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POLITICS

Inside story of a big shot (2) ?
When the ministry of Corporate Affairs issued show-cause notice to a big business Tycoon in Kolkata in August 2011, though there was a flutter but the later did not respond and ignored the show-cause notice. The notice was regarding suspension of Directorship.

Early Lok Sabha polls ?
The execution of Azzal Guru has fuelled speculations of early Lok Sabha polls. Even Mulayam Singh Yadav has predicted Lok Sabha polls in September.

Is there a revival in the mood of BJP office bearers?
It is heard that there is hectic activity in the BJP National Office at 10 Ashoka Road. Not only are there aspirants of office bearers for Rajnath Singh's new team which he chooses before the national executive but there are also visits of businessmen making contributions to the party. There is more activity in the BJP HQ these days than in the earlier term of Singh or his predecessor.

Saroj Pandey to be BJP Mahila Morcha President'

Ms Saroj Pandey, Member of Parliament (Durg of Chhattisgarh), is likely to be appointed as BJP Mahila Morcha President

BUREAUCRACY

Subhash Goswami is new Director NPA, Hyderabad
Subash Goswami has been appointed as Director, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Police Academy, Hyderabad. He is an IPS officer of 1977 batch who belongs to the AM cadre.

( We said this on January 31, 2013 )

Who will be new DG of BPR&D ?
Who will be new DG of the BPR&D ?.Latest information says that the tie is between 1977 batch Maharashtra cadre IPS officer P N Dixit and 1977 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IPS officer V K Pawar. Presently, Rajiv (DG, CISF) is in the charge of the slot.

Rajiv Gupta is new Secretary Ex-Servicemen Welfare
Rajiv Gupta  has been appointed new Secretary, Ex-Servicemen Welfare. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Uttarakhand cadre.
 (We said this on February 8, 2013 )

13 IPS officers of 1986 batch empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
As many as 13 officers of Indian Police Service (IPS) of 1986 batch and various cadres have been empanelled for the posts of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. The officers include: M Nageshwar Rao of Orissa cadre; Ram Prakash Agarwal of Assam-Meghalaya cadre; A K Pateria, Sanjay Rana and S K Shrivastava of Madhya Pradesh cadre; Mohd B S Yasin of Kerala cadre; Dalpat Singh Dinkar of Rajasthan cadre; Sehi C Srilakshmi Rao and N Tamil Selvan of Tamil Nadu; Dr B K Sinha of Haryana; Praveen Sood of Karnataka; K C Sadyal of Himachal Pradesh and Keshav Kumar of Gujarat cadre.

Srivastava to join as AS and FA, Health
DDA, Vice Chairman, Sanjay Kumar Srivastava  is moving as Additional Secretary  and Financial Adviser, Health and Family Welfare in the Government of India. He is 1980 batch IAS officer of UT cadre
 (We said on January 23, 2013)

Will Sanjeev Kumar move to JS, HUPA?
After the panel for JS, HUPA is returned back whispers in the corridors of power have become louder that Sanjeev Kumar may bag the slot as Joint Secretary, Union Ministry for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation. A 1993 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre, Sanjeev is presently serving as Director, Ministry of Power.

Lokesh Chandra to be JS, Steel?
Lokesh Chandra is being tipped to be new Joint Secretary, Steel in the Government of India. He is a 1993 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre. Chandra is presently PS to Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar shinde.

Patne to be PS to Shinde ?
Atul Patne is likely to be appointed PS to Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. He is a 1999 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

17 EDs interviewed for nine posts of CMD in PSU Banks
As many as 17 Executive Directors (EDs) of various Public Sector Undertaking Banks have been interviewed for nine posts of Chairman and Managing Directors (CMDs) falling vacant in 2013-14. The Executive Directors include: Raju Rish and Raj Kumar of Indian Bank; V Kannan of Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC); Rakesh Sethi , Usha A, S R Bansal of Punjab National Bank (PNB); M S Raghavan, V P Sharma of Bank of India (BoI); Amarlal Daultani of Corporation Bank; S D Arya and Deepak Narang of United Bank of India; C V R Rajendran Bank of Maharashtra India; R K Shenoy of Vijay Bank; P Srinivas and S K Jain of Bank of Baroda; Arun Tiwari of Allahabad Bank and N K Maini of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI).

