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AICC overhaul before Cabinet reshuffle
A major reshuffle in the All India Congress Committee (AICC) is expected to take place before much talked about reshuffle of the Manmohan Singh Cabinet. Sources claimed that AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi is likely to take over as the Working President.

Will major functionaries of AICC join Union Cabinet?
Whispers are in air that top functionaries of the Congress party (AICC) are expected to join the Manmohan Singh Cabinet following the rejig in party. Will this include Ahmad Patel and Janardan Dwivedi? One can only wait and watch.

Technocrats to join Manmohan singh Cabinet?
If insiders are to be believed, some politicians who are ministers of the key ministries are likely to be shunted out during the reshuffle. There is a move to appoint a couple of Technocrats in these Ministries to improve efficiency.

Dayanidhi Maran to resign?
Grapevine has it, that Union Textile Minister Dayanidhi Maran is going to tender his resignation soon.

Jaipal Reddy to get new responsibility!
Buzz in the corridors of power is that Union Petroleum Minister Jaipal Reddy is likely to get some responsibility in the wake of turbulence on the Telangana issue.

Sri Prakash Jaiswal may be shifted to Petroleum?
As the grapevine has it, Union Minister for Coal Sri Prakash Jaiswal may be shifted as the new Petroleum Minister.

BUREAUCRACY

Official orders of Ajit Lal issued
Official orders of Ajit Lal, presently Special Director, Intelligence Bureau, as Chairman, Joint Intelligence Committee in the rank and pay of Secretary to the Government of India for a stipulated tenure of three years, on deputation basis, till the date of his superannuation on August 31,2012 have been issued on Friday.
( we said this on May 23 )

Amar Nath is new Administrator of Lakshdweep
Amar Nath is the new Administrator of Lakshdweep. 1994 batch IAS officer of UT cadre Nath will succeed J K Dadoo.

Dadoo is now JS Commerce
J K Dadoo has joined Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce.He is 1983 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.
( We said this on May 13 )

Dipali Rastogi is new MD of MP Tourism Development Corporation
Ms Dipali Rastogi has been appointed new MD of the MP Tourism Development Corporation.She is 1994 batch IAS officer.

Railway ministry buzzing with hectic activity
The Railway ministry is buzzing with hectic activities these days.

Alok Raj is now IG CRPF West Bengal
Alok Raj has joined as IG CRPF in Kolkata.He is 1989 batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre.He was earlier posted in Jharkhand.

Rao returns to Orissa
IG CRPF M Nageshwar Rao is back to the parent Orissa cadre after completion of central deputation tenure. He is 1986 batch IPS officer.

Ms. Mahua Pal posted as Account General (A&E), Dehradun
Ms. Mahua Pal, Principal Director of Audit, Washington has been transferred and posted as Account General (A&E), Uttarakhand, Dehradun.

MPSC officers wait to become mainstream IAS in Maharashtra
Four MPSC's officers fate hangs in balance for one post as a promotee IAS. There are four incumbents waiting for the plum posting to meet the requirement of promotee IAS in Maharashtra.

Jain now Regional Commissioner Amravati
Parag Jain (1996 batch IAS ) who was Director Textiles Industries Nagpur is now been made Additional Regional Commissioner Amravati

Surkunde now Commissioner Adivasi Vikas Nashik
1996 batch IAS officer SM Surkunde who was Additional Regional Commissioner Nagpur has been made Commissioner Tribal Welfare Nashik

Rajurkar now Collector Jalgaon
DS Dhok Rajurkar (1998 batch IAS) who was Commissioner Tribal Welfare Nashik is now Collector Jalgaon

Patne now Director Textiles Nagpur
Atul Patne (1999 batch IAS) is now been posted as Director Textile Industries Nagpur

Munde now CEO Collector Jalna
Tukaram Munde (IAS 2006 batch) who was CEO Khadi Gramudyog mandal is now been made Collector Jalna

Mahiskar now CEO Zilla Parishad Kolhapur
DG Mahiskar (IAS 1999 batch) who was Deputy Secretary Urban Development in Mumbai is now CEO Kolhapur

Maha spend of Rs 4000 crs towards MGNREGA
Nitin Raut Minister for Employement has said that Rs 4000 crs will be spent in the current financial year towards MGNREGA. The state government has already spent Rs 271 crs in the first two months of the current financial year.

