Dilip Cherian | Coalition dynamics: What’s next for PMO?
6 months, 1 week ago

Dilip Cherian | Coalition dynamics: What’s next for PMO?

Deccan Chronicle  

The political dynamics have shifted with the entry of coalition dharma, and as Prime Minister Narendra Modi starts his third term as head of the NDA government, there is hope as well as trepidation among babus about the potential changes within the ministries and departments. Arvind Sharma, a Gujarat cadre IAS officer who has been Mr Modi’s key liaison with Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow, might be called back to the PMO during this period of re-evaluation. Babus on edge after TDP victory in Andhra Pradesh As N. Chandrababu Naidu, the TDP national president, is set to become the next chief minister of Andhra Pradesh after an overwhelming win for the TDP-led alliance, several IAS and IPS officers who haven’t exactly been TDP-friendly are feeling the heat. Sources informed DKB that initially, Mr Naidu wasn’t too keen on meeting IPS officers like Raghuram Reddy and Anjaneyulu without appointments. Meanwhile, senior IAS officers are also eyeing positions in the chief minister’s office as secretaries.

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Dilip Cherian | Extension raj in PESB, Lok Sabha secretariat… will RBI come next?
1 month ago

Dilip Cherian | Extension raj in PESB, Lok Sabha secretariat… will RBI come next?

Deccan Chronicle  

Since its second term, the Narendra Modi government has retained top civil servants beyond retirement for “continuity in policymaking”. Under Mr Das’s watch, the RBI has navigated major economic hurdles, including the pandemic, while holding interest rates steady for nearly two years despite calls for easing. As Mr Modi’s government pushes for economic reform and modernisation, Mr Murthy believes a …

Dilip Cherian | Yogi picks a new chief secy: Is it show of defiance against Centre?
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Dilip Cherian | Yogi picks a new chief secy: Is it show of defiance against Centre?

Deccan Chronicle  

Putting speculations to rest, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath appointed Manoj Kumar Singh as the new chief secretary of the state. Sources told DKB that the state government had sent a proposal to the Centre seeking an extension for Mr Mishra beyond June 30. Notably, when Mr Mishra met with Union home minister Amit Shah in mid-June, a former …

Dilip Cherian | Babu brought in from the cold to head Prasar Bharati
9 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Babu brought in from the cold to head Prasar Bharati

Deccan Chronicle  

The appointment of retired IAS officer Navneet Kumar Sehgal as the chairperson of Prasar Bharati Board has all the signs of the complex and subtly adversarial interplay between the Centre and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath. Mr Sehgal was once considered one of UP’s most influential officers, an integral member of “Team 9”, a group of nine IAS officers …

Dilip Cherian | Will waterways boss be next MP chief secy?
11 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Will waterways boss be next MP chief secy?

Deccan Chronicle  

The abrupt recall of senior IAS officer Sanjay Bandopadhyay from his role as chairman of the Inland Waterways Authority of India has sparked speculation among observers and babus about the underlying reasons for this unforeseen move. Within MP’s babu circles, murmurs suggest that his recall may be tied to a potential appointment as the next chief secretary of the state. …

Dilip Cherian | SPG chief put on a curious contractual rollercoaster
1 year, 6 months ago

Dilip Cherian | SPG chief put on a curious contractual rollercoaster

Deccan Chronicle  

A recent slip-up in the reappointment of Special Protection Group chief Arun Kumar Sinha has sparked widespread chatter and raised concerns in babu circles about what it tells us about the functioning of the current government. Now, we are being told that the earlier order, of rehiring Mr Sinha on contract, was never issued — it was a draft that …

Dilip Cherian | More secys quit: Is lateral entry losing its sheen?
1 year, 8 months ago

Dilip Cherian | More secys quit: Is lateral entry losing its sheen?

