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Empanelment list of 1986 batch IPS officers
Six dozen 1986 batch IPS officers are believed to have been empanelled to the rank of IG in the Government of India.They are:-
Rajesh Malik, S Nithiyanandam, P K Srivastava, S Vasudev Rao and T N Mohan (UT), J Chakravarty, Pallav Bhattacharjee, P D Goswami, Dr S B Singh, R Chandranathan and R P Agrawal (Assam-Meghalaya ),D G Sawang,Dr C R Naidu,V S Kamaudi,S Prabhakar Reddy,M Mahender Reddy,Alok Prabhakar and T Krishna Prasad (AP),Sheel Vardhan Singh,R K Mishra and Ashok Kumar Verma (Bihar),E Radhakrishnaiah (Gujarat),Sitaram Mardi and K C Sadyal (Himachal Pradesh),D Rani Doley and S P Vaid (J & K),Kamal Nayan Choubey,V H Rao Deshmukh and K S Meena (Jharkhand),A Hemachandran,N Shankar Reddy and Mohammad B S Yasin (Kerala),S Ramakrishna,M K Nagraja,K Gagan Deep and Pravin Sood (Karnataka),A K Pateriya,Dr Shailendra Srivastava, Anil Kumar.Sanjay Rana, K N Tiwari and T K Ghosh (Madhya Pradesh ),Shambhu Nath Singh,A K Shukla,Anand Prakash and Pramod Asthana ( Manipur-Tripura),L T Lotha,Z Lotha and S T Sangtam (Nagaland),Dr R P Sharma,Pradeep Kapur,B K Sharma,Abhay,M Nageshwar Rao and S S Hansdah (Orissa),Ashish Bhengra,Mithilesh Kumar Jha,N Tamil Selvan,Ashutosh Shukla,Ms Laxmi Prasad and M S Jaffar Sait (TamilNadu),Pramod Kumar Tiwari,Dinesh Chandra Pandey,Shantanu Mukherjee and Nasir Kamal (Uttar Pradesh),M A Ganapathy (Uttarakhand) and Shashi Bhushan Singh Tomar,Rakesh Kumar Gupta,R Thyagaraju,Kuldip Singh and Manoj Malviya (West Bengal).

Chaman Kumar moves to Defence
Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Child and Women Welfare in the Government of India Chaman Kumar has moved to the Defence Ministry . He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.

Kiran Chaddha is now JS WCD
Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Defence Kiran Chaddha in now Joint Secretary in the Department of Child and Women Welfare. She is 1974 batch CSS officer.

Beware Journalists -UPA Govt pulls all stops
The Congress led UPA Government is pulling out all stops to rein in all journalists & news organizations. The Income Tax (IT) department has reportedly drawn a list of 20 journalists whom they are investigating for their sources of income. The Investigation wing has been tipped to search or conduct raids if concerning authorities found it necessary. This comes close on the heels of notices to three news channels including "Aaj Tak".

Tenure of Bongirwar to expire next week
Tenure of A L Bongirwar Chairman of the Tariff Authority for Major Ports is coming to an end next week. He is retired 1966 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

Selvam joins as PS to Union Minister
R Selvam has joined the Government of India as PS to Indian Minister of Home Affairs Ms. V Radhika Selvi. He is 2001 batch IAS officer of the Himachal Pradesh cadre.

Rajeev Kumar Garg to be VP IL& FS
Rajeev Kumar Garg is going to be Vice President of the IL& FS. He is an Indian Forest Service(IFS) officer of the 1984 batch & belongs to the Uttar Pradesh cadre. He will be based in Dehradoon. This is his three year deputation assignment.

Srinivas is Dy Secretary (EA) in MEA
G Srinivas is new Deputy Secretary (EA) in the Ministry of External Affairs.1997 batch IFS officer, Srinivas. after his return from Beijing has succeeded 1990 batch IFS officer C Rajasekhat who is going to Seoul.

Who will head the new Company of IDFC ?
Grapevine has it that IDFC Project Development Company: IDFC is going to announce the name of a serving civil servant as head of their new project development company based out of Mumbai. Who is he? Under whose pressure he is being appointed?.

States forbidden to appoint ACS
grapevine has it that the state governments will not be able to appoint ACS without the approval of the Government of India. The state governments have been forbidden to increase the number of cadre posts.

Which JS will move from Commerce Ministry ?
Which Joint Secretary in the Commerce Ministry will have to shift to make way for the newly empanelled JS? Answer will be known in October.

Four Chairmen in NHAI in 14 months
In between tiff of T R Balu and the PM, the one who is badly and sadly suffering is NHAI who had seen four chairmen in a short period of 14 months.

