Dilip Cherian | Transfer, cancel: Delhi top cop won’t let OSD go before elections
5 days, 16 hours ago

Dilip Cherian | Transfer, cancel: Delhi top cop won’t let OSD go before elections

Deccan Chronicle  

Even babu reshuffles seem to carry a whiff of drama when it comes to the political theatre surrounding the Delhi Assembly elections. Last month, the Union home ministry announced Mr Chandra’s transfer from his position as Officer on Special Duty to the Delhi police commissioner to Mizoram. According to the grapevine, Delhi police commissioner Sanjay Arora wasn’t exactly thrilled about losing Mr Chandra during this critical pre-election period. Mr Chandra’s presence in Delhi was deemed “essential” ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections. The waiting game: Why Manipur’s chief secretary appointment matters Manipur, which has been dealing with an ongoing crisis for over a year, is waiting for Vineet Joshi, the chief secretary of the state, to go to New Delhi, more than ten days after the Centre confirmed his departure.

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Dilip Cherian | Why are states dodging mandate of apex court on police reforms?
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Dilip Cherian | Why are states dodging mandate of apex court on police reforms?

Deccan Chronicle  

The appointment of directors general of police is one of the crucial issues the Supreme Court has, once again, had to remind states of their responsibilities. It’s perplexing that certain states still appear to be choosing not to follow the landmark 2006 Prakash Singh judgment, almost 20 years after it was rendered. While the court has now given six weeks …

Dilip Cherian | Senior Andhra cops suspended for wrongful arrest of model
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Dilip Cherian | Senior Andhra cops suspended for wrongful arrest of model

Deccan Chronicle  

The suspension of three senior IPS officers in Andhra Pradesh over the wrongful arrest of actor-model Kadambari Jethwani has sparked a debate about the misuse of power and the need for accountability. There’s also talk among insiders that Mr Bhatt’s exit may be linked to dissatisfaction from the newly appointed Union steel secretary, Sandeep Poundrik, who is known for his …

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

Dilip Cherian | Central posting of Gujarat IPS officers sets off huge Delhi buzz
1 year, 2 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Central posting of Gujarat IPS officers sets off huge Delhi buzz

Deccan Chronicle  

The recent request by the ministry of home affairs for the Central deputation of seven high-ranking IPS officers from the Gujarat cadre has stirred more than the usual buzz and anticipation, particularly among those officers who feature prominently in the list. The IPS officers on the list include V. Chandrashekar, IGP of Surat range, Achal Tyagi of Mehsana, Praveen Meena, …

Dilip Cherian | Secy falls in line after showcause notice, but Delhi govt woes linger
1 year, 7 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Secy falls in line after showcause notice, but Delhi govt woes linger

Deccan Chronicle  

The Delhi government finally got secretary, services, Ashish More to agree to a replacement by a new officer, but only after he was served a showcause notice by the minister in charge of the services department, Saurabh Bharadwaj. Earlier, the babu had refused to be transferred claiming that the power of the Delhi government to transfer and post officers independently …

Dilip Cherian | What's Kishor's next move? Can he actually pose threat to Nitish?
1 year, 8 months ago

Dilip Cherian | What's Kishor's next move? Can he actually pose threat to Nitish?

Deccan Chronicle  

What are retired IAS and IPS officers doing with ace poll strategist-turned-neta Prashant Kishor? The question is: Will Mr Kishor emerge as a serious rival to chief minister Nitish Kumar’s JD, and the other two major political parties, the RJD and the BJP? Gujarat IPS officers hastening to join R&AW It’s not just Gujarat IAS officers who have it good …

Dilip Cherian | Delhi top cop in the race to become DGP of Tamil Nadu
1 year, 8 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Delhi top cop in the race to become DGP of Tamil Nadu

Deccan Chronicle  

The race is on to succeed the director general of police of Tamil Nadu C. Sylendra Babu who is due for superannuation at the end of June. The buzz in Delhi seems to suggest that Delhi police commissioner Sanjay Arora is a sureshot winner, being the most favoured to succeed Mr Babu as Tamil Nadu’s top cop. Of the top …

Dilip Cherian | More secys quit: Is lateral entry losing its sheen?
1 year, 9 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 | Babus are losers in selection of new governors
1 year, 11 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 officers in Maha need to wait longer for their postings
1 year, 11 months ago

Dilip Cherian | IPS officers in Maha need to wait longer for their postings

Deccan Chronicle  

Senior bureaucrats in Maharashtra are unhappy with the state government delaying their postings. Sources informed DKB that a delegation of IAS officers met Chief Secretary Manu Kumar Srivastava, Fadnavis and Shinde serially before six IAS officers from the 1992 batch were promoted to additional chief secretary rank last week. Last year, the Reddy government introduced a facial recognition-based system in …

Dilip Cherian | Bihar IAS body’s silence on release of ‘murderer’ MP irks some babus
1 year, 11 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Bihar IAS body’s silence on release of ‘murderer’ MP irks some babus

Deccan Chronicle  

Many IAS officers are upset with the Bihar IAS Officers’ Association’s silence at the state government’s proposal to release former MP Anand Mohan from jail. But a former IPS officer Amitabh Kumar Das has strongly criticised the state IAS association for keeping mum on this sensitive matter and even called for it to be dissolved if it does not take …

