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Brahma is new Election Commissioner
Former Secretary Power in the Government of India H S Brahma has been appointed new Election Commissioner.He is retired 1975 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.
( We said this on July 16 and again on August 17 )
Will P K Mishra head NDMA ?
Will former Secretary Agriculture P K Mishra succeed Gen N C Vij as Vice Chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). Name of Mishra reportedly figures in the panel prepared for the post. Mishra is retired 1972 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.
Seven IAS in wait list 
As many as seven IAS officers belonging to 1978 - 79 batch are in the waitlist for the post of Additional Secretary.
1980 batch IAS to get in-situ promotion 
1980 batch IAS officers in the Government of India are expected to get in-situ promotion to the rank of Additional Secretary.
Will Butola be Chairman of IOC ? 
R S Butola is said to be ahead in the race for the prestigious post of Chairman - Indian Oil Corporation (IOC).
Pompa Babar to be new FC in Railway Board ? 
In all probability, Pompa Babar will be new Financial Commissioner in the Railway Board. She is 1975 batch IRAS officer.
Name of Prem Narain is also in circulation 
Name of Prem Narain is also in circulation for the post of AS and FA in Commerce. He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
Will Subodh Kumar be CMD of BSNL ? 
Additional Secretary Telecom Subodh Kumar has applied for the post of CMD of BSNL. Incidentally, 1977 batch IAS officer Subodh Kumar has been empanelled to the rank of Secretary in the Government of India.
Dinesh Rai Secretary MSME tipped to get post retirement job 
As the grapevine has it, Dinesh Rai Secretary in the Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) is poised to get a post retirement assignment.. He is an IAS officer of the 1974 batch who belongs to the Uttar Pradesh cadre.
Why did CoS defer meeting ? 
Scheduled meeting of the CoS to finalise names of the new CBDT and CBEC members did not take place on Monday .Now the Cabinet Secretary has asked Chairman of CBDT and CBEC to resolve internal matters and come with a fresh panel of names for the post of Members  in the two boards.
Shailendra Singh empanelled in GoI 
Shailendra Singh has been empanelled to the rank of Joint Secretary in the Government of India. He is 1988 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.
Acharya to be Director (HR) Neyveli Lignite 
In all probability, S K Acharya will be the new Director (HR) in the Neyveli Lignite Corporation.
ACC's prior approval mandatory for appointment in personal staff of Ministers  
The ACC has reiterated that its prior approval is required for all appointments in the personal staff of Ministers (other than Private Secretaries) at the level of Deputy Secretary and above. For appointments as Private Secretaries, ACC approval is required for all levels.
Interview for the post of BSNL's Director Finance 
Interview for the post of BSNL's Director Finance is scheduled to be held on August 26, 2010.
S. Chockalingam's central deputation on the anvil 
The Government of India (GOI) in the offer list has retained the name of S. Chockalingam. He is an IAS officer of the 1996 batch who belongs to the Maharashtra cadre.
Pravin Kumar to join as Development Commissioner, DSL 
Pravin Kumar will be joining as Development Commissioner of the Dahej SEZ Ltd (DSL) falling under the central government's Ministry of Commerce & Industry on August 25, 2010. He is an IAS officer of the1982 batch who belongs to the Uttar Pradesh cadre. Presently he is Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME).
(We said this on July 4, 2010)
Process to search new SEBI Chief starts 
Process to select new SEBI Chief has started in the Ministry of Finance. Tenure of present SEBI Chief C B Bhave is coming to an end in January.
Officers of Atomic Energy deptt working overtime
Nowadays officers of the Atomic Energy department are working overtime
because of ongoing debate pertaining to introduction of the Civil
Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010.
Sanjay Kothari will also oversee CWG 
Additional Secretary  and Director General of Tourism Sanjay Kothari has also been asked to oversee CWG preparations. He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.
Tenure of foreign postings to be linked with kid's academic session 
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has decided that: the tenure of officers on foreign deputation may be linked to the end of their children's academic session i.e. date of completion of the annual examination. The committee has said that the officers going on foreign deputation should be informed at the time of their posting that their tenure will be adjusted to coincide with the academic session of their children.
Girija Shankar goes to USA for foreign Training programme  
Girija Shankar, IAS, Joint Collector, Kapada, Andhra Pradesh, has left for long term foreign Training programme in Executive Master of Public Administration at Syracuse University, USA.
1989 and 1990 batch IRAS get SAG 
1989 and 1990 batch IRAS officers have been given SAG.
Anand Bardhan is Director Overseas Indian Affairs 
Anand Bardhan is new Director in the Department of Overseas Indian Affairs. He is 1992 batch IAS officer of Uttarakhand cadre.
IA&AS officer Suresh Kumar transferred 
IA&AS officer S. Suresh Kumar, Senior Deputy Accountant General (STRA/SRR), in the office of Principal Accountant General (C&RA), Tamil Nadu, Chennai, is transferred and posted as Senior Deputy Accountant General (Admn/Coml) in the same office. He will continue to hold additional charge of the post of Senior Deputy Accountant General (STRA/SRR) till further orders.
Fate of GM’s final panel hangs in a balance
As the grapevine has it fate of those senior officers of the Indian
Railways hangs in a balance that figure in the list of empanelment for
posting as General Managers (GMs).
Pradeep Kumar returning to Kerala next week
The central deputation tenure of Pradeep Kumar as Member (Finance) of
Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) that conclude in July, 2010
will return to Kerala by the end of August 2010. He is an IAS officer
of the 1987 batch who belongs to
the Kerala cadre.
Now tribunals to settle education related disputed 
The Government of India has decided to set up tribunals to settle education-related disputes.
Ingty Israel is OSD to Meghalaya Chief Minister
Ingty Israel is OSD to Meghalaya Chief Minister Dr. Mukul Sangma.
SVP National Police Academy Board reconstituted 
SVP National Police Academy Board has been reconstituted with Union Home Secretary as its Chairman  and Special Secretary (IS),  AS&FA (Home), Director, SVP NPA, Hyderabad, Director General, BPR&D, New Delhi, Director General of Police, Andhra Pradesh, Director General of Police, Uttar Pradesh, Director General of Police, Maharashtra and Joint Secretary (Police-I)  as its Members and Joint Director, SVP NPA, Hyderabad as its Member Secretary. The non-official members will be K.Koshy, IPS (Retired)  and an HRD Expert (to be nominated). The term of the Board will be for a period of 3 years with effect from Jan 1, 2010 or till reconstitution of the Board, whichever is later.
CVC indicts four Bank of India officials 
Of the 92 government officials indicted by the Central Vigilance Commission, in June, for their alleged involvement in corruption, four officials are from Bank of India.
Railway transfer postings 
Shiv Kumar Chowdhuri HAG/IRTS has been posted as CAO(PIS) Northern Railway. O P Kala  SAG/IRTS will be COM/NER and R V Singh SAG/IRTS will be CCM/NER.
K.L. Dhingra elected “Fellow” by CIOB, Scotland

