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HAPPY NEW YEAR
Good site to update the under current that prevails in the grey matter of 'decision-makers'.
R N Mathur

When nothing else inspires, History does ! (179)
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

This is Jharkhand
Newly carved out Jharkhand has seen nine Chief Ministers, eight Governors , 10 Chief Secretaries and 14 DGPs in the last 14 years.

BUREAUCRACY

Mrs Mehra to be new CP Delhi ?
Vimla Mehra is likely to be appointed new Delhi Police Commissioner. She is a 1978 batch IPS officer of UT cadre.

Will Bassi move to BPR&D ?
Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi is likely to move as DG BPR&D. He is a 1977 batch IPS officer of UT cadre.

Krishna Chaudhary to head ITBP ?
DG RPF Krishna Chaudhary is likely to move as DG ITBP. He is a 1979 batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre.

Prasad appointed as Special Secretary, Internal Security
Ashok Prasad has been appointed as Special Secretary, Internal Security in the Ministry of Home Affairs. He is a 1979 batch IPS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.
(We said this on Dec 9, 2014)

Who will be new Kerala Chief Secretary ?
Who will be new Kerala Chief Secretary ?Tie is said to be between 1980 batch IAS officer Jiji Thomson and 1981 batch IAS officer Ms Nalini Netto.

Srivastava to join as CMD, AAI today
R K Srivastava will be joining as Chairman, Airports Authority of India (AAI) on January 2, 2015. He is a 1984 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre.

Dr Prasad IRS ( C & CE:89) takes VRS !
Dr Vinayak M Prasad Commissioner of Customs & C Excise department has reportedly opted for voluntary retirement from government service. He is presently Senior Adviser in WHO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland .

Gupta is new DGP, UP
Arun Kumar Gupta has been appointed as Director General of Police in Uttar Pradesh. He is a 1977 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Justice Khetrapal is new Chairperson of FCAT
Former Judge of the Delhi High Court Justice Reva Khetrapal has been appointed Chairperson of the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal ( FACT).

Macheria and Goud promoted in Manipur
Two 1984 batch IPS officers Santosh Macheria and P M Goud have been promoted to the rank of DG in Manipur.

CVC yet to clear appointment of Rahul Bali for CMD, SIL
The file of Rahul Bali, Director (Tech), SIL, for the post of Chairman and Managing Director, Scooters India Limited (SIL) has reportedly been lying stuck with the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC). The post has been lying vacant for a long time.

Post of CMD, BDL arises as orders of Bhaskar yet to come
The post of Chairman & Managing Director, Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) has arisen with the retirement of S N Mantha on December 31, 2014. The orders of V U Bhaskar, Director (Production), BDL, for the CMD post are yet to be issued by the Government of India.

CVC yet to clear appointment of Manoj Mishra as CMD, CCIL
The appointment of Manoj Mishra, Director (HR), CCIL, as Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Cement Corporation of India Limited (CCIL) is getting delayed for want of Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) clearance. The post has been lying vacant since the retirement of incumbent R P Tak in September, 2014. However, Mishra is holding an additional charge of CMD, CCIL.

Prakash gets additional charge of CMD, MMTC Ltd
Ved Prakash, Director (Marketing), has been assigned an additional charge of Chairman-cum-Managing Director of MMTC Limited after Depinder Singh Dhesi was repatriated to his parent cadre. However, the orders of Ved Prakash for full-fledged CMD are yet to be issued by the Government of India.

Ms Bidari appointed as Regional Director, SSC, Bangalore
Ms Vijayalakshmi Prasanna Bidari has been appointed as Regional Director, Bangalore (Deputy Secretary level) in Staff Selection Commission (SSC). She is a 2001 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

Zimik appointed as Regional Director, SSC, Guwahati
Ngachan Zimik has been appointed as Regional Director, Guwahati (Deputy Secretary level) in Staff Selection Commiission (SSC). He is a 2002 batch IoFS officer.

Verma empanelled as Joint Secretary GoI
Pranay Kumar Verma has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Department of Atomic Energy after he was empanelled to the post of Joint Secretary. He is a 1994 batch IFS officer.

Gulzar appointed as Director, DoPT
Natarajan Gulzar has been appointed as Director in the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT). He is a 1999 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Vigilance to investigate into assets of ex-Kerala Chief Secretary
A probe against a former Chief Secretary of Kerala has been ordered by the Vigilance Director into amassing wealth disproportionate to income.

