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Prafulla Kumar Pandra

Number one enemy is Digvijay Singh !
At a high -profile party it was said that in the Congress party, Digvijay Singh is number one enemy of all the reactionary and revolutionary forces. When most of the Congress leaders are enjoying power Digvijay Singh is fighting with all the forces opposed to the Congress and the Gandhi Family. Everybody was curious to know the agenda of Digvijay Singh .

Top 10 of Bihar CM,Nitish Kumat

1.Ram Chandra Singh -Bureaucrat turned politician

2.Chanchal Kumar Singh- Secretary to CM

3.Dr.S.Sidharth -Secretary to CM

4.DGP

5.CS

6.A K Sinha

7.Anjani Kumar Sinha-PS Agriculture

8.Afzal Amanullah

9.Deepak Kumar -PS,GAD, Tourism and I & PR

10.Pratyay Amrit Kumar -Secretary Reconstruction.

Baba Ramdev goes in the back ground now
Baba Ramdev has gone in background in the wake of Team Anna dramatically announcing to give the country a political alternative.

RBI's remains hawkish to control inflation
Despite slowing core and demand inflation, faltering domestic economic growth and intensifying weakness in the global economy the RBI has maintained status quo largely based on upside risks to the inflation arising from poor monsoons. The apex bank's guidance remains hawkish
with the primary focus being on controlling the inflation.

BUREAUCRACY

Zaidi is new Election Commissioner
Name of outgoing Secretary Civil Aviation, Dr Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi has reportedly been cleared for the post of Election Commissioner. He is a former 1976 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
( We said this on August 1 )

Six names were in circulation for Member EC
Infact, six names were doing the round for solitary post of the Member Election Commissioner. They are Shumsher K Sheriff ,Secretary to the Vice President of India, Dr Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi,Secretary, Civil Aviation, Salauddin Ahmad,former Chief Secretary Rajasthan, Dr Noor Mohammad, E A Ahmad and Haleem Khan.

Shumsher K Sheriff was ahead in the race
Initially name of Shumsher K Sheriff had been approved for the post. Sheriff who is Secretary to the Vice President, Hamid Ansari, is a 1977 batch IAS officer of UT cadre. He however, came in the background when the candidature of Hamid Ansari was again announced.

Will Sheriff be Secretary General of Rajya Sabha ?
It is now widely believed that Shumsher K Sheriff will succeed V K Agnihotri as Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha. Tenure of Agnihotri is coming to an end next month.

Are bureaucrats avoiding Finance Ministry?
It is heard that most bureaucrats are avoiding Finance Ministry because they do not want to work with a tough P Chidambaram.

Ganai promoted as AS
Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs Khurshid Ahmed Ganai has been elevated to the rank of Additional Secretary . He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of J & K cadre.

( We said this on July 30 )

Ashish Srivastava is new JS in Election Commission
Ashish Srivastava has been elevated as Joint Secretary in the Election Commission of India. He is a 1992 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

IAS officers to move on a one year posting to Kabul
As many as three IAS officers have been selected for one year posting at Kabul on a UNDP project starting likely from 1st week of September.

Jose Mohan posted as SP CBI,Trivandrum
Jose Mohan who so far was SP CBI Chennai has been shifted in the same capacity to Trivandrum.He will succeed Raghu Kumar,a hardcore CBI officer who has been posted in Jose Mohan's place. He is a 2002 batch IPS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Post of ARC of Punjab in Delhi lies vacant
One post of Additional Resident Commissioner of Punjab in Delhi has been lying vacant for almost one year. K. Shiva Prasad had vacated the seat after he got elevated as Resident Commissioner.

B N Sharma to be Joint Secretary, Power
B N Sharma who on central deputation has been appointed as a Joint Secretary Power will assume charge towards middle of August 2012. He is a 1985 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.
(We said this on July 9,2012)

Bhrigu Srinivasan poised to join the GOI
As the grapevine has it, Brigu Srinivasan, IG Patna on central deputation is poised to join the Intelligence Bureau(IB).He is a1992 IPS officer of Bihar cadre.

Jaideep Sarkar to be Indian Ambassador to Israel
As the grapevine has it, Jaideep Sarkar is poised to be Indian Ambassador to Israel. He is an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer of1987 batch.

Mrs. L. Tochhong poised to be new CS of Mizoram
Mrs. LTochhong, 1979 cadre, first woman IAS officer from Mizoram who is well known for her outstanding acumen in administrative skills as well as social involvement is poised to be new Chief Secretary of Mizoram. She is a role model woman for the future generation Mizoram woman.

