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Is Shailendra Jain still powerful in Aditya Birla Group?
It is widely believed in the Aditya Birla Group that Shailendra Jain is still the most powerful functionary. Former President of the GRASIM, Jain is still number two in the structure. He is Chairman of the Birla Review Committee (BRC).

Are some Central Ministers trying for a political rehab in states?
It is heard that many Central Ministers especially of the Congress Party are working on a rehab in their states. Most of them are trying to work at getting CM’s post say sources.

Top 10 of UP CM Akhilesh Yadav
1. Jawed Usmani.

2. Ms. Anita Singh.

3. Rakesh Garg.

4. Rajiv Kumar (1983 batch)

5. Shambhu Singh Yadav.

6. Jagmohan Yadav -ADG Law & Order

7. N.C.Bajpayee ex Chief Secretary (Election Commission of India had removed him in 2007).

8. Ponty Chadha

9. Sunny Gaur of Jaypee Group

10. R M Shrivastava.

No major changes in GoI till Parliament session
As the grapevine has it, there will be no major changes in the Government of India (GoI) till ensuing session of the Parliament ends. Only essential changes will happen till then. The session will conclude on May 22, 2012.

Postings of 1981 batch IAS officers to end by May
As the grapevine has it, postings of IAS officers belonging to 1981 batch who are empanelled as Additional Secretaries in the Government of India (GoI) are expected to be completed by May 2012. An indication about it was reportedly given by Cabinet Secretary Ajit Kumar Seth.

Deepak Anurag is now JS, Defence
1988 batch IA&AS Officer Deepak Anurag who could not make it as JS and FA Water Resources has now been appointed Joint Secretary Defence.

Four in fray for post of CMD of SCCL in Andhra Pradesh
As the grapevine has it, there are four IAS officers who are in fray for the post of Chairman-cum-Managing-Director (CMD) of "Singareni Collieries Company Limited" (SCCL) of Andhra Pradesh. They are V Nagi Reddy (IAS, 1984 batch), Suthirth Bhattacharya, Heeralal Samaria and Ms. Chitra Ramchandran (all three IAS officers of 1985 batch).

H D Gujrati selected as Director (O& BD), DFCCIL
H D Gujrati, IRTS, has been selected for the post of Director (O& BD), Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on April 25, 2012. As many as six persons were interviewed for the same.

Bhattacharya promoted in GoI
R. Bhattacharya, Additional Secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, has been promoted in-situ as Special Secretary, Government of India. He is a Andhra Pradesh cadre IAS officer of 1978 batch.

Desh Deepak Verma gets promotion in GoI
Desh Deepak Verma, Director General, Sports Authority of India, Department of Sports, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has been promoted in-situ as Special Secretary Government of India. He is an Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS officer of 1978 batch.

Mangotra promoted as Special Secretary
A K Mangotra, Director General, DGS&D, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry has been promoted in-situ as Special Secretary Government of India. He is a Manipur Tripura cadre IAS officer of 1978 batch.

Chibber is promoted in GoI
V Chhiber, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has been promoted in-situ as Special Secretary Government of India. He is a Manipur Tripura cadre IAS officer of 1978 batch.

Will transfers of IRS-IT officers happen soon?
Will annual general transfers (AGTs) of IRS-IT officers happen soon? This billion Dollar question is doing rounds in corridors of power. Most probably only next month.

KSDB bags PMs Award for effective implementation under JNNURM
Karnataka Slum Development Board (KSDB) has been recently conferred with Prime Minister's Award (2010-11) for second place among States in effective implementation under JNNURM. Besides, Prime Minister's Award (2010-11) for "Best JNNURM-IHSDP City for Hassan Town" was also conferred on KSDB. Policy on slums in public & private lands has been brought out by KSDB during this year. Contrary to this, Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) has also been launched in Karnataka. Initially 10 cities viz., Bangalore, Mysore, Belgaum, Bellary, Davangere, Gulbarga, Hubli Dharwad, Mangalore, Shimoga & Tumkur are proposed under RAY. Directorate of Municipal Administration (DMA) is nominated as the State Nodal Agency for Implementation of RAY.

