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FDI from Libya?
Rumour mill says that a huge amount in the form of FDI has come to India from Libya. The amount is said to be quite big.

Delhi is also Commercial Capital
Mumbai is no longer the commercial capital of India. It is believed that the capital of the country Delhi has now turned into the commercial capital of India also.

Who will be new IB Chief?
Who will succeed Nehchal Sandhu as Chief of the Intelligence Bureau? Guessing game has already started in the corridors of power. The senior-most officer after Sandhu in the IB is R N Gupta. Name of 1976 batch IPS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre was sent for the post of Secretary Security.1976 batch IPS officer of UT cadre V Rajagopal was reportedly offered the post of Police Commissioner Delhi. Another 1976 batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre Yashovardhan Azad did not go to his parent state as DGP. Now a big question mark?


R K Dutta to Join CBI next week
R.K. Dutta who on central deputation has been appointed as Additional Director CBI, is likely to join next week. He is a Karnataka cadre IPS officer of the 1981 batch.

Ganai moves to MHA
Joint Secretary I & B K A Ganai is moving laterally to the MHA to head Naxal desk. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of J & K cadre.

Vice Admiral D K Joshi to take over as next Navy Chief on Aug 31
Vice Admiral DK Joshi, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief (FOC-in-C), Western Naval Command, who has been appointed as next Chief of the Naval Staff, will assume charge on August 31, 2012. Joshi, who was born on July 4, 1954, was commissioned on April 1, 1974 in the Executive Branch of the Indian Navy.
(We said this on May 11)

Navy Chief Verma to retire on Aug 31
Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral N K Verma is retiring on August 31, 2012.

Empanelment of 1987 IFS officers delayed
Empanelment of Indian Forest Service (IFS) officers of 1987 batch been delayed. It is so because CVC has sought certain information about 71 IFS officers of 1987 batch has been sought.


IRPS officer gets foreign assignment
CT Sakkeer Hussain has been appointed as DTP, Tea Board of Moscow, Ministry of Commerce, GoI for three years. He is an IRPS officer of 2001 batch.

(We said this on Mar 02)

Rakesh Jaruhar gets additional charge
Rakesh Jaruhar, Special DG, CRPF, Central Zone, Kolkata, WB, will be looking after Additional Charge of SDG, North Eastern Zone. He is a Jharkhand cadre IPS officer of 1976 batch.


Sushil Chandra gets extension
Sushil Chandra, CVO, Nuclear Power Corporation India Ltd. has got an extension of two years in his Central Deputation. He is an IRSME cadre officer of 1983 batch.


Jain is new Director MHA
Ashutosh Jain has been appointed as Director, Ministry of Home Affairs Government of India. He is an ITS officer of 1993 batch.


Umed Singh is now IG CRPF Jorha
Umed Singh, DIG, CRPF, Group Centre, Srinagar has been transferred on promotion as IG, North Eastern sector Jorahat, Assam. He is a CRPF cadre officer.

Postal Service officer Gautam Bhattacharya empanelled as JS in GoI
Guatam Bhattacharya has been empanelled as Joint Secretary in Government of India under CSS. He is a 1987 batch officer of Indian Postal Service.


Vijay Naresh Mehta to continue in Frankfurt
Consul in Frankfurt Vijay Naresh Mehta is going to continue till his superannuation in September 2012.

Shortage of IAS and IPS in Bihar
At present, there is a shortage of 148 IAS officers and 76 IPS officers in the state of Bihar.

Mauskar is Member, Committee set up to look into hydrocarbon exploration J M
Mauskar, former IAS officer, has been inducted as Member of the Committee constituted by Prime Minister to review the design of future Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) in Hydrocarbon exploration.


Over eight new DRMs likely
As the grapevine has it, postings of at least Eight senior railway officers as new Divisional Railway Managers (DRMs) will take place in next fortnight or so.


