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Has Congress forgotten Aam aadmi in LPG price rise ?
There is enough LPG but government wants to make more money at the expense of Aam aadmi says an oil ministry official. On the contrary the excess gas production is being exported the source added. So who is going to benefit from the removal of subsidy cap on LPG cylinders the state oil companies, or private players is the question that needs to be explored ?

Who all in Congress are worried ?
A minister from MP and Himachal Pradesh are worried about being exposed by Arvind Kejriwal.

Who will be next RSS chief?
Who will be next chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) ? It's a Billion Dollar question.

BUREAUCRACY

Who will be new Secretary to Vice President ?
Who will be new Secretary to the Vice President of India ? Four dossiers are lying with the Vice President for the post.

Hectic lobbying is on for CBI, Director
Hectic lobbying is going on for the prestigious post of the CBI, Director. Several bigwigs including political leaders and corporate houses are working overtime to get their candidate selected.

Atul Chaturvedi is new Chairman, PESB
Atul Chaturvedi will be new Chairman of the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB).He is a former 1974 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

S S Rana is new DG, Vigilance in CBEC
Orders of S S Rana have been issued for the prestigious post of DG, Vigilance in the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC).

(We said this on September 12, 2012)

IAS officer to go on inter-cadre deputation to UP
Ms Jayashree S Bhoj has been granted inter- cadre deputation from Maharashtra to Uttar Pradesh. She is a 2003 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

Indian Air Force short of 1,100 officers ?
If top sources are to be believed, there is a shortage of 1,100 officers in the Indian Air Force.

O P Tailor selected as Director (Fin.), BCPL
O P Tailor, Director (Finance), BSCL, has been selected for the post of Director (Finance), Brahmaputra Crackers & Polymers Limited (BCPL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on October 10, 2012. As many as six persons were interviewed for the same.

S K Baura selected as Director (Fin.), NRL
S K Barua, GM, NRL, has been selected for the post of Director (Finance), Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting. As many as nine persons were interviewed for the same.

Deputation tenure of Madhulika Shukla extended
The central deputation tenure of Ms Madhulika Shukla, Joint Secretary, Expenditure, Ministry of Finance Government of India has been extended upto September 30, 2014. She is a 1982 batch IDAS officer.

Vivek Johri gets foreign assignment
Vivek Johari, presently, in the cadre has been appointed as Minister-Customs in the permanent mission of India to the WTO, Geneva. He is a 1985 batch IRS C&CES officer.

Three Judges to be sworn-in in Allahabad High Court on October 17
Three judges Shiva Kirti Singh, Justice Sushil Harkauli and Justice Tarun Agrawal who have been transferred to Allahabad High Court will be sworn in on October 17.

Two officers moved to Kabul for UNDP project
A batch of two officers, an IAS and an IA&AS officer, takes charge at Kabul. DoPT has selected them for a UNDP project at Kabul.
(We said this on August 3, 2012)

Chitra Narayan to get extension ?
Chitra Narayan, Indias Ambassador to Switzerland is likely to get further extension in service.

Sai Manohar to join CBI ?
Sai Manohar is likely to join the CBI as DIG. He is a 1995 batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Abhilasha Bisht gets pro-forma promotion
Ms Abhilasha Bisht, who is on deputation as Security Chief UNICEF, New Delhi, has been granted proforma promotion as IG by the Government of Andhra Pradesh. She is a 1994 batch IPS officer of 1994 batch of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Mehboob Alam gets additional charge in ITBP
Dr Mehboob Alam, Additional DG, ITBP, has been given additional charge of IG, Pers. till new appointment for the same is made. He is a 1981 batch IPS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Tejinder Luthra applies for ED
Tajender Luthra, Joint Commissioner of Delhi Police, Northern Range has reportedly applied for the post of Special Director- Enforcement, Directorate of Enforcement Ministry of Finance, Government of India. He is a 1990 batch IPS officer of AGMU cadre.

Narendra deputed to Defence
Narendra has been deputed to the Ministry of Defence for a period of five years. He is a 1993 batch IRAS officer.

Cadre restructuring proposal of EPFO officers approved ?
The first ever cadre restructuring proposal for the officers of EPFO has reportedly been approved by Ministry of Finance. This will give great promotional benefits to the officers and would come at par with other organised services otherwise they face a great stagnation.

D P Pande promoted as Addl. Member, Railway Board
D P Pande, HAG/ IRTS, Adviser (Traffic Transportation), Railway Board, has been promoted as Additional Member (Traffic Transportation), Railway Board.

Binoy George moves to MEA HQS
Consul in Munich Binoy George has been moved to the Ministry of External Affairs Headquarters.

