WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT US

Now time has come to make whispersinthecorridors.com a pay-site.

An IAS friend

ONLY SOURCE TO REACH THE DECISION MAKERS

ADVERTISE ON-WHISPERSINTHECORRIDORS.COM
Contact-sureshmehrotra@yahoo.com and mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK

For Bhushan Ashok Gagrani Secretary Tourism to Mahrashtra Government & Managing Director (MD) of Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) "innovation" coupled with dedication is the mantra to success. Gagrani is an IAS officer of 1990 batch of the Maharashtra cadre. According to him one of the biggest achievements has been to bring tourism within the reach of a common man.

There are many firsts to the credit of this young, dynamic & enterprising bureaucrat as MD of the MTDC.Like development of full-fledged scuba Diving Centre on Konkan Coast (in Sindhudurga District).Bhushan Ashok Gagrani who is also MD of "Film City" as well holds the charge of Secretary Information & Public Relations(IPR) to the Mahrashtra Government. In a free & frank exclusive interview to <whispersinthecorrdors.com> he unfolded his plans regarding steps to boost tourism in this Western Indian state.

In reply to a question he said "MTDC's 90% accommodation facilities cater to budget tourists. It introduced "bed & breakfast" (B&B) accommodation concept in 1996 & has group accommodation & budget family accommodation at most of its units in Maharashtra. Every year MTDC plans & adds to new places/facilities for budget tourism. In the last & current financial year MTDC has added almost 100 such facilities all over the Maharashtra."He also stated that plans were afoot to work on first of its kind special entertainment zone near Mumbai with a large investment from private sector.

Gragrani who loves to chill out by playing squash has equal measure of passion for mountaineering.Here goes his interview-

1/ What new projects are you going to add/launch?

A- MTDC has launched the following new projects:
i) Full-fledged Scuba Diving Centre on Konkan Coast (in Sindhudurga District).
ii)A Rs. 300 crore coastal tourism development Plan.
iii)Started establishing R.V Parks & Campervan Tourism to develop Road tourism options in Maharashtra.
iv)Forming Umbrella body of all major players of Tourism like Off-beat tourism product providers, Tour-operators & local hotelier groups etc.
v)Arts & Craft village in Mumbai and Aurangabad.
vi)Eco-tourism project in Vidarbha region of the State.
vii) Narrow gauge luxury train in Vidarbha.
viii) Life size cave replicas of 4 caves of Ajanta to provide world class interactive multimedia experience to the visitors.

2/ What are your plans to hold the inbound traffic of domestic tourists?

A- The overall growth in economy, easy accessibility, improved communication & availability of spare time & money have all added to the impressive growth of Tourism ( both inbound & outbound ) up to 15% to 20 % per annum. Increase in Indian Outbound Tourism (Six million) compared to foreign inbound (Four million) gives the impression that inbounds or domestic tourist traffic is decreasing or need plans to hold this traffic.
Nevertheless, to increase the domestic tourist traffic Maharashtra is concentrating on:-
i) Improvement in infrastructure.
ii)Offering diversified tourism product.
iii)Attract private investment in the sector by offering incentives.
iv)Increase budget allocation.
v)Sharing developmental responsibility as

oForest & Eco Tourism.
oPilgrimage Tourism.
oRegional Tourism Development.
oNational & International projects with Central Financial assistance.
oMega projects through overseas funding.

vi)Exploit Area strength & focus accordingly e.g.
oVidharba - Forest & Eco Tourism
oWest Maharashtra/Marathwada - Historical/Heritage Tourism
oKonkan - Beach & Leisure Tourism
oPan Maharashtra - Pilgrimage Tourism.

3/ These day there is lot of stress on budget hotels. What is MTDC doing in that direction?

A- Stress has been on budget hotels by tourism players may be a recent phenomenon, but MTDC has right from its inception (1975) worked on this concept. MTDC's 90% accommodation facilities cater to budget tourists. It introduced "bed & breakfast"( B&B) accommodation concept in 1996 & has group accommodation & budget family accommodation at most of its units in Maharashtra. Every year MTDC plans & adds to new places/facilities for budget tourism. In the last & current financial year MTDC has added almost 100 such facilities all over Maharashtra.The state government has announced elaborate tourism policy, which gives wide range of incentives and tax exemptions to the investor in hospitality sector.

