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New Coal Secretary likely

New Coal Secretary is likely to be appointed. Who will make it ?.Guess the name ,Coal Minister hails from Uttar Pradesh.

Bureaucratic changes in GoI next week ?

A bureaucratic change is expected to take place in the Government of India next week end.

Will PMO clear the name of SAIL CMD ?

Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh has cleared the name of C S Verma for the post of CMD SAIL. Now the ball is in the court of the PMO. One can only believe that name of Verma, currently Director (Finance) BHEL, is going to be approved by the Prime Minister.

Nine figure in Zone of consideration for Chairman Railway Board

As many as nine officers are there in the zone of consideration for the post of Chairman Railway Board (CRB), after present incumbent S.S. Khurana retires in May 2010. Five members of the Railway Board & four General Managers (GMs) are in zone of consideration.

Neeraj Kumar poised to be DG Railway Staff College

As the grapevine has it, Neeraj Kumar is poised to be DG Railway Staff College. Presently he is Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) Diesel Locomotive Works.

Keshav Chandra poised to be GM, NFR

As the grapevine has it, Keshav Chandra is poised to be GM, NFR. Presently he is
Additional GM Northern Railway (NR).

Anxiety of empanelled IAS officers of 1990 batch goes up

Anxiety of empanelled IAS officers of 1990 batch has reportedly gone up because those who are already with Government of India (GOI) on deputation get a precedence as far as posting was concerned. However, uncertainty factor has added to anxiety.

Anurag Bhushan is Director CPV Division in MEA

Anurag Bhushan, IFS 1995, has been posted in MEA as Director in the CPV Division. He has returned from one year course in IIM.

PS of Tharoor posted as Director in MEA
Sandeep Chakravarty, IFS 1996, who was PS to MoS Shashi Tharoor, has been deployed as Director in the East Asia Division of MEA.

Zahur H. Zaidi to go on foreign assignment

Zahur H. Zaidi private secretary (PS) to E. Ahmed Indian Minister of
State for Railways has been confirmed for foreign assignment. Railway
Ministry has sought cadre clearance from Ministry of Home of Affairs
(MHA) for this purpose. He is an IPS officer of the 1994 batch who
belongs to the Himachal Pradesh cadre.

Review process of 1989 btach IAS officers begins

With setting up of a new committee of three Secretaries the process
for review of 1989 batch IAS officers review for the empanelment of
central deputation has begun.

Rau to be Secretary to Karnataka Governor

G.V. Krishna Rau, Chairman, Coffee Board, under the Department of Commerce, is back to the cadre. On return 1982 batch IAS officer Rau has been appointed Secretary to the Karnataka Governor.

Khushi Ram is new CVO MTNL

Khushi Ram has been appointed as Chief Vigilance Officer in the Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL.), New Delhi. He is 1981 batch IRSEE officer.

G.K.Pillai’s vertical interaction aimed at MHA’s better working

G.K. Pillai Secretary in Ministry of Home of Affairs (MHA) with
Government of India (GOI) is holding meetings with Under Secretaries
and Section Officers for better management of Ministry and Streamline
the process. This has happened for the first time when a Secretary is
interacting with the US and SO level officers directly to understand
their problems.

S. Nithiyanandam poised to go to Centre on deputation after CWG

S. Nithiyanandam an IPS officers of AGMU cadre belonging to the 1986 batch is poised to join GOI on central deputation. However, the UT Division has conveyed to the Ministry of Home in GOI that the officer would be available after Common Wealth Games to be held in October 2010.

Kishan Kumar poised to go to Centre on deputation after CWG

Kishan Kumar an IPS officers of AGMU cadre belonging to the 1985 batch is poised to join GOI on central deputation. However, the UT Division has conveyed to the Ministry of Home in GOI that the officer would be available after Common Wealth Games to be held in October 2010.
Karnal Singh poised to go to Centre on deputation after CWG

Karnal Singh an IPS officers of AGMU cadre belonging to the 1984 batch is poised to join GOI on central deputation. However, the UT Division has conveyed to the Ministry of Home in GOI that the officer would be available after Common Wealth Games to be held in October 2010.

Kamble appointed ED NHAI Bangalore

R M Kamble has been appointed ED NHAI in Bangalore. This post has been created. Kamble is 1984 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Silver Jubilee of 1985 batch in Mussourie

Silver jubilee re union of All India Services (AIS) officers belonging 1985 batch is going to take place the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) in August sometime.

IA & AS officer C Nanjundaswamy transferred
C Nanjundaswamy, Deputy Director (NLC), in the office of Principal Director of Commercial Audit & Ex-officio Member Audit Board, Chennai, is transferred and posted as Deputy Director in the branch office Bangalore of the office of Director General of Audit, P&T, Delhi.