Ms. Jyoti Arora to take charge of DG,BEE
Ms. Jyoti Arora who on central deputation is a Joint Secretary, Ministry of Power will take charge of Director General(DG) of Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE). She is a 1987 IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

Balasubramanian is now DDG in Postal Directorate
K Balasubramanian (IPoS-1987), who is currently GM, Centre for Excellence in Postal Technology (CEPT), has been posted as DDG (Technology) in the Postal Directorate.

Who will be new CGDA?
Uncertainty looms large over as to who will be new General of Defence Accounts (CGDA)? The slot has been vacant for a month.

Tarun Gauba is new SP, CBI
Tarun Gauba has been appointed new SP in the CBI. He is a 2001 batch IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

( We said this on July 17 )

Amit Kumar promoted in CBI
Amit Kumar has been promoted to the rank of DIG in CBI. He is a 1998 batch IPS officer of Chhattisgarh cadre.

Sridharan is now MD,CCL
R Sridharan, former Managing Director of SBI has been appointed as the Managing Director of Clearing Corporation of India Ltd (CCIL).

Bangaore goes to San Francisco
Regional Passport Officer, Bangalore, K J Srinivasa has been transferred to San Francisco .

R Chouhan posted as PAG (E & RSA), Jaipur
R Chouhan, on return from deputation, has been transferred and posted as Principal Accountant General (E&RSA), Rajasthan, Jaipur under the Comptroller & Auditor General of India. He is a 1986 batch IA&AS officer.

Brig. S K Bhanot, Rajput Regiment Centre selected for 38th APPPA
Brig S K Bhanot, COMDT, The Rajput Regiment Centre, has been selected for 38th Advanced Professional Programme in Public Administration (APPPA) being conducted from July 2, 2012 to March 31, 2013.

Mahabir Parshad empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
Mahabir Parshad has reportedly been empanelled as Joint Secretary in the Government of India. He is a 1981 batch ITS officer

DoPT officer sets example

A Central Secretariat Service (CSS) officer, Krishna Kumar Chugh

presently working as Director, Department of Personnel and Training

(DoPT) has set an example in the Ministry by donating an amount of Rs

13, 000 to the Prime Minister National Relief Fund. He has, so far,

donated a total amount of Rs. 50, 000 thousand by selling books.

158 CSS officers get Selection Grade

As many as 158 officers of Central Secretariat Service (CSS) have been accorded Selection Grade (Deputy Secretary). They include: L Haokip, Lalit Chauhan, SPG Verghese,LN Thakkar,Syed Ekram Rizwi,Farida M Naik, Varsha Singh,Arvind Kumar,Rakesh Gambhir,Sherhsa,VK Sinha,Shyam Sundar, Prakash Kumar Tamarkar,Mercy Epao,AK Deori,Veena Bhalla,Peemba Tshering Bhutia,Bhaskar Das Gupta,PS Chakratborty,Garima Singh,Om Nand,SM Sundaram,Sandeep Kumar Singh,Sarat Kumar Mishra,Shailaja Narendra Joshi,Soumya Chattopadhayay,Jitendra Singh Gupta,Amarjit singh,CVLN Prasad, Nirmal Kumar Bhagat ,G Parathasarathi, Harjit Singh ,Rahul Kashyap,Pradeep Gaur,Kv krishna kumar,Jyotrimoy Majuamdar,S Rukmani, Ved Prakash Arora,Vinod Kumar Dhand,Vijay Kumar Gupta ,Sujasha choudhry,Anita Tipra, Elangbam Robert Singh,SS Gupta,Reena Sethi,R.Pandiyan,S K Arya, G S Audhkasi,S K MOhanty,Gulam Musafa,Indrani Gupta,Lajpat Rai Gupta,Amarjeet Singh,Kshitij Mohan,Prakash Chandra Singh,A Ka Saran,Anurag Bhalla,H C Bhanot,Anita Puri ,Arun Gaur, S P Bhattacharya, JS Chaddha,Ravish Gupta,Alok Mukhopahyay,Bharti Shridhar,Shyam Prasad Roy,Molly Tiwari,Arun Malik,C M Sharma,VS Chauhan,D.Praveen,Daya Krishna Paliwal,TC Sharma, S K Deb,Lal Chadhhandama,Maitreyee Roy,Rajendra Chaturvedi,SM Khandwal, HKam Suanthang,B K Malhotra,Sushil Kumar, Krishna Dutt,Surinder Kaur, PG Kaladharan,Meena Sharma,Ashok Shukla ,Rita Dogra,C Gangadharan,Amarjit Singh,GB Upadhyay,S Shankar,SSS Sarma,Arun Kumar Dhawan , Ram Pahl,Maddali Ram Jogesh, Satish Chauhan,Abdul Kaseem Qasim,Sumita Singh,Suresh Kumar Sharma, Sham Lal,PK Ravi, Baljit Singh,Ram Swarup Punia,Pradeep Kumar,Angna Ram,Nand Kishore Kasmira,Malak Mukhopadhyay,Amar Nath Singh,Sunita Sharma,Ravindra Kumar,S.Ashraf,Gopal Sadhwani,Madhukar Sood,TKundhavi,Mohan Singh Nagra,Subhash Chandra Lather ,Ram Avatar Singh,Sunil Uniyal,G Vijayaraghavan ,CK Rawat, SP Sharma,Mohd.Moniruzzaman,MR Sharma,Sulekha,Bhajan Lal Kureel, Meher Singh Azad,Hemant Kumar Roy,Ranjit Singh,Ramesh Chand,Yogeshwar Lal, AK Sachdeva,JSuthakar,Dinesh Arora,Rishi Kumar,BN Mishra,Debasis Pal,KB Subraminan,RK Pandey,EP Muralidharan, R K Arora, Sunil Kumar Sharma,Anil Kakria, Deep Chand Madan, MA Khan,Brij Kumar,Kuldip Singh,MP Sanjeevan,Renu Sarin,VS Pandey,Pradeep Kumar Bhatnagar,Dalip Kapur,Sharmistha Bose,Tajbir Singh, KV Gopala Rao, Kiran Vasudeva,Nirmala Goyal,Bal Krishnan Dutta,Raman Kumar Gaur.