4/ Do you have plans for initiating projects under Public Private Partnership (PPP) principle? If yes then please give details.

A- Tourism's role in employment and wealth creation, its contribution to GDP, its rate of growth has forced all players in government & private to think of PPP. No sector can solely depend on government funding. For speedy growth & for reaping the benefit from the sector in time, private participation in projects & government facilitations can only lead to desired results. MTDC has been implementing PPP since last two decades. Almost 30 of its properties are run by private entrepreneurs. To give further boost to PPP Maharashtra has been preparing shelf plan for Tourism development. The state has introduced an investor friendly tourism policy, a pragmatic land policy & package scheme of incentives to investors in tourism sector. Plans are afoot to work on first of its kind special entertainment zone near Mumbai with a large investment from private sector.

5/ What steps are being taken in terms of infrastructure to hold increased flow of tourists to Maharashtra?

A- To cater to increased inflow of tourist to Maharashtra, the following steps are being taken:
oFour-fold increase in Tourism budget as compared to last Five year plan.
oResponsibility of Infrastructure development for tourism shared as follows
Forest Department - Forest & Eco Tourism.
Rural/Urban Development - Pilgrimage Tourism.
Tourism Department - State & National Tourism Projects.
oMega Infrastructure Projects like Rs. 500 Cr Ajanta Ellora Conservation & Development Project & Rs 300 Cr Coastal Tourism Development project have been undertaken.
oNew Tourism Policy, Land Policy and Package scheme of Incentive for attracting private investment to boost infrastructure.

6/ What are your major achievements ?

A- Major achievements are
oBrought tourism within the reach of common man.
oInvestor friendly Tourism policy.
oImplementing mega heritage projects e.g. Ajanta & Ellora conservation & development project and Coastal Tourism Development project.
oThe super luxury train "The Deccan Odyssey".

Anil Kumar is new Secretary Child and Women Welfare

Anil Kumar is new Secretary Child and Women Welfare Department in the Government of India. He is 1973 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
( We said this on October 1 )

Deepa Jain Singh shifted

Secretary of the Child and Women Welfare Department in the Government of India Ms Deepa Jain Singh has been shifted to Minorities Commission as Secretary. She is 1971 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.
( We said this on October 1 )

Sunita Kaila to be new Member of CBDT
Sunita Kaila is all set to become new Member of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) .She is 1972 batch IRS officer.

Will an IT expert succeed Smita Chugh ?
Grapevine has it that a Joint Secretary in the Department of Science and Technology considered to be an IT expert is moving to the Department of Rural Development. Will there be a lateral change ?.

Kaushik is new DGP of Gujarat

K.R. Kaushik has taken over as the new Director-General of Police of Gujarat following the Election Commission's directive to the State government. 1972 batch IPS officer has replaced P C Pandey.

Pay Commission for raise in DA
Sixth Pay commission is likely to recommend 6 per cent DA from January 2007 and 14 per cent from January 2008.

Roy is Joint Secretary Home
Senior CSS officer Pratap Nath Roy has joined the Ministry of Home Affairs in the Government of India as Joint Secretary.

Gupta is Dy Secretary Defence
Pankaj Gupta has joined the Defence Ministry as Deputy Secretary. He is 1998 batch Indian Cost Accounts Service Officer.

Desh Bandhu is Dy Secretary Commerce
Desh Bandhu has joined the Commerce Ministry as Deputy Secretary. He is 2000 batch CSS officer.

Santosh Kumar is Director Child and Women Welfare
Santosh Kumar is new Director Child and Women Welfare in the Government of India. He is 1991 batch IDAS officer.

An ex Minister enters TV venture
An ex Minister has entered into a television venture.

Pant to get extension ?
Kamlesh Kumar Pant is likely to get extension in deputation tenure. 1993 batch Himachal Pradesh cadre IAS officer Pant is presently on deputation to the Uttarakhand Government.

Where is the IPS fraternity?
Where is the fraternity of IPS officers? This question is doing rounds in corridors of power in the wake suspension of 25 IPS officers in UP. Leave apart a roar, there has been no whimper about such a large scale suspension.

Former IAS officer joins BJP
Retired 1993 batch IAS officer Bharat Bhushan has joined the BJP.

