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POLITICS

Reshuffle of Governors this month ?
Appointment and reshuffle of Governors is now expected this month. Governors of six states are likely to be changed.

Is Congress' vote catching programs losing charm?
With the diminishing popularity of MNREGA, the flagship program of the UPA 1 - mainly the Congress, there are concerns in the party over how the food security bill will really work. The failure of such a key program as also farm loan waiver means that it will not translate into votes for the party especially from the rural poor and small farmers for whom it is targeted towards, says a person who was part of the core meeting of the Congress party.

Would BJP embrace Hindutva agenda ?
BJP is caught in the crossroads of whether it should take a calling in the Hindutva agenda as is being pressured by the VHP and Bajrang Dal. But Shinde and the Owaisi brothers are doing a good enough job of consolidating the far-right votes for the BJP without the latter having to embrace a strident Hindutva agenda, say political watchers.

BUREAUCRACY

Will Choudhury be CBI Special Director?
DGP Assam Jayanto Narayan Choudhury is likely to be appointed Special Director in CBI. He is a 1977 batch IPS officer. Earlier his name was in circulation for the IB.

Naqvi appointed Special Director, Enforcement in Mumbai
Dr Sajjad Wasi Naqvi has been appointed new Special Director, Enforcement in Mumbai. A 1990 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IPS officer Naqvi is presently IG in Police Headquarters.
(We said this on November 23, 2012)

Sharan to go to Rome as Minister , Agriculture
Vimlendra Sharan has been appointed Minister, Agriculture, Embassy of India in Rome. He is a 1992 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.
(We said this on December 21, 2012)

Finance Minister is not keen for IAS officer
Finance Minister P Chidambaram is not interested for any IAS officer to head the IRDA, though the PMO is keen for G C Chaturvedi who is having several years experience in the insurance sector because of his association with the Department of Financial Services.

Yogendra Tripathy to be JS and FA, HRD !
Yogendra Tripathy is being tipped to be Joint Secretary and FA in the Ministry of HRD. He is a 1985 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Abha Shukla to be JS, Surface Transport !
Abha Shukla is likely to be appointed Joint Secretary, Road Transport and Highways. She is a 1993 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

1989 batch IAS officers in Madhya Pradesh promoted as Principal Secretary
As many as five IAS officers of 1989 batch have been promoted as Principal Secretary in Madhya Pradesh. They are Mohammad Suleman, Asish Upadhyaya, Rajiv Ranjan, T Dharma Rao and JN Kansotia.

11 IAS officers get Senior Time Scale in MP
As many as 11 officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) of 2009 allotment have been granted Senior Time Scale in Madhya Pradesh. They include: Tarun Kumar Pithode, Mrs Sufia Farooqui, Ajay Gupta, Avinash Lavania, Dhanraju S, Mrs Priyanka Das, Abhishek Singh, Ms Priti Maithil, Ilaiya Raja T, Tejswi S Naik and Amit Tomar.

Anand Vardhan Shukla deputed to Prasar Bharati as DDG
Anand Vardhan Shukla, ADC to Governor of Rajasthan, has been relieved for the appointment as Deputy Director General (DDG), Prasar Bharati, Broadcasting Corporation of India. He is a 2000 batch IPS officer of Rajasthan cadre.
(We said this on January 1, 2013)

Sanghi poised to be Resident Commissioner, Mizoram
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that Chetan Bhushan Sanghi may be appointed as the Resident Commissioner of Mizoram in Delhi. Sanghi, a 1988 batch IAS officer of AGMUT cadre, is presently posted at Aizawal as Commissioner, DP & AR and Secretary, Tourism and Soil & Conservation.

Customs officer Sunil Uke promoted and posted as CC, Preventive
Indian Revenue Service-Customs officer, Sunil Uke has been promoted to the grade of Chief Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise and posted as Chief Commissioner, Customs (Preventive), Delhi.

IRS-Custom officer, A Vijay Anand promoted as CC on deputation
Indian Revenue Service-Customs officer, A vijay Anand has been granted proforma promotion to the grade of Chief Commissioner of Customs & Central Excise on deputation to Department of Space in Government of India.

