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Ravi

Is Suresh Kalmadi facing social alienation?
During a recently held high profile wedding in Pune Suresh Kalmadi was alone and there were no people around him either. A person who attended the wedding said whenever Kalmadi would attend a social function earlier there would be a huge crowd around him to the extent that it would be difficult to meet him, but now such is the alienation that he is left alone. It is heard that secretly even Kalmadi misses the attention that he used to get earlier.

Why Maharashtra Governor and Sharad Pawar have sour relations?
Maharashtra governor S Shankarnarayan and NCP leader Sharad Pawar never got along well, but recently the governor bared his fangs on the Lavasa issue and said if 'I want Pawar will not even exist'. The irony is that Congress has chosen the governor for the second term, is there a message it wants to convey to,it's alliance partner?

361 Navy officers take premature retirement
As many as 361 Navy officers have taken premature retirement in the last three years 2009, 2010 and 2011.

S K Tripathi selected as CMD, STCIL
S K Tripathi, CMD, MSTC, has been selected for the post of CMD, State Trading Corporation of India Limited (STCIL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on May 11, 2012. As many as nine persons were interviewed for the same.

IRDA bill deferred
The Government has deferred a decision on the Insurance Regulatory Development Authority (Amendment) Bill.

P K Basu to retire
Secretary Agriculture in the Government of India P K Basu is superannuating by this month end. He is 1976 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Majar Gen Sahni to be Lt Gen in Indian Army
Major General A Sahni has reportedly been cleared for promotion to the rank of Lt General in the Indian Army.

Tenure of Gopal Gupta to end
Central deputation tenure of Gopal Gupta, IG/Chief Security Commissioner, RPSF, is coming to an end in July. He is an IPS officer of 1983 batch who belongs to the Uttar Pradesh cadre.

27 positions of IAS officers vacant in Haryana cadre
As many as 27 positions of IAS officers have been lying vacant in Haryana cadre. There are 178 officers in the position against strength of 205 IAS officers in the State.

Kurup goes to Bogota
Sanjeeva Babu Kurup Counsellor in Buenos Aires is going to Bogata in the same capacity in place of Ramalingam who has already been posted as CG in Birmingham.

Aditya Padhi in US
Principal Secretary to the Orissa Chief Minister Navin Patnaik, Aditya Padhi is in US for a week's training the Harvard. He is 1983 batch IAS officer.

IA & AS officer Ms. Malhotra promoted as DG, RB Audit, Delhi
Ms. Divya Malhotra, Principal Director (Railway Board Audit), New Delhi, has been promoted to the grade of Principal Accountant General (PAG) and posted as Director General (DG), Railway Board Audit, under the Comptroller & Auditor General of India. She is an IA&AS officer of 1987 batch.

Two CBEC Members get zonal charges
Two Members of Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC) have been re-located the works of various zones. Accordingly, Ms. Sreela Ghosh, Member (Central Excise), will be looking CX, Customs & ST, Hyderabad, CX & Customs, Vizag, CX & Customs, Bhopal, CX, Customs & ST, Nagpur zones with DGCEI/DGICCE/DG (Audit)/ CC (TAR) as well as additional charges of DG (Systems) Member (Computerization) and Ms. J M Shant Sundharan (Member L&J) has been given the charges of CX, Bangalore, Customs, Bangalore, CX, Chennai, Customs, Chennai, Customs (Prev.) Chennai, CX, Cochin, CX, Coimbatore, CX, Mysore, CDR, Directorate of Legal Affairs, Settlement Commision, ESTAT & Authority for advance ruling with additional charges of CX, Bhubaneshwar, CX, Kolkata, Customs, Kolkata, CX, Ranchi(Hq. at Patna), Customs (P), Patna and CX, Shillong.

Lt Gen (Retd) Shah appointed VC of AMU
Lt Gen (Retd) Zameeruddin Shah was has been appointed as the new vice-chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).
(We said this on May 3)

Bonpo gets posting in Sikkim
Karma R.Bonpo, IAS (MT-2010), recently transferred from the IAS Cadre of Manipur-Tripura to the IAS Cadre of Sikkim has been posted as Assistant Collector, District Collectorate, South, Namchi.

