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Congress to lose in Delhi elections
It is widely believed that Congress is going to lose in all the Municipal Corporation elections in Delhi.

Is Ajit Singh against having consultants?
Is Indian Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh against having consultants in the Ministry? Answer to this question is in affirmative if one goes by recent sacking of consultants in the Ministry.

Ms.Kanimozhi left alone?
It is heard that DMK Supremo's daughter Ms. Kanimozhi made her first public appearance to criticize the state government's policies but what was clearly visible was that no DMK top leaders, like her brother MK Alagiri or Stalin, were with her.

What people think about Uma Bharti?
It is said in the political circles that the body of firebrand BJP leader Uma Bharti is in Uttar Pradesh but her soul is in Madhya
Pradesh.

Samajwadi Party to spread base in Madhya Pradesh
Now Samajwadi Party has planned to spread its base in Madhya Pradesh. The strategists have short-listed 30 Vidhan Sabha seats from where party will put up candidates.

Will R P Singh be new Chairman of NHAI?
Latest information says that R P Singh is now ahead in the race for the post of Chairman NHAI. He is former 1976 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre. His only contender now seems is A V Sinha.

Will Delhi Police Commissioner join NHRC?
Delhi Police Commissioner B K Gupta is likely to succeed P C Sharma in the National Human Rights Commission. 1975 batch UT cadre IPS officer Gupta is scheduled to retire on July 1.

Posting of 1977 batch IAS is now complete
Posting of all the 1977 batch empanelled IAS officers to the rank of Secretary in the Government of India is now complete. Ashok Thakur will be the last officer to get posting as Secretary Tribal Affairs on May 1.

Top five bureaucrats of Jayalalitha
Who is the most powerful bureaucrat in Tamil Nadu? Ask any bureaucrat and the reply will be- not one but five. They are:-

1 M Sheela Priya, 1977 batch IAS

2 Chief Secretary Debendranath Sarangi, 1977 batch

3 Dr P Ramamohana Rao 1985 batch IPS

4 K N Venkataramanan 1987 batch IPS

5 Rajeev Ranjan 1985 batch IAS

Rohit Singh to be Jt. Secy, Road Transport & Highways in GoI
Rohit Kumar Singh, 1989 batch officer of the Rajasthan cadre, is going to join as a Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways on April 19, 2012.
(We said this on April 9)

Anu Garg appointed JS Health
Ms. Anu Garg Commr-cum-Secy, Health & Family Walfare Government of Ordisha has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in the Government of India. She is an IAS officer of 1991 batch who belongs to Ordisha Cadre.
(We said this on March 20)

Deputation tenure of Sadhasivam extended

Central Deputation tenure of V.R. Sadhasivam, Joint Secretary, Automic Energy has been extended w.e.f.10.07.2012 to 31.12.2013. He is an IDAS cadre officer of 1981 batch.

Leena Nandan gets one month extension
Ms. Leena Nandan, Project Director, Host Broadcaster Team in Doordarshan, Ministry of Info & Broadcasting HBT, Commonwealth Games has been given one month extension. She is a Uttar Pradesh Cadre IAS officer of 1987 batch.

Ajoy Kumar gets extension
Central deputation tenure of Ajoy Kumar, CVO, Nl Fertilizers Ltd, Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, New Delhi has been extended w.e.f. 08.4.2012 to 08.04.2013. He is a Jharkhand Cadre IAS officer of 1984 batch.

Baruah is new Director SFIO
Nilimesh Baruah has been appointed as Director, Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs
Government of India. The Director post is equivalent to the Joint Secretary level. He is an IRS (IT) Cadre officer of 1985 batch.

Eight in fray for chiefs of PS, General insurance companies
There are Eight contenders for new chiefs of two Public Sector (PS) General insurance companies interviews for which were on April 16, 2012. They are Dr. A K Saxena -Oriental Insurance Company, Kuldeep Singh- National Insurance Company Ltd. Ms. Usha Nair United ,Joseph-United, Sanat Kumar-New India Assurance Co. Ltd, Raghvan-General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC), Girija Kumar -National Insurance Company Ltd & Yogendra Rao-National Insurance Company Ltd. Probably chief for New India Assurance Co. will also be selected. Names are yet to be finalised. It will be done after evaluating ACRs of these incumbents.

K J Alphons writing a book
K J Alphons, a former bureaucrat who had joined the BJP in March 2009, is nowadays busy authoring a book about innovations in governance that have been done by BJP ruled states. He is a Kerala cadre retired IAS officer of 1979 batch.