CVC recommends prosecution of eight officials
Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) have made recommendations for sanction for prosecution against eight delinquent officials, (including one IAS officer) of various Ministries and Organisations in December 2012.

42 officers get JAG in Railways
As many as 42 officers of Indian Railways have been granted Junior Administrative Grade (JAG). The officers include: Ashwani J Sharma, WR; Petal Dhillon, NR; Dibbanjan Roy, WR; Sajeesh Kumar N, NR; S Subramanian, SR; Satyendra Kumar, CR; R Sudharshan and Tanweer Hasan, SECR; Akhlaque Ahmed, NCR; Hijam Lukhoi Luwang, ECOR; Anil Kumar, NER, Rashmi Gautam, SECR; Oraon Modeshwar, NCR; T K Das, ER; S P Ghosh, SER; M A Haque, ECOR; Ajay Kumar sharma, NWR; Anil Kumar Sharma, NR; M Krishna, SCR; L Sridharan and Hoshiar Chand, SR; R C Srivastava, NER; S K Yadav, Binoy Kumar Das, ECR; S K Dasgupta, ER; Jaswant Singh Sandhu, NWR; M K Ramani, SECR; A K Halder, SER; G V S Sharma, ECOR; Dharma Pal, NR; M D Sahu, SER; S K Mishra, NCR; S K Sahu, ECOR; R P Srivastava, RE; P B Gautam, NCR; N Bhaskaran, SWR;V K Yadav and B S Raipurai, CR; Vinod Kumar, NR; Yogendra Paswan, ECR; B K Majhi, SER and K Ganesh Kumar of ECOR.

Orders of Justice Agrawal issued
The President has transferred Justice Rajesh Kumar Agrawal of the Allahabad high court as Acting Chief Justice of the Madras High Court
(We said this on January 9, 2013)

Two new DMs in Uttar Pradesh
Amit Gupta have been appointed DM, Rai Bareli in Uttar Pradesh. Aditi Singh will now be DM, Pilibhit.

1997 batch IAS gets super-time scale in Orissa
Two 1997 batch IAS officers P K Mehrada and B K Mohapatra have been given super-time scale in Orissa.

IPS reshuffle in Uttarakhand
There is IAS reshuffle in Uttarakhand. New postings are :- Amit Sinha DIG Dehradun , S K Bhagat ADG Vigilance, Anil Ratudi IG Administration,Ram Singh Meena Commandant Gen Home Guards also,Dipam Seth IG CID,Dipak Jyoti Ghildyal IG Intelligence and Security, Sanjay Gunjyal DIG Nanital and Pushkar Singh DIG CB CID.

Lt Gen Ashok Singh in new Army Commander in Pune
Lt Gen Ashok Singh is new Army Commander in Pune He has replaced Lt Gen A K Singh as Army Commander - Southern Command in Pune.

Jacob to go to Washington
Dr K V Jacob has been approved by Cabinet on a two week training (end week of February) at National Defense University (NDU) in Washington, D C, USA. He is currently serving as OSD to Union Defence Minister in the rank of Joint Secretary in GOI.

Will Pathak be JCP, Central Range in Delhi ?
Deependra Pathak is likely to be transferred as Joint Commissioner Police (JCP), Central Range in place of Taj Hassan. He is a 1990 IPS officer of AGMUT cadre.

Porwal moves to Rashtrapati Bhawan
Vikram Porwal, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Delhi Police (Economic Offence Wing) has been transferred as PSO, President of India, Rashtrapati Bhawan. He is a 2001 batch DANPS officer of AGMUT cadre.

Ahmed to take charge on 4 February as JD (Policy) at CBI HQ, Delhi
S Javed Ahmed, recently appointed as Joint Director (Policy), reportedly, will take charge on 4 February at CBI HQ, Delhi. He is a 1984 batch IPS officer of UP cadre.

