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B S Sisodia

Forecast on TMC opening its account in Manipur comes true
As forecast by <whispersinthecorridors> in February the Trina Mool Congress (TMC) being headed by West Bengal Chief Minister Ms. Mamata Banerjee had opened its account by winning seven seats. We had said that the TMC may win 10 out of 60 seats in Manipur.

Bad news for Congress from the south
After its defeat in Uttar Pradesh & Goa assembly polls Congress party is going to face defeat in Eight assembly segments of Andhra Pradesh, where by polls are to be held on March 18, 2012. Bureaucratic perception is that the YSR Congress being headed by Jagan Mohan Reddy will win all seats.

Shashank Shekhar Singh not going to Rajya Sabha
BSP Supremo Mayawati has dropped the idea of sending her Cabinet Secretary, Shashank Shekhar Singh to the Rajya Sabha. Now Munquad Ali will get the seconf term.

Four BJP MLAs may take oath in Punjab
As the grapevine has it, four BJP legislators may get a berth in the Punjab Government that Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal will be forming on March 14, 2012. They are: Surjit Jayani, Madan Mohan Mittal, Anil Joshi and Chunni Lal Bhagat.

Akali Dal identifies fence sitters
The leadership of Sanyukta Akali Dal (SAD) has identified those Government officials and employees who tried to have their fingers in the pie of SAD as well Capt. Amarinder Singh.

Akhilesh Yadav is not in a hurry
Chief Minister designate of Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav is not in a hurry as far as bureaucratic changes in UP was concerned.

Goa Assembly's budget session from March 19
Budget session of the Goa Assembly is slated to start on March 19, 2012 while the Budget is expected to be presented on March 21.

BUREAUCRACY

11 IAS officers of 1977 batch to retire this year
As many as 11 IAS officers of 1977 batch are going to retire this year. Some of them may have a brief stint as Secretary in the Government of India.

Two 1977 batch IAS officers retire while five are waiting
Two 1977 batch IAS officers have retired as Secretary in the Government of India. Five are still waiting in the wings to become Secretary.

Ghai to be JS, Atomic Energy
Senior IRAS officer J K Ghai is likely to be appointed Joint Secretary in the Department of Atomic Energy.

Appointment of Deepak Anurag runs into rough weather
Appointment of IA & AS Officer, Deepak Anurag as Joint Secretary and FA in the Department of Water Resources has now run into rough weather. Now who will make it?

U K Singh to be JS, Agriculture
U K Singh is all set to join the Government of India as Joint Secretary, Agriculture. He is 1986 batch IAS officer of Uttarakhand cadre.

Jain unlikely to get extension
Chairman of the Nuclear Power Corporation S K Jain is unlikely to get extension in service. He is retiring in April.

Majumdar to be Ombudsman in Delhi
Former Chairman of the CBEC, S D Majumdar is all set to become Ombudsman in Delhi. File pertaining to his appointment is lying with the PMO.

Indian Envoy to Saudi Arabia, Hamid Ali Rao seeks a change
As the grapevine has it, Indian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Hamid Ali Rao, who is posted in Riyadh, has sought a change in his posting. Son of former Madhya Pradesh Governor, Kunwar Mehmood Ali Khan, Rao is an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer of 1981 batch.

List of favourite officers in Punjab to change
There will be new list of favourite bureaucrats in Punjab. Main among them will be A R Talwar of 1980 batch, Dhanbir Singh Bains of 1981 batch, N S Kang of 1983 batch, Mandeep Singh Sandhu of 1984 batch, Satish Chandra of 1985 batch, G Bajralingam of 1986 batch, S K Sandhu and Vishwajeet Khanna -both from 1987 batch, Sanjay Kumar of 1988 batch, Paramjeet Singh Aujla of 1990 batch, A Venu Prasad and S R Laddar -both from 1991 batch, Raminder Singh of 1992 batch, D S Grewal of 1994 batch and K S Pannu of 1996 batch.

