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POLITICS

Who is sandwitched between 10 and 7?
Who is sandwitched between the Ten Janpath and the Seven RCR these days ?This is the topic of discussion in the corridors of power.

BUREAUCRACY

Scientist Apte is new NTRO Chief
A former scientist of the Babha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) Alhad G Apte is new head of the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO).Appointment of Apte came when outgoing Telecom Secretary, Rentala Chandrasekhar did not turn up to join the post of July1.

Why did Chandrasekhar not join NTRO ?
Mystery shrouds the refusal by Rentala Chandrasekhar to join as Head of the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO).Infact, appointment of 1975 batch IAS officer Rentala Chandrasekhar who retired as Telecom Secretary to the post had been announced only last month and was supposed to join on July 1.

Chandrasekhar to head Nasscom
Former Telecom Secretary Rentala Chandrasekhar is all set to succeed Som Mittal as head of Nasscom. Name of the former 1975 batch IAS officer Chandrasekhar is expected to be cleared today.

Abha Shukla poised to move to I&B as JS
Abha Shukla is all set to move to Information &Broadcasting Ministry as Joint Secretary. Presently, she is Joint Secretary, Road Transport & Highways. She is a 1993 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

Will APD Joshi move from Dept. of Commerce?
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that Avinash Purushottam Das Joshi may move from Department of Commerce. The 1994 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalay cadre is presently serving as Director, Department of Commerce.

Chaudhary appointed Secretary, National Commission for Minorities
Surjit Kumar Chaudhary has been appointed as Secretary, National Commission for Minorities. He is a 1980 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.
(We said this on July 2, 2013)

Jayaraman designated as Secretary, Internal Security
S Jayaraman, Special Secretary (Internal Security) Government of India has been designated as Secretary same post. He is a 1977 batch IPS officer of West Bengal cadre.

P C Vaish selected as CMD, NTC
P C Vaish, Director (Finance), NTC, has been selected for the post of CMD, National Textiles Corporation Limited (NTC) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on July 4, 2013. As many as seven persons were interviewed for the same.

Ms Sreenivas goes on inter-cadre deputation to AGMUT
Ms Mona Sreenivas has been transferred on inter-cadre deputation from Haryana cadre to AGMUT cadre for a period of three years. She is a 2006 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

Extension of Reddy on inter-cadre deputation rejected
The extension proposal of O V R Reddy on inter-cadre deputation has been rejected by Appointment Committee of Cabinet. He is a 1997 batch IFS officer of AGMUT cadre.

Ms Samaddar to join GoI
Ms Sanyukta Samaddar is joining the Government of India as Director, Department of Heavy Industries. She is 1999 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre in place of Debasis Jana IFS TN:1992 on completion of his tenure.

Vice Admiral Kode is new Chief of Logistics
Vice Admiral Jaywant Kode has succeeded Vice Admiral Paras Nath as new Chief of Logistics.

Leo Puri is new MD UTI Mutual Fund
Leo Puri has been appointed as Managing Director of UTI Mutual Fund. UTIMF was headless since February 2011.
(We said this on January 6, 2013)

Kinhal is new Director, IIFM, Bhopal
G A Kinhal has been appointed Director, IIFM Bhopal. Orders have been received. He is a 1980 batch IFS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Will Satish Chandra opt to move from NHAI?
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that Satish Chandra, Member (Finance), NHAI, may opt an exit from NHAI. He had succeeded J N Singh on April 2 this year. He is a 1985 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre.

Nair to be MD, IFCI!
Santosh Nair is being tipped to be MD of the IFCI. Name of Nair is reported to have been recommended.

Zulfiqar Hasan soon to join CRPF HQ as IG Ops
Zulfiqar Hasan is all set to join at CRPF HQ as IG (Operations). Until now he served as IG Operations Chhattisgarh. He is a 1988 batch IPS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Chaturvedi is VC of Lucknow Development Authority
Devesh Chaturvedi will be new Vice Chairman of the Lucknow Development Authority. He is a 1989 batch IAS officer.

Valsa Nair Singh is new AMC, MMRDA
Ms Valsa Nair Singh is new Additional Metropolitan Commissioner, MMRDA. She is a 1991 batch IAS officer. She has replaced SVR Srinivas who has been appointed Additional Municipal Commissioner, MCGM.

Orders of V U Bhaskar as Director (Prod), BDL expected soon
The orders of V U Bhaskar GM, BDL, for the appointment as Director (Production), Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) are expected to be issued soon as present incumbent P K Srivastava is retiring in July, 2013.

