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Case Study of MP CM Shivraj Singh?
Those who know Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shiv Raj Singh from his early days are unwilling to believe his political astuteness and vision. Now a study is going on as to who is behind his success -political friends or bureaucrats ?.

Who in Delhi Government is worried about losing against Kejriwal ?
With the anti incumbency mounting against Sheila Dixit, BJP leader Vijay Goel is working overtime to convince the polity and the people that he needs a chance and not Arvind Kejriwal who will test his merit in the Delhi elections next year.

Who all attended Dr Raman Singh's roadshow in Mumbai?
Besides the top business brass which had names like Goenka, Mittals, Birlas, film star Ajay Devgun showed interest in setting up a solar power plant in Chhatisgarh. The CM explained that the state was looking for investments in areas such as food processing, IT ,non conventional energy etc .And that Naxalism is an issue that is limited to certain areas in Dantewada and investors are free to come and explore the area themselves.

BUREAUCRACY

62 IAS officers of 1993 batch empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
As many as 62 officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) belonging to 1993 batch and cadres have been empanelled as Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. The officers include: Ravi Kota and Kailash Chand Samaria of Assam-Meghalaya cadre; Anil Kumar Singhal, M T Krishna Babu, Gopal Krishan Dwivedi, B Kishore, C Parthasarthi, Y V Anuradha and K Damayanthi of Andhra Pradesh cadre; Sandeep Poundrik, Uday Singh Kumawat and Mihir Kumar Singh of Bihar cadre; Amit Agrawal of Chhattisgarh cadre; Kamlesh Kumar Pant of Himachal Pradesh; Deepti Umashankar, Sukriti Lihki, V Umashankar and Neeraj of Haryana cadre; Dheeraj Gupta and Asgar Hassan Samoon of Jammu and Kashmir; Usha Titus and K Ravindran Jyothilal of Kerala cadre; Tusha giri Nath of Karnataka cadre; Sanjvee Kumar, Manisha Verma, Lokesh Chandra, Abha Shukla, S S Zende and Mahesh R Zagade of Maharashtra cadre; Sanjay Dubey, Dipti Gaur, Manohar Agnani, Neeraj Mandloi, S B Singh and R K Srivastava of Madhya Pradesh cadre; Prashant Kumar Singh, vivek Kumar Dewangan and Nagaraju Maddirala of Manipur-Tripura cadre; Amardeep Singh Bhatia of Nagaland cadre; Deoranjan Kumar Singh, Nikunja Bihari Dhal, A K Kaluaram Meena and Surendra Kumar of Orissa cadre; Rakesh Kumar Verma and Ramesh Kumar Ganta of Punjab cadre; Tanmay Kumar, Shikhar Agarwal and Akhil Arora of Rajasthan cadre; Gagandeep Singh Bedi, Sunil Paliwal and S Vijay Kumar of Tamil Nadu cadre; Rajiv Aggarwal, Alok Kumar-II, Veena Kumari Meena, Chandra Bhanu of Uttar Pradesh cadre; Prashant Goyal, VikramDev Dutta, Khilli Ram Meena and Punya Salila Srivastava of Union Terrrotories cadre and Roshni Sen, Prabhat Kumar Mishra and Dushyant Nariala of West Bengal cadre.

Is one Candidate for CBI Chief has backing of two political parties ?
If the corridors of Raisina Hills are to be believed both BJP and Congress leaders are lobbying hard for one candidate for the prestigious post of CBI Director.

Cyriac is new Chief Secretary of Kerala
K Jose Cyriac , Secretary Chemicals and Petro-Chemicals in the Government of India has been appointed new Chief Secretary of Kerala. A1977 batch IAS officer Cyriac will succeed K Jaya Kumar who is retiring on October 31.

(We said this on September 25, 2012 )

K M Acharya is new Member, PESB
K M Acharya has taken over as new Member of the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB). He is a 1974 retired IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.
( We said this on September 26, 2012 )

Rakesh Behari empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Rakesh Behari, Principal Secretary to Delhi Lieutenant Governor, has reportedly been empanelled to the rank of Secretary in the Government of India with effect from retroactive year July, 2010 as per directives of CAT. He is a 1977 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Deputation tenure of Ms Chopra extended
The central deputation tenure of Ms. Ranjana Chopra, Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie, has been extended upto 2014. She is a 1994 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre.

