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POLITICS

What does return of Togadia mean for Saffron party?
The return of controversial VHP Chief Pravin Togadia to the saffron fold is indicative of many things. Firstly it's a worry for Narendra Modi who managed to keep him at arms length in Gujarat elections. Small `leaks' suggest that the BJP was told to focus more on ideological issues, with Hindutava and Ram Mandir forming part of discussion agenda.

Why is Nitish low ?
Ever since Yeshwant Sinha has voiced his support for Modi, all eyes are on alliance partner Nitish Kumar and what he will do next. But there has been a quiet from the Bihar strongman . Everyone is waiting to see what JD (U) does next whether it will break or continue to string along with Modi ?

BUREAUCRACY

Machendranathan to be Secretary, MSME !
It seems S Machendranathan will be new Secretary, MSME in the Government of India. The 1979 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre, Machendranathan is presently Special Secretary, Civil Aviation.

IPS officer to be DDG Prasar Bharti
Anand Vardhan Shukla is being appointed Deputy Director General at Prasar Bharti on deputation basis. He is a 2000 batch IPS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Rajiv Takru is new Secretary, Financial Services
Rajiv Takru has taken over as new Secretary, Financial Services. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre. Now he is meeting all the Bank CMDs on Tuesday.

Varesh Sinha is new Chief Secretary of Gujarat
Varesh Sinha has taken over as new Chief Secretary of Gujarat. He is a 1977 batch IAS officer.

CISF ads one more feather in its hat; finds reasons for rejoice
Adding one more feathers in its hat CISF has recently earned one more reason for rejoice. The Defence Ministry release said that the designated panel of judges has declared CISF contingent as the best marching contingent among the paramilitary and other auxiliary contingents in Republic Day parade 2013.

P S C Zah takes charge of RC, Mizoram in Delhi
Pi Sang Chin Zah, Joint Resident Commissioner of Mizoram in Delhi has been given the charge of Resident Commissioner of Mizoram. She will be carrying out the responsibility till the appointment of new Resident Commissioner.

Will AN Prasad repatriate in February
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that AN Prasad, Chief Vigilance Officer, National Projects Construction Corporation Limited, is likely to repatriate in February this year. Prior to CVO, NPCC, he had served as Inspector General of Forest and Director, Project Elephant, MoEF, GoI. Prasad, a 1979 batch IFS officer of Jharkhand cadre, has recently got HAG.

Abhishek Singh to move to New York
Abhishek Singh is moving from MEA Headquarters as First Secretary to New York in place of Ms Namgya C Khampa who has been transferred to Beijing.

Ms M V Rajeswari is PD, Commercial, Audit, Chennai
Ms M V Rajeswari has been transferred and posted as Principal Director of Commercial Audit & Ex-Officio Member, Audit Board, Chennai. He is a 1995 batch IA & AS officer .

M R Chaudhary is FA & CAO, Construction, NWR
M R Chaudhary, SAG/IRAS, North Western Railway, has been appointed as FA & CAO, Construction, North Western Railway after promotion to Higher Administrative Grade (HAG).

Aloke Biswas is FA & CAO, Construction, ER
Aloke Biswas, SAG/IRAS, Eastern Railway, has been appointed as FA & CAO, Construction, Eastern Railway after promotion to Higher Administrative Grade (HAG).

Special Secretary in Govt. of Jharkhand gets HAG
BC Nigam, Special Secretary, Department of Welfare, Government of Jharkhand, has been given Higher Administrative Grade (HAG). He is a 1980 batch Indian Forest Service officer of Jharkhand cadre.

Exhibition of IPS officer in Delhi
An exhibition of Photographs of the Western Himalayas at Lokyata Art Gallery, Mulk Raj Anand Centre, Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi has been organized by 1984 batch Himachal Pradesh cadre IPS officer Somesh Goel from Feb 14 to Feb 20, 2013.

IPS officer posted as OSD in West Bengal
The West Bengal government has created the post of officer-on-special duty (OSD) for IPS officers and posted Neeraj Nayan Pandey in the rank of secretary in the home department. He is a 1987 batch IPS officer

Post of DG, NPC lying vacant since January, 2012
The post of Director General of National Productivity Council (NPC) has been lying vacant since January, 2012. The vacancy has arisen with the retirement of N C Vasudevan, a retired IAS officer of 1977 batch.

Rao is new Director of IGCAR
Eminent scientist Dr P R Vasudeva Rao has taken over as new Director of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) at Kalpakkam.

Vijay Prakash to go on foreign training ?
Vijay Prakash, DIG, Uttar Pradesh Police, is likely to go on foreign training programme, He is a 1996 batch IPS officer of UP cadre.

D M Sonawane returns to cadre from deputation to KRCL
D M Sonawane, SS/IRAS, has returned from deputation to Konkan Railway Corporation Limited (KRCL) and posted on Western Railway in the cadre.