Mohanlal is AIG Forests

Mohanlal has become AIG Forests in Government of India. He is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1993 batch who belongs to the Jharkhand cadre.

(We said this on December 12, 2010)

Madhya Pradesh urges Centre to provide 8 IPS officials every year
Faced with a shortage of 78 IPS officers, Madhya Pradesh has urged the Centre to provide at least eight IPS officials every year for the next three years and thereafter six officers annually.

Chandrasekharan to be Director (Marketing) FACT Travancore

The PESB is reported to have put number I P Chandrasekhaaran number one in the panel for the post of Director ( Marketing) FACT.

Maj Gen Madhok is ADG PI

Major General Sanjeev Madhok has been appointed ADG Public Information (PI) in the Army Headquarters.

Rani Malick goes to Lagos

Rani Malick has been shifted from Mea Headquarters to Lagos.

1977 batch IPS to get DG rank in Punjab

Three 1977 batch IPS officers Mssrs J P Virdi,Chandrasekhar and Jyoti Trehan are being promoted to the rank of DG in Punjab.

IFS reshuffle in Karnataka

There is major IFS reshuffle in Karnataka.Over forty IFS officers have been shifted.

IAS transfers in Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh government has on Thursday transferred four IAS officials. While Shivanand Dubey (1996) has been made Additional Commissioner Jabalpur Division and Director Training, Vinod Singh Baghel (1997) - Additional Commissioner Sagar, NBS Rajput (1999) - Commissioner Gwalior Municipal Corporation and Renu Pant (2000) who has been made Burhanpur Collector.
44 Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise transferred
As many as 44 Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise have been transferred with immediate effect and until further orders. The new postings are A.K. Das –Kolkata CX-I, A.K. Pawar -Vadodara CX-A, A.K. Prasad -Mumbai Joint CDR CESTAT, Arvind Singh –Bhopal CX, B.K. Juneja -Delhi (Gurgaon) CX-III-A, B.S. Vasudev –Pune CX-III,C.S. Prasad –Mumbai Raigad CX, Chander Bhan –Jaipur CX-II-A, D.D. Rishi –Ahmedabad CX-III, Devender Mishra -Delhi (Faridabad)CX-IV,G. Sreekumar Menon -GoaCX-A, H.K. Mittal –Panchkula CX, Harjinder Singh -Vadodara CX-I, Indrajit Dasgupta -Bangalore ADG Audit, K. Sekar -CochinCX-I-A,K.K. Goyal –Delhi ADG Vigilance, K.R.N. Chary –Hyderabad ADG Audit, Kameshwari Subramaniam –Delhi ADG, DGICCE, Karnail Singh -Bangalore Cus-A, Kaushal Srivastava -Mumbai I.O. Vigilance, Krishna A. Misra -Delhi ADG HRD (H&W), Kusum Sathpathy -ChennaiST, M. Suresh –Goa CX-A, M. Vinod Kumar –Bangalore ADG DRI, M.I.J. Michael –Delhi Cus-Export, M. M. Damodar –Aurangabad CX, Mahender Singh –Ghaziabad CX, Mala Srivastava –Mumbai Cus-II Import, Mallika Arya -Meerut CX-II, Manoj Krishna –Mumbai ADG Valuation, P.K. Goel -Kolkata Cus-P, Piyush Patnaik –Bhubaneswar CX-A, R.K. Barthwal -DelhiCX-II, Rajpal Sharma –Patna CX, Rakesh K. Sharma -PuneCX-I-A, Ruchira Pant -Delhi TAR, S. Kannan –Chennai ADG Audit, S.K.S. Somavanshi –Vapi CX-A, Sanghamitra Panda -Mumbai ADG Systems, Satyendra J.Singh - Delhi Service Tax- Adjudication, Shailesh B. Mishra –Lucknow CX-A, Sujit K. Sinha –Mumbai Cus-I Export, Sushil K. Solanki -Mumbai Cus-II Export, V.K. Garg –Faridabad NACEN Centre for Excellence and V.S. Krishnan - Chennai ADG CEI.

Bhopal Airport issued with DGCA's licence

The Bhopal based Raja Bhoj Airport of which Director is J.P Alex has been issued with Aerodromme licence by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). In India it is the only domestic airport of the Airports Authority of India to have been issued this licence. Basically it is based on civil aviation standards & guidelines formulated by Montreal based International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). The aerodromme licence is a mandatory requirement for airport operations. As it is J.P. Alex as Director of Raja Bhoj Airport is credited with having carried out many innovations & has ably developed the Bhopal airport.

