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March 16 marks the anniversary of the Whispersinthecorridors.com. It is fascinating to find that this informative website has sustained unabated for over 14 long years and has consistently provided valuable insights and updates for the civil service community in the country.In fact for me and many others it has become akin to a daily diet and lately twice a day. Congratulations. You must now start a column on AIS rules and citations such as new LTC rules for SAARC nations etc. Issues of common interest like the CGHS must also be flagged regularly. Just like the RTI column, this will be of great service to the serving officers.Your website is not just an information window but truly a public service movement. Best wishes. Keep on marching ahead.

Rohit R Brandon IAS- Retd

Former ACS and Director of the HCM RIPA Training Academy Jaipur

BJP's best leader ?
Who is the BJP's best leader these days ? The answer to this is none other than Ms. Sumitra Mahajan who is low profile, non controversial and liked by all.

Chances of Cong revival bleak
During an informal discussion at a party, few people said that the chances of the revival of the Congress were bleak as its president Ms. Sonia Gandhi was yet to understand the true character of the country.

BUREAUCRACY

Who will be new Cabinet Secretary ? (11) Sanjay Kotharii
1978 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre Sanjay Kothari is youngest after A V Sinha in his batch. He would retire only in July next year. Soft spoken and hardworking Kothari who is presently Secretary Personnel is a person to watch. In bureaucratice circles he is known as "Carbon Copy" of present Chief Secretary Ajit Seth.

7th pay commission meeting on April 7 ?
In the power gallery, it is rumoured that 7th pay commission is meeting on April 7,2015. Will it fulfill the aspirations of central government employees ?

Appointment of Special Director and Additional Director CBI next month !
Appointment of Additional Director and Special Director in the CBI is expected to take place next month.

Rakesh Asthana unlikely to join CBI ?
Rakesh Asthana is now unlikely to join the CBI. He is 1984 batch IPS officer of Gujarat cadre.

Anand Prakash ahead in CS race ?
If sources are to be believed 1979 batch IAS officer Anand Prakash seems to be ahead in the race for the post of Chief Secretary Goa. The CS post in Goa is lying vacant for the last one month after KK sharma became the CS of Delhi.

Meeting of Transfer Committee on March 30 !
Transfer committee meeting of IAS/IPS of UT cadre is now expected to take place on March 30. It was scheduled for March 19, 2015. Some officers are lobbying for their choice posting.

Only one vacancy of ED to be filled up
After the promotion of one ED of Syndicate Bank only one vacancy of an Executive Director is going to be filled up.

1985 batch IPS frozen
1985 batch IPS has been frozen for the central deputation. Process of 1985 batch IPS empanelment in the GoI has already started.

8 IES officers promoted to Higher Administrative Grade
As many as eight officers belonging to Indian Economic Service of 1981 batch have been promoted to the Higher Administrative Grade (HAG). They are: M R Anand, Gajendera Bhujbal, Ms Preeti Madan, Ms Rugmini S Parmar, Dr M Mathisekaran, S N Bromo Choudhary, Ram Charan Meena and K M Gupta.

M R Anand posted as Senior Adviser, IT in GoI
M R Anand has been appointed as Senior Adviser, Department of Information Technology after the promotion to the Higher Administrative Grade (HAG). He is a 1981 batch IES officer.

Orders of Manoj Mishra for CMD of NFL yet to come
The orders of Manoj Mishra, Director (Finance), STC, for the appointment as Chairman and Managing Director, National Fertilizers Limited (NFL) are yet to be issued by the Government of India.

Second panel to be sought for Director (Tech), MFL
The Ministry of Agriculture is reported to be seeking second panel for the post of Director (Technical), Madras Fertilizers Limited (MFL) after the panel of D Sundarasekaran, GM, MFL, was scrapped after CVC failed to give its clearance before his retirement.

1985 batch IPS to get DG rank in Kerala !
1985 batch IPS officers in Kerala are expected to get DG rank in a couple of months.