1998 batch IPS to get DIG rank in J & K
1998 batch IPS officers in J & k are being promoted to the rank of DIG.DPC is going to meet this week.

IAS officers of 1987 batch in UP yet to elevated
Speculation are going on as to why IAS officers of 1987 batch are yet to get promotion as Principal Secretaries (PS) in Uttar Pradesh (UP). It may be stated that IAS officers belonging to 1996 batch got super time,1999 batch got selection grade and 2008 batch got senior scale simultaneously in UP.

Pankaj Hazarika to be a Director, Revenue
As the grapevine has it, Pankaj Hazarika on central deputation is poised to join as a Director, Revenue. He an IDAS officer of 2000 batch.

Mulayam Singh Yadav's writ runs large in UP
As the grapevine has it, it is only Samajwadi Party (SP) supreme Mulayam Singh Yadav who is calling shots in Uttar Pradesh.

Jaiswal is First Secy., IT overseas unit, The Hague
Vijay Kumar Jaiswal has been appointed as First Secretary, Income Tax Overseas Unit, Embassy of India, The Hague, Netherlands. He is an IRS (IT) officer of 2007 batch.

Sevala Naik to move Munich
Deputy High Commissioner in Kuala Lumpur Sevala Naik is moving to Munich in place of Vikram Misri who is back to the MEA Headquarters.

P P Upadhyay to take over as MD, MRPL on June 30
P P Upadhyay, Director (Tech), Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL), who was selected as Managing Director for the same organization, will take over the charge on June 30, 2012.
(We said this on November 15, 2011)

S Y Quraishi to retire as CEC in July 2012
Shahabuddin Yaqoob Quraishi (born 11 July 1947), the current Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India, is going to retire in July 2012.

Dr. P.P. Bhojvaid to be Director & VC, FRI
Dr. P.P. Bhojvaid on central deputation will be joining as Director & Vice Chancellor (VC) of the Forest Research Institute (FRI), Dehradun on May 2 2012 vice S.S. Negi when his term ends. He is a Haryana cadre Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of 1983 batch
(We said this in January 2012)

DRMs postings delayed
As the grapevine has it, proposals relating to posting of new Divisional Railway Managers (DRMs) have been further delayed.

IAS officer recalled by J & K Government
1992 batch IAS officer Bipul Pathak has been recalled by the J & K Government from central deputation. He is being appointed Secretary Health and Medical Education.

63 Private Secy. promoted as Principal Pvt. Secy.
As many as 63 Private Secretaries have been promoted as Principal Private Secretary (PPS) of CSSS. They include: K S Kanthimathi, Sunil Bajaj, Naresh Chhiber, Deepak Kumar, R S Rawat, Manjeet Kumar Chawla, V Kurien John, M Ramji, R V R Sesharatnam, D K Sharma, P Jagadesan, K Sunder, K Venkatesan, Sangeeta Jain, Ashok Kumar Gupta, D Jeevaraj, Latha Venkatesan, H P Sreeramana, Vandana Banerjee, R Rangarajan, S chandrasekharan, Mukesh Bali, V S R Murthy, Manbar Singh, Manbar Singh, Bharat Bhushan Bhatnanagar, Harish Kumar Lakhera, Basant Kumar, Jaya Sadanandan, Anoop Seth, Suman Taneja, D K Rathore, Subrata Basak, S K Gulati, Brij Bhushan Sharma, Ms. Rashmi Minocha, Anil Kumar, Ms. Machiraju Sarada, Narendra Kumar Sharma, Subhash Chander, Pradeep Kumar, Satyabrata Padhy, Shobhana Menon, Ms. Usha G Rajeev, Anandaraman S, Satish Kumar Batra, Ms. P Gayatri, Dalip Kumar Sharma, Musthaq Ahmed, M N Radhakrishan, Ms. Himalini Prashar, Surender Kumar Sharma, Baldev Singh, T V Paulose, Ms. Surinder Kaur, Anandavalli Raman, Sampuran Singh, A Y Anand Raj, Sanjay Kumar, Anand Kumar, R Rengarajan, Lekh Raj and Mrs. Suman Mahi.

Ajit Srivastava promoted
Ajit Srivastava,Secretary, Social Welfare Deptt, Arunachal Pradesh has been promoted in Super Time Scale. He is a AGMU cadre IAS officer of 1996 batch.

NACEN, Mumbai invites names for Appraiser post
National Academy of Customs Excise and Narcotics (NACEN), Mumbai is seeking the names of willing officers for the one post of Appraiser on deputation basis. The names of willing officers can be sent to this office before April 30, 2012.