C D Kynjing to be CIC Meghalaya
Chesterfield Davies Kynjing will be the new state Chief Information Commissioner (CIC). He is 1984 batch IAS officer.

Achla Singh returns to Delhi
Secretary to the Lt Governor of Andman &Nicobar Achla Singh is now back to Delhi.

Shiv Basant seeks VRS
Shiv Basant has sought VRS.1976 batch IAS officer Shiv Basant is taking over as Chairman of the Jharkhand Public Service Commission in the first week of July.

Five IPS officers allocated Jammu & Kashmir cadre
As many as five IPS officers who had qualified for the all India Police service during 2009 civil services examination have been allocated Jammu & Kashmir cadre. They are Rayees Mohammad Bhat, Manish Agrawal, Pande Rajiv Omprakash, Patil Dhar Daulu, Manicka Raj P.

State Bio-diversity Board constituted
Himachal Pradesh Government has reconstituted the State Bio-diversity Board under the Biological Diversity Act 2002. It will be headed by the Chief Secretary Rajwant Sandhu.

IPS transfers in Rajasthan
Five IPS officers in Rajasthan have been reshuffled.They are Mssrs G L harma,Lata Manoj Kumar,S Parimal,Dr Vishnukant and Dr Amandeep Singh Kapoor.

IFS demoted in West Bengal
Atanu Raha, principal chief conservator of forests (PCCF), has been demoted to the post of additional chief conservator of forests (ACCF). M A Sultan has been posted in his place.

IPS changes in TamilNadu
M. Ashok Kumar has been appointed as Deputy Commissioner of Police, T. Nagar, Chennai .Archana Ramasundaram, Additional Director General of Police, Crime Branch CID, Chennai, will swap her post with R. Sekar ADG Training.Sunil Kumar Singh has been posted as Inspector General of Police, Economic Offences Wing (CCIW CID and idol wing) Chennai.K. Sokkalingam has been made IG Salem. M. Jayabalan will now be Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime and Traffic, Tirunelveli City.

Administrative reshuffle in Mizoram (UPDATED)
There has been an administrative reshuffle in Mizoram. Accordingly Lalmalsawma has been made Commissioner & Secretary - Home, Finance, Planning & Programme Implementation and General Administration, S.P. Singh is the new Principal Resident Commissioner, Mizoram House, New Delhi, K. Lalnghinglova is Secretary, Information & Public Relations and Secretary to Governor, K. Riachho is Secretary- Rural Development and Cooperation and Chief Electoral Officer, M. Zohmingthangi is Secretary - Health & Family Welfare, Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs besides Director - FCS & CA, Dr. Dilraj Gaur is Special Secretary - Public Health Engineering, R. Lalvena is Special Secretary - Sports & Youth Services and Tourism and Director, ATI while Nikhil Kumar has been made Special Secretary - Labour, Employment & Industrial Training and Trade & Commerce. He shall also assist the Chief Secretary in Power & Electricity & Vigilance Departments

Change of assignments for IFS in Mizoram (UPDATED)
Dr. S.S. Garbyal, an IFS officer of 1977 batch has been made Principal Secretary - Environment & Forest, Information & Communication Technology and Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (HoFF) while L.R Thanga another IFS officer who belongs to 1983 batch has been made Principal Secretary - Secretariat Administration, Soil & Water Conservation and Principal Secretary to Chief Minister.

Two IRS get new job in Mizoram (UPDATED)
1978 batch IRS officer R.L Rinawma has been made Commissioner & Secretary - Revenue, Industries, Urban Development & Poverty Alleviation and Director, Geology & Mineral Resources and 1991 batch IRS officer Esther Lalruatkimi has been made Secretary - Higher & Technical Education, School Education and Director, School Education in Mizoram.

