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POLITICS

Real players in Indian Politics?
Media reports say that fight for the Prime Ministership will only be between Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi. Infact, real players for this post are only L K Advani and Sharad Pawar. One can only wait and watch

Will Pakistan disintegrate this year ?
If foreign affairs experts are to be believed, there might be a division of Pakistan later this year.

Rahul Gandhi finalizes 100 tickets for MP Vidhan Sabha ?
AICC Vice President Rahul Gandhi is believed to have finalized 100 tickets for ensuing Vidhan Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh. Interesting part of this exercise is that party leaders have no say in the ticket distribution.

BUREAUCRACY

Names for top cop slot doing rounds in Delhi Police?
Whispers have started doing rounds as who would be given command of Delhi Police as Commissioner. He is set to retire in June this year. Among the prospective names which have started doing rounds for the slot are; Bhim Sen Bassi, Special Commissioner of Police; Bimla Mehra, DG (Prisons) and Dharmendra Kumar, Special Commissioner of Police.

Will retirement age of Bank CMDs be raised?
There is a strong rumour that the retirement age of Bank CMDs is being raised from 60 to 62 years.

Kuldeep Sharma is now Advisor in MHA
Former DG BPR&D Kuldeep Sharma has been appointed Advisor in the Ministry of Home Affairs in the Government of India. He is a retired 1976 batch IPS officer of Gujarat cadre.

Anonymous letters about Neeraj Kumar
A couple of anonymous letters about Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar have been received by the Whispersinthecorridors.com.

Goyal is new JS, IT
R K Goyal has been appointed as new Joint Secretary, Department of Information Technology in the Government of India. He is a 1990 batch IAS officer of J & K cadre.
(We said this on April 1, 2013)

Shikhar Agarwal appointed JS, Labour
Shikhar Agarwal has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Labour, Government of India. He is a 1993 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.
(We said this on February 13, 2013)

CBDT Chairman to retire in May
CBDT Chairman Poonam Kishore Saxena is retiring by May end. She is a 1975 batch IRS officer.

Juneja is JS, Defence
Poonam Juneja has been appointed Joint Secretary, Defence. She is a Central Secretariat Service (CSS) officer.

V S B Babu to join ECIL on April 5
V S B Babu GM, NPCL, will be taking over the charge as Director (Personnel), Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), Hyderabad on April 5, 2013.
(We said this on August 13, 2012)

Ms Sankar promoted as Dy CAG-cum-Chairperson, Western Region
Ms Usha Sankar has been promoted as Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General (Commercial)-cum-Chairperson, Audit Board Western Region. She is a 1979 batch IA&AS officer.

Thaosen gets extension in SPG
S L Thaosen, IG in the SPG, has been given extension upto June 30, 2013. He is a 1988 batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

ADG to be Jaipur Police Commissioner?
An ADG rank IPS officer is likely to be appointed new Police Commissioner of Jaipur.

Applications for Controller, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota invited
Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has invited applications for the post Controller, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, SHAR Sriharikota in Nellore district in Andhra Pradesh. Those willing to apply can send their applications to the DoPT at the earliest.

J&K HC Judge J P Singh to retire in April
Jammu and Kashmir High Court Judge, Jai Pal Singh is retiring on April 6, 2013.

Prashant Agrawal to move to Melbourne
DCM in Bangkok Prashant Agrawal has been moved to Indian High Commission in Melbourne.

Vinay Srivastava to be Director, Environment
Vinay Srivastava is being appointed Director Forests and Environment in the Government of India. He is a 1992 batch IRSME officer.

Sanjay Pande appointed Consultant
Sanjay Pande has been appointed Consultant for forward planning in Doordarshan News.

Nagaland CEO transferred
State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Nagaland J Alam has beentransferred. Secretary, Sentiyanger Imchen has taken additional charge as CEO Nagaland.

DoPT invites applications for National Pool of Trainers on Leadership Skills
The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has invited applications from the Civil Servants as well as faculty members of Central Training Institutions and State ATls in order to join the National pool of Trainers on Leadership Skills for public administrators created by the Department. The selected officers will undergo Capacity Building Workshops at Lal Bahadur Shashtri National Academy of Administration (LABSNAA), Mussoorie, which will equip them to deliver leadership training at LABSNAA and other training institutions. The last date for receipt of applications in DoPT is April 15, 2013.