A K Jain to be Commissioner BMC?
A K Jain is likely to be appointed Commissioner of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation on May 1. He is 1982 batch IAS officer.

Chitra Suresh to succeed K J Singh
First Secretary in Rabot Ms Chitra Suresh will succeed K J Singh in July as FS in Abidjan. Singh is superannuating in July.

Kamble to be inducted in IB?
Rajesh Shrihari Kamble (AD) is likely to be inducted Hard-Core Officer as Assistant Director in Intelligence Bureau, Government of India. He is a Manipur-Tripura cadre IPS officer of 1998 batch.

Is Bureaucracy bogged down with RTI queries?
It is heard that bureaucracy is bogged down with RTI queries and is spending more time off late replying them. There is a sudden surge in queries say many bureaucrats in the central government.

Elizabeth John is Ombudsman in Bangalore
The ACC has cleared the name of Elizabeth John for the post of Ombudsman Customs and Central Excise in Bangalore.

Jha is Head, Corporate Communications ONGC
S K Jha has taken over as new Head of the Corporate Communications in ONGC Corporate office, Delhi.

Ms.Manjari Kacker CBDT's Member (P and V) to retire
Ms.Manjari Kacker Member Personnel and Vigilance (P and V) of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) is going to retire on April 30, 2012.

Who will be next CBDT's Member (P and V)?
Who will be next Member Personnel and Vigilance (P and V) of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)? This question is hot topic of discussion in corridors of power.

Ram Lubhaya to get post retirement job in Rajasthan Government
As the grapevine has it, Ram Lubhaya, 1978 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre due to retire on April 30 this year is poised to get a post retirement job in Rajasthan Government

Bisht to be Vice Admiral Naval Hqs!
Eastern Fleet Commander H C S Bisht is all set to move to the Naval Headquarters as Vice Admiral.

Term of WCL's CMD D.C. Garg to end
The term of Dinesh Chandra Garg Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) of Western Coalfields Limited (WCL) is going to end on April 30, 2012.

Term of Mohandas Director (Personnel) in CIL to end
The term of Mohandas Director (Personnel) in Coal India Ltd (CIL) is going to end on May 31, 2012.

Name of IPS officer cleared for Chandigarh Administration
For the post of SP (Traffic) Chandigarh police name of 2005 batch Haryana cadre IPS officer Maneesh Chaudhary has been cleared.

Nominations for 38th Advanced Programme on Public Administration invited
The Department of Personnel and Training, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, has invited nominations for the nine month 38th Advanced Programme on Public Administration (APPPA) commencing at Indian Institute of Public Administration New Delhi on August 1, 2012. Last Date is April 30, 2012.

Retired IRS officer promoted as DCIT
Dinkerrai Mulshankar Joshi, Assistant Commission of Income Tax (retired), Ahmadabad, has been promoted as Deputy Commissioner of Income Tax (senior scale) with effect from January, 1991. Joshi will be entitled to get pension benefits including arrears of pensions with retrospect effect.

PESB invites applications for CMD, HOCL
The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has sought applications for the post of CMD, Hindustan Organic Chemicals Limited. The interested candidates can send their applications to the PESB before July 2, 2012.

Third country training programme at Singapore from June 25
The Government of India has sought nominations of the officers for the 'Singapore/Commonwealth Third Country Training Programme' being held at Singapore between June 25 and 29, 2012.

NADT seeks temporary faculty
National Academy of Direct Taxes (NADT), Nagpur has invited applications from the IRS officers for the temporary faculty at the Academy. The interested persons can contact Joint Director (P & R)-I, NADT, Nagpur for the same.

Mahesh Kumar also looks after Central Railway
Western Railway GM Mahesh Kumar has been assigned additional charge of GM Central Railway for a short period.