Anil Arora is Director, SBI, Chandigarh
Anil Arora has been nominated as Director of the State Bank of India Chandigarh Zone.

Ms Usha Venugopal posted in Southern Railway
Ms Usha Venugopal, SAG/IRAS, has been posted in the cadre of Southern Railway after being relieved from the post of ADRM/MAS.

S K Goyal is also Secretary, PW (B&R) in Haryana
S K Goyal has been assigned an additional charge of Secretary, PW (B&R) department. He is a 1993 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

N N Jhasa goes on inter-cadre deputation to Nagaland
N N Jhasa is being transferred on inter-cadre deputation from AGMUT to Nagaland till February, 2016. He is a 1981 batch IFS officer of AGMUT cadre.

IRSME officer N S R Prasad gets SAG
Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineer (IRSME) officer, N S R Prasad presently in South Central Railway has been granted Senior Administrative Grade (SAG) on non functional basis.

Ms Saumya Parihar posted as Dy AG in AG office, Ranchi
Ms Saumya Parihar, Deputy Accountant General (Funds), in the office of Accountant General (A&E)-I, Uttar Pradesh, Allahabad, has been transferred and posted as Deputy Accountant General (Wks/Forest), in the office of Accountant General (A&E), Jharkhand, Ranchi.

Uday Shankar Prasad posted as PD (NF), Railway Guwahati
Uday Shankar Prasad has been appointed as Principal Director (Northeast Frontier) Railway, Maligaon, Guwahati, after promotion to the grade of Accountant General.

Ravi Gandhi posted as DIG(ADM),CSWT, Indore
Ravi Gandhi has been posted as DIG(ADM),CSWT, Indore. He is a BSF cadre officer.

M M S Srivastava is no more

M M S Srivastava (IAS, 1959, H P) passed away on June 30. He served as Secretary to GoI from 1989 and finally retired as Chairman of the BIFR in 1999.

Major reshuffle of IAS officers in Karnataka
A large number of officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Karnataka. Accordingly, Kaushik Mukherje has been posted as ACS to Government while V Umesh will now be ACS-cum-Development Commissioner to Government and S K Pattanayak is ACS, Home. Similarly, Dr H Baskar has been appointed s PS, Public Enterprises; Parmesh Pandey as PS, DPAR, Janaspandana; Rajeev Chawla s MD, Karnataka Urban Water Supply & Drainage Board, Bangalore; P N Sreenivasachary as PS, Urban Development; Dr Shalini Rajneesh gets additional charge of DG, Administrative Training Institute, Mysore; D N Nagambika Devi as Secretary, WRD Minor Irrigation; S R Umashankar as Secretary, Expenditure, Finance; M B Dyaberi as Secretary, Labour; M S Ravishankar as Regional Commissioner Bangalore Division, Bangalore; T K Anil Kumar as Secretary, Municipalities & Urban Development Authorities, Urban Development; Mohammad Mohsin as Commissioner for Public Instructions, Bangalore; K Amaranarayan as Commissioner for Transport & Road Safety, Bangalore; K R Niranjan gets additional charge of Commissione for Employment & Training, Bangalore; P Manivannan as Chief Project Officer, Karnataka State Highways Improvement Project; P S Vastrad s Director of Agriculture Marketing, Bangalore with additional charge of Archaeology, Museums and Heritage, Mysore; Chakravarthi Mohan as CEO, Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board with addtional charge of Director, Pre-University Education & Executive Director, Karnataka Examination Authority; Pankaj Kumar Pandey gets additional charge of MD, Bangaloe Electricity Supply Company Ltd; S Shankaranarayan as Special Commissioner, Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike, Bangalore; Thulasi Maddineni as CEO, Zilla Panchayat Dakshina Kannada, Mangalore;

Major reshuffle of IPS officers in Karnataka
A large number of officers belonging to Indian Police Service (IPS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Karnataka. Accordingly, Padam Kumar Garg has been posted s ADGP, CID, Economics Offences, Bangalore; Mrs D Roopa as SP, CID, Cyber, Bangalore; H S Venkatesh as SP, Intelligence, Banglaore; T G Krishna Bhatta as SP, CID, Bangalore; Pawar Praveen Madukar as Deputy Commissioner, Administration, Bangalore city; N Satheesh Kumar as AIG, General, Bangalore; K P Puttaswamy as SP, CID, Bangalore; D Prakash as SP, Davangere district; M N Nagaraj as AIG, Crimes, Bangalore; Sandeep Patil as DCP, North Division, Bangalore city; Labhu Ram as DCP, Crimes, Bangalore city; Dr T D Pawar as DCP, South East Division, Bangalore City; R H Naik as SP, Chikmagalur district; S N Siddaramappa as SP, Railways, Bangalore; Dr Chandragupta as SP, Belgaum district; Chetan Singh Rathore as SP, Bellary district; N Shasi Kumar as SP, Haveri district; Dr Y S Ravi Kumar as SP, Chitradurga District; Amit Singh as SP, Gulbarga district; B Ramesh as SP, Bangalore Rural District and Ravi D Channannavar has been appointed as SP, Hassan district.

