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fruitful life. Dr Subba Rao appointed RBI Governor CORPORATE Interviews for BHEL, EDs soon Interviews for promotion of General Managers(GMs) to Executive Directors(Eds)in Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd(BHEL) are going to take place soon.This year number of EDs is expected to go beyond the figure 29. Dharmarajan is Director NTPC K Dharamarajan has been nominated as Director of the NTPC. He is retired 1966 batch IAS officer of TamilNadu cadre. Sharraf is JMD AP Transco Umesh Sharraf has taken over as the Joint Managing Director (Vigilance and Security), AP Transco. He has replaced M. Malakondaiah LIC Completes 52 years of service to its customers On the 1st September 2008, LIC has completed 52 years of service to the nation. On this occasion T S Vijayan, the Chairman, thanks all our policyholders and other stakeholders for continuing to maintain their faith in LIC. He also thanked the Govt of India and the Regulator and attributed the stupendous success of the Organisation to the hardwork done by its employees and agents. LIC came into being on the 1st of September 1956 on nationalization of the Insurance Industry which comprised of 245 private insurers. LIC is today the largest life insurance company which not only has offices in several countries but also has diversified its business into Mutual Fund and Housing Finance. The Life fund of LIC stands at Rs 6,86,616 crore and its Asset Base stands at Rs 8,03,820 crore making it one of the largest financial institutions of the country. During the year 2007-08,LIC completed 375.90 lacs new policies with first premium income of Rs.43812.86 Crores with this the total number of inforce policies of LIC crossed the mark of 23 crore in individual insurance. More than 2.21 Crore persons were covered during the year 2007-08 under various social security schemes managed by LIC. Newly introduced Scheme "Aam Admi Bima Yojna also registered excellent response and more than 46 lakhs heads of the rural landless households have been covered till date under this scheme. As at 31st March 2008, LIC has invested Rs 82,022 crore in the Infrastructure and Social Sector. LIC has been ranked as the most trusted service Brand in the Economic Times Brand Equity Survey for the fifth consecutive year in 2008. LIC's overall ranking across all categories has gone up from 27th to 12th in this survey. LIC has won various other prestigious awards during the year which consist- Reader's Digest Trusted Brand -2008,Skoch Challengers Award, Most Preferred Life Insurance Co. of the Year by CNBC-Awaaz-(Third time in a row),Outlook Money-NDTV Profit Best Life Insurance Award 2007,Golden Peacock Award for Corporate Governance etc. LIC has defined the world standard in the field of Claim Settlement. During the year 2007-08 LIC settled Over 1.39 crore claims for an amount of Rs 37,206 crores in individual life business. LIC thus settles on an average 48,097 claims every working day. Out of the total Maturity Claims settled over 97 per cent are settled on or before the date of maturity and over 92 percent of the total Non Early Death Claims are settled within 20 days of intimation. LIC is the largest user of Information Technology in the insurance sector and it has networked all its 2048 branches and 340 satellite offices to provide the convenience of anytime premium payment to all its policyholders. For the benefit of customers, LIC has also made available various alternate channels of premium payment like internet, ECS and ATMs. Recently ,another facility has also been given to the policy holders to pay their premium by just sending an SMS. Currently this facility is available to the account holders of Corporation Bank only. The world class LIC portal has a facility of online registration and policyholders can get information regarding their policies and effect simple transactions like change of address etc.. LIC's Enterprise Document Management System project to make the organization paperless is already in progress. Aaj Ki Aawaz Congress a sole proprietorship is being Corporatized to Congress Pvt. Ltd, Only to the Gandhi family share holding will be limited!!! Congress is outsourcing its complete election campaign, Some Companies are sure shot going to gain!!!! Now selection of candidates, ad campaign and rallies will be decided externally! Only which Companies will be chosen will be decided internally!!! So political gut feeling has been dumped, Decision leaves me stumped!!!! Even in developed Countries such a mode of electioneering is not followed!!!! But what Gandhi family says by the Party men has to be swallowed!!! What was needed was only research and planning being outsourced!!!! And then by the Party the action be coursed!!!! Get inputs as to what people's aspirations are and which candidate stands a better chance! And while deciding at the Report the decision makers should glance!!! I feel a middle path approach would have been best!!!! Some