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Saleem Ahmed takes over as DG, NYKS
Saleem Ahmed, Ex MLC, Karnataka has joined as Director General of Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS).

Brij Kumar Agarwal to join as HUPA's Joint Secretary,on July 16
Brij Kumar Agarwal who on central deputation has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation( HUPA) will be joining his new assignment on July 16, 2012.He is an IAS officer of 1985 batch of Himachal Pradesh cadre.

S V Murlidhar Rao, CGM to be SEBI's ED
S V Murlidhar Rao who is CGM Market Regulation Department in the Securities and Exchange Board of India(SEBI) has been selected the post of Executive Director(ED) in SEBI. Interviews were held on July 13,2012.

Prasad to be SP CBI ?
Anish Prasad, SP,(West)Tripura Police is likely to be inducted as SP in Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI). He is an IPS officer of 2003 batch, who belongs to the Manipur Tripura cadre.

Who will be new Principal Secretary to Karnataka CM ?
Now there are three  contenders for the post of Principal Secretary tothe new Karnataka Chief Minister Jagdish Shettar. They are 1981 batch IAS officer, Umesh V, 1985 batch IAS officer,Pradeep Singh Kharola and 1986 batch IAS officer, Rajneesh Goel.

Darpan Jain is new JS to Karnataka Chief Minister
Darpan Jain will be new Joint Secretary to the Karnataka Chief Minister Jagdish Shettar. He is 2001 batch IAS officer.

Vhatkar to be promoted in CBI
Rajkumar Maruti Vhatkar SP, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to be promoted as DIG, CBI. He is an IPS officer of 1998 batch of Maharashtra cadre.

Brahm Kumar shifted to MEA Hqts
Brahm Kumar  who is Second Secretary in Muscat has been transferred to the Ministry of External Affairs Headquarters.

First CEO of Bhilai Steel Plant retiring soon
The first CEO of SAIL's Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) Pankaj Gautam is going to retire in August.

11 officers of Jharkhand State Service awarded IAS cadre
As many as 11 officers of Jharkhand State Civil Service have been awarded IAS cadre against the vacancies of 2008 and 2009. The officers include: Jagmohan Prasad, Sudhanshu Bhushan Ram, Veena Shrivastava, Hansraj Singh, Samson Soi, Fidelish Toppo, Kamla Kumari and John Paskal Lakra against the vacancies of 2008 while Paramjit Kaur, Shailendra Bhushan and Baleshwar Singh against the vacancies of 2009.

Md. Shayin deputed as Deputy Commissioner, Chandigarh
Inter-cadre deputation of Mohammed Shayin from Haryana cadre to AGMUT cadre (Chandigarh Admin) has been approved for the appointment of Deputy Commissioner, UT, Chandigarh, for a period three years. He is a 2002 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

Abdul Rauf promoted PD, RTI, Mumbai
Abdul Rauf, Senior Deputy Accountant General in the office of Accountant General (Audit), Chhattisgarh, Raipur, has been promoted to the grade of Accountant General (SAG) and posted as Principal Director, Regional Training Institute (RTI), Mumbai under the Comptroller & Auditor General of India.

7 posts of Judges vacant in Kerala HC
As many as seven posts of judges have been lying vacant in Kerala High Court against approved strength of 38. They include three posts of Permanent Judge against 27 approved strength and four of Additional Judges against 11 approved strength.

Rajesh Sharma, AGM, CGMT, MP selected for 38th APPPA
Rajesh Sharma, Additional GM (BP & IT) in the office of CGMT, Madhya Pradesh Telecom Circle-3, has been selected for 38th Advanced Professional Programme in Public Administration (APPPA) to be conducted from July 2, 2012 to March 31, 2013.

PS to RD Minister selected for UK Scholarship
PS to Union Rural Development Minister R Vineel Krishna has been selected for British Government Program- Chevening Gurukul Scholarship for Leadership and Excellence. He is 2005 batch IAS officer of Orissa cadre.

Ganai relieved from I & B Ministry
Khurshid Ahmed Ganai, Joint Secretary, Ministry of I&B has been relieved to join as Joint Secretary, MHA, GOI. He is an IAS officer of 1982 batch who belongs to the J&K cadre.

Rajasekharan gets proforma promotion
State Government has granted proforma promotion to R.Rajsekharan, Deputy Director, NCRB Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)Government of India, as IGP. He is an IPS officer of 1997 batch who belongs to the WB cadre.