Orders of Pande soon
Orders of D P Pande as General Manager SCR are expected to be issued in a week or two.

35 GMs to attend interview for ED
Altogether 35 General Managers are appearing for interview for elevation as ED in the nationalized banks this week.

Saugata Mitra selected as Director (Finance), B & RCL
Saugata Mitra, GM, BRCIL, has been selected for the post of Director (Finance), Bridge & Roof Co Limited (B &RCL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board meeting held on February 11, 2013. As many as eight persons were interviewed for the same.

Four IPS officers get DG rank in Bihar
Two 1979 batch IPS officers Krishna Chowdhary and A S Nimbran and two 1980 batch IPS officers Sunit Kumar and P K Thakur have been promoted to the rank of DG in Bihar.

Three Judges of Calcutta HC to retire in 2013
Three Judges of Bombay High Court are retiring in the year-2013. Accordingly, Mrs Shukla Kabir Sinha will be retiring on February 20, 2013 while Dipak Sahay Ray is scheduled to retire on June 2, 2013 and Mrs Anindita Roy Saraswati is superannuating on December 3, 2013.

Sibani Swain empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
Sibani Swain has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. He is a 1986 batch IES officer.

Ms Meera Swarup is PAG, E &RSA, Gujarat
Ms Meera Swarup has been appointed as Principal Accountant General (E&RSA), Gujarat, Ahmedabad after promotion to the Higher Administrative Grade. She is a 1988 batch IA&AS cadre.

Hembrom gets HAG in Jharkhand
R R Hembrom, Chief Conservator of Forest (DEV) Tribal Area, has been given Higher Administrative Grade (HAG). Hembrom is a 1983 batch Indian Forest Service officer of Jharkhand cadre.

21 books written by an ex-IAS officer
B K S Ray, a retired 1972 batch IAS officer of Chhattisgarh cadre has come out with 4 more books entitled ‘the metropolitan fever''-english poetry, ''love's existential song''-english poetry,''the rapist's daughter''-short story collection and''interval during introspection''-a collection of essays on contemporary affairs .All his writings relate to love, loneliness, existential struggle, human sufferings and relationships and a revolt against injustice and brutality. Ray has so far written 21 books. His latest 4 books were in the recently held World Book Fair in New Delhi.

Sudhanshu Kumar moves to Shanghai
Sudhanshu Kumar has been moved from the MEA Headquarters to Shanghai as Consul.

Ms Shashi Minz is Chief Commissioner, Customs, Bhubaneshwar
Indian Revenue Service-Custom officer, Ms Shashi Minz has been appointed as Chief Commissioner of Customs, CX, Bhubaneshwar after promotion to this grade.

Ms R Shakuntala posted as Chief Commissioner, Customs, Chennai
Indian Revenue Service-Custom officer, Ms R Shakuntala has been appointed as Chief Commissioner of Customs, CX, Chennai after promotion to this grade.

P J R Sekhar transferred as Chief Commissioner, Customs, Vishakhapatnam
Indian Revenue Service-Custom officer, P J R Sekhar has been transferred and posted as Chief Commissioner of Customs, CX, Vishakhapatnam.

Two IRS-Customs officers shifted (UPDATED)
Two officers of Indian Revenue Service-Customs have been transferred and posted at different places. Accordingly, Ringzing D Negi has been shifted from CX (Appeals), Jaipur-I to CX, Jaipur-II while Vinay Chhabra is being transferred from CCF, Govt Opium and Alkaloid Factories, New Delhi to CX (Appeals), Jaipur-I.

