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Cabinet and bureaucratic reshuffle in a week or two ?
There is going to be a Cabinet reshuffle soon. After Cabinet reshuffle major bureaucratic reshuffle in the Government of India will take place.

BUREAUCRACY

Who will be new Secretary Revenue ?
Who will succeed Sunil Mitra on July 1 as Secretary Revenue ? Names of Commerce Secretary Dr Rahul Khullar and Road Transport Secretary R S Gujral have started doing the round in the corridors of power.

Ajit Seth is new Cabinet Secretary
Ajit Kumar Seth, a 1974 batch IAS officer from Uttar Pradesh cadre has taken over as the new Cabinet Secretary on Monday.He will have a fixed tenure of two years. He replaced K M Chandrasekhar who retired today after serving in the post for four years, including two extensions.
( We said this on March 16 )

Chandrasekhar to be Vice Chairman Planning Board in Kerala ?
Latest grapevine has it that outgoing Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar is returning to Kerala as Vice Chairman of the Planning Board. He is 1970 batch Kerala cadre IAS officer.

Who will be new Secretary Coordination ?
Who will succeed Ajit Seth as Secretary Coordination in the Cabinet Secretariat ? There is no name in circulation. Infact, none is keen to join on the post.

Is Narsimha Raju on way out ?
After Apoorva Chandra, it's the turn of another Joint Secretary Petroleum D N Narsimha Raju to go out of the Petroleum Ministry. Raju is 1984 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Why Petroleum Minister is annoyed with Raju ?
Why Petroleum Minister Jaipal Reddy wants D N Narsimha Raju out from the Petroleum Ministry ? According to informed sources, outgoing Secretary S Sunderashan had cleared the name of 1984 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre Raju for the World Energy Forum without the knowledge of the Minister.

DoPT seeks clarification from Petroleum Ministry
The Department of Personnel has sought clarification from the Petroleum Ministry about the shifting of Joint Secretary Apoorva Chandra .On what grounds services of 1988 batch Maharashtra cadre IAS officer Chandra be taken away by the Department of Personnel, the missive of the DoPT says. It may be recalled that the Petroleum Ministry had handed over the services of Apoorva Chandra to the DoPT.

DoPT refuses to hand over services of Rajiv Kapoor to Petroleum Ministry
The Department of Personnel has reportedly expressed inability to spare Rajiv Kapoor for the Petroleum Ministry as Joint Secretary. 1983 batch IAS officer of UP cadre Kapoor is presently Joint Secretary in the Department of Personnel.

Files are not routed through Joint Secretaries
Believe it or not, there is one Ministry in the Shastri Bhawan where the Joint Secretaries have no work to do. The Secretary has ordered that all the files will now be routed through the Additional Secretary.

No extension to Saroj Kumar Dash
Tenure of Joint Secretary Road Transport Dr Saroj Kumar Dash is coming to an end next month.1980 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre Dr Dash is not getting further extension.

15 outstanding ACR's but no empanelment
One would not believe but it is a fact that 1976 batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre D G Kapdev has not been empanelled to the rank of DG in the Government of India despite having over a dozen outstanding ACR's.

Why two IAS officers not relieved ?
The Union Home Ministry has pulled up the Arunachal Pradesh government for not relieving two IAS officers V K Dev, officer of the 1987 batch and Pawan K Sain of the 2005 to Goa .

Two new Secretaries of MP Chief Minister
Two 1994 batch IAS officers Vivek Agrawal and Hariranjan Rao have been given additional responsibilities of the Secretary to the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan. Agrawal is presently MD of the MP Roads Development Corporation and Rao MD MP Tourism Development Corporation.

Rajeev Bhargawa's fate still not decided
Whether to promote Rajeev Bhargawa as a General Manager (GM) in Railways or not is yet to be decided. A meeting of DPC consisting of DoPT Secretary Ms. Alka Sirohi, Chairman Railway Board (CRB) Vivek Sahai and Member Mechanical (MM) of Railway Board Sanjiv Handa. However, proceedings are yet to be finalized because there were differences of opinion among members. While, DoPT Secretary Ms. Alka Sirohi is in favour of promoting Bhargawa keeping in mind ruling of the High Court that had come six months ago, CRB says that he will just endorse what other two members decide. However, Sanjiv Handa is reportedly not in favour of elevating Bhargawa because of adverse reports against him. Despite this if Bhargawa was promoted then where
application of would mind would be demonstrated, is the argument being given by Sanjiv Handa.

