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out a name. It's impossible to see everyday's page Rakesh Chopra to hold caretaker charge as Railway Board chief ? As the grapevine has it, the proposal pertaining to appointment of Rakesh Chopra Member Engineering, Railway Board as caretaker charge of Chairman Railway Board (CRB) has been mooted. Chopra will look after the CRB’s charge until a full time CRB was appointed. Vinita Rai to be Member of NCDRF Vinita Rai, IAS(UT:1968) is likely to be appointed as Member of National Consummer Disputes Redressal Forum. The age of retirement in the Forum is 70 years. Suresh Chandra to be Member of NCDRF Suresh Chandra is being tipped to be Member of National Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum. He is retired 1970 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre. Bal to be JS Defence A K Bal is being tipped to be Joint Secretary Defence. He is 1986 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre. Sanjay Bandopadhyay to join GoI Sanjay Bandopadhyay is joining the Government of India as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.Orders of 1988 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre Bandopadhyay have been issued. Vigilance clearance of 1980 batch IAS Vigilance clearance of 1980 batch IAS officers for empanelment to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India has been received . K.R. Bhargava can't become DG, DRI Grapevine has it K.R. Bhargava (1976 batch) Chief Commissioner Mumbai-II can’t become new Director General (DG) of Directorate General of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) in the wake of Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee having decided that from June 2010 onward only such incumbents will be deployed for sensitive and senior positions who have at least two years of service to go. Mukherjee’s decision is much ahead of what Peeyush Mankad former IAS had recommended regarding Members in CBDT & CBEC. Names of new EDs of banks to be cleared soon Grapevine has it that names of new EDs of public sector banks will be cleared soon. Search on for next Chief Secretary in Tamil Nadu Search is on for next Chief Secretary in Tamil Nadu keeping in mind the next state polls expected to be held in January or February 2011. Ms. Shakuntla Jakhu gets CS scale in Haryana Ms. Shakuntla Jakhu Principal Secretary (PS) Women & Child Welfare
(WCD) with Haryana Government has been given the Chief Secretary's scale.
She is an IAS officer of the 1978 batch who belongs to the Haryana cadre. K. L. Dhingra, Chairman and Managing Director of ITI Ltd called on the Chairperson of United Progressive Alliance (UPA), Sonia Gandhi in Rae Bareli recently and thanked her and the Union Government for the financial package to ITI Ltd for the company’s revival. Mr. Dhingra also discussed various issues including ITI’s future plans and new projects with the UPA Chairperson. Dhingra, who was CMD of HUDCO from September 25, 2007 to April 7, 2010, joined ITI Ltd on April 8, 2010. During his tenure, HUDCO created new records of performance ever since the inception of HUDCO i.e. all time high sanction of loans, all time high profit, and the highest credit ratings on stand-alone basis. The Net NPAs of HUDCO came down from the level of 7.84% as on 31st March, 2007 to 0.70% as of 31st March 2010. HUDCO was the only Development Financial Institution in the country to get rating upgrades from two leading rating agencies, Fitch Ratings and Care Ratings during 2008-09, when there were rating downgrades for many others. Dhingra was also instrumental in the turnaround of Indian Rare Earth Limited (IREL), a PSU under the Department of Atomic Energy as the Company’s Director (Finance) from October 2000 to July 2004. Verma is back from deputation CORPORATE Surana to be based in Delhi Outgoing ED of the HEG .Bhopal would now market Europen Graphite Manufacturing Products in South-East Asia with Headquarters in Delhi. Anand Mahindra elected Chairman Mahindra Group Vice Chairman Anand Mahindra has been elected as Chairman of Defence Land Systems India--- a Mahindra and BAE Systems joint venture company. Mittal is no longer Director of ICICI Bank Steel tycoon L N Mittal, has ceased to be on ICICI Bank Board of Directors effective from May 3, 2010.Vanisha Mittal Bhatia re-elected. Arcelor Mittal has announced the re-election of Vanisha Mittal Bhatia, the daughter of chairman and CEO LN Mittal, to the company's board of directors for a three-year term. Mahendran is new MD of GCPL A Mahendran has been appointed new MD of the Godrej Consumer Products (GCPL) .He will succeed Dalip Sehgal. Sonal Ambani is Chairperson of FLO Author and entrepreneur Sonal Ambani has become first chairperson of FICCI’s Ladies Organisation’s (FLO) Ahmedabad chapter . Ahmedabad is FLO’s eighth chapter in the country . Peter Martin appointed Head by MHRIL Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Limited (MHRIL) has appointed Peter Martin as Head of Resort Operations. Bangur is Executive Chairman of AP Paper Mills The Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills Limited has appointed L. N. Bangur as Executive Chairman for a period of five years w.e.f. from May 27, 2010. Kalbag is now Editor of Business Today Chaitanya Kalbag has been appointed as Editor of Business Today magazine. Kalbag has been a journalist and publisher for more than three decades. Rastogi appointed Director (Personnel) EIL P. K. Rastogi, Executive Director (Personnel), Engineers India Limited, has been appointed as Director (Personnel), Engineers India Limited, New Delhi. Mishra is new Director (Civil) SJVN RN Misra has taken over as Director (Civil) of the public sector Sultlej Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN). Aaj Ki Aawaz Mohna’s Press Conference was more like a game of hide and seek!!! Mohna said in December he'll wave his wand and inflation will fall!!! This was a loaded question and had he given a wrong reply!! Madam Gursharan Kaur would have barred his entry into their home or
ghar!!! Mohna stressed he's in no hurry to retire as he's got a lot to do!!! Adds.... post this conference his reputation has fallen by a few notches!!
