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POLITICS

Congress leadership equally worried about holding early polls
Congress leadership is equally worried about holding early polls as all the surveys conducted by it recently predicted doom for the party irrespective of the timing of the polls.

What CBI wants to know answer in Railway System ?
1. While forming the panels for DRMs, GMs, HODs and PHODs, Boards role for review of grey line cases where an successively outstanding graded officer is suddenly given lower grading or found unfit due to prejudice, victimization and misconceptions. As such representations are dealt with ego and face saving by the Railway Board thus not entertained generally, and denying justice.

2. Cases where irregularities were not prevented, like promotion of
Rajiv Bhargava, arbitrary change of posting of Deepak Krishnan as GM ( now retired) even after approval by PMO, Posting of Ramachandran as DG RDSO instead of open line, despite directives of PMO and DOPT for otherwise.

3. Changes of Executive Directors in Railway Board to accommodate some chosen ones by Members, specially Member Mechanical in Mechanical and lucrative Stores deptt and in RDSO where all approvals for vendors and specifications are done.

4. Investigation and further examination of the officers whose names are figuring in the tapes, including the beneficiary officers own conversations with accused in jail and under scanner. Also of the
companies who have benefited in tenders.

5. It is almost established that favors were done and culprits identified. CBI needs to strengthen its revelations to book other culprits and beneficiary officers and companies.

BUREAUCRACY

Kaun Banega Chairman Railway Board ? (5) R S Virdi
R S Virdi GM NF Railway is considered to be dark horse. If A K Mittal is posted -being senior most on MS posts which is presently available, then there is no body else except Virdi for CRB. His chances are now rated high.

J S Mathur to be back as Additional Secretary I & B ?
J S Mathur is reportedly returning as Additional Secretary Information and Broadcasting. Infact , Earlier 1982 batch IAS officer Mathur had been moved as AS and FA in the same Ministry.

IA &AS officer to succeed Mathur as AS and FA I & B ?
An IA &AS officer is being appointed Additional Secretary and FA in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

Appointment of new Secretary Defence Secretary next week
Appointment of new Secretary Defence Production is expected to take place next week after the return of Defence Minister from his foreign visit.

CIT transfer list in a couple of days ?
Transfer list of Commissioners of Income Tax is likely to be issued in a couple of days.Over three hundred IRS reportedly figure in the list.

Raghavan named High Commissioner to Pakistan
T C A Raghavan has been named as India's new High Commissioner to Pakistan. He is 1982 batch IFS officer.

Prasad is new Ambassador to Netherlands
Rajesh Nandan Prasad (IFS: 1980) has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Netherlands.

Srivastava to hold additional charge of Mines
S.K. Srivastava, IAS(AM:78), Secretary, Ministry of Coal will hold additional charge of the post of Secretary. Ministry of Mines from June 29, 2013 to July 14, 2013 during the absence on leave of R.H. Khwaja, IAS(AP:76).

Deputation tenure of Subash Chandra extended
Deputation tenure of Subash Chandra, IAS (KN:86), Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Defence has been extended for the period upto 31.07.2013 or till his successor joins, whichever is earlier.

Will Kashyap be the new FC, Railway Board?
Kashyap Rajendra's name has started doing rounds in the corridors of power as the prospective officer to grab the coveted slot as the new FC, RB. Kashyap, an IRAS officer of 1976 batch, is Additional Member (Budget), RB. Though he fulfils the criteria in terms of experience as GM Open Line but partially lack it in terms having two years of residual service at the time of vacancy.

Deputation tenure of Nivedita Shukla Verma extended
Central deputation tenure of Ms. Nivedita Shukla Verma, IAS(UP:91), 'Joint Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat has been extended for a period of one year beyond June 15, 2013.

Preeti Sudan gets three months extension. Dr.(Ms.)

Preeti Sudan, IAS(AP:83) Joint Secretary in theMinistry of Defence has been given extension in deputation tenure for a period of three months beyond 16.07.2013-or till her successor joins, whichever is earlier.

Dilip Kumar to be Director Heath
Dilip Kumar is joining the Government of India as Director Health and Family Welfare. He is 1995 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre.

S C Pandey to succeed B P Singh as Director (Projects) NTPC
As the grapevine has it, S C Pandeyis poised to succeed B P Singh as Director (Projects) NTPC though by the month of October. Singh, the incumbent Director is scheduled to retire on September 30. Presently Pandey is serving NTPC as Executive Director, Project, Planning and Monitoring.