would even say why don't they outsource governance too in jest!!!! Then we would be voting for Companies like KMPG, McKinsey and Ernst & Young!!! Our next real PM could be a Bursnky, Cartwood or Yong!!!! Too much of anything is bad, Because it becomes more of a fad!!! Too much of politics is bad and so is too much of Corporatization of politics!!! Prudent and down to earth ..... middle path who picks!!! The 'Votes for Cash' House Panel wants to trace the origin of the cash!!!!! Money came form whose or which stash!!! Shouldn't Panel also look into 'who actually benefited form this ghoos'???? By whom were the actors of this scam let loose!!! I feel it was Congress that was the real beneficiary of this scam!!!!! Though some will say Amar Singh was trying to please Madam!!! Manmohan or Mohan with his V signs let the cat out of the bag!!!! People now say in politicking Mohna nahi karta hai lag!!! He's lost his biggest plus point!!!!! Mohna sure ne karra hai disappoint!!! NSA's boast that J&K will calm down in 10 days was more of a hope!!! Now with anti Amarnath settlement cries the Valley will have to cope!!!! Many say NSA means Not Sensible Advice but secrecy covers this up!!!! And when things get uncomfortable NSA goes in for an interview cover-up!!!! From a pally or friendly Media panel one or two are selected to do an interview!!!! And in the interviews NSA gives his cover up view!!! Under Administrator Roddy Chandigarh is going from bad to worse, Many look on Roddy as a curse!!!! And because of his woeful governance Chandigarhites are paying the price!!!! He has the Administration and MC playing cat and mice!!!! Many say what did Sonia see in him to make him a Guv???? The man is full of self love!!!! He simply yacks and yacks and does not let anyone speak!!!! Viewing his miserable performance just see his cheek??? Confucius says..... Roddy is a classical case for ' why States should have a say in Guv appointment'!!! This man has been an utter disappointment !!!!! Bharat Kumar Forum Poor Officer being compensated by 6th CPC After Notification of this, poor officers; i.e., from the level of Under Secretarr/Principal Private Secretary and above have been compensated by another increase of Rs.500 and Rs.1000/- in their grade pay. Their request that since they are poor and cannot afford for a good living has been adhered to. They will also be getting TA of Rs.3200, out of which at the most they will be spending for their cars only to the extent of Rs.1500/- towards petrol and save the remaining amount and enjoy with their family. they are poor because they own car etc. Wherelse the needs of a non-gazetted officials has been listened and on the contrary their scales have been dumped to the worst. This is only to say that officers will leave home after 5.30 to enjoy with their family members from the pay they get; but the non-gazetted officials will stay late during exigency and parliament session though they are underpaid. Excellent: What a British rule. May long live this 6th CPC. R Raju Arrear payments would be deposited in the Provident Fund ? There were rumours that the 6th Pay Commission Arrear payments would be deposited in the Provident Fund. Now Government in its wisdom has decided to pay the arrears in cash in two instalments. The GPF Rules do not provide for one time deposit in the Fund. Why cant the Government think of a one-time dispensation to its employees to deposit such portion of the arrears as they would like, in their General Provident Fund Account? This would also reduce the strain on the Govt. Funds. Kannan. The pay Commission ! 1.The pay commission had recommended that higher bureaucracy can get treatment done with private hospitals.This was a great step proposed as CGHS run dispensaries are providing very poor quality of health care.As a result officers have to pay from their pocket to get treatment done.Unfortunately this recommendation has not been accepted.It is really sad .I wish this recommendation should be acted as soon as possible,if Govt has to promote employee satisfaction,efficiency and honesty. 2.Central servises will get SAG grade two years after IAS gets impanneled at centre.It means while say 95 bactch of IAS will get SAG after 16 years,IFS in 16 years,IPS and IFos in 18 years but central service after 21 years.This is sad and not based on any logic .Give us SAG after 18 years as in the case of IPS if not on the lines of IAS and IFS.I request all central service officers to make a strong representation on this issue. 