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POLITICS

Change in Nitish Kumar !
Now there is big change in the working of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Earlier there was zero tolerance and now ask the bureaucrats.

BUREAUCRACY

Watal appointed Secretary, New and Renewable Energy
Ratan Watal is now out of the race for the post of Secretary Petroleum. 1978 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre Watal has been appointed Secretary, Energy and Renewable Energy in the Government of India. He will succeed Gireesh Pradhan who is retiring on December 31.
( We said this on December 28,2012 )

Lov Verma is new Secretary, AIDS Control in GoI
Lov Verma has been appointed Secretary of AIDS Control which comes under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. He is 1978 batch IAS officer of UP cadre. Earlier his meeting with Farooqe Abdullah had fuelled speculations about his becoming Secretary New and Renewable
Energy. Verma will succeed Sayan Chatterjee who is retiring on December 31.
( We said this on December 24 ,2012)

Sheela Balakrishnan is new Chief Secretary in TamilNadu
Sheela Balakrishnan has been appointed new Chief Secretary of TamilNadu. 1976 batch IAS officer Sheela Balakrishnan will succeed Debendranath Sarangi, who is retiring on December 31 .
( We said this on November 19 ,2012)

Resignation of IAS officer accepted
Resignation of 1999 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer Anil Kumar Yadav has been accepted.

S R Raman takes over as Member, SEBI
Sunder Rajan Raman has taken over as a Member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Friday. Since September 1, 2010 he was the Chairman and Managing Director of Canara Bank.
(We said this on August 26,2012)

Ms L Tochhawng empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
Ms L Tochhawng has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. She is an Indian Civil Accounts Service officer of 1984 batch.

Salecha is JS and FA, Urban Development
Naresh Salecha has joined as Joint Secretary and FA in Urban Development in the Government of India. Prior to this he was ED in the Railway Board.

A K Dhasmana gets HAG in MP
A K Dhasmana, on central deputation, has been promoted to the grade of Higher Administrative Grade (HAG) in Madhya Pradesh. Dhasmana is a 1981 batch IPS officer of this state cadre.

Two Special Secretaries of HP CM
IAS officer Kamal Sharma and Rakesh Sharma have been appointed Special Secretaries in the Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister's Office .

IAS officer is Secretary, Vidhan Sabha in HP
Balbir Tegta has been appointed Secretary of the Vidhan Sabha in Himachal Pradesh on deputation. He is 1996 batch IAS officer.

Select list of SPS promoted as IPS in UP
According to the Select list 2009-A, State Police Service officers of Uttar Pradesh cadre have been appointed in IPS cadre officers. Following are the names of those officers: Ram Bahadur, Uday Shankar Jaiswal, Sarat Sacham, Rakesh Chandra Sahu, Jitender Kumar Sahi,
Jawahar, Dr. Shivnarayan Bharadwaj, Dr. Umesh Chandra Srivastava and Dinesh Chandra.

Select list of 2010 SPS promoted to IPS in UP
According to the Select list 2010, State Police Service officers of Uttar Pradesh cadre have been appointed in IPS cadre officers. Following are the names of those officers: Anil Kumar Rai, Surendra Kumar Verma, Rajendra Prasad Singh Yadav, Vijay Bhusan, Ram Bodh,Kavindra Pratap Singh, Sunil Kumar Saxena, Subah Singh Baghel, Rakesh Shankar, Umesh Kumar Srivastava, Satyendra Kumar Singh, Ratankant Pandey, Vikramaditya Sachan, Marigendra Singh, Piyush Srivastava, Satya Bhusan Pathak, Dinesh Chandra Dubey, Vinay Kumar Yadav, Heera Lal, Ram Kishore, Srikant Singh, Ashok Kumar II, Sanjay Kumar I, Arvind Sen, Kailash Nath Mishra, Shiv Shankar Singh, Dinesh Pal Singh, Om Prakash Srivastava, Kripa Shankar Singh, Rakesh Singh, Virendra Pratap Srivastava, Umesh Kumar Singh, Rajendra Prasad Pandey, Rajesh Kumar Pandey, Raja Babu Singh, Bishambar Dayal Shukla and Ms. Sriparna Ganguly

Select list of 2011 SPS promoted to IPS in UP
According to the select list 2011, State Police Service officers of Uttar Pradesh cadre have been appointed in IPS cadre officers. Following are the names of those officers: Mrs. Poonam Srivastava, Salik Ram Ram Lal Verma, Anil Kumar, Harish Kumar, Hari Narayan Singh,
Deepak Kumar Bhatt, Dilip Kumar, Lalit Kumar Singh, Rajesh Krishna and Krishna Bahadur Singh.