IAS officer seeks VRS to contest election in Gujarat
R M Patel has reportedly sought VRS to contest Vidhan Sabha election in Gujarat . He is a 1997 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.

B K Mishra appointed in DDA
Brijesh Kumar Mishra has been appointed as Commissioner of Land Management, Delhi Development Authority. He is a 1993 batch IRS (Civil Engineer) officer.

Avinash Chandra to move Lucknow ?
Avinash Chandra, IG, Frontier Headquarters, Sashastra Seema Bal, Ranidanga, Siliguri is likely to be transferred as Inspector General (IG) of Lucknow Frontier Headquarters, SSB. He is a 1990 batch IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Anil Agrawal returns to parent UP cadre
Anil Agrawal Inspector General (IG) of Lucknow Frontier Headquarters, Sashastra Seema Bal(SSB ) is back to the parent cadre- UP after completion of deputation tenure. He is a 1998 batch IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Four new M P High Court Judges soon
Four newMadhya Pradesh High Court Judges from Judicial Service are expected to be appointed soon. They are Mssrs Subhash Kakde, B D Rath, H K Mudgal and D K Paliwal. Names have reportedly been recommended.

Eight IRS officers get postings
As many as eight officers of Indian Revenue Service-Income Tax (IRS-IT) working in the grade of Additional/Joint/Deputy Commissioners, who were on compulsory wait, have been given postings. Accordingly, D A J Sawkmie, Vanita Rattan Sharma, Shrawan Kumar Gotru, Rashmita Jha and P V Gupta have been posted to CCA-Delhi while Anurag Goyal is being appointed to Directorate of Vigilance under DIT (Vig.), North Zone Delhi and Monika Dhami is posted to DGIT (HRD), Delhi. Besides, R R Agarwal has been posted to CCA-UP (West), Kanpur.

What is going on in Railway Ministry
Senior officers in Ministry of Railways are upset over transfers and postings during last few months of TMC Minister Mukul Roy. In SAG/ HAG, some juniors have been posted in important places by keeping conventions and seniority on back burner. There seems to be no fair formula for determining suitability. The panel of GMs postings is still floating ! Why ?.

Sanjay Saxena applies for ED
Sanjay Saxena, Joint Commissioner of Nagpur Police, has reportedly applied for the post of Joint Director-Enforcement, Directorate .He is a 1993 batch IPS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

IAS officer returns to Assam-Meghalaya cadre
Khade Nitin Kumar Shivdas C E O, Zila Parishad, Maharashtra has been prematurely repatriated from Maharashtra to parent cadre: Assam Meghalaya. He is a 2004 batch IAS officer.

Jagganathan gets one year extension
S Jagganathan, Assistant Director, Anti Corruption, Sub Directorate, Interpol ,France has been given an extension in central deputation tenure for one year. He is a 1999 batch IPS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

Vibhudatt Basantia moves to Afghanistan
Vibhu Datt Basantia joins UNDP project in Kabul. He takes charge as advisor to the National Institution Building Project for UNDP. He is a 1996 batch Indian Audit & Accounts Services officer.
( We said this on August 9, 2012 )

Could anybody guess the single state-guest-house of its kind in Delhi?
An interesting fact - One can find it interesting if one comes to know as which State's state-guest-house in Delhi has ISO-9001 certification? One could guess it on his own or could wait for the right answer. We would publish the name of any of five readers on our website who would send us the right answer to
whispersinthecorridors.com@gmail.com .

West Bengal PSC Chairman resigns ?
Chairman of the West Bengal Public Service Commission Dr Sabyasachi Sen is reported to have resigned. He is a former 1977 batch IAS officer.

Nurul Haque declines for WBPSC Chairman ?
S K Nurul Haque is believed to have declined the offer of the Chairman, West Bengal Public Service Commission. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer.

Lt Gen Pama moves to Delhi
Lt Gen BS Pama has moved to New Delhi as the Deputy C-in-C in the Strategic Forces Command Headquarters.