IAS and IPS reshuffle in Uttarakhand soon

As the grapevine has it sweeping changes of IAS and IPS officers in Uttarakhand are on the anvil.

N K Tripathi bereaved (UPDATED)
V N Tripathi father of Special DG CRPF N K Tripathi has passed away in Lucknow. He was over 90.
Interviews for IOC’s Director R & D on May 11, 2010 (UPDATED)

As the grapevine has it there are seven insiders are in the race for the post of Director Research & Development (R & D) in Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) interviews for which are to be held on May 11, 2010. Of them three are hot contenders. They are: R.K.Malhotra ED R & D, Amitabh Chatterjee ED Lubes & R.K. Ghosh ED of IOC’s Panipat Oil Refinery complex. Earlier, it were to take place on May 4, 2010
Capt Baldauf joins as COO Air India (UPDATED)
Captain Gustav Baldauf has taken over as Air India's Chief Operating Officer.He was earlier associated with the Austrian Airlines.
( We said this on March 29 and again on April 7 )



CORPORATE
Rajan is number two in panel of CMD RCF

The PESB is reported to have put the name of R G Rajan number two in the panel for the p[ost of CMD Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilisers. He is presently CMD of PDIL.

Mathai moves to Thrissur

P.E.Mathai, General Manager, South Indian Bank has moved from Delhi to Thrissur to
assume the charge of Planning and Development Department of the bank's head office.

Arun Ramanathan on the board of USE

Former Secretary Finance Arun Ramanathan has been appointed Independent Director of the United Stock Exchange of India Ltd..

Dopak Chatterjee on the board of USE

Former Secretary Commerce Dipak Chatterjee has been appointed Independent Director of the United Stock Exchange of India Ltd..

Karanth is CFO of Corporation Bank

General Manager, Financial Management division of Corporation Bank P R Karanth has been designated Chief Financial Officer.

Schaff is President of Indian operations of BMW

Andreas Schaaf has taken over as the President of BMWs Indian operations with effect from May 1.

Gill is MD of NCR Corporation

Jaivinder Singh Gill has been appointed by the NCR Corporation as its new managing director of India.



Aaj Ki Aawaz
Indian matrimonial ads reek of caste!!!!
And in India caste will for times to come last!!
 
For most of our Netas politics is like a caste battle!!
They treat their electorate like cattle! 
 
Laloo and Mulayam want caste basis census!!!!
Take the name of caste and Laloo tenses!!
 
For their politics caste is like air!!
Caste is their ticket to ‘the chair’!!!
 
Take out the Yadav vote and Mulayam loses his vote base!!!
In caste their politics both Laloo and Mulayam base!!
 
Kasab’s been given the death sentence!!
A forgone conclusion even to the dense!!
 
Julius Rebeirro says let us call Pakistan ’s bluff and make Pakis an offer!!
Hand us Dawood and we will give you Kasab India should proffer!!
 
Pakis already have forced us to barter dreaded terrorists for IC 184 passengers!!!
Barter deals with a terror rogue State like Pakistan is fraught with dangers!!
 
If politics does not interfere Kasab will be ‘hanged to death’!!!
If politics interferes he’ll wait his sentence indefinitely with baited breath!!
 
And they say he cried when the sentence was pronounced!!!
His cowardice he announced!!!
 
He killed so many in cold blood!!!
And when his death sentence was pronounced his eyes with tears did flood!!
 
I’m sure if a vote is taken 'Laloo is a traitor or Patriot'... Traitor will win hands down!!
There is a heartless scheming Laloo behind Laloo the clown!!
 
Many say ‘ Laloo ka haajma hai A 1’…. hajam karr gaya chaara’!!
If you ask me he deserves to be ‘left deep in the Sahaara’!!!
 
Laloo and Mulayam epitomize why Indian politics is ridden with goo!!!
And why people say ‘ all Netas are nangaa in the political loo’!!
 
‘Political hamaam mein sabh Neta hai nanghe’!
And all of them with the Nation and its future take panghe!!
 
Now Gill is being booed by his Party men!!!
Those who have made Sports Bodies into their den!!
 
Kalmadi says the CWG will be the best.....now by the looks of it!!!!
And for making things go awry Kalmadi’s done his bit!!
 
The IOC Charter aims at keeping money, money power and professionals out!!!!
And Kalmadi’s made sports administration a profession without a doubt!!
 
The aim being one plays sport for sport and not for money!!
Indian sportsmen play for National pride and Sports Administrators are in it for money isn't it funny?
 