Keshav Chandra is new Member (Mechanical), Rly Board
Keshav Chandra has taken over as new Member Mechanical, Railway Board and ex-officio Secretary to Government of India. Prior to this new posting, he served as General Manager, Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), Guwahati. However, he will continue to hold the post of GM, NFR in addition to his present post until further orders. An officer of the 1975 batch of Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers (IRSME), Chandra has held various key positions in different Zonal Railways. He has worked as Additional General Manager in two of the biggest Railways viz East Central Railway (Hajipur) and Northern Railway (New Delhi).
(We said this on February 24)

N R Banerjee to head Valuation Board in West Bengal
N R Banerjee, who so far was Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) in Coal India Ltd (CIL), on his return to his parent West Bengal cadre, is being appointed as Chairman of the Central Evaluation Board. He is an IAS officer of the 1981 batch.

Sumer Singh Saini to be new DGP of Punjab?
In all probability, Sumer Singh Saini will become new DGP of Punjab. He is an IPS officer of 1982 batch.

Bureaucracy in UP on tenterhooks
Bureaucracy in Uttar Pradesh is on tenterhooks as, with the change of government, a major overhaul is expected in bureaucratic set up in the state.

S K Mattoo in race for CS's post in Uttarakhand
As the grapevine has it, S K Mattoo is in the race for the post of Chief Secretary in Uttarakhand. He is an Uttarakhand cadre IAS officer of 1977 batch. Will he be able to make it?

Kataria is PS to Labour Minister, Kharge
Rajender Kumar Kataria has joined as new Private Secretary (PS) to Union Minister for Labour and Employment Mallikarjun Kharge. He is an IAS officer of 1996 batch who belongs to the Karnataka cadre. Hitherto, he was Managing Director (MD), Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board. He was appointed on this post after completion of his six years successful tenure on inter-cadre deputation to Haryana. He also completed his mid career training (MCT) programme phase IV in LBSNAA, Mussoorie. During the last six year he had worked as Joint Secretary Finance, Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Magistrate in districts of Kaithal, Panchkula and Gurgaon and had also worked as Administrator, HUDA, Panchkula. During the period as Deputy Commissioner -cum-District Magistrate, Gurgaon, Kataria was awarded twice - first by Union Ministers Dr. Farooq Abdullah and Salman Khurshid on September 3, 2010 for the promotion of Tourism in the NCR Haryana - and then on the occasion of Digital Inclusion Day i.e. September 22, 2010 by the Union Minister for Urban Development S Jaipal Reddy at Hotel Shangrila, New Delhi. The Day was jointly organised by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in collaboration with National E-Governance Plan and Skoch Development Foundation. On this occasion, he was awarded Skoch ICT Award-2010 for the commendable efforts and re-engineering put forward in providing better e-Governance in the project "Property Registration - Gurgaon."
(We said this on February 24, 2012)

Why trouble for Vijay Mallya increased?
Why trouble for the Indian Liquor and Airline baron Vijay Mallya increased? Grapevine has it that intention to benefit the other leading private airlines is the main cause.

Major bureaucratic overhaul on the anvil in UP
A major bureaucratic overhaul is expected to take place in Uttar Pradesh after March 18, 2012.

Will Anita Singh join UP CMs Secretariat
Anita Singh is likely to join the Secretariat of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. She is 1990 batch IAS officer.

Satish Sethi is Sr. Deputy AG (Admn/Coml), AG (Audit), Shimla
Satish Sethi, Director (Admn/EA) in the office of Director General of Audit, Central Expenditure, New Delhi, has been transferred and posted as Senior Deputy Accountant General (Admn/Coml) in the office of Accountant General (Audit), Himachal Pradesh, Shimla. He will relieve A S Thakur.

Empanelment of 1984 IPS officer, Umesh Kumar as JS, GoI not approved
The empanelment case of 1984 batch IPS officer Umesh Kumar of Assam-Meghalaya cadre as Joint Secretary in Government of India was reportedly not approved at the review meeting of Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.

Empanelment of 1976 batch IPS officer A K Upadhayay as DGP deferred
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has reportedly deferred the case of 1976 batch IPS officer of Orissa cadre, A K Upadhayay reviewed for the empanelment as DGP/ equivalent post in Government of India.

1985 batch IRAS officer Sharmita Chavaly empanelled as JS, GoI
Sharmita Chavaly, an Indian Railway Accounts Services (IRAS) officer of 1985 batch, has been empanelled as Joint Secretary in Government of India.