Two IFS officers of 1987 batch empanelled as JS in GoI
Two 1987 batch Indian Forest Service (IFS) officers of Jammu and Kashmir cadre have been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. The officers include: Mohit Gera and Mrs Nilu Gera.

Jagdeesan P empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
Jagdeesan P has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. He is an Indian Telecommunication Service officer of 1982 batch.

A P Venkatewara Rao likely to join central deputation
A P Venkateswara Rao is likely to join central deputation at Inspector General level post. He is a 1989 batch IPS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Nirvikar Singh gets clean chit
Nirvikar Singh the Former Under Secretary in Cabinet Secretariat Government of India and ADC to SF Rodrigues , Governor of Punjab and Administrator of Union Territory of Chandigarh has been given a clean chit by the CBI after three years of thorough investigation in the DA Case.
(We said this on Jan 09, 2009)

IAS postings in Madhya Pradesh
R K Chaturvedi will be new Principal Secretary, Revenue. Prabhanshu Kamal has been made Principal Secretary, Animal Husbandary. Deb Raj Virdi has been given additional charge of PS GAD.

A reshuffle of IAS officers in Himachal likely by April 11
A reshuffle, though minor, of IAS officers is slated in Haryana by April 13. As the grapevine has it Principal Secretaries and Deputy Commissioners of few districts may get new assignments.

A small bureaucratic reshuffle in Haryana likely by April 13
A reshuffle, though minor, of IAS officers is slated in Haryana by April 13. As the grapevine has it Principal Secretaries and Deputy Commissioners of few districts may get new assignments.

DC, Faridabad likely under ambit of reshuffle?
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that Balraj Singh, Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Faridabad may be transferred and posted to some neighboring district in a bureaucratic reshuffle which is, reportedly, slated around April 13. Balraj is a 2003 batch IAS officer.

Balraj Singh, DC, Faridabad poised for DC, Mewat
As the grapevine has it Balraj Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Faridabad may be transferred to the neighbouring district of Mewat in a reshuffle of IAS officers slated around April 13 in Haryana.

Solanki may replace Balraj as DC, Faridabad?
As the grapevine has it N K Solanki may replace Balraj Singh as new Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Faridabad in a bureaucratic reshuffle which may take place sometime around April 12. Solanki, a 2005 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre, is Administrator, HUDA (Faridabad).

ACS, Himachal superannuates in mid April
Prem Kumar, Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of Himachal is scheduled to superannuate on April 15, 2013. Kumar is heading the departments of Home, Vigilance, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs as Additional Chief Secretary. He is a 1980 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.

Will S Baldi be relieved from Finance & Planning?
Whispers in the power corridors of Himachal speculate that Shrikant Baldi may be given another assignment in a reshuffle which is poised to take place around April 11. Baldi, a 1985 batch IAS officer of Himachal cadre, is Principal Secretary; Finance, Planning, Economic & Statistics, Twenty Point Programme, Excise & Taxation's charge.

Patna HC gets three Judges
Three Justices namely Vijayendra Nath, Shivaji pandey and Ashwani Kumar Singh, Additional Judges of High Court of Judicature at Patna, have been appointed as Judges of the same court.

Justice Ujjal Bhuyan appointed as Judge of Gauhati HC
Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, Additional Judge of Gauhati High Court, has been appointed as Judge of the same court.

Justice Pritinker Diwakar appointed as Additonal Judge, Chhattisgarh HC
Justice Pritinker Diwakar has been appointed as an Additional Judge of High Court of Chhattisgarh for a period of two years.