Ordinance on DGP's two year tenure in Karnataka
The Karnataka Government has promulgated an Ordinance whereby the Director General of Police (DGP) will have two years tenure or till his retirement.

Differences over amount between British Police and IPS?
Differences have cropped up between the British Police and the IPS over the amount for training. British Police had an agreement of certain amount with the Indian Police to train Indian IPS Officers for mid career training. Now the British Police say that the amount agreed upon is not enough for them to complete the training and they want the money to be increased. This development has led to delay in the training. Now Director of Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel Police Academy, V N Rai has conveyed the development to the MHA.


Maharashtra IAS unlikely to be Dy Chairman, Bombay Port Trust
Maharashtra cadre IAS officer is unlikely to be appointed Deputy Chairman of the Bombay Port Trust.


Gujarat tourism gets addl amount
Gujarat tourism has got a sanction for an additional sum of Rs.1200 crores from the Planning commission of India (PCI) as special grant for tourism in Gujarat over and above normal budget. This was cleared during a recent meeting in Delhi with Gujarat Chief Minister Narednra Modi and Deputy Chairman of PCI Dr.Montek Singh Ahluwalia. This will boost infrastructure to match up the recent growth in numbers.

Maharashtra DGP to retire next month
Maharashtra DGP K Subramanyam is going to retire on July 31.



Custodian Office is Completing 20 Years Today
The Office of Custodian, established under Special Court (TORTS) Act,1992 is completing 20 years today i.e. on 6th June 2012. There is a move in the Ministry of Finance to wind up this office within a year.


14 Orissa state service officers awarded IAS cadre
As many as 14 officers of State Civil Service of Orissa have been awarded Indian Administrative Service (IAS) cadre against the vacancy of 2010. The officers include: Dilip Kumar Mohanty, Hadibandhu Singhsardar, Balakrushna Behera, Sudarsan Das, Julius Lakra, Basanta Kumar Behera, Debi Prasad Panda, Pradeep Kumar Rath, Bishnu Prasad Sahoo, Debraj Mishra, Sangram Keshari Ray, Laxminaryana Mishra, Harekrishna Behera and Gobinda Chandra Sethi.


PESB seeks applications for Director (Fin), HPCL
Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) is seeking applications for the post of Director (Finance), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) falling vacant on June 1, 2013. Those willing to apply can send their applications to PESB before August 6, 2012.


PESB seeks applications for Director (Fin), MTNL
Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) is seeking applications for the post of Director (Finance), Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) falling vacant on June 1, 2013. Those willing to apply can send their applications to PESB before August 6, 2012.


PESB seeks applications for Director (ER & D), BHEL
Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) is seeking applications for the post of Director (ER & D, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) falling vacant on June 1, 2013. Those willing to apply can send their applications to PESB before August 6, 2012.


Deputation tenure of IRS (IT) officer R N Sahay extended
The deputation tenure of IRS (IT) officer, R N Sahay as Advisor (Eco), CCI, has been extended for another one year.

Sambit Tripathy deputed as Deputy Secy, Ministry of Shipping
Sambit Tripathy, Additional CIT, Delhi, has been appointed as Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Shipping, New Delhi on deputation basis for a period of four years.

Rabi Kumar posted as Sp Secretary
T Rabi kumar IFS (J&K 1995) posted as Special Secretary (Tech), Forest on return from deputation from Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy.


No decision about DG (Investigations ) IT in Mumbai (UPDATED)
The placement committee of the CBDT has not reached on consensus name for the prestigious post of DG (Investigations) Income Tax in Mumbai.