IPS officer Dhillon empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
Hardeep Singh Dhillon has been empanelled as Joint Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1985 batch IPS officer of Punjab cadre.

Eight posts of Judges vacant in Jharkhand HC
As many as eight posts of judges are lying vacant in Jharkhand High Court against approved strength of 20. They include three posts of permanent judges and five of additional judges.

Three IG level posts to fall vacant in BSF
Three IG level posts will fall vacant in the Border Security Force (BSF) by June end.

Batsala Jha Yadav to be Director Revenue
Batsala Jha Yadav is likely to be appointed Director, Foreign Tax and Tax Research Division in the Department of Revenue.

Anonymous complaint against Army Chief
The Government of India and the MoD have reportedly received a detailed complaint by an anonymous person listing several allegations against the Army Chief V.K SIngh.

Abhijit Chakravorty moves to Paris
Abhijit Chakravorty has moved to the Indian Embassy in Paris.

West Bengal Chief Secretary gets extension
West Bengal Chief Secretary, Samar Ghosh who was scheduled to retire on March 31 has been granted six months extension in service.
(We said this only yesterday)

PESB seeks applications for post of Director (Fin), STCIL
Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) is seeking applications for the post of Director (Finance), State Trading Corporation of India Limited (STCIL). Those willing to apply can send their applications to the PESB before April 20, 2012.

Prasad gets additional charge in Haryana
S S Prasad, Financial, Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Higher Education Department, has been given additional charge Women and Child Development Department.

Justice Divan is no more
Former chief justice of Gujarat High Court, Bipinchandra Jivanlal Divan passed away in Ahemdabad.

Goel is now VC of Meerut University
Retired 1975 batch IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, V C Goel has been appointed as Vice Chancellor of the Meerut University.

IPS officer raided by CBI in Tamil Nadu
The CBI has raided the residence of a senior police official in Tamil Nadu.

Former IPS officer Hasan Gafoor dies
Former Mumbai Police Commissioner and DGP, Maharashtra Hasan Gafoor died in Mumbai. He was 62.

Thade bereaved
Mother of 1989 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre IAS officer Sanjay Kumar Thade passed away in Pune.

Rakesh Singh to get additional charge of ED (UPDATED)
Additional Secretary Banking Rakesh Singh is all set to get additional charge of Director Enforcement. He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre.

Justice Keshavanarayana is Judge of Karnataka HC (UPDATED)
Justice Keralapura Nanjundaiah Keshavanarayana has been appointed as Judge of the Karnataka High Court.


Karnataka HC gets four Addl Judges (UPDATED)
Four Additional Judges have been appointed at Karnataka High Court. They include: Benedict Victor Pinto, Bijoor Manohar, K Govindarajulu and Hosahalli Sheshadri Kempanna.


Four Addl. Judges appointed to Bombay HC (UPDATED)
Four Additional Judges have been appointed at Bombay High Court. They are: Filomeno Manuel Lopo Sales Rosario Dos Reis, Rajesh Govind Ketkar, Ravi Krishnarao Deshpande and Sanjay Vijaykumar Gangapurwala.

Agasthya selected as Director (Corp. Planning & Mktg), HAL (UPDADTED)
A N Agasthya, ED, HAL, has been selected for the post of Director (Corporate Planning & Marketing), Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting. As many as 13 persons were interviewed for the same.

Director of Education in Haryana whiling away time (UPDATED)
The Director of Education, Haryana, had on Feb 2nd called 17 companies for the presentation regarding providing ICT faculty in 2622 schools of the state for technical evaluation. The participants kept waiting entire day only to be told in the evening that they would be called some other day. Today again on March 13th, when called for the second time for technical presentation, they have been made to wait since 11 am and till 2.30 pm there has been no progress. Participants fear that the current financial year is getting over, funds granted by central government will get improperly utilized and effective parties may miss the opportunity as it may get allocated to non competent in a hush hush manner.

Amitabh Rajan is new ACS (Home ) in Maharashtra (UPDATED)
Additional Secretary Revenue and Acting Director Enforcement Amitabh Rajan is back to the parent Maharashtra cadre . On return 1979 batch IAS officer Rajan has been appointed ACS (Home) considered to be a prestigious posting in the state.He is expected to take charge on
Wednesday.

