Day 6 of Missing Helicopter in Arunachal Pradesh: “Who cares if an IAS on duty goes missing in jungles of India’s Far East?”

TODAY (Sunday) is the Day 6 of a Pawan Hans helicopter going missing in Arunachal Pradesh with deputy commissioner of Tirap and 2010 batch IAS Kamlesh Joshi on board. The world moves on: Loggerheads in Parliament, heat on forthcoming Bihar polls, tension in LoC, iPhone-maker Foxconn’s proposed USD 5 billion-investment in Maharashtra, Swachh Bharat ranking of cities, and yes, England’s massive victory to wrest the Ashes. No one seems to have bothered about an IAS officer going missing. After all, the incident took place not in Delhi or Mumbai but in jungles of Arunachal Pradesh, the eastern-most state of North-east of India, or more appropriately of Far East of India? BoI wrote on Day 2 of the incident how…

Pawan Hans chopper with IAS Kamlesh Joshi on board goes missing in Tirap of Arunachal Pradesh

Kamlesh Joshi, IAS

A PAWAN HANS helicopter with deputy commissioner of Arunachal Pradesh’s Tirap district, Kamlesh Joshi on board went missing after taking off from the district headquarters Khonsa on Tuesday. Joshi, a 2010 batch AGMUT cadre IAS officer, joined as DC in this insurgency-infested district in June 2013. As this report is being written, as many as four choppers including two from…

IRS officer Prabhat Kumar explains a unique modus operandi used by a woman employee to dupe Pawan Hans Ltd

IN TODAY’S world, a scam worth Rs 1.30 crore does not make headlines. But the kind of modus operandi used by a lady contractual employee to dupe India’s leading state-run helicopter company Pawan Hans Ltd (PHL) for a period of five years between 2008 and 2013, is worth writing. Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer Prabhat Kumar, currently serving as chief vigilance officer (CVO) in Pawan Hans Ltd, has given a detailed account of the lady assistant’s modus operandi in...

Pawan Hans On A Profit Path: Shouldn't IAS officers get some credit?

New CMD Bhullar

EARLY this month, 1986 batch UP cadre IAS Balwinder Singh Bhullar took over as Chairman and Managing Director of Pawan Hans Ltd, now a profit-making and dividend-paying PSU with GoI holding 51% equity and the ONGC the rest of 49%. Bhullar who had earlier worked as joint secretary in the ministry of finance, succeeds another IAS officer, Anil Shrivastava of Madhya Pradesh cadre. Whereas the IAS officers are often blamed for the Air India’s chronic ailment, Pawan Hans turns into an interesting case study where…