Mahajan is DRC of HP in Delhi
Vivek Mahajan has joined as Deputy Resident Commissioner (DRC) of Himachal Pradesh in Delhi. He is an officer of Himachal Pradesh State Service Commission. Prior to make it as DRC, HP. Mahajan was Director, Credit, National Cooperative Development Corporation, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India.

A P Singh is DIG, CID & DIG Vigilance, Govt of Himachal Pradesh
Anand Pratap Singh has been appointed as the DIG, CID & DIG, Vigilance OSD to Virbhadra Singh, CM, Himachal Pradesh. Previously he was PS to Virbhadra Singh, the former Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. He is a 1997 batch IPS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.

Justice Shiv Kirti Singh to take oath as Chief Justice of Allahabad HC today
The Acting Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court Justice Shiv Kirti Singh would take oath as the Chief Justice on February 4. He was appointed as Acting Chief Justice of Allahabad HC on November 20, 2012. Justice Singh is the elder brother of Vimal Kirti Singh, Principal Resident Commissioner of Jharkhand.

Vivek Kishore transferred to PHQ
Vivek Kishore, Deputy Commissioner of Delhi Police, Traffic, Northern Range has been transferred as DCP, PHQ. He is a 1999 batch IPS officer of AGMUT cadre .

Paritosh Dixit posted as Correspondent, AIR, Indore
Paritosh Dixit, FPO, DFP, Rewa, has been appointed as Correspondent, AIR, Indore in Madhya Pradesh. He is an Indian Information Service (IIS) officer.

Ajaib Singh is PD, Audit, Defence Services, Chandigarh
Ajaib Singh, Principal Director (PD) of Audit, Central, Chandigarh, has been transferred and posted as Principal Director of Audit (Defence Services), Chandigarh.

A Bandopadhyay posted as FA & CAO, Metro Railway
A Bandopadhyay, SAG/IRAS/ Metro Railway, has been appointed as FA & CAO, Metro Railway after promotion to Higher Administrative Grade (HAG).

Mrs Nalini Kak is FA & CAO, WCR
Mrs Nalini Kak, SAG/IRAS/Western Railway, has been appointed as FA & CAO, West Central Railway after promotion to Higher Administrative Grade (HAG).

Sharma moves from Islamabad
Second Secretary in Indian High Commission in Islamabad, Chandrashekhar Sharma has been transferred to Nicosia.

CCF in Jharkhand Mitra gets HAG
Deb Jyoti Mitra, Chief Conservator of Forest, JFM & Monitoring, has been given Higher Administrative Grade (HAG). He is a 1981 batch Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of Jharkhand cadre.

MHA seeks applications for Members, LPAI
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has invited applications for the post of two whole-time Members of the Land Ports Authority of India (LPAI). Those interested can send their applications to the Joint Secretary, Border Management, MHA, Government of India before February 28, 2013.

NSIC conferred India pride award (UPDATED)
NSIC wins India Pride Award in recognition of NSIC's innovative approach for creation of new employment opportunities for unemployed youths through its Rapid Incubation Programme. The award was received by Dr H P Kumar, CMD, NSIC from Dr M Veerappa Moily, Union Minister, Ministry of Petroleum, Government of India. The jury for the awards was chaired by Former Chief Justice of India Justice R C Lahoti and included Dr S Y Qurashi, former Chief Election Commissioner, amongst other eminent personalities. The India Pride Award has been constituted by Dainik Bhasker group.

Solicitor General resigns ! (UPDATED)
Solicitor General Rohinton Nariman is reported to have resigned reportedly because of his differences with the Law minister .

Will Mohan Parasaran be new Solicitor General ? (UPDATED)
Will Mohan Parasaran be new Solicitor General in place of Rohinton Nariman ?.His name is in circulation.

Will Madhav Lal join GoI this week ? (UPDATED)
The GoI has conveyed to the J & K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah that his Chief Secretary Madhav Lal is being appointed Secretary MSME. He is 1977 batch IAS officer. One can only wait and watch.

