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POLITICS

Who is next PM ?
Who will be next Prime Minister? Answer to this question came from a diplomat- One who is part and parcel in the US game?

Closed door meeting between Sushma Swaraj and Shivraj Singh
There was a closed door meeting between Sushma Swaraj and MP CM Shivraj Singh. Is Narendra Modi aware ?.

BUREAUCRACY

1983 batch IAS officer to be Chief Secretary of Manipur ?
A 1983 batch Manipur-Tripura cadre IAS officer Rajni Ranjan Rashmi is likely to succeed D S Poonia as Chief Secretary of Manipur on May 1. He is presently on deputation to the Government of India. Poonia is retiring on April 30.

Jiji Thomson is new DG, SAI
Jiji Thomson has taken over as DG, Sports Authority of India (SAI). He is a 1980 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.
(We said this on March 5, 2013)

D V Singh is now Chairman of Manipur PSC
Former Secretary Water Resources in the Government of India D V Singh is new Chairman of the Manipur Public Service Commission .He is a retired 1976 batch IAS officer of MT cadre.

Suresh Babu is Ambassador of India to Georgia
Suresh Babu presently Ambassador of India to the Republic of Armenia has been concurrently accredited as the Ambassador of India to Georgia, with residence in Yerven.

Sudhir Kumar Rakesh is new PS to Bihar Governor
Sudhir Kumar Rakesh has been appointed new Principal Secretary(PS) to the Bihar Governor. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer.

Gautam, DIG ITBP, transferred to SHQ, LDK
A K Gautam, DIG, ITBP, has been transferred from Directorate General INT Branch to Station HQ, Laddakh.

Jaspal Singh, DIG ITBP, transferred to NE Frontier, Shillong
Jaspal Singh has been positioned at Shillong, NE Frontier. Until now he was positioned at Station HQ, Laddakh.

Vidhu P Nair to move to Hamburg
DCM in Indian Embassy, Kuwait, Vidhu P Nair has been moved to Hamburg.

Kuldeep Sharma to look after Modernisation
Newly appointed Advisor in the MHA, Kuldeep Sharma, will be in charge of modernisation of the police force. He is a 1976 batch IPS officer of Gujarat cadre.

Khemka transferred 45 times
Haryana cadre IAS officer Ashok Khemka has been transferred 45 times during his career of 21 years.

Appointment of new Member of CBDT surprises IRS circles
Taking over of Dr Parvinder Sohi Behuria as new Member of the CBDT has come as a surprise to the IRS . Never in the past, appointment of any new Member was made within a week of the retirement of a Member.
(We said this on March 7, 2013)

E R Solomon promoted as Add.l Dy CAG, Western Region
E R Solomon has been promoted as Additional Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General, Western Region. He is an IA&AS officer of 1980 batch.

Meena is now Administrator of Annamalai University
Shiv Das Meena has been appointed Administrator of the Annamalai University. He is a 1989 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Narayanan is Director of IIT Hyderabad
PJ Narayanan has been appointed new Director of IIIT Hyderabad. He will succeed Rajeev Sangal, who will be joining as the Director of IIT, Banaras Hindu University (BHU).

Das is Information Commissioner in Jharkhand
Prabodh Ranjan Das has been sworn in as Information Commissioner of Jharkhand. He was Registrar General of the Jharkhand High Court.

R L Jakhu, Indian P&T AFS officer joins as CGM(Finance) in BBNL
R L Jakhu, an Indian P&T AFS officer of 1987 batch has joined as CGM (Finance) in BBNL (Bharat Broadband Network Limited) under Ministry of Communication & IT.

CVO changed again ?
In MOS&PI the Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) has reportedly been changed thrice in a month.

Nandan Nilekani to address the convocation on April 10 at BIT, Mesra, Ranchi
UIDAI Chairman Nandan Nilekani will address the convocation at BIT, Mesra on April 10.

V G Joshi assumes charge as Director (Refinery), MRPL
Vijay G Joshi has taken over as Director (Refinery) of Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL), a mini-Ratna and ONGC Group Company. He will be the second functional Director on Board of MRPL.Vijay Joshi (58), brings to the table 36 years of experience in Petroleum Refining Industry. Before this appointment, he was Group General Manager, Projects In-charge of MRPL, directly responsible for all project related activities. Joshi hails from Bijapur and graduated from NITK (then KREC) Suratkal, (1975 batch).
(We said this on Nov 30, 2012)

V S B Babu joins ECIL
V S B Babu GM, NPCL, has taken over the charge as Director (Personnel) Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), Hyderabad on April 5, 2013.
(We said this on August 13, 2012)

Joe Sebastian is OSD, CCIT, Delhi region
Indian Revenue Service-Income Tax (IRS-IT) officer, Joe Sebastian, Commissioner of Income Tax, has been posted as OSD in the office of CCIT (CCA), Delhi region.

B D Bishnoi gets addl charge, CIT (Inv), Bhopal
Indian Revenue Service-Income Tax (IRS-IT) officer, B D Bishnoi, Director of Income Tax (Investigation), Bhopal, has been assigned additional charge of CIT (Central), Bhopal.

J Raymond Peter is PS, Minorities Welfare in AP
J Raymond Peter has been appointed as Principal Secretary, Minorities Welfare Department in Andhra Pradesh. He is a 1984 batch IAS officer.

35 women employees of Railways felicitated
As many as 35 outstanding women employees of Railways have been honoured on the occasion of Women's Day function cum Golden Jubilee celebrations organized by Railway Women's Welfare Central Organization (RWWCO), an apex body of the chain of Women's Welfare Organisations spread over all Indian Railways, at New Delhi. There are 80 thousand women employees in Railways.