Justice B Subhashan Reddy is new Lokayukta of AP
Justice B Subhashan Reddy has been appointed the Lok Ayukta of Andhra Pradesh. He will take over from S Ananda Reddy.

Seven posts vacant in Kerala High Court
As many as seven posts of Judges have been lying vacant in Kerala High Court against approved strength of 38. The vacant posts include three posts of Permanent Judges against 27 approved strength and four of Additional Judges against approved strength of 11.

Transfers and postings in Railways
Some officers have been transferred and posted at different places in Railways. Accordingly, Arjun Rakshit, IRAS/HAG, presently Adviser Finance, Railway Board, has been posted as Additional Member Finance, Railway Board while Ashish Singh, IRAS, SCR, is being transferred to NCR and Ms Deepthi L, IRAS, SWR, was shifted to SR. Besides, Ms Uma Maheshwari S, IRAS, ECOR, has been transferred to SR.

DoPT seeks applications for Counsellor , Indian Embassy, Washington
The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has invited applications for the post of Counsellor, Community Affairs (Development) in the Embassy of India (EOI), Washington for a period of three years. Those who interested for this Deputy Secretary/Director level post can send their applications to this department at the earliest.

Barun Mitra is Principal Secretary to CM Tripura (UPDATED)
On return from Government of India as Joint Secretary to the President, Barun Mitra has been posted as Principal Secretary to Chief Minister and Principal Secretary, Finance with Commissioner Excise as well as Principal Secretary, Principal Secretary, MOBC in Tripura. He is a 1987 batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.

Eight IRS officers get postings (UPDATED)
As many as eight officers of Indian Revenue Service-Income Tax (IRS-IT) working in the grade of Additional/Joint/Deputy Commissioners, who were on compulsory wait, have been given postings. Accordingly, D A J Sawkmie, Vanita Rattan Sharma, Shrawan Kumar Gotru, Rashmita Jha and P V Gupta have been posted to CCA-Delhi while Anurag Goyal is being appointed to Directorate of Vigilance under DIT (Vig.), North Zone Delhi and Monika Dhami is posted to DGIT (HRD), Delhi. Besides, R R Agarwal has been posted to CCA-UP (West), Kanpur.

62 IAS officers of 1993 batch empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI (UPDATED)
As many as 62 officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) belonging to 1993 batch and various cadres have been empanelled as Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. The officers include: Ravi Kota and Kailash Chand Samaria of Assam-Meghalaya cadre; Anil Kumar Singhal, M T Krishna Babu, Gopal Krishan Dwivedi, B Kishore, C Parthasarthi, Y V Anuradha and K Damayanthi of Andhra Pradesh cadre; Sandeep Poundrik, Uday Singh Kumawat and Mihir Kumar Singh of Bihar cadre; Amit Agrawal of Chhattisgarh cadre; Kamlesh Kumar Pant of Himachal Pradesh; Deepti Umashankar, Sukriti Lihki, V Umashankar and Neeraj of Haryana cadre; Dheeraj Gupta and Asgar Hassan Samoon of Jammu and Kashmir; Usha Titus and K Ravindran Jyothilal of Kerala cadre; Tusha giri Nath of Karnataka cadre; Sanjvee Kumar, Manisha Verma, Lokesh Chandra, Abha Shukla, S S Zende and Mahesh R Zagade of Maharashtra cadre; Sanjay Dubey, Dipti Gaur, Manohar Agnani, Neeraj Mandloi, S B Singh and R K Srivastava of Madhya Pradesh cadre; Prashant Kumar Singh, vivek Kumar Dewangan and Nagaraju Maddirala of Manipur-Tripura cadre; Amardeep Singh Bhatia of Nagaland cadre; Deoranjan Kumar Singh, Nikunja Bihari Dhal, A K Kaluaram Meena and Surendra Kumar of Orissa cadre; Rakesh Kumar Verma and Ramesh Kumar Ganta of Punjab cadre; Tanmay Kumar, Shikhar Agarwal and Akhil Arora of Rajasthan cadre; Gagandeep Singh Bedi, Sunil Paliwal and S Vijay Kumar of Tamil Nadu cadre; Rajiv Aggarwal, Alok Kumar-II, Veena Kumari Meena, Chandra Bhanu of Uttar Pradesh cadre; Prashant Goyal, Vikram Dev Dutta, Khilli Ram Meena and Punya Salila Srivastava of Union Terrrotories cadre and Roshni Sen, Prabhat Kumar Mishra and Dushyant Nariala of West Bengal cadre.