K.L. Dhingra Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) ITI Ltd and the Vice Chairman of SCOPE, has been elected as the Fellow of the Council of The Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland. The CIOB, Scotland is Scotland’s leading provider of banking and professional qualifications to the banking and financial services sector.The Fellowship is recognized in the banking and financial services industry globally and is awarded to those who have made an outstanding contribution to the industry and /or CIOBS itself. As a Fellow, Dhingra joins an elite group of professionals working to further enhance the reputation and status of the Scottish banking profession worldwide. Dhingra is recipient of several prestigious awards and these include: Dr. C. D. Datey prize, J.C. Das prize, Bank of Baroda’s N.M. Chokshi Memorial prize, Khan Bahadur Shaikh Mohamedally Allabux Memorial prize and Dena Bank’s Roving Shield. Dhingra is finance professional having Master’s degree in Business Management from Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi University with additional banking qualification from India (CAIIB) and UK (ACIB, London). He secured the first rank in three of the courses on banking conducted by the Institute of Banking and Finance, Mumbai. He holds the distinction of being the only Indian who passed A.C.I.B. (London) examination globally in July 1997. His other banking related studies and courses included Course on Development Banking (first position), Diploma on International Banking (first position) and Diploma in Financial Services. Dhingra has served as CMD of Housing & Urban Development Corporation Ltd (HUDCO) and as Director (Finance) in other PSUs. Under his leadership, HUDCO achieved some of the highest ever landmarks in areas such as loan sanctions, profitability, highest credit ratings on standalone basis, record reduction in net NPAs and improvement in credit ratings.
NALCO’s Q1 net profit up 125% at Rs.284 cr