ONGC sets new Ultra-deepwater drilling world record
ONGC, a leading E&P Company and a major operator in Indian deepwaters, has spudded a well in 10411 feet (3174 m) of water depth on 18th June 2013. The well # 1-D-1 in Exploratory Block KG-DWN-2005/1, off East Coast of India, is being drilled by rig DDKG1. This enabled ONGC to surpass its own earlier world record set in January 2013, for drilling a well in deepest water depth. Over the years, ONGC has developed a formidable capability in ultra-deepwater drilling. Since 2004, ONGC has drilled over 100 deepwater wells. A large number of these wells are in daunting water depths beyond 5000 feet in environmentally and logistically difficult areas of Indian East Coast and West Coast, ranging from Gujarat offshore to Mahanadi offshore including 6 wells in Andaman offshore. Out of these, around 25 wells have been drilled in water depths of 5000 feet to 7500 feet and 16 wells in water depths of 7500 feet to 10000 feet. The current world record well # 1-D-1, which is under drilling, is the 3rd well in beyond 10000 feet water depth.

10 IAS officers transferred in Himachal Pradesh
As many as 10 officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been given new assignments in Himachal Pradesh. Accordingly, Narinder Chauhan has been assigned an additional charge of PS Housing while Dr Ajai Bhandari wil now be MD, HP State Financial Corporation, Shimla and Bharat Harbanslal Khera is given an additional charge of Secretary, Parliamentary Affairs. Similarly, Rajender Singh has been given an additional charge of MD, H P State Industrial Development Corporation, Shimla; S C Negi is posted as Director, SC, OBC & Minority Affairs; Dr Sunil Kumar Chaudhary as Settlement officer, Shimla division and J R Katwal as MD, HP Backward Classes Finance & Development Corporation, Kangra; Ajay Mittal as ACS, Redressal of Public Grievances; Jagdish Chander as MD, HP Agro Industrial Packaging India Ltd; Dr Sandeep Bhatnagar was posted as Special Secretary, Education & Technical Education.

J S Walia posted as MD, Forest Corporation in HP
J S Walia has been appointed as MD, HP Forest Corporation, Shimla in Himachal Pradesh. He is a 1979 batch IFS officer of this state cadre.

Pankaj Singh is IG, CRPF Headquarters
Pankaj Kumar Singh has been transferred and posted as IG Provisioning & Intelligence Unit at CRPF Headquarters. He is a 1988 batch IPS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Samantaray to be CEO of FSSAI (UPDATED)
D K Sanantaray is all set to join the Government of India as CEO of Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI). He is 1982 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Dimple Verma is new CVO of NBCC (UPDATED)
Ms. Dimple Verma has been appointed as the CVO in the National Building Construction Corporation Limited (NBCC), New Delhi. She is 1989 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.

IPS officer is CVO of NFL (UPDATED)
Dr. Harish Chandra Singh has been appointed as the CVO in the National Fertilizers Limited (NFL), New Delhi . He is 1984 batch IPS officer of UP cadre.

Six IAS officers shifted in Maharashtra (UPDATED)
As many as six officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Maharashtra. Accordingly, Nirupama Dange has been appointed as Collector of Bhandara while Sachindra Pratap will now be Collector, Parbhani and Virendra Singh was shifted to the Maharashtra's Directorate of Information Technology. Besides, E Ravindran has been appointed as Collector of Sindhudurg; D G Mhaiskar as Collector of Chandrapur district and V N Suryavanshi was posted as CEO of Kolhapur Zilla Parishad.

Manish Jain empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI (UPDATED)
Manish Jain has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. He is a 1994 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Dr Santosh Kumar Sarangi empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI (UPDATED)
Dr Santosh Kumar Sarangi has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. Sarangi is a 1994 batch IAS officer of Orissa cadre.

Vivek Agarwal empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI (UPDATED)
Vivek Agarwal has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. He is a 1994 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

IRS-IT officer debarred from central deputation (UPDATED)
Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer of Income Tax cadre, Sumer Singh Mena has been debarred from central deputation after he failed to join as Director in the Ministry of Home.