CORPORATE

NBCFDC MD Naqvi, elected Board Member , SCOPE
A A Naqvi, Managing Director, National Backward Classes Finance & Development Corporation, is also one of the 19 Board Members of Standing Conference of Public Enterprise (SCOPE) who were elected during the recently held bi-annual elections of the apex body of Central Government owned Public Enterprises. Naqvi, who completed his MBA degree jointly from International Centre of Public Enterprises and Edward Kardly University, LJUBLJANA, Yugoslavia now in Slovenia, is senior most member of SCOPE Executive Board. He has been consecutively elected for the eighth term. During his tenure as Managing Director, NBCFDC bagged MOU Excellence Awards (Rated one of the Top PSE 5 times) & SCOPE Awards.

Ajit Gulabchand is Chairman of CSDC
Ajit Gulabchandhas , CMD of Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) been appointed Chairman of the Construction Skills Development Council (CSDC) .

Singaravel appointed Company Secy., The Lakshmi Mills Company Ltd
N Singaravel has been appointed as the Company Secretary of The Lakshmi Mills Company Ltd.

Gopalakrishnan elected CII President
Kris Gopalakrishnan who is the Co-Founder and also the Executive Co-Chairman of Infosys Ltd has been elected as the President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for the year 2013-14

Khan resigns as Director, Jubilant Life Sciences Ltd
Hamidulla K. Khan has resigned as Director of Jubilant Life Sciences Ltd.

Krishnakumar appointed ED, Canara Bank
The Central Government has appointed V S Krishnakumar who is presently the General Manager of Allahabad Bank as Executive Director (ED) of Canara Bank with effect from the date of his taking over charge till April 30, 2015

Khurana resigns as Company Secy., Jubilant Industries Ltd
Amit Khurana has resigned as Company Secretary of Jubilant Industries Ltd.

Gupta appointed Company Secy,. Jubilant Industries Ltd
Deepak Gupta has been appointed as Company Secretary of Jubilant Industries Ltd.

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Merge BSNL & MTNL in DoT
The Department of Telecom's decision on repatriation of about 1600 officers of the Indian Telecom Service (ITS) and some Indian P&T Accounts and Finance Service, Group-'A' officers from Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. (MTNL) is bad from the public interest point of view. This may be called a foolish decision taken by DOT. This has badly hit the working of both the PSUs. Balance sheets of these PSUs have already gone in red after the earlier repatriation decision taken in October, 2005. To utilise the experienced manpower, it would be better to merge the MTNL and BSNL in DoT. Let there be one government player in addition to private players in the operations of Telecom services. Hope Ministry of Communication would take the positive steps further in public interest.

Y Mishra

"India is a giant paradox !"
We are living in a land of contradictions. This has caused us depression, insomnia et al. The Indians need an anti-Stress pill every day. Consider the following sample of events:--
(a) Pakistan PM Ashraf visits India , Ajmer Sharif Dargah chief boycotts him and India's Foreign Minister hosts a lunch for him
(b) BJP predicts early parliamentary polls stating that the UPA may collapse any time ; the Congress assures a full term of " bad" governance
(c) NIA sought custody of Hizbul terrorist Liaqat Shah due to contradictions in claims of Delhi Police and Jammu and Kashmir Police
(d) Mulayam Singh praises Advani, SP general secretary Azam Khan calls Advani a "politician with weak values"
(e)DMK aligns with its arch enemy AIADMK on Sri Lankan Tamils against Congress that helped SL army with IPKF during Rajiv Gandh's regime
(f) SP and its adversary BSP support Congress-led UPA for common return gifts ie protection from raids;
(g)While, PM claims growth slump to be temporary, its growth rate has been showing a continuous downward trend , inflation rate rising exponentially and disparity between the rich and the poor increasing.

A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)

Massive source of corruption & exploitation
Outsourcing, recruitment of personnel at clerical and other group C and D staff by almost all the ministries and organization has become a massive source of corruption and exploitation of our young boys and girls. The agency/agencies nominated for such recruitment select boys and girls for these posts by taking bribes. One month's salary is usually the norm. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation which has won well-deserved laurels otherwise is also guilty of such malpractices. They have two outside agencies to recruit boys and girls for some routine jobs like issue of tickets. Before offering the job which is on daily rate basis the contractor takes a refundable security deposit of Rs. 2000 and some sum for uniform. Before the youngster completes full one year his/her services are terminated. In comes the other contractor. Now he collects the security deposit, which is enhanced every year, and sum for uniform and employs him or her at some station. A few months into the job and before the year is complete the young man or woman is shown the door. It is now turn of the other contractor to make the fresh recruitment. Apart from collection of several charges the agent also deducts the provident fund from the dues of the employees every month.(I wonder how from daily rated staff PF is deducted).while discharging the employees their deducted Provident Fund never gets paid. I am also told by authentic sources that bribe also gets paid for getting this daily rated job. I do not know whether DMRC management is aware of this exploitation of young people and malpractices by their two contractors viz. Bedi &Bedi and Track maybe in cohoots with their concerned officials. In order to keep the number of staff low why should they resort to such 'cheating' of our young boys and girls. Are Ministry Of Urban development and Delhi Administration aware of this racket? Since ticket issuing etc. is the permanent feature of Metro operations why not recruit persons on permanent basis. Those who have already worked in this position for over a year should be placed on permanent basis thus ending this unsavoury practice. CMD DMRC must take action before any trade union gets wind of this exploitation.

Aarti Khosla