V K Rattan disinterested in joining as Director (Engg), NPCC
V K Rattan, GM, NHPC, who was selected for the post of Director (Engineering), National Projects Construction Corporation Limited (NPCC), appeared to be not interested in joining the same.

Orders of V K Gaur as CMD, NSC yet to come
The orders of V K Gaur, CMD, SFCIL, for the appointment as CMD, National Seeds Corporation Limited (NSC) are yet to be issued. However, he is holding an additional charge of the CMD, NSC.

Will S C Chaudhary unlikely be the new CS of Haryana?
Amid the approaching date of retirement of Haryana CS, P K Chaudhary, the whispers have started doing rounds whether Satish Chandra Choudhary would be able to win the coveted slot of CS. Even if the incumbent CS does not get extension Choudhary would have bleak chances for the post for reasons well known to the politics of Haryana. He is 1977 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

File of M P Lawyers returned ?
The SC is believed to have returned the file of five Madhya Pradesh Lawyers for the appointment of High Court Judges. They are reportedly Sunil Jain (Indore), Nawal Gupta (Gwalior) and Rohit Arya, Aditya Adhikari and Ram Kumar Verma.

Arun Sahu is likely to get back to MEA HQ
As the grapevine has it Arun Sahu is poised to move from Beijing. Sahu has been serving Counsellor (Political) - Designate, Embassy of India in Beijing. He is 1996 batch officer of Indian Foreign Service. Earlier, he had served in Indian Embassies in London and Tehran as well.

Anurag Srivastava is likely to get back from Colombo
As the grapevine has it, Anurag Srivastava is poised to move from Colombo to be posted at MEA HQ. Anurag is currently serving as Counsellor (Political) at Indian Embassy in Colombo. He is 1999 batch officer of Indian Foreign Service.

M R Naik joins CISF as DIG, posting awaited
Moving on to central deputation Malothu Ramulu Naik has joined CISF as DIG but yet to get the posting. Naik, a 1998 batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre, previously served as DIG Betiah range.

M M Goyal transferred to NWR
M M Goyal, SG/ IRAS, East Central Railway, has been transferred to North Western Railway and posted in the cadre.

Ms Bhawna Garg posted as Joint Secretary (Fin), Chandigarh Admn
Ms Bhawna Garg has been appointed as Joint Secretary (Finance), Chandigarh Administration after she was transferred on the inter-cadre deputation to AGMUT cadre from Punjab cadre for a period of three years.

PESB invites applications for Director (L&PS), SCI
Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has invited applications for the post of the Director (Liner and Passenger Services), Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) falling vacant next year on May 1, 2014. Those willing to apply can send their applications to the PESB before July 16, 2013.

Lt Gen Singh is new GOC 15 Corps
Lt. General Gurmeet Singh is arriving has taken over as the General Officer Commanding (GOC) Srinagar-based 15 Corps also known as Chinar Corps.

K Krishnamurthy posted as Asst Accountant General, PAG, Bangalore
K Krishnamurthy, on his promotion to the Junior Time Scale, has been posted as Assistant Accountant General in the office of Principal Accountant General (G&SSA), Karnataka, Bangalore.

Y K Baweja granted non-functional upgradation
Y K Baweja, Director, DAVP, New Delhi, has been granted Non Functional Upgradation (NFU). He is an Indian Information Service (IIS) officer.

14 posts of Judges vacant in Gujarat HC
As many as 14 posts of judges have been lying vacant in Gujarat High Court against approved strength of 42. They include nine posts of Permanent Judge against approved strength of 29 and five of Additional Judges against approved strength of 13.

Ms Kalpana Singh posted OSD, CBDT
Ms Kalpana Singh, Deputy Commissioner, IT, Transfer Pricing, Delhi, has been posted as OSD, Investigation IV, CBDT.

3 IRS-IT officers posted Under Secretary, CBDT
Three officers of Indian Revenue Service of Income Tax cadre have been appointed as Under Secretary, CBDT, in Department of Revnue, New Delhi. Accordingly, Arju Garodia has been posted US, (TPL-I) while Amit Katoch as US (TPL-II) and Hemant Gupta is US (ITJ)

Pratap Singh promoted to ACIT
Indian Revenue Service officer of Income Tax cadre, Pratap Singh, Lucknow, has been promoted to the grade of Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax after retirement.