A P Singh is new Member of UPSC (UPDATED)
Outgoing CBI Director A P Singh has been appointed Member of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) . He is retired 1974 batch IPS officer of Jharkhand cadre.
( We said this on January 28, 2013)

Vineet Garg is also Secretary, Administrative Reforms in Haryana (UPDATED)
Vineet Garg has been assigned an additional charge of Secretary, Administrative Reforms Department in Haryana. He is a 1991 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

Shyam S Agarwal appointed Secretary, NDMA (UPDATED)
Shyam S Agarwal, presently Secretary, National Commission for Scheduled Castes, has been appointed as Secretary, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), in the rank of Additional Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1980 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

D Diptivilasa is also VC, DDA (UPDATED)
D Diptivilasa, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, has been assigned an additional charge of Vice-Chairman, Delhi Development Authority. He is a 1981 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Amitabh Banerjee selected as Director (Finance), KRCL (UPDATED)
Amitabh Banerjee, IRAS, Director (Finance), Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited, has been selected for the post of Director (Finance), Konkan Railways Corporation Limited (KRCL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting on February 12, 2013. As many as five persons were interviewed for the same.

Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty is Chairman of Lalit Kala Akademi (UPDATED)
Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty has been appointed as Chairman of Lalit Kala Akademi. He is a retired IAS officer of 1970 batch and Madhya Pradesh cadre. He was retired in the rank of Secretary to Government of India.

CORPORATE

It's all women world in CBEC
The glass ceiling has been broken with the 'women power' all prevalent in the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), the highest policy-making body on indirect taxes.

The CBEC Chairperson Praveen Mahajan, a 1976 batch Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer who has the rank of Special Secretary, is a post-graduate in History and English. With over 36 years experience, she is also the first from her gender on this coveted post.

For the first time since its constitution, on January 1, 1964, if the Chairperson of the CBEC is now a woman officer, what comes as an even bigger surprise for the 'male world' is that all her colleagues on the board are also women.

Ms Sheila Sangwan, currently Member (Budget) in the CBEC, is an officer of the 1976 batch of the IRS (C&CE). An alumnus of the Delhi School of Economics and the University of Washington, she is also a Law Graduate from University of Delhi and a Humphrey fellow. Ms Sangwan is a post-graduate, and holds MBA and LLB degrees too. A keen Golfer, Ms Sangwan has won a number of amateur tournaments and she is recipient of the Presidential Award for Specially Distinguished Record
of Service.

Ms J M Shanti Sundharam, currently Member (L&J) in the CBEC, is from 1977 batch of the IRS (C&CE). Prior to joining the board as Member on November 29, 2011, she was Director General, Human Resource Development, Delhi and Chief Commissioner of Customs (Preventive) at Chennai. She has a Masters degree in English Literature and Post Graduate Diploma in Public Administration from Indian Institute of Public Administration. She has also served as ADG, DRI and Assistant Director General with C E I B.,

Ms Sandhya Baliga, currently Member-(L&J), is a 1976 Batch IRS (Customs & Central Excise) officer who joined CBEC as Member on August 02, 2012. At the time of appointment as Member, CBEC, she was holding the charge of Director General, HRD, Customs and Central Excise, New Delhi. A post-graduate and M Phil In Public Administration, Ms Baliga joined the Department on November 05, 1976. She has worked on various important positions including Commissioner (Appeals) Pune,Commissioner Customs Shillong and Chief Commissioner, Customs & Central Excise, Mysore.

Ms Shobha L Chary, currently Member, (P&V) in the CBEC, is a 1977 batch IRS (Customs & Central Excise) officer who joined CBEC as Member on August 13, 2012. At the time of appointment as Member, CBEC, she was holding the charge of Chief Commissioner, Customs, Mumbai-I. Ms Chary who joined the department on November 7, 1977 has served in various capacities in the field formation of Customs and Central Excise, besides being an Under Secretary in the Board. She waspromoted as Chief Commissioner in December 2009.

