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POLITICS

Has Sonia missed point completely?
At the Chitan Shivir, Sonia Gandhi did not address disconnect within the party - the growing gap between the party's leaders and the workers at the bottom and the middle of the structure. Though aware of the problem through several elections, the top leadership has shown no inclination to change the situation. Not long ago, desperate party workers in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar complained to Rahul Gandhi about the indifference of state level leaders. However, the ground situation has hardly changed.

Is Mamta's investor meeting a farce ?
Asking an industrialist to sing a Tagore song is what the Bengal investor summit got reduced to. It is a pretension that Mamta Banerjee wants investors there is no serious sops or industry friendly idea coming from the state says an investor.

BUREAUCRACY

Dalip Singh is now Additional Secretary, Steel
Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Steel, Dalip Singh has been elevated as Additional Secretary. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

Madhukar Gupta to be Advisor to Jharkhand Governor
Former Union Home Secretary, Madhukar Gupta is likely to be appointed Advisor to the Jharkhand Governor. Madhukar Gupta, a 1971 batch retired IAS officer, has been known for his own vision and action towards development while K Vijay Kumar, a 1975 batch IPS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre, has many feathers in his hat as the master of anti Naxal operations and internal security.

Vijay Kumar to be Advisor to Jharkhand Governor
Former DG CRPF, K Vijay Kumar is likely to be appointed Advisor to the Jharkhand Governor. He is a retired 1975 batch IPS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Sanjiv Mishra to succeed Dr Adarsha Kishore in Axis Bank
A Former 1972 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre Dr Sanjiv Misra will succeed Dr Adarsha Kishore on March 8 as Non-Executive Chairman of the Axis Bank.

Rajvardhan Azad becomes first Indian President of APAO
Prof Rajvardhan Azad, Chief of Ophthalmology Centre AIIMS, takes over as the first Indian president of Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) on the concluding day of 28th APAO Congress in Hyderabad. An ophthalmologist of international repute Rajyavardhan Azad is son of former Chief Minister of Bihar Late Bhagwat Jha Azad and elder brother of Yashovardhan Azad who has recently been appointed as Secretary (Security) in the Cabinet Secretariat.

4 CSS officers transferred in GoI
As many as four officers of Central Secretariat Service (CSS) have been transferred in Government of India. Accordingly, R K Gupta has been shifted as Director, Ministery of DoNER while Rajiv Manjhi is being made as Director, Health & Family Welfare and A Asholi Chalai and Umesh Kumar Tiwari will now be Directors, DoPT.

1988 batch IAS is now PS in UP
Six 1988 batch IAS officers: Navneet Sehgal, Rajan Shukla, Rajneesh Dube, Alok One, Manoj Kumar Singh and V Venktesh have been promoted to the rank of Principal Secretary in Uttar Pradesh.

Two IAS officers get fresh assignments in Haryana
Two officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been given new assignments in Haryana. Accordingly, Amit Kumar Agarwal (2003) has been assigned additional charge of Managing Director, DHBVN, Hisar while Nikhil Gajraj (2008) will now be Administrator, HUDA Rohtak in Haryana.

