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Cabinet reshuffle on October 29 ?
Latest rumour mill says that Cabinet expansion-cum reshuffle of the Manmohan Singh Government is going to take place on October 29. A couple of Ministers may go and there will be few new faces.

PIB and State PR ?
This is heard- Great success of PR Departments of at least four BJP ruled states-Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand where adverse publicity of the Chief Ministers and the Government is not visible in any media across the country. And look at the mighty Press Information Bureau of the Government of India.

Great success of S Narsingh Rao
Great success of the Coal India Ltd now headed by S Narsingh Rao is being discussed in the Government of India. He is a 1986 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre. It means IAS officers can set things right in any PSU.

BUREAUCRACY

17 IPS officers of 1979 batch short-listed in GoI ?
As many as 17 IPS officers belonging to 1979 batch are believed to have been short-listed for the empanelment to the rank of DG in the Government of India. Empanelment is expected to take place in a month or two. They are Mssrs:- Krishna Choudhary (BH),Ashok Prasad (AP), Suresh Chowdhary (RJ), Anil Kumar Sinha (BH), AM Patnaik (MH), Raj Deep Singh (UP), Dineshwar Sharma (KL), Satyendra Kumar (HY), Arun Chandra Verma (BH), , Divya Prakash Sinha (MT), Ms Aruna M. Bahuguna (AP) , B Prasada Rao (AP), Alok Kumar Verma (AGMU), Devendra Kumar Pathak (AM), Sharad Kumar (HY), P J P Hanaman (AM) and Kelhousithie Kire (NL).A couple of other officers of this batch are expected to get Equivalent rank.

Is Patnaik going to make it to CBI ?
It is heard that former Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik is trying hard to get a posting in the CBI, but it is reliably learnt that too many people are working against Patnaik. He is a 1979 batch IPS officer.

Ravi Kant to be JS, Defence Production
Ravi Kant is being tipped to be new Joint Secretary Defence Production. He is a 1984 batch Bihar cadre IAS officer.

Vimla Mehra to be next Delhi Police Commissioner
It is widely believed that Ms Vimla Mehra will succeed Neeraj Kumar as Delhi Police Commissioner next year. She is a 1978 batch IPS officer of UT cadre.

1982 batch IPS get DG rank in Kerala
Two 1982 batch IPS officers Alexander Jacob and Mahesh Kumar Singla have been cleared for the promotion to the rank of DG in Kerala.

Official orders of A P Singh next month ?
Official orders of the appointment of CBI Chief A P Singh as Member National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) are expected to be issued next month. A1974 batch Jharkhand cadre IPS officer Singh is superannuating on November 30..

Bungalow earmarked for new CBI Director
A new bungalow for the new CBI Director on Janpath is understood to have been earmarked by the Urban Development ministry .

Ravi Kant gets extension in CBI
Ravi Kant, DIG, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has been granted an extension of 6 months till March 22, 2013. He is an IPS officer of 1998 batch who belongs to the Odisha cadre.

Will Justice Sapre move to Calcutta High Court ?
Will acting Chief Justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court, Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre move as Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court. Approval of his name from West Bengal CM and the Governor is still awaited.

Justice Sengupta to move to Uttarakhand
Justice Sengupta of the Calcutta High Court is reportedly moving to the Uttarakhand High Court as senior Judge.

Decks cleared for Dr S S Garbyal soon to be ADG MoEF
Dr S S Garbyal is soon poised to be ADG Forests in the Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) with charge of Wildlife. He is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1977 batch who belongs to the AGMUT cadre. At present he is posted as PCCF, Mizoram.
(We said this on July 12, 2012)

Justice Singh to be sworn-in today
Justice Yatindra Singh of the Allahabad High Court will be sworn in as Chief Justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court on Monday.
(We said this on October 15, 2012)

Sanjay Kumar to be SP, NIA ?
Sanjay Kumar, Superintendent of Police(SP), MP Police is likely to be appointed as SP, National Investigative Agency (NIA). He is a 2004 batch IPS officer of MP cadre..

Murmers in CBEC !
The publication of extracts from a TOP SECRET file have annoyed of FM. The extracts were published in openmagazine and reprinted in other publications. Since Mr Chidambaram's note was only sent to Members, the leak stokes the presumption that one of the Member's leaked the note. The file was of Budget section ie TRU in CBEC. FM is deeply upset and disturbed by the leak. Consequently he asked the matter to be investigated by the DG Vigilance, CBEC, Mr SS Rana, to ascertain the leak. He is also asked how and why persons who were on the ODI list have been appointed to sensitive posts in CBEC. How the vigilance clearance was given for their appointment is also the brief for Vigilance Chief. The Finance Minister has now made clearance by CVC a mandatory condition for appointments to any post in Finance Ministry. The latter was triggered by a file submitted by CBEC for appointments as DS/ Director. FM found that some of the persons suggested for appointment were facing proceedings from Vigilance angle. Sources attribute internal dissensions within CBEC to the leak of FM's note. Meanwhile CVC has summoned the DG Vigilance Of CBEC in regard to the appointment of a Commissioner to a sensitive post when prosecution was sanctioned and the concerned officer was on the agreed list.