IPS cadre to 10 officers of Haryana State Police Service soon
As the grapevine has it, as many as ten police officers of Haryana State Police Service are poised to be awarded with IPS cadre soon. 10 out of 19 officers of State Police Service have been shortlisted and considered to be awarded as IPS. They are Mssrs Vinod Kaushik, Shiv Charan, Balwan Singh, V Dhankad,Patram, Ashok Kumar, D K Bharadwaz, Krishan Murali and Kuldeep Singh.

H R Shetty is DD, PDA, Scientific Departments, Delhi
H R Shetty, Deputy Accountant General (Admn./ES.I), in the office of Principal Accountant General (E&RSA), Karnataka, Bangalore, has been transferred and posted as Deputy Director in the office of Principal Director of Audit, Scientific Departments, New Delhi at branch Bangalore.

273 scientists quit services in 2007
As many as 273 scientists of group B, C, D, E and F have quit the services in 2007.

Minor IAS reshuffle in Himachal Pradesh
In a minor bureaucratic reshuffle, the Himachal Pradesh Government has ransferred certain IAS officers on December 28, 2012. They are: Prathsarthy Mitra (1978 batch) Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) has been given an additional charge of Rural Development (RD) while S K B S Negi(1985 batch) will now be Secretary, Personnel and Power and Bharat Khera (1995 batch) was appointed as Secretary, GAD. Besides, Ajay Bhandari (1990 batch) has been appointed as Managing Director (MD) State Industries Development Corporation(SIDC).

Ms Upma Chaudhary posted as RC Himachal Pradesh in Delhi
Ms Upma Chaudhary has been appointed as Resident Commissioner of Himachal Pradesh in Delhi. She is a 1983 batch IAS officer.
(We said this on December 24, 2012)

Promotions & transfers of IFoS officers in MP
As many as four officers of Indian Forest Service (IFoS) have been promoted to the grade of Chief Conservator of Forests/Conservator of Forests and transferred at different places in Madhya Pradesh. Accordingly, Mrs A Gautami (1988) has been promoted and deputed as Chief Conservator of Forests, MP State Miinor Produce Federation while Harishankar Mohanta (1997) will now be Conservator of Forest, Jabalpur, Forest Division, Jabalpur and Nizam Qureshi (1996) has been promoted and posted Conservator of Forests, Satna Forest Division, Satna. Besides, M Kali Durai (1996) has been promoted and posted as Conservator of Forest in the office of Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Bhopal.

Reshuffle of IAS officers in Punjab
A number of IAS officers have been transferred and posted at different places in Punjab. Accordingly,AR Talwar has been posted as Principal Secretary, Technical Education and Industrial Trainning while SS Channy will now be Principal Secretary, Cultural Affairs and NRI Department and R C Nayyar is assigned the Grievance Redressal and Welfare of Pensioners Cell. Similarly, Suresh Kumar has been posted as Principal Secretary, Water Supply and Sanitation, Science, Technology and Environment and Pollution; P R Sarangal as Principal Secretary, Elections; Jagpal Sandhu as Principal Secretary, Local Government; Karan A Singh as Principal Secretary, Industries and Commerce; C Roul as Principal Secretary, Governance Reforms, and Director-General of Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration; G Vajralingam as Financial Commissioner, Animal Husbandry and SK Sandhu has been appointed as Principal Secretary to the CM with additional charge of Financial Commissioner, Cooperation.

Justice Roy is new CJ of Rajasthan High Court
Justice Amitava Roy of the Guwahati High court has been appointed as new Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court.
( We said this on October 23,2012 )

Alok Joshi to take over as R&AW Chief today (UPDATED)
Newly appointed R&AW Chief Alok Joshi is taking over charge on Sunday. He is 1975 batch IPS officer of Haryana cadre.

CORPORATE


Sahoo is now Secretary ICSI
Outgoing Member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) M S Sahoo has been appointed Secretary of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI).

