More about private secretaries of 3 ministers -- Amit Shah, Smriti Irani and Jitendra Singh

THE Central government last week appointed private secretaries of three prominent ministers — home minister, Amit Shah, textiles minister, Smriti Irani and DoPT and DoNER minister, Jitendra Singh. Here below are the details:

1995 batch Bihar IAS and doctorate in plant pathology B Rajender appointed in Indian Embassy, Rome

Rome, Italy (Photo Courtesy: David Iliff, Wikipedia)

B Rajender, 1995 batch Bihar cadre IAS, has been appointed as Minister (Agriculture) in Embassy of India in Rome, Italy. His appointment is for a period of three years. Minister is a post usually equivalent to a GoI joint secretary. Rajender, 51, originally belongs to…

IPS Nishant Kumar Tiwary appointed in UIDAI; IRS Customs officer finds berth in steel ministry

ON Thursday, the government approved the appointment of a customs officer in the ministry of steel, and then an Indian Police Service officer in UIDAI, and also extended the tenure of an Indian Postal Service officer in the department of chemicals and petrochemicals. Girraj Prasad Meena, 2004 batch Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise) officer, was appointed as…

NHAI chairman Deepak Kumar prematurely repatriated; is Kumar the new Bihar chief secretary?

Deepak Kumar

IN A major bureaucratic reshuffle, the government on Wednesday prematurely repatriated chairman of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and 1984 batch Bihar cadre IAS, Deepak Kumar, to his parent cadre with “immediate effect”. By the same order, Kumar was replaced by Yudhvir Singh Malik, who will hold the NHAI chairman’s post in addition to…

3 IAS prematurely repatriated in 2 days; Santosh Mathew, Kalpana Awasthi sent back to cadres

THE government on Tuesday prematurely repatriated two IAS officers — A Santosh Mathew of 1985 batch Bihar cadre and Kalpana Awasthi, 1990 batch Uttar Pradesh cadre — to their parent cadres. Only on Monday, the ACC had approved the premature repatriation of Utpal Kumar Singh, 1986 batch Uttarakhand cadre IAS and additional secretary in the department of agriculture, cooperation and farmers’ welfare to his parent cadre. That means, in two days three senior IAS officers were prematurely repatriated to…

Know more about the first three 2000 batch IAS posted as GoI joint secretaries

UNION joint secretary is a position being held by officers with a wide age-gap; they belong to a seniority gap of 10 to 12 years as well. With the three 2000 batch IAS officers getting appointed as GoI joint secretaries just days after 26 of the batch got empaneled, they are without doubt the junior-most, if not the youngest. Know more about these three 2000 batch IAS — Dr N Saravana Kumar (Bihar cadre), Niranjan Kumar Sudhansu (Maharashtra cadre) and S Suresh Kumar (Andhra Pradesh cadre): 

4 IAS repatriated to Bihar; 1 IAS allowed to change name; and another gets nod for cadre change on grounds of marriage

THE government on Wednesday decided to repatriate four Bihar cadre IAS officers, two of them — Sunil Kumar Singh of 1983 batch and Dr Subhas Sharma of 1984 batch — being very senior, as their batch mates are already union secretaries. The repatriation order approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, came in less than a month after the change of government in Patna with chief minister Nitish Kumar deciding to junk its ally RJD and partnering with its old ally, the BJP. The two other IAS officers who were also repatriated to Bihar on Wednesday were…

IAS officer Jitendra Gupta seeks cadre change from Bihar on grounds of “threat to life and property”; DoPT seeks IB report

AFTER 2013 batch IAS officer Dr Jitendra Gupta sought cadre change from Bihar to Haryana on the grounds of extreme hardship including “threat to life and property”, a committee headed by union personnel secretary has decided to seek a report from the Intelligence Bureau (IB) regarding such threats before taking a call on the proposal, according to the minutes of the meeting held on May 1. The exact nature of the threat and who threatened the IAS officer were however not mentioned in the minutes of the  meeting. Here below are eight cases of inter cadre deputation, repatriation etc. including that of Gupta:

“No” to inter cadre transfer request of Bihar cadre IPS Saurav Kumar Shah; “Yes” to Jayshree Bhoj’s request for premature repatriation

NOT allowing the inter cadre transfer of 2009 batch Bihar cadre IPS Saurav Kumar Shah on grounds of marriage to AGMUT cadre IAS Ms Tanvi Garg -- to give its nod to premature repatriation of Jayshree Bhoj, 2003 batch Maharashtra cadre IAS from Uttar Pradesh cadre to Maharashtra cadre, a high-powered DoPT committee headed by its secretary last week took a call on seven proposals on cadre change, inter cadre deputation etc. Here are those 7 decisions, according to the minutes of the meeting held on March 29.

