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POLITICS

One is friend and other is servant ?
Which businessman of India is number one with the US? A senior bureaucrat made a comment without naming "One is friend of US and the other is servant ".

RSS is HighCommand
Recent happenings in the BJP has proved that RSS is the real High Command and Mohan Bhagwat is the boss.

BUREAUCRACY

Kaun Banega RBI Governor? (4) Arvind Mayaram
Who will be new RBI Governor? Name of Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs ,Arvind Mayaram is also in circulation for the post. The 1978 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre Arvind Mayaram would also like to move to Mumbai.

Kumar to move from Water Resources?
G Mohan Kumar who is Special Secretary, Water Resources, is being moved as Secretary of some other Department. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre. Earlier his name was being mentioned for the Department of Water Resources in place of Dr Shyamal Kumar Sarkar.

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

Sinha to be Secretary, Power
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. The 1977 batch IAS officer of UP cadre, Sinha is presently Secretary, Shipping.

Alok Rawat to be Secretary, Water Resources ?
Alok Rawat is likely to be appointed Secretary Water Resources. He is a 1977 batch IAS officer of Sikkim cadre.

1979 batch IAS officer to be Secretary, I & B
The 1979 batch IAS officer of 1979 batch is being appointed Secretary of the Information & Broadcasting. Names of a couple of IAS officers are already in circulation.

Ravi Mathur to hold additional charge of Minority Affairs
Secretary, Disinvestment, Ravi Mathur will hold additional charge of the post of Secretary, Ministry of Minority Affairs, for a period of three months. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

34 IAS officers to retire in June
As many as 34 IAS officers are retiring in June. They are Udipta Roy of AGMUT cadre, Mohammed Shafiquzzaman of Andhra Pradesh cadre. Vimal Nand Jha of Bihar cadre, M S Paikra and Ram Singh Thakur of Chhattisgarh, Arun Kumar, S Sataria and J M Sewak of Gujarat cadre; Pradeep Kumar Chudhery and Surjeet Singh of Haryana ; Balbir Tegta of Himachal Pradesh; K S Prabhakara, R K Raju and M K Baldevakrishna of Karnataka; Uday Kumar Verma of Madhya Pradesh; H R Pawar, V S Nahata, P D Karwande, T K Bagul, V V Vaidya and B G Wath of Maharashtra; Puspendra Rai and A K Mangotra of Manipur-Tripura; Bijay Kumar Patnaik, K S Ganesan and Alekh Chandra Padhiary of Orissa; Aditi Mehta of Rajasthan; P Ekambaram of Tamil Nadu; P Uma Shankar and Desh Deepak Verma of Uttar Pradesh; Ramesh Chand Pathak, Surinder Singh Rawat and Suverdhan of Uttar Pradesh cadre and Md Ali Mondal of West Bengal cadre .

Dr Anil Bhandari selected as Director (Exp.), ONGC Videsh Ltd
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.

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

Khushboo Goel returns to parent cadre
The premature repatriation of Ms Khusbhoo Goel has been approved by Government of India as she was on inter-cadre deputation to Punjab cadre. She is a 2008 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Cadre of Dr Vasuki transferred from MP to Kerala
The cadre of Dr K Vasuki has been transferred from Madhya Pradesh to Kerala cadre on the ground of marriage to Dr S Karthikeyan, an IAS officer of 2011 batch of Kerala cadre. Dr Vasuki is a 2008 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Cadre of Saini transferred from WB to AP
The cadre of Rajat Kumar Saini has been transferred from West Bengal to Andhra Pradesh on the ground of marriage to Ms Sweta Mohanty, an IAS officer of this state cadre and 2011 batch. Saini is a 2007 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Deputation tenure of CVO, IREL extended
Central deputation tenure of Atul Kumar Shukla, IFS(CG-86) as Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) in the Indian Rare Earths Limited (IREL), Mumbai has been extended for a period of two years beyond May 5, 2013 i.e upto May 5, 2015.

Pandey is new Advisor (Security), IOC
DK Pandey has been appointed Advisor (Security) in the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC). He is a 1984 batch IPS officer of Jharkhand cadre.

IRS-IT officer Kumar posted as Director, DoPT
Sanjiv Shankar has been appointed as Director (E.II) in Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT). He is a 1993 batch IRS-IT officer.

