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Prime Minister of India --------- Who ?

Who will make the best Prime Minister in India ? In a private debate the conclusion was :

1. He should be political person
2. He should be decisive
3. There should be clarity in his thought
4. There should be a charismatic personality
5. He should be English speaking and finally
6. He should have support of the Corporate World

Rajiv is senior-most serving IPS officer in country

DG, CISF, Rajiv is said to be senior-most serving IPS officer in the country. The 1975 batch IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre Rajiv will retire only in November.

BUREAUCRACY

Will Bharadwaj make it as the JS, Coal?
As the grapevine has it, Vivek Bharadwaj may be chosen for the newly created post of Joint Secretary in the department of Coal. Recently his name had also charted on the panel for IPP, Dept of Commerce, GoI. The 1990 batch IAS officer of WB Cadre is currently serving as Adviser (Industry) and Resident Commissioner, Govt of WB.

Chahal is new Joint Secretary UT, MHA
I S Chahal has been appointed new Joint Secretary (UT) in the Ministry of Home Affairs. He is a 1989 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.
(We said this on August 12, 2013 )

K K Pathak relieved of JS (UT), MHA
Dr Keshav Kumar Pathak has been relieved of his current crucial assignment of Joint Secretary, Union Territory. He has been moved to look after Freedom Fighter Desk. Pathak is a 1990 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.
(We said this on August 12, 2013)

Reddy is new Joint Secretary (Police), MHA
Gopal Reddy has been appointed new Joint Secretary (Police) in the Ministry of Home Affairs. He is a 1985 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

(We said this on August 12, 2013)

JS Capital Markets may be appointed?
There is a move in the Finance Ministry to appoint one Joint Secretary Capital Market. Who will make it ?

Deepak Kumar is back to Bihar
Joint Secretary in MHA Deepak Kumar is back to Bihar. He is a 1984 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

File of Usha Sangwan reaches to ACC
Usha Sangwan is all set to become new Managing Director of the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC). File of her appointment has reached to the ACC. Presently occupying the post of Executive Director (ED), she is going to be the first woman to hold the post of Managing Director in the LIC.

Shetty empanelled as Additional Secretary in GoI
Deepak Shetty has been empanelled for the post of Additional Secretary level in Government of India. He is an IRS (C&CE) officer of 1980 batch.

1992 batch IRS officers poised for promotion as CIT
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that 1992 batch IRS officers may soon be promoted to the rank of Commissioners Income Tax. Few 1991 batch IRS officers may also chart on the list.

Justice Pant to be CJ of Meghalaya HC?
Justice P C Pant Senior most Judge of the Uttarakhand High Court is likely to be appointed Chief Justice of the Meghalaya High Court.

Justice Agrawal to be CJ of Madras HC?
Supreme Court collegiums is believed to have recommended the name of Acting Chief Justice of the Madras High Court Rajesh Kumar Agrawal for the post of Chief Justice.

Alok Kumar empanelled
Alok Kumar has been empanelled to the rank of Joint Secretary in the Government of India during the review. He is 1990 batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.

Delay in the appointment of Chairman, CERC
The continued reluctance to take a decision on the appointment of Chairman, CERC, is puzzling Power Watchers. The post has been lying vacant for some time and the Selection Committee's recommendations were received in the Ministry over 4 months back. Even though High Court never stayed the appointment, the Ministry went to High Court to seek the order of the High Court. Seven days after High Court clarified that there was no stay, The Ministry is still slumbering. Wonder, why the ACC is not questioning the delay in the appointment to this most important regulator. Meanwhile, important matters are being listed and disposed off by the remaining Commission.

Sharaf likely to move on central deputation
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that Umesh Sharaf, a 1989 batch IPS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre, is likely to move on central deputation. He is serving as Joint Director, AP Transco, Hyderabad.

Four posts of DIGs vacant in BPRD
As many as four posts of DIG have been lying vacant in BPRD as against the sanctioned strength of nine DIG level posts.

Deputation tenure of CVO, IRCON extended
Central deputation tenure of Ms Swaswati Bandopadhyay, IDAS(1983), Chief Vigilance Officer(CVO), Indian Railway Construction Company(IRCON) has been extended for a period of one year beyond June 6, 2013 i.e. upto June 5, 2014 .

Maitra to be Adviser, Traffic Railway Board?
The name of A K Maitra, Adviser (Vigilance), Railway Board, is being bandied around for the appointment as Adviser (Traffic) in Railway Board. He is an IRTS officer.