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) Factually incorrect The observation of A K Singh that for most civil service aspirants IPS is the first choice, is factually incorrect. At least 9 out of 10 candidates appearing at interview have been giving IAS as the first option. I should know since I have assisted the UPSC Selection Boards for rhe Civil Services more than once as an Adviser. This can also be verified by getting the relevant information from UPSC under the RTI Act .The options given by the candidates (at least those who qualify for the interview )almost invariably is in the order given below ; 1. IAS, 2.IPS;and 3. IFS / IRS. Why do the aspirants prefer the IAS ? I believe it is due the variety of job experience on offer in the IAS, which is incomparable. P K Lahiri Dearth of DS/Dir level officers The irony is that the Government has not been allowing extension of competent DS/Director level officers beyond 5 yrs. This after the departmental Secretary /Minister has strongly recommended extension . GOI could allow competent officers extension upto 6 months and in very deserving cases ( 1 yr)to tide over the problem of shortage of officers at DS/Dir level S Singh Problem of administration ! The problem of our administration is that while a new India is emerging and is demanding more responsible, more transparent and more accountable administration, the later along with the political class continues to live in the old feudal mindset. The situation today is that a increasingly modern India is grappling with a backward feudal administrative set-up and gets more frustrated with it everyday. This was somewhere visible in the post 26/11 protests across the country which cut through, religion caste or class identities artificially created by our netas and babus. For a common man the experience of dealing with bureaucracy be it in the government offices or on roads with policewallah's have not changed a wee bit despite more than 60 years of independence. I challenge any senior officer reading this column to visit any government office across the country as a common man and then write his experience on this column and I can bet that 9 out of ten times it would be sorry tale to tell. If as a community we have not contributed even a wee bit in providing the change stimulus for our society which looks towards us some sort of role models than we have failed the purpose for which we were recruited by UPSC. I hope a day will come when the bureaucracy will rise above its parochial identifications be it service, caste religion, region or others and shall actively contribute to fulfill the aspirations of modern India though I know it is an utopian wish. MB PM should clarify The PM needs to enlighten the nation as to why the aviation minister's resignation was not accepted when he has rightly accepted moral responsibility for the death of 258 passengers. Other question which need an answer is that why an experienced pilot who has landed atleast 15-20 times on the same runway should overshoot the runway by 2000ft? Was there no communication between the pilot and ATC once clearance for landing had beem given. Was there a technical snag in the plane due to which either the engines failed or the brakes failed and the emergency communication did not work.What made the aircraft break into two halves even before it fell into the valley? Why has the Minister Civil Aviation gone out of his way to give a clean chit to the Boeing aircraft, which was about 2.5 yrs old, even before the investigations into the crash started. Also why should D.G.C.A whose major responsibility is maintenance of Safety of the aircraft and the passengers now investigate its own failure? Also does D.G.C.A mandate that all expat pilots should compulsorily undergo language training prior to commercial flying in India? Despite Patel being at the helm for over six years why do we need to hire foreign pilots instead of Indian Citizens? Why do we take almost two years to train a pilot when in USA and Australia a pilot can be trained within six months? All parties i.e D.G.C.A, Airport Authority of India , Air India and the Ministry of Civil Aviation are jointly and collectively responsible for the disaster and the deaths which could have been averted . Parivartan It’s worse than a fake certificate When the census enumerator comes calling, what’s to prevent me from declaring that I am SC or ST or Brahmin or Rajput or Jat? No proof is demanded or required. This is worse than a fake SC or ST certificate. D Choudhury Congratulations! I am glad there are people like D Chaudhury and A K Saxena who are bold enough to seek abolition of Castes in this country. At least, someone has belled the cat. Let the politicians take the cue. Umesh Jain "Caste and religion of artificial human being" The answer to A K Saxena's query is that the artificial human life will be borne as a Sat-Chit-Anand,free from all human failings,deficiencies and ills. Pt Abhay Joshi (Astrologer), Anupam Nagar, Gwallior, MP Opposing reservation doesn't mean opposing backwards. I think reservation policy of GOI needs sincere