IB’s special director and IPS Arvind Kumar granted apex pay scale

Arvind Kumar, 1984 batch Assam cadre IPS officer presently serving as special director in Intelligence Bureau (IB), has been granted apex pay scale (level-17 of pay matrix). In an order issued on Thursday, it was said that the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) approved the proposal of the ministry of home affairs for granting the apex pay scale to the officer. The apex scale means a pay equivalent to that of a…

What’s bottom-line in Govt? Dr Trivedi says 40% of salary of Central government officers to be linked to performance

THIS could be one of the major system changes in largely static Indian bureaucracy. As high as 40% of the salary of Central government employees will soon be based on performance, Dr Prajapati Trivedi, secretary, Performance Management Division of Cabinet Secretariat said on record while speaking to industrialists in a meet organized by industry lobby Assocham. He was making a point about how the government has made an effort to bring in accountability in the system.
On February 17, 2010, BoI (babusofindia.com) reported that 40% of a government employee's salary could be linked to performance, and promotion to additional secretary won't be a cakewalk.

Inaugurating 2nd CFOs Roundtable Conference 2010 organized by Assocham in New Delhi on Friday, Dr Trivedi said all 62 government ministries and departments on board have signed the tool called Results Framework Document (RFD) which will set targets for each ministry and will finally be the basis for yearly evaluation. “Results will be our bottom-line just like profits are the bottom-line of the private sector” he said, according to an Assocham release.

According to sources, the performance management division of the cabinet secretariat, has reportedly worked out a proposal under which senior administrators like secretary or additional secretary would get a bonus of no less than 20% of their salary provided his ministry meets 100% target and saves money from non-plan expenditure. That means, a secretary to a highly efficient ministry of the Government of India, who gets Rs 80,000 per month as salary may receive Rs 20,000 more, making him an instant lakhpati.

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a) Sanjay Kumar, a 1992 batch Nagaland cadre IAS and director in department of economic affairs (DEA) has been appointed as Additional Director in Financial Intelligence Unit-India. The FIU-India comes under the same finance ministry, but under the revenue department.

b) Jyoti Kalash, a 1990 batch Nagaland cadre IAS, currently on "compulsory wait" in the department of heavy industries has been selected for appointment as director in the ministry of home affairs (MHA).

Sam Pitroda’s office in Planning Commission to pay consultant more than a secretary’s salary

SOUNDS odd, but Adviser to PM Sam Pitroda’s office in Planning Commission is ready to pay a consultant a monthly salary of more than the pay of a Government of India’s secretary. According to an advertisement released by Office of Adviser to PM on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovations, a consultant with 5-6 years of experience would be given a salary upto Rs 90,000 per month. Significantly, a secretary to government of India who will have an experience of at least 33 years, gets a fixed pay of Rs 80,000 per month though he gets perks like accommodation in prime localities which will have huge market value.

Telecom Guru Mr Pitroda who holds the rank of a cabinet minister under Dr Manmohan Singh’s government, has openly told media how he was not interested in recruiting IAS officers, but would handle the job with a skeleton staff of experts with full domain knowledge.

In fact, according to the advertisement, which is also attached in Planning Commission’s website, the Consultant B with academic qualification of Masters Degree or above, or technical qualifications such as B Tech, MBA or PhD, will be paid a consolidated fee, ranging from Rs 40,000 to Rs 90,000 per month.

But the big question is who is likely to be selected for such a lucrative government offer? The advertisement itself clearly mentions the high benchmark for the post. “In this category, candidates having experience of “out of box thinking” on policy issues, focused on research work, will be accorded priority”, it says.

For more details on 6 jobs for consultants in Sam Pitroda’s office, read Insider’s post, “Salary up to Rs 90,000” in http://www.jobcorridor.com/

Moily vouches for IAS talent to tackle Naxals

Union law minister Veerappa Moily said IAS officers could play a vital role in helping curb Naxalism by ensuring implementation of central schemes and equitable development. The schemes targeted at the underprivileged need to be implemented at the grassroots level, he said adding that there had been shortcomings in this regard. The minister was speaking recently at a function organised by JSS Training Institute in Bangalore to felicitate those selected for IAS and Karnataka Administrative Service (KAS) from the institute.