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Dinesh Rai is Secretary Small & medium Enterprises

Dinesh Rai has been appointed as Secretary, Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises.He is an IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre who belongs to the 1974 batch.Presently Dinesh Rai is Vice Chairman, Delhi Development Authority(DDA).
( We said this on January 11 )

K. Mohandas is Secretary Overseas Indian Affairs

K. Mohandas has been appointed as Secretary Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs.He is an IAS officer of the Kerala cadre who belongs to the 1974 batch.Presently he is Special Secretary, Department of Revenue,in the Ministry of Finance.

Ms Rekha Gupta to be Additional CAG !

Mrs. Rekha Gupta, an Indian Audit & Accounts officer of 1975 Batch is in the Zone of consideration for the prestigious post of Additional CAG of India. She is at present on deputation as Custodian in the Ministry of Finance. The parent department has sought willingness from Mrs. Gupta for this post, which has higher responsibilities and importance in the country and abroad as well.

BHEL-Efforts to scuttle PESB selection

Efforts are afoot to appointment of BHEL's Chairman cum Managing Director(CMD) as per the selection done by Public Enterprises Selection Board(PESB).Though,outgoing CMD A.K.Puri is superannuating on February 29,2008;his successor has not been decided as yet.As the grapevine has it ,there is a move to get K.ravi Kumar Director(Power) in BHEL inducted as Chairman -Committee of Director(C-COD) for six months.By September 1,2008 B.P.Rao Director Industrial Systems & Products as well as Anil Sachdeva will be eligible to be in the race of BHEL's CMD.

1973 batch IAS promoted in TamilNadu

Four 1973 batch IAS officers Mssrs M.A. Gowrishankar, Naresh Gupta , Arun Ramanathan and Santha Sheela Nair have been promoted to the rank of ACS in TamilNadu .

Pandey takes over as Advisor

Secretary Steel in the Government of India R S Pandey has taken over as Advisor to the Nagaland Governor. He is 1972 batch IAS officer.

IAS need to be medically fit !
GoI is contemplating to go in for the medical check up of all the IAS officials every year after attaining the age of 40. Medical fitness will be recorded in Service Book. A directive in this connection has reportedly been issued.

Ajay Kumar to be next NFL CVO
Ajay Kumar, presently Joint Secretary (Steel), is all set to join as CVO in NFL. He is 1984 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Five IAS men of Chhattisgarh to attend induction course

As many as five IAS officers belonging to the Chhattisgarh cadre will attend 104th induction at the Mussourie located Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA)from February 18,2008 to April 11,2008.Those who will attend the course are:Alok Awasthi Collector Janjgir-Champa,T.C.Mahawar Collector Dhamtari,D.D.Singh Collector Jashpur,L.S.Ken Collector Bijapur & N.K.Khaka Deputy Commissioner Bastar.Yetendra Kumar Deputy Director at the LBSNAA will be the course Director.

2 Additional Judges to Calcutta HC appointed

As many as two Additional Judges of the Calcutta High Court(HC)were appointed as judges in order of their seniority.They are:Justice Partha Sakha Datta and Justice Prasenjit Mandal.

Ajay Kumar Lal is Director MoEF

Ajay Kumar Lal is set become a Director in the Indian Ministry of Environment & Forests(MoEF).He is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1987 batch & belongs to the Himachal Pradesh cadre.

5 New IPS officers join Orissa cadre

Five new IPS officers alloted to Orissa out of the 2007 Batch have joined the state cadre on 30 January 2008 after their training .They are-Ms. Amrita Das,Ms. Anupama Sahu, (both from Orissa) ,Ms. Sudha Singh, (new Delhi), Anirudha Singh (Bihar),& Anup Krishna (Kerala). After submitting their papers of joining before the Orissa Director General police, G.C.Nanda,at the Police Head Quarter, Cuttack, the officers made a courtsy call to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.Their posting orders are likely to be issued by end of this week.

Dy Chairman post vacant
The post of Deputy Chairman in the Paradeep Port Trust, till recently held by IRTS officer S Tripathi, is lying vacant.

Pandit goes to Arunachal Pradesh

V.K. Pandit, who is a DANICS officer on being inducted as an IAS officer of UT cadre has been transferred to Arunachal Pradesh.

Moily panel term extended

Term of the second Administrative Reforms Commission headed by Veerappa Moily has been extended for another six months.

Dogra is JS to HP CM

Prakash Dogra has been appointed Joint Secretary to the Himachal Pradesh Chief Secretary.