4 new appointments; repatriation of 1982 batch IAS Amitabh Verma to Bihar; and full list of 32 JS vacancies

REPATRIATED: Verma

ON FRIDAY, the Centre announced the repatriation of 1982 batch Bihar cadre IAS officer, serving as chairman of Inland Waterways Authority of India under the ministry of shipping, to his parent cadre Bihar “with immediate effect”. And the government found his replacement: 1983 batch AGMUT cadre IAS Ms Nutan Guha Biswas. Meanwhile, there are 32 joint secretary-level vacancies at the Centre. Here below are the details of new appointments, repatriation and full list of 32 JS vacancies:

Bihar government is contemplating to hand over paper leak case to CBI to appease anger of senior IAS officers

WITH IAS officers’ revolt in Bihar against the arrest of their colleague and 1987 batch IAS Sudhir Kumar getting louder every passing day, the state government has been contemplating to hand over the case to the CBI as it could appease the anger of the top bureaucrats running the state administration. The revolt of the top bureaucrats in the state was palpable after the IAS officers decided not to take any verbal instructions from any higher office, including the office of the chief minister. And then on Sunday, about 50 IAS officers were seen…

Bihar IAS Sudhir Kumar arrested in a paper leak scam; IAS Association slams arrest, calls Kumar “honest and sincere”

BIHAR branch of IAS Officer’s Association has said, it is “deeply angered and anguished” at the late-night arrest of 1987 batch IAS and chairman of Bihar Staff Selection Commission Sudhir Kumar, demanding that the case be transferred to the CBI for the sake of justice, independence and fair play. Kumar was arrested on Friday at Hazaribagh in neighbouring Jharkhand by the state-government-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) in connection with a case of…

DoPT realizes its error; asks IAS Karuna Kumari to apply for deputation to Bihar only in Feb 2017

CENTRE’S personnel department, DoPT, has said that 2010 batch Assam-Meghalaya cadre IAS Dr (Ms) Karuna Kumari has to wait for one more year before applying for an inter-cadre deputation to her home cadre, Bihar, on compassionate grounds, after the department realized it had made a mistake earlier. The mistake is dated back to November 9, 2015 when a secretary-headed panel of the department inadvertently mentioned that the officer Ms Kumari was...

Secretary Reshuffle: Ramesh Abhishek is new DIPP secretary; finance secretary Watal gets 2-month extension

Ramesh Abhishek

IN A secretary-level reshuffle undertaken on Thursday night, the government appointed 1982 batch Bihar cadre IAS Ramesh Abhishek as the successor of Amitabh Kant in DIPP, the department that has been handling government initiatives such as Make in India and Ease of Doing Business. In another development, the government decided to extend the tenure of…

Govt finds good reason for 2002 batch IAS Pratima Satish Kumar Verma's deputation, but unsure – for how long?

THE government has found a unique glitch while considering the proposal of an inter-cadre deputation of 2002 batch Bihar cadre IAS Ms Pratima Satish Kumar Verma from Bihar to Karnataka cadre. The government of Bihar has already issued its formal consent, but a panel headed by DoPT secretary Sanjay Kothari in a meeting held on December 16, found…

How to mentor a Deputy CM: IAS Sudhir Kumar appointed as principal secretary to Tejashwi’s dept

Sudhir Kumar, 2nd from right (file photo)

Sudhir Kumar, a 1982 batch Bihar cadre IAS and the one who as OSD to Lalu Prasad helped the Bihar politician taking credit of Indian Railways’ turnaround between 2004-2009, was on Wednesday given a new assignment – Bihar’s principal secretary of the road construction department, one of the three departments being handled by Lalu Prasad’s younger son and state’s deputy chief minister Tejashwi Prasad Yadav. Meanwhile, Sudhir Kumar who is set to retire on March next year, has been elevated the rank of a…

Poll-bound Bihar has 41 IPS vacancies; 39 Bihar cadre IPS officers are serving outside the state

AK Sinha, legendary Bihar cop

WITH the Election Commission of India likely to announce the dates of high-voltage Bihar assembly polls next week, BoI attempts to assess the strength of the Indian Police Service (IPS) officers in the state. After all, political slugfest over crimes in Bihar has already begun during the recent political rallies which were addressed by heavyweights across parties. As many as 190 IPS officers have currently been working under Bihar cadre out of which 39 IPS including CBI director AK Sinha and other seniors such as Rajiv Ranjan Verma of 1978 batch and Krishna Choudhary of 1979 batch have been on…

Why such a large-scale IAS, IPS transfer ahead of Bihar assembly poll? BJP’s state unit questions, complains

BIHAR elections are yet to take off officially, but the heat is already on. A delegation led by the Opposition Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) met Chief Electoral Officer of Bihar in Patna on Wednesday. The reason: to lodge a strong protest against large-scale transfer of IAS and IPS officers ahead of the state assembly polls. The delegation demanded that those IAS and IPS officers who have served…

Over 30 NDA MPs move privilege notice in Lok Sabha against Bihar IAS Sudhir Kumar; 10 Things to Know

Kumar (2nd from right), Lalu Prasad (left) among others (File Photo)

IN A rare instance, over 30 MPs of the BJP and its allies from Bihar moved a privilege notice in Lok Sabha against 1982 batch IAS officer Sudhir Kumar, now member of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), alleging that the senior bureaucrat “insulted” the law makers over a discussion on the condition of Bihar’s road projects. Kumar, 59, in his capacity as officer on special duty (OSD) to the then railways minister Lalu Yadav during the UPA-I, played a key role in the Indian Railways’ “turnaround” saga. Here are 10 things about this new Neta-Babu row:

Jalebi Chowk is located nearer to Modi’s or Rajnath’s cabin? BoI Quiz answers many a query on power corridors

KINDLY take a close look at this photo captured by an unnamed government photographer in New Delhi. An additional secretary-ranked officer is seen lying here. But why? Why is he closing his eyes? Is he relaxing, by any chance? Maybe not. Here are some hints to the quiz: The IAS officer in the photo belongs to 1983 batch. And of Bihar cadre. During the NDA regime of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, this officer was a…