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POLITICS

Corporate World is for Modi
In India, Corporate World is keen to see Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister. A couple of bigwigs say that only Modi helped them without taking money.

Third Front means?
There is a talk about Federal Third Front these days. One politician made a comment "Everyone is keen to become the PM in this Front?

BUREAUCRACY

Kaun Banega RBI Governor? (3) U K Sinha
Who will be new RBI Governor? SEBI Chief U K Sinha is also considered to be a hot contender for the post. Sinha who is a former 1976 batch IAS officer has shown bold steps in the SEBI by not succumbing to pressure from business houses.

Sujata Singh to be new Foreign Secretary
Finally the Government has gone by seniority.It has been decided to appoint Sujata Singh as new Foreign Secretary. 1976 batch IFS officer Ms Sujata Singh is presently Indian Ambassador to Germany.

Vice Admiral Dewan to be new Member, UPSC ?
Indian Navy-vice Chief of the naval staff Vice Admiral D K Dewan is being tipped to be new Member of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).It means this post of Member will not go the IAS.

Will SBI CMD get extension?
Whispers in the corridors of power has it that the SBI CMD Pratip Chaudhuri may be given two years extension since there is no second line of leadership in the bank. Of the present Managing Directors, while Diwakar Gupta and Hemant Contractor are due to retire over the next few months, A Krishna Kumar and S Vishwanathan will be left with less than two years of remaining service when the post of CMD would be falling vacant in September.

Krishna Chaudhary posted as DG, NDRF & CD
Krishna Chaudhary has been appointed as Director General, National Disaster Response Force and Civil Defence (NDRF&CD). He is a 1979 batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre.

PESB recommends S K Chaudhary for Director (Projects), NBCC
PESB has recommended the name of S K Chaudhary, Sr. ED, HUDCO, for the post of Director (Projects), National Buildings Construction Corporation Limited (NBCC). As many as eight candidates had appeared for the interview for the above post.

D V Singh to be Member, CAT ?
Former Secretary, Water Resources, and presently Chairman of the Manipur PSC, D V Singh, is likely to be appointed Member of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT). He is a 1976 batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.

Khachi moves as JS, Labour
Anil Kumar Khachi has been appointed Joint Secretary Labour in the Government of India. He is a 1986 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.

(We said this on June 10, 2013)

S K Srivastava poised to be elevated as IG, BSF
As the grapevine has it, S K Srivastava is poised to be elevated as Inspector General, BSF. Srivastava is DIG (Provisioning); currently posted at BSF HQ.

Kumar poised to be OSD to Union Min for Labour & Emp.
As the grapevine has it, Satyendra Kumar is all set to be appointed as OSD to Sis Ram Ola, Union Minister for Labour & Employment.

PS to D Napoleon poised to join Dept. of MSME
S R Samuel is all set to join Department of MSME as Director. Samuel served as PS to D Napoleon, former Minister of State for Social Justice & Empowerment. He is a 1999 batch IPS officer of J&K cadre.

Who will be next Chairman, NDMC?
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that Delhi Government is all set to appoint the new Chairperson, NDMC. As many as two AGMUT cadre IAS officers of 1984 batch are in the fray of making it as NDMC Chairperson. Guessing game goes on?

Will Nayyar be CEO &MD of IFCI ?
Santosh Nayar, Deputy Managing Director is likely to be new CEO of IFCI. The IFCI board meeting on June 27 to finalise the name of new CEO.

Rajeev Kher gets six months extension
Central deputation tenure of Rajeev Kher, Additional Secretary, Department of Commerce has been extended for a period of six months beyond July 24, 2013.He is a 1980 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Deputation tenure of Panda extended
Central deputation tenure of tenure of SC Panda, Additional Secretary and Financial Adviser, Ministry of Home Affairs has been extended for a period of six months beyond July 16, 2013. He is a 1981 batch IAS officer of Assam -Meghalaya cadre.

Ms Madhavi is Sr Dy Accountant General (G&SSA), AP Hyderabad
Ms P Madhavi, Senior Deputy Accountant General (Administration ), in the office of Principal Accountant General (G&SSA), Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, has been posted as Senior Deputy Accountant General (SS-IV) in the same office.

