a)
ASHOK Chawla, a 1973 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre and current finance secretary, will hold
additional charge of the post of Secretary, department of revenue under the ministry of finance during the period from 17th August, 2009 to 28th August, 2009 when revenue secretary
P V Bhide, a 1973 batch Andhra Pradesh cadre IAS, will remain
on leave.
b) The extension of appointment of
Dr C Chandramouli, a 1985 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IAS as OSD in the Office of the RGI, in the rank and pay of Joint Secretary has been approved for a period of three months beyond July 9, 2009.
c) The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved, ex-post-facto, for entrusting additional charge of the post of Development Commissioner, Dahej Special Economic Zone under Department of Commerce to
S N Patil IOFS (1988), Joint Development Commissioner, Kandla SEZ, in addition to his own charge, for a period of three months beyond June 15, 2009 or till such time as the post is filled up on a regular basis.
d) The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet
has not approved the proposal of the Ministry of Coal for extension of tenure of
Rajiv Sharma, a 1976 batch IAS and additional secretary in the ministry of coal.
e) The inter cadre deputation of
Ajoy Sharma, a Punjab Cadre IAS of 1999 batch from Punjab to AGMUT cadre for appointment as Joint Secretary (Finance), Chandigarh for a period of three years, has been approved.
f) The Inter-Cadre deputation of
Har Sahay Meena, a 1997 batch IAS of Tamil Nadu cadre, from Tamil Nadu to Rajasthan cadre has been approved for a period of 3 years.
g) The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the proposal of the ministry of home affairs for
in-situ upgradation of the following officers belonging to the 1974 and 1975 batches of the Indian Police Service as Director General of Police in the pay scale of Rs 75500-80000. They are:
(i)
R K Mathur, IPS (CH, 1974), presently working as Director, NCRB(ADG level)
(ii)
R Bagchi, IPS (WB, 1975), presently working as Additional Director in IB.
(iii)
A B Mathur, IPS (MT, 1975), presently working as Additional Secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat.
(iv)
O P S Malik, IPS (UP, 1975), presently working as DG, NCB (ADG level).
A LAST minute decision of debarring public servants from receiving state awards by the Chhattisgarh government forced an IAS officer to face the humiliation of reaching an award venue only to return empty handed. A Chhattisgarh cadre IAS officer of 1999 batch Sonmoni Borah reached an award function in state capital Raipur on November 1 only to realise that his name was deleted at the last moment reportedly at the behest of a few senior IAS officials close to chief minister Raman Singh.
Shahid Veer Narayan Singh Award, which is conferred every year on the state’s Foundation Day, was earlier received by an IPS officer Ramesh Sharma, now IG of Bilaspur. Mr Borah, the Bilaspur district collector, was selected for this year's Shahid Veer Narayan Singh Award for his “exemplary service in the field of development” among tribal and backward communities by a committee under the chairmanship of Sohan Potai, a tribal MP from Kanker and four other tribal MLAs.
Significantly, diktat from the Chhattisgarh government came at a time when Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT), which maintains the profiles of IAS officers, has decided to include awards, citations, articles, books etc.in the Executive Record Sheets, or ER sheets of IAS.
Sources said that Borah’s name was deleted at the last moment following a section of senior civil servants of the state raising an objection and conveying their views to chief minister Raman Singh who was then in South Africa.