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Only Modi and Modi in Urban areas !
Go around the urban areas in the country and you will find it's Modi and Modi everywhere.

One year crucial for bureaucrats and Corporates
It is widely believed that till 2014 difficult days are ahead for the bureaucrats and the Corporates. They are now in a mood of biting time.

Now no "His Excellency "
Now Governors have started following footsteps of President Pranab Mukherjee by sending circulars that the title of "His Excellency" should be replaced by 'Honourable Governor' or 'Rajyapal Mahoday'. The President had dropped 'His Excellency' and 'Mahamahim' shortly after being sworn in last year.

BUREAUCRACY

Siraj Hussain to be Secretary, Food Processing?
If all goes well, Siraj Hussain will take over as Secretary, Food Processing in the Government of India on May 1. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre. This post is falling vacant on April 30 after the superannuation of Rakesh Kacker.

Ashok K Kantha to be Secretary, East in MEA
Ashok K Kantha, Indian High Commissioner in Colombo, is going to succeed Sanjay Singh as Secretary, East in the Ministry of External Affairs on May 1. He is a 1977 batch IFS officer.

Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) story of 2013
The CBEC Members' selection for 2013-2014 vacancies will cause a few upsets. The existing vacancy caused by retirement of MS Badhan was not filled up even though PS Pruthi won his case in CAT, the fate of Vinit Ohri who too had succeeded but could not surmount the ACC hurdle, is a hint of things to come. There are 4 vacancies to be filled up: Ms Shiela Sangan retires on September 30, followed by Mrs Sandhya Baliga in October 2013 and Ms Praveen Mahajan at end of January 2014. With PS Pruthi likely to miss, the slots are likely to be filled by Kaushal Srivastava Chief Commissioner, Delhi; Mrs Mala Srivastava, Chief Commissioner, Customs, Chennai (Husband wife combo will be a first for CBEC); Mrs Joy Kumari Chander, Chief Commissioner, Excise, Bangalore and Jeetendra K. Chaturvedi, DG, Central Excise Intelligence. Former CBI Directors to be felicitated President of Indian Pranab Mukherjee will felicitate all the former CBI Directors on April 6. Present CBI Director Ranjit Sinha has taken an initiative in this matter.

Malik gets extension in SPG
Rajesh Malik, IG in the SPG, has been given extension upto April 16, 2014.He is a 1986 batch IPS officer of UT cadre.

CIT and CCIT postings next week
Orders of CIT and CCIT could not be issued because of Japan visit of Finance Minister P Chidambaram. Now orders are expected to be issued next Monday.

Anoop Kumar Mittal is new CMD, NBCC
Anoop Kumar Mittal has taken over as the Chairman & Managing Director of National Buildings Construction Corporation Limited (NBCC), a schedule 'A' Mini Ratna public sector undertaking under the Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India, on April 1, 2013. Before taking over the charge of Chairman and Managing Director, Mittal was Director (Projects) in the company. Mittal holds a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering. He has expertise in environmental, mass housing and large value projects. His knowledge and expertise in the field is manifested by many landmark projects he has undertaken and successfully executed.
(We said this on November 12, 2012)

Vundru to be JS, Animal Husbandry ?
Raja Sekhar Vundru is likely to be appointed Joint Secretary, Animal Husbandry in the Government of India. He is a 1990 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

Pattnaik to be VC of Lucknow University
G B Pattnaik is likely to be appointed Vice Chancellor (VC) of the Lucknow University for a period of three years. He is a 1978 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Rajender Singh is new DPR Himachal Pradesh
Rajender Singh has been appointed Director of Information and Public Relations (DPR) in Himachal Pradesh. He is 2000 batch IAS officer.

Rajiv Kumar posted as Director, AMG-IV in PD office, New Delhi
Rajiv Kumar, Senior Deputy Accountant General (Administration, in the office of Principal Accountant General (Audit), Jharkhand, Ranchi, has been transferred and posted as Director, AMG-IV, in the office of Principal Director of Audit, Economic & Service Ministries, New Delhi.

Three 1987 batch IFS officers empanelled as JS in GoI
Three 1987 batch Indian Forest Service (IFS) officers of Uttar Pradesh cadre have been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. The officers include: V S K V R Seshu Kumar, Kuruvilla Thomas and Dr Prabhakar Dubey.

Nirupama empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
Nirupama has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. Nirupama is an Indian Defence Account Service (IDAS) officer of 1990 batch.

Girish Srivastava empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
Girish Srivastava has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch Indian Telecommunication Service officer.