IRSME officer R N Toppo gets SAG
Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineer (IRSME) officer, R N Toppo presently in North Frontier Railway (NFR) has been granted Senior Administrative Grade (SAG) on non functional basis.

Tyagi posted as DIG (Pro), FTR HQ, Tripura
Sunil Kumar Tyagi has been posted as DIG (Pro), FTR HQ, Tripura. He is a BSF cadre officer.

Rajiv Singh likely to join central deputation
Rajiv Singh is likely to join central deputation at the level of Inspector General. He is a 1993 batch IPS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.

Ms Sondhi granted non-functional upgradation
Ms Mattu Sondhi, Director, DAVP, New Delhi, has been granted Non Functional Upgradation (NFU). She is an Indian Information Service (IIS) officer.

Bhardwaj posted as Asstt Director (News), NSD: AIR, N- Delhi
Varun Bhardwaj has been posted as Assistant Director (News), NSD: AIR New Delhi after the termination of probation period. He is a 2007 batch officer of Indian Information Service (IIS).

ISTM to conduct Level II Training Programme for CSSS officers
ISTM is all set to conduct two week's Level II Training Programme for CSSS officers from July 8 to July 19, 2013.

IAS officer found dead in Odisha
Odisha cadre IAS officer Gagan Behari Swain has been found dead in the Bhubaneswar railway station .

Chidambaram inaugurates 300 mini offices of LIC (UPDATED)
P Chidambaram, Union Minister of Finance has inaugurated 300 mini offices of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) on June 25, 2013 at New Delhi. Today LIC has its reach throughout the country with 2048 Branch Offices, and 1275 Satellite Offices to offer its products & services to the customers. LIC of India has embarked upon its journey towards 'Vision 2020'- to put a policy in every pocket by the year 2020. The organization carries the trust of millions of Indians by continuing to hold over 83% of market share in number of policies even after 13 years of opening up of the sector. Chidambaram had announced on the floor of the Parliament in his budget speech that LIC of India will have an office in all towns above 10,000 population by March 31, 2014. This has provided an opportunity to LIC to be still closer to vast majority of Indian population. In pursuance of above objective the Union Minister of Finance inaugurated 300 Mini Offices on June 25, 2013 electronically throughout the country. Namo Narain Meena, Minister of State for Finance also graced the occasion. Senior Officials from Departments of Economic Affairs and Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, Arvind Mayaram, Secretary, Rajiv Takru, Secretary, Mrs Snehlata Shrivastav, Addl. Secretary, Arvind Kumar , Joint Secretary, Mrs Priya Kumar, Director were present on the occasion. Current-in-charge Chairman of LIC S Thomas Mathew T, Managing Directors S Sarker, S K Roy and Various senior executives of LIC were also present. S K Roy, Managing Director LIC while proposing vote of thanks assured honorable Finance minister that LIC will continue its journey in the service of nation. LIC plans to cover all towns above 10,000 population by December 31, 2013.

Orders of A K Tyagi as CMD, MECON Ltd issued (UPDATED)
The orders of A K Tyagi Director (Commercial), MECON Limited, have been issued for the appointment as Chairman and Managing Director of the samePSU unit.
(We said this on January 10, 2013)

Anand Kumar posted as OSD in CCIT office, Mumbai (UPDATED)
Anand Kumar, Commissioner of Income Tax, on return from deputation, has been posted as OSD in the office of Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (CCIT, CCA), Mumbai.

