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Three politicians identified?
Three politicians who are having account in the Swiss Bank have reportedly been identified by the Government of India. Only Congress President Sonia Gandhi,Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister Pranab mukherjee know their names.

Who is the richest politician in India?
Who is the richest politician in India? This question is hotly being debated in corridors of power.

BJP's tacit deal with Congress on FDI (UPDATED)
It is learnt that there is a deal between the BJP and Congress over the FDI. Political sources say it was BJP who initiated the deal but ahead of the UP and Punjab polls each one wants to look welfare minded polticos thats why the hig decibel drama.

Lobbyist paid high price for FDI clearance (UPDATED)
It is heard that top Foreign firms have paid Rs 300 crs in the past 4 months to get clearance for FDI in India.

BUREAUCRACY

Will Rahul Khullar succeed Jaimini Bhagwati?
In the event of Jaimini Bhagwati moving to London as Indian High Commissioner Secretary - Commerce, Rahul Khullar may go to Brusells as Ambassador Europen Union. Khullar is 1975 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Will Vijay Kumar return to HP as Chief Secretary?
Rumours have started doing the round that S Vijay Kumar is returning to the parent Himachal Pradesh cadre as Chief Secretary.1976 batch IAS officer Vijay Kumar who was Secretary Mining was moved as Secretary Land Reforms in the Government of India last week.

Shailesh Kumar singh to be Joint Secretary Coal
Shailesh Kumar Singh is being tipped to be new Joint Secretary Coal in the Government of India. He is 1991 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre.

Giridhar to be Joint Secretary Petroleum
Aramane Giridhar is being appointed new Joint Secretary Petroleum in the Government of India. He is 1988 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Venkatachalam is now Special Secretary
V Venkatachalam Additional Secretary Department of Agriculture & Cooperation has been elevated as Special Secretary. He is 1977 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

N Muruganandam is new Joint Secretary RD
N Muruganandam has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development, in the Government of India. He is 1991 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Gurjit Singh to be Ambassador to Indonesia
Gurjit Singh, Additional Secretary in charge of East and South Africa in the external affairs ministry is likely to go as Indian Ambassador to Indonesia.

Two in fray for Additional Secretary, Law
As the grapevine has it, there are two ILS officers who are in fray for being appointed as new Additional Secretary in Department of Legal Affairs, Ministry of Law and Justice at the Centre. They are: Dr. Sanjay Singh & MK Sharma.

Neelmani appointed Member Bihar, SHRC
Neelmani, a 1975 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, and ex Director General of Police (DGP) of Bihar has been appointed as a Member of the Bihar State Human Rights Commission (SHRC).
(We said this on November 30, 2011)

Interesting turn in race for FC, Railway Board
As the grapevine has it, there has been an interesting turn in race for the post of Financial Commissioner (FC) in Railway Board. There are now three contenders in fray for the post that fell vacant following retirement of Ms. Popmpa Babbar on November 30, 2012. They are: Ms. Vijaya Kant GM -Construction in North Frontier Railway (NFR), Abhay K Khanna General Manager Integrated Coach Factory (ICF) Chennai & R Chandrashekhar currently on deputation to GoI. It is said that his name was added by the Cabinet Secretary.

File of FC, Railway Board in the PMO
As the grapevine has it, file relating to appointment of Financial Commissioner (FC) in Railway Board has reached PMO. It is intriguing that the file was sent to PMO without being processed while bypassing the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

File relating to three Railway GMs in PMO
As the grapevine has it, file relating to appointment of three GMs in Railway is in the PMO. Those who will be elevated as GMs are: AK Mittal, VP Khare & Radheshyam.

Patnaik to be Additional Member Commercial in RB
As the grapevine has it, Patnaik is poised to Additional Member Commercial in the Railway Board (RB).

Satya Prakash to be Additional Member Catering & Tourism in RB
As the grapevine has it, Satya Prakash is poised to Additional Member Member Catering & Tourism in the Railway Board (RB).

Bimal Julka gets ACS rank in Madhya Pradesh
Bimal Julka has been given pro-forma promotion to the rank of Additional Chief Secretary by the Madhya Pradesh Government.1979 batch MP Cadre IAS officer Julka is presently Additional Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs in the Government of India.

Ms Prasad is now Additional Dy CAG
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Ms. Malashri Prasad, IA&AS: 1976, Additional Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General (Report States-III), as Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General (Apex Scale: Pay Rs. 80000 fixed) in the vacancy arising on the retirement of Narendra Singh, Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General, on November 30.