Deputation tenure of R P Sharma to end in July
The central deputation tenure of R P Sharma, IG, NSG(Hqrs.) Manesar Gurgaon is coming to an end on July 2012. He is an IPS Officer of 1986 batch who belongs to Orissa Cadre.

Permission to move denied?
The permission sought by S B Negi, IG/ Joint Director (Wildlife) in Ministry of Environement & Forests, Government of India New Delhi for posting elsewhere under Central Staffing Scheme has reportedly been denied by DoPT. He is an IPS Officer of 1990 batch who belongs to the Himachal Cadre.

Search for an IAS officer on
Post of Director, (IS-I) Internal Security in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, is currently lying vacant after the promotion of Vulunmang Vualnam as Joint Secretary. Now the search is on of an IAS officer for the post.

Srikanth inducted into IB
B. Srikanth, SSP (L&O) Puduchhery police has been inducted in Intelligence Bureau as Additional Deputy director IB HQrs .He is an SPS officer of AGMU Cadre.

ITS officer debarred for central deputation?
An ITS officer of 1986 batch has reportedly been debarred from central deputation for not joining the Steel Ministry as Director.

MT Cadre IPS officer gets pro-forma promotion
Shahid Ahmed,Chief Security Commissioner,(NFR) North Frontier Railway, Guwhati, Assam has been granted proforma promotion to the rank of DG by the Central Government. He is an IPS Officer of 1979 Batch who belongs to the Manipur Tripura Cadre.

IAS officer is now Visiting Professor
Karnataka cadre IAS officer Dr S M Jaamdar has reportedly joined a university in Belgaum as a Visiting Professor.

Arvind Kumar Singh shifted to South Western Railways
Arvind Kumar Singh, SG/IRTS/SECR, who was transferred to North Eastern Railway, is now being shifted to South West Railways and posted in the cadre. Earlier transfer order of him has been cancelled.

Rao posted to North East Frontier Railways
V M M Rao, SAG/IRTS, on return from deputation, has been transferred to North East Frontier Railways (NEFR) and posted in the cadre.

Krome inducted in IPS
Wetsope Krome , SPS officer of Nagland Police, has been inducted in IPS cadre.

Lotha inducted in IPS
Khocherao Elias Lotha, SPS Officer of Nagland Police, has been inducted in IPS cadre.

Yimchunger inducted in IPS
S. Tokiumong Yimchunger, SPS Officer of Nagland Police, has been inducted in IPS cadre.

Imlisunep inducted in IPS
Imlisunep, SPS Officer of Nagland Police, has been inducted in IPS cadre.

Three Odisha cadre IPS to attend mid-career training programme
Three IPS officers of Odisha cadre namely Susant nath(RR;92), Ritu Arora (RR;95) and Santosh Bala (RR;95) are attending the mid-career training programme MCTP_IVat SVP NPA Hyderabad and UK w.e.f May 14, 2012 to July 6, 2012.

Transfer of IAS officer, Pritam Singh cancelled in Rajasthan
The transfer orders of Pritam Singh from Divisional Commissioner, Kota to Commissioner, Social Justice, have been cancelled in Rajasthan. He is a 1984 batch IAS officer of this State cadre.

S S Chaudhary is also Aid-de-Camp, Governor Rajasthan
Swai Singh Chaudhary, SP, CID, CB, has been assigned additional charge of Aid-de-Camp, Governor of Rajasthan. He is a 2004 batch IPS officer of this State cadre.

D K Gupta appointed as Addl. Director, Enforcement
Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer, Devinder Kumar Gupta, Director (Inv.) in CBDT, has been appointed as Additional Director of Enforcement in the Directorate of Enforcement under Revenue Department.

DEBATE

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked civil servants to take bold decisions, assuring them that there would be no witch-hunting in the name of fighting corruption. How far it is possible ?