96 CSS officers shifted to various Ministries in GoI
As many as 96 officers of Central Secretariat Service (CSS) working at Under Secretary level have been transferred and posted to various Ministries in Government of India. The officers include: Shipra Roy has been shifted to Women & Child Development; Pradeep Kumar Singh to Rural Development; Sudeep Kohli to Statistics & Programme Implementation; S K chhikara to Home Affairs; G C Yadav to Home Affairs; K A Sathia Sulochana to Telecom; Dinesh Kumar Veram to UPSC; G Muthuraja to Secondary & Higher Education; Krishan Kumar to Home Affairs; R C Tully to Secondary & Higher Education; Sumita Das Gupta to Food & PD; Manjit Singh Nayar to Social Justice & Empowerment; Ravi Katyal to Food & PD; Ajay Saxena to Tourism; Raj Kumar to New & Renewable Energy Sources; A M Manichan to Industrial Policy and promotion; G S Arora to Information & Broadcasting; Chanan Ram to Defence; R Prem Anand to Health& Family Welfare; Shivani Dutt to Panchayat Raj; Amrik Singh to Home Affairs; S Gopal Krishna to Secondary & Higher Education; Din Dayal Maheshwari to UPSC; Suresh Kumar Sharma to Health & Family Welfare; S M Gupta to Expenditure; Renu Saxena to Scientific & Industrial Research; Trilok Kumar Gulati to UPSC; Rina Dutta Guha to Scientific & Industrial Research; Anil Kumar to Home Affairs; Rajenddra Kalwani to Commerce; Sushil Kumar to Defence; A R chamoli to Water Resources; Geeta Arora to Agriculture& cooperation; Yatendra Kumar to Commerce; V V Johnson to Commerce (Supply); Padma Saxena to Food & PD; Arvind Mukherjee to Steel; Chander Mohan Bhatia to Secondary & Higher Education; M K Chowdhary to Health & Family Welfare; Ajay Kumar Sumbly to Power; Sunil Madan to Commerce; Ashish Dutta to Science & Technology; Meera K Raman to Steel; P K Srivastava to Scientific & Industrial Research; Sudershan Mendiratta to Water Resources; Braja Kishore Pati to Urban Development; T S Rautela to Agricultural Research & Education; P Bhardwaj to Women & Child Development; Vataila Rungsung to Social Justice & Empowerment; Ajay Joshi to Power; Ganesh Dutta Sharma to Steel; vijay Gopal Mangal to Petroleum & Natural Gas; Pramod Chand to Social Justice & Empowerment; Anil Kumar Joshi to Legal Affairs; P K Banerjee to Commerce; Deepak Israni to Civil Aviation; Arunoday Goswami to Personnel & Training; Meera Sekhar to UPSC; Jasbir Singh to Home Affairs; vinod Kumar Nayyar to Secondary & Higher Education; Bhaskar Bandyopadhayay to Home Affairs;P N Shukla to Agriculture & Cooperation; Davindera Pal Singh to Secondary & Higher Education; Rajiv Mahendru to Food & PD; sushma Jain to Urban Development; Gopal Krishna Baurai to Financial Services; Umesh Pande to Water Resources; P Sasi Kumar to Secondary & Higher Education; E V Thomas to Urban Development; K N Mishra to Economic Affairs; Ram prakash Puri to UPSC; T L Georgekutty to UPSC; Y Vijayan to Urban Development; Kishori Raman Sharma to Expenditure; G Vaidheeswaran to Statistics & Programme Implementation; Harihar Mishra to Agricultural Research and Education; Surendra Kumar Gupta to Scientific & Industrial Research; Praveen Gupta to Informatioin & Broadcasting; Suresh Sharma to Food& PD; Irene Cherian to Labour; Samita Arora to Commerce; S Sampath Kumari to Shipping; Pushpa Bisht to Industrial Policy and Promotion; Achyuta Nanda to Petroleum & Natural Gas; K K Jha to Science & Technology; Manjula Saxena to Industrial Policy and Promotion; Moola Ram Meena to Mines; T R Prasad to information & Broadcasting; Kanu Gopal Mohanta to Defence; Sanjeev Kumar to Information & Broadcasting; A K Agarwal to UPSC; Anand Hari Agarwal to Corporate Affairs; Jeetendra Chadha to Legislative Department; Ambrish Kumar to Petroleum & Natural Gas and Fazal Mahmood has been shifted to Industrial Policy and Promotion.

Syamal Kumar Sarkar promoted in-situ as Special Secretary
Syamal Kumar Sarkar has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary, Department of Personnel and Training till his taking over as Secretary, Water Resources. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Rajiv Gupta promoted in-situ to Secretary rank
Rajiv Gupta, Managing Director, NAFED under Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, has been promoted in the rank and pay of Secretary. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Uttarakhand cadre.