Rajput promoted as Director
Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Steel, Pushpendra Rajput has been promoted to the rank of Director. He is a 1999 batch IAS officer.

Top slot of JNPT lies vacant since April
The top slot of Chairman of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust has been lying vacant since April after L Radhakrishnan had repatriated as ACS, Government of Kerala. Presently N N Kumar, a 1984 batch IRS officer, is holding the charge of Chairman, JNPT.

Will Srivastava be appointed as new Chairman of NDMC ?
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that Jalaj Srivastava may be appointed as the new Chairman of NDMC. With two officers in the fray sharing equal prospect Jalaj, reportedly, has fair chances. He is 1984 batch IAS officers of AGMUT cadre. After serving in Andaman as Principal Secretary he is back to Govt. of Delhi and awaits his posting.

Ms Balakrishna posted as Sr Dy AG in PAG office, AP
Ms Anitha Balakrishna, on return from leave, has been posted as Senior Deputy Accountant General (Admn), in the office of Principal Accountant General (G&SSA), Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. She is an IA&AS officer of 1999 batch.

Sandeep Singh posted as PD, RTI, Ranchi
Sandeep Singh has been appointed as Principal Director, RTI, Ranchi after promotion to the grade of Accountant General (SAG).

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

Ms Tiwari posted as Asstt Director (M&C), PIB, N- Delhi
Ms Keerti Tiwari has been posted as Assistant Director (M & C), PIB, New Delhi after the termination of probation period. She is a 2007 batch officer of Indian Information Service (IIS).

Chaman Rana posted as DIG, SHQ, KNJ
Chaman Rana has been posted as DIG, SHQ, KNJ. He is a BSF cadre officer.

Deo likely to join central deputation
P R Deo is likely to join central deputation as Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO). He is a 1986 batch IPS officer of Haryana cadre.

Rajiv Kumar Jain granted non-functional upgradation
Rajiv Kumar Jain, Director, DFF, New Delhi, has been granted Non Functional Upgradation (NFU). He is an Indian Information Service (IIS) officer.

143 officers promoted as Deputy Commissioners of C& CE
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.

Anand Kumar posted as OSD in CCIT office, Mumbai
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.

Ranjt Rae is new Ambassador to Nepal (UPDATED)
Ranjit Rae has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Nepal.He is 1980 batch IFS officer.

ITI GETS PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE AWARD 2012 (UPDATED)
K.L.Dhingra, Chairman and Managing Director, ITI Limited, Bangalore, received Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE AWARD 2012 (INDIVIDUAL) during the 17th CEO's Conference organized by IIE at Amritsar

HAL gets FKCCI Export Excellence Award-2013 (UPDATED)
HAL was bestowed with the Best Exporter Award in Special Category (Gold) - large scale industries - by Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FKCCI) for the performance in exports during the year 2012 -13. HAL was ranked first among the 24 large industries registered for the awards. The awards were presented to exporters at a function held in Bangalore recently by K H Muniyappa, the Union Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. The representatives from HAL's Aircraft Division, a front runner in the export performance during Year 2012-13,received the award. Dr Anup K Pujari, Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) and other senior officials were present on the occasion.

Niraj Kumar posted as SDM, Zanskar (UPDATED)
Niraj Kumar has been posted as Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Zanskar with additional charge of CEO, Tourism Development Authority, Zanskar in Jammu and Kashmir. He is a 2010 batch IAS officer of Jammu and Kashmir cadre.

Bajaj appointed as Chief Adviser Cost, Finance in GoI (UPDATED)
D C Bajaj has been elevated to the position of Chief Adviser Cost in the Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure. Bajaj is the senior most officer of the Indian Cost Accounts Service (ICoAS).

R Manjunath Rao shifted to SWR (UPDATED)
R Manjunath Rao, SG/IRAS/ Central Railway, has been transferred to South Western Railway and posted in the cadre.

CORPORATE

Harshavardhan Madabhushi is Employee Director, SBH
Harshavardhan Madabhushi has been appointed Officer-Employee Director on the board of Directors of the State Bank of Hyderabad.

Maheshwari appointed Non Official Director, UCO Bank
The Central Government has nominated Sunil Kumar Maheshwari as Part-time Non-official Director on the Board of Directors of UCO Bank.

Jain quits as CEO, Bharti Walmart?
Raj Jain has quit as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Bharti Walmart.