Govind Bhattacharya promoted as Principal AG
Govind Bhattacharya (IA&AS 1986), Principal Director, International Centre for Information Systems and Audit, Noida on promotion has been posted as Director General, International Centre for Information Systems and Audit, Noida .

Is the IB keeping a watch on oil ministry officials?
Intelligence Bureau is reportedly keeping a close tab on officials of the petroleum ministry . Who they meet where they go and who comes to their residence is being kept a tab on.

G K Pillai to head for a hedge fund?
Former Home and Commerce Secretary has reportedly turned down the offer of Governorship of Nagaland. It is heard that he is likely to join a US based hedge fund.

The Art of Work - A book written by IAS officer M M Upadhyay
Sharing his long administrative experiences, Madan Mohan Upadhayay 1981 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre has penned a book titled 'Leadership in Government: The Art of Work'. Upadhayay has in his book, which focuses on developing personality and efficiency of government officials and employees, suggested hundred of methods to execute different government works in various phases. According to Upadhayay, the book has been written for everyone in government - right from one at the top of the ladder of governance to the employee at the lowest level. Underlining the importance of leadership at every level of governance, including Public Sector Undertakings, he points out that a plethora of literature and case studies existed on corporate sector but was lacking on governmental organisations.

Kantha Rao moves on deputation to Department of IT
V L Kantha Rao who is Director in the Ministry of Commerce has now moved to the Department of Information Technology on deputation. 1992 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer Rao will join as Director Infrastructure and E-Services Scheme post in the National e-Governance Division Media lab Asia under the IT Department.

Venu Gopal to be DIG, CISF
As the grapevine has it, Venu Gopal on central deputation is poised to be a DIG in CISF. He is an IPS officer of 1995 batch who belongs to the Himachal Pradesh (HP) cadre.

IAS officer suspended in Andhra Pradesh
The Andhra Pradesh Government has suspended IAS officer Y. Srilakshmi, who was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation for her role in the Obulapuram illegal mining scam.

Jha assumes addl. Charge as CIL CMD
N. C. Jha, Director (Technical), CIL has assumed additional charge of CMD, Coal India Ltd (CIL) w.e.f. December 1, 2011 for a period of two months.

Ashokan gets extension in Algiers
First Secretary in Algiers K Ashokan has been given extension till June end next year.

Transfers likely in Tripura
There will be large scale transfers in Tripura administration and Police shortly due to the creation of four new districts recently.

Ms Ganga Murthy promoted & posted as Principal Adviser, Consumer Affairs
Ms Ganga Murthy, Higher Administrative Grade (HAG) officer of Indian Economic Service, has been accorded HAG-plus (apex level) and posted as Principal Adviser of Consumer Affairs.

Will Naveen Kumar Singh join CBI?
Naveen Kumar Singh DIG Kolhan Range Chaibasa is likely to be inducted as Superintendent of Police,Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). He is an IPS officer of 1996 batch who belongs to the Jharkhand.

Bhide to be Independent Director HPCL
Former revenue secretary PV Bhide is being appointed Independent Director of the HPCL. He is retired 1973 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Rakesh Agrawal gets additional charge of Academy of Administration
Rakesh Agrawal has been assigned additional charge of Academy of Administration's Director General in Madhya Pradesh. He is 1982 batch IAS officer.

Dinesh Singh posted as OSD in CCIT, (CCA), Mumbai region
Dinesh Singh, Additional Commissioner of Income Tax, on compulsory wait, has been posted as OSD in the CCIT (CCA), Mumbai region.

Mrs. Sarangi posted as CIT (Coordination & Systems) in CBDT
Mrs. Anuja Sarangi, CIT (OSD), Delhi, has been posted as CIT (Coordination & System), CBDT. She will also hold additional charge of CIT (Media Coordinator).

AK Sinha gets CCIT grade in CBDT
AK Sinha, CIT (Coordination & System), CBDT, has been promoted to the grade of Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (CCIT).

IRAS officer Mrs Khanna gets additional charge of Financial Commissioner
Mrs. Dipali Khanna, IRAS, Additional Member (Finance), Railway Board has been given additional charge of Financial Commissioner, Railways, for a period of three months.

Rajendra Kashyap posted as Adviser (Budget), Railway Board
Rajendra Kashyap, HAG/IRAS, FA & CAO, (C-1), Northern Railway (NR), has been posted as Adviser (Budget), in Railway Board (RB).