Rajiv Takru promoted in-situ as Special Secretary
Rajiv Takru has been promoted (on in-situ basis), as Special Secretary and Financial Adviser, Department of Health and Family Welfare and thereafter, as Officer on Special Duty, Department of Financial Services in the rank and pay of Secretary till his taking over as Secretary (Financial Services). He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.

Ravi Mathur promoted in-situ as Special Secretary
Ravi Mathur has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment till his taking over as Secretary (Disinvestment). He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Sudhir Bhargava promoted in-situ as Special Secretary
Sudhir Bhargava has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Prasanna Kumar Mohanty promoted in-situ as Special Secretary
Prasanna Kumar Mohanty has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Mission Director, JNNURM under the Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation in the rank and pay of Secretary. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Siraj Hussain promoted in-situ as Special Secretary
Siraj Hussain has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Ms Zohra Chatterji promoted in-situ as Special Secretary
Ms Zohra Chatterji has been promoted (on in-situ basis)as Special Secretary, Ministry of Coal. She is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Nilanjan Sanyal promoted in-situ as Special Secretary
Nilanjan Sanyal has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre.

S Machendranathan promoted in-situ as Special Secretary
S Machendranathan has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary and Financial Adviser, Ministry of Civil Aviation. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Rajan S Katoch promoted in-situ to Secretary rank
Rajan S Katoch has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Director of Enforcement, Directorate of Enforcement under the Department of Revenue in the rank and pay of Secretary. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Ravindra Singh promoted in-situ as Special Secretary
Ravindra Singh has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary, Ministry of Culture. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Ms Gauri Kumar promoted in-situ as Special Secretary
Ms Gauri Kumar has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary, Ministry of Mines in the rank and pay of Secretary. She is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.

Anup Kumar Thakur promoted in-situ as Special Secretary
Anup Kumar Thakur has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

Afzal Amanullah promoted in-situ as Special Secretary
Afzal Amanullah has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

G Mohan Kumar promoted in-situ as Special Secretary
G Mohan Kumar has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre.

L C Goyal promoted in-situ as Special Secretary
L C Goyal has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.

E K Bharat Bhushan promoted in-situ as Special Secretary
E K Bharat Bhushan has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary and Financial Adviser, Ministry of Steel. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.

Ms Vandana Kumari Jena promoted in-situ as Special Secretary
Ms Vandana Kumari Jena has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Principal Adviser, Planning Commission, in the rank and pay of Secretary. She is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre.

Bimal Julka promoted in-situ as Special Secretary
Bimal Julka has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary and Financial Adviser, Ministry of External Affairs. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Lalit K Panwar promoted in-situ to Secretary rank
Lalit K Panwar has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Vice-Chairman & Managing Director, ITDC under Ministry of Tourism in the rank and pay of Secretary. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Ms Meera Mehrishi promoted in-situ as Special Secretary
Ms Meera Mehrishi has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests in the pay of Secretary. She is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Dharmendra is new JS, Urban Development
Dharmendra has been appointed new Joint Secretary, Urban Development in the Government of India. He is a 1989 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Ayyangar is now JS, Sports
Dr G S G Ayyangar has been appointed Joint Secretary, Sports in the Government of India. He is a 1987 batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.

Gupta is CVO, MMTC
A K Gupta has been appointed CVO of the MMTC. He is a 1981 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.

Shyam Kapoor is now JS, Social Justice
Shyam Kapoor has been moved from CVC as Joint Secretary, Social Justice and Empowerment, in the Government of India. He is a CSS officer.

DG, Medical (MHA) retiring in February
B S Pandey, Additional Director General (Medical) is scheduled to retire on February 28. Whispers have started doing rounds as who would be succeeding BS Pandey since March 01.