Cyriac is new Chief Secretary of Kerala (UPDATED)
K Jose Cyriac, Secretary, Chemicals and Petro-Chemicals in the Government of India, has been appointed as new Chief Secretary of Kerala. A 1977 batch IAS officer, Cyriac will succeed K Jaya Kumar who is retiring on October 31.
(We said this on September 25, 2012)

62 IRS (Customs) officers promoted to Deputy Commissioners (UPDATED)
As many as 62 officers of Indian Revenue Service (IRS-Customs) have been promoted to the grade of Deputy Commissioners. The officers include: D S Kantharaj, Abhishek Chandra Gupta, Agarawal Abhivan Abhay, Ajeet Kumar, Alok Singh, Alok Srivastava, Amandeep Singh, Amaresh Kumar, Amit Gupta,
Anubha Sinha, Anurag Sehgal, Aruna Papneja, Ayaz Ahmed Kohli, Bharathi Dhasan AVT, Devjyoti Chakravarty, Dhirendra Mani Tripathi, Dinesh Kumar Meena, Dr Amit Kumar Singal, Dr Ashwini Kumarm, Ms Neha Garg, G Arun Richard Elisa, J Mohammed Navfal, Jaindendra Singh Kandhari, Jaronbe Vishal
Dashrath, Jyoti Kumar Bubana, K Shivalingappa, Kaleshanket Subhash, Kiran Kumar, Kundan Yadav, M Arun Kanth, Manasa Gangotri Kata, Manish Kumar Jaiswal, Manvatkar Vijay Janrao, Mohammed Irfan Aziz, Ms Ritu Raj Gupta, Mukesh Kumar Pal, Naveen A S, Patial Parijat Vilas (Sahil Inamdar), Peeyoush Bhati, Periasamy M, Pradip Gurumurthy, Rahul R, Rajan Lachala, Sanjay Singhal, Santosh Kumar Mishra, Satyadeep Mahapatra, Shambhu Nath Nathan, Shardha Joshi, Shweta Bector, Steephen L, Sujit Mallick, Suresh Chand Mukheria, Sushil Chandra, T Arivazhagan, Temsunaro Jamir, Vaishali Malhotra, Vijay Bahadur Verma, Vijayarani S, Vishnu Kumar, Vivek and Vivek Kumar Jain.

DEBATE
Is FDI in retail in the interests of economic independence of India? Mail your views to Mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com or Suresh.mehrotra@yahoo. com.

CORPORATE

Swiss Bank accounts of Mumbai businessman frozen ?
Swiss Bank accounts of one businessman of Mumbai, according to media reports, have been frozen by the Enforcement Directorate.

CWC pays record dividend to GoI
The Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) achieved yet another record turnover of Rs.1219 crore during 2011-12 as against Rs.1030 crore achieved during the preceding year, registering a growth of 18.35%. This could be possible due to addition of constructed storage capacity by 2.09 lakh MT and increase in overall capacity utilization (occupancy) to 91% as against 88% achieved during previous year. Keeping in view the national priority for safe preservation of foodgrains procured for Central Pool, utilization of capacity for storage of foodgrains was given adequate attention which increased from 54% during 2010-11 to 57% in 2011-12. CWC handled 11.55 lakh TEUs during 2011-12.CWC also achieved highest ever Gross Margin of Rs.305 crore as against Rs.237 crore during 2010-11, registering a growth of 29%. Keeping in view the excellent financial results, CWC has declared dividend for the year 2011-12 @ 40% at par with the previous year. B B Pattanaik, Managing Director, CWC presented a cheque of Rs.14.97 crore to Prof. K V Thomas, Minister of State (IC) for Consumer Affairs, Food& Public Distribution on 10th October, 2012, being the dividend due to the Government of India in the august presence of Sudhir Kumar, Secretary(F&PD). Other senior officers of the Ministry and CWC were also present on the occasion. Congratulating CWC for its commendable performance, the Minister urged CWC to undertake creation of storage capacity on a large scale. During the current financial year, CWC has plans to construct storage capacity of about 2.50 lakh MT with a financial outlay of Rs.125 crore in 12 States mainly for storage of foodgrains. CWC also plans to commence operations of Private Freight Terminals at its rail-based facilities at Bamanheri (UP) and Nabha (Punjab). Besides operating Land Custom Stationat Petrapole (West Bengal). CWC is operating the Cargo Terminal of Integrated Check Post (ICP), at Attari (Punjab) on the Indo-Pak Border since April 2012 and assisting in the border trade.

Dwarakanath appointed CMD, BEML
Bharat Earth Movers Ltd has appointed P Dwarakanath as its new Chairman and Managing Director of the company.

Bhamidipati appointed ED, Amara Raja Batteries Ltd
Amara Raja Batteries Ltd has appointed Ravi Bhamidipati as an Executive Director of the company.