IAS postings in Meghalaya
Tining Dkhar is new Deputy Commissioner of Jaintia Hills district on July 1, 2009.Tining Dkhar has taken over as the deputy commissioner of Jaintia Hills district.

Where is IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre ?
Himachal Pradesh Government is keen to know whereabouts of an IAS officer. 1996 batch IAS officer Rahul Anand has been away from the state since 2005.

PESB seeks applications for CMD (Refi.), PHL
Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) is seeking applications for the post of Chairman and Managing Director, Pawan Hans Helicopter Limited, has been lying since March 2, 2012. Those willing to apply can send their applications to PESB before August 6, 2012.

IPS reshuffle in Orissa
There is major IPS reshuffle in Orissa. New postings are Mssrs Abhaya Chief Intelligence, S S Hansdah Chief Jails,,M Akshya IG Home Guards,Prabindu Acharya IG Crimes, S M Narwane IG Forensic Sciences,R P Khoche IG Eastern Range,Sanjeev Panda DIG Personnel, Ritu Arora DIG Modernisation,S K Nath IG Provisioning, Satyabrat Bhoi S P Jagatsinghpur,Anoop Krishna SP Bargah, Niti Shekhar SP Sonepur Aniruddha Singh SP Keonjhar, Brijaesh Kumar Rai SP Nawrangpur,S C Meena SP Gajapati, Mahendra Pratap IG Railways,Sudh Singh SP Vigilance, Akhilesh Singh SP Malkngiri,Ranpise DIG North Central Range, Santosh Bala Additional CP Twin city, Dayal Gangwar Commandant, Prateek Mohanty SP Berahmpur and Sanjay Kumar DIG, Narsingh Bhop SP Angul, Kavita Jalan SP Mayurbhanj,Sarthak Sarangi SP Kendrapada,Joydeep Nayak IG OSAP ,Ashish Singh SP Ganjan and S K Ahmad SP Kalahandi.

IAS changes in TamilNadu
V K Jeyakodi will now be secretary and state commissioner for the welfare of differently-abled persons. K Gnanadesikan has been made revenue secretary Rameshram Mishra has been transferred as tourism and culture department secretary. Hemant Kumar Sinha has been made MD Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation (TTDC) managing director.

Sanjiv Kumar gets additional charge in Delhi
Sanjiv Kumar has been given additional charge of Forests and Environment in the Delhi Government. He is a 1992 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Strong Kerala IAS Association
It seems IAS Association in Kerala is quite  strong. This is evident from the fact that the Association has criticized Former  Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan's remarks against Tom Jose, Managing Director of Kochi Metro Rail Limited (KMRL), that he was 'commission-thirsty.'

IPS reshuffle in TamilNadu
There is IPS reshuffle in TamilNadu. New postings are Mssrs Ashok Kumar SP Krishnagiri,S Bhaskaran DC Padurai Hqs,P Saravanan DC Triplicane,S Maheshwaran DC Mashermanpet, R Sivakumar DC T Nagar, I Eswaran SP Vellore, A Kayalvizhi SP Railways Chennai,P Kannammal SP Namakkal,Sathiya Priya DC Law and Order,S Selvakumar DC Crime Trichey,N. Manivannan DC, law and order, Tirunelveli , A. Jayalakshmi DC, crime, Madurai. P. Saminathan Coimbatore DC, head quarters. K. Rajasekharan SP of Perambalur,P. Perumal SP, CB-CID and Ara. Arularasu SP, special division, SB-CID .

Balaji is new head of Nokia in India
P. Balaji has been appointed new Vice-President and Managing Director in India. He will succeed D. Shivkumar .

Nitin Rakesh resigns ?
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Motilal Oswal Asset Management Company Nitin Rakesh is reported to have resigned.

Kharola is new Principal Secretary to Karnataka CM
Pradeep Singh Kharola has been appointed Principal Secretary to new Karnataka Chief Minister Jagdish Shettar.He is 1985 batch IAS officer.

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Sinha takes over as Advisor Railway Board
B.K. Sinha has taken over as Adviser (Railway Stores)/ Railway Board on 7.7.2012.