Deccan Chronicle  

Lateral entry was a much-awaited administrative reform introduced in 2018 as part of Modi Sarkar’s larger civil service reform agenda. During his last month of service, Mr Kumar oversaw the Global Investors Summit, whose success the Yogi claims has given recognition to “a new UP all over the world.” Apparently, 10,000 investors attended the summit and pledged more than Rs …

Dilip Cherian | Extension for PSU chief caught up in paperwork
1 year, 10 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Extension for PSU chief caught up in paperwork

Deccan Chronicle  

The recent proposal from the Union ministry of steel to extend the tenure of the current CMD of National Mineral Development Corporation, Sumit Deb, has brought attention to the issue of extension of service for incumbents at the board level in central public service enterprises. Politics behind WB Raj Bhavan’s removal of senior IAS officer As predicted by some babu …

Dilip Cherian | Babus are losers in selection of new governors
1 year, 10 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Babus are losers in selection of new governors

Deccan Chronicle  

The Centre has appointed over a dozen governors in various states but, oddly, there’s no bureaucrat on the list. Govt steps on the pedal for IPS empanelment There is a sense of urgency about the recent empanelment of over 29 IPS officers for the director general or equivalent posts at the Centre. The empanelment of these officers for DG-level and …

Dilip Cherian | IPS officer as addl chief secy sets off churn in Sikkim
1 year, 10 months ago

Dilip Cherian | IPS officer as addl chief secy sets off churn in Sikkim

Deccan Chronicle  

When the Sikkim government appointed 1989-batch IPS officer, A. Sudhakar Rao, as additional chief secretary of the home department, the move drew some comment. Observers point to the recent decision of the Maharashtra government to appoint Deven Bharti, an IAS officer considered close to Mr Fadnavis, as Mumbai Police’s first-ever special commissioner even as the present police commissioner Vivek Phansalkar …

Dilip Cherian | Winds of change: ONGC to scout renewables now
1 year, 11 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Winds of change: ONGC to scout renewables now

Deccan Chronicle  

Winds of change are blowing through the state-owned Oil and Gas Corporation. Meanwhile, the new corporate affairs director will focus on new businesses such as renewable energy ventures, downstream activities like oil refining and petrochemicals, and LNG, in addition to marketing oil and gas at the best rates. Some observers were surprised that Mr Modi not only attended but actually …

Dilip Cherian | Sukhu favourite emerges as HP’s new chief secy
1 year, 11 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Sukhu favourite emerges as HP’s new chief secy

Deccan Chronicle  

Prabodh Saxena has emerged as Himachal Pradesh chief minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu’s choice as the state’s new chief secretary, following the retirement of Ram Dass Dhiman, who has been named as the state chief information commissioner. Ex-babus return to advise Gujarat CM Though this is not the first time that a chief minister in Gujarat has appointed advisors, the former …

Dilip Cherian | Sidelined after pandemic, former Mumbai babu will now get new role
2 years ago

Dilip Cherian | Sidelined after pandemic, former Mumbai babu will now get new role

Deccan Chronicle  

Retired 1985-batch IAS officer and former Mumbai municipal commissioner Praveen Pardeshi who, during the worst months of the coronavirus pandemic, led the civic body’s efforts to create Covid treatment facilities, is reportedly being brought back as the new CEO of the Maharashtra Institution for Transformation, which is the state’s equivalent of the Niti Aayog. When Punjab governor and Chandigarh administrator …

Dilip Cherian | Another panel set up to sort Central secretariat service promotions
2 years, 1 month ago

Dilip Cherian | Another panel set up to sort Central secretariat service promotions

Deccan Chronicle  

The protests earlier this year by Central government employees who comprise the Central Secretariat Service over delayed promotions and career-related issues have had an effect. Centre denies Kerala’s plea for more DGP posts The ongoing rivalry between the Kerala government and the Centre and the state’s governor Arif Mohammed Khan adds a new chapter all too often. Sources have informed …

Dilip Cherian | As Modi govt eyes final lap, latest secretary rejig is critical
2 years, 1 month ago

Dilip Cherian | As Modi govt eyes final lap, latest secretary rejig is critical

Deccan Chronicle  

The fact that this is its last effective Union Budget may have weighed on the government’s mind when it appointed financial services secretary Sanjay Malhotra, a 1990-batch IAS officer of the Rajasthan cadre, as the new revenue secretary after incumbent Tarun Bajaj retires at the end of November. Notable among these is the appointment of Aramane Giridhar, a 1988-batch IAS …

Dilip Cherian | Railway reforms slow down due to promotion delays
2 years, 2 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Railway reforms slow down due to promotion delays

Deccan Chronicle  

For a ministry said to be in a hurry to overhaul its functioning, the inordinate delay in making key appointments in the railway ministry often leaves babus and observers baffled. IAS officer gets a new assignment, keeps old AGMUT cadre officer of the 1992 batch, Ashwini Kumar, has been appointed as Delhi’s principal secretary. Mr Kumar is posted as a …