IDAS changes
A Krishnamurthy has been moved from Pune to Secunderabad. P C Jacob has been transferred from Port Blair to Pune. A R Selaa will go from Shillong to Pune.

Railway postings
D K Singh, Executive Director(VDG), RDSO has been posted as Executive Director (Carriage) in place of P K Agarwal. Anil Kumar, Executive Director (Engine Development) has been made Executive Director (VDG), RDSO vice D K Singh and Shishir Dutt, SG/IRSME, IRMEE has been transferred to RDSO on promotion to SA grade and posted as Executive Director (Engine Development).

IAS reshuffle in Uttar Pradesh
There is IAS reshuffle in Uttar Pradesh. New postings are :- S R Lakha PS Urban Development,Govind Nair PS Environment,Neeta Chaudhry PS evenue,Chandra Prakash PS Agricultural Education,Manoj Kumar PS Small Irrigation Projects,Yogesh Kumar PS Water Resources,Anoop Chandra Pandey Additional charge Secretariat Administration,Pritam Singh Chairman Administrative Tribunal and Rakesh Kumar Goyal Special Secretary Secretariat Administration.

Maj Gen Bhatia takes over charge
Maj Gen Vinod Bhatia has taken over the command of the 25 Infantry Division located in Jammu region from Maj Gen Rameshwar Roy.

FORUM

The role of Chief Secretary and Cabinet Secretary

The role of a chief secretary in a state is very similar to a cabinet secretary in the GoI. By creating a separate post of a cabinet secretary in a state the post of chief secretary becomes redundant. In case of UP, Shashank Shekhar Singh the current cabinet secretary is a pilot who through unethical ways has come to become the most powerful bureaucrat in UP. His lack of experience in the field of administration is very clearly visible in the cabinet meetings, which would be evident, as the only department he has ever dealt with is civil aviation. Also IAS officers of his age are currently principal secretaries and are not very comfortable addressing someone as sir, who doesn't deserve to be their boss. The sole purpose for creation of the post of cabinet secretary was to accommodate Singh, who in the past has held senior IAS posts like industrial development commissioner. Creation of cabinet secretary post has made Singh superior than the chief secretary, as it is he who authorises all transfers of officers.

Raj Srivastava

Who should be the Cabinet Secretary?
I agree with the views expressed in FORUM that at least in big states like UP, Chief Secretary should not be the Cabinet Secretary. While Union Cabinet Secretary is mainly concerned with policy matters, State Chief Secretaries are fire fighters (and often manipulators) bossing over Collectors and Secretaries. The Chief Secretaries have the ear of the Chief Minister and have a tendency to play favourites. Some intelligent Chief Ministers know the officers (IAS and others) and discount the advice given by the Chief Secretary; others do not. The State Cabinet and the Chief Minister need to have the proposals coming to them with unbiased advice. Also, the roles of head of civil service (particularly IAS) and advisor to the cabinet can cause clash of interest. Cabinet Secretary in the States should have experience in bureaucracy, modern outlook and analytical skills; more important he should be free from day to day manipulations that Chief Secretaries do to the detriment of good policy advice to Government.
V. C. Mehrotra

Retirement age should not be raised

While the improved health facilities and increased life span of men and women in India is a strong reason for increasing the retirement age beyond 60. But all the same, the unemployment has also increased. There are many opportunities for people after 60 - their experience can surely be utilised for social work. By increasing the age limit beyond 60 years will deprive the younger generation, who are already finding it difficult to find jobs, from entering the Government service. Secondly from economics point of view too, it would be wiser to recruit fresh people (at the minimum of the scale of pay) rather than carrying on with people (at the maximum of the scale) for the same work. Hope the Pay Commission will do justice to the youth of India!!!!!
Pradeep Ratnaparkhi

I agree, retirement age should not be raised

S K Nagpal Wrote:

Why retirement age should be raised ?
Government should seriously consider increasing the retirement age to 62 because:
(i) If an Indian reaches 60, she lives up to the age of 77 yrs.;
(ii) This means that she receives pension for 17 yrs;
(iii) Raising the retirement age to 62 implies that pension will be payable for 2 years less; therefore, a huge amount of saving for the Government;
(iv) There is no substitute for experience; Government should make use of experienced persons.
Hope the Government and the Pay Commission are listening!