Dhesi to have longest tenure as Chief Secretary
D S Dhesi has taken over as Chief Secretary of Haryana. He is 1982 batch IAS officer. Dhesi will have longest tenure of four-and-a half years. He will retire in June 2019.

MD of Bank of Baroda yet to be decided
The Government of India has decided to conduct a fresh selection for the post of Managing Director in Bank of Baroda.

Pankaj Bhargava shifted to Headquarters
General Manager (North) Pankaj Bhargava has been shifted to the Air India Headquarters on Wednesday evening.

2 IPS officers prompted to ADGP grade in Rajasthan
Janga Shrinivas and Ravi Prakash have been promoted to the grade of Additional Director General of Police in Rajasthan.

5 IPS officers prompted to IG grade in Rajasthan
Vishal Bansal, Hawa Singh Ghumariya, Gurucharan Ray, Dr Giraj Lal Meena and Girdhari Lal Sharma have been promoted to the grade of Inspector Director General of Police in Rajasthan.

8 IPS officers prompted to DIG grade in Rajasthan
Praful Kumar, H G Raghvendra Suhasa, Hari Prasad Sharma, Mahesh Kumar Goyal, Surendra Kumar, Mahendra Singh Chowdhary, Bhadur Singh Rathore and S N Khinchi have been promoted to the grade of Deputy Inspector Director General of Police in Rajasthan.

3 IPS officers prompted to SP grade in Rajasthan
Bhuvan Bhushan Yadav, Anand Sharma and Gaurav Yadav have been promoted to the grade of Superintendent of Police in Rajasthan.

R K Khandelwal promoted to PS grade in Bihar
R K Khandelwal has been promoted to the grade of Principal Secretary in Bihar. He is a 1989 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Avijit Ghosh joins as CMD, HECL
Avijit Ghosh, Director (Mining), HCL, has taken over the charge as CMD, Heavy Engineering Corporation Limited (HECL).
(We said this on June 26, 2014)

Piramanayagam takes over as Director (Fin), BDL
S Piramanayagam, GM, BEML, has assumed the charge as Director (Finance), Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL).
(We said this on June 19, 2014)

Balasubramanyam take charge as Director, NALCO
V Balasubramanyam, ED, NALCO, has taken over the charge as Director (Production) NALCO Limited.
(We said this on June 13, 2014)

Ahluwalia assumes charge as Director (Fin), NMDC
D S Ahluwalia, ED REC, has taken over the charge as Director (Finance), NMDC Limited.
(We said this on June 12, 2014)

16 IPS officers of 2006 batch get JAG in Rajasthan
As many as 16 officers belonging to Indian Police Service (IPS) of 2006 batch have been accorded Junior Administrative Grade (JAG) in Rajasthan. The officers are: Anshuman Bhomia, Don K Jose, Rahul Prakash, Kishan Sahai Meena, Om Prakash Dayama, Rajendra Singh, Dr Ram Dev Singh, Jai Narayan, Sandeep Singh Chauhan, Satyendra Singh, Ashok Kumar Gupta, Sawai Singh Godara, Lalit Maheshwari, Haider Ali Zaidi, Hemant Kumar Sharma and Anil Kumar Tank.

Sharma gets proforma promotion to ADGP grade in Rajasthan
Rajeev Kumar Sharma, who is on central deputation, has been promoted to the Additional Director General of Police in Rajasthan. He is a 1990 batch IPS Officer of Rajasthan cadre.

2 IPS officers of 1997 batch get proforma promotion to IG level in Rajasthan
Vijay Kumar Singh and S Sengathir of 1997 batch, who are on central deputation, have been promoted to the grade of Inspector General of Police in Rajasthan.

Jose Mohan gets Selection Grade in Rajasthan
Jose Mohan, who is on central deputation, has been accorded Selection Grade of Indian Police Service in Rajasthan. He is a 2002 batch IPS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

9 IAS officers of 1999 batch get Supertime Scale in UP
As many as nine officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) of 1999 batch have been accorded Supertime Scale in Uttar Pradesh. The officers: P Guruprasad, Shankar singh, Pravin Kumar Singh, Lal Bihari, Ram Prasad Goswami, Devendra Nath Verma, Ashok Kumar-II, Pramanshu, Mrs Shradha Mishra, Chandrakanta, Surya Prakash Mishra and Mani Prasad Mishra.

Three new Judges in Bombay High Court
Three new Judges Mssrs Kalidas Laxmanrao Wadane, Indira K. Jain and Shalini Phansalkar Joshi have been sworn in as Judges of the Bombay High Court.