M B Sagar completes his deputation tenure with SCI (UPDATED)
A silent but sincere and one of the outstanding officers of MP cadre, M B Sagar recently handed over the charge of post of CVO of Shipping Corporation of India Ltd., Mumbai. Sagar was lauded for his efforts in making greater awareness regarding vigilance functions and transparency in the Company. He had taken a lot of initiatives like introducing Integrity Pact in SCI, launched Vigilance Newsletter, under the drive of leveraging technology has set up 100% online registration of complaints also set up Vigilance KIOSK and under his leadership SCI is now ISO:9001: 2008 certified. He was also instrumental in setting up of "Vigilance Study Circle in 2010 which has now become a vibrant group of 33 odd CVO of PSUs/Port Trusts/Banks/Insurance Companies. Sagar was presented with a Silver Plaque for appreciation of his Services by the Board of Directors & Officers and Staff of the Shipping Corporation of India Ltd. Sagar is a 1985 batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Five officers promoted as ADGs in MOSPI (UPDATED)
Five officers have reportedly been promoted as ADGs in MOSPI. The officers are V K Bajaj ,ADG (FOD), Sudha Midha ADG ( Water Resources), Amarjeet Kaur ADG (NASA),Samiran Malik ( SDRD, Kolkata ) and Aditya Prakash ADG (Coord).

Six IRSME officers promoted to HAG (UPDATED)
As many as six officers of Indian Railways Service of Mechanical Engineers (IRSME) have been transferred after promotion to the Higher Administrative Grade (HAG) in Railways. Accordingly, Prem Chandra, SAG/IRSME/Central Railway, has been transferred to East Coast Railway and appointed in HAG
and posted as CME while A K Agarwal, HAG/IRSME, CME/East Coast Railway, was shifted to IROAF and posted as CAL and S K Luthra, SAG/IRSME, CME/Northeast Frontier Railway, is posted as CME, by re-operating the post of CME/Northeast Frontier Railway in HAG. Similarly, Anil Handa, SAG/IRSME,
CAO/RCF/RAE Bareli, has been posted as CAO/RCF/RAE Baeli, by re-operating the post of CAO/RCF in HAG and Ravindra Gupta, SAG/IRSME, CAO/DLF (Marhowrah), was posted as CAO/DLF (Marhowrah), by re-operating the post of CAO/DLF (Marhowrah) in HAG and Ram Saran, SAG/IRSME, CME/COFMOW, is being promoted to the Higher Administrative Grade (HAG).

Ravindra Gupta posted as CME, WR (UPDATED)
Ravindra Gupta, HAG/IRSME, presently working as CAO/DLF/ Marhowra, has been transferred to Western Railway and posted as CME/Western Railway.

R Mukund deputed to Centre for Railway Information System (UPDATED)
R Mukund, SAG/IRSME, Southern Railway, has been deputed to Centre for Railway Information System as General Manager (ERP-ICF) at Chennai.

O P Shaw shifted to Eastern Railway (UPDATED)
O P Shaw, SG/IRSME/ North Central Railway, presently working as Deputy CME/Jhansi, has been transferred to Eastern Railway.

P Mondal transferred to Eastern Central Railway (UPDATED)
P Mondal, SAG/IRSME, presently working as EDME (PU)/Railway Board, has been transferred to South East Central Railway and posted in the cadre.

Saurabh Chandra gets additional charge of Secretary MSME (UPDATED)
Secretary IPP Saurabh Chandra has been given additional charge of Secretary MSME for three months. He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

A Asholi Chalai is Director, DoPT (UPDATED)
A Asholi Chalai has been appointed as Director in Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT).Earlier, he was posted with DoNER.

CORPORATE

GAIL accorded Maharatna status
Country's largest Natural Gas Company, GAIL (India) Limited has been accorded the Maharatna status by the Government of India . B C Tripathi is the CMD of the prestigious company.

Net profit of SBH increases
There is an increase of 6.8 per cent in net profit to Rs 321.72 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2012 in the State Bank of Hyderabad. M Bhagavantha Rao is the Managing Director of the bank.

