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POLITICS
Defination of Ajit Jogi camp !
New definition of Ajit Jogi camp about Congress Party " We are the followers of Mahatma Gandhi-first non-cooperation second satyagrah and third is quit-----"?

BUREAUCRACY

Kaun Banega ONGC Chairman (6) and last S Venkataramanan
Chennai Petroleum Corp Ltd Director (Operations) S. Venkataramana has also been short-listed for interview. Interviews for the position are expected to be held on August 30 by the Public Enterprise Selection Board (PESB),

First woman MD of SBI
Arundhati Bhattacharya has been appointed as a Managing Director of State Bank of India (SBI). She is the first woman Managing Director of SBI.

(We said this on July 10, 2013)

D R S Chaudhary to retire this month end
Secretary, Steel in the Government of India, D R S Chaudhary is retiring by this month end. He is a 1977 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Next CSB meeting to be held on Aug 5
The next Civil Services Board meeting is scheduled to be held on August 5, 2013.

1985 batch IPS officer is DGP of Himachal Pradesh
Sanjay Kumar has taken over as Director General of Police in Himachal Pradesh, following the retirement of B Kamal Kumar .He is 1985 batch IPS officer.

(We said this on July 18, 2013)

IPS changes in Haryana
Haryana Govt. has posted Yash Pal Singal IPS 1983 RR as Director General of Prisons Haryana in the rank of ADG. Mrs Bharti Arora 1998 RR has been posted as Joint Commissioner of Police Traffic Gurgoan. D R Raj Shree Singh IPS 1999 SPS has been posted as SP State Crime Branch Gurgoan.

PS to MoS Paban Singh Ghatowar poised to be posted as JS
As the grapevine has it, PS to Paban Singh Ghatowar, MoS (IC) Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region, is likely to get posting as Joint Secretary soon. The 1994 batch IAS officer of Assam Meghalaya cadre has recently been empanelled as Joint Secretary.

Manoj Dubey poised to be Director, (Accounts), PPP, Railway Board
As the grapevine has it, Manoj Dubey is all set to be posted as Director (Accounts) PPP at Railway Board. He is 1993 batch IRAS officer.

Last date of filing IT returns extended to Aug 5
The last date of filing IT returns has been extended from July 31, 2013 to August 5, 2013.

Over 92 lakh returns e-filed this year
Around 92.03 lakh returns have been e-filed up to July 30 July, 2013 which is 46.8 % higher than the returns e-filed during the corresponding period of the last fiscal year.

DoPT selects 22 employees for 'certificate of excellence' award
The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has chosen as many as 22 meritorious employees including Under Secretaries and Section Officers for the award of 'Certificate of Excellence' for outstanding performance during the year 2012-13. The officers are: Mrs Jayanthi Sriram(Under Secretary), G C Rout (Under Secretary), V S Raghavan (Under Secretary), Virener Singh (Under Secretary), N K Wadhwa (Under Secretary), P K Pattanaik (Under Secretary), S Nayak (Under Secretary), A K Singh, Debbrata Das (Under Secretary), S Basu, H Govind (PPS), P RK Pradhan (desk officer), Mrs Jayashree Challmani (Section officer), Sanjay Kumar (Section officer), K G Suresh Kumar (Section officer), Rajesh K Yadav (Sectiion officer), Anant Kumar (Section officer), S A Ansar (Section officer), E V Poulose (Section officer), James Joseph (Section officer), Bihari Lal (Section officer) and M Ventakesan (Private Secretary).

Special fund for buying shares of STC
Government of India has created a special fund in order to buy shares of loss making PSU, State Trading Corporation.

Post of Zonal Dir, NCB lies vacant in Indore
One post of Zonal Director, Narcotics Control Bureau has been lying vacant in Indore Zone of NCB.

Five probationers of Odisha cadre confirmed in IAS
As many as five probationers of 2009 batch borne on Odisha cadre have been confirmed in Indian Administrative Service (IAS) with effect from August, 2011. They are Bijay Ketan Upadhayay, D Prasanth Kumar Reddy, Gauri Parashar, Jaya Kumar V and Noonsavath Triumala Naik.

Sushil Kumar Patel of Nagaland cadre confirmed in IAS
Sushil Kumar Patel, Nagaland cadre probationer of 2009 batch has been confirmed in Indian Administrative Service (IAS) with effect from August, 2011.

Pratik Majumdar to be Country Manager, Colombo
Air India officer, Ms Jaya Sharma has been appointed as Country Manager, Sri Lanka, Colombo.

Kuman Singh posted as DIG (Wel), FHQ, ADM, Directorate
Kuman Singh has been posted as DIG (Wel), FHQ, ADM, Directorate. He is a BSF cadre officer.

