil Sibal will also state Government officials that as to how the HRD Ministry can help them in effective implementation of the RTE law. Tripathi is nodal officer Yogendra Tripathi has been posted as the nodal officer to assist the district administration to provide rescue and relief operations at Mangalore Airport.He is 1985 batch IAS officer. IPS reshuffle in Himachal Pradesh There is IPS reshuffle in Himachal Pradesh. ADG Vigilance and APT Somesh Goyal will also be ADG Headquarters. Pradeep Kumar will now be IG, Tourism, Traffic and Railways (TTR). SR Mardi will now be IG (Law and Order). KC Sadyal on return from central deputation, has been posted as IG (Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau), Shimla.Prithvi Raj also on his return from central deputation, has been posted as IG, Armed Police and Training (APT), Shimla.BNS Negi will be IGP (Central Range, Mandi). Anurag Garg goes as DIG (Vigilance), Shimla.JR Thakur has been made IG, Northern Range. SPS Verma, DIG (Vigilance), has been posted as DIG (Administration), Shimla.DK Yadav on his return from foreign deployment has been posted as Commandant, IRB, Bangarh Una. Abhishek Dular will now be AIG (Headquarters), Shimla. Ashok Kumar has been made Kinnaur SP. Yashbir Pathania, Kinnaur SP, has been posted as Commandant, IRB, Pandoh. Virender Sharma, Commandant, Bangarh, Una has been made Mandi SP (Vigilance).Shiv Ram Sharma has been promoted and posted as IG (Home Guard). PL Thakur, on promotion has been made IG, Human Rights Commission and Lokayukta. ITI CMD meets UPA Chairperson RTI Information relating to Private Organisations The appellant Comments As per section 2(f), “... information relating to any private
body which can be accessed by a public authority under any other law
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of [Shri Rakesh -A new decision of CIC brought to you every Monday byMrs. Anuradha CORPORATE Jayanta Banerjee quits ICICI Venture ? Jayanta Banerjee President of ICICI Venture has reportedly submitted his resignation from the company. Riju Jhunjhunwala is now ED HEG ,Bhopal After the exit of Ramesh Surana, Riju Jhunjhunwala has become the Executive Director of the Bhopal based HEG factory. Maj Gen Loomba is Director (Personnel) ECIL Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Sanjeev Loomba has taken over as as Director (Personnel) of Electronics Corporation of India Ltd (ECIL). HSBC to have new Chairman HSBC is likely to have new Chairman later this year. Present chairman Stephen Green may step down . New Additional Director GMR GMR Industries Limited has appointed D. Kumaraswamy as an Additional Director on the Board of GMR Industries Ltd. with effect from May 18, 2010. Rob Johnson resigns CMI FPE Ltd Managing Director Rob Johnson has tendered his resignation with effect from July 15, 2010 due to some personal commitments. Piyush Agrawal is Head Piyush Agrawal is now Head of Risk for Citi’s Institutional business in the India Cluster, Kataria is CEO of Indian business RCML Religare Capital Markets Ltd (RCML) has announced the appointment of Mr Tarun Kataria, as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), for its Indian businesses.Mr Kataria was previously anaging Director of Global Banking and Markets, HSBC India.He also held a dual responsibility as Vice-Chairman of HSBC Securities and Capital Markets India Pvt Ltd. Aaj Ki Aawaz An Air India Express Boeing 737 crashed!!! Bharat Kumar FORUM (The views expressed in this column are of the contributors. We do not owe any responsibility, whatsoever, of the views of our surfers as they are their personal opinion. However, we would also request our contributors not to be personal, directly or indirectly, in presenting their views. Instead of countering the views which ‘X’ has already expressed, our contributors are advised to present their own views. Also be brief, say about 200 words at the most since any views longer than that if eliminated at our end would carry the risk of the contrbutor’s item losing its original essence) Question for Narendra Modi You took charge as the Chief Minster of Gujarat on 7 October, 2001 when the state’s economy was shrinking and domestic growth was stagnant. In less than nine years, Gujarat has registered a GDP growth rate of over 11.5%. What is the secret behind it? A K Bhat Hollow Life The IFS has not been at the top since the 1980's because of the hollow life that diplomats lead. Since the 1980's, when the identity of people joining the services changed from the "elite" to "middle class", the youth have wanted to make a difference to the development and governance of "Bharat" and not make merry in the cause of "India". And this is why the middle class has been joining services like IAS, IPS and IRS like so many youth who opt to join IPS to serve the nation with their sweat and blood with all the attendant dangers rather than join the IFS or even IAS. A K Singh It is headless NCERT being such an important organisation is headless since March 