Jaipur, Agra becoming preferred destination on NY eve: ASSOCHAM survey
This New Year, majority of Delhiites plans to take a shorter holiday trip nearer to their home and likely to reduce their budget by 40% than last year due to inflation, as per the quick survey undertaken by ASSOCHAM-Social Development Foundation (ASDF). According to ASSOCHAM survey, nearly 62% of the respondents have planned to go on a vacation to destinations within or around Delhi, like Jaipur, Agra, Shima, Nanital, Kasauil etc and likely to shrink holiday trips budget due to increased costs which will be the determining factor for more families opting for destinations nearer to their home, said D S Rawat, Secretary General ASSOCHAM while releasing the survey. Around 82% of the respondents said that 'Jaipur' is their first priority and attracting many more visitors followed by Agra this year. Shima and Nanital are third and fourth on the list of favoured holiday destinations, reveals the ASSOCHAM survey. The aforesaid findings are condensed at a random survey conducted by the associated chambers of commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) in which approximately 2,500 executives poured their responses on their preference for holiday trip. Around 55 per cent of the respondents fall under the age bracket of 20-29 years, followed by 30-39 years (26 per cent), 40-49 years (16 per cent), 50-59 years (2 per cent) and 60-69 years (approx. 1 per cent). The report was able to target corporate employees from 18 broad sectors, with maximum share contributed by employees from IT/ITes sector (17 per cent) followed by financial services (11 per cent) includes banking sector, stock brokerage house, insurance sector, financial consultancy and chartered accountants. Employees working in engineering and telecom sector contributed 9 per cent and 8 per cent respectively. Nearly 6 per cent of the employees belonged from market research/KPO and media background each. Management, FMCG and Infrastructure sector employees share is 5 per cent each. Respondents from power and real estate sector contributed 4 per cent each. Employees from education and food& beverages sector provided a share of 3 per cent each.

Yashovardhan Birla resigns as Chairman, Birla Power Solutions Ltd
Yashovardhan Birla has resigned as Chairman of Birla Power Solutions Ltd Agrawal resigns as Director, Corporation Bank Raj Kumar Agrawal has resigned as Director on the Board of Directors of Corporation Bank

Dixit resigns as Company Secy. Cords Cable Industries Ltd
Ms. Jyoti Dixit has resigned as Company Secretary of Cords Cable Industries Ltd w.e.f. November 29, 2012

Kumar appointed Company Secy. Cords Cable Industries Ltd
Ms. Geetanjali S. Kumar has been appointed as Company Secretary of Cords Cable Industries Ltd w.e.f. December 17, 2012

Ramachandran appointed CFO, Arvind Remedies Ltd
G. Ramachandran has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Arvind Remedies Ltd

Tilak appointed CFO, Bharat Bijlee Ltd
Sandeep M. Tilak has been appointed as the Chief Financial Officer ( CFO ) of Bharat Bijlee Ltd . He had also been designated as the Vice President (Finance & Corporate Strategy) w.e.f. December 26, 2012

Pradeep Nair quits HCL tech
Pradeep Nair Senior VP Healthcare vertical is no longer with HCL Technology.

BoI opening 4 new branches in Mumbai
Bank of India is opening new branches in Mumbai. CMD Mrs V R Iyer will open the same on December 29.

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Reservations to needy

The issue is always looked with suspicion, emotion and what not! An objective and factual assessment of the "backwardness" by the instrumentalities of State as also by veteran leaders is yet to accrue; for fear of being shoved aside as anti-poor, anti-backward or pro-forward. The so called SC/ST population should be given a chance to look at their own polity at large and state whether they are yet to improve their status in Society by being branded as SC/ST for material purposes. In other words, instead of the Govt. automatically extending this dubious classification with closed eyes fearing vote politics, the representatives / individuals of the existing groups should be required to record in public, as to whether do they still feel th ignominy of being backward on date for the limited purpose of reservations? It is a farce that what was intended as a temporary / interim measure for upliftment of less privileged by the Constitution makers, is extended decade after decade proclaiming to the world we have still sizeable population of SC/ST seeking concessions by birth so far and also for all posterity to come! There should be public debate on this angle involving statesmen, youngsters in the SC/STs as well. It is a disgrace to brand somebody as belonging to a category mop him up with concessions when he/ she does not really feel so wanting to compete with others on merits..

R V Nathan

An electoral fraud

Introduction of reservation for SC/ST in promotion would amount to committing another Electoral fraud on the country. All benefits and privileges are being systematically cornered by the affluent sections of these categories. How could we ignore the plight of poor SC/ST in villages shunned by the powerful and influential sections of SC/ST? Once the bill becomes a law, this will lead to utter chaos in all government departments at the Centre and the States as also their PSUs. The juniors, as we go along, would start supervising the performance of their seniors. The inter se seniority of officers and staff will always remain in a state of flux leading to heart burnings and constant litigations. Let all those who support the BSP's motion in the Parliament, spare a thought on its dangerous sociological implications in the larger interest of bureaucratic discipline and social fabric of Indian society. Merit, a rare commodity, would be the first casualty.

A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)

They now talk of merit

For years some people who form a small minority enjoyed unfettered reservation for themselves and families passing down for generations and today when among the downtrodden if people rise up they now talk of merit, interesting ! Most of the OBC/SC/ST, Minorities ACR's are deliberately spoiled, despite they being meritorious, to deny promotions. This bill will set the anomalies right.

N S Rao