79 IRS-IT officers made Expenditure Observers for Karnataka Assembly polls
As many as 79 officers of Indian Revenue Service-Income Tax (IRS-IT) have been appointed as Expenditure Observers for the General Elections to the Legislative Assembly of Karnataka. The officers include: Nareen Kumar Neb, V P Asghar Zain, Vilas V Shinde, K C Kanojiya, K Srinivas Reddy, James Kurian, R Jeyakumar, Anthres Tigge, Satish H Solanki, Nicholas; Awijit Rakshit, Abhay Kumar Singh, Rajnish Yadav, M Jayaram, Shashi Saklani, Anurag Sharma, Samir Tekriwal, Rajiv Ranke, Anand Kumar Kedia, Banwari Lal, Vivek Anand Ojha, Rajesh K Dhanesia, Sumit Kumar, Love Kumar, Shantam Bose, P Oram, Jagdish, Hari Prasad Meena, Y P B Singh, S K Mitra, B K Singh, Arun Kumar Yadav, Anil Kumar Dhir, Sanjay Kumar Chauhan, M N Murthy Naik, R N Siddappaji, T N Prakash, S R Karuppusamy, A Sasikumar, V Vidhyadhar, V Jenardhanan, V Justin, D Kumutha, C Sivakumar, T Ramalingam, R V Aroon Prasad, S Anbuselvam, Varuvoor U Sreedhar, Shailendra Sharma, Ravinder Sindhu, Pankaj Kumar, Anil Dhaka, G Hukugha Sema, vedanshu Tripathi, Shishir Jha, Stephen George, S N A Najmi, Sandeep Garg, Tarun Seem, Sanjay Joseph, Bipin C N, O N Mao, N G Joseph Gangte, Suresh B, Hareshwar Sharma, P K Mishra, Ajit B Korde, Y K Bhaskar, Prashant Gadekar, M R Panigrahy, S K Sahu, Anadee Nath Mishra, Md Ghayasuddin, Amit Bobde, Hiremeth Basavraj, Waseen Rehman, Gautam Mandaol, Rajesh Meena and Yogesh V Kamal.

HOCL CMD, Madangeri to retire this month
R N Madangeri, Chairman and Managing Director, Hindustan Organic Chemicals Limited (HOCL), is due to retire on April 30, 2013.

Dr Dahiya posted as Secretary-cum- Controller, Examinations SSC, Delhi
Dr Krishna Kumar Dahiya, Scientist (D), Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), has been appointed as Secretary-cum-Controller of Examinations, Staff Selection Commission (SSC) (Headquarters), New Delhi.

Four IFS officers promoted in Karnataka (UPDATED)
As many as four officers of Indian Forest Service (IFS) including three of 1999 batch and one of 2000 batch have been promoted to Super Time Scale and Selection Grade in Karnataka. Accordingly, K H Vinaykumar has been promoted to (Super Time Scale) Conservator of Forests & Director, EMPRI (Research), Bangalore while Vijaykumar is promoted (Super Time Scale) and posted as Conservator of Forests (Working Plan), Chickmagalur and P B Karunakar was promoted (Super Time Scale) and posted as Conservator of Forests (Working Plan), Dharwad. Besides, B B Mallesha (2000) has been promoted to officiate in the Selection Grade and posted as Director, Anshi Dandeli Tiger Reserve, Dandeli.

O P Chaudhary is new DPR Chhattisgarh (UPDATED)
O P Chaudhary has been appointed new Director Public Relations in Chhattisgarh. He is 2005 batch IAS officer.

Major reshuffle of IAS officers in Chhattisgarh (UPDATED)
A number of officers of Indian Admnistrative Service (IAS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Chhattisgarh. Accordingly, K D P Rao (IAS 1988) has been temporarily given the additional charges of the post of Director, Culture and Archaeology Department while H P Kindo (IAS 1997), was relieved of the charge of Director, Treasury and Accounts, post and Manohar Singh Paraste (IAS 2000), is being posted as the Collector of Kabeerdham district; Hemant Kumar Pahare (IAS 2002) as Collector, Gariaband District; Dilip Kumar Vasnekar (IAS 2002) Collector, Gariaband district has been temporarily given the charge of Director, Women and Child Development Department. Similarly, Amit Kataria (IAS 2004) as new CEO of Naya Raipur Development Authority (NRDA); Mukesh Kumar (IAS 2005) as Collector, Raigarh district; Mrs Shruti Singh (IAS 2006) as Managing Director, Chhattisgarh Antyavsayi Vitta and Vikas Nigam and Director, Tribal Affairs Research and Training Institute; Bhuvanesh Yadav (IAS 2006) as Deputy Secretary, General Administration Department; Mrs Shammi Abidi (IAS 2007) as Director, Panchayat; K C Devasenapati (IAS 2007) as Collector Dantewada district; Basvaraju (IAS 2007) as Collector, Bemetara district; Yashwant Kumar (IAS 2007) as Collector, Narayanpur district; Rabi Prakash Gupta, (IAS 2007) as Additional Collector, Korba district; Rajesh Singh Rana (IAS 2008) as CEO, Jila Panchayat Raigarh; Shikha Rajput Tiwari (IAS 2008) as Deputy Secretary, General Administration Department; Saurabh Kumar (IAS 2009) as CEO, Jila Panchayat Mahasamund; Tamboli Ayyaz Fakirbhai (IAS 2009) has been posted as CEO, Jila Panchayat Durg. On other hand, Vijay Kumar Dhurve (IAS) has also been posted as Collector, Kondagaon district; Narendra Kumar Shukla (IAS) as CEO, Jila Panchayat Raipur; Umesh Kumar Agrawal (IAS) has been relieved of the charge of Director, Women and Child Development, and has been entrusted with the additional charge of Director, Treasury and Accounts.