Dube retiring this month
Vivek Dube,Spl DG,CRPF is going to retire this month. He is 1981 batch AP cadre IPS officer.

N Muruganandan to take up foreign assignments
N Muruganandan has been deputed to take up foreign assignments as Chief Operating Officer (Social Development) in the United Nations' Development Programme 'National Rural Livelihood Mission Project' at New Delhi for a period of 12 months. He is a 1991 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

M Rajkumar deputed as Director in Coal
M Rajkumar has been appointed as Director in the Ministry of Coal. He is a 2000 batch IFS officer UT cadre.

Chaturvedi posted as Senior Personnel officer, LMRC
Brajesh Kumar Chaturvedi has been posted as Senior Personnel Officer, Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC) on deputation for a period of three years. He is from Personnel Service.

A Sankaramurthi posted as GM (Signal), CMRL
A Sankaramurthi has been posted as Joint General Manager (Signal), Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) on deputation for a period of two years. He is an IRSSE officer.

PESB to hold interviews for Director (Prod), Braithwaite & Co Ltd on Mar 26
The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) is reported to be holding interviews on March 26, 2015 for the post of Director (Production), Braithwaite and Co Limited lying vacant since October 27, 2014.

PESB invites application for CMD of HPCL
The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has invited applications for the post of Chairman and Managing Director (CMD), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) falling vacant on April 1, 2016. Those willing to apply can send their applications to PESB before May 27, 2015.

DoPT invites applications for various posts in MEA
The Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) has invited applications for the post of Passport Officer/ Deputy Passport officers and Assistant Passport Officers in the ministry of External Affairs, CPV Division, New Delhi on deputation basis. Those willing to apply for this post can send their applications to DoPT at the earliest.

Rear Admiral AK Jain promoted as Vice Admiral
Rear Admiral Atul Kumar Jain has been promoted as Vice Admiral and posted as Controller of Personnel Services at IHQ MoD (Navy).

Rear Admiral Ashok Kumar promoted as Vice Admiral
Rear Admiral G Ashok Kumar has been promoted as Vice Admiral and posted as Commandant National Defence Academy Pune.

Manish Rastogi appointed as MD, MPRDC in MP
Manish Rastogi has been appointed as Managing Director of Madhya Pradesh Road Development Corporation (MPRDC) as well as ex-officio Secretary, PWD in Madhya Pradesh in place of Vivek Agarwal . He is a 1994 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre. Interestingly with this the four Agarwals, who are looking after PWD, have now been reduced to three: Principal Secretary, Promod Agrawal, Engineer-in-Chief, Akhilesh Agarwal and Engineer-in-chief of PWD PIU C P Agarwal.

Yogesh Gupta appointed as Under Secretary, Oversease Indian Affairs
Upon his repatriatoin from deputation, Yogesh Gupta has been appointed as Under Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs in Government of India.

27 CSS officers shifted after promotion to Under Secretary grade
As many as 27 officers belonging to Central Secretariat Service (CSS) have been transferred to different ministries after promotion to Under Secretary grade. Accordingly, Shobha Basil has been shifted to Economic Affairs while Uday Shankar Mehta was transferred to Health & Family Welfare and Sanjay Kumar is moving to Rural Development. Similarly, Harkesh Chander has been transferred to Panchayati Raj; Pankaj Kumar to National Disaster Management Authority; Rajeev Bahree will remain in Telecommunications; Kundan Kumar to Power; Rakesh Kumar Singh, Textiles; Prakash A to Urban Development; Manjula Juneja to Personnel & Training; V K Kushwaha to Urban Development; Suray Narayan to DoPT; Prabha Sharma to Skill Development & Entrepreneurship; G Vijay Kumar to Urban Development; Sunil Singh Rawat to National Disaster Management Authority; Anurag Kumar to Food & Public Distribution; Sunil Kumar Gupta to Health & Family Welfare; Gautam Kuamr Yadav to Food & Public Distribution; Rajeev Ranjan to UPSC; Manoj Kumar Shukla and Sachin Arora to Higher Education; Kesang Norbu Bhutia to Power; Deep Chand Lakra to Higher Education; Muraleedharan to Skill Development & Entrepreneurship; Pratap Singh Dahiya to Heavy Industries; Din Dayal to Food Processing Industries and Shantha Sharma was posted to UPSC.

