Know Your IAS: Dr Rohit Yadav of Chhattisgarh cadre is PS to civil aviation minister Suresh Prabhu

Dr Rohit Yadav, 2002 batch Chhattisgarh cadre IAS officer, has been appointed as private secretary to civil aviation minister Suresh Prabhu. Yadav will get the rank of a Government of India director. An MBBS in clinical pathology before getting into IAS, Yadav originally belongs to…

Why DGCA’s inspectors love to be on surveillance duties on Fridays and Mondays?

TWO years after a CBI probe on free-ticket scam covering large number of officials of India’s civil aviation regulator DGCA, there has been yet another embarrassment for the regulator, as it has come to light that the airline surveillance inspectors have been regularly taking free rides on weekends at the expense of private airlines. They do the surveillance on Friday, reach the destination they wish to go, spend the weekend there and then take the return flight (...and do the duty on air) on Monday. A DGCA notice calls it "inappropriate". The Times of India on Monday front-paged the story giving details about the modus-operandi of DGCA inspectors’ weekend holidays. More here:

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…

One Year, Many Circulars: Hunt for a JS-level officer to head Raebareli-based aviation university continues

ON SEPTEMBER 3, 2014, DoPT issued a circular to state chief secretaries and union secretaries to nominate eligible candidates for the post of project director (joint secretary level) at Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University (RGNAU) to be located at Raebareli, which is incidentally Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s Lok Sabha constituency. It would have passed as just another office circular, had the government not issued at least four such circulars earlier to hunt for…

Govt becomes flexible as no joint secretary-ranked officer wants to be shifted out to Raebareli

WITH no joint secretary-ranked officer willing to be stationed in Uttar Pradesh’s Raebareli as the project director of yet-to-be-built Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University (RGNAU), the government has now given flexibility on the posting by issuing a fresh circular on March 19, 2014, whereby there is no insistence that the selected officer would be based out of Raebareli. The hunt for a joint secretary-level person for the Raebareli project actually began on…

No taker for JS level job at Raebareli? DoPT re-circulates RGNAU vacancy notice

SURPRISING! There is no taker for a high-ranked bureaucrat’s job located at Raebareli, arguably one of the major political hotspots that elects Congress president Sonia Gandhi to Lok Sabha. After one and half months of the DoPT issuing a vacancy circular for the post of…

A joint secretary ranked officer wanted in Raebareli. Will he fly high?

ARGUABLY India’s most powerful bureaucrat and principal secretary to PM Pulok Chatterji was the district magistrate of Raebareli, traditional bastion of Gandhi-Nehru family. That was three decades ago. He was an outstanding officer from day one, but his proximity to Gandhi family has always contributed to his excellence in bureaucratic career. For joint secretary-ranked officers, here is a chance to take up a job at Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh where…

Applications invited from JS level officers to take up assignment in Canada

A Flight to Montreal

FOR joint secretary level officers, here is a chance to board a flight to Canada, quite literally. The government is proposing to fill the post of Representative of India in Council of International Civil Aviation Organization at the level of a joint secretary. The selected candidate will be based out of Montreal in Canada.

If a joint secretary level officer has completed at least two years under Central Staffing Scheme and is below 54 years, he or she will be eligible for the post, according to a DoPT circular dated March 19, 2012. The other eligibility criteria include two years of experience in the field of civil aviation. If a joint secretary level officer is already on a foreign assignment, he or she will not be eligible to take up this assignment. The post will be vacant on July 22, 2012.

The desired qualifications include experiences in dealing with UN bodies and other multilateral organizations.

Who Gain in UP’s Bureaucratic Rejig

Anurag Yadav: This 2000 batch IAS will now take over as the new DM of Lucknow. He was earlier DM in Jaunpur. He is currently working as additional commissioner in rural development department.

MP Agarwal: This 1997 batch IAS who was serving as Faizabad DM has become new Kanpur DM. Agarwal who is armed with a MA degree in governance from an UK university is replacing Hari Om.

Santosh Kumar Yadav: This 1995 batch IAS will be new Commissioner, Meerut.

As many as 30 IAS officers, including 11 DMs, were transferred in a major bureaucratic rejig undertaken by new UP government on Sunday. Mohindar Singh, chairperson of NOIDA and Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority was also transferred.

Know Your Babu: Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi, 1976 batch IAS

Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi, a 1976 batch UP cadre IAS and presently Director General (Civil Aviation), has been appointed as new civil aviation secretary in place of M Madhavan Nambiar, a 1974 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IAS who is retiring on November 30, 2010.

Bio-Data 

Name: Dr Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi

Batch: 1976 batch Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS

Date of Birth: July 6, 1952

Place of Domicile: Uttar Pradesh

Mother Tongue: HINDI

Indian Languages Known: URDU, ENGLISH

Educational Qualifications

a) PG in Bio-Chemistry and PG in Public Administration

b) Doctorate in Bio-Chemistry

c) PG in Business Finance

Major Postings

a) Assistant Collector, Unnao

b) Collector,  Farukhabad (From 01/09/1982 to 01/08/1985)

c) Collector, Ghaziabad (From 01/08/1985 to 01/07/1988)

d) Commissioner, Development Authority, Bareilly ( From 01/08/1996 to 01/04/1997)

e) Joint Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation (From 09/01/2003 to 20/11/2005)

f) India Representative, International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) (From 21/11/2005 to 17/11/2008)

g) DG, DGCA

Foreign Training

One year long Edward Mason Programmme in USA (1990)