143 officers promoted as Deputy Commissioners of C& CE (UPDATED)
As many as 143 officers belonging to Indian Revenue Service (IRS) of Customs and Central Excise cadre have been promoted to the grade of Deputy Commissioner. The officers include: Vivek Gupta, Neeraj Choubey, Kumar Aseem Vaibhav, Pranjal Singh, Abhishek Chauhan, Hemlata Rai, Niranjan CC, Rajeshwar R Nair, Shailendra Kumar Deshmukh, Deepak Kumar, Rashmi Mishra, Ravneet Singh Khurana, Raghvendra Pal Singh, Dipin Singla, Satish Kumr
Raghu Kiran B, Rohit Dwivedi, Vijay K, Anish Muralidharan, Shiva Prasad Panda, Naresh Neelapala, Bejoy Johan, Varinder Kaur Virk, Atul Singh, Deepak Sharma, Sameer Kumar Jha, Kunal Kashyap, Ujjawala Arun Bhagwat, B G Krishna, Devesh Gupta, Raghvendra Singh, Ashutosh, Saroj Samiya, Rohit Singla, Vipul Gupta, Shaifali G Singh, Suven Das Gupta, Navneet Kumar, Vishal Pratap Singh, Vidyut Vikash, Manvesh Kumar, Manish Kumr Jha, Aman Garg, Sachin Balasaheb Sawant, Mayank Sharma, Anoop Kumar Sharma, Anirudha Suresh Kulkarni, C Thyagarajan, Prabhakar Kumar, Pras Mal Sankhla, Rajiv Shankar, Mahesh Chand Bhardwaj, Pawan Kumar Khaitan, Laksmikantha D, Manish Kulhary, Manoj Kumar, Kshitendra Verma, Amit Fakkad Ghawate, Ravindra Kumar, Nimba Ram, Mahesh Kumar Yadav, Zakir Hussain, R Gopalsamy, Mahendra Kumar Sharma, Nem Singh, Michael Achom, Venkatesh S, Abhilas K Sreenivasan, Amol Madhukar Ket, Dinesh Kumar Bisen, V Pandiraja, Aneish P Rajan, Komathi K, Neelesh Rautkar, Samay Murali T, K Kalpana, Vinod Kumar, P Kathirvel, Rashmi G, Tapan Kumar, Tajaskumr Girdharlala Rathod, Sameer Dayandev Wankhede, Prashant Priya Gautam, Sridevi Taritla, Balakrishna S, Dasari Blaiah, Braj Lal Meena, Alok Sharma, Gopal Krishna Pati, Sachin Gusia, Pradhuman Badriprasad Meena, Nitni Wapa, Dev Prakash Bamanavat, Chogneithem Changsan, Lienmuong S Gangte, K C Nagraja Naik, Sunder Lal, S Jyeraj, Sydeny D Silva, Sitangshu Karmakar, B Jayalaxmi, Sanjay Sharma, Ramanand Tyagi, Sudhi Sharma, D N Shukla, R K Karnik, K Hanumanta Rao, Saroj Kumar Shadangi, S Eshar Reddy, Subrajit Banerjee, Manish Kumar, Rajesh Kothari, Rajesh Kumar, Vivek Kumar Sinha, P Gopa Kumar, Shaukat Ali, Subodh Singh, Moninderanath Santosh Das, R Rajasekhar, Nilanjan Pan, Pramod Singh, J Sateesh Chander, Prashant Kumar Jha, Niraj Dubey, Gurdev Singh, Dipen Biswas, M C Marandi, Sunil Bhimrao Deshmukh, Anita Sharma, Amresh Kumar, Neelam Aneja, Nazakat Hussain, Sunil Kumar Pareek, Rajesh Tomar, Lov Kumar Narang, M V Thakur, A G Kapre, Anil Kumar Khanna, Madan Mohan Verma, D V Kulkarni, S K Mondal and Ajay Kumar Chopra.

Sarkar to be new Secretary DoPT (UPDATED)
Secretary Water Resources Dr Shyamal Kumar Sarkar is all set to succeed P K Mishra as Secretary Department of Personnel on July 1.Orders of 1979 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre are expected to be issued in a day or two.

P K Sinha to be Secretary Power (UPDATED)
P K Sinha is reportedly going to succeed Umashankar on July 1 as Secretary Power in the Government of India. Official orders of Sinha are expected to be issued in a day or two. 1977 batch IAS officer of UP cadre Sinha is presently Secretary Shipping.

Tanmay Kumar is also Excise Commissioner in Rajasthan (UPDATED)
Tanmay Kumar has been appointed as Commissioner, Excise Department and ex-officio Prohibition Commissioner, Rajasthan, Udaipur. He is a 1993 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Dr Anil Bhandari selected as Director (Exp.), ONGC Videsh Ltd (UPDATED)
Dr Anil Bhandari, ED, OVL, has been selected for the post of Director (Exploration), ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on June 26, 2013. As many as 15 persons were interviewed for the same.

CORPORATE

Khaitan appointed Independent Director, Emami Ltd
Emami Limited has appointed Pradip Kumar Khaitan as an Independent Director of the company.

Bijli re-appointed CMD, PVR Ltd
PVR Limited has re-appointed Ajay Bijli as Chairman and Managing Director of the company.

