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POLITICS

Will Pranab Babu be consensus candidate of Congress and Third Front ?
It is said in the political circles that, if the need arises, President Pranab Mukherjee may be the consensus candidate of the Congress and the Third Front for the next Prime Minister.

DoPT invites applications for Information Commissioners in CIC
The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has invited applications for the posts of Information Commissioners in the Central Information Commission (CIC). Those willing to apply for the post can send their applications to this department before March 25, 2014.

Rajiv is new Vigilance Commissioner in CVC
Rajiv has been sworn in as Vigilance Commissioner in the Central Vigilance Commission. He is former 1975 batch IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
(We said this on Jan 20, 2014)

BUREAUCRACY

Ms Anjuly Chib Duggal to be new Director, ED ?
Ms Anjuly Chib Duggal is being tipped to be new Director, Enforcement Directorate. She is a 1981 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre.

Ashok Prasad to move as Special Director in IB
Ashok Prasad is expected to move to Delhi in a week or two as Special Director, Intelligence Bureau. 1979 batch IPS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre, Prasad is presently DGP of J & K.

A C Verma to be SS, IS
A C Verma is being appointed Special Secretary (SS), Internal Security (IS) in the Government of India. He is a 1979 batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre.

Rajendra Kumar to be new DGP of J & k ?
In all probability, K Rajendra Kumar will succeed Ashok Prasad as new DGP of J & K. He is a 1984 batch IPS officer of J & K cadre.

Pathak appointed temporary DG of BSF
D K Pathak has been appointed temporary Chief of the BSF. He is 1979 batch IPS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre

Krishna Choudhary appointed DG of RPF
Krishna Choudhary has been appointed new DG Railway Protection Force (RPF). He is a 1979 batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre.
(We said this on Jan 22 and Feb 19, 2014 )

Archana Varma poised for JS (AT & Admin), DOPT
As the grapevine has it Archana Varma may soon be appointed as JS (AT &A) DOPT. The position has been lying vacant after Manoj Joshi moved as JS, Ministry of Finance. Archana, a 1995 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre is presently serving as Director, DoPT.

Three Secretaries, GoI to make a new beginning today!
As many as three Secretaries of Govt of India are superannuating today: Rajen Habib Khwaja, Secretary Mines; Arun Kumar Misra, Secretary HUPA; Vivek Rae, Petroleum Secretary.

D K Sarraf to succeed Sudhir Vasudeva as CMD of ONGC on Mar 1
D K Sarraf, MD, OVL, is expected to take over the charge as Chairman & Managing Director, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Limited on March 1, 2014. He will succeed present CMD Sudhir Vasudeva retiring on February 28, 2014.
(We said this on July 30, Aug 30 , 2013 and on Feb 19 & 25 , 2014)

Suresh Warior selected for Director (Fin) in RCFL
Suresh Warior, GM, RCF, has been selected for the post of Director (Finance), Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Limited (RCFL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on February 27, 2014. As many as six persons were interviewed for the same.

U C Sarangi appointed IG in NSG
U C Sarangi has been appointed as Inspector General in National Security Guard (NSG). He is a 1988 batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

File for empanelment of 1993 batch IPS officers to move to DoPT soon
A proposal for the empanelment of IPS officers of 1993 batch for Joint Secretary or equivalent posts in Government of India will soon be submitted to the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT).

Lokesh Dutt Jha to repatriate to J&K
Lokesh Dut Jha is set to repatriate to his parent cadre J&K. He would complete his extended tenure on central deputation on March 31this year. The 1986 batch IAS officer of J&K cadre has been serving as JS (Policy & Planning) MHA.

Thakur poised to be empanelled as DG, GoI
As the grapevine has it, Pramod Kumar Thakur is all set to chart on the empanelment list of 1980 batch IPS officers waiting in the wings to be empanelled as Director General, Govt of India. Das is 1980 batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre.