37 IRS officers empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI (UPDATED)
As many as 37 officers of Indian Revenue Service (IRS) belonging to 1986 batch have been empanelled for the appointment as Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. The officers include: Anuradha Mukerjee, Anand Kumar Agarwal, Ajit Kumar Sinha, Chaavi Annupam, Patanjali, Arvind Kumar, Shiv Dayal Srivastava, Smita Jhingran, S Venkateswarlu, Nabin Kumar Pradhan, R Bhama, Nageshwara Rao, Koripalli, Pramod Kumar, Rakesh Kumar Paliwal, Satyakam Mishra, Mahendra Singh, Susie S Varghese, Nitin Gupta, Dinesh Chander Patwari, Saroj Deswal, Ranomoy Das, Atul Pranaya, Ruby Srivastava, Kaushalendra Kumar Singh, Davashish Roy Choudhary, Rajiv Vijay Nabar, Sangeeta Singh, Pawan Singh Tomar, Bommareddy Gangadhara Reddy, Suresh Singh Panwar, T Tonsin, Shri Krishna, Prem Prakash, Jagtar Singh, Shyam Kumar, Sailendra Mamidi and Rakesh Bhaskar.

IRS-IT officer Srinivasa Rao deputed to AP Govt (UPDATED)
Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer of Income Tax cadre, G Srinivasa Rao has been deputed to the Government of Andhra Pradesh as Accountant Member, A P State Sales Tax Appellate Tribunal, Hyderabad.

CORPORATE

OPEC Reference Basket averages $ 100.65/b
The OPEC Reference Basket has averaged $ 100.65/B in May representing a slight decline of 40? from the previous month. Year-to-date, the basket value declined $ 9.75 or 8.4% compared to the same period last year to stand at $ 105.85/b.

Menon resigns as Director, Escorts Ltd
Dr M G K Menon has resigned as Director of Escorts Ltd.

Saydiwal appointed Workmen Employee Director, Bank of Maharashtra
Union Ministry of Finance Dept of Financial Services has appointed Ramdev Laxmichand Saydiwal who is a Special Assistant as Workmen Employee Director on the Board of Directors of Bank of Maharashtra

Reddy appointed Officer Employee Director, Andhra Bank?
N Rajagopal Reddy, Deputy Manager, Andhra Bank has been appointed as Officer Employee Director on the Board of Directors of Andhra Bank for a period of three years

Parikh to be re-appointed ED, Axtel Industries Ltd
The Board of Axtel Industries Ltd have decided to re-appoint Ajay Parikh as Executive Director (ED) w.e.f. August 1, 2013 for a period of five years

Halan appointed Company Secy, Beeyu Overseas Ltd
Abhishek Halan has been appointed as a Company Secretary of Beeyu Overseas Ltd.

Faroz appointed Company Secy, Borosil Glass Works Ltd
Borosil Glass Works Ltd has appointed Ms Lovelina Cecil Faroz as the Company Secretary of the company.

Jariwala appointed Company Secy, Astec LifeSciences Ltd
Astec LifeSciences Limited has appointed Ms Tejal Jariwala as Company Secretary of the company.

Chomal resigns as Company Secy, Astec LifeSciences Ltd
Vikas Chomal has resigned as Company Secretary of Astec LifeSciences Ltd.

Kothari re-appointed Director, Peacock Industries Ltd
Peacock Industries Limited has re-appointed Mukesh Kumar Kothari as a Director of the company.

Ramya appointed Company Secy, Gokaldas Exports Ltd
Gokaldas Exports Ltd has appointed Ms Ramya K as Company Secretary of the company.

Gopinath appointed Company Secy, Sybly Industries Ltd
Sybly Industries Ltd has appointed Ms Gayatri Gopinath as Company Secretary of the company.

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Call to all Honest Government Employees

Your website is visited by thousands of visitors every day. As all of them are aware, corruption especially in high places, has completely grown beyond all limits. The only way to make a dent in the corruption levels is for all honest persons connected with government at every level, including IAS, IPS, IFS or even Ministers and private individuals to come out and expose those who are involved in corruption in high places. They should approach credible media with details. This is a sincere appeal from an aam admi for genuine whistle-blowers to come forward and expose.

V Raj

Proper investigation required

Vineet Joshi, IAS (MT), presently Chairman CBSE, has been in Delhi since 1998-(15 years away from his parent state) ! Of these, he has been in CBSE for 10 years. One wonders as to what special quality/qualification he has that HRD ministry, DoPT and PMO are relaxing rules to accommodate him and his continuance in Delhi .C&AG/CVC should investigate this.