MECL Director, C P Gupta to retire this month
C P Gupta, Director (Finance), Mineral Exploration Corporation Limited (MECL) is retiring on August 31, 2013. S Murthy Maruvada, GM, KIOCL will succeed him in September, 2013.

BDL signs contract with MoD for Invar Anti Tank Guided Missiles
Bharat Dynamics Limited, Hyderabad (BDL), a Mini Ratna category company under Department of Defence Production, has signed a contract with Ministry of Defence for supplying Invar Anti Tank Guided Missiles to Indian Army. The contract is valued about Rs. 3000 crore. The deliveries are expected to be completed over next five years. Invar is a laser beam rider Anti Tank Guided Missile capable of being fired from T-90 tank. It has a range of 5 km. The missile can neutralize adversaries tanks fitted with Explosive Reactive Armour Protection. BDL has been manufacturing these missiles under technical collaboration with M/s Rosoboronexport of Russia.

Ministry of Railways invites applications for Manager, RITES
Ministry of Railways has invited applications from the officers for the two posts of Manager (P. Way) , RITES, Nagpur, on deputation basis for a period of five years. The applications of willing officers should reach within month of advertisement of vacancy.

Orders of Swaminathan as Director (Fin), BEML yet to come
The orders of P Swaminathan, ED, BEML, for the appointment as Director (Finance), BEML Limited are yet to be issued by Government of India. He will replace present incumbent Pitchiah retiring in September, 2013.

Aggarwal empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
H C Aggarwal has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. He is a 1988 batch officer of Indian Postal Service.

Ms Joshi posted as Asst AG in PAG office, Allahabad
Ms Bhavika Joshi, on completion of training at Shimla, has been transferred and posted as Assistant Accountant General in the office of Principal Accountant General (G&SSA), Uttar Pradesh, Allahabad. She is an IA&AS officer of 2011 batch.

Dr Mehrotra empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
Dr P K Mehrotra has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. He is a 1990 batch officer of IP&TA &FS.

1988 batch IPS officers get ADG rank in Sikkim
Two 1988 batch IPS officers Bhupendra Thapa and TT Tamang have been promoted to the rank of ADG in Sikkim.

Lt Gen Ahuja takes over as GOC of 4 Corps
Lt Gen. Anil Ahuja has taken over as the new General Officer Commanding (GOC) of 4 Corps of the army in Tezpur.

R S Gujral is also Secretary, Disinvestment in GoI (UPDATED)
R S Gujral, Finance Secretary and Secretary, Department of Expenditure, has been assigned an additional charge of Secretary, Department of Disinvestment till the return of Ravi Mathur from leave. Gujral is a 1976 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

Amitabh Verma posted as Chairman, Inland Waterways Authority of India (UPDATED)
Amitabh Verma has been appointed as Chairman, Inland Waterways Authority of India under the Ministry of Shipping in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Dinesh Kumar Jain elevated as Addl Secretary, Agriculture & Cooperation (UPDATED)
Dinesh Kumar Jain, Joint Secretary, Department of Rural Development, Ministry of Rural Development, has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

R Sridharan is Additional Secretary, Ministry of Mines (UPDATED)
R Sridharan has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Mines in Government of India. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Alliance Air to introduce new flights from Sept 9 (UPDATED)
Alliance Air, a wholly owned subsidiary of Air India Limited, will be introducing the following new flights ex-Mumbai with CRJ Jet type aircraft (70 seater) effective September 9, 2013 :

Flt.No. Sector Dep / Arr Days of operations

AI-9621 BOM-GWL 1215 / 1400 Mon, Thu

AI-9622 GWL-BOM 1430 / 1615 Mon, Thu

AI-9623 BOM-AGR 1215 / 1410 Tue, Fri
AI-9624 AGR-BOM 1440 / 1635 Tue, Fri

AI-9613 DEL-IXD 0730 / 0845 Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri
AI-9613 IXD-BOM 0915 / 1115 Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri

AI-9614 BOM-IXD 0745 / 0945 Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri
AI-9614 IXD-DEL 1015 / 1130 Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri

Rajani Kant Verma posted Principal Secretary, Power in Delhi Govt (UPDATED)
Rajani Kant Verma has been appointed as Principal Secretary (Power), CMD-DTL, CMD-DPCL and Chairman-IPGCL in Delhi Government. He is a IAS 1984 batch IAS officer of AGMUT cadre.

Ms Nishi Vasudeva selected as CMD, HPCL (UPDATED)
Ms Nishi Vasudeva, Director (Marketing), HPCL, has been selected for the post of Chairperson and Manging Director (CMD), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on August 21, 2013. As many as seven persons were interviewed for the same.