National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO), the Navratna PSU and India’s leading producer and exporter of alumina and aluminium of which Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) isAbhay Kumar Srivastava, had come out with impressive results in the 1st quarter ended June 30. The net profit has jumped by 125% to Rs. 284 crore from Rs.127 crore achieved in the corresponding period of previous year. According to the results taken on record at a meeting of the Board of
Directors in New Delhi today, the company has reported a Sales turnover of Rs.1,388 crore, an increase of 43% compared to Rs.970 crore achieved in the corresponding quarter of the previous year. It may be mentioned that the rise in sales and Profit are attributed to enhanced production volume & sales, improved
consumption norms of input materials and better sales realization.On production front too, NALCO has put up an impressive performance. Bauxite production during this quarter increased to 1,067,429 tonnes against 840,328 tonnes in the corresponding quarter. Similarly, Aluminium production increased to 111,663 tonnes from 104,767 tonnes and Power generation to 1659 MU from 1600 MU. On the sales front also, NALCO sold 108,620 MT of aluminium in the 1st quarter, which was 93,104 MT in the corresponding period of previous year.Domestic sale of Aluminium also increased by 28% to 83,449 tonnes from 65,112 tonnes in the corresponding quarter.
18 amendments in nuclear liability bill

It has become a record of sorts that the Government of India (GOI) has accepted 18 amendments the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010. Never before so many amendments to any bill were accepted by the GOI.

Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010 likely to be passed

It is being felt in corridors of power that the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010 is likely to be passed.

Uday Verma appointed Secretary MSME
Special Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Uday Verma will succeed Dinesh Rai as Secretary Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) in the Government of India on September 1. He is 1976 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.Appointment orders of Verma have been issued.
( We said this on August 23 )

44 CSS officers transferred

As many as 44 Grade 1 (Under Secretary) officers of CSS have got fresh postings. While N.K. Sharma has been posted in UIDAI, P.K. Chakraborti - Election Commission, A.K. Sinha - Economic Affairs, P.K. Verma - Urban Development, Ms. T. V. Mahalakshmi - Agri.& Coop, Mukesh Chaturvedi - DoP&T, V. Krishnaswamy – RT & H, B.M. David - Inter State Council Sectt, Geetha Sundararajan - I&B, Pradeep Kapoor - W&CD, Ashok Kumar Khanna - Central Vigilance Commission, Ms. Lila Chandran - Central Vigilance Commission, Anil Uniyal - Election Commission, Jagdish Kumar - Social Justice & Empowerment, P.P. Singh – Defence, Virender Kumar - Higher Education, H.S. Nanda - W&CD, Sukumar - Agri & Coop., Prakash Chand Tandon – SSC, R.K. Agarwal – UIDAI, K.K. Chhabra - Central Vigilance Commission, Satish Kumar - Central Vigilance Commission, Anil Kumar Madan – Steel, Paramjit Singh - Election Commission, Ms. Lalitha Das – Fertilizers, R. Krishnamurthy - Election Commission, V.Ramkumar – UIDAI, K.L. Nandwani – Defence, Ram Mohan - Statistics and PI, Ms. Madhu Sham - Social Justice & Empowerment, Amar Mudi – Central Vigilance Commission, AK Sharma – Expenditure, C R Vaisala Hariharan – HRD, V.K. Chopra – NATGRID (MHA), Sant Ram - Central Vigilance Commission, Mehar Chand Jhamb – PMO, Mohan Lal – New and Renewable Energy, N.K Raghunathan – Planning Commission, Amrit Lal – I&B, S. Kesava lyer – UIDAI, M.A. Muraleedharan – Social Justice and Empowerment, A.P. Srivastava – W &CD, R.S. Bhatia – Defence and Zafrul Islam – UPSC.