62 IRS (Customs) officers promoted to Deputy Commissioners
As many as 62 officers of Indian Revenue Service (IRS-Customs) have been promoted to the grade of Deputy Commissioners. The officers include: D S Kantharaj, Abhishek Chandra Gupta, Agarawal Abhivan Abhay, Ajeet Kumar, Alok Singh, Alok Srivastava, Amandeep Singh, Amaresh Kumar, Amit Gupta, Anubha Sinha, Anurag Sehgal, Aruna Papneja, Ayaz Ahmed Kohli, Bharathi Dhasan AVT, Devjyoti Chakravarty, Dhirendra Mani Tripathi, Dinesh Kumar Meena, Dr Amit Kumar Singal, Dr Ashwini Kumarm, Ms Neha Garg, G Arun Richard Elisa, J Mohammed Navfal, Jaindendra Singh Kandhari, Jaronbe Vishal Dashrath, Jyoti Kumar Bubana, K Shivalingappa, Kaleshanket Subhash, Kiran Kumar, Kundan Yadav, M Arun Kanth, Manasa Gangotri Kata, Manish Kumar Jaiswal, Manvatkar Vijay Janrao, Mohammed Irfan Aziz, Ms Ritu Raj Gupta, Mukesh Kumar Pal, Naveen A S, Patial Parijat Vilas (Sahil Inamdar), Peeyoush Bhati, Periasamy M, Pradip Gurumurthy, Rahul R, Rajan Lachala, Sanjay Singhal, Santosh Kumar Mishra, Satyadeep Mahapatra, Shambhu Nath Nathan, Shardha Joshi, Shweta Bector, Steephen L, Sujit Mallick, Suresh Chand Mukheria, Sushil Chandra, T Arivazhagan, Temsunaro Jamir, Vaishali Malhotra, Vijay Bahadur Verma, Vijayarani S, Vishnu Kumar, Vivek and Vivek Kumar Jain.

IAS officer put on compulsory wait in Goa
The Goa Government has put T M Balakrishnan on compulsory wait until further orders. He is a 1996 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Mittal gets additional charge of CPR in UP
Divisional Commissioner Lucknow Sanjeev Kumar Mittal has been given additional charge of Commissioner Public Relations. He is a 1987 batch IAS officer.

Retired IAS officer Verma is no more
Retired 1965 batch IAS officer of Orissa cadre K B Verma has passed away.

Jain appointed Addl. Director, Maan Aluminium Ltd
Maan Aluminium Limited has appointed Ms. Priti Jain as Additional Director of the company

Sarathi appointed Company Secy. Hindustan Orr-Oilver Ltd
Hindustan Dorr-Oliver Limited has appointed A S Pradha Sarathi as the Company Secretary of the company.

16 officers posted as ADRMs in Railways (UPDATED)
As many as 16 officers have been posted as ADRMs in various zones of Railways. Accordingly, A B Mendhekar has been posted as ADRM Pune Central Railway while B R Viplavi is ADRM, Mughal Sarai, Eastern Central Railway and R K Rai was made ADRM, Delhi, Northern Railway. Similarly, Somesh Kumar Srivastava has been posted as ADRM, NE Railway; N Dileshwar Rao as ADRM, RNY, NF Railway; P B Ninawe as ADRM, NED, SC Railway; B Singaiah as ADRM, SC Railway; P V V Satyanarayan as ADRM, GTL, SC Railway; Ramashish Yadav as ADRM, RNC, SE Railway; Parmeshwar Funkwal as ADRM, ADI, Western Railway; V Chandrasekhar Rao as ADRM, GNT, SC Railway; A K Verma as ADRM, JHS, North Central Railway; M Ravi BAbu as ADRM, GNT, SC Railway; A K Gupta as ADRM, BVP, Western Railway; Amit Gupta as ADRM, BVP, Western Railway and Sunil Kumar has been posted as ADRM in Central Railway.