Rajender Singh is DPR, Himachal Pradesh (UPDATED)
Rajender Singh has been appointed as Director, Information & Public Relations, Shimla in Himachal Pradesh. He is a 2000 batch IAS officer.

Ms Nandita Gupta is also Director, SC, OBC, Minority Welfare in HP (UPDATED)
Ms Nandita Gupta has been assigned an additional charge of Director, Scheduled Caste, Other Backward Classes and Minority Affairs, Shimla in Himachal Pradesh. She is a 2001 batch IAS officer.

Anshuman Kumar shifted to Railway Board as Director Vigilance, Traffic (UPDATED)
Anshuman Kumar, SG/IRTS/Northern Railway, has been transferred to Railway Board and posted as Director Vigilance (Traffic), Railway Board.

Ms Manjari Kackar is now Director LIC (UPDATED)
Former Member of the CBDT Ms Manjari Kackar has been appointed Independent Director of the LIC. She is retired 1974 batch IRS officer.

PM to clear Rly GMs file (UPDATED)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to clear te appointment file of two Railway General Managers Devi Pande and Pramod Kumar in a day or two.

Two IFS officers shifted in Chhattisgarh (UPDATED)
V Anand Babu (1992), Forest Conservator, Chief Principal Conservator of Forest (produce), has been posted as Special Secretary with Energy Department while Yunus Ali ( 1988), will now be Principal Secretary, Chief Forest Conservator Office.

U K Sangma assumes charge as Secretary, DoNER (UPDATED)
Uttam Kumar Sangma has taken over as Secretary, Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) in Government of India. He is a 1978 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre.
(We said this on March 8, 2013)

Results of Central Armed Police Forces Exam- 2012 declared (UPDATED)
The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has announced the results of the written part of the CAPF (ACs) Examination, 2012 held by UPSC on November 11, 2012.

CORPORATE

Dr A K Balyan elected Member, SCOPE
Besides the Chairman and the Vice Chairman, as many as 19 candidates have been elected as the Board Members of Standing Conference of Public Enterprise (SCOPE). Among them are Dr A K Balyan, MD & CEO, Petronet LNG Ltd. Balyan who joined the Company as Managing Director & CEO w.e.f. July 16, 2010, holds Degree in M. Tech. from IIT, Delhi and also Ph.D. from Germany. Prior to joining Petronet LNG Ltd., he was Director (HR) of Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (ONGC) and also had additional charge as Director, In-charge Business Development and Joint Ventures, ONGC. Dr. Balyan took over as Chief-Human Resources Development of ONGC in 2002 and appointed to the Board of Directors of ONGC as Director HR in 2003. As Director (HR), he led Corporate Rejuvenation Campaign, Pioneered a study to redefine the organization norms-focusing on Roster, Roles and Responsibilities to be benchmarked with global best practices.

ITI signs MoU with Govt of India
ITI has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government for the year 2013-14. R Chandrashekar, Secretary, DoT and Chairman, Telecom Commission and K L Dhingra, CMD, ITI Ltd. signed the MoU recently in New Delhi. The thrust areas of the MoU include pursuing growth opportunities in telecom sector and exploiting diversified business such as renewable energy. The MoU envisages that ITI concentrate on revival plans with due approval of the Government agencies.

Rear Admiral K C Sekhar is part time non-official Director, BEL
Rear Admiral (Retd) K C Sekhar, Ex-CMD G RSE Ltd, has been appointed as part time non-official Director of Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) for a period of three years.

Gupta s new Director in DMRC
Anoop Kumar Gupta has taken over as Director in Delhi Metro Rail Nigam (DMRC).

Umashankar appointed Govt. Director, MTNL
V Umashankar, Joint Secretary, (Telecom) Department of Telecom, Government of India has been appointed as Government Director on the Board of Directors of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL).