36 PCS to get IAS in Bihar
Union Public Service Commission Board cleared to promote 36 officials of Bihar State Administrative Service to Indian Administrative Service.

Aditya Kumar Joshi gets charge of Director (Training), DoPT (UPDATED)
Aditya Kumar Joshi, who was deputed as Director in Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), has been given the charge of Training in Training Division in the Department. He is a 1989 batch Indian Forest Service officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.
(We said this on August 1, 2012)

Transfers and postings in Railways (UPDATED)
S Subramanhanyan, HAG/IRAS/WR, presently posted as FA&CAO, has been transferred to RWF while Mrs. Nalini Kak, SAG/IRAS/WR, presently as FA&CAO/C, will now be FA&CAO(CHOD) in the same zone and Mrs. Anuradha Mukhedkar, SAG/IRAS/WCR, will look after as FA&CAO/CHOD/WCR.

Md. Shayin appointed Dy. Commissioner, Chandigarh Admin (UPDATED)
Mohammed Shayin has been appointed as Deputy Commissioner, Chandigarh Administration, Chandigarh. He is a 2002 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

CORPORATE

Gail records rise in profit

GAIL India Ltd has reported 15 per cent rise in the April-June quarter net profit on higher earnings from trading of gas and sale of liquid hydrocarbons. B C Tripathi is the CMD of the GAIL.

Anant inducted as Invitee Member of High Level Committee
Chief Statistician, TCA Anant, has been inducted as Invitee Member of High Level Committee on Financing Infrastructure.

OBC records profit
Oriental Bank of Commerce has jumped 6.99% to Rs 228 at 12:26 IST on BSE after net profit rose 10.35% to Rs 391.42 crore on 19.77% growth in total income to Rs 4695.57 crore in Q1 June . S L Bansal in the CMD of the Bank.

Bank of Baroda records net profit
Bank of Baroda has reported 10.26 per cent rise in net profit at Rs 11.39 crore for the first quarter ended June 30. M D Mallya is the CMD of the Bank.

Bhaskar Jyoti Sarma is MD & CEO, SBI GI
Bhaskar Jyoti Sarma has been appointed as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of SBI General Insurance. Sarma, who has been given a three-year term, has 32 years' experience in banking sector.

Airline industry is going through a churn post Kingfisher
With the near demise of Kingfisher Airlines the industry is witnessing structural change, where airline companies have increased their ticket prices and competition has reduced to a certain extent. Load factors have also been improving for all airlines post Kingfisher's capacity reduction. Airlines like Spicejet and Indigo are like to gain from this load factor shift.

