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No hike in retirement age
Millions of Central Government employees were looking for the announcement of hike in the retirement age. There was widespread speculation of raise in retirement age of central government employees from 60 to 62 in the Prime Minister's Independence Day speech but no such matter was announced.

Billionaire running away with billion dreams of peoples
Swindle of Rs. 5500 cr of Public money and perpetrators are going free. Neither action by state nor central machinery. Billionaire are running away with billion dreams of people. Frauds even can run national stock exchange with connivance of retired bureaucrats and IRS who act in ministry of consumer affairs, forward commission, ministry of finance, SEBI and legal officers are under lens. Initially many were denied license to run a stock exchange by SEBI for not being fit and proper. After high court judgments and no-appeal in supreme court many were given license even without specifying how they become fit and proper.

AAP to celebrate Firoz Gandhi birthday!
Aam Admi Party is reportedly going to celebrate Firoz Gandhi's birthday on September 8 to mark it as anti corruption day.

Is it really Manmohan Singh vs Manmohan Singh?
A report published recently in a leading English magazine has again made the state of Haryana a matter of buzz among the mandarins in the post Durga Shakti scenario. Many officers are taking keen interest in reading the piece which claims that the department under Manmohan Singh himself has been ignoring the series of reminders for years. Has anybody any clue?

BUREAUCRACY

1980 batch IAS officers in consideration zone for empanelment in GoI
Over three dozen IAS officers belonging to 1980 batch are believed to be in consideration zone for empanelment to the rank of Secretary in the Government of India. They are: Naini Jayaseelan and S K Srivastava (UT) Satyanarayan Mohanty (AP) K D Tripathi (Assam) N K Sinha (Bihar) Ms Vijay Laxmi Joshi (Gujarat)Ashok Lavasa (Haryana)Ashok Kumar Angurana (J & K )Smita Chugh and Vinod Agrawal (Jharlhand)Dr Anup K Pujari,V P Baligar and Dr Upendra Tripathy (Karnataka) Amitabh Kant and Jiji Thompson (Kerala)Anthony J C DeSa ,P D Meena and Swarnmala Rawla (Madhya Pradesh)Dr S K Panda and Pravin Srivastava (Manipur-Tripura) Dr S B Agnihotri and Ms Anita Agnihotri (Odisha) Dr Shyam Agrawal ,Sunil Arora and G S Sandhu (Rajasthan ) Swadheen Kshtriya (Maharashtra) Shaktikanta Das and Surjit Kumar Chaudhary (TamilNadu) Shailesh Krishna Shankar Agrawal, Aradhana Johri,Rajeev Kher and Rakesh Garg (UP) N Ravishankar (Uttarakhand ) and Nandita Chatterjee (West Bengal ) and Himmat Singh (Punjab).

Justice Chandrachud to be CJ of MP HC
Senior-most Judge of the Bombay High Court Justice Dr D Y Chandrachud may finally move to the Madhya Pradesh High Court as Chief Justice.

Dilip Trivedi is new DG, CRPF
Dilip Trivedi has taken over as new DG of the CRPF. The1978 batch IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre was earlier Special Director General of the BSF.
(We said this on Aug 1, 2013)

New Member of the UPSC to be sworn-in on Monday
Newly appointed Member of the Union Public Service Commission, P Kilem Sungla will be sworn in on Monday. She is an academician who hails from Nagaland.

Justice Srivastava is new Lokayukta of Chhattisgarh
Retired Judge of the Allahabad High Court Justice, Shambhu Nath Srivastava will be new Lokayukrta of Chhattisgarh.

Bureaucratic reshuffle in Ministry Finance on the anvil
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that as many as five Joint Secretaries may be reshuffled in the Ministry of Finance by the second week of September.

Mathews' file for appointment as Director (Tech), NFL reaches ACC

The file of M S Mathews, Director (Technical), MFL, for the appointment as Director (Technical), National Fertilizers Limited (NFL) has reportedly reached Appointment Committee of Cabinet (ACC) for final approval after CVC clearance. C M T Britto is presently holding additional charge of this post.

Sameer Kumar Khare gets extension
Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Defence, Sameer Kumar Khare has been given three months extension in his deputation tenure till October end. He is a 1989 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

Major retirement at Board level in PSUs in Sept
This is probably for the first time while a large number of Directors of Boards in Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) units are due to retire in September, 2013. Around one dozen Directors of various PSUs will be superannuating next month.

Approx 50 Addl CIT, IT may soon be promoted to CIT
As the grapevine has it as many as 50 Additional Commissioner rank IRS officers may soon be promoted to the rank of Commissioners. DPC may be scheduled by the end of August.

Excise & Customs cadre may be sanctioned 16 Apex Scales ahead
Followed by the buzz about 26 CCITs (HAG), all set to be given Apex Scale, the rumour mills have started doing rounds that as many as 16 Apex Scale may be sanctioned to Customs & Excise cadre in the months to come.