Major reshuffle of IPS officers in Punjab (UPDATED)
A number of officers of Indian Police Service (IPS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Punjab. Accordingly, Arpit Shukla has been posted as IG Headquarters while Paramraj Singh Umranangal will now be DIG Border Range and Tulsi Ram was made as SSP Batala. Similarly, Gurpreet Singh Toor has been posted as SSP Faridkot; Mandeep Singh as SSP Barnala; Rav Charan Singh Brar is shifted to Bathinda; Sukhchain Singh Gill from Bathinda to Hoshiarpur; Inder Mohan Singh from Muktsar to Khanna; Surjit Singh from Barnala to Muktsar; R P Singh posted as MD, Punjab Police Housing Corporation (PPHC); S S Chauhan as IG Traffic; Kuldip Singh as IG Modernisation; A S Rai as IG Provisioning; Shashi Prabha Dwivedi as IG Crime, R P S Brar as IG Community Policing; L K Yadav as DIG CM Security; Arun Pal Singh as DIG Administration; S Bhupathi as DCP Ludhiana; Harjinder Singh as Commandant 3rd IRB Ludhiana; Sukhwant Gill as Commandment 3rd Commando Battalion Mohali; Rakesh Kaushal shifted to AIG Intelligence; Naveen Saini moved to AIG,PPCR; Manminder Singh to Commandment 75 Battalion, PAP Jalandhar; Sushil Kumar to 2nd Commando Battalion, Bahadurgarh and Suresh Kumar Sharma has been posted as ADCP-IV Ludhiana.

G Srinivasan appointed CMD, New India Assurance Co (UPDATED)
G Srinivasan has been appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of New India Assurance Company Limited.


Milind Kharat posted CMD, United India Insurance (UPDATED)
Milind Kharat has been appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of United India Insurance Co.


P J Joseph appointed CMD, Agri. Insurance Co Ltd (UPDATED)
P J Joseph has been appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of Agriculture Insurance Co Ltd.

HAL signs MTA follow on contract with Russian Partners (UPDATED)
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), the aerospace major, signed the Preliminary Design Phase (PDP) Contract with the United Aircraft Corporation - Transport Aircraft (UAC-TA), the Russian partner and their JV-Multirole Transport Aircraft Ltd (MTAL) for the Multirole Transport Aircraft (MTA) project as a follow on contract of the General Contract signed between the three parties in May 2012. "With this HAL and UAC-TA will start the preliminary design work immediately at Moscow. HAL design team consisting of 30 designers will be positioned at UAC-TA", says R K Tyagi, Chairman, HAL who was present on the occasion. The primary objective of the project is to achieve self-reliance in design, development and production of aircraft of this size and also to manage the programme with international collaboration and large number of global suppliers, he adds. The contract was signed by T Suvarnaraju, Director HAL (Design and Development) and SVelmozhkin, General Director, UAC-TA. An Inter Governmental Agreement was signed on November 12, 2007 to design, develop and produce the multi-role transport aircraft in the 15-20 tonne class, jointly by the Indian and Russian agencies (HAL and UAC-TAS) to meet the requirements of 100 aircraft for the Russian Air Force, 45 aircraft for the IAF and 60 for other countries. The total requirement for the present is 205. On completion of the agreed work share of the PDP Contract in 10 months, Detail Design Phase (DDP) Contract will be signed to complete the design and development of MTA. The aircraft will be designed for cargo / troop transportation, paradrop/air drop of supplies including 'low altitude parachute extraction system' and is to be co-developed by HAL, UAC, and Rosoboronexport of Russia, through MTAL.

Orders of Gautam Chatterjee issued (UPDATED)
The orders of Gautam Chatterjee for the appointment of Director General (Shipping) under the Ministry of Shipping in the rank of Additional Secretary have been issued. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.
(We said this on August 28, 2012)

Three IAS officers get postings in MP (UPDATED)
Three officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been given fresh postings in Madhya Pradesh. Accordingly, Mrs Chhavi Bhardwaj (2008), on return from leave, has been posted as Commissioner, Singrauli Municipal Corporation while Dhanraju S (2009) will now be CEO, Jhabua Zila Panchayat and Ms Priyanka (2009) is appointed as CEO of Seoni Zila Panchayat.

Six IAS officers transferred in Haryana (UPDATED)
As many as six officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Haryana. Accordingly, Ashok Khemka (1991) has been posted as MD, Haryana Seeds Development Corporation while Anil Malik (1991) was assigned an additional charge of DG, Sports and Youth Affairs, Haryana and Arun Kumar Gupta (1992) is DG, Secondary Education, Haryana and Special Secretary of the same. Similarly, Subhash Chandra has been posted as Secretary, State Human Rights Commission, Haryana; Brijendra Singh as MD, Haryana Warehousing Corporation and Vikas Yadav has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Revenue & Disaster Management and Health Departments as well as Director, Consolidation of Holdings, Director, Land Records, Haryana, Special Collector (HQ) and Special LAO, Haryana.