Upadhyay appointed by Kotak Mutual Fund
Harsha Upadhyaya has been appointed by Kotak Mutual Fund as the Head of Equities.

Puri appointed Director
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co has appointed Akhil Puri as India Director of KKR Capstone Asia.

Ambedkar elevated as MD HSBC India
Shantanu Ambedkar elevated as Managing Director of HSBC India.

Heneratta quits Gillette India
Deborah has resigned as Director of Gillette India.

Rengnathan appointed Director of Polyspin Exports
S Renganathan has been appointed as Director of Polyspin Exports.

Jain appointed Additional Director of Compucom Software
Ramesh Jain has been appointed as Additional Director of Compucom Software.

Mitter quits Eveready Industries
B Mitter has resigned as Director of Eveready Industries.

Vussonji appointed as Director of Goldcrest Finance
Kishore Vussonji has been appointed as Director of Goldcrest Finance.

Narayan appointed Additional Director of India Infoline
S Narayan has been appointed as Additional Director of India Infoline.

Sanghvi quits Action Financial Services
Nirav Sanghvi has resigned as Director of Action Financial Services.

Boucinha appointed as Director of Sanofi India
Virgine Boucinha has been appointed as Director of Sanofi India.

Modi appointed additional Director of Arcadia Mercantile Capital
Keyur Modi has been appointed as Additional Director of Arcadia Mercantile Capital.

Henretta quits Director, Gillette India Ltd
Ms. Deborah Henretta has resigned as a Director of Gillette India Ltd w.e.f. August 1, 2012.

Leitao appointed Director, Gillette India Ltd
Antonio Leitao has been appointed as an Additional Director of Gillette India Ltd w.e.f. August 3, 2012

Unavane appointed Independent Director, Lakshmi Overseas Industries Ltd
Lakshmi Overseas Industries Ltd has appointed Vilas P Unavane as an Independent Director of the company .

Shastri quits Kemrock Industries and Exports Ltd
Venugopal K. Shastri has resigned as a Director of Kemrock Industries and Exports Ltd w.e.f. July 30, 2012

Roongta is no more Sr.VP (Finance) & Company Secy., Supreme Industries Ltd
O. P. Roongta has ceased to be Senior Vice President (Finance) and Company Secretary of Supreme Industries Ltd .

Mitter resigns as Non Exec. Director, Exide Industries Ltd
Bhaskar Mitter, Non Executive Director has resigned as Director of Exide Industries Ltd

Maheshwari quits CompEducomp Solutions Ltd
Mohit Maheshwari, has resigned as Company Secretary of Educomp Solutions Ltd

Sharma appointed Interim Company Secy. Educomp Solutions Ltd
Anil Sharma has been appointed as Interim-Company Secretary of Educomp Solutions Ltd

Wall quits Cummins India Ltd
Dr. John Wall has resigned as Director of Cummins India Ltd

Negi quits ORG Informatics Ltd
Vinod Singh Negi has resigned as Company Secretary of ORG Informatics Ltd

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Reaction on Buch's comment

Apropos MN Buch's post (WIC Forum 2-8-2012) that if plunging half the country into darkness makes one the home minister plunging the whole country into darkness should make one eligible for Prime Ministership, isn't precisely this that the present Prime Minister has done at least metaphorically. The (de facto) appointing authority of PM seems to have made one small concession to Dr Manmohan Singh. His initial appointment in the PMO seems to have been on probation to let the appointing authority assess the QR i.e. his potential for plunging the country into darkness and the second term perhaps has been granted only after his successful completion of the probation period. The PM too hasn't disappointed the appointing authority by making sure that his government is remembered as the darkest period in India's post colonial history in terms of governance. However I don't think we should have any quarrel with the PM who is merely an appointee. If at all we want a better or at least a different dispensation it would be more appropriate for us to confront the appointing authority as and when the judgement day granted by the constitution comes by. Till then let us stoically suffer the darkness for having ignited the wrong lamp that simply refuses to emit any light.