Asthana assigned addl. charge of Southern Railway
South Central Railway GM G N Asthana has been assigned additional charge of GM, Southern Railway for a short period.

Major reshuffle in Railways
Services of 22 officers have been affected in Railways. Accordingly, Arvind Kumar SG/IRTS, has been shifted from SECR to NER and posted in the cadre while Ajay Kumar SAG/IRSME is being appointed from DLMW to SWR and posted in the cadre and Mohamad Shamim JAG/IRSE was transferred from WR to ER. Similarly, Raju Solanki has been shifted from NWR to ER; Rajesh Kumar SG/IRSE from WR to ER; Sujeet Kumar JS/IRSE from NR to ER; Rohit Yadav Rao Thawre SS/IRSE from CR to ER; Sunil Mathur SAG/IRSEE from CR to WR; BK Sonwane SAG/IRSEE from WR to CR; V V Jituri SAG/IRTS from NWR to ER; UC Botham from ECOR to ER; Botham will continue to hold his lien seniority in ECOR; Arun Kumar SS/IRSE from NER to ER; Md. Ahsan Khan JAG/IRSE from NER to ER.

S P Singh is new IG CRPF IN Srinagar
Sudhir Pratap Singh has taken over as new Inspector General of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Srinagar. He has replaced R P Meherda.

IPS postings in Uttarakhand
G N Goswami has been appointed DIG, Paudi Range. Vimal Gunjyal will be SP Paudi.R S Meena has been moved as IG PHQ.

Sreekumar takes over as MD, HMT-MT today (UPDATED)
M D Sreekumar, Director (Tech & Oper), HLL has taken over as Managing Director, HMT Machine Tools Limited (HMT-MT) at Bangalore on April 26, 2012. Notably, he could not assume the charge on April 16, 2012, due to some technical reasons.

Two books authored by IAS officer Dr. Bhalla to be released on Apr 27 (UPDATED)
Two books titled 'Sustainable Tourism Development of Nagaland' and 'Tourism Potential of North-East' authored by Dr. D Bhalla, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Consumers Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Government of India, are being released at Delhi on April 27. Union Minister for Tourism Subodh Kant Sahai will release the same. Dr. Bhalla is a 1986 batch IAS officer of Nagaland cadre.

HUDCO celebrates 42nd Annual Day (UPDATED)
Union Minister of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation and Minister of Culture, Kumari Selja appreciated the mandate of Housing & Urban Development Corporation Ltd. (HUDCO) for Social Housing and its contribution to various Flagship programmes initiated by the Ministry such as JNNURM and Rajiv Awas Yojana. Addressing HUDCO's 42nd Foundation Day celebrations opn Wednesday, Ms. Selja also emphasized the need to further strengthen the the Corporation's contribution in Social Housing and inclusive growth of cities towards achieving the goal of slum free cities. The Secretary, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, A K Misra, stressed upon HUDCO's role of a market leader in Housing Sector and lauded its unique contribution in not only extending loan facility but also technical assistance to Borrowing Agencies in Housing and Infrastructure field. He, however, emphasised the need to broaden the technical capacity of HUDCO to benefit its borrowing agencies. Speaking on the occasion, the Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) of HUDCO, V P Baligar, said that the Corporation has achieved the highest ever Sanctions of Rs.20,511 crore and Releases of Rs. 6905 crore for the year 2011 - 2012 with highest ever expected profitability of above Rs. 935 crore. HUDCO, in the housing sector, financed 4.22 lakh units with Sanctions of Rs. 6307 crore and Releases of Rs. 1918 crore.

Sanjog Kapoor is First Secy., ITOU, Tokyo (UPDATED)
Sanjog Kapoor has been posted as First Secretary, Income Tax Overseas Unit (ITOU), Embassy of India, Tokyo, Japan. He is an IRS-IT officer of 1999 batch.