and honest review. It must be reviewed after say every ten years. It may have been right 60 years ago (though motives, at that times, were questionable). I think politicians are exploiting this issue to meet their greedy ends. If you want to help a section of the society, give them free education, all sorts of monetary help, free books, coaching etc. but absolutely no relaxation in competitive examinations. This will maintain right standards for aspiring civil servants. When you are giving reservation to a person, you are not helping him you are giving him a baisakhi (stick for walking)for support and then you want him to compet with others. This badly dents his self confidence as is visible now. He is afraid of losing in the competition. He can't compete on his own. He needs reservation for everything even for promotions and admissions and at times he becomes a laughing stock for others. He becomes jealous of better equipped people as is evident on this site. Don't give him baisakhy, help him stand on his feet. Make him fighting fit. Don't make his target so easy that he gets addicted to it. Time has now come when we must redefine this reservation policy. It shouldn't be property of a few. These Paswans and Mayawatis are doing greatest disservice to real downtrodden which never come into picture. Stop pampering these so called Dalits who have been exploiting this issue for the last sixty years. Believe it or not this reservation issue has divided entire society into warring fractions. It is not helping bridging the gap. On the contrary it is widening it. If ,you really want to make classless, casteless society, abolish things which divide the society. Make education free and compulsory for all. Give more attention to far flung poor areas. Ensure that help reaches right hands. States must join hands with central govt. Make education job oriented. PKS Very good step HRD should try to make equal syllabus for states of India. Ajay Kumar Singh Propaganda All this is propaganda being created by some lobby to divert attention of others and send a message that he has been out of race for CRB. Similar strategy was used earlier also. LK Well placed ! Just two examples of those who continue to be "dalits & exploited" that occur to me instantaneously, as I read it, though I am sure there would be countless such examples; one officer whose father was an IPS officer, he himself an IAS officer retied as Chief Secretary, his children are also very well placed in government jobs. Second a Doctor whose son got into IIM and in a highly reputed oil PSU job, his daughter got into IAS; are still considered to be downtrodden and underdogs. while on other hand their poorer brethrens belonging to the so called 'upper castes' who are not in a position to meet even both ends meet continue to be branded as exploiters and oppressors. At the same time the really oppressed amongst the lower castes continue to be at the bottom of the pyramid. This is the kind of social justice India has delivered. On any suggestion of separation of creamy layer or reservations based on economic deprivation/ poverty, these very 'privileged dalit groups' along with politicians surviving on caste based politics will be up in arms, and it is made out by them as if some blasphemy is being suggested/ committed. It's time we really need to revisit our concept of social justice. BP Take Bold Step' Pl. highlight the words ".... we should give generous stipends and free education to the backward classes. Selection based on the recruitment examination should be purely on merit. What is wrong in attributing the decline in governance over the years to the fact that quality is sacrificed for political gains. We have highest values of morality but when it comes to practicing expediency ruthlessly stops you in yours racks. But I will not applaud China for its achievement in this respect as their values for human life & liberty are different and we cannot afford a `Tinnamen Square' brutality! What is China's 'Culture' is known to the entire world! R V Nathan Grabbing power Reservations in services have become a tool for politicians to cling to /grab power. It is true that upper castes had discriminated against the lower caste people in all manners in the past. But then why should today's young boys and girls pay the price for their misdeeds. If my great-grand father had murdered somebody, why should I be hanged for that. Sons of Chief Ministers, Ministers and IAS officers are getting the benefit of reservations at the cost of young people who are termed as belonging to 'upper castes'. but are poor. Reservation shojuld be given to one generation only. The person who has got reservation benefit, his/son daughter should not get the benefit. If this is followed, condition of SCs/STs will change within a decade. It is the SCs/STs who have benefitted and reached high levels in the society donot allow their own caste people to rise. As regards reservations for OBCs,this is biggest but the policy mentioned ab above can be followed in their case also. Bishan Sharma |
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