Suman Kumar posted as FA & CAO (C-1), Northern Railway
Suman Kumar, HAG/IRAS, FA &CAO/South East Central Railway, has been posted as FA & CAO (C-1), Northern Railway.

Pakistan : Hussain Haqqani barred from travel out
Pakisrtan's supreme court has barred former ambassador to US Hussain Haqqani from leaving the country pending inmvestigation in his alleged role in the 'memogate'. According to information provided to the media by Khwaja Asif one of the nine opposition politicians who had approached the apex court for the ban the court has also appointed a former senior government investigator Tariq Khosa to conduct the requisite probe and complete it within three weeks. In a related development Chief Justice Iftekhar Chowdhary has constituted a nine member special bench of the apex court to take up various pleas concerning memogate.

IAS postings in Andhra Pradesh
Somesh Kumar has been posted as the tribal welfare commissioner.Vivek Yadav will be commissioner of Wara-ngal Municipal Corpora-tion, while T. Babu Rao Naidu joint collector, West Godavari district.

IPS officer is Member of Rajasthan PSC
Habib Khan Gauran, SP, Bikaner, has been appointed as Member, Rajasthan Public Service Commission

Rann Utsav is back with more tourist attractions in Gujarat
Camel safari, hot air ballooning, desert car rally, horse ride, all-terrain vehicle, cultural programmes, food court will be attractions for the tourists of the world during the Rann Utsav, a grand fiesta, which is being organized from Dec 9, 2011 to Jan 15, 2012 in the white desert of Kutch in Gujarat to put the state on the global tourism map.

Giving details of the festival, a tourists' delight, which is a brainchild of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Gujarat Government spokespersons, Ministers Jay Narayan Vyas and Saurabh Patel said that the festival will attract the visitors and tourists from all corners of the world. The cultural programmes will also be held depicting the culture of Kutch.

"The response from the tourists of world is no less than overwhelming this year. All the tents for the first three days have been booked while for the rest of the days, 80% of booking has already been done", Ministers said. Spokespersons said the state government has announced a special package keeping in mind the Christmas and the New Year celebrations. As many as 440 AC and non-AC tents have been erected in Dhordo. The traditional eco-friendly houses of Kutch known as 'Bhunga' will also be made available to the tourists. The government will organize beach festival on the seashore of Mandvi and a special kite festival will be organized in the white rann.

Highlighting the 'Kutch Carnival' which would take place on the eve of Rann Utsav Ministers said that about 32 artist-groups will perform on the banks of the historical Hamirsar Lake. Apart from this, ministers said, various cultural package tours will be arranged for the tourists. Tourists would be able visit various archeological sites and could watch flamingos. Tourists could also seize the opportunity to see the beauty of Black mountain and could visit the border areas of India and Pakistan.

The miraculous beauty of white Rann in full moon light is simply incomparable. Rann Utsav has become a symbol of event-based tourism, ministers added. The attraction of Kutch as a tourist spot has increased many-fold with Amitabh Bachchan promoting it as a brand ambassador of the State. "Last year some 800 tourists visited Kutch while this year about 32,000 visitors have visited the place", Ministers said.

Anuja Sarangi takes over as CBDT spokesperson (UPDATED)
Anuja Sarangi will now be the CBDT spokesperson in New Delhi

Inter-cadre transfer of IAS officer (UPDATED)
Cadre of 1988 batch IAS officer of Haryana Anil Kumar has been changed to the UT for three years.He is going to be Home Secretary Chandigarh Administration.

ITI Bags National Safety Awards from Ministry of Labour & Employment (UPDATED)
ITI Ltd. has bagged the prestigious `National Safety Awards' from the Ministry of Labour & Employment for the performance year 2009. K. L. Dhingra, CMD, ITI Ltd, received these awards from Mallikarjun Kharge, Minister for Labour & Employment at a function in New Delhi recently. ITI's Mankapur Plant emerged as the winner in the scheme I (based on the lowest average frequency rate) and scheme II (based on accident free year). ITI's Rae Bareli Plant was runner-up in the lowest average frequency rate of accident (scheme I).


Transfers and posting in Railways (UPDATED)
Dr. S. Ramprakash of SAG/IRMS has been transferred from South Railway (SR) to SCR and posted as CMD, SECR; K N Kherotia of SG/IRSEE has been posted from Central Railway (CR) to North Frontier Railway (NFR); MV Prasad of SS/IRSE has been shifted from North Frontier Railway (NFR) to South Western Railway (SWR); M S Bansoda of SG/IRSE has been posted from South Western Railway (SWR) to North Frontier Railway (NFR) Construction; Anup Sahu of HAG/IRSME has been shifted from as CME, South Eastern Central Railway (SECR) to Central Railway (CR) on the same capacity. The transfer order of Dr N Kannan of SAG/IRMS from as MD, South Railway to South Eastern Central Railway (SECR) has been cancelled.