Narsey made Interim Head, Bharti Walmart?
Ramnik Narsey made Interim head of Bharti Walmart

Dubey appointed Company Secy, Zenith Birla (India) Ltd
Vimal Prakash Dubey has been appointed as Company Secretary of Zenith Birla (India) Ltd.

Banerjee appointed Addl. Director, Kanco Enterprises Ltd
Kanco Enterprises Ltd has appointed Susanta Banerjee as Additional Director of the company.

Shah resigns as Company Secy, Transformers and Rectifiers Ltd ?
Tushar Shah has resigned as Company Secretary of Transformers and Rectifiers Ltd .

Moitra appointed Director General, IIF
Suprano Moitra has been appointed as Director General of Institute of Indian Foundrymen (IIF).

Weber appointed GM, Hyatt Regency, Mumbai
Eric Weber has been has been appointed as General Manager at Hyatt Regency, Mumbai

Kapoor appointed GM. Hyatt Regency, Delhi
Aseem Kapoor has been appointed as General Manager of Hyatt Regency, Delhi

Sriram appointed Senior VP, Maveric Systems
B Sriram has been appointed as Senior Vice President Maveric Systems

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Disparity in Pay-scales.

I fully agree with the views about pay disparity amongst the Central Government employees working in the Central Secretariat and non-secretariat office throughout the country. This is totally wrong and even the basic principle of equal pay for equal work is not being adhered as on today. The DoPT and Finance Ministry should look into it and do justice.

V S Rana, IIAS, Shimla

Bring uniformity in the pay scales

This is regarding anomaly in the pay scales for the subordinate offices. I fully agree that there should be uniformity in the pay scales. Also there are few glaring anomalies, God only knows what pay fixation formula was adopted for new pay scales in VI CPC at DS and Director. There is discrimination in Grade pay at Section officer/US level. GoI must look into this and should not wait for the 7 CPC.

Harish Kumar

Don't bracket all IAS in one group

I am a CSS officer. One should not bracket all IAS with a single setting of microscope. There are a number of positive, brilliant and honest IAS, who perform their job quite efficiently. Black sheeps are there both in IAS and CSS also. It is those IAS officials, who have a feudalistic bent of mind and have some relationships problems at home, don't behave and perform properly in office. On the other hand there are a number of CSS officials by taking advantage of their permanent service and permanent posting are behaving in villainous manner. They are a great hurdle in Government functioning. They don't have a positive attitude, are shirkers and delay masters. Some of the CSS officials feel that they were intelligent enough and they could also have entered any Group 'A' service and hence start behaving in a feudalistic & irrational manner (especially the Direct Recruit Section officers of CSS).

Satya Prakash

Delay in registration of FIR

Not only in rural areas, but even in urban capital city, the FIR of very senior govt. officer ( Retired Ambassador) belonging to SC was registered after 126 days from the date of the written complaint. The National SC Commission asked the Police Commissioner to submit an Action Taken Report. For certain, the Commission would not have received any response from the Police even after three months. This itself is an atrocity by the government on SCs. Sir, genuine atrocity cases are foiled, what to talk of false cases! Being a political issue, the politics itself is partial on the subject. My mind is still resonant with these words uttered by an SC Minister ( mujhe sarak par khada karke caste ki gaali de lo, iss se kaya farak parta hai)

Z S Nirwal

Provision of justice in rules is not reverse discrimination

It is biased interpretation that GOI has fuelled mistrust among communities, it proves how far one can go in criticizing government policies for SC/STs. If SC/STs are given right to represent against injustice in offices and raise voice against indiscrimination, how is it injustice to General Caste employees? Suffering employee needs to be given right under certain rules. Terming an employee's right to represent against injustice as 'reverse discrimination' is nothing but one's own figment of imagination. Protecting a harassed SC/ST employee from general caste employee is not reverse discrimination, or any such rule or guideline cannot be termed 'discriminatory'. The injustice meted by general castes in government offices had forced DoPT to bring out guidelines such as SC/ST DPC Member etc. to safeguard SC/ST employees. It is not correct to imagine that guidelines are 'reverse discrimination'. Surprisingly, the GoI does not recognize SC/ST Associations in Offices, though it recognizes Employee Unions (who mostly refuse to take SC/ST service matters). This denial by Unions gave birth to SC/STs Associations. GoI should recognize SC/ST Employees Associations which would positively change the outlook of management to SC/ST issues.