IAS reshuffle in Uttarakhand (UPDATED)
Services of some IAS officers have been affected with their new assignments in Uttarakhand. Accordingly, S S Ramaswami has been given additional charge of Externally Aided Programs and Centrally Funded Programs while Radha Raturi will also be Secretary, Excise and S S Rawat was relieved as Secretary, Excise and Commissioner, Excise with assigning additional charge of Director, Industry. Dr PS Gusain has been relieved of Commissioner and Director, Industry. Additional Secretary Dilip Jawalkar has been given additional charge of Commissioner, Excise. Chief Development officer, Chamoli, Sabin Bansal has been transferred as CDO Tehri Garhwal. Similarly, Vinita Kumar has been relieved of Principal Secretary, Centrally Funded Program and Higher Education. Rakesh Sharma is relieved of Principal Secretary, Externally Aided Program and assigned additional job as Principal Secretary, Higher Education.

10 IRS officers posted to DGIT, Systems (UPDATED)
As many as 10 Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officers in the grade of Additional/Joint/Deputy/ Assistant Commissioners of Income Tax presently in various CCA, have been posted to DGIT, Systems. The officers include: Kalpana Kataria, Sanjay Kumar Bharti, Anurag Prasad, Paramita Mondal Biswas, Nirmaljeet Singh, Vivek Sharma, Rajesh Chandra, Monika Rana, Vikas Singh and Ritu Sharma.


6 IRS officers posted to DGIT, Infrastructure (UPDATED)
As many as 10 Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officers in the grade of Additional/Joint/Deputy/ Assistant Commissioners of Income Tax presently in various CCA, have been posted to DGIT, Infrastructure. The officers include: Roli Khare, A K Dang, Rajnish Kochar, Anupama Anand and Byomkesh Pradip Kumar.


IRS officer Atiq Ahmed posted to DGIT, Audit (UPDATED)
Indian Revenu Service (IRS) officer, Atiq Ahmed, CCA Mumbai, has been posted to DGIT, Audit.


IRS officer Y Kakkar posted to DGIT, L & R (UPDATED)
Indian Revenu Service (IRS) officer, Y Kakkar, CCA Mumbai, has been posted to DGIT, L & R.


4 IRS officers posted to DGIT, Administration (UPDATED)
As many as four Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officers in the grade of Additional/Joint/Deputy/ Assistant Commissioners of Income Tax presently in various CCA, have been posted to DGIT, Administration. The officers include: Deep Shikha Sharma, Surabh Ahluwalia, S K Jain and Vinod Jauhari.


6 IRS officers posted to CPC, Bangalore (UPDATED)
As many as six Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officers in the grade of Additional/Joint/Deputy/ Assistant Commissioners of Income Tax presently in various CCA, have been posted to CPC, Bangalore. The officers include: C Deepak Singh, T H Chagraborty, M Chandramohan, T C Gupta, Niranjan Dey, A R V Srinivasan.


3 IRS officers posted to CBDT (UPDATED)
Three Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officers in the grade of Additional/Joint/Deputy/ Assistant Commissioners of Income Tax have been posted to CBDT. Accordingly, Shiela Chopra has been posted to Director (ITCC) while Rohit Garg is posted to Director (ITA) and K C Badhok to Director (ITA) in CBDT.

21 IRS (IT) officers posted to Directorates of International Taxation (UPDATED)
As many as 21 Indian Revenue Service (IR-IT) officers in the grade of Deputy/Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax have been posted to the various Directorates of International Taxation and Transfer Pricing. Accordingly, Kuldeep Sharma, Mrs. Nishtha Tiwari, Mohad. G Ansari and Shelendera Shrivastava have been posted in Delhi while Mallkarjun Utture, Siddaramappa Kappattanavar, Pawan Kumar Beerla, Sujit Sudhakar Bangar were appointed in Mumbai and Sunil Kumar Agarwal, Vivek Anand Perampurna and Zafarul Haque Tanweer are posted to Kolkata. Similarly, Suhas S Kulkarni has been posted to Pune; D V Subba Rao, R M Majumdar and Suresh Lakhwat in Hyderabad; G D Jayanthi Angayarkanni, Nilanjan Dey and Nagabhushana M in Bangalore/Mangalore; H Kabila and V Jenardhan in Chennai and Ajit Pal Singh Daia has been posted in Ahmedabad.