I think Nagpal has forgotten that more than 100 crores people of this country are listening. We should not forget that unemployment or poverty is the mother of crimes. I think we have forgotten the reactions when retirement age was increased from 58 to 60 just to give benefit to some high class babus. No doubt experience matters but to make the youths idle by sitting home is a serious crime, which is not available in the IPC. So it is better to keep intact the retirement age at 60 years and provide golden opportunity to the youths to serve their nation.

Hemant Chauhan

Pay Commission must take note of tax structure

The pay commission must take into consideration the different income tax structure for salaried persons, particularly for government employees. This will eliminate the evil of corruption to the extenet of 50%.

Munigala

Retirement age should be raised to 65

You see, nowadays, no civil servant retires at 60 just to go home and sit out rest of the life. With the improvement of longevity and health parameters, it is too early to hang the shoes. Barring aside one's physical and family conditions, most of the people retiring at 60 go invariably to crowd the market and also get absorbed immediately as they are the most sought out stuff with intense experience, ardent loyalty, rapt attention and most assiduously cultivated discipline of high order. Also they are the people who put the least demands on the private sector as they are mostly well settled and free of liability burden and thus they are quite well satisfied with whatever little they get after retirement. Since they are also decently safeguarded financially, medically, and well equipped with adequate flow of funds for their day to day needs; private sector finds them as the most suitable recruits in their establishments at any level. In this way, not only the government is loosing the goldmine of experience, the private sector is also getting it damn cheap. Ultimately, it is younger generation that has to fight hard due to loss of job opportunities in the overall private sector. Consequently, it seems to be much more appropriate that the government should raise the retirement age not only to 62 but rather up to 65 as in the case of judges, teachers, doctors and engineers, etc, so that the private sector job market is left entirely to the younger generation. After 65, most of the retiring government staff would like to call it a day without putting any pressure on the private job opportunities and this would also earn a calculated welfare measure to the credit of the government for making available sufficient employment opportunities for the entire workforce. This way, not only the whole of our economy would benefit in terms of GDP, but from the welfare angle also the national image would rise to a very high order. Therefore, I strongly feel that the government should raise the retirement age immediately to at least 62 and later on to 65 sometime during the country's next Five Year Plan or whenever the government deems it to be fit keeping in view the macro economic consideration.

Sgraoot

Country has criminals everywhere

This country has criminals in all services including ministers, chief secretaries, secretaries, defence services and what not, not just police officers . These individual aberrations should not be generalised-it is perhaps irrational.

Vatsal Dube

New Pay Scales recommended by Sixth Pay Commission
The old pay scales were 37 in number and are proposed to be reduced to 16. The proposal of fixed pay scale for Jt Secretary and above would eliminate headache associated with stagnation, increment fixation etc. but may create problems of house allotment etc.

Old Scale
New Scale
Group
1.
2550-55-2660-60-3200
S1
6500-150-9500
Auxiliary Staff- Gr D
2.
2610-60-3150-65-3540
3.
2650-65-3300-70-4000
S2
7000-200-13000
4.
2750-70-3800-75-4400(D)

2750-70-3800-75-4400 (C)
S3
7500-250-12500
Supporting Staff - C
5.
3060-75-3950-80-4500
6.

3200-85-4900
7.
4000-100-6000
S4
10000-300-17500
8.
4500-125-7000
9.
5000-150-8000 C/B N/G
S5
12500-400-22500
Supervisory Staff, B/NG
10.
5500-175-9000 C/B N/G
11.
6000-190-9800 C/B N/G
S6
15000-500-27000
12.
6500-200-9800 C/B N/G
13.
6500-200-10500 C/B N/G
6500-200-10500 B GAZ
S7
17500-800-30500
14.
7450-225-11500 B G/NG & C
15.

7500-200-12000

16.
8000-275-13500
S8 20000-800-35000

Asst. Officer B
17.
9000 (Fixed)
18.