2010. Why does'nt the Government initiate action atleast 3 months before the retirement date of the incumbent to appoint a new Director ? Or did we not know the superannuation date of the then Director ? Not accepted. Please come up with some concrete excuse. Thanks ! S R Shekhar Break the moorchhaa(spell), for a change The youth have long been under the spell/moorchhaa of naxalism! Life can easily be charmed by a variety of spells: jihad and naxalism are only two examples of dhwanijanya moorchhaa or spell cast by sound! words have unlimited power of charm- songs have done it all along, religious discourses continue to do so and political ideologies continue to charm long after they cease to be relevant. Those who encourage the youth to remain under that spell/moorchhaa become celebrities by spinning the theme of their vocation like jihad and naxalism. Otherwise, why should naxalism be restricted to the jungles? How come there are no thriving naxals in Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad,Patna, Lucknow, Delhi etc? Is it not a fact that the larger segments of population in these places are empowered by education and development and have long enjoyed the fruits of proper governments for several centuries, contrary to the jungles where almost no government ever was visible? These areas had remained neglected and consequently all kinds of undesirable elements like dacoits moved in and occupied the entire space. The naxals need to think-they are good thinkers- for a moment out of the box, break their moorchhaa for a while and re-assess the whole situation. They would be terribly disappointed to see their meagre achievements in the last 43 years. How many have they killed? Was that their only goal? Have they set up a government of their own anywhere in the country? Will their well wishers ever tolerate them to reach a level where they can form their own government threatening the position of sympathizers(that they currently enjoy as their spokespersons!). Once the naxals come out of the moorchhaa they would realize the futility of their mission. Instead, they might opt for the constitutional form of government and change the style of governance in the country. Their energies and arms are misutilized. So are those of the government. M L Gupta CSMOP’s role ! The Central Secretariat Manual of Office Procedure (CSMOP) keeps the Deputy Secretary and Director on the same pedestal in the matter of the charge they hold and task they perform. Secondly, the 6th PC had recommended some scale for the S-30 scale of pay and they have now got some other scale of pay. The people at the helm of affairs in the implementation cell are mainly IAS & Central Service Officers. The 5th Pay Commission had recommended some pay scale for Section Officers of CSS and Grade-II level officers of DANICS/DANIPS. Subsequently, the Government took a decision that both these set of officers after completion of 4 years in the pay scale of Rs.6500-10500/- will get the non-functional pay scale of Rs.8000-13500/-. But the arrears were granted to the Grade-II level officers of DANICS/DANIPS w.e.f 01.01.1996 and not to the Section Officers of CSS. The direct recruitment at the level of Section Officer and Grade-II level in DANIPS/DANICS take place through the same Civil Services Examination and they are treated on the same pedestal. The CCS Service for some is better as compared to the DANIS /DANICS. The person who opted for the former service has take up a grave loss. The 6th PC in its report has clearly mentioned that there is general notion that the people on deputation to Central Ministries/Departments should get more emoluments as compared to the similar grade people in the field establishments as the latter enjoy perquisites. The Government has acted in partisan manner with the CSS, which is also against the principle of Right to Equality enshrined in the Constitution of India. A Srivastava3 Unfortunate! I am sad that my letter to highlight that caste based reservations have not benefited the poor among them has generated so much bad blood. I am not a Brahmin nor do I belong to a privileged class generally described as OBCs.I do agree there were social discriminations in the past .But that does not give rights to an egalitarian society that also after 60 years of independence to discriminate against a section of people dubbed as upper castes. I wonder how Muslims who were the ruling class for one thousand years can be bracketed with dalits ? It smacks vote bank politics. I feel that all those who cry foul against the so called upper caste Hindus are those ‘creamy layer’who reaped the benefit of reservation in the last sixty years. Some like Telecom Minister, A.Raja use the Dalit card to get out of corruption charges against them. If at all reservation has to be continued as a policy,it should be based on economic grounds. Unless we remove caste from our system, our country have no future. There should only be two castes ,the haves and the have nots. N K Nair