Saxena ceases to be Govt Director, MTNL
Rajan Saxena has ceased to be the Government Director on the Board of Directors of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL)

Sriraman resigns as Company Secy., SPIC
V Sriraman has resigned as Company Secretary of Southern Petrochemials Industries Corporation Ltd (SPIC).

Ganesh appointed Company Secy., SPIC
M B Ganesh has been appointed as Company Secretary of Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd (SPIC).

Mahajan ceases to be Director (Technical) EIL
P Mahajan has ceased to be Director (Technical), of Engineers India Ltd.

Deshpande appointed Director (Technical), EIL
Ajay Narayan Deshpande, In-charge Executive Director (Technical), Engineers India Limited (EIL) has been appointed as Director (Technical).

Gaikwad gets five year extension as MD, Hindustan Fluorocarbons Ltd
Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, New Delhi has extended the tenure of T S Gaikwad, Managing Director of Hindustan Fluorocarbons Ltd for another five years

Valia appointed Addl. Director, Fortune Financial Services Ltd
Fortune Financial Services India Ltd has appointed Chintan Valia as an Additional Director of the company.

Kathuria appointed Addl. Director, Frontier Leasing & Finance Ltd
Frontier Leasing & Finance Ltd has appointed Rajesh Kathuria as Additional Director of the company.

Two Independent Directors appointed on Board of Esha Media Research Ltd
Esha Media Research Ltd has appointed Masanam Chelliah and Shishir Joshi as Independent Directors of the company.

Patel resigns as Non Exec Director, Amar Remedies Ltd
Ms Preeti A Patel has resigned as Non Executive Director of Amar Remedies Ltd .

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Reliable Informations

Informations given are found to be reliable. Can I get feedback from the viewers as to why Bureau of Indian Standards is under Ministry of Consumer Affairs and not under Ministry of Science & Technology. The Scientists are equated with the officials who dealt with mainly distribution of Food.

Sujan Behari Roy

Don't allow reservation benefit to fourth generation

If three generations of reserved category people have taken benefit of reservations/promotions in government services, then the fourth generation should not be allowed the benefit. We should identify other category of reserved category people, who have so far not taken the benefit of reservations and consider their cases. Secondly, there should be no substitute to hard work, labor, sincerity and honesty in the matter of both education and service. Why don't you people work hard and get jobs solely on the basis of merit?

Sonu

Why Not Mr/Madam Governor Only?

We seem to be good at just changing names, not imparting grandeur to new names or existing names. So Connaught Place is now Rajiv Chowk/Indira Chowk, Bombay is Mumbai and Bangalore has lost its idiomatic connotation of Bangalored/Bangaloring etc and is now Bangaluru. But changing forms of address is a very serious matter. Like it or not, we refuse to give due respect to the chair as we are not used to any administrative hierarchy other than bequeathed to us by the British. We are not trained to use appropriate forms of address and acknowledge the position of the person. The media revels in contemptuously calling public servants as Babus/Babudom and highly knowledgeable Members of Parliament/Ministers as mere Netas. It is sometimes really offending when the Prime Minister is reduced to mere Manmohan Singh or Atal Behari Vajpayee. This seems to be reason why in school we are taught to write an application to the Head Master/Principal observing proper form. Here we are trapped in an inane controversy whether to use the term His Excellency or Honourable or anything else (Mahodaya, sounds a potential language threat in the fragile politics of the election-centric democracy of the Republic of India). But Excellency is a term in currency globally. That is how Heads of State are addressed in formal discussions. We will hardly be more humble by substituting it for another term, excepting massaging our own little egos. Besides, who said the Governors are always "Honourable"? They are not. Many of them play party games to regain their ministerial positions back so that they get another opportunity to indulge freely in their Raja/Rani games. We can only petition the President to kindly reconsider his decision of changing these terms and impart dignity to the protocol by directing his Governors to win the trust and respect of the people. If a change is considered the sine qua non of democratic India, let it be simply Mr/Madam Governor and no more Honourable etc.

M L Gupta

Orders For Member Engineering (Railway Board ) ?

What is the use of appointing lower cadre when there is turmoil in the higher up appointments? Will the minister commit the same blunder as Mamata of overlooking the right deserving candidate who is honest, upright , diligent and has put in tremendous efforts in writing the Railway Manual ?

Kunal