Deepak Kashyap empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
Deepak Kashyap has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. He is a 1985 batch officer of Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS).

Three officers of Maharashtra State service awarded IAS cadre
Three officers of Maharashtra State Civil Service have been awarded Indian Administrative Service (IAS) against the vacancies of 2010. They include P K Thube, T G Kasar and S N Gaikwad.

Seven officers of Maharashtra State service awarded IAS cadre
As many as seven officers of Maharashtra State Civil Service have been awarded Indian Administrative Service (IAS) against the vacancies of 2011. The officers include: V N Kalam, S M Kakani, K D Nimbalkar, S N Bhange, A M Kawade, S M Channe and A B Misal.

Two probationary officers confirmed in IAS
Two probationary officers of 2008 batch have been confirmed in Indian Administrative Service bearing on Odisha cadre. They are Guha Poonam Tapaskumar and M Muthukumar.

T K Bagul confirmed in IAS
Probationary officer, T K Bagul has been confirmed in Indian Administrative Service (IAS) bearing Maharashtra cadre belonging to 1998 batch.

Mayank Aggarwal made ADG (N), DDN, New Delhi
Mayank Aggarwal, ADG, (M&C), PIB, New Delhi, has been made ADG (N), DDN, New Delhi. He is an Indian Information Service (IIS) officer.

CORPORATE

Kuppuswamy quits National Peroxide Ltd
P V Kuppuswamy, Non-Executive Director of National Peroxide Ltd has resigned from the Board of Directors of the company.

Venkataraman to assume charge as CFO, Sobha Developers Ltd on Jan 31
Ganesh Venkataraman will take over charge as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Sobha Developers Ltd w.e.f. January 31, 2013.

Baaskaran quits Sobha Developers Ltd
S Baaskaran has resigned as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Sobha Developers Ltd

Hinger ceases to be Director, Alka Diamond Industries Ltd
Uttam Chand Hinger has ceased to be Director of Alka Diamond Industries Ltd on reaching the age of retirement.

Karani appointed MD, Tirupati Industries Ltd
Tirupati Industries India Ltd has appointed Neil Ketan Karani as the Managing Director of the company.

Narayanan appointed Non Exec. Director, Infotech Enterprises Ltd
Infotech Enterprises Ltd has appointed Shankar Narayanan as a Non-Executive Director of the company.

Shah appointed as Director of Atul
Ra Shah has appointed as Director of Atul.

Podar quits Geodesic
Nitin Podar has resigned as Director of Geodesic.

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Mittal is excellent

D K Mittal is a keen student, an able administrator and an excellent human being. I wish him all success.

Anil Kumar Agrawal

What about Upper Caste persons ?

What about Upper Caste persons with unrecognized degree in government Group A services. People are inducted in government services having degree not recognized by UGC/DEC/AICTC.

H K Raghu

Time has come to wind up CGEWHO

I fully agree. Just ask any of the allotees of Chennai Phase II, where the project started in 2006 and still dragging, they will tell episodes on that. Construction quality is far below the expectation and management and supervisory abilities of CGEWHO are so poor and cannot be accepted by any reasonable person.

S N

Only God can save this great democracy !

Government Servants who have furnished false information about their education, experience and skills and produced fake certificates should also be punished, besides termination. This is also a criminal activity. Such cases are rampant in all Govt. offices, particularly sub-ordinate and autonomous organisation. I request some non-government servant to file a PIL so that at least the number of suicides being committed by youth on unemployed grounds would be drastically reduced. Even some govt. servants furnish false home down declaration and claim Home Town LTC without travelling. For example, a person born and brought up in Tamil Nadu cannot declare his home town as New Delhi. The Administrative Authorities should call for such declarations and initiate appropriate action. Another issue is suppressing the monthly income of dependents and includes them for CGHS benefits. Does the government know that crores of Tax Payers' money is drained this way. God only can save this great democracy.

Siva Kumar