S Ramann empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
S Ramann has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary in Government of India. He is an IA&AS officer of 1991 batch.

T Jena is also DGIT (Vig), CBDT
T Jena, DGIT (HRD), has been assigned an additional charge of DGIT (Vigilance)& CVO, CBDT, Delhi.

Resentment among Railway officers against attack on ADE, Sultanpur
Resentment is brewing among the Railway officers against attack on an Assistant Divisional Engineer (ADE), Sultanpur, in Lucknow division of Northern Railway. The youngest officer was reportedly beaten up by a mob of around 35 persons and no action has been taken against the accused. However, the matter has been taken up with the Railway Board.

Subramaniam gets addl charge of GM, MRPL
Subramaniam , DGM, MRPL, has been assigned an additional charge of General Manager (Finance), MRPL the post fell vacant with Sridhar Patra joining as Director (Finance), THDC India Limited (THDCIL). Government of India is expected to advertise the post.

Bhupendra Kumar Dak posted as Jaipur Police Commissioner
Bhupendra Kumar Dak has been appointed as Police Commissioner, Jaipur. He is a 1989 batch IPS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Major reshuffle; 48 IPS officers shifted in Rajasthan
As many as 48 officers belonging to Indian Police Service (IPS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Rajasthan. Accordingly, Dharam Chand Jain has been appointed as IG, ACB, Jaipur while T Guite will now be IG, Security, Jaipur and Govind Gupta is IG, Kota range. Similarly, Amrit Kalash has been appointed as IG, Udayapur range; Biju George Joseph K as Police Commissioner, Jodhpur; Janardhan Sharma as IG, Bikaner range; Mrs Lata Manoj Kumar as Commandant, 10th Battalio, RAC; Umesh Chandra Datta as Commandant 8th Battalion, RAC; Rakesh Saxena as Commandant, 3rd Battalion, RAC, Jaipur; Vipul Chaturvedi as SP, CID CB, Jaipur; K Bahadur Singh Kapur as SP (PHQ), Jaipur; Ashok Naruka as SP, SSB, Jaipur; Praful Kumar as SP, Churu; Hari Prasad Sharma as SP, Jaipur rural; Mahesh Kumar Goyal as SP, Udayapur; S N Khinchi as Commandant 4th Battalion, RAC, Jaipur; Satyavir Singh as SP, Kota city; Mrs S Parimala as SP, CID, Intelligence, Jaipur; Om Prakash as SP, Alwar; Mrs K B Vandana as Commandant, Hadi Rani Battalion, Ajmer; Vikas Kumar as Deputy Police Commissioner, Jaipur City East; Deepak Kumar as SP, CID, CB, Jaipur; Dr Vishnu Kant as SP, Pali; Mrs Param Jyoti as Commandant, SDRF, Kota; Anshuman Bhomia as SP, CID, Intelligence, Jaipur; Kailash Chandra Bishnoi as SP, Hanumangarh; Barhat Rahul Manhardan as Commandant, RPTC, Jodhpur; Mrs Priti Chandra as SP, CID Intelligence, Kota; Dr Rahul Jain as SP, CID, Intelligence, Jaipur; Mrs Shweta Dhankhad as SP, ACB, Bharatpur; Mrs Priti Jain as Deputy Director, Rajasthan Police Academy, Jaipur; Pankaj Kumar Chaudhary as Commandant, PTS, Kishangarh; Kunwr Rashtradeep as SP, Jhunjhunu; Anil Jain as SP, CM Secretariat; Sanjay kshotriya as SP, CM Secretariat; Md Alam as SP, Bundi; Dilip Kumar as SP, Dausa; Laxman Gaud as Deputy Police Commissioner, Jodhpur; Prasanna Kumar Khamesara as SP, Dungarpur; Kishan Sahay Meena as SP, Tonk; Jainarayan as SP, Banswada; Ashok Kumar Gupta as SP, Bharatpur; Swai Singh as SP,Badmer;Lalit Maheshwar as SP Swaimadhopur; Haider Ali as SP, Sikar; Hemant Kumar Sharma as SP, Jaisalmer; Anil Kumar Tank as SP, Jalore and Om Prakash has been appointed as Commandant, 5th Battalion, RAC, Jaipur.

5 IAS officers of 1980 batch promoted as CS in TN
As many as five IAS officers of 1980 batch have been promoted to the grade of Chief Secretary in Tamil Nadu. The officers are: M Kutralingam, V K Subburaj, Shaktikanta Das, Rameshram Mishra and Surjit K Chaudhary.

