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I'm a regular follower of whispers in the corridor. Its updates are very useful. If whispers in the corridors also includes various vacancies in central and various state governments on deputations on regular basis, the same will add on to it .

Dinesh Meena

Double speak vis-à-vis Dr. Manmohan Singh!
People who never used to be tired admiring the former PM Dr Manmohan Singh can now be heard saying that he created a mess during his Prime Ministership.

Modi - an outright businessman!
During a discussion - whether Narendra Modi is a Prime Minister or a businessman, the reply was - every Gujarati is a businessman and so is Modi.

Meeting to select Spl Director, ED is inconclusive!
Meeting convened by CVC on Tuesday to select Special Director, ED remained inconclusive. Name of one IRS (C&CE) is in circulation.

Dr. Anil Sahasrabudhe to be Chairman of AICTE
Dr. Anil Sahasrabudhe of Pune will be new Chairman of the AICTE.The ACC has cleared his name.

BUREAUCRACY

Empanelment of 1985 batch IPS this month
Empanelment of 1985 batch IPS officers to the rank of ADG in the Government of India is expected to take place this month end.

51 IAS officers of 1985 batch empanelled as Additional Secretary in GoI
As many as 51 IAS officers belonging to 1985 batch have been empanelled for the posts of Additional Secretary in Government of India. The officers are: Sailesh, M G V Bhanu, Kumar Sanjay Krishna of Assam-Meghalaya cadre; Sameer Sharma, R Subrahmanyam, Veena Ish of Andhra Pradesh cadre; Shashi Shekhar Sharma and J Rama Krishna Rao of Bihar cadre; N Baijendra Kumar of Chhattisgarh; Anil Gopilshankar Mukim, Atanu Chakraborty, Ananad Mohan Tiwari and Girish Chandra Murmu of Gujarat cadre; Surina Rajan, P Raghavendra Rao, Prasanta Kumar Mahapatra of Haryana cadre; Amit Khare and Sudhir Tripathi of Jharkhand cadre; Krishna Ballabha Agarwal of Jammu and Kashmir cadre; Ajay Kumar and Inder Jit Singh of Kerala cadre; N Sivasailam, Pradeep Singh Kharola, Yogendra Tripathiof Karnataka cadre; Sanjay Bhatia and Kavita Gupta of Maharashtra; Ramnganging Muivah of Manipur cadre; Vipin Kumar Saxena, Upendra Prasad Singh, Surendera Nath Tripathi of Orissa cadre; Arun Goel, Chhabilendra Roul, Satish Chandra, Kalpana Mittal Baruha of Punjab cadre; Badri Narain Sharma, Kiran Soni Gupta, Madhukar Gupta, Suha Sharma of Rajasthan; Pushpa Subrahmanyam and Heera Lal Samariya of Telangana cadre; C Chandramouli, Rajeev Ranjan of Tamil Nadu; Sanjeev Ranjan of TR; Anup Wadhavan of Uttarakhand; Rajendra Kumar Tiwari, Bhupendra Singh, Deepak Trivedi, Shailiin Prasad and Anita Bhatnagar Jain of UP cadre; Arun Goyal and M M Kutty of UT cadre.

3 IAS officers of 1985 batch empanelled for Addl Secretary equivalent posts in GoI
Three IAS officers belonging to 1985 batch have been empanelled for Additional Secretary equivalent posts in Government of India. The officers are: Shreeanjan of Assam-Meghalaya cadre; Suthirtha Bhhattacharya of Telangana cadre and Pradip Ramdas Bhaviskar of West Bengal cadre.

6 IAS officers from 1981 to 1984 batch empanelled as Addl Secretary in GoI
As many as six IAS officers from 1981 batch to 1984 batch have been empanelled for the posts of Additional Secretary in Government of India. The officers include: Rakesh Srivastava, 1981 batch of Rajasthan cadre; Ajay Mittal, 1982 batch of Himachal Pradesh; Arun Kumar, 1983 of Assam-Meghalaya cadre; Subhas Sharma, Ajoy Kumar of Bihar cadre and Arvind Mehta of 1984 batch of HP cadre.

Alka Panda empanelled for Addl Secretary equivalent post in GoI
Ms Alka Panda has been empanelled for the Additional Secretary equivalent posts in Government of India. She is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Orissa cadre.

Jai Priya Prakash empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Jai Priya Prakash has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

T Y Das empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Ms T Y Das has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. She is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

Girish Shankar empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Girish Shankar has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Rashmi Verma empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Rashmi Verma has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. Verma is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Naveen Verma empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Naveen Verma has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Ramesh Abhishek empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Ramesh Abhishek has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Tapan Ray empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Tapan Ray has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.

Amarjit Singh empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Amarjit Singh has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.

Depinder Singh Dheshi empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Depinder Singh Dheshi has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

Krishan Kumar Jalan empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Krishan Kumar Jalan has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

Rajiv Gauba empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Rajiv Gauba has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre.

Aruna Sundarajan empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Aruna Sundarajan has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. Arunais a 1982 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.