DRI invites applications for Sr. Intelligence officers
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has invited applications for the post of Senior Intelligence Officers on deputation in DRI, Chennai and Tuticorin under the Chennai zonal unit. Those willing to apply can send their applications to M Vinod Kumar, Additional Director General at the earliest.

NACEN, Mumbai invites names for Administrative officer post
National Academy of Customs Excise and Narcotics (NACEN), Mumbai, has invited the names of willing officers for the post of Administrative officer on deputation basis. The names of willing officers can be sent to this office before April 30, 2012.

Applications invited for Minister (Cust.) in Permanent Mission in Geneva
Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) is seeking the names of IRS (C & CE) officers at Joint Secretary level and belonging to 1981 to 1985 batches for the post of Minister (Customs) in Permanent Mission of India in Geneva under the Department of Commerce. Those who wish to apply can send their applications to the Board before April 27, 2012.

Post of Director (Fin), HMT Ltd vacant
The post of Director (Finance) has still been lying vacant in HMT Limited, Bangalore.

IES officer Mohapatra promoted as Adviser, Economic Affairs
Chandrasekhar Mohapatra, Director, Economic Affairs, has been promoted to Senior Administrative Grade (SAG) and posted as Adviser, Economic Affairs. He is an Indian Economic Service (IES) officer of 1986 batch.

Mrs. Sasikala posted as OSD, CCIT (CCA), Mumbai
Mrs. I Sasikala, Commissioner of Income Tax, has been posted as OSD in the office of CCIT (CCA), Mumbai region.

Kumar Sanjay is also CIT (Appeal), Ranchi
Kumar Sanjay, Commissioner of Income Tax (CIT, Appeal), Patna, has been assigned additional charge of CIT (Appeal), Ranchi.

Mitra promoted as CCIT
S K Mitra, Commissioner of Income Tax (Retd), has been promoted to the grade of Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (CCIT).

Suryawanshi posted as OSD, CCIT (CCA), Delhi region
Vikas K Suryawanshi, Joint Commissioner of Income Tax, has been posted as OSD in the office of CCIT (CCA), Delhi region.

R N Kaul is pro VC, Venkateswara Open University
R N Kaul, IFS (Retd), former PCCF & Principal Secretary (E & F), Government of Arunachal Pradesh has been appointed as Pro- Vice Chancellor Venkateswara Open University, Arunachal Pradesh, by the Board of Management. Earlier, he had served on deputation in United Nations.

NBCFDC gets SCOPE Meritorious Award 2010-11
President of India, Mrs. Pratibha Devisinh Patil, presented the 'SCOPE Meritorious Award 2010-11 ' to Akhtar Ali Naqvi Managing Director (MD) of the National Backward Classes Finance & Development Corporation (NBCFDC)-a Public Sector undertaking (Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, GoI)in the presence of Praful Patel, Indian Minister for Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises in New Delhi on April 13, 2012.

Allahabad HC gets 11 new Judges (UPDATED)
As many as 11 new Judges have been appointed at Allahabad High Court. These new Judges, who include: Vishnu Chandra Gupta, Mohammad Tahir, Mushaffey Ahmed, Arvind Kumar Tripathi, Saeed-ur-Zaman-Siddiqui, Aditya Nath Singh, Mahendra Dayal, Virendra Vikram Singh, Het Singh Yadav, Anil Kumar Sharma and Anurag Kumar, were administered an oath of office by the Chief Justice S R Alam in his Chamber on April 18, 2012.

34 officers of Air India get foreign postings (UPDATED)
As many as 34 officers of Air India have been posted in various countries. Accordingly, Mrs. Salgalgile has been posted as Country Manager, Frankfurt while Subhash Jhadav will now be APT Manager, Singapore and N R Narang is Country Manager, Singapore. Similarly, M S Ansari has been appointed as APT Manager, JFK New York; S K Anchan as Manager, New York; S Roy Chowdhury as Manager, Washington; B E Lakra as Country Manager, Kabul; Mrs. Sushmita Srinivasan as Country Manager, Yangoon; M L Patel as APT Manager, Riyad; Mrs. Seema Shrivastava as Regional Manager, Dubai; T H Radhakrishnan as APT Manager, Dubai;Mrs. Alice Paul as Deputy Manager, Dubai; Rajender Kumar as APT Manager, Dubai; P Chakravarti as APT Manager, Doha; N Kannan as APT Manager, Sharjha; Ashok Gupta as Duty Manager in Sharjah; C H Rambabu as Manager, Sharjah; S V R Sastry as APT Manager, Toronto; R Tshering as Country Manager, Dammam; C S Subbiah as Country Manager, Germany; Rishikant Singh as Country Manager, Chicago; Rajneesh Bagga as Country Manager, Bahrain; Ajay Sinha as Country Manager, Kuwait; D Golder as Country Manager Hong Kong; Ravi Bodade as Country Manager, Sydney; Amreesh Chaudhary as Country Manager, Oman; Mrs. V Malini as Country Manager, Osaka; Madhu Mathen as Manager, Melbourne; Chellam Prasad as Country Manager, Moscow; Sangeeta Sanyal as Country Manager, Kuala Lumpur; Suneeta Singh as Country Manager, Kathmandu; T S Kohli as Country Manager, Male; D Sanyal as Country Manager, Dhaka and Firoz Khan is being posted as APT Manager, Jeddha.