Confucius says..... Indian Sports Administration scene cries for a change!!
For Netas and Civil Servants Sports Bodies should be out of range!!

Bharat Kumar
aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com


FORUM
Indian Police system vis-a –vis others

Most Indian police officers also admit, that the Indian police system, with its archaic setup, and several levels of entry is colonial and feudal in nature. The lateral entry envisaged by UK police which poster "Gupta" referred to was a "Graduate Fast Track Entry Scheme", which speeds up promotion by 2-3 years. But every graduate entrant must also still go through requisite time in service as a constable. Anyway, the scheme ran for a few years, but was stopped because of poor results. It still operates in the UK Civil Services though (In the UK, the police is considered as being distinct from the civil service). The crux of the issue is, that the police should not become paramilitarized (which is what the Indian Imperial Police, and its successor service the IPS always were and still are). It should, instead, be a truly civilian force, meant for the maintenance of law and order, and detective work and criminal justice delivery. Even Germany has this distinction, with the beat police/detective police being maintained/officered/staffed separately from the "Bereitschaftspolizei", which is the armed paramilitary police. Maintenance of a truly civilian police force will go a long way towards improving policing in India.

-Aditya   

Take note of facts

The poster who states that India cannot afford so many generals should take note of facts, and not post whatever comes to their mind on a given day. Armed forces do not, have a larger number of Class I officers than other services combined. Let me state some numbers also. Very few armed forces personnel are "Generals".  Army has about 350 Major Generals, and 90 Lieutenant Generals, and 1 General. All told? About 450 officers who can be categorised as General Officers. A look at JUST the IAS civil list shows: 1510 officers in the rank of Joint Secretary (Same pay scale as Major General). 724 Officers in the same pay scale as Lieutenant Generals (army has only 10% of this phenomenal number, despite being a much larger service). IAS has 240 officers in the rank and pay of Secretary. Army has eight such officers. The only pay scale where there is an equal number of officers, is at 90,000 (Fixed). The Army chief is in this scale, as is the Cabinet Secretary. And this is in comparison to just one civil service. IPS/IFS/Indian Forest Service/IAAS/Customs all combined have tens of thousands of officers in the "General Rank" Scales. In the face of such evidence, how can we say that ARMY has too many generals? A mere 400 compared to nearly 20000? Shouldn’t the civil service exercise a little modesty in handing out high ranks? People should think of what they are saying, otherwise such canards will fall in the face of evidence.

- A concerned citizen

It is now "kal ki awaaz"

It is no more aaj ki awaaz". With the coalition adharma in open practice, aaj ki aawaz no more remains aaj ki awaaz but has become kal ki awaaz. Would you not consider changing the title now? It is highly insulting for politicians today (i.e. aaj) to indulge in small scams below respectable amounts in crores. In fact, even bureaucrats operating in those lowly amounts get no respect in the good company of their compatriots in Raj Adharma! Opportunity, it has been said in the past, knocks but once and therefore in tenures of 5 years or less whatever little the neta/babu accomplishes in the scam industry, is less by ever rising standards of scamming/scheming/scandals. The Devas may call the Asurs anything, but both are practicing their respective dharma. The dharma of one may be adharma of the other, but as the cosmos is governed by cycles, each one of them only changes places. Long Rule Coalition Adharma!

M L Gupta

Would Pak have done so ?

If RAW had staged an attack on Karachi the way the ISI had staged the attack on Bombay, would Pakistan have boasted of Rule of Law and given the terrorist a 360 day trial just to prove that he is indeed a killer of 174 innocent people? And after that , there is more litigation in more courts till it reaches the President as a Mercy Petition, which the President may not decide for a decade as has happened in the past. This is an insult to the families of the innocent victims and the maimed. Pakistan would have executed the terrorists summarily, Rule of Law be damned! After all, which law , except the Law of the Jungle, were the terrorists following?

D Choudhury

It is in blood

How you can control corruption? It is in the blood of scientific officers who do not hesitate to insult their subordinates at any level

An Officer

After the sixth pay commission …

In the new pay structure in force, after the sixth pay commission, the maximum financial benefit accrues on promotion from JAG to NFSG as the event also synchronises with change over to PB I. This is totally illogical and unjustified as there is no change in the nature and degree of duties of the officer concerned .While it is too late to roll back, it may be desirable to treat JAG as NFSG of Sr Time Scale of central group A and all India services.

S K Sharma

India can do it

There are nearly 40 Major Generals in Survey Of India only. Even some are of age group of 50 . So India can spend so much on these Generals with army and civilian benefit. In army one has to get transfer with in 2 to 3 years but some of these Generals are at one station life long .these Generals are better benefited then IAS and IPS officers. Without a single sipahi how these Generals are living like Kings.