Inter-cadre deputation of IAS officer to Nagaland approved (UPDATED)
Inter-cadre deputation of Asangba Chuba from Bihar to Nagaland cadre has been approved for a period of three years. He is a 2003 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.


AP State Civil Service officer awarded IAS cadre (UPDATED)
M Hari Jawaharlal, a State Civil Service officer of Andhra Pradesh, has been awarded IAS cadre.

D B Gupta is also Administrator, Rajasthan Agriculture Marketing Board (UPDATED)
Devendra Bhushan Gupta, Principal Secretary, Agriculture, has been assigned additional charge of Administrator, Rajasthan State Agriculture Marketing Board. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Three new postings in Railways (UPDATED)
Three officers have been shifted in Railways. Accordingly, Vishnu Kunar, SAG/IRTSS/ADRAM, Lucknow/NR, has been posted as Executive Director (Traffic)/RDSO while Varinder Kumar, SG/IRTS/WCR, was transferred to ECOR and posted in the cadre and Devesh Kumar Mishra, SAG/IRTS/ NCR, is being transferred to NR and posted in the cadre.

CORPORATE

Sahara Group enters Bangla Desh ?
Latest information says that Sahara Group has entered Bangala Desh in a big way.


Rutten not to renew term as MD & CEO, MCX
Lambertus Rutten is not renewing his term as Managing Director and
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd
(MCX) but will continue as Non-Executive Director on the MCX Board.

Coelho appointed Director (Spa and Recreation), Grand Hyatt, Goa
Grand Hyatt Goa has appointed Kenneth Coelho as Director (Spa and Recreation).

Prasad appointed Addl. Director, Gokak Textiles Ltd
Gokak Textiles Ltd has appointed D G Prasad as Additional Director on the Board of Directors of the company w.e.f. May 28, 2012.

Shah takes over addl. charge as Head (International Business), Kotak Mahindra Bank
Gaurang Shah has been accorded additional responsibility as Head (International usiness) at Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.

Parambi appointed Head (Group Strategy), Kotak Mahindra Bank
Paul Parambi has been appointed as Head (Group Strategy) Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.

Ragunath is MD & CEO, Kotak Investment Banking
Kotak Investment Banking has appointed TV Raghunath as MD and CEO.

Ramesh appointed Joint MD, Kotak Investment Banking
S. Ramesh has been appointed as Joint MD Kotak Investment Banking.

Mehta appointed MD, Anuvin Industries Ltd
Anuvin Industries Ltd has appointed Naresh Mehta as Managing Director of the company.

Poddar resigns as Director, Orient Beverages Ltd
A K Poddar has resigned as Director of Orient Beverages Ltd w.e.f. June 1, 2012.

Mundhra appointed ED, Orient Beverages Ltd
B D Mundhra has been appointed as an Additional Director of Orient Beverages Ltd w.e.f. June 1, 2012 and he has designated as an Executive Director of the company w.e.f. June 1, 2012

Ravishankar appointed Addl. Director, Orient Press Ltd
G Ravishankar has been appointed as an Additional Director of Orient Press Ltd w.e.f. April 2, 2012

Nayak withdrawn as IFCI Ltd Nominee from Board of Bihar Sponge Iron Ltd
IFCI Limited has withdrawn nomination of B N Nayak, from the Board of Directors of Bihar Sponge Iron Ltd w.e.f. May 17, 2012.

Singhal appointed Non Exec. Director, eClerx Services Ltd
Sandeep Singhal, Non-Executive Director of eClerx Services Ltd has resigned from the company.

Sengupta appointed as director of Websol Energy System
Biswa Sengupta has been appointed as director of Websol Energy System.

Agarwal resigns as director of Websol Energy System
Sameer Agarwal resigns as director of Websol Energy System.

Two appointed as director of Kamlakshi Finance Corporation
Kailash Kahar and Bhupendra Thakur appointed as director of Kamlakshi Finance Corporation.