Take bold step We should now take the bold step of abolishing all caste based reservations in government jobs. It was a bad idea to start with and , over time it has gone from bad to worse. This would be in the interests of good governance. Examinations for recruitment must be based on merit and merit alone. If a Brahmin comes last in an examination and he is recruited because of his caste will it make any sense? The same logic applies to all caste based recruitment. Instead we should give generous stipends and free education to the poor irrespective of caste or creed or religion. Selection based on the recruitment examination should be purely on merit. If there is decline in governance over the years it is because quality has been sacrificed at the altar of politics. This decay is typical of India and Indians.We talk big about morality but when it comes to practicing it the most dishonurable compromises are entered into in the name of expediency, arre yaar practical ho na! ,is the common refrain of a UPSC Secretary angling for his next post-retirement sinecure. And so the age limit for recruitment is changed virtually every year since the 1972 examinations conducted by the UPSC .It was ancient China which alone conducted written examinations to the bureucracy and they did not allow any tinkering with the examination system for centuries and what a fine cetralised government they got! Emperors came and went , dynasties rose and fell but the Mandarins of China continued forever and gave China its culture , its continuity and its fine arts and poetry. D Choudhury Injustice to CSS This is with reference to Injustice to CSS appearing in Whispers on 21/05/2010 by R Sharma. The Sixth CPC has done injustice to all officers / officials below the level of Directors. So stop crying over DoPT’s denial of NFSG to the Deputy Secretaries of CSS. If you want justice to prevail, then fight for review of the recommendations of the sixth CPC. The grade system should be scrapped and the pay scales should be revived and revised proportionately at all levels on the basis of benefit extended to senior officers. This should be effective from 01-01-2006. Ravi Cconcept of caste senseless ! “What will be the ‘religion’, caste and ‘gotra’ of artificially created human specie ?” Is the concept of caste not senseless , illogical and irrational and anachronistic? Had Baba Ambedkar been alive today, India would have been a different social order-- “casteless”, “classless”, devoid of “discrimination” and based on the principle of “equality”. The present social order is un-equal, full of internal contradictions where privileges and benefits in the name of SC, ST, and OBCs are cornered by dominant groups in these categories which are vote banks for cast-ridden politicians. The present Congress-led UPA-II has become vulnerable due to compulsions of coalition partners .The creation of Census questionnaire by adding a new column for enumerating caste/sub-cast ( numbering 6,000) is a retrograde step that has compounded all past blunders. Our divisive politicians have taken the country backward by a millennium. Baba Ambedkar’s vision of a casteless society did not favour perpetuating reservation .Had he been alive today, would he have endorsed Mayavati’s style of functioning: playing the‘dalit card’, building hundreds of statues of dalit icons (including her own) in Uttar( Read as Ulta) Pradesh at the cost of public exchequer. Not a single dalit had the temerity to question her. Even the former CJI Balakrishna, while ruling out judicial intervention, brushed aside Mayavati’s wasteful expenditure as administrative matter. What happened to judicial activism? The extention of reservations for SCs, STs, decade after decade, by successive Governments through legislative mechanism, is inspired by vote bank politics. Ironically, all benefits of reservations are grabbed by the affluent sub-groups in respective categories. The benefits have not percolated down to those who have been at the bottom of caste hierarchy. They continue to be burnt alive and made to suffer in silence at the hands of the so-called high castes. This discrimination has also fuelled the Maoists’ insurgency by creating economic disparity over a period. Even at the cost of editorial wrath, I would compliment several browsers (Vijay Kumar,MB,PKS )for their views. Suman Nath’s practical experience with the Census enumerators is noteworthy for the Registrar of Census, MHA.Gautam’s suggestion to Rahul Gandhi marrying a “dalit” deserves his serious consideration. This will unite the country. Against this background, is it not the high time to do away with all kinds of artificial reservations in the name of Affirmative Action? And, finally, can anyone enlighten the browsers about the religion, caste and gotra of the life-form( including human species) with man-made DNA, as and when artificially created in India, in the near future? A K SAXENA (A retired civil servant) |
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