66 IRS officers get HAG (UPDATED)
As many as 66 officers of Indian Revenue Service (IRS) (Income Tax) have been granted non-functional up-gradation in Higher Administrative Grade (HAG). The officers include: S K Pathak, Sakharam Govindrao Joshi, Rani Singh Nair, Bratati Mukherjee, Ramesh Chandra Mishra, Gautam Kar, Suresh Jandhhyala, Anil Kumar Aggarwal, Bal Krishna Mishra, Deepali Bahadur, Jayant Kumar Hota, Devendra Prasad Sharma, Kunja Kishore Tripathy, Ashok Kumar chatterjee, Devendra Swaroop Saksena, Ujjawal Kumar Choudhdary, Sukh Deo Charan, Raghu Nandan Gupta and Mahesh Kumar Idnani, P C Srivastava, S K Ray, R C Pramanik, Sunil Verma, Poonam Dutt, D K Sas Sharma, Pramila Shrivastava, B N Panda, S K Pahwa, R K Sharma, S K Srivastava, D Das Gupta, Kiran Oberoi Vasudev, K Satyanarayana, S M Rastogi, S Rajguru, Atulesh Jindal, T Jena, Arvind Shankar, A K Mehrish, S Bose, Dilip Kumar, Swatantra Kumar, R K Gupta, Y K Batra, Dhirendra Khare, B B Mohanty, S S Kannan, Purnima Singh, S Ravi, B Dutta, Z S Klar, S Gopalakirshna, Amitabh Mishra, Suresh Kumar, S M Nigam, P K Vijay Kumar Girish Sharma, P Agarwal, Rajiv Kumar Lal Girdharilal J P Massar, Raltelal Rinwma, A M Sangma. V K Mishra, Maqbool Ahmed.

Eight IPS officers of 1985 batch empanelled as Joint Secy. in GoI (UPDATED)
As many as eight Indian Police Service (IPS) officers of 1985 batch have been empanelled as Joint Secretary/Equivalent post in Government of India. The officers are: Sheel Madhur of Haryana cadre; Kunwar Brajesh Singh of Orissa cadre; Hardeep Singh Dhillon of Punjab cadre; M Hari Sena Verma, Virendra and Surajit Kar Purkayastha of West Bengal cadre; Dr Ish Kumar of Andhra Pradesh cadre and S K Mishra of Jammu and Kashmir cadre.


1983 batch IRS officer P K Das empanelled as Joint Secy. in GoI (UPDATED)
A 1983 batch Indian Revenue Service (C& CE) officer, P K Das has been empanelled as Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India.

Rashtradeep posted as ACP, Jodhpur Central (UPDATED)
IPS officer Kunwar Rashtradeep, on return from training, has been posted as Assistant Commissioner of Police, Jodhpur Central, Jodhpur in Rajasthan.

Sunil Kumar appointed as JDG, CCI, N-Delhi (UPDATED)
Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer, Sunil Kumar has been appointed as Joint Director General (JDG) (Law) in the office of DG, Competition Commission of India (CCI), New Delhi.


IRS officer Mrs. Darde posted as AC, Tribal Dev. Nagpur (UPDATED)
Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer, Mrs. Pallavi Darde has been appointed as Additional Tribal Commissioner, Tribal Development, Nagpur, under the Government of Maharashtra on deputation basis.


IRS officer V K Singh posted as OSD (FT&TR-I) in CBDT (UPDATED)
Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer, V K Singh, Additional Director, Income Tax, NADT, has been posted as OSD (FT&TR-I) in CBDT.

Patna High Court gets Addl. Judge (UPDATED)
Justice Gopal Prasad has been appointed as Additional Judge of the Patna High Court for a period of six months.

DEBATE - Should bureaucrats alone be held accountable for policy decisions ?

Bureaucrats now feel that Ministers and Politicians also be held responsible for 'policy decisions' taken by the government. They also want that entire cabinet should be held accountable for policy decisions. How far they are correct in their thinking ?