Dr. D. Karthikeyan is Addl Secr Finance in Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu government has, on return from training abroad, posted Dr. D. Karthikeyan, IAS (former Joint Secretary Finance) as Additional Secretary Finance Department vice Praveen Kumar. He is Tamil Nadu cadre IAS officer of 1997 batch.

SAIL receives Rs. 14.5 crore as dividend from JV with NTPC

Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has received a cheque for Rs. 14.5 crore as its share of dividend for FY ’10 from NTPC-SAIL Power Company Ltd (NSPCL), the 50:50 profit-making joint venture (JV) in power of two Maharatnas, SAIL and NTPC. R.N. Sen, Chief Executive Officer, NSPCL, presented the cheque to SAIL Chairman C.S. Verma in the presence of SAIL Director (Technical) V.K. Gulhati, SAIL Director (Commercial) Shoeb Ahmed and other senior executives. NSPCL manages captive power plants of SAIL at Rourkela, Durgapur and Bhilai with a combined capacity of 814 MW and has been paying dividend since its inception in 2001-02.

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Anshu Jain has had a bright career 
Anshu Jain who is fast emerging as heir apparent to Josef Ackermann as Chief Executive of Deutsche Bank has had a bright career. Jain has been a member of Deutsche Bank's Management Board since 2009 and the Group Executive Committee since 2002. He was previously a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch in New York where he founded and led the securities industry's first dedicated hedge fund coverage group. In addition to his Deutsche Bank job, Jain is a non-executive Director of Sasol Ltd, South Africa, and has served on working groups advising the Indian government on inward investment and the UK government on financial services. Jain had studied economics at Shri Ram College of Commerce at Delhi University, earning a bachelor's degree with honours in 1983.He holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a BA in Economics from Delhi University. 
Mahindra Satyam appoints new AVP (Europe) 
Mahindra Satyam has appointed Gaurav Gupta as new Associate Vice President (AVP), Strategic Partnerships in Europe for the Aerospace and Defense sector.
Petronet LNG's director resigns
Shantanu Chakraborty, nominee director of Asian Development Bank (ADB) has resigned from the board of  Petronet LNG Ltd.
Welspun USA appoints President & CEO
Welspun USA Inc has appointed J Barry Leonard as President and CEO effective from September 6, 2010.
Banerjee is CEO Reliance Cementation  
Former ACC Ltd Managing Director Sumit Banerjee has joined Reliance Cementation as Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
Barak Valley Cements Director resigns  
Dinesh Chandra Agarwal, Director , Barak Valley Cements Ltd retiring by rotation has, due to personal reasons, expressed his intention not to be re-appointed in forthcoming Annual General Meeting of the company.
Subramaniyam resigns from Saksoft Ltd 
N. K. Subramaniyam has tendered his resignation from the Directorship of  Saksoft Ltd .
Crest Animation Studios appoints additional directors  
The Board of Crest Animation Studios has approved the appointment of S. Balasubramanian and Rajen J. Damani as additional directors of the company with effect from August 23, 2010.
Glodyne receives the 'Maharashtra IT Award 2010'  
Glodyne Technoserve has been conferred the prestigious 'Maharashtra IT Award 2010' by Government of Maharashtra for its outstanding contribution to the state by implementing technology-led social initiatives.
Ladderup Finance director resigns  
The Board of Ladderup Finance has accepted the resignation of Burztn Somandy, Director of the company with effect from  July 27,. 2010.
Yashraj Containeurs appoints additional director 
Yashraj Containeurs has appointed Ganesan Venkatraman as Additional Director of the company with effect from August  21, 2010.

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It will be sad day for SEBI
 
It will be a sad day for regulation. The country needs a tough fair regulator in capital markets. Very few have the knowledge and attitude to look after investor interests. MMS ACT should be decisive and given the extension. Let us not have a nincompoop commercial banker with PR skills ruin SEBI.
U M Thakur
Russia writes death certificate of Marxism !
 