10 IPS officers shifted in Punjab (UPDATED)
As many as 10 officers belonging to Indian Police Service (IPS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Punjab. Accordingly, Ram Singh has been appointed as Police Commissioner, Jalandhar while Chander Sekhar will now be IG, Vigilance, EW and Ms Shashi Prabha is IG, Modernisation. Similarly, R P S Brar has been posted as IG, Crime; Jatinder Singh Alukh as Commissioner, Amaritsar; Kanwar Vijay Pratap Singh as DIG, Ludhiana and DIG Cyber Crime; D P Singh gets additional charge of DIG, Administration; Rajpal Singh as Commandant 7th Battalion; Sandeep Singh shifted to 3rd IRB and Harjinder Singh was posted as AIG, Provision.

HAL funds for Uttarakahnd relief work (UPDATED)
The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) today contributed rupees two crores towards the Uttarakhand Relief work as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility. The cheque was handed over to the Defence Minister, A K Antony by HAL Chairman, Dr R K Tyagi in New Delhi. The proceeds will go to the Prime Minister's Relief Fund. "HAL has contributed to the disaster hit state in many ways. The company is always in forefront in helping the needy whenever such unfortunate disasters strike the country", says Dr Tyagi. HAL teams were positioned at Deharadun and Delhi to ensure logistic support for the rescue operations led by its flagship indigenous helicopter Dhruv, ably aided by Cheetah and Chetak. These copters flew around 1200 hours in the biggest ever helicopter based rescue operation of Indian defence forces in flood and rain-hit areas of Uttarakhand. HAL copters performed effectively in dropping paratroopers, evacuating stranded people and in supplying food and medicines in the affected areas of Uttarakhand. HAL designed, developed and produced Dhruv helicopters have been delivered to the Indian Army, Air Force, Navy and the Coast Guard. They are also exported. The civil version of Dhruv has been certified by the DGCA and delivered to ONGC, Govt of Jharkand and the BSF.

CORPORATE

Non-budgetary support to sick HMT Watches approved
The Department of Heavy Industry has approved a proposal for providing non-plan budgetary support to meet payment of statutory dues, salary and wages in this sick / loss making CPSE HMT (Watches) Ltd.

Glan Singh to be Airport Manager, Bahrain
Air India officer, Glan Singh has been appointed as Airport Manager, Bahrain.

SIDBI appoints Nominee Director on Board of GSFC
Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) has nominated Balbir Singh, Deputy General Manager, SIDBI, Ahmedabad, as a Director on the Board of Gujarat State Financial Corporation (GSFC) with immediate effect

Tayal appointed Part-time Director, MMTC Ltd
MMTC Limited has appointed Skand Ranjan Tayal (who is former IFS Officer ) as Non-Official Part-time Independent Director of the company.

Shahra appointed Exec. Chairman, National Steel and Agro Industries Ltd
National Steel and Agro Industries Ltd has appointed Santosh Shahra as Executive Chairman of the company.

Serra ceases to be Director, Alstom T&D India Limited
Michel Serra has ceased to be Director of Alstom T&D India Limited.

Mathur resigns as CFO, Alstom T&D India Limited
Sunil Mathur has resigned as Chief Finance Officer (CFO) of Alstom T&D India Limited w.e.f. August 31, 2013

Bhargava resigns as Independent Director, Orbit Corporation Limited
Kuldip Bhargava has resigned as Independent Director of Orbit Corporation Limited

Sabharwalas appointed Independent Director, Meghmani Organics Ltd
Meghmani Organics Limited has appointed Chander Sabharwalas an Independent Director of the company.

Dalmia to be re-appointed Chairman, Suraj Products Ltd?
Suraj Products Ltd to re-appoint Yogesh Kumar Dalmia as Chairman of the company w.e.f. September 1, 2013.

Reddy appointed MD, Ram Informatics Ltd
Ram Informatics Ltd has appointed L Srinath Reddy as Managing Director of the company.

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History Repeats

It is often quoted that history repeats itself and we are witnessing 1991 economic situation is repeating itself with same government and same political leaders controlling the country. We have FE reserves for making payments six to seven months and that time is not far away. Still it is being claimed that economic condition is good and this is only global phenomenon. Any body can see from naked eyes without using any coloured glass about rising graph of inflation, price rise, CAD, corruption (2G, CWG, coal) appreciation of $, imports and decreasing graph of GDP rate, industrial production, depreciation of rupee, job opportunity, public confidence, inflow of FDI, exports then how we can say everything is OK. Let us be fair now and disclose true picture of the economic condition of the country. It is said that stock market is mirror of economic condition of the country and situation is such that a single day fall goes to 769 points (BSE). There is no vision and no long term policy decision. Situation is being handled as fire fighting e.g. import duty on gold and silver has been increased four times in short span where as earlier it used to be in two occasions either during budget presentation or during import-export policy announcement. It is being sounded "Do not worry condition will improve soon we will achieve 8-9% GDP". I wish it should be true.