FORUM

Sir, Flourishing kidney racket whose full ramifications are yet to unfold is a fine indicator of success of National Rural employment Guarantee Scheme. Instead of getting 200 days of assured employment in rural areas ,poor people are forced to migrate and earn few thousand of rupees at the cost of loosing their kidney. The confidence with which Dr Amit ran this racket with links all over the country and abroad and accessed facilities of well known hospitals and labs in Delhi is further indication of total lack of any system being in place to deter likes of Dr Amit. Of course Dr Ramdoss was extremely busy fighting Dr Venugopal of AIIMS that he had no time to see what else was happening in the health sector.While our leaders are boasting about world class health facilities in India and tremendous scope for medical tourism, we should hang our head in shame that all such things can continue at such a huge scale for such a long time without any problem. This racket came to light because of initiative of a gutsy lady IPS probationer (who appears to be a very good replacement following VRS by Kiran Bedi) and not because of alertness on the part of medical fraternity or Health Ministry. No wonder, at some stage a policy of go slow may be followed on the ground that strong position of rupee vis a vis dollor is due to combined contribution of all such rackets. A very powerful minister has gone on record saying that scary pictorial warnings on cigarette packs can negatively impact upon earnings of beedi workers. One can only hope that same justification will not be given in support of flourishing kidney racket.

Sudhir Chopra

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CORPORATE

Powergrid's Q3 net rises by 13.94 %

The Central Transmission Utility of the Country, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGIL)of wich Chairman cum Managing Director(CMD) is R.P.Singh,has registered a 13.94% rise in the net profit for the third quarter ended December 31,2007 at Rs. 384.28 crore as compared to Rs. 337.27 crore during the same Quarter in the previous year. The net profit of the Corporation including foreign exchange rate gain for the nine months ended December 31, 2007 rose to Rs.1207.68 crore from Rs. 794.53 crore, up by 52%.

SAIL & HEC join hands

Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) today signed a memorandum of understanding with Ranchi-based Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC), the largest integrated engineering complex in the country, for supply of equipment for its ongoing modernisation & expansion programme.Mr. V.K. Gulhati, Director (Technical), SAIL & G.K. Pillai, Chairman-cum-Managing Director HEC, signed the MoU under which HEC will supply torpedo ladle cars, transfer cars, slab despatch cars, rolls, EOT cranes and other mechanical equipment required for the modernisation & expansion of the SAIL plants.SAIL's growth plan envisages increase in hot metal production capacity to over 26 million tonnes by the year 2010, under which major projects are being implemented at all its integrated steel plants, mines and other units.The MoU with HEC will enable SAIL in achieving security of critical equipments and spares during the growth plan period at competitive prices. HEC was set up in 1958 to manufacture and supply capital equipment, machine tools for core sector industries, especially steel. The company has supplied quality equipment for critical areas during installation of Bokaro Steel Plant in the 1970s and during modernisation of SAIL plants in the 1990s.

Rajeev Sabnis to head M&C Saatchi in Mumbai

M&C Saatchi India of which Chief Executive Officer(CEO)is Kamal Oberoi,has appointed Rajeev Sabnis as Executive Director. Sabnis who was earlier Chief Operating Officer(COO)with Ambience Publicis will be Mumbai in his new job.

Ms.Anjali Nair to head M&C Saatchi in Delhi

M&C Saatchi India of which Chief Executive Officer(CEO)is Kamal Oberoi,has appointed Ms.Anjali Nair Director.Ms.Nair will be in her new job.

NALCO to pay 40 % interim dividend

NALCO, India's largest manufacturer and exporter of alumina and aluminium , on January 30,2008, has announced an interim dividend of 40 % of paid up capital of Rs.644.31 crore ,amounting to Rs.257.72 crore for the 2007-08 fiscal.Governmenet of India holds 87.15 % share of NALCO under the ministry of Miknes while the balance share are held by various individuals,Banks,Financial institutions etc.

MoU for Indo-Russia JV Titanium Project
Russia government for the first time on 29 January ,2008 signed a pact with Saraf Agencies Private Limited of India to set up an integrated chemical and metallurgy complex-Titanium project and sector specific SEZ at Chhatrapur in Orissa.The preliminary pact was signed here between Russian Ambassador to India Trubnikob and S.M.Saraf, Chairman of SAPL.

Impressive performance by Phoenix Lamps
Phoenix Lamps, of which Managing Director(MD)is Rajiv Prasad, has recorded 78 per cent increase in net profit to Rs 1420.74 lacs for the quarter ended December 2007, as compared to Rs 799.59 lacs for the same quarter, last year. Phoenix Lamps is a manufacturer company of automotive lamps and compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs).

Reza Sayah posted in Pakistan by CNN
CNN Worldwide has appointed Reza Sayah as an International correspondent based in Pakistan.

Ramaswamy is CGM State Bank of Travancore
M. Ramaswamy has taken over as Chief General Manager of State Bank of Travancore in the place of Pradeep Shankar, who has been transferred to State Bank of Indore as Managing Director.