Singh R K

Prejudice of higher caste officers deep enough

This is a case of Madhya Pradesh Tribal Development Department. Case of one officer Ahirwar. He was superceded and had gone to court. He promised me, the commissioner Tribal Development, that he would withdraw the court case if his case for promotion was reviewed. Under the rules it was difficult if not impossible. I also wanted the case to be decided by the Court. Fortunately the Court decided the case and ordered review of DPC. When we were holding review DPC I was shocked to find that Collector had given him "poor" grading in one year though he had outstanding remarks in each of the columns of his CR. That was the reason for denial of promotion to the officer. The CR was type- written by PA of collector but collector an upper caste officer had made up his mind to give him poor grade and gave that grade by writing in hand. The review DPC corrected the CR and the officer got two promotions in quick succession. The collector is still in service with central government. The matter was reported to the controlling department for IAS officers but no action was taken against the IAS officer who had not only exhibited his prejudice against an SC officer but was also gross negligent in writing CR of the officers. This is very common in government departments in states and centre. I have been regularly reading discussions on reservations in WIC. The prejudice of higher caste officers is so deep against SC/ST/OBC that sometimes I feel why should these communities not be a separate nation so that the so called efficient should prosper in their nation and we should perish in our nest on account of inefficiency.

Sewa Ram

People not aware of harsh realities

People not aware of the harsh realities that SC/ST and also minorities especially Muslims face in government offices. The precedence for forming groups/lobbies was after all set by those with access to knowledge. They form groups, stay isolated and help themselves and their people alone. They ensure that their people gain entry by any means violating all norms/rules. Whether at Group A or any level SC/ST/BC/minorities face horrible discrimination to the extent that these people are referred by caste professions. They are cornered, harassed, foisted false vigilance cases. The victims have to come together fight it out. How long can anyone tolerate the injustice and harassment. There are no dearth of intelligent, hardworking people among the so called lower castes but a canard is deliberately being spread by a Section that these people are inefficient, lazy etc. But we will fight this injustice as a group as a lobby.

Gautam

Should UPSC member have visited Home Secretary?

The Chairperson and Members UPSC enjoy the status and privileges equivalent to that of Cabinet Secretary. The Chairperson is first among equals. Member UPSC A P Singh's (IPS 74, Jharkhand) visit to Union Home Secretary (IAS 75, Bihar ) was Constitutionally inappropriate. Raising suspicion was natural as he had served as Director, CBI for two years till relinquishment of charge on Nov 30, 2012. Prior to becoming Member UPSC in Feb 2013, Singh handled several high profile sensitive cases. He must be often meeting the Home Secretary to take instructions as Director, CBI. Old habits die hard. He surely, did not visit the Home Secretary for a chat or courtesy call. One wonders whether views on sensitive cases were shared between them. But, he did certainly compromise his position as Member UPSC. Ironically, both officers were selected by the UPSC. Are we to blame the Commission for selecting such brilliant officers? Ignorance of protocol cannot be an alibi for violating the oath of secrecy and upholding the dignity of UPSC. Having served in UPSC as Joint Secretary in early nineties, I have some knowledge of its internal functioning. I did not hear of any Chairperson and Members having visited anyone except the President or the Prime Minister. I trust the same practice continues till date. I feel that calling on the Prime Minister should be considered inappropriate as he could influence the UPSC. In this context, I would share an actual episode narrated by a civil servant in his autobiography. R N Banerjee, ICS who served as UPSC Chairperson from 1949 to 1955, was summoned by Pt Nehru for recommending a candidate for selection by interview into IAS. Banerjee's outright refusal carried the desired message to the then PM. Such officers are an extinct species. Would the Commission take the call to avoid recurrence of similar faux pas in future, overtly or covertly ?

A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)

SBI CMD extension

Who is to blame? Why extension? There are good number of bankers capable of manning this job. Let it be opened for all. New Ideas would take SBI to new heights.

S S Singh

Consider Ms Rina Ray for NDMC post

Ms Rina Ray, 1984 batch IAS and former Education Secretary, Delhi Government, who has achieved in her earlier stints in Goa and Delhi, should be considered for NDMC post.

Nivedita