Surendra Panwar likely to join central deputation
Surendra Panwar is likely to join central deputation at Inspector General level post. He is a 1987 batch IPS officer of Orissa cadre.

Anamika Singh to join GoI
Anamika Singh is joining the GoI as Under Secretary School Education in the Department of HRD. She is a 2004 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

M P High Court gets four new Judges
As many as four Justices namely Subhash Kakade, B D Rathee, R K Mudgal and D K Paliwal have been sworn-in as new Judges of Madhya Pradesh High Court.
(We said this on October 12, 2012)

A M Khanwilkar to be Chief Justice, HP HC
Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar, Judge of Bombay High Court, is being appointed as Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court.

Applications for Secretary General, AEPC sought
Department of Personnel Training (DoPT) has invited applications for Secretary General, Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC), Gurgaon, Haryana. Those willing to apply can send their applications to DoPT at the earliest.

Venugopal is Devaswom Commissioner, Travancore Devaswom Board
P.Venugopal has been appointed as Devaswom Commissioner, Travancore Devaswom Board. He is a 2002 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.

IPS officer appointed Advisor Planning Commission
Manipur-Tripura cadre 1989 batch IPS officer Rakesh Ranjan has been appointed as new Adviser, Planning Commission .

Balasubramanian to move from Washington
Balasubramanian G Counsellor in Indian Embassy Washington has been moved to Bangkok.

IAS reshuffle in Chhattisgarh
There is an IAS reshuffle in Chhattisgarh. New postings are Ajay Singh - APC. MK Raut - Principal Secretary Health and Urban Affairs, Baijendra Kumar - Additional charge Principal Secretary- Commerce and Industries, B K Srivastava - School Education, K Pisda - GAD and Revenue, B L Agrawal - Higher Education, R C Sinha - Dharmasva, R S Vishwakarma - Excise and Commercial Taxes and G S Mishra - PHED.

Ponoth is now ADG, BSF in Kolkata
Ravi Kumar Ponoth has been appointed as Additional Director General, frontier headquarters in Kolkata . He is a 1975-batch BSF cadre officer.

Three IPS officers get fresh assignments in CG
Girdhari Nayak, ADGP, Jail Reforms Services, has been assigned an additional charge of Chhattisgarh Nagar Sena and Home Guard while T J Longkumer, will now be IG, Sarguja range and M M Tomar was made IG, Chhattisgarh Armed Force/Naxal Operation, PHQ, Raipur.

Major Gen A K Singh is GOC Karnataka and Kerala
Major General A K Singh has taken over as the new General Officer Commanding (GOC) for Karnataka & Kerala Sub-Area .

Yadav is new Chairman of UP PSC
Principal of a College Anil Yadav has been appointed Chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission.

Patna HC gets three Judges (UPDATED)
Three Justices namely Vijayendra Nath, Shivaji pandey and Ashwani Kumar Singh, Additional Judges of High Court of Judicature at Patna, have been appointed as Judges of the same court.

Justice Ujjal Bhuyan appointed as Judge of Gauhati HC (UPDATED)
Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, Additional Judge of Gauhati High Court, has been appointed as Judge of the same Court.

Justice Pritinker Diwakar appointed as Addl Judge, Chhattisgarh HC (UPDATED)
Justice Pritinker Diwakar has been appointed as an Additional Judge of High Court of Chhattisgarh for a period of two years.

79 IRS-IT officers made Expenditure Observers for Karnataka Assembly polls (UPDATED)
As many as 79 officers of Indian Revenue Service-Income Tax (IRS-IT) have been appointed as Expenditure Observers for the General Elections to the Legislative Assembly of Karnataka. The officers include: Nareen Kumar Neb, V P Asghar Zain, Vilas V Shinde, K C Kanojiya, K Srinivas Reddy, James Kurian, R Jeyakumar, Anthres Tigge, Satish H Solanki, Nicholas; Awijit Rakshit, Abhay Kumar Singh, Rajnish Yadav, M Jayaram, Shashi Saklani, Anurag Sharma, Samir Tekriwal, Rajiv Ranke, Anand Kumar Kedia, Banwari Lal, Vivek Anand Ojha, Rajesh K Dhanesia, Sumit Kumar, Love Kumar, Shantam Bose, P Oram, Jagdish, Hari Prasad Meena, Y P B Singh, S K Mitra, B K Singh, Arun Kumar Yadav, Anil Kumar Dhir, Sanjay Kumar Chauhan, M N Murthy Naik, R N Siddappaji, T N Prakash, S R Karuppusamy, A Sasikumar, V Vidhyadhar, V Jenardhanan, V Justin, D Kumutha, C Sivakumar, T Ramalingam, R V Aroon Prasad, S Anbuselvam, Varuvoor U Sreedhar, Shailendra Sharma, Ravinder Sindhu, Pankaj Kumar, Anil Dhaka, G Hukugha Sema, vedanshu Tripathi, Shishir Jha, Stephen George, S N A Najmi, Sandeep Garg, Tarun Seem, Sanjay Joseph, Bipin C N, O N Mao, N G Joseph Gangte, Suresh B, Hareshwar Sharma, P K Mishra, Ajit B Korde, Y K Bhaskar, Prashant Gadekar, M R Panigrahy, S K Sahu, Anadee Nath Mishra, Md Ghayasuddin, Amit Bobde, Hiremeth Basavraj, Waseen Rehman, Gautam Mandaol, Rajesh Meena and Yogesh V Kamal.