Power Sector - Northern Region of BHEL commissions 1,472 MW in 2011-12 (UPDATED)
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), the company's Power Sector - Northern Region (PS-NR) construction division contributed 1,472 MW out of the 8,410 MW of capacity addition in financial year2011-12. PSNR commissioned 2 units of 11 MW each for NHPC in Chutak at Kargil under adverse climatic conditions, bringing hope to the lives of people in remote areas of Ladakh. PS-NR also successfully commissioned lignite fired boilers (2x125 MW) based on Circulating Fluidised Bed Combustion technology for Barsingsar power plant of NLC, near Bikaner. In addition, the division installed and commissioned a captive power plant on EPC basis for Guru Gobind Singh Refinery, a state-of-the-art mega project of HPCL-Mittal Energy Limited (HMEL). Despite heavy flooding of the power plant, constraints of tunnel operations and difficult access to the site, two units (2x100 MW) of Koteshwar hydro power plant of THDC were commissioned during the year as was an international hydro project (1X62.5 MW) at Bihai, Taiwan.

Dr. Bhupendra Singh gets addl. charge of Sardar Patel Police & Security University (UPDATED)
Dr. Bhupendra Singh, ADGP-cum-Director, Rajasthan Police Academy, has been assigned an additional charge of Sardar Patel Police and Security University, Jodhpur. He is a 1986 batch IPS officer of this State cadre.

R Sudalaikannan is MD, TNRDC in TN (UPDATED)
R Sudalaikannan, on return from leave, has been appointed as Managing Director of Tamil Nadu Road Development Company Limited (TNRDC) in Tamil Nadu. He is a 2001 batch IAS officer of this State cadre.

DEBATE

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked civil servants to take bold decisions, assuring them that there would be no witch-hunting in the name of fighting corruption. How far it is possible ?

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

CORPORATE

Paliwal nominated as Director, Corporation Bank
The Central Government has nominated U. S. Paliwal, as the Director on the Board of Corporation Bank.

Kulkarni ceases to be on the Board of Kirloskar Brothers Ltd
Gautam Kulkarni, Non Executive Vice Chairman of Kirloskar Brothers Ltd has resigned from Board of Directors of the company due to some personal reasons on April 25, 2012.

Jayaraman to be President, Rolls Royce India and South Asia?
Kishore Jayaraman, the ex-Chief Executive Officer of General Electric Energy (India) is tipped to be the President of Rolls-Royce in India and South Asia.

Mathai appointed Addl. Director, Orient Bell Ltd
P.M. Mathai, has been appointed as Additional Director on the Board of Orient Bell Ltd w.e.f. April 23, 2012

Shridhar resigns as Group Director, D B Realty Ltd
N. Shridhar, Group Director, D B Realty Ltd has resigned from the company w.e.f. April 24, 2012 due to health and family reasons.

Three directors cease to be on Board of MSR India Ltd
Veera Venkata Ramana Varma Mudunuri, Samanthapudi Krishna Kanth Verma and Ms. Chaparala Swapna have resigned as directors of MSR India Ltd.

Agarwal resigns as Director, DIC India Ltd
Purushottam Lal Agarwal has resigned from the Board of Directors of DIC India Ltd due to personal reasons with immediate effect.

Choudhuri resigns as Director, DIC India Ltd
Biswajit Choudhuri has also resigned from the Board of DIC India Ltd due to personal reasons w.e.f. April 29, 2012.

Singh resigns as ED, Lakshmi Overseas Industries Ltd
Harwant Singh has resigned as Executive Director of Lakshmi Overseas Industries Ltd due to health problems and family reasons.

RBI approves appointment of Rudran as Head of ARCIL
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has provided green signal to appointment of P Rudran as Head of Asset Reconstruction Company of India Ltd (ARCIL).

Srinivasan re-appointed MD, India Cements Ltd
India Cements Ltd has re-appointed N. Srinivasan as Managing Director of the company for a period of five years w.e.f. September 15, 2012.