Dilip Cherian | Railway officers’ worry grows over new rules on GMs
2 years, 3 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Railway officers’ worry grows over new rules on GMs

Deccan Chronicle  

Nearly four months after new rules for promotion to senior levels in the Railways were announced, rail babus are still awaiting the first batch of promotions. Overlooked for CS post, IAS officer takes on Himachal CM A rift at the top of the bureaucracy in poll-bound Himachal Pradesh does not auger well for chief minister Jai Ram Thakur and his …

Dilip Cherian | Tripura gets a new DGP, but succession plan needs a relook
2 years, 4 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Tripura gets a new DGP, but succession plan needs a relook

Deccan Chronicle  

When senior IPS officer Tapan Deka was appointed as the new director of the Intelligence Bureau, he superseded four IB colleagues, who quickly decided to move out and seek what is called a “respectful rehabilitation” in babu parlance. Special director of Intelligence Bureau, Amitabh Ranjan, who was among the four IPS officers superseded by Mr Deka, has been appointed as …

Dilip Cherian | Curious moves led to choice of Himachal’s new chief secy
2 years, 5 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Curious moves led to choice of Himachal’s new chief secy

Deccan Chronicle  

Himachal Pradesh, which is going to the polls shortly, has got a new chief secretary. Ram Dass Dhiman, a 1988-batch IAS officer, got the coveted post after the incumbent Ram Subhag Singh surprised many by quitting and applying for another sought-after post of state chief information commissioner. But apparently, for insiders and those in the know, Mr Singh had started …

Dilip Cherian | Pro-IAS tilt in promotions leaves all other services irked
2 years, 6 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Pro-IAS tilt in promotions leaves all other services irked

Deccan Chronicle  

Inter-service tensions have always existed in babudom but remain low-key. However, seeing the reaction of non-IAS service officers to the recent promotion and empanelling of 25 IAS officers of the 1996 batch and two IPS officers of the 1994 batch to the rank of additional secretary, and the posting of a 1990-batch IPS officer to an equivalent designation, it seems …

Dilip Cherian | Centre warns officers filing false info on behalf of state
2 years, 7 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Centre warns officers filing false info on behalf of state

Deccan Chronicle  

“Bad” data is all around. Even as the Centre is vigorously questioning the WHO’s Covid death figures in India during the pandemic, it also has issues with information supplied by the states to the finance ministry for the release of funds under centrally Sources have informed DKB that Mr Somanathan recently fired off a stern missive to all chief secretaries …

Dilip Cherian | MHA sets up another face-off with states on IPS deputation
2 years, 8 months ago

Dilip Cherian | MHA sets up another face-off with states on IPS deputation

Deccan Chronicle  

To address the deficit of SP- and DIG-level police officers in the Central Armed Police Forces and Central police organisations, the ministry of home affairs has now proposed that IPS officers who do not come on Central deputation at the SP and DIG levels may be barred from a Central posting for the rest of their careers! But coming close …

Dilip Cherian | A former adviser to PM secures plum PSEB post
2 years, 8 months ago

Dilip Cherian | A former adviser to PM secures plum PSEB post

Deccan Chronicle  

The appointment of Amarjit Sinha, former Union secretary for rural development and, more significantly, former adviser to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as member of the Public Enterprises Selection Board, has been watched keenly by babus. A badly handled transfer It took a directive from the Central Administrative Tribunal for the Haryana government to withdraw the transfer order of S.S. Saini, …

Dilip Cherian | Secys’ shuffle in Delhi: Change of guard, or is it change of heart?
2 years, 11 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Secys’ shuffle in Delhi: Change of guard, or is it change of heart?

Deccan Chronicle  

The secretary-level reshuffle, in which nine Central ministries and departments got new secretaries, is being depicted as an opportunity for upward mobility for 1990-batch IAS officers who were waiting for secretary-level postings at the Centre for a long time. Among those who surprised the conventional babu expectations was Vini Mahajan, the former chief secretary of Punjab, who has been named …

Dilip Cherian | Supreme Court restrains Centre from acting against Bengal babu
3 years ago

Dilip Cherian | Supreme Court restrains Centre from acting against Bengal babu

Deccan Chronicle  

Though the NDA government is now focused on the forthcoming Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, it has not taken its eyes off West Bengal. The political rivalry apart, the NDA government is keen to take on West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee by taking disciplinary action against former state chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay. Kerala govt upsets babus in pay scale …