Kumar appointed Joint MD, PVR Ltd
Sanjeev Kumar has been appointed as Joint Managing Director of PVR Ltd.

Jain resigns as Non Exec. Independent Director, Hindustan Media Ventures Ltd
Dipak C Jain has resigned as Non Executive Independent Director Hindustan Media Ventures Ltd.

Verma resigns as Non Exec. Director, Hindustan Media Ventures Ltd
Rajiv Verma has resigned as Non Executive Director of Hindustan Media Ventures

Gowdhaman resigns as Company Secretary, Rajshree Sugars & Chemicals Ltd
R S Gowdhaman has resigned as Company Secretary of Rajshree Sugars & Chemicals Ltd.

Tedjarati resigns as Director, Honeywell Automation India Ltd
Shane Tedjarati has resigned as Director of Honeywell Automation India Ltd.

Three Directors cease to be on Board of MOIL Ltd
Dr Madhu Vij, Dr S K Bhattacharya and Vijay V Kalehave ceased to be Directors on Board of MOIL Ltd

Three Directors cease to be on Board of Modison Metals Ltd
Shravan Sharma, Anil Lohia and Satish Mody have ceased to be Directors on Board of Modison Metals Ltd.

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GoI bent upon committing same mistake

Once again---! 7th time in a row! GoI is bent upon committing the same mistake-spending money on old horses hoping that they will learn running now---It's about the Phase V training of the IAS officers of senior batches. This time its 1985 batch with around 140 officers. All 28 years old in service. Still GoI hopes that they can be trained-(may be as last hope). Before this 6 batches have been trained in last six years. They are taken abroad to Harvard for 10 days. Then 20 days back at Mussoorie all 30 days to sleep in lecture rooms--. All the picnic at taxpayers cost. And this year when the economy is drooping Rupee is drowning and Uttrakhand is writhing in pain why all this waste----.Have they learnt anything in past? Are they going to do something that can relieve the pain of the sufferers even slightly! DoPT really at this hour of crisis needs to examine why such a waste when you need immense amount of funds to rebuild Uttarakhand, rejuvenate economy and provide some relief to the sufferers . These officers are going to enjoy paid vacation abroad and in Uttaranchal (Mussorie--what a ridiculous situation) when they are expected by the country to be delivering twice to their duty wherever they are posted. Is the PMO or Narayan Sami listening ? Is it all that necessary in this hour of crisis ?

Mahadev

CSS cadre restructuring

How is that every candidate recruited into IAS who is allocated a state cadre by UPSC wants to run away from their state cadres to New Delhi and wanting to dominate all posts and ranks in the Central and Cabinet Secretariat? IAS is a generalist cadre service as the cadre does not specialize in anything. No wonder why Verghese Kurien of Amul wanted IAS to be abolished and why N R Narayana Murthy of Infosys wanted IAS to be reformed and renamed it as Indian Management Service for it to become specialized and focused. It is a wonder in the world that how can one day a Secretary in the ministry of Mines or Human Resources be the next year he be Secretary of Finance? What is his qualification? CSS officers are much better off.

Jose

SC/STs not misusing their caste card

I totally disagree that the SC/STs are misusing their caste card in officers to implicate other officers. I am a general category employee. Take the example of NHAI under Road Transport Ministry. The organisation is in existence for the last about 20 years but can you imagine, there is no roster benefit to a single SC/ST employees. There is no Roster as such in the NHAI. All SC/ST employees are harassed on one pretext or the other and in desperation move to SC/ST Commission. There also the NHAI officers try to manage in connivance with the lower officers.

Amrendra

Another perspective to SC/ST reservations

The views reflect the realities at Ground Zero of present scenario.

Gaurav Banerji IAS (Retired) Kolkata

Disparity in pay scales

Government of India has various offices for various Ministries/Departments under it. I have no reason to understand why there is disparity in pay scales of employees of Subordinate Offices of the GoI and the Main Ministries. Whether Subordinate offices are not considered as competent as the main Ministry people ? Bureaucrats of this country who are dealing with all type of departments/Ministries/State Governments are requested to delete this gap of pay ? People in subordinate offices of the Government of India are also working so hard. Please see to it that such disparities are totally deleted during next Pay Commission Report.

Anil Kumar