1978 batch IPS to be ADG in UP
1978 batch IPS officers are expected to be promoted to the rank of ADG in Uttar Pradesh this month.

Status of INX channels

Peter Mukherjea & Indrani Mukherjea's channels are finally taking shape. The music & entertainment channels are expected to be launched by year end.However,Vir Sanghvi led news channel is still awaiting his(Sanghvi's)Editorial companion(Ms.Barkha Dutt) to decide on a launch schedule.

FORUM

Need to converge 'aam aadmi bima yojana' with national health program for impact

Convergence with the National Programs of health with the National Health Insurance Scheme for its successful take off and is an essential component for the visible impact and encourage the Below Poverty Line (BPL) to agree identify with the scheme and ideally to pay at least Rs100/- as his share. Today a BPL family spends maximum share of his income in health care, hence sparing this amount is not difficult but what is more difficult will be mechanism to collect the same, but this can easily be arranged while issue of smart card with photographs of family. This will ensure that the BPL demands the services and expects quality services. The "Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana" will cover 1.2 crore families living below poverty line (BPL) is laudable. The program is to be launched on 2nd of October and to be operational from April 1, 2008. The scheme is one of the several social security benefit programmes, worked out by the government under the Unorganized Sector Workers' Social Security Bill, 2007. The "Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana" will be issued smart cards with social security number for the purpose of identification. The insurance cover will be for Rs.75,000 on death due to accident and permanent disability due to accident. The insurance cover would be Rs.37,500 and upon death of a member, prior to terminal date, Rs.30,000 is the insurance amount.
The premium to be charged under the scheme will be Rs.200 per year per member of which the Centre is likely to bear 75 per cent of the cost, 25 per cent more than what was planned earlier. The Finance Minister has already committed Rs.1, 000 crore for the scheme in the Budget. State Governments will give the remaining amount. To make the program operational the States will now have to pick health service providers which means private sectors and insurance service providers and the BPL families.
States will now have to pick health service providers and insurance service providers as well as identify the BPL families for the scheme. "States have about six months to finalize the service providers before the scheme starts in April next year," the benefits under the scheme including basic healthcare such as hospitalization and day-care. The program can be availed at multiple locations and BPL families will be issued smart cards with unique identification numbers that they can carry wherever they go. This has been done keeping in mind that a huge number of unorganized sector workers are migratory. The BPL families list is existent and The General Insurance Services (GIS) companies are also in place. The main challenge is to identify the health service providers that will be more in private sector and the public health delivery system.
The worst health parameters are in the states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh (BIMARU) states with equally poor spread of trained private health personal. More than 56% of health providers come in the category of quacks. The impact of the scheme under the directions of IRDA, as regulatory body with be through TPA, the third party assesse. For the proper take off of the program it is important to converge it with the National Health Programs of the of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
Let us analyze a BPL family health care need. More than 80% of health care need is as out patient (OPD) and the insurance scheme will not cover the same, thus the BPL family will continue to go to the untrained quacks for remedies or pubic health facilities. The OPD treatment on micro analysis indicates that maximum is resultant of poverty and poor nutritional status namely TB, deaths during delivery, diarrhea etc.. The National Programs of health are committed to treat these diseases through public health care system and also provide for the free access to medicine. The list is exhaustive in terms of all vaccines for immunization, ante and post natal care, Tuberculosis, Leprosy, Diarrhea, Distribution of ORS, institutional delivery, etc…. If the agencies identified by the state government in the private sector are also identified as centers for providing services of National Health Programs then the access to these institutes will increase. The draft of similar policy when made for the State of Madhya Pradesh did have a response of private sector to give free medicines worth Rs100/- per family for OPD.
Thus the smart card will enable a BPL family to access any of these identified institutes and avail not just he inpatient treatment covered under insurance but also the outpatient need and thus total health care. The National Health Insurance will also enable to control the inflating bills of inpatient treatment and thus will be way forward for health discipline.
Another area of convergence with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is in that of providing mobile health units. Lot of donor agencies is working with the Ministry. The villages and habitats that do not have health institute in near vicinity to provide health care need to be catered through this mobile unit. The mobile unit will have to be provided by the state.
Thus, a scheme to cover the BPL will go a long way in not only providing insurance cover for health care but also to improve the human development indices on health parameters. The synergy between the National Programs of Health and that of National Health Insurance Scheme for BPL will go a long way to reduce the health care by quacks considerably and put in discipline of proper health care for BPL in terms of ensuring even preventive health care..