Shobhana K Pattanayak empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Shobhana K Pattanayak has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. Pattanayak is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

G Latha Krishna Rao empanelled as Secretary in GoI
G Latha Krishna Rao has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. Rao is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Gurucharana empanelled as Secretary in GoI
G Gurucharan has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Ajay Narayana Jha empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Ajay Narayan Jha has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Manipur cadre.

Jitendra Shankar Mathur empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Jitendra Shankar Mathur has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Vinod Zutshi empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Vinod Zutshi has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Ms Leena Nair empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Ms Leena Nair has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. She is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Rohit Nandan empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Rohit Nandan has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Pravir Kumar empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Pravir Kumar has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

J S Deepak empanelled as Secretary in GoI
J S Deepak has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Neeraj Kumar Gupta empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Neeraj Kumar Gupta has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Avinash K Srivastava empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Avinash K Srivastava has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Dinesh Singh empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Dinesh Singh has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Prabhas Kumar Jha empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Prabhas Kumar Jha has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

M Sathiyavarthy empanelled as Secretary in GoI
M Sathiyavarthy has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. She is a 1982 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Hem Kumar Pande empanelled as Secretary in GoI
Hem Kumar Pande has been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Sudhir Kumar empanelled for Secretary equivalent posts in GoI
Sudhir Kumar has been empanelled for Secretary equivalent posts in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Dalip Singh empanelled for Secretary equivalent posts in GoI
Dalip Singh has been empanelled for Secretary equivalent posts in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

G Elias empanelled for Secretary equivalent posts in GoI
G Elias has been empanelled for Secretary equivalent posts in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.

Anand B Kulkarni empanelled for Secretary equivalent posts in GoI
Anand B Kulkarni has been empanelled for Secretary equivalent posts in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

Gautam Chhatterjee empanelled for Secretary equivalent posts in GoI
Gautam Chhatterjee has been empanelled for Secretary equivalent posts in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

Vinod Kumar Thakral empanelled for Secretary equivalent posts in GoI
Vinod Kumar Thakral has been empanelled for Secretary equivalent posts in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Manipur cadre.

Ajay Nath empanelled for Secretary equivalent posts in GoI
Ajay Nath has been empanelled for Secretary equivalent posts in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

C B Venkataraman empanelled for Secretary equivalent posts in GoI
C B Venkataramana has been empanelled for Secretary equivalent posts in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Telangana cadre.

B P Sharma is also Secretary, AYUSH
B P Sharma, Secretary, Health, has been assigned an additional charge of Secretary, Ministry of AYUSH. He is a 1981 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Amarjit Gautam deputed as GM, DFCCIL
Amarjit Gautam has been deputed to Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL) as General Manager (IT), New Delhi. He is an IRAS officer.

Avani Bhushan Gupta deputed as GM, RITES
Avani Bhushan Gupta has been deputed to RITES as General Manager (Civil) at Nagpur. He is an IRSE officer.

Justice Subhro Kamal Mukherjee appointed as CJ of Karnataka High Court (UPDATED)
Justice Subhro Kamal Mukherjee, senior-most Judge of the Karnataka High Court, has been appointed as Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court.

Kumar Tuhin is new Aambassador to Nambia (UPDATED)
Kumar Tuhin (lFS: 1991) presently Joint Secretary has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Namibia.

Reshuffle of IAS officers in Rajasthan (UPDATED)
As many as 11 IAS officers have been transferred and posted at different places in Rajasthan. Accordingly, Om Prakash Saini has been appointed as Commissioner Housing Board while Jagdish Chandra Mohanty will now be Principal Secretary, Public Health Engineering and Anand Kumar is Secretary and Commissioner, Panchayatiraj. Similarly, Bhaskar Atmaram Sawant has been appointed as CMD, Jaipur Power Distribution Corporation Limited; Rajesh Kumar Yadav as CMD, Rajasthan State Road Transport Corportion; Dr Prithavi Raj as Director, State Insurance and Provident Fund; sudhir Kumar Sharma as MD, Rajasthan Medical Services Corporatoin Limited, Jaipur; Mahavir Prasad Swami as Director, ICDS; Madan Singh Kala as Executive Director, Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Finance and Development Corporation; Hanumant Singh Bhati as Director, Literacy and Sustainable Education; Mrs Nivedita Mehru as Director, Science & Technology and Jagdish Chandra Desai was made Secretary, Rajasthan Human Rights Commission.

Anurag Bhardwaj deputed as Director, Watershed Development in Rajasthan (UPDATED)
Anurag Bhardwaj has been deputed as Director, Watershed Development and Soil Conservation Department, Jaipur in Rajasthan. He is a 1993 batch IFS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Mandeep Bhandari appointed as Commissioner, Food Safety in J&K (UPDATED)
Mandeep Kumar Bhandari has been assigned an additional charge of Commissioner, Food Safety in Jammu & Kashmir. He is a 2001 batch IAS officer of J&K cadre.

B S Canth selected as Director (Mktg), IOCL (UPDATED)
B S Canth, ED, IOCL, has been selected for the post of Director (Marketing), Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on June 24, 2015. As many as 11 persons were interviewed for the same.