Pant is new DGP of Uttarakhand (UPDATED)
Vijay Raghav Pant has taken over as new Uttarakhand Director General of Police (DGP) .He is 1978 batch IPS officer.

Orders of Justice Ranjan Gogoi in a day or two ? (UPDATED)
Orders of the appointment of Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court Justice Ranjan Gogoi as Judge of the Supreme Court are expected to be issued in a day or two.

Ms. Gayatri shifted to Southern Railways (UPDATED)
Ms. G Gayatri, SS/IRTS has been shifted from South Eastern Central Railways (SECR) to Southern Railway (SR).

Rare honour for Sudhir Vasudeva, CMD, ONGC (UPDATED)
Sudhir Vasudeva, Chairman and Managing Director, ONGC and Chairman, ONGC Group of Companies was bestowed a rare honour when he was appointed to the Board of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) by the Secretary General, BAN Ki-moon for a period of three years. He is only the second business leader from India to join the UNGC Board that is the cornerstone of this initiative's framework and shapes its strategy and policy. The UNGC is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. By doing so, business, as a primary driver of globalization, can help ensure that markets, commerce, technology and finance advance in ways that benefit economies and societies everywhere. The UNGC Network presently boasts a membership of more than 7000 business participants and other stakeholders in over 130 countries and has become the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative. UNGC operates through 90 local networks in countries and geographic regions. Vasudeva is the President of the Global Compact Network, India that was founded in 2003 and presently has nearly 100 members. It is one of the most active UNGC Networks and has hosted many national and international conventions, workshops and seminars to further the cause of adoption of UNGC's ten principles. ONGC is a founder member of the Global Compact Network, India and has adopted volunteerism as a tool toward integration of UNGC principles into its global operations.

DEBATE

Will any investor rush into India's aviation sector? Will the plan of the Government to re-structure Air India succeed?

Mail your views-mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com or Suresh. Mehrotra @yahoo.com

CORPORATE

Stocks of Sahara go up
After the victory of Samajwadi Party in the UP elections stocks of Sahara have gone up and now there is total lull in the North-Block about the cases of this group.

Chawla to join India Value Fund Advisors as Partner
Haresh Chawla is all set to join India Value Fund Advisors (IVFA) as Partner on June 1, 2012. Chawla, who has quit as Group CEO - Network18 and Viacom18, will be responsible for building and promoting businesses owned by IVFA and will also lead media and entertainment investments at IVFA.

Arunabh Das Sharma in BCCL promoted
Arunabh Das Sharma has been elevated as President and brought into the board of Bennett, Coleman and Co Ltd (BCCL).

Rahul Kansal in BCCL promoted
Rahul Kansal has been promoted as Executive President in the Bennett, Coleman and Co Ltd (BCCL). Besides looking after The Times of India brand, he will look after the company's expansion strategy in non-metros and also manage the language portfolio.

Mohit Jain in BCCL promoted
Mohit Jain has been promoted as Executive President - Supply Chain in the Bennett, Coleman and Co Ltd (BCCL). He will not only be responsible for managing the complete supply chain network across projects and production but also drive projects and other strategic initiatives at the cost level to prepare BCCL for the next phase of growth.

Sanjeev Vohra in BCCL promoted
Sanjeev Vohra has been promoted as Executive President - Audiences in the Bennett, Coleman and Co Ltd (BCCL). He will be responsible for accruing more and better audience aggregation and also drive the growth of The Times of India and The Economic Times and other language brands into non metros.

S Sivakumar in BCCL promoted
Sivakumar Sundaram, has been promoted as Executive President - Brand Capital in the Bennett, Coleman and Co Ltd (BCCL). He will be responsible for expanding Brand Capital and BCCL's strategic advertising partnership initiatives further.