Russia has decided not to set up the nuclear plant at Haripur in West Bengal! The plant was reported to be for two 1000 MW power plants initially,, with a potential for 6 reactor units. Even though communism died its natural death in the century of its birth, its last vestiges remained in India, specifically in West Bengal & Kerala. Something our progressive alliances celebrated from time to time, calling them their "natural allies". Generations of Youth were mislead by marxist ideology propounded by Indian communists, ending in their last avtar as the Maoists/Naxals/PWG/PCPA etc., viewed in the critique penned by a veteran like Somnath Chatterji in his autobiography. These differences were kept under wraps without ever being made public. Words like revolution and progressive delude the youth even now. The bitter truth is that in India (WB/Kerala included) obscurantism is progressivism and corruption is transparently visible to every one! Communism/Marxism is laissez faire in social, political, economic & moral life. Battalions of hungry unemployed youth numbering a few crores is a fertile recruitment ground for Marxists as well as the Jihadis. But the world has no faith in the faith of the faithful Communists/Marxists as certified by Russia by withdrawing from the Haripur facility completely! Will our comrades still claim to be Communists, cast in the mould of either Basu or Karat or some other icon?
M L Gupta
Now decide parameters also
 
Now that the elected representatives are going to get a hike in their salary/allowances, some special rule should also be made that the elected representatives spend one day every fortnight looking into the problems of their constituency and hold junta durbars to listen to the problems of the citizens.  Further, the Government of India has brought in the system of the Performance Management of Departments.  In this they have included various mandatory parameters.  Amongst the mandatory parameters the subject of sending timely & appropriate reply (in % age terms) to the MPs, MLAs and VIPs should be included.  The government employees should not get offended by this and realize that the Parliament is supreme.  The mandatory sending of reply to VIPs to a great extent leads to the resolution of the problems of the citizens.
Satya Prakash
It must be a joke
 
MHA seems to be trashing the ambitious policy of Ms Sonia Gandhi for Disaster Management. The members have the status of Union State Ministers. So now they will apply to a joint secretary of MHA including the vice chairman who is retd Army Chief ! Wow God save this country.
P C Sharma
Seeking Sonia's help for Going Abroad
 
It is really ridiculous to read in these columns that once PM has, logically, refused 10 Ministers to visit abroad during the ongoing session of Parliament, it seems to be further astonishing to approach Madam Sonia Gandhi and seeking her intervention. This tantamounts to flouting (a) defying PM's order (b) embarrassing Madam Sonia Gandhi or (c) exploiting Sonia's position as Chief of the Party. This type of approaches by the sitting MP will, certainly, breed the rift between PM and Sonia and in Congress at large. The fact remains, there have been all-round flood situation within the country, and even abroad in many countries, and the time is to think over the success of the Commonwealth Games where eyes of the World leaders are striking.  Respect the Chair, perhaps, lacking in the Ministers, who may be thinking them superior to PM even may be politically, or giving a point to opposition to pin point the rift in the ruling party in majority. In my views Sonia Gandhi must teach these 10 Ministers a lesson to behave as a learned politicians.
H S Bhalla
 
Is India still in British Commonwealth ?
 
The Commonwealth Games are being held in Delhi because India is still in the British Commonwealth. Why is India still in the British Commonwealth, which is a polite name for the British Empire headed by the British Head of State? India should immediately quit this ghost of the British Empire which only feeds the post colonial delusions of the British. Look at the Irish Republic! It does not belong to the British Commonwealth because it fought the British like a man and won its independence ,unlike India, which begged the British for Dominion status in 1947. Gandhi was suitably attired like a starving beggar begging the British for freedom. Nehru was only too keen on retaining Mountbatten as Governor-General of a partitioned India as he was sleeping with his wife, Edwina. Later Nehru hung on in the British Commonwealth even though India had become a sovereign Republic  in 1951 because it gave him the opportunity of meeting his mistress, Edwina every year at the Commonwealth PMs meet in London. Mountbatten did not mind at all as he was a homosexual and a paedophile. It was the IRA which assassinated Mountbatten by using an Irish  boy as a sexual bait. India could learn a lesson or two from the Irish in fighting the British. Consider this - the scandals about the corruption in the CWG started from Britain and the probe by the British Inland and Customs Service. The Anglo-phile electronic media  of India slavishly picked it up and added to the confusion. The Anglo-Saxon countries of the British Commonwealth are now boasting that non-white countries are incapable of hosting such Games. And that it is the White Mans Burden after all, and not Kalmadis Burden!
D Chaudhury
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