Mahesh Kumar to be Additional Member Signals
Mahesh Kumar is poised to be Additional Member Signals in the Railway Board. Presently, he is Advisor Signals in the Railway Board.

West Bengal Govt recalls Sanjay Mitra
The West Bengal government being headed by Chief Minister Ms. Mamata Banerjee has recalled services of Sanjay Mitra, an IAS officer who is on central deputation. He is an IAS officer of 1982 batch who belongs to West Bengal cadre. Presently, he is Joint Secretary in the Prime Minister's office. Will Mitra return ?.

One vacancy of Director Culture in GoI
One position of Director Culture in Ministry of Culture, Government of India, is vacant. The file is pending for final approval.

Ms. Namita Sekhon promoted as Principal Accountant General (Audit), Delhi
Ms. Namita Sekhon, Principal Director of Audit, Northern Railway, New Delhi, has been promoted to the grade of Principal Accountant General. On her promotion Ms. Sekhon will take over as Principal Accountant General (Audit), Delhi.

Six IPS officers allocated Tamil Nadu cadre
As many as six IPS officers who had qualified for the all India Police service during 2009 civil services examination have been allocated Tamil Nadu cadre. They are V Vikraman, Vishak G, Aravindhan P, Saroj Kumar Thakur, Siddarth Bahuguna and D Praveen.

Rao is CMD of ALIMCO
Gali Narayan Rao, resident of Hyderabad, has assumed charge as "Chairman and Managing Director" of Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO), a Central Public Sector Undertaking under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, at Kanpur.

Vice Admiral Suryanarayana is new DG Medical Services (Navy)
Vice-Admiral K.M. Suryanarayana has taken over as the Director General Medical Services (Navy).

Pakistan : DG FIA shunted out
Malik Mohammad Iqbal DG of Pakistan;s federal investigating agency (FIA) facing charges of interfering with judicial process because of having transferred a senior officer of the agency investigating some high profile corruption cases monitor by the apex court has been shifted as head of the national counter terrorism authority (Nacta). He has replaced Wasim Kausar who has been posted as chief of national police bureau of Pakistan.

Justice Malik appointed Additional Judge of Punjab and Haryana HC
Vijender Singh Malik has been appointed Additional Judge of the Punjab & Haryana High Court, for a period of two years .

IAS reshuffle in Punjab
One dozen IAS officers have been reshuffled in Punjab. C Roul will now be Principal Secretary, Department of Defence Services Welfare. Ashok Kumar Gupta has been made Secretary, Coordination. VK Sharma will be the new Secretary, Agriculture.Hussan Lal, Secretary, Tourism and Transport, has been given the additional charges of School Education. Kahan Singh Pannu has been posted as the Joint Development Commissioner (IRD).Balwinder Singh will be Special Secretary, Social Security, Development of Women and Children. Dharam Dutt Ternach will be DC of Hoshiarpur. Pirthi Chand will be Director, Colonisation (Punjab). Mohinder Singh will be DC, Gurdaspur. Rajat Agarwal has been made DC, Amritsar and Shruti Singh, DC, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar, with additional charge of DC, Jalandhar, during training period of Priyank Bharti. Ravi Bhagat will be new DC of Faridkot.

Justice Sood to head Commission in HP
One man commission under Justice DP.Sood (Retd Judge of Himachal Pradesh High Court ) has been set up to enquire into the issues relating to benami land transactions in the State since 2003.