3.Other recommendations are satisfactory and welcome. Ravi Unfair implementation ! The final pay implementation after VI CPC has again been very unfair to DIG/Conservators in pay scale of Rs 16400-20000 GP- Rs 8900 because now Grade Pay difference between the scale of Rs 14300-18300 GP-Rs8700 and 16400-20000 is only Rs. 200. Thus again the IAS has beaten the IPS & IFS 'Dimpy Chopra Discrepancy ? Regarding the question of discrepancy between different guidelines on pay fixation raised by Avinash Agarwal, please refer to page 35 of the Notification dated 29th August, 2008. The provison on bunching clearly states that the increment calculation for alleviating bunching will not take into account grade pay. Illustration 5 speaks of a normal grant of increment in the revised pay structure, which is quite different from the bunching scenario. N. Vasudevan, I would suggest that All the Ministers/Secretaries/others should cancel their Foreign and other trips in view of Bihar calamity. This issue should be raised/discussed in details in your Forum. Regards Lalit Suri Does CBDT really needs a transfer policy? Any sane person would say no to the type of policy we have .We have experts in foreign taxation,in investigation,assessment of various trades and business and professions and also those who have over a period of time developed various competencies which remain to be recognised because of the subjective element and the infight in the cadre.These experts are sought after by private set ups because no where can you have an expert in administration,expert in various aspects of taxation,and expert in dealing with government set up which is the icing on the cake.Those busines houses who have realised this ,are quick to grab the taxman but it is unfortunate that the government does not realise the value of such an experience which can never be there with an officer of any other service .The Taxman deals with a large no of persons from different vocations or trades and lso with servicemen and so called legal luminaries who claim to work in the interest of taxpayers,but the same guy is able to lift the veil and break the racket and detect evasion,in view of his experience.Under the circumstances,it is highly illogical to waste the expertise by applying the thumb rules of transfer guidelines and posting the competent officers in far flung places after they have gained in experience,It may be good to have the A B C city concept up to the level of assessing officers ,because in the process they get exposed to different environments,but it is fool hardy to apply the same to higher levels of additional commissioner and above.The CBDT transfer policy makes various exceptions but they are mostly being misused either on account of wrong claims or for reasons which are easily understood.Thus the exceptions far out weigh the do's in the policy.Most of the officers who need a change ,but have not hit the upper ceiling when they ought to be transferred out have their requests rejected or not considered because they are not familiar with the system.In fact we do not require a transfer policy but a guideline to deploy the experienced officers in various positions so that their expertise is of use at a place where it matters and not at aplace where the investment in such officers is wasted by the department.There is no fun in posting incompetent officers in MUMBAI or DELHI and posting our most experienced officers in places like orissa or Bihar or any other state where the expertise acquired by them over a period of time which is only relevent to some of the important places is wasted.It is a shame that such competent officers ,who are experts in their own right ultimately suffer ,on personal and professional account just because of the transfer policy which has more exceptions for favorites,ladies and cheats and none on the basis of seniority or for expertise in different specific fields . Ranjan Sahay Intention of the government is clear. after a huge hue and cry by UDC unions in the Central Secretariat to bridge the gap between the pay of Assistants and UDC, after the upgradation of the Assistants pay from 5500 to 6500, Government has once again increased the grade of pay of assistants from 4200 to 4600, whereas UDCs pay has left unchanged. grade pay of scale 5000 is 4600, which is 60% increase. it seems that government have some vested interest in keeping the lower in lower grade. they are favouring the theory of eliminating poor rather to eliminating pverty. Sarvesh IDES ? The success stories are far & in between. They have royally screwed up the functioning of Cantonment Boards and do not serve the Military for whom they exist or were created. They often take the high moral ground that they are serving national interest. Prime defence land is allowed to be encroached upon and progress is halted by taking shelter behing archaic and obsolete rules. In my opinion, DGDES and its subordinate offices have many skeletons in their cupboards and lack accountability. Arun Saigal Where is NDMA ? National Disaster Response agency or NDMA - Do they exist?? is so what are they doing for the 15 days for Bihar floods. In case they are doing something, why cant they make a daily press briefing and tell us what they have done. Imagine having more than ten Addl Secy and JS level officers in GOI and no clue to public what they have been doing to prevent such disasters or to manage /save lives Dr Sanjay Singh |
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