Vedanta launches India's first Medical SUPER 30 Centre for underprivileged students
Vedanta through its foundation has launched India's first Medical SUPER 30 centre in Jaipur. The programme is also India's first SUPER 30 all-girl centre, which aims to provide specialized coaching to talented students from underprivileged families who aspire to pursue MBBS. In addition, the first batch of the Vedanta SUPER 30 centre for IIT aspirants from Rajasthan was also inaugurated. The engineering coaching programme is open to both boys and girls. Both programmes will provide 10-month free residential coaching to the 60 students. The students, who come from all parts of Rajasthan, are mostly children of marginal farmers or daily-wage earners. They were selected to the course through a written exam and interview process that saw 900 applicants in total. Speaking about the launch of the Jaipur centre, Abhayanand, DGP Bihar Police & Founder of SUPER 30 Concept said, "The idea behind SUPER 30 was to help the talented underprivileged students to keep them in a group for about a year and guide them how to crack the toughest entrance test. The highest level of talent also does not flower on its own and needs support thus this initiative is a boon for those who can't afford private coaching and at the same time need personal attention of the tutors. It makes me happy that Vedanta is expanding the concept of Super 30 in Rajasthan." Ravi Krishnan, CEO Vedanta Foundation said, "Our holistic approach towards education aims at nurturing talent. Vedanta's SUPER 30 centres will enable underprivileged students fulfill their dreams of securing admission to engineering or MBBS studies in India's premier institutes. We are proud to launch India's first Medical SUPER 30 and also the first all women SUPER 30 centre." Vedanta Foundation has associated with the Centre for Social Responsibility and Leadership (CSRL) to establish SUPER 30 centres across India. Vedanta's first SUPER 30 centre was recently launched in Mumbai.

Mangotra is new Secretary Border Management
A K Mangotra will be new Secretary Border Management in the Government of India. He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.

Names of 18 DRMs finalised (UPDATED)
As many as 18 names of railway officers to be posted as Divisional Railway Managers(DRMs) had been finalised on late Saturday(July 14,2012) evening. They are:
1.Mukesh Nigam IRTS- Mumbai VT
2. Mahesh Kumar gupta-IRSE
3. Aniurban Dutta-Howrah
4. Sanjay gehlot iRTS-Asansol
5.Arun Malik IRSE-Samastipur
6. Amit Kumar IRSME-Waltair
7. Ajay Vijayvargiya-Varamasi
8. Ratan Lal IRSEE-Rangiya
9.Virendra Kumar IRSME-Alipurdwar
10.VK Rastogi-IRAS- Madurai
11.PK Mishra IRSE-Chennai
12. Sushant Mishra, IRTS- Secunderabad
13. Rakesh Aron IRSS-Hyderabad
14.Rajiv Agrawal IRSEE- Chakradharpur
15.Anil Kumar Agrawal IRSME-Banglore
16. Rahul jain IRSME- Hubli
17. Sonvir Singh IRSE- Bhavnagar
18. Rajiv Chaudhary IRSE- Bhopal

CORPORATE

Agarwal appointed Director (Projects), Power Finance Corporation Ltd
A. K. Agarwal has been appointed as Director (Projects) on the Board of Directors of Power Finance Corporation Limited w.e.f. July 13, 2012

Two directors cease to be on Board of CJ Gelatine Products Ltd
Surinder Sahni and Ramanand Kini-- both Directors of CJ Gelatine Products Ltd have resigned from the Board of Directors of the company w.e.f. July 13, 2012

Two Part-time directors appointed on NALCO Board
Qaiser Shamim and Sanjiv Batra have been appointed as Part-time Non-official Directors of National Aluminium Company Ltd w.e.f. July 10, 2012 .

Sridharan resigns as Non Exec. Director, Sundaram Clayton Ltd
T. R. Sridharan, Non-executive and Independent Director of Sundaram Clayton Ltd has resigned from the Board of Directors of the company w.e.f. June 23, 2012

Saini appointed Company Secy. SBEC Sugar Ltd
Ajay Pal Singh Saini has been appointed as the Company Secretary of SBEC Sugar Ltd w.e.f. May 11, 2012

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Members of PSU Boards be given Ex-officio rank of Secretary to GoI
Amit wrote "All members of Maharatna PSU Boards should be given Ex- officio rank of Secretary to GoI, just like the members of Railway Board."