Air Marshal Deo is new head of Eastern Air Command
Air Marshal S B Deo has taken over as the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Eastern Air Command of the Indian Air Force in Shillong.

IAS officer is ACS PWD in Maharashtra (UPDATED)
Anand Kulkarni has been appointed new Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) Maharashtra. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer. For the first time an IAS officer has been assigned the work of Public Works Department (PWD) in the state.

Abhishek Trivedi appointed as DIG, NSG (UPDATED)
Abhishek Trivedi has been appointed as Deputy Inspector General in National Security Guard (NSG). He is a 1996 batch IPS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.

13 IRTS officers get HAG (UPDATED)
As many as 13 officers of Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) have been accorded Higher Administrative Grade (HAG). The officers include: K B Nanda, B B Verma, Ravi Prabhat, Ms Saandhya Deep Das, Robin deka, Sultan H Mushthick, Aloke Biswas, N K Aktruzaman, Vijay Kumar, B C Meena, B N Rao, Ms Manjula Rangarajan and Atul Mohan.

13 IRTS officers get JAG (UPDATED)
As many as 13 officers of Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) have been accorded Junior Administrative Grade (JAG). The officers include: Dhrubjyoti Sengupta, Dinesh Kumar Gupta, Anand Kumar, P Hari Prasad, Om Prakash, Rahul Kapoor, Ms Meghna Burgohain, V S Saini, Ms Deepti Sachdeva, R S Puri, Subhash Majumdar, Girish Prasad Sharma, Kamlesh Chakraborty.

Rajgopal Sharma relieved to join as OSD to Nitin Gadkari (UPDATED)
Rajgopal Sharma has been relieved to join as OSD to Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road Transport & Highways and Shipping. He is a 1994 batch IRS-IT officer.

Satish Mathur posted as Commissioner, Labour in Delhi Govt (UPDATED)
Satish Mathur has been appointed as Commissioner in Delhi Government. He is a 2001 batch IAS officer of AGMUT cadre.

Suresh Kumar Bhardwaj promoted to DGP grade in Bihar (UPDATED)
Suresh Kumar Bhardwaj has been promoted to the grade of Director General of Police in Bihar. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Jiji Thomson to be new Chief Secretary of Kerala (UPDATED)
Jiji Thomson, Director General, Sports Authority of India, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, has been repatriated to his parent cadre to take over as Chief Secretary on February 1. He is a 1980 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.

J S Deepak is also CMD, ITPO (UPDATED)
J S Deepak has been assigned an additional charge of Chairman-cum-Managing Director, ITPO. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Sanjay Kumar Saxena appointed as Spl Commissioner, Transport in Delhi Govt (UPDATED)
Sanjay Kumar Saxena has been appointed as Special Commissioner, Transport in Delhi Government. He is a 2001 batch IAS officer of AGMUT cadre.

Major reshuffle of IAS officers in Delhi Govt (UPDATED)
As many as 14 IAS officers have been shifted in Delhi Government. Accordingly, S P Singh will hold the charge of PS, SC/ST/OBC/Minorities while Mrs Shakuntala was posted as PS, Power, Industries and Anindo Majumdar is PS, Services. Similarly, Majumdar was given additional charge of PS, GAD; Sanjeev Nandan Sahai as PS, Finance, Vigilance; Dharam Pal as Financial Commissioner with additional charge of Social Welfare & Women Child Development; Rajendra Kumar gets charge of OSD, Swachh Bharat; Ashwani Kumar as Secretary, Revenue & Divisional Commissioner; Mrs Punya Salila Srivastava as Secretary Education and Secretary, TTE/Higher Education; Dr Ashish Chandra Verma as Secretary & Commissioner, Development and Secretary I&FC; with the charge of Member, DSSSB; Sajjan Singh Yadav holds additional charge of Secretary/Director, Information & Publicity with additional charge of MD, SRDC; Mrs Gitanjali Gupta Kundra gets charge of CMD, DSIIDC; P R Meena as Director, Social Welfare; Manoj Kumar as Director TTE and G L Meena was made Member, DSSSB.

Sushovan Banerjee repatriated to Madhya Pradesh (UPDATED)
Sushovan Banerjee, CVO in Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), Mumbai, has been repatriated to his parent cadre. 1989 batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre Banerjee had sought repatriation..