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Vijayakumar is CMD, Madras Fertilizers Ltd
Madras Fertilizers Limited has appointed Dr I Vijayakumar, IRS, Commissioner of Income Tax as Chairman & Managing Director of Madras Fertilizers Ltd on deputation basis.

Two directors cease to be on Board of Classic Diamonds (India) Ltd
Yogesh Kaji, Independent Director and Mayank Mehta, Whole-time Director of Classic Diamonds (India) Ltd have resigned from the Board of Directors of the company w.e.f. May 10, 2012

Talukdar appointed Addl. Director, DPSC Ltd
Sunirmal Talukdar has been appointed as an Additional Director of DPSC Ltd w.e.f. May 7, 2012.

Gupta resigns as MD, Palsoft Infosystems Ltd
Amit Mahipal Gupta has resigned as Managing Director of Palsoft Infosystems Ltd w.e.f. May 11, 2012. However, he will continue to be the Director on Board of the company.

What 'type of consultancy did these companies provide?

In 12 years of services/consulting career, no client offered an equity stake to me or my company! And neither did I hear any such offer to other consulting firms except small start-ups offering equity instead of fees! What 'type of consultancy did these companies provide which 'enabled' the clients' to offer equity stake - that too at discounts to Chidambaram's son Karthi. Wish there was a way out in the rule of an honest PM and an honest FM! Kudos to Subramanian Swamy for exposing - many more such exposures are needed on Chidambaram and his family!

Prashanth

God's intervention

We really need God's intervention to make the department see light the eligible officers are suffering and hard pressed to explain as to why the vacancies are not being filled up really sad to see the inertia on the part of the board and the higher level officers who are they promoting?

Abhimanyu Prasad

Most pampered lot

Group B officers/ promotee Group A officers of Income tax are a most pampered lot and are known to be perpetually on strike without bothering for the government even though they have far better promotion prospects than their counterparts in the CBI, Customs or any other organisation. In fact Class III have better promotions in Income Tax than even PPS and PCS officers have.

Vijay Kumar

Recent phenomenon in Gujarat

Not only so many posts are vacant in the IAS cadre in Gujarat, a lesser known recent phenomenon in Gujarat is that promotions to such vacant posts are also being delayed for no rhyme or reason. For example, two posts of ACS rank are vacant in the cadre from 31/12/2011 and 01/02/2012 respectively but not being filled up despite the fact
that eligible officers are available. In fact, similar situation is prevailing in IPS Cadre also where some officers of 1977 batch actually retired without getting promoted to apex scale though they were eligible for promotion and clear vacancies were also there in the
apex scale. This is a very recent phenomenon in Gujarat which till recently was known to be very prompt in such matters. Is it a deliberate ploy to rein in the senior officers in the cadre?

M.A.

Bid get the transfer order cancelled

Will the cap regarding transfer of Junior IIS officers stop? Some interested party obviously planting this to get the transfer order cancelled.

Gaurav

Is a penalty leviable if information is provided after the order of FAA?

An advocate had been removed from the panel of advocates of a bank. He filed an application under RTI seeking information related to his removal from the panel such as whether the branch manager has written a letter to the zonal office regarding his removal and whether he was removed on the basis of that letter. He also sought a copy of the said letter. The Public Information Officer (PIO) denied the information claiming what has been sought is not information as defined under section 2(f) and is beyond the purview of the RTI Act. The copy of the letter was refused stating that it pertained to internal correspondence between the Branch and Zonal office. However, the PIO provided the information on the directions of the First Appellate Authority (FAA). The appellant submitted before the CIC that the PIO should be penalized for the delay in providing the information. The Commission rejected the appeal noting that the appellant had framed the query in Hindi in such a way that some deductions would have to be made to understand the information he was seeking and thus the PIO's helplessness was understandable.

Comments

There are cases where a PIO may be confused while reading a RTI application whether an interpretation has been sought or the applicant wants a copy of certain documents. In such cases, the PIO may seek clarification from the applicant.

Citation: Mr. Narendra Kumar Gupta v. Allahabad Bank in Decision No. CIC/SG/A/2012/000593/18384

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)