Bureaucratic reshuffle in Madhya Pradesh (UPDATED)
Madhya Pradesh Government has transferred 19 IAS officers. While Khandwa Collector DD Agrawal has been posted as MD - MP Woman Finance Development Corporation, GP Shrivastava has been shifted as Director - Skill Development centre - Jabalpur, Mukesh Gupta has been made Dewas Collector, Pushplata Singh - Collector Alirajpur, Rajani Uikey has been made Anuppur Collector, Sandep Yadav has been made Guna Collector, Kavindra Kiyawat has been made Khandwa Collector, Manoharlal Dube has been sent to EPCO as ED, Shivnarayan Rupla has been sent to Rewa as Collector, Jaishri Kiyawat has been made Deputy Secretary in Panchayat and Rural Development, Ashok Deshwal has been sent to Datia as Collector, KC Jain has been sent as Deputy Secretary in Farmers' Development and Agriculture Development while Akhilesh Kumar Shrivastava is the new Bhind Collector, Ajit Kumar has been posted as Seoni Collector, Sanjay Goyal is the new Sehore Collector, Raghuraj MR has been made Tikamgarh Collector, Lokesh Kumar Jatav has been posted as Neemuch Collector, GV Rashmi has been made Dindori Collector and Dhananjay Singh Bhadoria has been made Panna Collector. Besides, Vivek Agrawal - MD, MP Roads Development Corporation and Hariranjan Rao - MD, MP Tourism Development Corporation have been given the additional responsibility of Secretary to Chief Minister.

IAS reshuffle in Chhattisgarh (UPDATED)
Chhattisgarh government has transferred as many as 10 IAS officials which include collectors of Dhamtari, Jashpur and Narayanpur. While Ankit Anand is posted as the new Collector of Jashpur, Surendra Kumar Jaiswal has been transferred to Raipur as Managing Director of the Mandi Board, S Prakash has been made Collector Dhamtari, Sangeetha P has been posted in the state Secretariat as Deputy Secretary, Lakhan Singh Ken has been posted as the Joint Secretary Home with additional charge of Cooperation and Director Estate, SL Ratre has been posted as Additional Commissioner Bilaspur/Sarguja divisions with headquarters at Bilaspur, Rao Brahmane (has been posted as Collector Narayanpur, Ram Singh Thakur has been posted as Secretary - State Information Commission, Shammi Abidi has been posted as the CEO Raipur Zilla Panchayat.

Chakravarti is new Ambassador to Ireland (UPDATED)
Debashish Chakravarti, presently Ambassador of India to Romania has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Ireland in succession to P.S. Raghavan.

Gopinath Munde meets NCP Minister Chhagan Bhujbal (UPDATED)
Rumor is rife in BJP circles that Deputy Lok Sabha leader Gopinath Munde is contemplating joining the Congress. Today he met NCP Minister Chhagan Bhujbal creating further stir in the BJP that he could likely be joining the NCP.Earlier Munde had met Union Rural Development Minister and Congress heavyweight Vilasrao Deshmukh. Munde has been sulking ever since Nitin Gadkari was elevated to BJP's President post. The rivalry between the two has been well known.Munde had also stayed away from most of the Sena-BJP-RPI rallies in the state including the one held in Mumbai last week. Munde has played an important role in cementing the Shivshakti-Bhimshakti alliance and if the senior BJP leader moves away, it will be detrimental to the alliance, which aims to dethrone the incumbent Congress-NCP coalition, which has been at the helm of affairs since the past 12 years.

DEBATE

Next Lok Sabha-Congress and BJP to get less than 100 seats ?
If today's political scenario is taken into account, both the Congress and the BJP will get less than 100 seats in the next Lok Sabha elections. In such a case, what could be the emerging scenario? Mail your valuable views to us at -

mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com or suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com

CORPORATE

13 GMs to be elevated as EDs in PSU banks
As the grapevine has it 13 General Managers (GMs) of PSU banks had been selected for Elevation as Executive Directors (EDs). Their names along with allocated banks are as follows: Deepak Narang Allahabad Bank to Bank of Maharashtra, A.L. Daulatani Allahabad Bank to Union Bank of India, S. K. Sangar Union Bank of India to Andhra Bank, A.K. Gupta Punjab National Bank (PNB) to Canara Bank, B. Raj Kumar Andhra Bank to Corporation Bank, Ms. Usha Ananthasubramanian Bank of Baroda (BoB) the Punjab National Bank (PNB), Chavli A D M Bank of Baroda (BoB) to Bank of India (BOI), S.K. Jain Bank of India (BOI) to Union Bank of India, A.K. Mishra Canara Bank to Indian Overseas Bank (IOB), S. Chandrasekharan Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) to
UCO Bank, M .Anjaneya Prasad Andhra Bank to Syndicate Bank, C.V.R. Rajendran Corporation Bank to Allahabad Bank and M.S. Raghavan Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) to Indian Bank.