Tripathy

Flaunting should have limits

I do not understand how senior police officers become 'generals'. But in certain states the word 'General' is extended to funny levels. The other day while passing through Kerala, I saw red car board carrying in very broad letters "Director General' and in the bottom in very small letters were written 'Prosecutions'. written. Flaunting also should have some limits.

N K Nair

It’s great

He is one officer who studies, analysis and ascertains implications of the subject dealt by him. Apart from an excellent administrator he has always shown keen interest in research and teaching. We look forward to his contribution to various fields of governance.

S.M.A. Millath

Give their dues to CPOs -

Issues have been raised in this forum regarding step brotherly treatment given to CPOs. There are negligible people in the Government and in ministry who actually know that duties and sacrifices for the nation are being done by CPOs men and cadre officers who are professionals and capable but they are denied the promotion and command of these forces due to the reason best known to the Govt. Denial of such opportunities to these deserving officers is not in any way making this nation strong but only serving the vested interest of deputationist officers. It is ridiculous to mention that CPOs officers who are fighting and making supreme sacrifice for protecting the nation are denied even a status of organized group A cadre and their destiny is decided by those officers who do not know the ABC of the force.

Bhoj Singh

One of the major reasons for large pendency of the cases in courts is the reason that the government is the biggest litigant. Wherever it loses a case, it contests the verdict in higher judicial fora in spite of there being no merit in the appeal. Thus it clogs the judicial system still more. Law minister says he is aware of this malaise but has not been able to do much. I think judiciary especially High Courts and Supreme Court should take lead in this regard by removing these merit-less cases at the admission stage itself.

Samalochak

“Hang kasab now… this very moment… or it will too late…
Please for god sake and for the sake of departed souls ..  Media  PL stop it”
 
“Hang Kasab”….. “kasab ko phansi do” ………… “Kasab must be Hanged”…….. “kasab ko phansi honi hi chahiye” …… “Verdict will be out any moment”…. “Verdict is out ,Kasab awarded death sentence” … “ we are happy with verdict , but hang him soon”
 
          As media fed on public frenzy for days together ,I was reminded of dialogue from K Asif’s Mugle-e-Aazm  when the sculptor was offered to marry Anarkali  to unhook  Akbar’s son Prince Salim  of her .
 
Consort  : “ Kyun santraash khush ho”
                 ( Are you delighted  O sculptor … to have Anarkali)
Sculptor : “ Khushi ka izhar to kamzaraf insaan karte hain”
                 “Main to ik kam-akal badhsha ki bakhshishon ka mazak uda raha hoon”
                  ( Jubilation is disposition of men with base intellect,
                    I  only jeer at the benefaction of an idiot monarch) 
 
There was nothing to rejoice as media made out be , but with television cameras rolling over bursting of crackers , snippets of  riff raffs hailing it to be the judgment day and sadly our public prosecutor ,handling this case, gyrating his hips to flash victory sign as if  it was his personal win..… it was collective lunacy at its worst which highlighted our despicable national psyche .
                                    
The only saving grace in Kasab’s trial  was the fairness of judicial system ,the judicial processes and procedures  that are in place even while trying the worst enemy of the state. The legal aid given to Kasab in spite of clinching evidence against him and exonerating other two accused in media loaded public trial, speaks volume of system of justice at work even in the most taxing times.
                                   
 Kasab , a pawn and no ideologue, had traded his life for money and doctrine of jehad ( holy war) and janat ( haven) . He penetrated Indian borders with his gang   with only purpose to kill ,kill ,kill……… and get killed.  Had Shaheed Tukka Ram Omble not confronted the duo , Kasab and his associate would have joined other members of their gang and too would have met the  same fate as that of other terrorists (whose name even the top anchors of TV channels don’t remember without scribbling them  on piece of paper with their aides help).
                                    
Whether Kasab hanged tomorrow …after one week… after one month …..or after a year,  it doesn’t matter,  the fact is he was here to die during 26/11 attack but miraculously destiny intervened  to give him extended life. Now let us not make this junk flicker into reckoning.  Let he not be remembered more than the valiant countrymen who lost lives thwarting nefarious designs of terror factories  and decimate infiltrators who dared to challenge us . We as nation have to resolve, as we owe an obligation to  martyrs and their families , that whenever anniversaries of such events fall without even obliquely referring to these terrorist rouges , let us cherish only the happy moments they had with their families and friends and see to it that the hardship their kin are facing in coping with impediments are smoothened .
Indian judicial system is at work …… let it work…. Let us not tell it how to work.
RAMAN

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