Dilip Cherian

Mar 31, 2010
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Dilip Cherian

Way to go

In one fell sweep, three Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers have been compulsorily retired for an unsatisfactory service record. This could well be the thin end of the wedge, if the trend catches on. Himachal Pradesh chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal has given marching orders to two senior IAS officers in the state — Dr Desh Deepak (1983 batch) and Vijender Kumar (1987 batch). The third IAS babu to be sent packing is Shalini Vashishth of the Tamil Nadu cadre.

Crossed lines

The telecom tangle gets trickier by the day. Most recently, telecom babus have been dragging their feet on the suggestions made by the high-powered Sam Pitroda committee appointed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on reviving the ailing state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited.

Sibal’s babus

Human Resources Development (HRD) minister Kapil Sibal’s zeal for reform is not limited to changing the examination system and educational institutions, where his efforts have elicited a mixed response. He is equally keen on reforming babus in his own ministry — where his attempts have hit a wall too.

The feud within

The Planning Commission, that is home to bureaucrats and more, is now a kind of mammoth relic of the Nehruvian era. But it is gearing up for a major revamp to be accomplished over the next couple of years. And it couldn’t happen sooner — for its critics, and there seem to be many, have declared an open season for lambasting the planning panel and its deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia for being unacquainted with the ground realities.

Starting afresh

Kamal Nath says the Planning Commission is tripping him. But he clearly has problems closer home. The search for a new chief of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has got extended after the embarrassing discovery that a member of the search committee was also an applicant. Now the government has revised the eligibility criteria for the chairman and launched the process all over again.

A bill to reform

Many retired bureaucrats looking for reemployment with one or the other regulatory authority may have reason to worry over Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia’s remark that reti

Dilli ka babu

Common goal

A babu’s legacy

With the Ambani brothers no longer at war, will the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) breathe easy? It had received some unwelcome attention during the tenure of its former chief V.K. Sibal. Though Mr Sibal has now left, the spotlight has remained fixed on the organisation, with the Central Vigilance Commission and the

Dilli ka babu

Market players

Monitoring babus

Following the lead of several other states, Maharashtra too has devised a new performance monitoring system. Chief minister Ashok Chavan has been already boasting about the fact that his will be the first state where babus will analyse their performance themselves.

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