Dr. K. M. Abraham in run for FMC's top slot
As the grapevine has it Dr. K.M. Abraham Member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is the hot contender for the slot of Forward Markets Commission (FMC) Chairman. He term as SEBI Member is going to end on July 20, 2011. He is an IAS officer of the 1982 batch who belongs to Kerala cadre.

Rajiv Gupta to be MD, NAFED
Rajiv Gupta is all set to take over as MD of the NAFED. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer who belongs to the Uttarakhand cadre.

Rajeev Kumar to be CVO, DVC
Rajeev Kumar is all set to become CVO of the Damodar Valley Corporation. He is a 1989 batch IPS officer belonging to the West Bengal cadre.

Will it be Jaypee versus Adani group in the days to come ?
Will it be Jaypee versus Adani group in the days to come? It seems so, if the manner in which both these, and only these, groups are rising by the day.

Rangarajan resigns as Director, Timken India Ltd
Sridharan Rangarajan, Director, Timken India Ltd has resigned from the Company effective June 1, 2011.

Rastogi appointed Addl. Director, Timken India Ltd
Deepak Rastogi has been appointed as an Additional Director of Timken India Ltd with effect from June 1, 2011.

Srinivasan resigns as MD, Saint Gobain Sekurit India Ltd
Dr. Sreeram Srinivasan, Managing Director, Saint Gobain Sekurit India Ltd has resigned as Managing Director of the Company with effect from June 11, 2011.

Baruah resigns as Independent Director, Deep Industries Ltd
Prabodhkumar G. Baruah , Independent Director, Deep Industries Ltd has tendered his resignation w.e.f. June 8, 2011 due to health problems.

Raina appointed COO (International Business), Ten Sports
Ten Sports has appointed Sanjay Raina as Chief Operating Officer (International Business).

Raichandani resigns as Independent Director, Sea TV Network Ltd
Daulat Raichandani , Independent Director, Sea TV Network Ltd has resigned from the Directorship of the Company on June 6, 2011 citing personal reasons on June 10, 2011.

Ramji to join Board of Mahindra Satyam
Mahindra Satyam has inducted Al-Noor Ramji on its Board of Directors effective June 1, 2011. He is currently Executive Vice President and General Manager of Misys International Banking Systems Limited since 2010.

Sundaradevan is Chairman, Tamil Nadu Newsprint & Papers Ltd
Dr. N Sundaradevan IAS has been appointed as Part-time Chairman and Director of Tamil Nadu Newsprint & Papers Ltd with effect from May 27, 2011.

Dugar gets new assignment Wipro BPO
Manish Dugar has been appointed as Senior Vice- President and Global Head of Wipro BPO. Jatin Dalal has been named new Chief Financial Officer for the IT business.

FORUM

Next Lok Sabha-Congress and BJP to get less than 100 seats ?

Congress will Win again. because public see the BJP Raj and perhaps not forgot "unbreathable atmosphere for poors". there is huge difference between "kathni & Karni". Congress is a party for poor public & BJP is for Business class.

Pawan Khatri

Unearth thousands of crores of Black Money lying within the Country

Why there are no demands by Activists, Opposition leaders for un-earthing of thousands of crores of Black Money lying within the Country? They all are talking about such money stashed abroad only. Does the local huge un-accounted wealth carry less value? In fact, it will be hundreds time more effective to focus on the local segment. Of course, if implemented, it may result in large number of 'Common Man' supporting the movement suddenly disappearing from the Scene. And those political/social outfits who depend upon black money for their activities, may have a 'change of heart' in openly supporting the anti-corruption movement.

Ajay Chaudhry

Bureaucrats go scot free

While political bigwigs are being caught for corruption, it is surprising that bureaucrats are going scot free. Once case is where SEBI board demanded huge sums for clearing Standard Chartered Banks' conversion of IDRs to equity. In Red Herring Prospectus to the issue, SEBI had cleared the terms of issue after due diligence but did not permit te conversion due to reasons already assigned. The market crashed and foreign companies are doing rethinking on India's capacity to ensure capital protection of their investments. India is getting named a "pirate nation" with scant respect for law.