Adige appointed Addl. Director, Premier Ltd
Premier Limited has appointed Ramesh Adige as an Additional Director of the company.

Subramanian resigns as Company Secy. Schrader Duncan Ltd
Ms. Rama Subramanian has resigned as Company Secretary of Schrader Duncan Ltd.

Agarwal appointed Company Secy. Schrader Duncan Ltd
Parveen Agarwal has been appointed as the Company Secretary of Schrader Duncan Ltd.

Sridhar resigns as Director of DB Realty
N Sridhar has resigned as the Director of DB Realty.

Shah appointed independent director of Ivee Injectaa
Harshul Shah has been appointed as independent director of Ivee Injectaa.

3 Directors resign from MSR India
Veera Venkata Ramana, Varma Mudunuri, Samanthapudi Krishna Kanth Verma and Chaparala Swapna have resigned as Directors of MSR India.

DEBATE (1)

The Prime Minister's speech on the Civil Service Day was uninspiring and frustrating. The celebration does not serve any purpose except wastage of public time.

Devki Arya , Lucknow

DEBATE (2)

The civil service day was started in 2006. This year happened to be the beginning of corruption in bureaucracy. that is now at its peak. This must be wound up.

Ajit Bhargava

What about senior IRS officers?

Yes, good but what about the member file. had it been an ias officer, the orders would have been issued by now. All the IAS officers are getting insitu promotions. What about senior officers of the IRS?

Abhimanyu Prasad

Is this normal?

Yes it is. Tulsidasji sais - Samrath Ko Nahi Dosh Gosain. One IPS officer in CISF has been on central deputation for over 12 years with two UN deputations. Another one in other CPO got 3 years extension at a stretch after completion of normal tenure. One IAS in MHA and her husband in another CPO are some of the bright examples. Rules are
required to be followed by the down trodden sections of society. There are umpteen number of instances why to single out officer in PMO. Sub chalta hai dost, you have to live with this reality.

Rajiv

Please include central engineering services

Sir, Please also include central engineering services like ( Central Public Works Department (CPWD), M.E.S. Border Roads) .

Vinod

I wonder why?

As an ex-censor board advisor, I always felt for the Children. In each advisory panel you see people from PETA etc. but no real representative with a concern for children. I wonder why?

Jay

Don't live in fools paradise!

A. Shrivastava you are not the only one in this world. I have two brothers, who are Civil Servants and both use the A initial. Don't be so self centered and live in fools paradise.

A Srivastava

Should the apex offices of India (like PMO) provide information related to all the government departments?

The appellant filed the RTI application to the PMO seeking details of the various schemes being run by different ministries of the Government of India. The Public Information Officer (PIO) informed the appellant to seek the desired information from the respective nodal Ministry. The appellant argued that the PIO should have transferred the application to the respective nodal Ministry as per the provisions of section 6 (3) of the RTI Act, instead of advising him to approach those Ministries. The Central Information Commission (CIC) rejected the appeal observing that the implication of the provision of section 6(3) of the RTI Act is that an RTI application should be transferred to another public authority, in full or in part, only if the information seeker is unaware of where to seek information from and has, therefore, approached a particular PIO. As the appellant had himself listed the names of the Ministries in his RTI application which indicates that he was clearly aware of where the information was held, he should have approached those individual Ministries directly instead of going through the circuitous route of approaching the PMO. The Commission further stated that the appellant's expectation that the PMO should have transferred his application to half a dozen other Ministries is clearly misplaced and is nothing but misuse of his right to get information.

Comments

It is frequently seen that the head office of an organisation is forwarding the RTI application to its branch offices all over India just to aid the compilation of information for the benefit of the applicant which is not mandated under the RTI Act.

Citation: Shri Sanjeev Kumar Aggarwal v. Prime Minister's Office in File No. CIC/SM/A/2011/000893 & 2368

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)