Thakar resigns as director of Thirumala Chemical
Dilip Thakar has resigned as director of Thirumala Chemical.

Gupta appointed as additional director of Orient Green Power
Vishal Gupta has been appointed as additional director of Orient Green Power.

Mehta appointed as MD of Anuvin Industries
Naresh Mehta has been appointed as MD of Anuvin Industries.

Luhar appointed as CFO of Nissan Copper
Miresh Luhar has been appointed as CFO of Nissan Copper.

Poddar resigns as director of Orient Beverages
AK Poddar resigns as director of Orient Beverages.

Mundhra appointed as director of Orient Beverages
BD Mundhra has been appointed as director of Orient Beverages

Ravishankar appointed as additional director of Orient Press
G Ravishankar appointed as additional director of Orient Press.

Khemka resigns as director of TCI Finance
JP Khemka resigns as director of TCI Finance.

Nayak ceases to be director of Bihar Sponge Iron
BN Nayak has ceased to be director of Bihar Sponge Iron.

Singhal resigns as director of eClerx Services
Sandeep Singhal has resigned as director of eClerx Services.

Goradia resigns as director of Lifeline Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
Pratik Goradia has resigned as director of Lifeline Drugs and Pharmaceuticals.

Venkatrangan appointed as additional director of Paper Products
N Venkatrangan has been appointed as additional director of Paper Products.

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India- four faces of honesty and integrity From the wordings of your news comment, it appears that there are only IAS officers who are having impeccable integrity. Rest all are thieves. I dont think it right to brand everyone in this manner. Atleast you should look at the civil service impartially, rather than just toeing the line of pleasing the IAS.
S N

Government Officers stagnating More than 150 posts of Deputy Secretary to be filled up by CSS officers are vacant because of lack of spirit on the part of the Government Officers are stagnating but there is nobody to care.

Nandan

Decision welcome The decision quoted by you is welcome in a sea of opacity. The point is how many public sector organisations follow these decisions /guidelines? Should there not be a order by the CVC to disclose the case file to the officers in all cases?
Sanjeev Shrivastava

"Poor Cadre Management" The case of IAS officer from Sikkim cadre as reported in WIC, is the tip of the iceberg. The problem afflicts cadre controlling authorities of all organized services. There are officers galore who have remained on central deputation almost continuously by getting the mandatory cooling off period truncated or waived. This has far reaching implications on those who are weak in boundary management. There are officers belonging to other organized Services who have not been empanelled for central deputation at SAG level and above due to DOP&T's misplaced perception that they lack experience in GoI functioning. How could they get experience without being given a chance? The aspirants are in Catch-22 situation. Is this Good Governance of DOP&T headed by the PM himself who is not even aware of such infirmities in practice? Mediocrity is encouraged by not tapping the large pool of civil servants. Pliable and malleable officers get benefited in the process.
A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)

RIT

Can the reasons for suspension be sought under RTI?

The appellant filed an application under the Right to Information (RTI) Act raising some questions about the validity of the bank's action in suspending him from service while not suspending another officer. The Public Information Officer (PIO) replied that the queries did not amount to information. The Central Information Commission (CIC) noted that the appellant wanted to know the reasons for placing him under suspension and not some other officer. Holding that these reasons can be easily found in the relevant file noting, the Commission directed the PIO to provide the photocopies of all file noting and other correspondence, relating to the decision of the competent authority for suspending him from service. The Commission also asked the PIO to provide him with the copies of the relevant file noting in respect of the other officer named by the appellant in his RTI application if there is any such noting available in any file.

Comments

With the advent of the RTI Act, many of the files marked as "confidential" are now coming out of the closet. Denial of information can now be done only as per section 8 or 9 of the RTI Act.

Citation: Shri Madan Lal Kainth v. Union Bank of India in File No.CIC/SM/A/2011/000603

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)