Dilip Cherian | IPS officer as addl chief secy sets off churn in Sikkim
1 year, 11 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 | 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 | Kerala babu finds himself caught in crossfire between gov, Vijayan
2 years, 1 month ago

Dilip Cherian | Kerala babu finds himself caught in crossfire between gov, Vijayan

Deccan Chronicle  

The ongoing power tussle between Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and governor Arif Mohammed Khan is inevitably affecting the babus. Babu observers have informed DKB that this is surely the first time that the list of officers whose names have not been approved for empanelment has been made public. # Meghalaya seeks separate cadre for IAS, IPS officers Recent incidents …

Dilip Cherian | While UP police top-heavy, Centre struggles to fill all vacancies
2 years, 1 month ago

Dilip Cherian | While UP police top-heavy, Centre struggles to fill all vacancies

Deccan Chronicle  

A persistent gripe of the Modi Sarkar is that the current shortage of IPS officers at the Centre is due to the states not sending enough officers on Central deputation. Sources in the ministry of home affairs, which is the cadre controlling authority of IPS officers, said the Centre has only two vacancies each for DG and ADG-rank officers across …

Dilip Cherian | As Modi govt eyes final lap, latest secretary rejig is critical
2 years, 2 months 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, 3 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 | Why is govt not filling vacancy of 3rd EC member as polls get near?
2 years, 3 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Why is govt not filling vacancy of 3rd EC member as polls get near?

Deccan Chronicle  

India still doesn’t have a chief of defence staff after the tragic death of Gen. Bipin Rawat in December last year, and many have given up expecting an announcement anytime soon. UPSC had questioned the appointment of Mr Chauhan and directed the state government to submit the names of all IPS officers who were considered for appointment as DGP. Apparently, …

Dilip Cherian | To fight image problem, UP babus told to scan local news
2 years, 4 months ago

Dilip Cherian | To fight image problem, UP babus told to scan local news

Deccan Chronicle  

Additional chief secretary of Uttar Pradesh Navneet Sehgal has recently written to districts/block/tehsil information officers to monitor the news that is published at the micro-level. Recently, the man in charge of transforming the road transportation sector, said that babus should only say “yes, sir” to whatever the mantris say since the government runs on the diktat of the minister. IPS …

Dilip Cherian | Why babu rejig in UP govt is an ongoing process
2 years, 5 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Why babu rejig in UP govt is an ongoing process

Deccan Chronicle  

After the eruption of major charges against certain officers and certain ministers, the Uttar Pradesh government seems to have gone into overdrive to shuffle its administration team. The three IAS officers — UT adviser Vijay Dev, home secretary Anurag Agarwal and personnel secretary Vikram Dutt upgraded their stay from a five-star hotel in Paris to a luxury property and changed …

Dilip Cherian | Tripura gets a new DGP, but succession plan needs a relook
2 years, 5 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, 7 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 | Cool-off debate rages on amid MNC absorbing senior officials
2 years, 7 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Cool-off debate rages on amid MNC absorbing senior officials

Deccan Chronicle  

The Centre’s lateral entry policy in which it is hiring domain specialists from the public and private sectors is being offset by a trickle of high-profile exits of senior babus to the corporate world. Of late, the Manohar Lal Khattar government has been appointing non-cadre officers from IPS, IFS and IRS to cadre posts. Further, the state government had sought …

Dilip Cherian | A former adviser to PM secures plum PSEB post
2 years, 9 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 | ATS posts in Maharashtra turn political hot potatoes
2 years, 10 months ago

Dilip Cherian | ATS posts in Maharashtra turn political hot potatoes

Deccan Chronicle  

The once-vaunted Anti-Terrorism Squad of Maharashtra Police seems to have lost its sheen. Many senior cops in the state believe that this was brought on over the past few years by the ongoing political tussle between the Maha Vikas Aghadi government led by chief minister Uddhav Thackeray and BJP-ruled Centre. But for a while it did create an unprecedented situation …

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 | Tripura DM who cracked whip at a wedding faces storm of protest
3 years, 8 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 | CVC ups ante, asks ministries to sort plaints within 3 months
3 years, 8 months ago

Dilip Cherian | CVC ups ante, asks ministries to sort plaints within 3 months

Deccan Chronicle  

The Central Vigilance Commission has run into a wall of bureaucratic denial. It directed all chief executives and vigilance officers in various government organisations to finalise pending cases from the period between January 2011 and December 2018 by end of May this year. With just about a month left for the deadline, chief vigilance commissioner Sanjay Kothari has now upped …

Dilip Cherian | High court pulls up Punjab govt for tainted cops in IPS positions
3 years, 9 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 …

Dilip Cherian | Diplomatic pool to get eight new joint secys soon
3 years, 10 months ago

Dilip Cherian | Diplomatic pool to get eight new joint secys soon

Deccan Chronicle  

The ministry of external affairs has been quite keen to add more joint secretaries to the diplomatic pool to staff new embassies and consulates being set up in various countries. Now, after some wait, headway has been made in this direction with the government planning to empanel eight IFS officers of the 2003 batch as joint secretaries. Mr Sreedharan has …

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