Fresh panel is being created for JS, Minority Affairs
A fresh panel for the slot of Joint Secretary (Scholarships & Media), Dept of Minority Affairs is being created. The panel was recently scraped by the Minister. The post has been lying vacant after the appointment of Dimple Verma as the CVO of NBCC.

Alok Kumar relieved for Arunachal Pradesh
Alok Kumar has been relieved by the Chandigarh Administration for Arunachal Pradesh. He is a 1996 batch IPS officer of UT cadre.

Will Jha move as CVO, Security Printing Press, Nasik?
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that Sanjay Kumar Jha may soon be appointed as CVO, Securities Printing Press at Nasik. The 1989 batch IPS officer is currently serving as IG, Jabalpur.

Joshi scheduled to retire on September 30
The Head of Forest Force, Govt of Maharashtra, Alok Kumar Joshi is all set to retire on September 30. He is a 1975 batch Indian Forest Service officer of Maharashtra cadre. The whispers have started doing rounds as who would succeed Joshi as the new Head of Forest Forces in Maharashtra on October 01?

R P Sharma is new Police Commissioner in Odisha
R P Sharma is back to the parent Odisha cadre from central deputation. On return 1986 batch IPS officer Sharma has been made twin-city police commissioner in place of Sunil Ray, Ray will now be ADG Human Rights Protection Cell.

(We said this on July 13, 2013)

Is it not mystery?
As per Vacancy Notification of Railway Board first issued on August 28, 2012 (269/2012) then amended for specific candidate on October 19,2012 (411/2012(R)) for the post of Director Resources Planning in CRIS. The interview has not been held even after a long delay. As per Railway boards norms normally for a vacancy double the no + 1 are put on panel (2+1 = 3) here they have called 8 candidates for interview first on January 17, 2013 then again on April 5, 2013. However on both the occasions the interview was not held. CRIS has the post of director vacated in Feb 2013 due to retirement of S B Roy.

Non-budgetary support to sick Hindustan Cables Ltd approved
The Department of Heavy Industry has approved a proposal for providing non-plan budgetary support to meet payment of statutory dues, salary and wages in this sick / loss making CPSE Hindustan Cables Ltd..

Singh empanelled as JS in GoI
V P Singh has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. He is a 1988 batch officer of Indian Postal Service.

Mrs Ray empanelled as AS in GoI
Mrs Aditi S Ray has been empanelled for the post of Additional Secretary level in Government of India. She is an IES officer of 1979 batch.

Ms Pasi posted as Asst AG in AG office, Allahabad
Ms Kiran Kumari Pasi, on completion of training at Shimla, has been posted as Assistant Accountant General in the office of Accountant General (A&E)-II, Uttar Pradesh, Allahabad. She is an IA&AS officer of 2011 batch.

Tangirala empanelled as JS in GoI
M P Tangirala has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary/equivalent in Government of India. He is a 1990 batch officer of IP&TA &FS.

Ministry of Railways invites applications for Dy GM, BMRCL
Ministry of Railways has invited applications from the officers for the post of Deputy General Manager (Signaling), Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) on deputation basis for a period of three years. The applications of willing officers should reach within month of advertisement of vacancy.

Garbiyal is Divisional Commissioner, Garwal
D S Garbiyal has been appointed Divisional Commissioner Garwal in Uttarakhand. He is a 1997 batch IAS officer

Ratan Thiyam to be new Chairperson, NSDS (UPDATED)
Theatre exponent and playwright, Ratan Thiyam has been appointed as the new Chairperson of the National School of Drama Society (NSDS). His appointment will be for a period of four years.

Shayamsundar Singh is Member, JERC (UPDATED)
N Shayamsundar Singh has been sworn-in as Member, Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) for Manipur and Mizoram.

Ms Tripati Mathur Mehra deputed as Controller, NRSC (UPDATED)
Ms Tripati Mathur Mehra presently Dy CA/G, South Central Railway (SCR) has been deputed as Controller, National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Hyderabad under the department of Space for a period of three years. She is an IRAS officer.

Two IRAS officers get postings (UPDATED)
N P Pande, SAG/IRAS/ East Coast Railwa, has been transferred to East Central Railway while R Ananth, SG/IRAS, on return from deputation, was posted on Central Railway.

Four IRSME officers shifted (UPDATED)
As many as four officers belonging to Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers (IRSME) have been transferred and posted at different zones of the Railways. Accordingly, R K Shrivastava, SG/IRSME/RDSO, has been transferred to North East Frontier Railway and posted in the same capacity while D K Gajbhiye, SS/IRSME/ICF, Chennai, is being appointed to Central Railway and posted in the same capacity and B Venkat Rao, SS (looking after in JAG)/ IRSME/ South Western Railway, was moved to South Central Railway and posted in the same capacity. Besides, Ajit Singh, JAG/IRSME/ South Eastern Railway, has been transferred to North Central Railway and posted in the same capacity.

Leela Ram Yadav posted as Asst Director, DoPT (UPDATED)
Leela Ram Yadav has been appointed as Assistant Director (OL) in the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT).