(DEBATE)
EMPANELMENT IN GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
Whether administrative procedure for empanelment of Additional Secretary and Secretary in the Government of India is fair and legally sound?
Mail your views to suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com or mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com

CORPORATE

Garg is new CMD MTNL
AK Garg, director (human resources) of BSNL, has been appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of telecom PSU MTNL. He will succeed Garg acting CMD Kuldip Singh.
(We said this on November 30)

Now Civil Aviation Authority in the offing
Government is considering establishing a Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in India in place of Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). Apart from the regulatory safety oversight functions of the current DGCA, additional functions relating to Economic Regulation, Consumer Protection and Environment Regulations have also been included in the proposed CAA.

Vishal Chemjong joins Rediffusion Y&R, Delhi
Rediffusion Y&R, Delhi, has appointed Vishal Chemjong as Creative Head - Copy. Vishal, who during his 11 years career has won a number of national and international awards , is not only a good team leader but is also known for impactful brand building campaigns such as the 'Me & Meri Maggi' series.

ING Vysya appoints Vinu Lal as Head of Corporate Communications
Vinu Lal has been appointed as Head-Corporate Communications for ING Vysya Bank. His responsibility in ING Vysya Bank would be to increase the banks' profile through effective communication strategies as well as of the ING Vysya Foundation. Prior to this, Lal who has worked with several titles in financial journalism was Senior Assistant Editor, Economic Times in Bangalore.

Millennium Academy of Professional Studies gets award
Millenium Academy of Professional Studies (MAPS) was awarded the prestigious "Dewang Mehta Business School Award" for "Most Innovative B-School". MAPS is promoted by Educomp Raffles Higher Education Ltd which is a joint venture between Educomp Solutions Limited and Raffles Education Corporation Limited (REC).

Paliwal resigns as Director, Radha Madhav Corporation Ltd
Binod Paliwal has resigned as Director of Radha Madhav Corporation Ltd w.e.f. November 16, 2011.

Agarwala resigns as CFO, Sarla Performance Fibres Ltd
Manish Agarwala, CFO and Company Secretary of Sarla Performance Fibres Ltd has resigned from the company.

Talwar resigns as Company Secy. Croitre Industries Ltd
Ms. Nishi Talwar, Company Secretary of Croitre Industries Ltd has resigned w.e.f. November 16, 2011

Kumar resigns as Company Secy. TRF Ltd
Prashant Kumar, Company Secretary , TRF Ltd has resigned with effect from December 1, 2011

Rawat appointed Director (F&B), The Westin Pune, Koregaon Park, Pune
Devesh Rawat has been appointed as the Director ( Food & Bevereges) at The Westin Pune Koregaon Park.

Gorak ceases to be Company Secy. AJEL Ltd
Chandrakanth Gorak has ceased to be Company Secretary of AJEL Ltd with effect from November 30, 2011.

Becker appointed MD (Asia), Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters has appointed David Becker as Managing Director( Asia).

Harris appointed Senior VP (Sales & Mktg.), Taj Group
Taj Group has promoted Deepa Harris to the position of Senior Vice President, (Sales and Marketing).

Gupta appointed CFO, HB Estate Developers Ltd
Praveen Gupta, has been appointed as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of HB Estate Developers Ltd with effect from December 1, 2011.

Kumar appointed Company Secy. TRF Ltd
Prashant Kumar, Company Secretary, TRF Ltd has resigned with effect from December 1, 2011.

Rahman appointed Addl. Director, B and A Ltd
Latifur Rahman has been appointed as an Additional Director of B and A Ltd on November 21, 2011.

Hegde appointed Company Secy. Sequent Scientific Ltd
Vinayak Hegde has been appointed as Company Secretary of Sequent Scientific Ltd w.e.f. November 28, 2011.