Mrs Prajakta Lavangare Verma gets premature repatriation (UPDATED)
Mrs Prajakta Lavangare Verma, Deputy Director General of Shipping (Legal & Finance) in the office of Directorate of General of Shipping, Mumbai, has been given a pre-mature repatriation to her parent cadre. She is a 2001 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

DEBATE

Bureaucracy in UPA regime and under NDA government

Is functioning of bureaucracy better under the present NDA rule or in the UPA regime.
Send your brief specific views to mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com or suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com

CORPORATE

Dennis A. Muilenburg is new Chairman of Boeing
Dennis A. Muilenburg has been elected as new chief executive officer (CEO of the Boeing. He would succeed W.James McNerney as the new CEO as from July 1.

Ms Prasad appointed Part-time Official Director of Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd
Ms Sujata Prasad has been appointed as Nominee of Union Ministry of Coal on the Board of Directors of Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited as Part-time Official Director

Roy is RBI Nominee Director on UBI Board
Arnab Roy, Chief General Manager and Regional Director of Reserve Bank of India, Jaipur has been nominated as the RBI Nominee Director on the Board of Directors of United Bank of India

Nath appointed CS of Lancor Holdings Ltd
Lancor Holdings Ltd has appointed Pradeep Kumar Nath as Company Secretary of the company.

Bhanja appointed Independent Director of Moser Baer India Ltd
Moser Baer India Ltd has appointed Samrish Bhanja as an Independent and Non-executive Director of the company.

Mohanchandran appointed GM of Taj Krishna, Hyderabad
K Mohanchandran has been appointed General Manager of Taj Krishna, Hyderabad

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DEBATE (1)

Bureaucrats shall always have a field day whether it is NDA Government or UPA government. In this regime, Narendra Modi is one in all in the government.

SC Tripathi Secretary, Security in GoI (Retd)


DEBATE (2)

In NDA government there is too much interference from PMO and the top beaurocracy is shy of taking important decisions.

Minakshi


Using railway land

Railways has huge chunk of land .They should use it at least for plantation of teak, babul,eucalyptus trees so that it is environmental friendly and costs less and encroachments can be avoided so that railway land will be protected.

Samuel

Number of PS postings - Food for thought for Pay Commission

I agree with VP Sharma that the number of Sr. PPS/PPS/PSs posted in a Secretary's office should depend on the quantum of work of the Secretary. This should be considered by the Pay Commission. Secretaries of smaller departments should have one Sr. PPS/PPS/PS but bigger Ministries like Home, Finance, Environment, Forests & Climate Change, Defence, HRD, etc. should have additional hands in the Office of the Secretary either as another Sr. PPS/PPS/PS or a Staff Officer, as they are practically having more than one Department under them. The staff officer could be from CSS or AIS. Job profile and level of Staff Officer could be worked out by the Pay Commission. Ideally it should be co-terminus with the tenure of Secretary and the Secretary should have a say in the posting of the Staff Officer.

Regarding merger of CSSS and CSS, I think Personal Assistants (Stenographers Grade C) are already entitled to write the Section Officers' Exam conducted by the UPSC. If they are capable, they can get into CSS. But once a stenographer reaches the position of Private Secretary (which is a gazetted rank and equivalent to Section Officer), he becomes unfit for holding the post of Section Officer because of his lack of proper experience. However, as was the practice in the past, some selected PSs could be posted as Section Officer or PPSs as Under Secretary for a couple of years. This can also be considered by the Pay Commission.

Pradeep

Will veteran get OROP?

Thanks 'whispers' for covering veteran cause. It is believed that OROP has been put in cold at the time of PM & Former PM meet. One can assume the govt stand on OROP if one understands that "in South Block, Ministry of Defence itself where Raksha Mantri and PM have their offices; there is zero ex-serviceman on job in place of their 10% reserved job quota in class 'C' positions, there should be 1000s of veterans if PM or RM are sincere to soldiers". Therefore, NDA and UPA are same. Neither soldiers nor government orders have any meaning to them. It is like 'diya tale andhera'.

Murari Chaturvedi

Petition to clear One Rank, One Pension Rule

Army veterans' pension should not depend on the year in which they retired. The one rank, one pension rule means that retired soldiers of the same rank and length of service will receive the same pension, regardless of when they retire. As of now, the date of retirement determines the amount of pension. With each Pay Commission coming up with its recommendations every 10 years, the military veterans who retire early, receive less pension as compared to those who retired later with the same rank and length of service So far the forces have always been neglected because they were never perceived as a constituency - even ESM, leave alone serving personnel and their families. Now with the constant clamor from various ex servicemen organisations, the political class under the BJP government has taken notice. Very soon we'll be perceived as constituency also provided we value our votes even while serving. The real stumbling block is the bureaucracy, particularly the IAS types backed by the finance guys. They pose real challenge to the political class, whom the IAS consider as tenants of power-dom; the ownership of real power actually vesting in them (IAS), as they gleefully though subtly acclaim. If OROP is cleared with strings attached, it could be used for denying various future benefits, scrupulously or unscrupulously. The greatest challenge for the PM and his ministers will be to put the bureaucracy in its proper place on this matter of national interest.

By Navinder Narang (Change.org)

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