Atulesh Jindal is in fray of Member, CBDT
Atulesh Jindal's name has also been doing rounds in the fray of Member, CBDT. The 1978 batch IRS (IT) officer is currently serving as Chief Commissioner, Jaipur. In case he misses the chance against vacancies for 2013-14 he would certainly be taken on board against vacancies for 2014-15. Two positions of Member are set to be vacant in July this year.

Will Subhash Kumar be next Chairman, UERC?
Whispers in the power corridors have started doing rounds that Subhash Kumar, Chief Secretary, Uttarakhand, is in the fray for Chairman, Uttarakhand Electricity Regulatory Commission (UERC) . The 1977 batch IAS officer of Uttarakhand cadre is set to retire in April this year.

Dr Karnatak to join as Director, GAIL on Mar 1
Dr A Karnatak, ED, GAIL, will be joining as Director (Projects), Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) on March 1, 2014. He will succeed present incumbent R D Goyal retiring in February 28, 2014.
(We said this on Aug 16, 2013)

CBI has 17 DIG-rank posts to offer
As against 49 sanctioned posts of DIG-rank, CBI has 17 posts to offer under the Central Staffing Scheme. Officers of central services are eligible for these positions under CSS.

Dr K P Krishna nominated as Director, Bank of Baroda
Dr K P Krishna, Additional Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, has been nominated as Government Nominee Director on the Board of Bank of Baroda. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

PESB seeks applications for CMD, DCI
The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has invited applications for the post of Chairman & Managing Director, Dredging Corporation of India Limited (DCI) falling vacant next year on February 1, 2015. Those willing to apply can send their applications before April 1, 2014.

Post of Presiding Officer, DRT-I, Delhi vacant
The post of Presiding Officer, Debts Recovery Tribunal (DRT)-I, Delhi, has been lying vacant.

Ms Chitra Gupta appointed as Asst Director, DAVP, Kolkata
Ms Chitra Gupta has been appointed as Assistant Director, DAVP, Kolkata. She is an officer of Indian Information Service (IIS).

Minor reshuffle of IAS officers in Chhattisgarh
A number of officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been given fresh assignments in Chhattisgarh. Accordingly, D S Mishra has been assigned an additional charge of Director, Chhattisgarh Academy of Administration while Ajay Singh was also given an additional charge of ACS, Public Health and Family Welfare and Medical Education and N K Aswal gets additional charge of ACS, Tribal and Scheduled Caste Welfare. Besides, M K Raut has been appointed as Principal Secretary, Panchayat & Rural Development with additional charge of Labour; R P Mandal will now be Principal Secretary, Urban Administration and Development; Subrat Sahu gets additional charge of Secretary, Sports and Youth Welfare; Amit Agrawal is also given an additional charge of Secretary, Finance; Vikas Sheel will also be looking as Secretary, GAD; Ganesh Shankar Mishra gets charge of Secretary, Water Resources.

ITI Limited expresses sincere gratitude to UPA Government
ITI Limited conveys sincere gratitude to UPA Chairperson, Sonia Gandhi on approval of its Revival Package. ITI Ltd was established in 1948.It is India's first Public Sector unit. Ever since, as a pioneering venture in the field of telecommunications, it has contributed to 50% of the present national telecom network.

Anand Madhukar is new Director ACC (UPDATED)
Anand Madhukar will be new Director ACC. 1997 batch IRPS officer Madhukar will also function as first Appellate Authority with regard to RTI Matter.

Banerjee is new DGP of Uttar Pradesh (UPDATED)
Anand Lal Banerjee has been appointed new DGP in Uttar Pradesh. He is 1979 batch IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh.

Five IAS officers transferred in Tamil Nadu (UPDATED)
As many as five IAS officers have been transferred in Tamil Nadu. Accordingly, Anil Meshram has been made Director, Treasuries and Accounts, S Malarvizhi -Joint Commissioner, Commercial Taxes, Ajay Yadav - Joint Commissioner, Commercial Taxes, Coimbatore, R Palaniswamy - Managing Director of Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board and V Shantha has been posted as Managing Director, SAGOSERVE, Salem.