NN Ojha

Any views?
It is frustrating to hear big-wigs in Government and politics talking about administrative reforms. Some time back Cabinet Secretary also gave an impressive talk on the subject at India International centre. Among other usual things like appraisal report etc. , he talked of use of social media to reform bureaucracy. One wonders how facebook, twitter or other social network are going to improve governance. The crux of good governance lies in good human beings. The first step towards good administration is for those in Government to have empathy, sense of service, helpful attitude towards those they serve as well as towards those they work with or work above. Our bureaucrats are not only not helpful towards the people at large but are positively unhelpful towards their own subordinates. Have we ever realised that many of the civil servants, mostly those who are honest and do their work sincerely and are not adept at networking are bullied and tortured by their bosses. Transfers and Confidential reports are two big weapons besides daily pinpricks of foul language in their hands to make them miserable. For them even the well laid down personnel policies are meaningless. One example of this was cited to me the other day. A batch of a particular service is due for SAG promotion. The head of the service desires that all the officers to be promoted should be 'thrown out' to places for away from their present station of posting irrespective of the time they have spent in that station. For this boss DOPT orders on husband and wife to be posted at the same station as buttressed by Sixth Pay Commission do not exist. "I do not care what DoPT says" is the answer when her attention is drawn to it. What is the remedy to deal with such maverick bullies of bosses? Should the DoPT not devise some ways of punishing such inhuman cruel seniors who get sadist pleasure in humiliating and troubling their juniors. Approaching CAT should not be the only course for such juniors.

Aarti Khosla

Mess in Personnel Division in Postal Department

I am very much pained to say there is one post of Member Personnel and one Secretary above this DDG. Which authority can save from Nadir Shah when it eating finest dinner and expensive wine with him and let out offering of all the innocent lambs for him to sacrifice and feast.Tell me is there no any solution to this such situation?

Raghu Arya, Kurukshetra

Government has reduced post of EC to accommodate retired bureaucrats
Government has reduced the post of EC to accommodate retired bureaucrats as a quid pro quo for the services rendered by them during their service. The retired Aviation Secretary who was responsible for all the malaise rooting into DGCA when he held the post of DGCA for more than 3 ½ years has been awarded for his sterling part in removing an honest and straight forward officer from the post of DGCA just because the latter did not heed to the illegal diktats of the
political command. It is a sad day for our democracy.

Narayan K Das

Heartiest congratulations

Heartiest congratulations to Mrs. P K Saxena on her elevation to the post of Chairman, CBDT. The task before her is cut out to redeem the prestige of CBDT and IRS which has taken a hit during last few months. My interaction with some CCsIT/CsIT (though at present I am retired from IRS!) reveals that their patience is running thin due to inordinate delay in AGT this year which will aggravate well-known problems of education of children and getting houses in new places of posting. AGT requires to be done without any further delay. Other pending issues can be taken up in due course. Best of luck to her in this new assignment.

R Bharadwaj

RIT

Information regarding the Cabinet meetings for a period of seven years

The request for information in respect of the Cabinet meetings held over a period of seven years was refused claiming that providing the information about all the items/ subjects considered in the meetings held during this entire period would disproportionately divert the resources of the public authority and therefore, could not be disclosed as per section 7(9) of the RTI Act. The Public Information Officer (PIO) denied the decisions taken in the meetings under section 8(1)(i) stating that they are a part of the Cabinet papers and it was for the sponsoring ministry to decide finally if the Cabinet papers could be disclosed having implemented the Cabinet decision. Regarding the minutes of the meetings he invited the appellant to inspect the minutes register maintained in the Cabinet Secretariat. During the hearing, the respondent explained that every year, about 400 to 450 items came up for discussion in the Cabinet from various ministries and departments of the government and over a period of seven years, this number would be close to 3000 items. He submitted that collecting and providing this information to the appellant would be an extremely time consuming task and would disproportionately divert the resources of the Cabinet Secretariat. However, he offered that specific information in this regard would be provided if the appellant would identify any particular item or a few of those items. The Central Information Commission (CIC) agreed with the contentions of the respondent and advised the appellant to be more specific and ask for details of a few of these items so that the PIO can provide such information without putting strain on the resources of the Cabinet Secretariat. The Commission also observed that it is only the sponsoring Ministry or Department which can take a decision as to whether a particular Cabinet decision has been fully implemented or not; the Cabinet Secretariat cannot take such a call and decide about disclosing any Cabinet decision except those which arise out of any proposal of the Cabinet Secretariat itself.

Comments

The discussions in the matter point out that there is no mechanism at the level of the cabinet to be regularly updated about what action has been taken regarding a particular decision taken by it. It raises a question whether there should be a monitoring mechanism with the Cabinet to know of the fate of the decision taken by it?

Citation: Mr. R M V S Anil Kumar v. Cabinet Secretariat in File No.CIC/SM/A/2011/001691

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)