Deepak Lamba quits Bloomberg UTV
Deepak Lamba has quit as the Business Head of English business news channel, Bloomberg UTV where he had been since January 2010.

Sureka appointed MD, Balasore Alloys Ltd
Anil Sureka, has been appointed as the Managing Director of Balasore Alloys Ltd w.e.f. April 17, 2012.

Sapra designated as MD, Jagatjit Industries Ltd
Narender Sapra has been designated as Managing Director of Jagatjit Industries Ltd w.e.f. March 26, 2012.

Damodaran appointed Addl. Director, Hindalco Industries Ltd
M. Damodaran has been appointed as an Additional Director on the Board of Hindalco Industries Ltd.

Devgupta designated as ED, Kesar Terminals & Infrastructure Ltd
J. K. Devgupta has been designated as Executive Director of Kesar Terminals & Infrastructure Ltd w.e.f. May 11, 2012.

Bishop appointed Alternate Director, SKF India Ltd
SKF India Limited has appointed David Bishop as an Alternate Director to Vartan Vartanian of the company w.e.f. April 18, 2012

Bakhru appointed Addl. Director, Facor Alloys Ltd
Vibhu Bakhru has been appointed as Additional Director of Facor Alloys Ltd w.e.f. March 20, 2012

Alagappan ceases to be Director, Bannari Amman Spinning Mills Ltd
S. V. Alagappan has ceased to be Director of Bannari Amman Spinning Mills Ltd w.e.f. April 16, 2012 following, his resignation from the company.

Tandon resigns as Company Secretary, Nova Iron & Steel Ltd
Ms. Anuradha Tandon has resigned as Company Secretary of Nova Iron & Steel Ltd w.e.f. March 31, 2012.

Khandelwal resigns as Director, Koutons Retail India Ltd
Rajeev Khandelwal has resigned as Director of Koutons Retail India Ltd.

Krishna resigns as Director, Goldstone Infratech Ltd
S. D. Rama Krishna has resigned as Director of Goldstone Infratech Ltd w.e.f. April 17, 2012.

Palekar appointed Addl. Director, Nilkamal Ltd
Nilkamal Limited has appointed S. K. Palekar as an Additional Director on the Board of Directors of the company w.e.f. April 17, 2012.

Writing on the wall

Antony has been entrusted to prepare a report on the debacles in congress UP elections. But the things are clearly written on wall. Why can't the grand old party see this? Lost UP, lost Punjab, lost Delhi municipal elections, will loose Rajasthan, will loose Andhra Pradesh, will loose Haryana, will not even make dent in Gujarat, will not make a difference in J & K, Karnatak, and Himachal. There needs to be serious introspection. There is a need for consultancy from old leaders for the ailment, change the CM's like Huda, Gehlot for incompetency, inefficiency and corruption. Keep away the leaders who have lit pyre and performed funeral of party. They include Rita Bahuguna from UP, Amarinder from Punjab. There is still time. After all votes polled in the states by the people do affect the Lok Sabha election also.

God bless Secular congress party

Pranav

Accommodating pliant officers on retirement

After the creation of TRAI only those who had served as Secretary in DoT were appointed but since the office of TRAI can't be shifted to Tihar as Raja of Tihar will not provide space ( he has one ex-secretary already, second post is not yet sanctioned), how do the Government of India accommodate pliant officers on retirement.

Bhagwati Ram

Is there any age limit for the appointment of Cabinet Secretary?

The appellant asked the Prime Minister's Office for the inspection of the relevant records related with the appointment of the Cabinet Secretary, CVC and the CIC. The Public Information Officer (PIO) transferred some of the requests to the PIO of the DoPT and refused for other details on the ground of the personal information. During the hearing before CIC, the appellant specifically submitted that he was interested in inspecting the records relating to the policy followed by the Government of India for appointing individuals above the age of 60 years as Cabinet Secretary. The CIC directed the PIO to provide the photocopy of the relevant Fundamental Rule which lays down the age related conditions for the appointment of the Cabinet Secretary. Further, the appellant submitted that he would be able to commute to Delhi to inspect the records only after four months due to his ill health. As a special request, the CIC directed the PIO of the DoPT to invite the Appellant on any mutually convenient date after four months to show him the documents.

Comments

The RTI Act has enabled a citizen to question the appointments at the senior levels of governance, which has also lead to frivolous applications at times. The DoPT should consider putting the qualifications of all senior posts on the web to lower the application load.

Citation: Shri Nand Lal Sharma v. Prime Minister's Office in File No. CIC/SM/A/2011/000874

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