Ms Lipika Majumdar Roy Choudhary to join today
Ms Lipika Majumdar Roy Choudhary is joining as Member in CBEC on Monday. She was on an UN assignment. She belongs to the 1977 batch and will have nearly 2 years stint as Member. She may get the charge of either Systems or Service tax, since FM will have wider changes in CBEC post December 2012 .
(We said this on July 1, 2012)

Vinod Kumar promoted in NPA
TK Vinod Kumar, Deputy Director, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, National Police Academy, Hyderabad has been promoted as Joint Director, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, National Police Academy, Hyderabad. He is a 1992 batch IPS officer of Kerala cadre.
(We said this on September 19, 2012)

Will Sharma be Member, CAT ?
Lokendra Sharma, Director General, Special Protection Force, Andhra Pradesh Police, is likely to be appointed as Administrative Member in the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT). He is a 1980 batch IPS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

PESB seeks applications for MD, FSNL
Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has invited applications for the post of Managing Director, Ferro Scrap Nigam Limited (FSNL) fallen vacant since August, 2012. Those willing to apply can send their applications to PESB before November 19, 2012.

Secretary, MSME visits NSIC Incubation Centre (UPDATED)
National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC) has set up Training Cum Incubation Centres for Incubation of Unemployed youth for setting up new Small Enterprise all over the country. During his recent visit to NSIC, Vivek Rae, Secretary, MSME along with C K Mishra, Joint Secretary, MSME, Dinesh Singh, Joint Secretary ,MSME and Jitesh John, Director, Ministry of MSME visited the NSIC -Training cum Incubation Centre and appreciated the efforts of NSIC in creating self-employment opportunities through Incubation program of NSIC. The delegation was briefed by Dr. H P Kumar, CMD, NSIC and other officials about the program and other schemes of NSIC in the country for the growth and development of MSME sector. The NSIC Incubation program is an integrated support by way of providing hands on training on working projects, it provides necessary facilities for prospective entrepreneurs and start up companies to learn product manufacturing processes coupled with technology development, Business development, etc under one roof.

Joseph joins as CMD, AIC (UPDATED)
Joseph Plappallil J has taken over as Chairman and Managing Director of Agriculture Insurance Co Ltd (AIC). Earlier, he was General Manager, United India Assurance.

Ms Kale gets additional charge of PG Emigrants (UPDATED)
Mrs. Ranjana Kale,Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs has been given additional charge of Protector General of Emigrants.

R Nair selected as CMD, HOCL (UPDATED)
R Nair V B, CGM (P & E), HOCL, has been selected for the post of Chairman and Managing Director, Hindustan Organic Chemicals Limited (HOCL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on October 22, 2012. As many as 10 persons were interviewed for the same.

B P Rao addresses Buyers-Sellers meet (UPDATED)
B Prasada Rao has delivered a keynote address at the Buyers-Sellers Meet at Petrotech 2012 in New Delhi

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

Kharat assumes charge of CMD, United India Insurance Company Limited
Milind Kharat has assumed charge as the Chairman-cum-Managing Director of United India Insurance Company Limited.
(We said this on October 13, 2012 )

Prakash ceases to be Part-time Director, Central Bank of India
Major (Retd.) Ved Prakash, Part-time Non-official Director has ceased to be on the Board of Directors of Central Bank of India w.e.f. October 20, 2012.

S Aparna, IAS, nominated as Director, GSFC
The Finance Department, Government of Gujarat has nominated Ms S. Aparna, lAS, Commissioner (BPE) and Ex-officio Secretary, Finance Department as Director on the Board of Gujarat State Financial
Corporation (GSFC) .

Somasundaram, IAS, appointed Chairman, Nitta Gelatin India Ltd ?
V Somasundaran, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Industries Department, Government of Kerala has been appointed as Chairman of Nitta Gelatin India Ltd.

Memani to continue as Independent Director of S Mobility Ltd
K N Memani, Independent Director has withdrawn his resignation on request by the company management and would continue as Independent Director of S Mobility Ltd .

Ramamurthy appointed President MAIT
Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT) has appointed J V Ramamurthy , President, HCL Infosystem as its President .

Dua appointed Director of Peninsula Land Developers
Dr Ajay Dua has been appointed as the Director of Peninsula Land Developers.

Bajaj appointed Director of Khaitan Electricals
Shiv Kumar Bajaj has been appointed director of Khaitan Electricals.