Ramanath is new ED of Madras Stock Exchange
K N Ramanath has taken over as Executive Director of the Madras Stock Exchange Ltd. Earlier he was COO, Delhi Stock Exchange.

Patel re-appointed ED, Shree Aluminium Industries Ltd
Shree Narmada Aluminium Industries Ltd has re-appointed D. J. Patel as Executive Director of the company for a further period of five years w.e.f. February 20, 2013

Two addl. Directors appointed on Board of Wintac Ltd
Wintac Ltd has appointed Arun Eshwar and K P Murali as additional Directors of the company.

Two independent Directors cease to be on Board of Wintac Ltd
Dr C Prakash and Dr K Nagarajan have resigned as independent director of Wintac Ltd.

Sarkar appointed Nominee Director, Nicco Parks & Resorts Ltd
Ms Pritha Sarkar has been appointed as Nominee Director of West Bengal Tourism Development Corporation Limited on the Board of Directors of Nicco Parks & Resorts Ltd.

Jaipuria resigns as MD & Director, Monsanto India Ltd
Amitabh Jaipuria has resigned as Managing Director and Director of Monsanto India Limited w.e.f. February 28, 2013.

Shukla appointed MD, Monsanto India Ltd
Monsanto India Limited has appointed Gyanendra Shukla as the Managing Director of the w.e.f. March 1, 2013

Kothari appointed Company Secy. , Spanco Ltd

Ms Laxmi Kothari has been appointed as Company Secretary of Spanco Ltd

Shrivastav appointed Director of IDFC
Snehlata Shrivastav has been appointed as Director of IDFC.

Sodhi resigns as Director of Insilco
Dr Gurnad Singh Sodhi has resigned as Director of Insilco

Pai appointed Director of CESC
SK Pai has been appointed as Director of CESC.

Choudhary appointed Director of Eastern Gases
Debabrata Choudhary has been appointed as Director Eastern Gases

Khanna resigns as Director of GDL Leasing and Finance
Vikas Khanna has resigned as Director of GDL Leasing and Finance.

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Don't call it super rich tax

Every citizen of the country has obligation to serve the country in the manner, which he/she can do. Now seeing the economic condition of the country and disparity between poor and rich, it has become absolute essential to tax rich in slab higher than 30%. That is those earning more than 20 lakhs or more than 1 crore have to taxed at different slabs may be 40% or 50%. Rich may not mind in paying the proposed taxes. This is their moral responsibility to pay higher tax if earning more. After all they are earning in the country only. Poor people earning less than 5 Lakhs may be exempted from paying direct tax as they are already paying indirect taxes in may ways. Income tax department may utilise the work force in more productive activities like increasing tax net, innovating new ideas of taxes, plugging the tax leakages etc. instead of just doing calculations and assessment of small tax payers. Hardly less than 3% people paying income tax. Govt. should analyse why so low percentage is paying tax when nearly 8-10% people may be earning much more than taxable income. government should analyse and solve the problem. It will increase tax collection. The government must also consider higher tax slabs for people earning more than 20 lakhs or 1 crore. It should not be called super rich tax as in other country. As each country has different economic scenario.

N Prakash

Why higher level postings getting delayed in Railways ?

Why is it that Railways seem to be the only Central Government Ministry where GM and higher level postings are now getting delayed.

A Bhagra

"Cause for celebration"

Scientists are close to producing cheaper hydrogen fuel.

Prof Ajay Yadav ,Agra Univ.

Hydrogen Fuel

The discovery of Hydrogen fuel is a landmark achievement by the scientists. This will replace petrol and diesel.

Prof G K Awasthi, Allahabad Univ.

PIO and FAA should be separate person

Event from the point of fair justice, the PIO and 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

Mrs Snehlata Srivastava - always an asset

When I was IGP/OSD in Home department about 18/19years ago in MP, Mrs Snehlata Srivastava was Deputy Secretary. I found her extremely committed, painstaking and cheerful officer; she would be an asset where ever she does duty.

S M Shukla