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

SMG India appoints Vice Presidents
Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) India has appointed Dinesh Rathore, Narendra Alambara and Sriram Sharma as Vice Presidents.

Jain appointed Country Director, AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel has appointed Amit Jain as Country Director for its India operations.

Balasubramaniam appointed Addl. Director, Machino Plastics Ltd
S. Balasubramaniam has been appointed as an Additional Director of Machino Plastics Ltd on May 28, 2011.

Agarwal resigns as Whole-time Director, Todays Writing Products Ltd
Sunil Agarwal, a Whole-time Director of Todays Writing Products Ltd has resigned from the Board of Directors of the Company.

Mishra appointed Company Secy. Bhansali Engineering Polymers Ltd
Bhansali Engineering Polymers Limited has appointed D. N. Mishra as Company Secretary in place of Ms. Shailaja Karkera.

Agarwal resigns as Director, Century Plyboards (India) Ltd
Brij Bhushan Agarwal resigned from the Directorship of Century Plyboards (India) Ltd with effect from May 10, 2011.

FORUM

This is a good scheme indeed and must be introduced in non government sector also. We should also see other side of the coin. When a person goes on leave the counter part of the employee is suffering due to heavy load of work. this should be taken care of by deputing some extra oficials who can work in the place of employee who ison such leave. CCL should be granted in parts so all employees can be benefitted turn by turn. Employees who have taken full CCL are also have same view, when they are feeling the burden of the work in absence of their counter part. It will not be out of place that emloyees after the age of 50 should be also be entitled to some spl leave of this kind as they requires more rest and have more responsibilities at home.

Vinod Lalchandani

It will be a welcome step for the nation to have technocrat on the top position.

Bhupinder Pathak

Confused Government
Government so confused in the corruption issues that it has decided to tax interest earned on post office saving banks . This is very retrograde i.e. opposite to progressive move. This is anti poor move. Most of the villagers and poor man money is deposited in Post Office as they are unable to reach banks. Can Government reconsider the issue and withdraw notification issued by CBDT.

R K Mishra

LOKPAL BILL

In the drafting Committee only the Civil Society is involved. Is there not any other organisation/body involved in anti-corruption acgtivities. Why only the Civil Society?

Let the drafting committee finalise in whatever way they want. Put the same in the public domain and invite suggestions. Incorporate the same and submit to Parliamwent. The Select Committee to which it may be referred may not agree with most of the provisions and finaly a diluted Lok Pal Bill would be passed. Why so much alla gulla now.

Prasad

Ref IPS officers are ahead of IAS officers.Pl do not be taken in.IPS officers are getting the posts of governors because the IAS now prefer tribunals which are more lucrative- governor's job is thankless

ARC Kumar

The govt. is obviously terrifyied of the might of the civil society and hence the bafflement! People are sovereign in a democracy-this fact is not well understood by those placed in powerful positions by the people.
The citizenry has realised that for efficient and effective governance, they have to be vigilant and active throughout-not just while voting once in 5 yrs.

Virika

IT Secretary

Probably this will be the first correct and good step being taken by Shri Kapil Sibal after his complete failure in educational reform

N V K Prabhakar

It is good that voice against black money and corruption has been raised by some non-political individuals and their political and non-political supporters/ followers. I earnestly urge the VVIPs who are involved in corruption and who have black money in banks abroad start not accepting bribe henceforth and bringing their black money back to the country first by themselves and then hopefully some others will also follow. Charity begins at home. Government also should give amnesty to such people who will do this noble job voluntarily. Otherwise, it will take a long time in the legal process to bring back that black money back. The whole scenario seems that everything, even agitation or support is by the corrupt, of the corrupt and for the corrupt.

No body is agitating for the hungry, homeless and sick. At present lakhs of tons of wheat is lying in the open in Punjab, Haryana and UP. It will go to drains but will not reach the naked and hungry. What a state of affairs! May God give all of us some sense! Jai Hind

Zile Singh

V M Upadhyay

Great.It is a moment of pride for the state when efforts of one of its ablest officers have been recognized and lauded by WHO. congrats.

KK

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)