RDCIS, SAIL, bags NMD and IIM Awards - 2011
A host of Scientists and engineers of Research & Development Centre for Iron & Steel (RDCIS), Ranchi, the corporate R&D unit of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), were awarded - for their outstanding contributions in the field of metallurgy & material science - during the National Metallurgists Day (NMD) celebrations 2011 held at Hyderabad from Nov 14 - 16, 2011. (NMD) is celebrated every year by the Indian Institute of Metals (IIM) under the aegis of Ministry of Steel, Govt. of India.Those awarded were : Swapan Kumar Garai, Dy. General Manager, RDCIS has been conferred with "Metallurgist of the year Award 2011" in Ferrous Group, Suman Kant Thakur, Dy. Manager, RDCIS Rourkela Centre, who bagged the prestigious Young Metallurgist of the year 2011 award in Ferrous Group, Nirmal Pradhan, AGM, RDCIS, who received Essar Gold Medal - 2011 award for his significant contributions in the areas of secondary steelmaking and continuous casting, Arun Kumar Prasad Singh, GM and Head of Area (Automation & Engineering), RDCIS, who bagged O.P. Jindal Gold Medal-2011 award for his significant contributions in conceptualization and progressive up scaling of various technologies to commercial scale and implementation of new technologies suiting to prevalent plant conditions.

About FDI

PS......FDI in retail could be a lollipop to USA for PM's inability to please Obama on the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill!! It is not a case of dal mein kuch kaala.... its kaali dal!!

A Visitor

A mystery

It is very difficult to understand that the GoI is having so many Economic Advisers, generally, the officers from Indian Economic Service but facing the worst ever economic policy crisis?

Sumant

It's no more a secret

Various views are aired for ITS being repatriated to DoT. Why they have enmasse opted for Govt is also not a secret. Majority of ITS have given mandate for Govt all the time options have been called, but repatriation has taken place on third call. The reasons for the same must be understood. Most of the ITS have come after resigning from PSUs only for UPSC cleared Central Govt Job. Their aspiration of career growth should not be overlooked. Whatever be allegation , they have managed the PSUs in Technical+ Administrative+ Managerial capacity. Now since void is voiced at their level, other stream of the PSUs aspiring for it; but PSUs will improve when different stream do their bit as per role assigned and not vying otherwise. As regards use of repatriated ITSs is concerned , Govt may depute them under various vacant posts in different ministry ,lying unoccupied since yrs and for which ITSs are eligible also as per Organised Grp A officers. Already other services' officers are being deputed regularly. Other than this , there are units within DoT also where ITSs can be useful with telecom background( USO, TERM,PG,VIGILANCE etc). Motto should be gainful use of HR for welfare of all....

S C Tiwari

Be ready to take criticism

Any criticism of the FA-cum-DGCA is cavilled at as due to personal grudge. He should understand that critical remarks appearing in this column on better-known officials and public figures like Kiran Bedi, KM Chandrasekhar or even Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi etc is not out of personal grudge but against their acts of omission and commission in the public domain. Public official should be ready to face public criticism, more so when he courts publicity through this column.

K P Singh

No need of repatriation

There is no need of repatriation of these officers if the government really wants to save these ailing PSUs. Infact, they should be on deputation till the alternate arrangement is made

Dr Usha Agrawal

Misuse of public exchequer

The CBDT has clearly misused its discretionary powers by granting tax exemptions to affluent bodies like the ICC and BCCI.Similar tax exemptions were also granted by the Appellate tribunals of Deptt of Revenue to filthy rich celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan and Sachin Tendulkar under the guise of Art. This is against the tenets of financial prudence in public spending.

A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)

TAIL-PIECE

Hundreds of people are waiting for

When Advani turns 100, When Re falls against the Dollar to 100 level

and Sachin Tendulkar hits 100th test century.

Disclosure of financial information to wife

The appellant sought information about the salary certificate, details of amount of GPF, the name of the nominee of and other information with the Department regarding immovable proper of her husband. The FAA informed the appellant that information pertaining to monthly remuneration received by each of its officers and employees is available on its website of the Ministry and can be accessed by the general public. On remaining points the FAA denied information to the appellant u/s 8(1) (j) of the RTI Act holding it to be personal. The Commission upheld the order of the First Appellate Authority holding that the information sought is personal information of the third party and there is no public interest involved in the disclosure of this
information.

Comments

Information about the personal finances of a government employee are personal information of the concerned individual and cannot be shared with anyone else.

Smt. Lalitha Bahuguna v. Ministry of Mines in CIC/SS/A/2011/001191

- Weekly article by Dr. (Mrs.) Anuradha Verma
(dranuradhaverma@yahoo.co.in), RTI Consultant to IIM, Indore and Co-author of the book: RIGHT TO INFORMATION - LAW AND PRACTICE by Taxmann. (The views are Personal)