C N White

Frustration due to non-empanelment

IRSS 87,IRSSTE 87 &IRSEE 87 officers have large frustration due to non empanelment as other Railway services officers like IRTS, IRPS, IRSE, IRAS, IRSME etc officers have been promoted to SAG even upto 1988&1989 batch.

Sanjeev

When Aaj Ki Awaz disappointed me !

I had always read with interest Bharat Kumar's Aaj Ki Awaz and liked it what he wrote. But today's piece disappointed me. As it is ,there appears to be calculated efforts by the powers that be to defame Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev. Bharat Kumar has also come out with vitriolic expressions like dhongi etc. against him.I am not a fan of Baba and my
too much analytical mind(which itself is bad)does not easily acquire faith in any holyman but I have come across people who have benefited from Baba's yoga and pranayam and I also do feel that baba's love for the country and his call for patriotism is not fake. Having seen many of his programmes live on Aastha i do accept that his concern for the
deteriorating standards in public life is genuine. Are we not all bothered about the state of affairs in our polity? Is it not a fact that Corruption has gone to such gargantuan position in this country as to eat into the very vitals of the constitutional set-up? I am also amazed at the fact that in all this hullabaloo the real issues of black money and corruption are forgotten as also forgotten is the macabre incident of police brutality of beating and teargas shelling the innocent sleeping people in Ramlila maidan on the night of 4th and
fifth June. No one is talking and writing about it. The country has gone adrift and crores of our people are waiting for that miracle when they would also come out of their miserable existence. We in the cities and in our privileged existence are not even aware of the semi-starved existence of our masses in remote areas even in the slums of metro cities. I was in Uttrakhand recently where i found women in villages busy in the same drudgery of fetching water from miles and the whole family surviving on the produce of few terraced plots while i am told the chief minister has swimming pool and jacuzzi in his
official bunglow. That is the state of affairs. hose whom the janta elects to govern live in unprecedented luxury while the electors toil their way through life. Should this not change?

Aarti Khosla

Parliament is supreme !

The F.M. has rightly observed that parliament is supreme and is responsible for deciding on legislation. . and that civil society cannot be allowed to subvert democracy.

SS

Govt has lost its battle against Ramdev

This government has lost its battle against Ramdev. Whole media is working against Ramdev. The media similarly worked against Modi too. The tribune carried the article that Ramdev is controlling 1100 crore empire. But, business standard carried a very meaningful article that how this marketing guru made his 1100 crore empire. This is actually was asilver line. If a person is creating wealth and service I dont think he deserves this treatment. he has created a communities who are emotionally with his brand. Anyway, none of the things Ramdev spoken is wrong. May be the way he has put up is wrong. Poor two piece baba does not even have a family. The government and its corrupt babus should seriously introspect.

Uday Shrivastava

Ill advised move of DoPT

The ill advised move of DoPT to limit the Child Care Leave available to women employees is bound to hurt the interests of all working mothers. It is regressive move and all employee unions must take up the matter immediately with their respective departments. Is it because women do not constitute a united constituency in electoral
politics that such backroom reversions can be made without even associating women employees in the decision process. This is an appeal to all women employees, employee unions and administrative machineries such as DOPT to not tinker with the provisions of Child Care Leave and allow working mothers to work peacefully.

Roshni Goel

Are Ministers covered under definition of 'public servants'?

The appellant desired copies of instruction under which Ministers are covered under the definition of public servant and the rule under which the Ministers could remain missing from their official duty for weeks and devote themselves for their party works leaving behind their official work unattended. He also wanted to know whether such prolonged absence from official work could be treated as a part of their official duty and whether a Minister could draw pay & perks for the period of absence from official duty to attend personal or party work. The PIO stated that as per records available there are no
specific definitions of whether Ministers are public servant or not. The CIC felt it necessary for the Government to define whether Ministers are public servant or not and this should be available as a requirement of Section-4 declaration.

Comments

The section 4 puts certain obligations on the public authority to pro-actively disclose certain facts about themselves. The civil servants have been at the receiving end for delay or absenteeism but the performance of ministers has not been questioned. Would the RTI
Act be able to force the attendance of the Ministers?

Mr. H.P. Sharma v. Cabinet Secretariat in CIC/SM/A/2011/000263/SG/12650

- 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)