Ms Radhika Jha is also Resident Commissioner of Uttaranchal, New Delhi (UPDATED)
Ms Radhika Jha has been given an additional charge of Resident Commissioner of Uttaranchal in New Delhi. She is a 2002 batch IAS officer of Uttaranchal cadre.

Minor reshuffle of IAS officers in Uttaranchal (UPDATED)
Some IAS officers have been transferred and posted at different places in Uttaranchal. Accordingly, Shailesh Baigoli has been appointed as Secretary, GAD while Vijay Kumar Dhondhiyal was posted as Secretary in-charge in the cooperative and legal department and Vikas Damyanti is being shifted as secretary in-charge in the irrigation department with additional charge of Centre-related portfolios. Similarly, D Senthil Pandiyan has been shifted as Additional Secretary, department of administration.

CORPORATE

Talukdar gets six months extension
The term of Director General Hydro carbon B N Talukdar's has been extended by six months.

Ahluwalia appointed Director (Finance), NMDC Ltd
The Central government has appointed D S Ahluwalia as Director (Finance) of NMDC Limited . He has assumed charge of the post of Director (Finance) on January 1, 2015.

Thiagarajan ceases to be Director (Finance), NMDC Ltd
S Thiagarajan has ceased to be Director (Finance) of NMDC Ltd on reaching the age of superannuation .

Balasubramanyam appointed Director ( Production), NALCO
V Balasubramanyam has been appointed as Director (Production) of National Aluminum Company Limited (NALCO).

Nene ceases to be Director ( Mktg.), IOCL
M Nene has ceased to be Director (Marketing) of Indian Oil Corporation Limited.

Kilachand ceases to be Director, Kesar Enterprises Ltd
Ms M H Kilachand has ceased to be a Director of Kesar Enterprises Limited.

Ms Poojary ceases to be Nominee Director, PSL Ltd
EXIM Bank has withdrawn Ms Geeta Poojary as Nominee Director on the Board of Directors of PSL Ltd.

Makwana appointed CS, Sundaram Multi Pap Ltd
Sundaram Multi Pap Limited has appointed Manik Makwana as Company Secretary of the company.

Dayal ceases to be Director (Manufacturing Business), Balmer Lawrie & Company Ltd
Anand Dayal has ceased to be Director (Manufacturing Business) of Balmer Lawrie & Company Ltd.

Gopalakrishnan ceases to be MD, WEP Solutions Ltd
P K Gopalakrishnan has ceased to be Managing Director of WEP Solutions Ltd.

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DEBATE (1) Retirement Age

With better healthcare facilities retirement age needs to be raised to 62 rather than reducing it to 58.

Vinod Sachdeva IFS(1987) Retired

DEBATE (2) Retirement Age

In this unemployment ridden country this step of reduction of lowering of the age for superannuation should be welcome and be implemented at the earliest.

Kishori Lal

DEBATE (3) Retirement Age

Making retirement age 58 from 60 is very pragmatic idea in view of slowing down of performance and service oriented mindset. Instead of opinion on this count a silent survey would reveal as to how people in government come to yawn and bother about their kids, family issues, retirement plans and related issues than being sincere to their responsibilities. I have seen youngsters clouded by fears of future deliver the services single minded and and most professional ways. Govt. offices are more often taken as leisure hubs yet assured lucrative pastime. Let the Govt. decide to bring in youngsters by reducing retirement age to 58.

Sudesh Kumar

Friendly, wise and resolute voice of caution

Raghuram Rajan, the Governor of the RBI. The friendly, wise and resolute voice of caution. He is the Government's true ally. To our admiration for his intellectual capacity is now added our admiration for his sterling qualities of wisdom, prescience and good will towards all.

Vijay Kumar

Revamp central staffing scene

Revamp central staffing scene in a federal system at least on subjects in concurrent list there should be provision for reputation from state services an officer of defense estate service framing new education policy where as field experience of distance education officer could be more gainful.

Dr. L. R Aggarwal

Retirement age in Kerala is 58 years

For Saharsh Choudhary's information, the retirement age of employees of Government of Kerala is 58 years now, earlier it was 55 years, it has been increased by Oommen Chandy Governent.

Raj

Government should ponder over this

Government (State & Central) should ponder over this, have discussions at all levels talking into consideration the social level at the time of appointment , present & future of the employees and then should arrive at a decision. It should not be at the whims and fancies of who so ever government takes charge. When kitty is empty granting extension while voter mood is in favour going for the reverse send wrong signals to the public at large.

N V K Prabhakar

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