Orders of R N Sinha as ED (Mkt), Cement Corp. of India issued (UPDATED)
Orders of Ramendra Nath Sinha for the appointment to the post of Executive Director (Marketing), Cement Corporation of India Limited have been issued.

DEBATE
Is FDI in retail in the interests of economic independence of India? Mail your views to Mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com or Suresh.mehrotra@yahoo. com.

CORPORATE

Shankar G. is CFO, Jet Airways (India) Ltd
Jet Airways (India) Ltd has appointed Ravi Shankar G as Chief Financial Officer .

Panda quits UV Board Ltd
P K Panda has resigned as Director of UV Board Ltd.

Sarkar appointed Director, Oudh Sugar Mills Ltd
Pradeep Kumar Sarkar has been appointed as Director on the Board of Director of Oudh Sugar Mills Ltd.

Rao quits GSS Infotech Ltd
Artham Someswara Rao has resigned as Company Secretary of GSS Infotech Ltd.

Bhaskar appointed Company Secy., GSS Infotech Ltd
GSS Infotech Ltd has appointed R S Kalyan Bhaskar as Company Secretary.

Katkar appointed Independent Director, Konkan Tyres Ltd
Konkan Tyres Ltd has appointed Manoj Katkar as an Additional Independent Non Executive Director of the company.

Tiwari quits Konkan Tyres Ltd
Rajesh Tiwari has resigned as Director of Konkan Tyres Ltd.

Razdan appointed GM, ITC Windsor
ITC Windsor, Bengaluru has appointed Virender Razdan as General Manager of the property.

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DEBATE

FDI is befitted Policy of Government
FDI is befitted Policy of Government, especially, prospective decision of the Cabinet as a whole and PM in particular. People and Political parties must come out very sincerely to voice for in favour of FDI in India at this phase Indian Polity and progress. Had it been back in 1991, India would have been much far in prosperity than China. Opposing IBM and Coca Cola 40 years back, they got their establishments in China and hence China has gone 20 years ahead of India. Atleast this time, all parties must back Govt. and let the FDI play its role of prosperity in Indian people and bring the country on the top of globe. When mobiles were launched in India, the action was opposed also, but now it is a life's instrument which make our relatives and friends very closed to each one. I am a strong supporter of FDI.

H.S. Bhalla

Policy and decision making paralysed

Kanakasabapathy , policy and decision making has been paralysed every where in the country especially after the recent spate of scams. The rules/regulations are meant for babus but these days decision makers are trying to carve themselves around rules/regulations. No body wants to take responsibility, even if it meant good for the general public and within their statutory powers. Every body is afraid that his one word or a sentence on a file today can be read negatively at a later date by the investigative agency. The best part of it is that the members of the Government constituted Committees are also afraid
these days in the background of the Coalgate scam.

A Srivastava

Why is it so ?

Is it because today's senior officers are like vipers and the political masters are masters in squeezing them (potential GMs) for maximum loot?

A Bhagra

Corruption and Whistleblowers

The statement of PM in the gathering of Police Officers from CBI and State-level Anti-corruption Bureaus on Wednesday that the Government is examining the prevention of corruption act to protect honest public servants more effectively; and we need to ensure that even while the corrupt are relentlessly pursued and brought to book, the innocent are not harassed, is made with honesty and determination of a honest and steadfast Bureaucrat turned Politician, in actual the bureaucrats in Government and his team of politicians behave differently. In the MOSPI action has been taken against an honest whistleblower.

Surendramohan

Sad state of Affairs ?

Here, you write about files regarding promotions and transfers of GM and HAG level in Railway Ministry. Certainly, this took time in Chairman or Minister's Office. These are senior level promotions/transfers But you see, in some Ministries and Departments, transfer of LDC, UDC, PA/PS, or even Peon/MTS (outsource persons) are transferred by Joint Secretary or by Secretary. I would say that these are petty matters in GOI. These should be done at the level of Under Secretary or Deputy Secretary. JS and above level officers are here in GoI for taking Policy decisions or making GOI Policies. Is it not true?

P Dharma

IT notice to Vadhra

I am a part of IRS .It is a fact that the IRS knew about the Vadhra matter. But no IRS officer can dare to act against a political heavyweight for the fear of getting shunted to say Nagaland (farthest corner of the country)etc.. Such is the freedom enjoyed by our investigating agency.

Suresh Babu