Parvez Ahmad Malik is Spl. Secretary, Planning & Dev. in J&K (UPDATED)
Parvez Ahmad Malik has been appointed as Special Secretary, Planning and Development Department in Jammu and Kashmir. He is a 2001 batch IAS officer of this State cadre.

ITI signs MoU with Govt of India (UPDATED)
ITI has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government for the year 2013-14. R Chandrashekar, Secretary, DoT and Chairman, Telecom Commission and K L Dhingra, CMD, ITI Ltd. signed the MoU recently in New Delhi. The thrust areas of the MoU include pursuing growth opportunities in telecom sector and exploiting diversified business such as renewable energy. The MoU envisages that ITI concentrate on revival plans with due approval of the Government agencies.

Kuldeep Sharma is now Advisor in MHA (UPDATED)
Former DG BPR&D Kuldeep Sharma has been appointed Advisor in the Ministry of Home Affairs in the Government of India. He is retired 1976 batch IPS officer of Gujarat cadre.

HOCL CMD, Madangeri to retire this month (UPDATED)
R N Madangeri, Chairman and Managing Director, Hindustan Organic Chemicals Limited (HOCL), is due to retire on April 30, 2013.

Dr Dahiya posted as Secretary-cum- Controller, Examinations SSC, Delhi (UPDATED)
Dr Krishna Kumar Dahiya, Scientist (D), Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), has been appointed as Secretary-cum-Controller of Examinations, Staff Selection Commission (Hqrs), New Delhi.

CORPORATE

K L Dhingra makes hat-trick, again elected Vice Chairman, SCOPE
The Chairman and Managing Director of ITI Limited, Bangalore, has been for the third time in a row elected as the Vice Chairman of the Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE) - the apex body of Central Government owned Public Enterprises. The bi-annual elections for Chairman, Vice Chairman and Members of the SCOPE Executive Board were conducted recently in the presence of representatives from member PSEs. Dhingra, who has for the second time won with the highest margin despite being CMD of a loss making PSU, has an illustrious career spanning over 31 years in the fields of Banking, Financial Services, Lending, Corporate Governance and Business Leadership. He holds the distinction of being the only employee of an Indian Financial Institution who passed A.C.I.B. ( London ) examination globally in July 1997.

Viram Srivastava, Ex-DG, CRPF & ITBP, is part time non-official Director, BEL
Vikram Srivastava, Ex-Director General, CRPF & ITBP, has been appointed as part time non-official Director of Bharat Electronics Ltd,(BEL) for a period of three years.

Chandra appointed CFO, Ess Dee Aluminium Ltd
Ess Dee Aluminium Limited has appointed Rajiv Chandra as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the company.

Adhia nominated as Director, Gujarat State Petronet Ltd
Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Limited has nominated Hasmukh Adhia, IAS as a Director of Gujarat State Petronet Ltd

Nakagaki resigns as Director, Asahi India Glass Ltd
Keiichi Nakagaki has resigned as Director of Asahi India Glass Ltd

Sakakida appointed Addl. Director, Asahi India Glass Ltd
Masakzu Sakakida has been appointed as Additional Director of Asahi India Glass Ltd

Subramaniam promoted as President & CEO, Hercules Hoists Ltd
Praksh Subramaniam has been promoted as the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Hercules Hoists.

Kothandaraman appointed Company Secy., Tamil Nadu Petro Products Ltd
Tamil Nadu PetroProducts Limited has appointed R Kothandaraman as the Company Secretary of the company.