IPS postings in UP
Ravi Shanker Chavvi has been appointed SP Deoria, Subhash Chandra Dubey has been attached with the DG office .SP Deoria Umesh Kumar Srivastava has been posted in Dubey's place.

4 IRS-IT officers transferred (UPDATED)
As many as four officers of Indian Revenue Service working in the grade of Commissioner/Director of Income Tax have been shifted. Accordingly, Sanjeev
Sharma has been appointed as CIT (ITAT)-10 (Int. Tax), Delhi CCA while Salagala Narasamma will now be CIT (A), Vijayawada, Hyderabad CCA AP and
Reema Hota Singh is CIT (A), Ghaziabad (Kanpur CCA). Besides, Mona Mohanty has been posted as CIT (A), Rohtak (Chandigarh CCR NWR).

C Rajkumar posted as OED, on Board of Travancore Bank (UPDATED)
C Rajkumar, Chief Manager, State Bank of Travancore, has been appointed as Officer Employee Director (OED) on the Board of Directors of State Bank of Travancore for a period of three years.

11 IAS officers shifted in Rajasthan (UPDATED)
As many as 11 officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Rajasthan. Accordingly, Rakesh Shrivastava has been appointed as PS, Tourism, GAD, Cabinet Secretariat, Civil Aviation, Estate, State Motor Garage, Chief of Protocol and DG, Civil Aviation, Jaipur while Pradeep Sen will now be PS, Medical Education and Vikas Sitaramji Bhale is Collector, Nagaur. Similarly, R S Jakhad has been appointed as Collector, Alwar; Ashutosh A T Pednekar as Collector, Udayapur; V Swarvan Kumar as Director, Primary Education, Bikaner; Ashok Kumar Bhandwari as MD, Rajasthan Mines and Minerals Corporation Limited, Udayapur; Dharmendra Bhatnagar as Collector, Shriganganagar; Om Prakash Yadav as Special Secretary, Home; Dr B L Jatawat as Collector, Karauli and Ralvindra Singh Sohta was posted as Collector, Sikar.

John Thomas to be now DRM, Solapur (UPDATED)
An IRSEE officer of SAG, John Thomas, Southern Railway, who was posted as DRM, Ratlam, is now being appointed as DRM, Solapur, Central Railway by cancelling his earlier orders.

Ms Lalitha Venktaraman to be now DRM, Ratlam (UPDATED)
An IRTS officer of SAG, Ms Lalitha Venktaraman, Western Railway, who was posted as DRM, Solapur, is now being appointed as DRM, Ratlam, Western Railway by cancelling her earlier orders.

CORPORATE

SAIL production up by three percent
Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has registered three percent growth in production of Saleable Steel, at 1.08 million tones, during July 2013 as compared to the same month last year. Owing to SAIL's renewed focus on controlling internal costs, techno-economics parameters of production continued their upward trend with energy consumption and Blast Furnace productivity showing improvement of one percent and two percent respectively. SAIL's modernisation and expansion programme (MEP) continues to be implemented on high priority. Cumulative orders worth Rs 58,579 crore were placed and an expenditure of Rs 46,064 crore incurred until June 2013.

Amin resigns as ED, Swiss Glascoat Equipments Ltd
Ms Phagun Amin has resigned as Executive Director (Planning & Administration) of Swiss Glascoat Equipments Ltd.

Mishra appointed Non Independent Director, Jagran Prakashan Limited
Jagran Prakashan Limited has appointed Satish Chandra Mishra as Non Independent Director of the company.

Komandur promoted as CFO, Strides Arcolab Limited
Strides Arcolab Limited has promoted Badree Komandur as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the company.

Legha appointed Non Exec. Director, Eastern Gases Ltd
Eastern Gases Ltd has appointed Anil Choudhary Legha as Non Executive Director of the company.

Menon appointed Addl. Director, TRF Ltd
TRF Ltd has appointed Prasad R Menon as an Additional Director of the company.

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Britain continues with barbaric racism
In an act of blatant and barbaric racism, Britain has imposed a 3000 pound visa fee on what it considers racially inferior people of South Asia , Ghana and Nigeria. This shameless racist rule does not apply to the white people of Europe. What indeed do Romanians, Bulgarians and Poles have in common with the English except their habit of using toilet paper and bathing once a year? This kind of racial discrimination is akin to the restrictions the Nazis imposed on German Jews in Germany in the 1930s which the Britain of those days heartily approved of. We are living in 2013 and such conduct by responsible governments is hardly acceptable by the current international standards of human rights etc. India should protest and protest loudly in world fora against such blatant acts of racism, otherwise it will be another case of racist excess similar to the virginity tests imposed on women of south asia by Britain.