Desai resigns as ED, Sanghvi Earth Movers Ltd ?
Ramchandra S. Desai has resigned as Executive Director of Sanghvi Movers Ltd w.e.f. November 1, 2012.

Gupta quits Surya Industrial Corporation Ltd
Navdeep Gupta has resigned as Director of Surya Industrial Corporation Ltd.

Bhuskute ceases to be Company Secy., Vaarad Ventures Ltd
Ms Juili Bhuskute has ceased to be Company Secretary of Vaarad Ventures Ltd.

Uparkar appointed Company Secy., Vaarad Ventures Ltd
Ms Aparna Uparkar has been appointed as Company Secretary of Vaarad Ventures Ltd.

Venkatraman appointed Director, Caplin Point Laboratories Ltd
Caplin Point Laboratories Ltd has appointed R Vijay Venkatraman as Director of the company.

Achan quits Caplin Point Laboratories Ltd
N R Achan has resigned as Director of Caplin Point Laboratories Ltd

Alkesh appointed as Director of Dazzel Confindive
Sangamkumar Alpesh has been appointed as Director of Dazzel Confindive.

Dave appointed as Director of Dazzel Confindive
Sandeep Dave has been appointed as Director of Dazzel Confindive.

Achan appointed as director of Caplin Point Laboratories
NR Achan has been appointed as director of Caplin Point Laboratories.

Gupta resigns as director of Surya Industrial Corporation
Navdeep Gupta has resigned as director of Surya Industrial Corporation.

Nath appointed as Director of Martin Burn
Kedar Nath has been appointed as Director of Martin Burn.

Patil appointed as Director, JMDE Packaging
Ajay Patil has been appointed as Director of JMDE Packaging.

Sinha appointed as Director of Haryana Financial Corporation
Manish Sinha has been appointed as Director of Haryana Financial Corporation.

Desai quits Sanghvi Movers
RS Desai has resigned as Director of Sanghvi Movers.

Jain appointed as Director of Maan Aluminium
Priti Jain has been appointed as Director of Maan Aluminium

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An extremely sad state of affairs

Railway Minister C O Joshi represents the largest constituent party in UPA. Vinay Mittal, Chairman, Railway Board, is a highly competent officer. Despite the above, if even routine administrative decisions
like promotions and transfers at highest level of Railway

administration, like those of General Managers and HAG officers are delayed for months, it is an extremely sad state of affairs, which an already ailing organization like Indian Railways can ill afford, Will
those in authority act ?

S.Kanakasabapathy

Eradication of Corruption and Right To Information Act

India is one country which is almost engulfed in corruption, and where the common man is suffocated ,highly uncomfortable, uneasy and completely dejected as there's hardly any political party or institution which has conviction or sincerety in bringing change to man made social evils. Corruption is eating away the fundamentals of Indian democracy, which the country has earned with the sincere and consistent efforts of patriots of the country and many of them even sacrificed their lives for such a valuable reward which the people of the country got in the form of Independence. But today perhaps ,the same countryman feel unhappy and disillusioned due to the corrupt policies of the politicians ,who enjoy the benefits by joining hands with the similar set of bureaucracy ,who too have compromised the moral values and service ethics, excepting few.

Thanks to the movement of members of Civil Society, the Act of Right to Information came into existence, reluctantly with the efforts of Country's parliament. Perhaps it is an opportunity for the Civil Society and the public at large to come forward and consolidate movement in the form of Social Activism , form few groups at grass root level and then at National level, which can bring transformation in the hopeless corrupt system to a clean and public welfare system .I am sure ,with a little effort by small groups of social activists, a revolutionary change in the depressed and hopeless system in the
country can be achieved.

If just a group of four to five social activists, sincerely keep an eye and monitor one ministry each and through RTI applications, try to bring transparency in a particular ministry, get the information open to the public in general, a radical change can be effected by just with the 30 to 40 groups of social activists i.e. with the committed efforts of about 100 to 200 social activist in a state, a revolutionary change can be brought into the existing rotten system. I believe the time is ripe ,when all patriotic countrymen would come forward and make a concerted and sincere effort through the Act of RTI, make this country real independent from corruption ,mal administration and evil forces ,who are working together to the
detrimental of the interest of general public.

Ravinder Gupta (KAS)retired

A Social Activist (Jammu-Kashmir)

Income Tax Refund

Income tax offices may at least start dispatching refunds for FY 2012-13 for the amount less than Rs. 10,000/ based on the ITRs filed without going into nitty gritty of the case. The people who do not pay tax enjoys more than the people who pays tax. Tax payers normally suffer and face harassment due to un-necessary quarries. When fair and transparent system will start working in tax departments. Are they really friendly, helpful and interactive? It is big question mark.

N Prakash