DPC for IPS promotons in MP today
DPC for IPS promotions to the rank of DIG,IG,ADG and DG in Madhya Pradeshwill take placeon Wednesday.

Jacob is now Controller
1993 batch IA&AS officer Biju Jacob has taken over as Chief Controller at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

Justice Ambwani is CJ of Rajasthan HC
Justice Sunil Ambwani has been sworn in as the Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court.

NMDC conferred with National Safety Award (Mines)
NMDC Limited, Hyderabad has been bestowed with "National Safety Award (Mines) for the year 2011 for its Bailadila Iron Ore Mine, Bacheli Complex for the Longest Accident Free Period. The award was received by Narendra Kothari, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, NMDC Limited and P R G Nair, Senior most nominated workmen representative from President of India, Pranab Mukherjee at the presentation ceremony of the National Safety Awards (Mines) for the year 2011 & 2012 held at New Delhi on March 20, 2015. The award was received in presence of the Minister of State for Labour and Employment (Independent Charge), Bandaru Dattatreya and other dignitaries. Kothari said that this award is towards recognition to NMDC for implementing most scientific methods of mining at all projects to ensure zero accidents. NMDC is producing more than 30 million tonnes of iron ore from its highly mechanized mines i.e. BIOM, Bacheli Complex; BIOM, Kirandul Complex and DIOM & Kumaraswamy, Donimalai. It also operates mechanized diamond mine at Panna, Madhya Pradesh. NMDC has obtained OHSAS 18001:2007 accreditations for all its production mines.

Sandeep Chakravorty appointed as Ambassador to Republic of Peru (UPDATED)
Sandeep Chakravorty, presently Deputy High Commissioner in High Commission of India, Dhaka, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Peru. He is a 1996 batch IFS officer.

Rajiv Shankar appointed as Spl Secretary, Redressal of Public Grievances in HP (UPDATED)
Rajiv Kumar Shankar has been appointed as Special Secretary, Redressal of Public Grievances in Himachal Pradesh. He is a 2001 batch IAS officer of HP cadre.

Garg posted as DG, Tourism, Advisor, Civil Aviation in Haryana (UPDATED)
Sandeep Garg has been posted as Director General, Tourism and Advisor, Civil Aviation in Haryana. He is a 1991 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

Subhash Chandra posted as DG, Technical Education in Haryana (UPDATED)
Subhash Chandra has been posted as Director General, Technical Education in Haryana. He is a 1995 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

Madhu Mahajan posted as Principal CIT (OSD) (CW), Delhi Region (UPDATED)
Upon return from deputation, Madhu Mahajan has been posted as Principal CIT (OSD) (CW) in the office of Principal CCIT (CCA), Delhi Region.

CORPORATE

NBCC Women Employees celebrate 'International Women's Day'
The Women Employees of NBCC Corporate Office and its Delhi NCR Offices, celebrated International Women's Day at its Corporate Office on March 20, 2015. The event comprised activities relating to Women Empowerment like Enhancing Productivity, Life Management, Life Style Re-engineering and a Quiz Competition, participated by women employees of the Company. Dr Anoop Kumar Mittal, CMD, was invited to attend as the Chief Guest of the Programme and he was accompanied by S K Pal, Director (Finance), S K Chaudhary, Director (Projects), Rajendra Chaudhari, Senior Executive Director and N P Aggarwal, Executive Director of the Company.

Bhandarkar appointed Non-Exec. Independent Director, Tata Investment
Tata Investment Corporation Limited has appointed Ms Vedika Bhandarkar as Non-Executive Independent Director of the company w.e.f. March 24, 2015

Kirloskar resigns as Independent Director, Bajaj Auto Limited
Ms Suman Kirloskar has resigned as an Independent Director of Bajaj Auto Ltd w.e.f. March 31, 2015.