Udai Singh Kumawat is PS to MoS, Tariq Anwar
Udai Singh Kumawat has been appointed as Private Secretary (PS) to Tariq Anwar, Minister of State (MoS) for Agriculture and Food Processing in Government of India. Kumawat is a 1993 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.
(We said this on November 14, 2012)

Arun Kumar is Labour Commissioner, Haryana
Arun Kumar has been appointed as Commissioner and Secretary, Labour Department in Haryana. He is a 1989 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

Empanelment list of 1993 batch IPS officers
As many as 70 officers of Indian Police Service (IPS) of various cadres and 1993 batch have been empanelled for the posts of Inspector General or equivalent level in Government of India. The officers include: Ashok Kumar Singh, Praveen Ranjan, Robin Hibu of AGMUT cadre while G H P Raju, Dr R Prasad Meena of Assam-Meghalaya cadre and V Venugopala Krishna, Dr Mahesh Dixit Sandeep Shandilya, Amit Garg, P V Sunil Kumar of Andhra Pradesh cadre. Similarly, Jitendra Singh Gangwar, Sunil Kumar Jha, Arvind Kumar, Jitendra Kumar of Bihar cadre; Jayesh K Bhatt, Gyananendra Singh Malik, Hasmukh M Patel, Neeraj Gotru Rao of Gujarat; Rithvik Rudra, Anurag Garg, Ashok Tiwari of Himachal Pradesh; Ashok Kumar Mittal, Arshinder Singh Chawla of Haryana; Manvinder Singh Bhatia of Jharkhand; Deepak Kumar of Jammu & Kashmir; Yogesh Gupta of Kerala; Dr M Abdullah Saleem, Malini Krishnamoorthy, Sreeramcharan Reddy K, K Ramachandra Rao of Karnataka; Mrs Archana Tyagi, Sanjay Saxena, Prabhat Kumar of Maharashtra; Mrs Sonali Mishra, Ravi Kumar Gupta, Anil Kumar Gupta, Sanjiv Shami, R S Meena of Madhya Pradesh cadre; Rajiv Singh, Ashutosh Kumar Sinha of Manipur-Tripura cadre; Susant Kumar Nath, Vinayatosh Mishra, R P Rao Koche of Orissa; Arpit Shukla, Gurpreet Kaur Deo, Virendra Kumar, Ishwar Singh, Dr. Jitendra Kumar Jain, Satish Kumar Asthana, Mrs Shashi Prabha Dwivedi, Rajendra Namdeo Dhoke of Punjab; Govind Gupta, Sunil Dutt, Amrit Kailash of Rajasthan; S Arunachalam, P Thamaraikanan, Ashok Kumar Das, Shailesh Kumar Yadav of Tamil Nadu; Sanjay Singhal, S B Shiradkar, Sunil Kumar Gupta, Zaki Ahmed, Dr K S Pratap Kumar, Rajiv Sabarwal, Vitul Kumar of Uttar Pradesh and Peeyush Pandey, Praveen Kumar and Sashikant Pujari of West Bengal.

Reshuffle in MOSPI (UPDATED)
While Amarjeet Kaur reportedly gets promoted as ADG ,NASA, A K Mehra continues as ADG (SDRD)Kolkata,

S K Pal is new Director Finance, NBCC (UPDATED)
S K Pal has joined Office as Director (Finance) of National Buildings Construction Corporation Limited (NBCC), a public sector undertaking under the Ministry of Urban Development on February 1, 2013. Pal is a Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary and has more than 30 years experience in the profession. Before joining NBCC, Pal worked as General Manager (Finance) with Ircon International Limited (IRCON), another PSU under the Ministry of Railways.
(We said this on August 29, 2013)

CORPORATE
Srivastava appointed Nominee Director, IDFC Ltd
Ms Snehlata Shrivastava, Additional Secretary, Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, (MOF), Government of India (GOI) has been appointed as a Nominee Director of the Union Ministry of Finance on the Board of Directors of IDFC Ltd.

Sudarshan Venu joins Board of TVS Motors
Son of Venu Srinivasan, Sudarshan Venu has joined the board of TVS Motor Company as its Additional Director.

Raghunandan re-appointed Whole-time Director, Redington (India) Ltd
Redington (India) Ltd has re-appointed M Raghunandan as Whole-time Director for a further period of two years w.e.f. March 1, 2013.

Nag appointed Alternate Director, Redington (India) Ltd
Mukul Nag has been appointed as an Alternate Director to Nainesh Jaisingh who is Non Executive Director on the Board of Directors of Redington ( India ) Ltd.

Vastani to be Acting CFO, Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd
Hemant Vastani, Head (Finance & Accounts) of Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd has assumed the additional responsibility as Acting Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Exchange with immediate effect.

Joshi resigns as CFO, Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd
Mahesh Joshi has resigned as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd.

Gautam Deshpande appointed MD, Count N Denier (India) Ltd
Count N Denier (India) Ltd has appointed Gautam Mohan Deshpande as the Managing Director of the company.

Sudhirkumar Deshpande appointed Non Exec. Director, Count N Denier (India) Ltd
Sudhirkumar Deshpande has been appointed as the Non- Executive and Independent Director of Count N Denier (India) Ltd.

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Indian Bureaucracy is victim of Mai Baap Culture
The declining standard of bureaucracy could be attributed to its nexus with the political class. Some 'over ambitious', self seeking bureaucrats serve the political masters to receive benefits like lucrative, powerful postings, post-retirement rehabilitation as Advisors and Consultants et al. Merit becomes the casualty while the mediocrity rules.

A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)

PIO and FAA should be separate person
Event from the point of fair justice, the PIO and the FAA should be separate person. It is very difficult to judge the intention of petitioner but generally people tend to request lot of unnecessary information and formulate same request in variety of ways. There is tendency of petitioner to take matter to higher level for nothing.

P S Mehra

Congratulations
Firstly heartiest congratulation to Madam Zohra Chatterjee on this prestigious seat of dispensation.
O P Sharma

Thanks to DoPT and AP government.
Mrs Minne Methew's extension purely on merit. She is very balanced and great human being. Thanks to DoPT and AP government.
Naseem Ahmad