D Choudhary

Why constitutional post to Vinay Mittal ?
If the Minister can resign, what is the pressing need to give a constitutional post to Vinay Mittal.

BKA

Can a retired PS apply ?
It is not clear whether this is applicable in case of Private Secretaries also, who are considered to be equivalent to Section Officer. Can a retired PS apply?

S K Sharma

Passport Service
I fully agree with the views expressed regarding Passport Service. Passport is everyone's right. Government can stop your International Travel or impound your passport at any given time, if circumstances warrant.

Harish Kumar

It's not democracy but mafiacracy in our country
It is indeed heartening to see the response to the suspension of Durga Shakti by the media and fellow service officers. I hope they take it to logical end and not let the politicians get away with their sins. DM Noida also deserves all praise for giving a clean chit to her without succumbing to the fear. This is what we need -fearless honest officers who place their line of duty over other considerations. I hope Ravikant the D M is not next in line for suspension. Azam Khan has already asked for his suspension too. One is also amused by the reaction of political parties. Congress looks sympathetic but what have they been doing. Can I remind them of a blatant and unethical action way back in 2007 when an innocent officer was suspended for an affidavit on Ramsethu project which contained a line which the shouting brigade of BJP found offensive. To get out of this political embarrassment an innocent officer was made a scapegoat though he was neither the author nor the signatory to that affidavit and the same was cleared at every level in the bureaucracy and the level of the minister concerned. No one helped the officer .All his representations including one to the Prime Minister went unheard till CAT came to his
rescue. Take BJP now. A very upright Revenue service officer was suspended during NDA rule as he dared to scrutinize the accounts of Vishwa Hindu Parishad. When UPA came to power he thought they will do justice to him. But no. An honest officer has no value for any party. Poor man remained under suspension and has been fighting a legal battle for 15 years now and has retired without getting his pensionary benefits as due to him. BSP supremo Mayawati was quick to criticise SP Government on Durga's suspension but what she did during her rule. Transferred and suspended IAS officers left and right to cow them down. They are all chips of the same block these politicians, out to loot the country and in this mission whosoever comes between their way to wrongdoing is shown the door. It is not democracy but mafiacracy in our country.

Aarti Khosla

Politicians beware
Politicians need to be reminded that they are holding their positions as legislators, ministers etc. because the election law and procedure are legally implemented by bureaucrats. Otherwise they are like any other person on the street. The IA S. officers may not be elected but they are selected on merit from amongst lakhs of educated and intelligent candidates and are appointed by the President under the constitution to act as per law and to work without fear or favour. They owe allegiance to the constitution and not to the politicians who are distorting the system for their personal gain .Officers like Durga Shakti should be supported not only by the association if anarchy is not to overtake this country.

S Swarup

Who is General, OBC, or Dalit leader is not the question
Reading between the lines? My point was about media's favouritism and not who is Dalit or OBC. The point was as to why media houses avoid SCs as Prime Ministerial candidates inspite of voter's will. General, OBC, Dalits and others, are all our leaders and they should not be known by their Castes. But, media speculate biased projections such as listing of prime ministerial candidates by Whispers (otherwise a world class website) make us believe that casteism in Indian media exists. All know who was the most successful CM four times in India? In whose four tenures, people all religions felt safe and sound? One can read, Mayawati holds more educational degrees than Modi. She also governed the biggest state four times without communal riots, though UP has largest number of people from other religions. In people's view, Mayawati makes an interesting case study when we compare her political and administrator acumen with other CMs, particularly with Modi. Yet, she was not given one-inch space in the column of lists of prime ministerial candidates by the whispers ---- unfair.

Singh R K

When a person perpetuating injustice becomes disciplinary authority !
I am reminded of a case of Dalit LDC who was asked to deliver some goods at senior officer's residence towards the close of office hours. The poor LDC asks for a gate pass to be signed. S.O. concerned had called a day by that time. Gate pass could not be signed. The officer was approached for signing it, he gets rebuke and the goods do not reach his residence. Next day, red-cross was marked over the attendance signed by the LDC. He is agitated. This process goes on many days and LDC's oral agitation is taken very seriously and he is placed under suspension. A vigilance case is made out and fictitious charges framed. The officer responsible for this nasty act gets promoted and becomes disciplinary authority for the person. Enquiry is held and made against that poor fellow and during emergency period, the poor one is served an order of dismissal from service. He goes against it in a local Court where case drags on for nearly 10-12 years. Fortunately, judgement comes in favour of the poor. He gets his job back with attendant benefits/ promotions. Think a person perpetuating injustice becomes disciplinary authority in that very case and none notices this procedural irregularity, including the court giving ruling in favour of the victimised.

HG

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