Aruna Sharma,

Shaila Kant Mishra deserves congratulations

Fresh suspensions of IPS officers in UP following unearthing of large scale irregularities in appointment of policemen some of them class five pass only and sexual exploitation of lady recruits is indicative of the extent of rot that has set in. That appointments were made on the basis of orders given from above(as has been alleged ) can be no excuse for acting like an accomplice and not a public servant who has been guaranteed protection under article 311 of the Constitution so that he does not succumb to any kind of pressure. One is also left wondering what kind of duty these officers must have been performing before their suspensions in case what has been alleged turns out to be correct. Nithari and other kind of shameful happenings and fake encounters and custodial killings cannot happen if officers are vigilant and not compromised or appointed in a fictitious manner .Shailja Kant Mishra and his team deserves congratulations .

Sudhir Chopra

TAIL-PIECE

The income tax officer decides to audit Sindhi businessman Kewalramani, and summons him to the income tax office.

The officer is not surprised when Kewalramani shows up with his attorney, Jamshedji.....

The officer says, "Well, sir, you have an extravagant lifestyle and no full-time employment, which you explain by saying that you won money gambling. I'm not sure the income tax finds that believable."

"I'm a great gambler, and I can prove it," says Kewalramani. "How about a demonstration? "

The officer thinks for a moment and said, "Okay. Go ahead."

Kewalramani says, "I'll bet you ten thousand rupees that I can bite my own eye."

The officer thinks a moment and says, "No way! It's a bet."

Kewalramani removes his glass eye and bites it.

The officer's jaw drops.

Kewalramani says, "Now, I'll bet you Twenty Thousand rupees that I can bite my other eye."

The officer can tell Kewalramani isn't blind, so he takes the bet.

Kewalramani removes his dentures and bites his good eye.

The stunned officer now realizes he has wagered and lost Thirty thousand rupees, with Jamshedji as a witness.

He starts to get nervous.

"Want to go double or nothing?" Kewalramani asks.

"I'll bet you Sixty Thousand rupees that I can stand on one side of your desk, and pee into that wastebasket on the other side, and never get a drop anywhere in between."
The officer, twice burned, is cautious now, but he looks carefully and decides there's no way this guy can manage that stunt, So he agrees again.

Kewalramani stands beside the desk and unzips his pants, but he strains mightily, he can't make the stream reach the wastebasket on other side, so he pretty much urinates all over the desk.

The officer leaps with joy, realizing that he has just turned a major loss Into a huge win.

But Jamshedji moans and puts his head in his hands.

"Are you okay?" the officer asks.

"Not really," says Jamshedji, the attorney.

"This morning, when Kewalramani told me he'd been summoned for an audit, he bet me One Hundred Thousand Rupees that he could come in here and piss all over your desk and that you'd be happy about it."

Contributed by -Thakur Mulani

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CORPORATE

BBMB to be restructured ?

The Union Power Ministry is quietly working on a plan
to restructure the giant Bhakra Beas Management Board
(BBMB). This biggest hydro utility of the country is currently
working more or less as a Government department. The
entire 20,000 workforce of BBMB comes on deputation from
mainly Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan. It is supplying cheapest
power to the three member States of Punjab , Haryana and
Rajasthan. But strangely, BBMB has not been involved with
the massive hydro power development of the country. Power
Ministry officials speaking on condition of anonymity said that
corporatization of BBMB is the only solution to make it effective
and result oriented. This will also help it raise money from the
market and take up more hydro projects. But the beneficiary
States are totally opposed to it because this restructuring will
deprive them of almost free cheap power.

Search Committee for Air India chief to meet today

First meeting of the Search Committee to scout for a head for Air India is taking place today.

Union Bank to speed up promotions

Union Bank of India has decided to speed up promotions .Details are being worked out.

Kohli is ED NACIL
D S Kohli is now ED (Northern Region) of the National Aviation Company of India Ltd (NACIL), the new company into which Air India and Indian have been merged.

Manu Anand of PepsiCo to be MD,F & B

Manu Anand will be Food & Beverages in PepsiCo South East Asia as Managing Director (MD).At present he is MD in PepsiCo's foods business in India.

Gautam Mukkavili of PepsiCo to be MD, Foods business

Gautam Mukkavili who is presently Managing Director (MD), Thailand, will be MD for PepsiCo's foods business in India.

Naren Multani promoted as Film Chief, McCann

McCann Erickson, of which Executive Chairman in India is Prasun Joshi, has promoted Naren Multani as Film Chief, South Asia.

Rajeev Kumar Garg to be VP IL& FS

Rajeev Kumar Garg is going to be Vice President of the "Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd"( IL& FS).He is an Indian Forest Service(IFS) officer of the 1984 batch & belongs to the Uttar Pradesh cadre.He will be based in Dehradoon.This is his three year deputation assignment.