S Gopal

Official Language department in dire straits

There is an urgent need to revamp the working of OL dept. People simply don't work there. Dead wood or soon retiring persons are posted there, who don't want to work. Authorities there must take urgent and decisive action.

Raju

CGHS not able to issue laminated I-cards

On this CGHS matter let me point out one more problem area. CGHS is not able to issue laminated identity cards to pensioners. Some pensioners are waiting for more than two years. Many have shifted address. Why such simple thing is taking such a long time ? Will Health Secretary look into it?

P Mookerjee

CGHS procedures not user friendly

I agree that the procedures of CGHS are not at all user friendly. They encourage fudding of papers to get what is due to it. As long as the payment is made as per the rates fixed by C G H S,there should not be unnecessary condition of prior approvals at every stage .

P C Tripathi

Plight of CGHS Pensioners

Even Dr. R M L Hospital Doctors are harassing senior citizen (pensioners). One such doctor is Dr. Bhawani Singh, HoD, Respiratory Medicine. He deploys one attendant Dilip to selectively release known patients for seeing out of the way and CGHS pensiners wait in line for their turn along with all non-cghs beneficiaries.He does not give appointment to JS & above level officers and is just not interested. He says why can't you spend money on your own instead of referring to CGHS approved centres. The CGHS approved centres do not indicate PSG or CPAP titration study tests and it is impossible to know what are the approved centres for this test. Moreover, after referring for a test, he is not willing to comment on their recommendations. For the chronic cases requiring immediate relief, it is just impossible to get the relief and the only way out is to shell out money from one's pocket for the treatment, tests and the equipment. No one has the time to set things in order.

S K Gupta

Who is responsible for all the mess in the Railway Board?

No doubt the politicians at the helm of the ministry for the last many years have played havoc with the organization but equally guilty is the officialdom at the senior level. They have been stabbing each other in the back. Instead of concentrating on planning for the needs of the organization they have been busy planning as to who would take their places after retirement, how to weed out the deserving and seniors and upgrade their favourites. Transfers, promotions, seniority are all messed up in this big game of vested interests. Never in the history of the Railway Board four posts of Members were left vacant for so long. Sadly the Government of the moment does not know how to solve this mess. They are only adding to the confusion by adhoc and controversial decisions of giving additional charge of the vacancies of members where the junior member takes charge of the Chairman and Member (Traffic)'s post has been left vacant for such a long time when the main job of the Railways is traffic operations. Norms are not so sacrosanct that they same cannot be relaxed in the exigencies of good governance.

Aarti Khosla

Dalits & Backward Community creation of forefathers

Dalits and Backward Community people are creation of our forefathers. For centuries they have been toiling. We should not make politics about reservation. Yes, the Government can certainly give a thought for economically weaker forward community because the present generation should not commit the same folly as our forefathers did.

CK Chellamani

Dalits wooing OBCs

Dalits are trying to woo OBCs only because they feel if they act in unison, their reservations will be permanent and forever. But the thing is, the reservations for OBCs is on a different ground from Dalits and is not due to their sufferings or discrimination against them but because of lower representation of OBCs in services. The OBCs are dominant castes and the reason why the grouping "OBC" was constructed is because the Congress ruled the country for forty years with the Bramhin-Dalit-Muslim vote bank. The others naturally tried to make different groupings. The OBCs did that and became a force to reckon with in electoral politics by becoming a vote bank. All this is nothing but vote bank politics.

The other thing is that in fact, reservations is a very old demand of all groups. For example, the Sikhs wanted representation in Civil Service as per their population after independence. The demand died down only when Sardar Patel said the same would be applied to the armed forces also (the Sikhs dominated the armed forces in numbers far disproportionate to their population). Talk of not being allowed to study Sanskrit as the reason for lagging behind in education by some proponents of perpetual reservations for SCs is actually putting forth an invalid and irrelevant reason. The fact is that Sanskrit has been a dead language for at least a thousand years ever since Muslim rule began in India. So allowing or not allowing anyone to study Sanskrit cannot be a factor for education for at least a thousand years. In fact, even Brahmins learnt Persian (the Court language and the language of administration) during Afghan and Mughal rule in at least the last thousand years. Nor did the Afghan and Mughal rule prevent Dalits from getting educated in Persian. So, nothing has prevented Dalits from learning the languages that mattered and getting educated for at least a thousand years. Neither was English education denied to Dalits by the British. So all this talk of Sanskrit has been irrelevant for at least a thousand years.

Vijay Kumar