9000-275-9550
19.
10325-325-12575
20.
10000-325-15200
S9
25000-1000-40000 JS
21.
10650-325-15850
22.
12000-375-16500
S10
30000-1200-48000
SS
23.
12750-375-16500
24.
12000-375-18000
25.
12300-400-18300
26.
14300-400-18300
27.
15100-400-18300
28.
16400-450-20000
S11
42000-1400-56000
JAG
29.
16400-450-20900
30.
14300-450-22400
31.
16400-450-20900-500-22400
NFSG
32.
18400-500-22400
S12
60000 (Fixed)
SAG
33.
22400-525-24500
S13
65000 (Fixed)
HAG
34.
22400-500-26000
S14
70000 (Fixed)
A Secy
35.
24050-550-26000
36.
25000 (Fixed)
S15
75000 (Fixed)
Secy
37.
30000 (Fixed)
S16
80000 (Fixed)
C Secy

P Kumar

Demolition of Ramsethu

Reading the tail piece by Vijay Arora on Ramsethu one feels refreshingly light for a short fleeting moment. Nevertheless the serious side of the issue simply cannot be wished away. The casual manner in which the establishment is taking the destruction of this priceless heritage of mankind is as disturbing as it is illogical. The existence of the sethu can't be denied by any one for the simple reason that it exists physically and has been photographed by satellites. The images depict a beautiful, awe inspiring structure "dividing the blue sea like the milky way dividing the sky in two parts". This is precisely how the sethu looks in the NASA images and.....hold your breath! The quotes are from RAGHUVANSHA of Kalidas written many centuries ago.
Even if you want to discard Raghuvansh due to a political interest in secularism there is no dearth of published material on the existence of the sethu. The travelogues of Alexander Hamilton dating back to 1744 describe how he had actually used the Ram Sethu to cross from India to Ceylon. Even an official Administrative Report of the Madras Presidency published in 1903 refers to Ramar Sethu being used as a popular foot bridge between India and Ceylon right upto 1470.
It is sad that in the establishment's view there is no proof of Ram Sethu and what exists is Adam's bridge which is actually the name given to Ram Sethu by James Rennell the British Surveyor General of India barely a century ago.
The destruction of the Sethu is being justified in the name of savings in navigation time and costs. The historical, environmental and geo-political aspects are being completely ignored. It is also being ignored that the Sethu Samudram project can be implemented without destroying the Ram Sethu. There are 5 or 6 alternative alignments given by Mudaliar committee way back in 1956. Why then this insistence for the destruction. If such a priceless heritage is destroyed it would be no less than the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas by the Taliban irrespective of whether the sethu is man made or nature made. Let us think and act sensibly and save what needs to be saved for future generations as a common heritage of mankind
N N Ojha

TAIL-PIECE

The Stock Market simply
illustrated ... is there a lesson
here?

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared
and announced to the
villagers that he would buy monkeys for Rs10.

The villagers seeing that there were many
monkeys around, went out to
the
forest and started catching
them.

The man bought thousands at Rs10 and as
supply started to diminish,
the
villagers stopped their effort. He further
announced that he would now buy

at
Rs20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they
started
catching monkeys
again.

Soon the supply diminished even further and
people started going back to
their farms. The offer rate increased to Rs25
and the supply of monkeys
became so little that it was an effort to
even see a monkey, let alone
catch
it!

The man now announced that he would buy
monkeys at Rs50! However, since
he
had to go to the city on some business, his
assistant would now buy on
behalf of
him.

In the absence of the man, the assistant told
the villagers. Look at all
these monkeys in the big cage that the man
has collected. I will sell
them
to you at Rs35 and when the man returns from
the city, you can sell it to

him
for Rs50.'

The villagers squeezed up with all their
savings and bought all the
monkeys.

Then they never saw the man nor his
assistant, only monkeys everywhere
!!!

Welcome to the 'Stock' Market !!!!! :-)

Contributed by-Sumit Bothra

Aaj Ki Aawaz

MEA says Deal is on…… not frozen, not put on the backburner or dropped!!!
Why has this 'grenade' been lopped???

Pranab's both Deputies say Deal is still on the table!!
Deal as 'good for India ' kiya hai both Deputies ne label!!!

Should we now expect some words from the MEA Boss???
A grenade or a bomb will he toss?????

They say Manmohan is feeling down!!
In fact in the morning he has to be forced to get out of his dressing gown (overseas in his Suite he wears a gown)!!!

They say he simply lacks the will to follow his schedule….preferring to laze around!!!
From a 24x7 working kind of guy funny this does sound!!!

Liberalization was Manmohan's mark as FM and as PM he wanted Nuclear Deal to be his mark!!!
And he sure is hurt by the Commie bark!!!