Piramal appointed Independent Director, Bajaj Auto Ltd
Dr Gita Piramal has been appointed as Independent Director of Bajaj Auto Limited w.e.f. April 1, 2015.

Somany appointed Addl. Director, Somany Ceramics Limited
Somany Ceramics Limited has appointed Anjana Somany as an Additional Director of the company.

Harris resigns as Promoter Non Exec. Director, Taj GVK Hotels & Resorts Limited
Deepa Misra Harris has resigned as Promoter Non Executive Director of Taj GVK Hotels & Resorts Limited w.e.f. March 13, 2015

Shah appointed Addl. Director, Euro Multivision Ltd
Euro Multivision Limited has appointed Ms Forum Dhaval Shah as an Additional Director of the company.

Sonavaria appointed Addl. Direcctor, Piramal Phytocare Ltd
Piramal Phytocare Limited has appointed Dr Vandana Sonavaria as an Additional Director of the company.

Jhanwar appointed Non Exec. Independent Director, Simplex Projects Ltd
Simplex Projects Limited has appointed Ms Nandini Jhanwar Non-executive Independent Director of the company

Deshmukh appointed Woman Director, Talwalkars Better Value Fitness Ltd
Talwalkars Better Value Fitness Limited has appointed Ms Mrunalini Deshmukh as the Woman Director of the company

Ghosh appointed Independent Director, Simplex Infrastructures Ltd
Simplex Infrastructures Ltd has appointed Ms Leena Ghosh as Independent Director of the company w.e.f. March 24, 2015.

Sinha appointed Independent Director, Disa India Ltd
Disa India Ltd has appointed Shyamal Sinha as Independent Director of the company w.e.f. March 23, 2015

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Extinction of non-IFS Ambassadors
A large number of non-IFS officers are posted in our foreign embassies - Railways, RAW, Armed Forces, Education, and so on. This is so because modern day diplomacy is more than protocol and procedures, things in which the IFS officers specialise. The largest number of officers is from the Commerce Ministry as this ministry deals with foreign trade. When the Ambassador is an IFS officer, these officers are usually treated badly. They find it difficult to get various ludicrous allowances that IFS officers get (like gardening allowance even if you have some flower pots in a high rise apartment), parking slots in the embassy compound and so on. The officials in the host country find it odd that Indian Ambassadors treat some of their own officers as second class citizens. Often the host country officials do not take them (non-IFS officers) seriously which is not in the interest of our country. It would be better to have eminent non-IFS persons as Ambassadors in big countries (like US/UK) and important places (like Brussels). Such an eminent person will also be able to transcend the moth-eaten bureaucracy of MEA provided he/she has the confidence of the Prime Minister.
Prof. N. C. Saxena

Chairman should watch AAI staff
Staff of Airports Authority of India (AAI) posted on loan basis here and there. They do not want to work in AAI, but only want FAT salary from AAI. Chairman should take strict steps for those employees.
Mukul

Condolence
One day every one has to leave. But that is not the point. What all is left behind by the one who has gone is actually the question. People remember those who leave their foot print by becoming inspiration for generations to come. This could be by bringing smiles on the faces of deprived ones and exploited .
May got bless the departed soul.
O P Sharma
Ex Sr.Govt. of India officer

Problem is not unique to MOFPI
The problem is not unique to MOFPI. A number of Government servants who have a nice base in the NCR Region, at the time retirement say that they are going to settle with the Son in Hyderabab, Bangalore etc. They take lakhs as Travel Allowance of themselves and their family members. They also take huge amount for shifting their goods to the place where their son stays. But immediately they come back to NCR Region and take up Consultancy appointments etc. In this case the condition should be that the individual prior taking all the dues should also get a CGHS Card prepared of the place where his or her son stays. For places where there is no CGHS facility the AMA Rules should prevail.
Anju

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