Mrs Lipika Majumdar Roy Choudhury, who was Chief Commissioner of Customs and Excise, Ahmedabad, before taking over the charge of Member (Service Tax) in CBEC is looking after the charge of Chief Commissioner, CX, Bhubaneswar, Chief Commissioner, CX, Kolkata, Chief Commissioner, Customs, Kolkata, Chief Commissioner, CX, Ranchi (HQ. at Patna), Chief Commissioner, Customs (P), Patna, Chief Commissioner, CX, Shillong and DG (Service Tax).

Detailed story in our upcoming February magazine issue.

Jaideep Singh Girnar quit Aajtak and joins MyFM
Jaideep Singh Girnar who was Sales Head (MP) in Tv Today Network Ltd Aajtak news has quit from the company and has joined DB Corp. Ltd. Radio Division My FM as Station Head Bhopal (MP). Girnar was associated with Tv Today Network Ltd Aajtak news from 2008 to 2013, Girnar has also worked with Radio Mirchi (ENIL) before joining Tv Today.

Mishra appointed Addl. Director, BGIL Films & Technologies Ltd
BGIL Films & Technologies Ltd has appointed Ms. Jaya Misra as an Additional Director of the company

Agarwal re-appointed Whole-time Director, KDDL Ltd
The Board of KDDL Ltd has approved re-appointment of Dinesh Agrawal as Whole-time Director and designated as Chief Operating Officer (CFO) of the company w.e.f. April 1, 2013

Agarwal appointed Company Secy. RDB Rasayans Ltd
RDB Rasayans Ltd appointed Swati Agarwal as Company Secretary of the company w.e.f. February 12, 2013.

Neogi ceases to be Company Secy. RDB Rasayans Ltd
Bidhan Neogi has stepped down as Company Secretary of RDB Rasayans Ltd

Venkkatesan appointed AVP (Finance & Account), VTX Industries Ltd
VTX Industries Ltd has appointed R Venkkatesan as Assistant Vice President (Finance & Accounts ) of the company.

Two additional Directors appointed on Board of Planters Polyscaks Ltd
Planters Polysacks Ltd has appointed Hemant Prasad Ameta and  Kartik Kumar Soni as additional Directors of the company.

Patel re-appointed ED, Bodal Chemicals Ltd
Bodal Chemicals Ltd has re-appointed Ankit S. Patel as Executive Director of the company.

Sanghvi resigns as Director, BCB Finance Ltd
Haresh Purshottamdas Sanghvi has resigned as Director of BCB Finance Ltd w.e.f. February 11, 2013 due to personal reasons.

Nandu re-appointed Whole-time Director, Euro Ceramics Ltd
Euro Ceramics Ltd has re-appointed Talakshi Nandu, as Whole-time Director of the w.e.f. April 1, 2013.

Ghosh appointed as Director VKS Projects
Ronindra Ghosh has been appointed as Director VKS Projects.

Ray appointed as Director of Sambhaav Media
Amit Ray has been appointed as Director of Sambhaav Media.

Ganguly appointed as Director of Mangalam Cement
Amal Ganguly has been appointed as Director of Mangalam Cement.

Sivadas appointed Director of Ennore Coke
KN Sivadas has been appointed Director of Ennore Coke.

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Plight of retired pensioners
I totally endorse the views on the plight of retired pensioners. It is very difficult for pensioners even to get an appointment from Senior specialists in Central Government hospitals in Delhi inspite of entitlement! Outside Delhi, better not to even think of CGHS benefits at all like cashless treatment, access to Government specialists etc.! This is how the Scheme is operating!!