Dilip Cherian | Repatriated as future Gujarat chief secy, babu awaits release
3 years ago

Dilip Cherian | Repatriated as future Gujarat chief secy, babu awaits release

Deccan Chronicle  

As hinted earlier in this column, there is something strange about the repatriation of Union defence production secretary Raj Kumar to his parent state of Gujarat. The general view is that Mr Kumar is most likely to replace Pankaj Kumar as the state’s new chief secretary when the latter retires in May 2022, and until then the babu can ‘acclimatise” …

Dilip Cherian | Babu's return smacks of long term planning, Gujarat style
3 years, 1 month ago

Dilip Cherian | Babu's return smacks of long term planning, Gujarat style

Deccan Chronicle  

The premature repatriation of secretary, defence production, Raj Kumar to his parent Gujarat cadre was reportedly at the behest of the state chief minister Bhupendrabhai Patel. It is being whispered that Mr Kumar may be made chief secretary of the state that is headed for Assembly elections late next year. Since Mr Kumar will be in service until 2025, sources …

Dilip Cherian | Govt bends to apex court over filling vacancies in law tribunals
3 years, 3 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Govt bends to apex court over filling vacancies in law tribunals

Deccan Chronicle  

Government watchers are keenly watching the ongoing crosstalk between the Supreme Court and the Central government over the latter’s delay in filling the vacancies in the National Company Law Tribunals and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal. Stung by sharp criticism from the apex court on the delay, the government hastily announced the appointment of 18 more members to NCLT …

Dilip Cherian | I-T filing mess: Why try to fix' a system that wasn't broken?
3 years, 6 months ago

Dilip Cherian | I-T filing mess: Why try to fix' a system that wasn't broken?

Deccan Chronicle  

At a time when eking out new tax revenues in a shrinking economy is the only goal, an unwarranted self-goal has a lot of knickers in a twist in North Block. That’s a question everyone seems to be now asking when the new e-filing website of the income tax department, lauded and much tooted about, turned out to be a …

Dilip Cherian | Did PM pep talk with DMs, others breach protocol?
3 years, 6 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Did PM pep talk with DMs, others breach protocol?

Deccan Chronicle  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pep talk to district magistrates on the Covid-19 issue in an online meeting has got some raising the issue of whether it was right for Mr Modi to interact directly with district magistrates and other officials while bypassing their respective ministers. Interestingly, Mr Modi’s interaction follows a similar meeting organised by Union education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal …

Dilip Cherian | Grassroots gap: Doctors intensify call for all-India medical service
3 years, 7 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Grassroots gap: Doctors intensify call for all-India medical service

Deccan Chronicle  

The devastating Covid crisis has renewed demand for the creation of an Indian Medical Service along the lines of the all-India services such as IAS and IPS etc., at the earliest. He has gone on a hunger strike for the government’s inaction in a Rs 30 lakh corruption case related to various state government schemes. Retired babu is ‘indispensable’ for …

Dilip Cherian | Tripura DM who cracked whip at a wedding faces storm of protest
3 years, 7 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Tripura DM who cracked whip at a wedding faces storm of protest

Deccan Chronicle  

While the administration has been widely rebuked for complacency in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, a district magistrate in Tripura is under fire for being overly enthusiastic in enforcing night curfew rules during a marriage in Agartala, the state capital. Sources say the CM has formed a committee of two IAS officers to investigate the incident and submit a …

Dilip Cherian | High court pulls up Punjab govt for tainted cops in IPS positions
3 years, 8 months ago

Dilip Cherian | High court pulls up Punjab govt for tainted cops in IPS positions

Deccan Chronicle  

The Amarinder Singh-led Congress government in Punjab is getting flak from the Punjab and Haryana high court and the issue has had ramifications across the country. The court has directed the state government to explain how and why it has chosen to appoint Punjab Police Service officers to IPS-cadre posts of SSPs in the state. Further, the court has issued …

Dilli Ka Babu | India strengthens team at UN ahead of Security Council stint
4 years, 4 months ago

Dilli Ka Babu | India strengthens team at UN ahead of Security Council stint

Deccan Chronicle  

India will take over as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council in January 2021. Citing petitions from the IAS Officers’ Association and senior bureaucrats, it has permitted an additional Rs 10,000 monthly servant allowance to all retired chief secretaries and additional chief secretaries. Senior IAS officer of the Manipur cadre, Rajesh Kumar who was additional chief secretary, has …

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