They've labelled him as USA 's man….. said that he's on World Bank's pension!!!
He also did not like the 'Manmohan makes the wrong kind of friends' mention!!!

Then Allies like Pawar and Laloo got loose stomachs on the possibility of a midterm poll!
Dumped the Deal saying in a midterm poll they'd pay the toll!!!

Then Manmohan was shocked to see Sonia under political pressure sitting on the fence!!!
Seems Sonia felt that 'loosing power' for the Deal did not make sense!!!

Laloo explained her what 'lame duck' and 'dead duck' meant!!!!
And then to Sonia 'most MPs are against midterm poll' message was sent!!!

Sonia Ji MPs never like to face an election…… dream that polls are postponed!!!
Many of them fear going back to their constituencies fearing that they'll be stoned!!

Sonia also felt Nuclear Deal with US may alienate Congress's Muslim Vote Bank!!!
And Muslims Votes ho sakthe hai tank!!!

But now Sonia is sending mixed signals as in UP she showed as if midterm polls are coming!!
If you hear her speech this is what she was summing!!!!

Why does BJP want Karuna to apologize….. just does not make sense?????
Why is BJP being so dense????

Arrows shot do not return back to the quiver...so Karuna's anti Ram brays cannot be pardoned!!!
Such intolerant behaviour cannot be condoned!!

The arrow he aimed and shot has gone through the Hindu dill,
So now why is BJP trying to sugar coat this biter of bitterest pill????

Is BJP looking at him as a future ally and trying to down play,
Joh kuch Karuna ne Ramchandar Ji pe kiya tha bray!!!

Should a Party of Bhagwan Ram compromise on abuse of Bhagawan Ram for political gain????
If BJP is truly a Bhagwan Ram Party then such pain should never wane!!!

Point to be noted is that Modi has never spoken against Keshubhai!
And has kept up the charade of Bhai Bhai!!!

Despite being a vegetarian Keshubhai wants his pound of flesh,
Point is does he spill blood or bloodless way karta hai de-flesh!!!

Ultimately both Modi and Keshubhai will have 'to come down a couple of floors',
At present Modi is on the top and Keshubhai on one of the higher floors!!!

Punjab's FM has threatened ' get your act together of fire me'!!!
Seems in Manpreet's bonnet there is a 'nothing is progressing' bee!!!

Uncle Badal and Cousin Sukhbir are on an announcement making spree!!!
And the financial hollowness in their promises Manpreet can see!!!

M for Manpreeet and M for Munshi….. hope Uncle did not expect Manpreet as FM to be one????
Because this could have been the expectation of Uncle Badal and his son!!!

In Agriculturist Families Munshi's look after the finances and do as they are told!!!
But this 'Munshi' has a degree in law, has a political standing and is bold!!!

P Notes should have been curbed way back!!!
But seems then some FIIs threatened apna boriya bistar they would pack!!

This would have been the opportune time to shut out P Notes ….. banned!!!
In India 's interest things would panned!!

India story is good and so money would have come via the FII route!!!
Because FII's when they threatened to quit India only blank rounds they did shoot!!!

Confucius says…… A cake have baked is not edible and has to be put in the oven again!!!
Adds…Should not be over baked because stone hard cake would cause dental damage and pain!!

Flash……. Was there a rumour that PM had resigned????
Manmohan has always has his resignation ready only has to be dated and signed!!

Some Commies say that though the 123 Deal switch is off how come the bulb has light!!
Now Commies may allege work on the Deal is being kept out of sight!!!

Manmohan has said Deal is not dead..... not yet,
At Manmohan's statement Commies will fume and fret!!!

Bharat Kumar

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CORPORATE

No Director (HR) in PSUs of Indian Railways

PSU's of Indian Railways IRCON International,RITESCONCOR,DFCCIL,RAILTEL,IRFC,IRWO,KRCL,IRCTC none has the post of Director (HRD).

Board to take up SEZ proposals today

The board of approval, headed by Commerce Secretary G K Pillai is taking up 15 more proposals for special economic zones today.

Anand is ED (Operations 1 ) NACIL

D Ananad is the Executive Director (Operations 1} of the National Aviation Company of India Ltd (NACIL), the new company into which Air India and Indian have been merged.