Agrawal withdrawn as Nominee Director on Board of JSW Ispat Steel Ltd
ICICI Bank Limited has withdrawn the nomination of Mayank Agrawal from the Board of Directors of JSW Ispat Steel Ltd.

Srikanth resigns as Company Secy., Goldstone Infratech Ltd
Adalat Srikanth has resigned as Company Secretary of Goldstone Infratech Ltd.

Adhia appointed Addl. Director, Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd
Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited has appointed Dr Hasmukh Adhia, IAS as Additional Director of the company.

Kanayama ceases to be Director, Honda Siel Power Products Ltd
Hironori Kanayama has ceased to be Director of Honda Siel Power Products Ltd.

Matsumoto appointed Director, Honda Siel Power Products Ltd
Yoshiyaki Matsumoto has been appointed as Director of Honda Siel Power Products Ltd.

Jain resigns as ED, Rohit Ferro-Tech Ltd
Binit Jain has resigned as Executive Director of Rohit Ferro-Tech Ltd.

Biyanee appointed ED (Works), Rohit Ferro-Tech Ltd
Dinesh Biyanee has been appointed as an Executive Director (Works) of Rohit Ferro-Tech Ltd

Shushant resigns as Company Secy., Thinksoft Global Services Ltd
V S Navin Shushant has resigned as Company Secretary of Thinksoft Global Services.

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How to uplift poor among SCs/STs ?

On reservations a lot has been written. Many arguments and counter arguments have been given. My views have also found place. Head count of Secretaries, Joint Secretaries, etc is being made every day. This is being done to sidetrack the real issue which is and should be to uplift the poor among SCs/STs and not that how successive and well off generations of SCs/STs should go on benefitting. This can happen only if persons whose families have already got benefit are excluded to make way for others among their caste, without completely doing away with reservation though it is constitutional discrimination against many. I think it is fair enough.

Bishan Sharma

It is not charity ?

In fact any concession to SC, ST and Other Backward Class people is considered by others as charity. I clarify, it is not charity. It is their right which was given to them in lieu of certain demands made on the British government by Dr Ambedkar. Why it so appears that all Indian need reservation when they do not perform well at international level. One question for every one- why there is 100 percent inefficiency in the system when reservation is not even 50 percent taken together for all the communities?

Sangeeta

Poor among SC/STs not benefitting from reservations

It is ridiculous and fallacious to say that poor among SC/STs are benefitting from reservations. Quota benefits among SCs and STs is confined, unfortunately, to the rich amongst the SCs and STs (even among OBCs, the creamy layer is sought to be circumvented by the rich OBCs in their quest for power and pelf by falsely suppressing their real incomes, e.g. the rich marwaris, the moneyed baniyas, the well heeled Kurmis and Ahirs). The tribal benefit is confined to the Meenas and third generation North Easterners. The SC benefit is only confined to children of second generation IAS officers. Examples of poor, well educated (since "financial affordability" is taken care of by a wide ranging slew of measures of government scholarships) SCs and STs who fail to take benefit of reservation policy since their elite brethren continue to garner the benefits for generations altogether abound. These people should not be allowed the benefit for generations in the interest of their own castes. The elite can compete in the general category (after three generations in the Class I services or as MPs/ MLAs/ Army/ Judiciary, if they still need crutches, what will happen to those who do not have three generations of education, power and wealth behind them?). A mockery of reservations has been made by this elite. Saying that there is no reservation after Class I is a total falsehood. Reservations are granted to all Groups, A, B, C and D. Let us not create false myths to perpetuate the hegemony of third generation SCs and STs (the new brahmins) to the detriment of their own castes. The constitutional mandate for reservations being for only 10 years, continuation thereof should be contingent on creamy layer concept in order to widen and deepen the benefits of reservations. The day will come when the poor SCs and STs will become alive to this fraud being perpetrated upon them and then they will seek their due from their own "vibhishans".

Arjun Mallik

Discrimination

Yes, the Executive Committee has scrumptiously made certain amendments to eligibility criteria, to exclude non retired IAS officers to become members. CSOI has been set up as ""staff welfare "" programme and got grants from Government. Therefore such discrimination is illegal. Further, on one hand there is a shortage in footfall, yet there is abnormal delay in granting new membership. Governing Council should look into this and stop this discrimination.

S Gopal

A richly deserved award!!

Bhatia has indeed done amazing work in improving the functioning of the Taxation Department in Maharashtra. His efforts actually go beyond Maharashrta and he has made seminal contribution to the indirect taxation policy in many other states and at the national level. A richly deserved award!!

Mukesh