Babus’ retirement home? The more things change, the more they stay the same. The Niti Aayog under the Modi sarkar is progressively beginning to resemble its earlier Planning Commission avatar at least in one aspect – as a favoured home for retired babus. According to sources, the buzz is that Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar and […]
Jet falling into SBI’s lap for eventual sale has drawn more attention to the reappointment of Ashwani Lohani as chairman and managing director of Air India and it continues to be talked about in babu circles. Mr Lohani had already served as CMD of Air India before being appointed as Chairman of the Railway Board, […]
In his long battle against the establishment, senior Haryana IAS officer and noted whistleblower Ashok Khemka has undergone many trying times. In his famously peripatetic career in the civil service, Mr Khemka has been transferred more than 50 times, six times during the tenure of the current BJP government in the state. So, it was […]
The Modi government’s move on lateral entry into government is inching along. Out of the 6,000 applicants from the private sector who applied for 10 posts of Joint Secretary in the Central government last year, 89 have been shortlisted, sources say. These posts are in revenue, financial services, economic affairs, agriculture and farmers welfare, road […]
Though the government simplified the process of filing immovable property returns for babus in 2016, there has not been much change in their attitude. Despite the expiry of deadline for filing immovable property returns (IPRs) for 2018, 340 IAS officers are yet to file their details. The last date for submitting IPRs for 2018 was […]
Endless wait -Two senior IAS officers in Govt of India and one from UT cadre are yet to get their next posting even as their successors have been appointed. According to sources, Sanjay Kumar Singh, a 1987-batch IAS officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre was replaced by Ansuli Arya, a 1989-batch IAS officer at the […]
SC on excessive babu ‘bias’ The Supreme Court has questioned the propensity of the government to fill posts of information commissioners for the Central Information Commission (CIC) and state information commissions with mostly bureaucrats. It said the selection of Information Commissioners for the CIC and State ICs should include people of eminence from various fields […]
Mixed-up confusion! Days after the Modi sarkar firmly claimed that the National Sample Survey Office’s (NSSO) labour survey report was a mere “draft” and not the final word as being widely reported, Labour and Employment Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar stated in Lok Sabha that the National Statistical Commission (NSC) had approved the report. Rather awkward […]
A new Niti Aayog? Former finance secretary and ex-Finance Commission chairman Vijay Kelkar has suggested a revamp of Niti Aayog and creating a new organization which, unlike the present avatar, can allocate capital and revenue grants to the states. Interestingly the suggestion has come less than five years after the government replaced Planning Commission with […]
Mayawati has always had twin political hallmarks. The first, her legendry ability to turn her support base into votes for her and her party, BSP; the second, her enigmatic inaccessibility. So, when Mayawati chooses to ascend into the portals of Twitter, it is a significant moment. Yes, both for her and for Twitter. The question […]