Four CSO awarded IAS rank in Rajasthan (UPDATED)
Four non-state Civil Service officers of Rajasthan have been awarded Indian Administrative Service rank. They are Dr Satya Pal Singh Bharia, Sudhir Kumar Sharma, Naresh Kumar Thakral and Babu Lal Meena.

Raghuveer Singh Meena gets additional charge (UPDATED)
Raghuveer Singh Meena has been given the additional charge of Director, Child Empowerment Directorate. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan.

Secretary level appointments in GoI on Monday (UPDATED)
The Secretary level appointments in the Government of India will now take place only on Monday.

Four IAS officers in Haryana get additional charge (UPDATED)
Four IAS officers in Haryana have been given additional charge. While Dhanpat Singh has been given the charge of Nodal officer for monitoring CM's announcements and Monitoring and Coordination in addition to his present duties, Anil Manik of Managing Director, Haryana Medical Services Corporation, Nitin Kumar Yadav of Special Secretary, Finance Department, Environment Department and Director, Environment and Ashok Sangwan of Director, Supplies and Disposals, Managing Director, HARTRON, Special Secretary, Electronics and Information Technology Department and Director, Electronics and Information Technology.


Four IAS officers in Haryana shifted (UPDATED)
As many as four IAS officers in Haryana have been transferred. Accordingly, Rajeev Ranjan has been made Commissioner, Hisar Division, Hisar and Administrator, HUDA, Hisar, J Ganesan - Secretary, Haryana Board of School Education, Bhiwani, Anshaj Singh - Deputy Commissioner, Sirsa and Priyanka Soni will be Assistant Commissioner, Yamuna Nagar.

Shaktikant Das gets additional charge of Secretary, Mines (UPDATED)
Shaktikant Das, Secretary (Fertilisers) has been given the additional charge of Secretary, Mines.

DEBATE

WILL AAP Party get fractured ?
There is a saying "If you want to start a journey of 1000 miles begin with a single step ". Will the AAP Party get fractured by running very fast ?
Mail your views to + mehrotra.suresh @gmail.com or suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com

CORPORATE

Chakraborty appointed MD, GACL
Atanu Chakraborty, IAS, has been appointed as Managing Director of Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Ltd (GACL) by the Gujarat government.

Dhawan appointed Non-Exec Director, Gillette India Ltd
Gillette India Ltd has appointed Ms Sonali Dhawan as a Non-Executive Director of the company.

Ms Agarwal resigns as Independent Director, Vikas WSP Ltd
Ms Deepika Agarwal has resigned as Independent Director of Vikas WSP Ltd

Vyas ceases to be Director, Procter & Gamble Hygiene and Health Care Ltd
Amit Vyas has ceased to be the Director of Procter & Gamble Hygiene and Health Care Ltd.

Ghosh appointed Addl. Non Exec. Independent Director, Assam Company India Ltd
Assam Company India Ltd has appointed Amit Kumar Ghosh as an Additional, Non - Executive Independent Director of the company .

DEBATE

DEBATE(1)

Promising party. Priorities were wrong. Failed to take advantage of sentiments of urban class who gave them such massive mandate.

Rakesh

DEBATE (2)

It is unfair to judge AAP as non-performers. They were new like many first comers to power like SP, BSP, even BJP but ministers in these parties started learning from their PSs and learnt all the tricks of the trade and the result is before you. At least AAP ministers were using their mind. Their learning curve may be longer but it would be different. No one can deny that AAP has changed political discourse in the country and this alone is a very laudable achievement in the short time they came to the scene. And the options available today would be even more disappointing given their past.