B Radhika to join as Additional Secretary CVC (UPDATED)
Ms Radhika Budharaja ( B Radhika) has been relieved on Monday from National Crime Records Bureau, New Delhi to join as Additional Secretary in CVC. She is 1989 batch IPS officer of Odisha cadre.

CORPORATE

Now one month's extension
Chairman of the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) AB Agrawal has been given one month's extension in his tenure. This comes after two earlier extensions of three months each.

Ms Naeem to be Duty Manager, Sharjha
Air India officer, Ms Amtul Naeem has been appointed as Duty Manager, Dubai Airport, Sharjha.

Mishra resigns as Director, Bharat Bijlee Ltd
Harishchandra C Mishra has resigned as Director of Bharat Bijlee Limited.

Kar resigns as Company Secy, PG Electroplast Ltd
Kuntal Kar has resigned as Company Secretary of PG Electroplast Limited.

Khandelwal appointed Company Secy, PG Electroplast Limited
K A Khandelwal has been appointed as Company Secretary of PG Electroplast Limited w.e.f. August 16, 2013

Two Independent Directors cease to be on Board of GEI Industrial Systems Limited
K Nandakumar and Sudarshan Synghal have resigned as Independent directors of GEI Industrial Systems Limited w.e.f August 14, 2013

Kumarswamyas appointed Ind. Addl. Dir , Nivyah Infrastructure & Telecom
Nivyah Infrastructure & Telecom Services Ltd has appointed Nallampatti Ekambaram Kumarswamyas as an Independent Additional Director of the company .

Gupta appointed Company Secy, Kothari Fermentation & Biochem Ltd
Kothari Fermentation & Biochem Ltd has appointed Ms Isha Gupta as the Company Secretary of the company.

Khandelwal resigns as CS of Kothari Fermentation & Biochem Ltd
Vikas Khandelwal has resigned as Company Secretary of Kothari Fermentation & Biochem Ltd.

Srinivasan resigns as Director, Edserv Softsystems Ltd
K T Srinivasan has resigned as Director of Edserv Softsystems Ltd.

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Rotational transfer policy be followed strictly in GoI

I fully agree that the rotational transfer policy should be strictly followed in Central Govt. Ministries/Departments irrespective of age etc. to avoid vested interest in a particular department. People who retain in a particular department in a particular seat develop vested interest as they have no fear of being transferred and get protection from seniors. Their transfer is certainly a deterrent to developing such vested interests. This policy should be strictly followed at all levels in govt. and the maximum duration in one cadre should not be more than 5 years at all levels. After all, all government departments are the same. I find in the MEA that some officials sitting in the same desk for 9/10 years, ignoring foreign postings too. CVC clear instructions are being violated.

Harish Kumar

Net savvy population low in India

In India net savvy percentage of population is very low. All concentrated in urban areas. Even among educated people twitter access is a few millions. Twitter is a stress reliever not a revolution maker in India

Venkat

WHY CONGRESS MAY WIN YET AGAIN ?

Reasons why Congress is winning for the past 65 years and why it will win in the future:(A view point) Currently, on an average (over states) there are: 15% Muslims, 8% Christians, 7% Others and 70% Hindus. That means: out of 100 people, there are 70 Hindus, 8 Christians, 15 Muslims and 7 others. Voter registration is as follows: 90% of Muslims, 90% Christians and 60% Hindus and 90% Others. This means: out of 100 people, 42 Hindus, 14 Muslims, 7 Christians and 6 'Others' will register for vote. Now, interesting point Out of the registered voters having voter ID or at least having interest in selecting their representative. Have a look at the number of turnouts: 50% Hindus will vote, 90% Muslims will vote, 90% Christians will vote and 90% others will vote. This means: Ultimately 21 Hindus will vote, 13 Muslims will vote, 6 Christians and 5 'Others' will vote during election and these 45 (45%) people are responsible for selecting the representative and deciding the future of our dear Great mother land (India!!!). Now see Out of these 45 people of total population who votes for whom! It is highly likely that out of 13 Muslims, 10 will vote for Congress, Out of 6 Christians, 5 will vote for Congress and Out of 5 others, 3 will vote for congress. It means: Congress will get 18 non Hindu votes, BJP may get 1 Muslim or Christian and 1 others vote. So what BJP has got? BJP has got 2 non Hindu votes! Other parties, that are third front, may get 2 Muslim or Christian and 1 vote from others. That is, 'Others' may get 3 non Hindu votes.

Very important

Coming to Hindu votes:

Out of 21 Hindus. If 5 vote for Congress, 10 vote for BJP and 6 vote for other parties

Final result will be:

Congress 23 votes, BJP 12 votes, other parties will get 9 votes. This has been the trend since 1990, therefore, Congress do not bother for Hindu votes!!!!

Congress loses in States where the Muslims do not vote for them. If Congress scares minority from majority, which is easy in the name of burka "secularism", their 90% work is done........ and they have been doing so religiously......... It is highly likely that the trend will continue and may vary by few percent and the Congress will remain in Power, as minority population increases, for the next 100 years.

A Surfer

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