Mail your to the point views to suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com or mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com

CORPORATE

THDC CMD, Sai denied extension
CMD of the Tehri Hydro Development Corporation, R S T Sai has been denied extension in his tenure. He retired on March 7.

Paras Chowdhury's term as MD, Ceat Ltd ends on March 31, 2012
Paras K. Chowdhary will be completing his existing term as the Managing Director of Ceat Ltd on March 31, 2012

Anant Goenka to be MD, Ceat Ltd from April 1, 2012
Anant Vardhan Goenka has been appointed as the Managing Director of Ceat Ltd for a period of five years w.e.f. April 1, 2012

Paras Chowdhury to continue as Addl. Director, Ceat Ltd from April 1, 2012
Paras K. Chowdhary has been appointed as the Additional Director on the Board of Ceat Ltd w.e.f. April 1, 2012.

Chellam designated Company Secy., Indian Overseas Bank
Ms Deepa Chellam has been designated as Company Secretary of Indian Overseas Bank w.e.f. March 1, 2012

Agarwal resigns as Director, Unimers India Ltd
R. S. Agarwal has resigned as a Director on the Board of Unimers India Ltd. Sridhar appointed Director, Unimers India Ltd

T. S. Sridhar has been appointed as a Director of Unimers India Ltd.
Subash B. K. resigns as Company Secy., VST Tillets Tractors Ltd Subash B. K. has resigned as Company Secretary of VST Tillets Tractors Ltd

Khatua appointed Company Secy., VST Tillets Tractors Ltd.
Chinmaya Khatua has been appointed as Company Secretary of VST Tillets Tractors Ltd.

Ramanbhai Patel appointed Addl. Director, Patels Airtemp India Ltd
Ramanbhai Ramdas Patel has been appointed as an Additional Director of Patels Airtemp India Ltd w.e.f. February 11, 2012

Natwarlal Patel resigns as Director, Patels Airtemp India Ltd
Natwarlal J. Patel has resigned as Director of Patels Airtemp India Ltd w.e.f. February 7, 2012

Garg appointed Addl. Director, Centron Industrial Alliance Ltd
Anoop Garg was appointed as Additional Director of Centron Industrial Alliance Ltd on March 6, 2012.

Mittal appointed Company Secy. Delton Cables Ltd
Pankaj Mittal has been appointed as Company Secretary of Delton Cables Ltd w.e.f. February 1, 2012

Bureaucrats should be responsible

Bureaucrats, who often claim to be sustaining India through so called steel-frame, should be responsible for rigor of policy formulation & implementation. They are permanent beneficiary of system. Politician, the ruler of the day, only provide visionary direction. The structural frame and procedural oil of implementation engine is provided by Bureaucrats based on facts and figures which if twisted can take/make anything go wrong/right. Alas, often they go wrong because of
compromises.

D C Misra

Pranab babu is a good man !

Pranab babu is a good man and we should accept him as he is. Everybody cannot be expected to be Prof Hiren Mukherji.

Bagchi

Are the details of the service book liable to be disclosed?

The estranged wife of a government servant asked whether the name of wife has been entered in the Service Book of her husband; If yes, the name as entered in the Service Book; and the name of the nominee & his successor. The appellant also sought the attested photocopy of Service Book and GPF documents of her husband, Shri R B Bhavuk. The third party strongly objected to the disclosure of the requested information on the plea that the same was his personal information and moreover, if disclosed it would not only endanger his life but also the life of the nominee as well. The CPIO declined to disclose the information under Section 8(1)(g) & (j) of the RTI Act. The Commission observed that whether the name of the wife has been entered in the Service Book of any employee is relevant to the functioning of the personnel and establishment division of the Public Authority. Hence, the Commission directed to disclose in 'Yes' or 'No' whether the name of the wife has been entered in the Service Book of her husband. Refusal of the information about the GPF and nominees was upheld under section 8(1)
(j).

Comments

Some parts of the Service Book are personal in nature where other parts are purely administrative in nature. The places of posting, total period and category of leave availed of from time to time etc. ae administrative information and can be disclosed.

[Smt. Nirmala Bhavuk v. Central Excise & Customs in Appeal No. CIC/SS/A/2012/000107]

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)