Prakash

(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)

Hue and cry for raising the retirement age
There is much hue and cry for raising the retirement age but if one should take a glimpse around the world it can be seen that in the countries the retirement age is in Albania:65; Armenia:63; Australia:65; Austria:65; Azerbaizan:63; Belgium:65; Bosnia:65; Bulgaria:63; Crotia:65; Cyprus:65; Czech Rep:63; Colombia:62; Denmark:67; Estonia:63; Finland:68; Franch:62; Georgia:65; Germany:65; Greece:67; Hungary:62; Iceland:67; Israel:67; Italy:66; Kazakhstan:63; Kosovo:65; Lithuania:62; Netharland:67; Poland:65; Romania:64; Singapore:65; UK:65; USA:67. It is total baseless argument about the unemployment against raising the retirement age. In present perspective such as the Parliamentary Committee Report the retirement age should be raised to 65 and not 62. Nowadays there is wider scope of employment generation by virtue of globalisation and merely raising the retirement age in government sector will not have any impact on it. Simultaneously the present system of re-employing the retired personnel on contract basis as consultants should be stopped forthwith and the retirement age should be raised to 65 and stop exploiting the govt. employees by retiring them and afterwards engaging them as consultants with meagre amount of money.

K B

Retirement age shouldn't be increased
I fully agree with the views of Mr. PRT expressed in your forum four days back that retirement age should not be increased. Increasing retirement age would be one of the worst decision taken by UPA govt., if it at all does so. More employment opportunities should be generated for the youth. They can contribute much more at much lesser cost of taxpayers money. Bringing younger generation person in govt. job will also help in reducing corruption level so often being talked about. Other govt, including congress govt. in Delhi have experimented with increasing retirement age for electoral gains which did not translate into vote gains but turned otherwise. I also agree with his idea that increasing DA, merging of 50% DA with basic and bringing better pension scheme may lead to bigger electoral gains as it benefits all and govt. employees (including retired ones for pension) rather than employees who are going to get benefitted by enhancing retirement age. Also, increasing retirement age will lead to retaining majority of inefficient employees. Govt. anyway has other ways and means to retain a person beyond his retirement age, if his services are required beyond this period. Hence, a big no..no... against increasing retirement age.

L R

Not all govt officers want raise in retirement age
It is a myth that all government officers want retirement age to be increased; a lot of them want to retire at 60 and live peacefully. It is only those who want to cling on as sarkar ka jawain for two more years who are clamoring for it. If the government must raise the age it should do it in a phased manner. It could raise it by six months on 1st January or 1st April every year, so that it is done over four years.

D Singh

Admiral Joshi resigns

There is no example except armed forces where head of a government organisation resigns. Not even during biggest blunders. No cabinet Secretary ever resigned because they are expert in blaming others. Even No DG police/para mil force ever resigned. Not even when more than 70 CRPF Jawans killed by Naxals in Chattisgarh. These people take VRS when they have to join politics or join some other job outside.

Anil

EC should declare poll dates

The Election Commission should not delay any more in announcing the dates for the General elections so that the model code of conduct comes into force.Otherwise this Government will carry on with so many decisions damaging to the country in the long run.Already they are on an overdrive to help their cronies by regularising the houses for the squatters,giving extensions to the top honchos of Navratna PSUs,preparing to take the Ordinance route for their vote catching ideas on graft ,signing bilateral agreements for sharing seats with foreign airlines at the cost of Air India etc.etc.

Aarti Khosla

Whispers is scared !

It seems to me that Whispers is scared of printing comments which are critical of the Americans and the BJP.So let us see if Whispers has the courage to print this! Now that the UN itself has informed the court in New York that Devyani Khobragade was on their rolls and therefore enjoyed diplomatic immunity at the time of her arrest the GOI should file a suit of defamation and also seek billions of dollars as compensation on Devyanis behalf.Since America flouted diplomatic immunity and outraged the modesty of a married lady the GOI too should respond likewise and arrest the US ambassador and have modesty outraged. Only then will the Americans learn some manners.

D Choudhary

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