Pandey ceases to be Director of Gujraat State Finance Corporation
DN Pandey now ceases to be Director of Gujarat State Finance Corporation

Kela quits Glory Polyfilms
Prakash Kela has resigned as Chairman of Glory Polyfilms.

Seshadri appointed Director of Rane Engine
Krishna Seshadri has been appointed as Director of Rane Engine.

Goel quits Nitco
Alok Goel has reigned as CEO of Nitco.

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Solution to Top heavy set up in Police

The Solution to Top heavy set up in Police organisation is- The DIG should be in the pay scale of JS, it will give 4 more years to IPS officers in field. The GP of 8900 is not prevalent in any other service.

2. The Pay scale of IG should be Of Addl Secy so that he is available to the field officers as IG Zone. Addl DG should be of Special Secretary rank and Only DGP in the rank of Secy.

3. The Direct intake at IPS level should be 40%, 60% should be promoted to the IPS cadre from SPS.

4. The District police chief be Re Designated as District Police chief & it can be of any Rank.

5. To Control the Police we can have a District Redressal Committee for police issues, it will remove the necessity of need of IAS control, even DM can be member of this committee.

What is the need of Manmohan Singh even of 1991 ?

Reforms should suit Indian socio-economic conditions Why the hell do you need a Manmohan Singh even of 1991? This is with reference to the caption 'We need a Manmohan Singh of 1991' (WIC Forum 20 Oct 2012). If the wish has something to do with the credit the present PM is given for 'initiating the reforms process' in 1991 my advice is to give it a second thought. For an erudite economist as Dr Manmohan Singh is claimed to be the so called reforms can hardly be something to feel proud of. These 'reforms' owe their origin to the precarious balance of payment position and nearly extinct forex reserves prevailing at that time. A shylockian IMF lost no time in asking for a whopping 67 tonnes of the national gold to be pledged to Banks of its choice and some structural and fiscal 'reforms' aimed at blackmailing the country to a series of 'Washington consensus' measures.

Dr Manmohan Singh's job as Finance Minister should have been to lay down the policy but in practice the policy had already been laid down by the IMF with the Finance Minister's role confined to simply executing the IMF's commands with robotic precision and with hardly any room for application of an expert economist's mind. Though called a Minister, Dr Singh in effect continued to be the bureaucrat that he was. To begin with, in their blind obedience to the IMF's dictats the then finance managers of the country made no efforts to assess the impact of the collapse of the Soviet economy and the gulf war on precipitating the crisis of the 1990s as the Soviet Union was our largest trading partner and the gulf region a significant source of remittances by Indians from abroad.

As professional economists they should have assessed these factors to see if some of the measures dictated by the IMF for perpetuity could be negotiated away or agreed to only for short terms. PR managers and protagonists of Dr Manmohan Singh are never tired of narrating the 'success story' of the reforms. What they don't tell is the adverse effects the process has had on the agriculture sector affecting livelihood of the rural poor and the eye popping inequalities in income levels.

As per NCAER report the share of the top 20% of the population in the national income which was 36.7% in the pre reforms phase rose up to 50% in 2009-2010. Likewise the share of the bottom 60% of the population went down from 38.6% in the pre reform era to 27.9% in 2009-2010. It is nobody's case that there should have been no reforms. Point is that the reforms should have been based on an Indian model to suit Indian socio-economic conditions and not on some coercive dictates of the IMF executed unquestioningly by a distressed government with bureaucratic frigidity. For evolving an Indian model and working thereon we needed a scholar and a statesman. What we had (and continue to have) is unfortunately just a bureaucrat transplanted in the body politic.

NN Ojha

Chorus of Rahul Gandhi joining the cabinet or not, uncalled for

I fail to understand the reason you also jump into the chorus of Rahul Gandhi joining the cabinet or not and his polite decline of the offer. I am sure it is not for better readability. Here is a much touted half Italian dynasty scion whose qualifications are unknown, his whereabouts most of the year are unknown, his ideology is unknown, his political strategy and outlook are unknown, his much publicized election campaign in his own state gone for a six and he has never dared to face a single press conference. Periodically he comes for a much advertised 'home stay' in a SC basti followed by a doting paid media. He was exposed in the UP elections. I understand and appreciate if your intention is to use this enlightened web to warn the readers about such a man's arrival as our ruler.

N Krishnan

Refreshing difference!

What a refreshing difference in the mode of functioning of DGCA! Now the licence of Kingfisher has been suspended but there is no personal publicity-hogging by the occupant of the post which is the correct and
proper demeanour for a civil servant.

S P Mishra

Tripura doesn't have Chief Information Commissioner
Like Manipur, Tripura also has the post of Chief Information Commissioner vacant since two years and there is no apparent move to appoint anyone to save costs.

SD

No Judges in Orissa High Court
Why Judges are not being appointed in Orissa High Court.

Sunder Lal