The Managing Director should be Cabinet Secretary rank and Chairman should be equal to Prime Minister. This thinking in PSUs is main reason for their decline. Greed overcomes the rational thought. Most of the Maharatnas are govt. controlled monopolies and would sink the day their fields are opened to competition. See MTNL, BSNL, Air India etc.

R Kumar

Railways have their own budget
Railways have their own budget which is laid in Lok Sabha prior to the Union Budget. Railways is a Central Subject and the officials in it are recruited through the examination of the UPSC. Only rail network needs to exist in a country necessarily. If competition is allowed in this area, then we will have lines over lines in the country.

A Srivastava

Retired bureaucrats should abstain from airing views on electronic media
The government should prohibit retired IAS and IPS officers from airing their views on the electronic media. Recently I saw the sorry spectacle of a young Nidhi Razdan on NDTV address a former Governor and a former Central Information Commissioner as Babus. This is a disgrace. The pathetic participants did not have the guts to protest at being insulted in this way. This is also an insult to the government. The feature was about appointment of retired IAS and IPS officers to the posts of governors etc. NDTV expects that TV anchors should be posted as governors of states! The Neera Radia tapes revealed exactly which TV journalist received how much money from Neera Radia, so how can these hapenny tupenny journalists sit in judgement on the actions of the government? Retired IAS and IPS officers especially should not be allowed to appear on TV shows and make a fool of themselves by appearing on such programmes meant only at bashing the IAS and IPS. They should resist the temptation of 2 minutes glory on TV and throw away their dignity and self respect in the bargain. If they cannot resist the temptation then it would be better if they appear for a well know brand of toothpaste and bear their 32 gleaming teeth instead of revealing government secrets. Just as conduct rules prohibit IAS and IPS officers from speaking to the Press while in service the same rule should be extended beyond retirement too.

D Choudhury

BSF officers - the most demoralized lot

BSF officers are demoralized especially the deputy commandant level officer, stagnation and disparity of pay n perks in comparison with civil/army officer. BSF is deployed in hardest of the area but is never treated as army........n when comes to pay n perks even less then civil officer........ I read somewhere...some related piece.. Quote "..Then Kautilya, known also as Chanakya gave his king this blunt warning: "The day the soldier has to demand his dues will be a
sad day for Magadha for then, on that day, you will have lost all moral sanction to be King!"

If the Indian state has been reduced to this condition, its people don't deserve to be defended by soldiers willing to lay their lives down for the country. Why fight and defend a government and a people who don't care for them?" Unquote.......r we heading towards this anarchy.....

Pavi

Appointed for what ?

General Insurance Public Sector Association (GIPSA) was an agency created by GoI in MOF to strengthen PSU Insurance Cos. The last one year has seen this institution hiring 4 CEO/GM level officers, who have been appointed in an arbitrary fashion and without any full justification of what they will do..
Sanjay Singh

Child care leave in Government of India
Could you tell what is the definition of Child in terms of Age for taking or granting in Child Care Leave. As per international standards it is children less than 3 years of age.

Rakesh

Excellent choice
Sharma is an excellent choice. Definitely ,he will prove to be an asset to UNODC.
Rajeev Dasot

RIT

Disclosure of reasons for not empanelling an officer under RTI

The appellant sought the reasons for being left out in the empanelment list of IPS Officers by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) for the year 1994-95 while all his APRs were outstanding. The PIO informed that as per DoPT's O.M. No. 1/7/2009-IR dated 1.6.2009, the information sought in the RTI application cannot be classified as 'information' and the same cannot be provided. The appellant argued before the Central Information Commission (CIC) that whereas his juniors have been empanelled and, therefore, he should be provided the reasons for being left out from empanelment list when all his APRs are 'Outstanding'. The CIC noted the admission of the respondent that the decision for promotion of IPS Officers is taken in the meeting of the CPEB. Observing that the meetings of the CPEB are a matter of official record, the CIC ruled that what has been sought by the appellant is covered under the definition of 'information' as per section 2(f) of the RTI Act. The Commission directed the PIO to provide the reasons, as per record, whereby decision was taken to leave out the appellant in the empanelment list of IPS Officers for the year 1994-95.

Comments

This decision of the CIC is likely to bring in transparency in the process of empanelment..

Citation: Mr. Kamal Saini v. Ministry of Home Affairs in Case No. CIC/SS/A/2012/000236

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)