N K Pushpakaran

Wasting billions of poor tax payers money in Afghanistan
We are wasting billions of poor tax payers money in Karzai's Afghanistan on the proddings of US. Now few more millions are going to be spent in their farm sector jointly with US. All these are under the assumption that Afghans will be ever grateful to our country. Any one acquainted with Afghanistan's history should know better, that gratitude is not in their dictionary where as treachery and back stabbings are .All these are happening while US is hobnobbing with Taliban for a safe and honourable withdrawal of their troops with out even taking us into confidence. Once US withdraws, Mullah Omar's Taliban will certainly take over and there will not be even a smoke of Karzai. Like they did on Banian statues, not a stone will be left of the edifices we built for them at huge expenses. Pakistan and Taliban will ensure that we should rather be more worried about the safety of our diplomats and engineers working there as Taliban never respects the sanctity of diplomatic immunity or even UN, as happened to their one time President Najibullah when he was was dragged out from UN building in Kabul and gruesomely massacred inch by inch. Some times one is surprised at the juvenility of our diplomacy.

N Krishnan

Govt hospitals are the best
CGHS beneficiaries were provided the benefit of getting treated in private hospitals mainly with a view to avoid rush at government hospitals. The government hospitals are meant for needy and the poor. From the financial point of view, it can be proved that the cost for incurring expenditure for a Government servant in government hospitals may be near to the treatment cost in private hospitals. This includes the salary of the doctor, establishment/general administration charges of the government hospital, salary of the other category of employees, light, water, medicine, diagnostic charges etc. The main reason why the private hospitals have withdrawn from the CGHS service is that their payments gets delayed. The medical bills starts getting pending from the month of July onwards of the financial year. In the beginning of the financial year whatever funds which are allocated to CGHS gets exhausted in the months of April to June as there are huge backlogs. The private hospitals should also realize their responsibility. They had been provided land at low cost for setting up the hospital and one of their duty was to serve the poor. Due to the connivance of private hospitals and unscrupulous employees of government sector general insurance companies, a number of latter have gone into red. With the insurance companies going into red one day the hospitals may also go red. All off a sudden treatment facility for CGHS beneficiaries in Government hospitals has improved with the setting up of a separate wing for CGHS beneficiaries. The doctors there are more efficient to the doctors in private hospitals because they are connected on academic front also wherein they are required to take classes in the medical colleges. These doctors unlike private hospitals do no prescribe unnecessary tests and diagnostics.
Ashok Srivastava

Amicable solution between Govt and pvt. hospitals
I endorse the views of Satya regarding amicable solution between the Government and the private hospitals for all issues. In addition, it would be more beneficial if the Fortis Hospital at Shalimar Bagh is also included in the list of empanelled hospitals as no super specialty hospital in the northern area is included in the list of empanelled hospital at present.

V P Sharma

Strong mark on CBEC's functioning
This is a great piece of news which has made me feel really good. May the present team leave a strong mark on CBEC's functioning in the best public interest!

S S Kapur

Scarcity of official vehicles
These days official vehicles have become a scarcity in various Ministries/Departments. The Ministers and top Officials have not curtailed their usage and their private usage continues go on unabated. The middle and lower level officials are told to chase files sent to other places and get replies from other places by going there. In the absence of government provided vehicles, on a number of occasions they perform journey on their vehicle and burn petrol (the prices are sky-rocketing). They are not compensated in the form of transportation allowance properly and wherever people get, there is objection from the Cash, P&AO and Audit party. In the bargain they loose. I have gathered through RTI that people in Cash, P&AO and Audit are taking transport allowance regularly, even if they have not performed any journey. A time has come to expose all these things. Funny part is that on your return journey from tour you are paid amount based on the pre-paid taxi bills submitted by you but you are paid less than half the amount for taxi hired for your onward journey. A grave violation of human rights and mockery of government systems and practices. Government money can be saved only if we go after the big fishes and not by harassing small people. No body has guts in this country do so (Napunsakhs). Most government servants are bothered only their jobs in order to ensure that they get their retiral dues unhindered.

Anju Srivastava