N Prakash

No excuse pleases, Ministry of Coal and CBI.

As many as 45 files of the Ministry of Coal pertaining to the Coalgate scams have been lost. But this episode should not act as a deterrent for closing the inquiry. The reason being that the paragraph No.99 of the Central Secretariat Manual of Office Procedure states as under:-

"A file will be reconstructed if it is misplaced. The file number and the subject will be obtained from the file register and the copies of correspondence will be sought from the corresponding departments. On receipt of all such papers they will be arranged in chronological order on the file and a self-contained note will be prepared on the basis of the copies of correspondence, and placed on the notes portion of the reconstructed file".

Files do get lost in Government and is a fact of life. But there is also system of reconstruction of files. The copies of the Original application, and the various letters exchanged between the beneficiary company & government and the final allotment letters can be obtained from the beneficiary party. If the latter does not cooperates, straight away the license should be cancelled. As regards, the copies of the agenda papers & minutes of the meeting of the Screening Committee is concerned the same can be obtained from the sister Ministries/Departments. The corrupt should be brought to books.

B B Srivastava

Is it not a joke ?

There is a sub-ordinate organisation which has 15 Regional Offices located in important State Capitals. The Organisation does not have a Transfer Policy at all. People who get transferred to Delhi from other Northern and Southern Regional Offices easily go back to their original destination within a few months for the reasons best know to the so called Competent Authorities in the Ministry. To make matters worse, these Regional Offices only function as Regional Post Offices of the Main Ministry i.e. just receiving communication from Delhi, forwarding the same to the Field Offices and collecting data and again transmitting the same to the Ministry. It is really painful to note that the same Ministry has parallel Offices being run by the State Governments, as this is a Central-State Sponsored programme, and the entire expenditure is reimbursed to the State Govt. annually. When Rupee is falling down, mere changes in monetary policies do not work, but curtaining expenditure being incurred like this.

Sivakumar

Why this discrimination ?

Some time ago, a proposal was sent to the Ministry of Finance from a Department of the Government of India that an IFS officer has been promoted in his parent cadre to a higher scale of pay and that the deputation post held by him in the department should also be upgraded as personal to him. Such a personal upgradation is given to IAS officers without establishing any matching savings and that IFS is also an AIS and its officers deserve the facilities available to IAS. The person initiating this note is summoned to the MOF and rebuked stating that how IFS can be compared to IAS. The proposal was rejected stating that no matching savings have been established.

Hari

This silence is golden indeed!

When Dr Mehrotra juxtaposes the PM and a CM, one can't resist the temptation of contributing a simple post to the WIC. The PM has proved beyond even the most unreasonable doubt that silence is not only golden but the most potent weapon in the armory of a Prime Minister besieged by the corrupt or incompetent or allied or simply shouting motor mouths as in the Indian context. He has put to use this weapon more successfully than Mahatma Gandhi's deployment of non violence against the British. What more can a Prime Minister do under the thumb of coalition politics, feuding politicians of members of the coalition or his own and also challenged in the roaring voices like those of a NaMo from Bhuj or somewhere else? He had to open his mouth only once and he would not have been able to deliver his 10th speech from the Lal Quila (symbol of rebellion against the British rule) uninterrupted. What keeps the roarers away? There is only one very very simple difference: the PM does not talk at all what the roarers talk all the time, which repels the parallel economy and it is clever practitioners away from the speakers. That leaves them to have their silver spoon in their mouth when the golden set is for the winner!

M L Gupta

TAIL=PIECE

Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi, happen to be lost in a desert. After days of walking without any water or food, they noticed a Mosque.

Rahul said: "I will walk in saying that my name is Mohamed, and you say that your name is Ahmed, this way we'll get some food! I have done this before too. We can easily fool them. Deal?"

Modi: "No, I am a Hindu Nationalist. I won't change my name I will stick with my name." They walked in.

Maulavi asked who are you?

Rahul Gandhi: "My name is Mohamed."

Modi: "I'm Narendra Damodardas Modi."

Maulavi: "Modiji ko pani dijiye aur khana khilayiye aur Mohamed Miya, Ramazan Mubarak"

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