C P Srivastava promoted as CC, Central Excise, Mumbai-1
Indian Revenue Service officer of Custom cadre, C P Srivastava has been posted as Chief Commissioner of Central Excise, Mumbai Zone -1 after he was promoted to this grade. He is a C & CE officer of 1978 batch.

7 Chief Commissioners of Customs transferred
As many as seven officers of Indian Revenue Service of Custom cadre and working at the Chief Commissioner/ Director General in CBEC have been transferred and posted at different places. Accordingly, Joy Kumar Chander has been transferred as CC, CX, Coimbatore while Vanaja Sarna was shifted to CC, CX, Bangalre and V S Krishna is being posted as CC, CX, Mumbai-I. Similarly, Deepa B Das Gupta has been transferred as CC, CX, Vizag; K K Sharma as CC, CX, Lucknow; A K Agarwal as CC, TAR, Delhi and H K Jain was moved as DG (Audit), Delhi.

3 IRS-Custom officers get additional charges
Three officers of Indian Revenue Service of Custom cadre have been given additional charges. Accordingly, H K Jain has been given an additional charge of DG, DGICCE, Delhi while Kameswri Subramaniam gets charge of CC, Custom, Kolkata and Rakesh Mishra was assigned the charge of CC Custom, Ahmedabad.

Reshuffle of IAS officers in UP (UPDATED)
A number of officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Uttar Pradesh. Accordingly, Mahesh Kumar Gupta has been posted as Divisional Commissioner of Kanpur while Arun Singhal will now be Principal Secretary, Rural Development and Raj Mazid Ali is Principal Secretary, Institutional Finance. Similarly, Arvind Narain Mishra has been appointed as Principal Secretary, Secretariat Administration; Subhash Chandra Sharma as Cane Commissioner; Atul Kumar as Secretary, Home department; Vinay Priya Dubey as Secretary, Home Guards; Ramashanker as Special Secretary in the Agriculture; Sudesh Kumar Ojha as Secretary, State Information Commission; Anil Kumar-III as Director, Training and Employment; Bhupendra C Choudhury as Director of Social Welfare.

Thapar is new High Commissioner to New Zealand. (UPDATED)
Ravi Thapar (IFS: 1983) has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to New Zealand.

Tenure of Venkateswar as First Secretary, High Commission, Singapore extended (UPDATED)
The tenure of G T Venkateswar as First Secretary, High Commission of India, Singapore, has been extended upto August 28, 2013. He is an IRS-IT officer.

Tenure of Sampath as First Secretary, High Commission, Port Louis extended (UPDATED)
The tenure of M Sampath as First Secretary, High Commission of India, Port Louis, Mauritius, has been extended upto August 28, 2013. He is an IRS-IT officer.

Ajeya Kallam posted as Principal Secretary to CM in AP (UPDATED)
Ajeya Kallam has been posted as Principal Secretary to Chief Minister in Andhra Pradesh. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Shailesh Singh posted as OSD at Mumbai office of MP (UPDATED)
Shailesh Kumar Singh has been appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) at the office of Madhya Pradesh, Mumbai. He will deal with serious fraud cases and coordinate with RBI, Headquarters. He is a 1987 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

S S Dhillon is also PS, Irrigation in Haryana (UPDATED)
S S Dhillon has been assigned an additional charge of Principal Secretary, Irrigation Department in Haryana. He is a 1984 batch IAs officer of Haryana cadre.

CORPORATE

Woman IAS officer to head Bombay Chamber of Commerce
Former IAS officer of West Bengal cadre Mrs Neera Saggi has taken charge on Thursday as the President of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She will be the first lady President of the Chamber. She may be also the first ex IAS officer to head a major Chamber of Commerce in India, unless Jagdish Khattar or RC Bhargave have done this earlier.

Hinduja re-appointed Exec. Chairman, Hinduja Ventures Ltd
Hinduja Ventures Ltd has re-appointed Ashok P Hinduja as an Executive Chairman of the company.

Kamath re-elected Chairman, IBA
Punjab National Bank Chairman and Managing Director K R Kamath has been re-elected as Chairman of Indian Banks Association (IBA) for 2013-14.

Jindal re-appointed Exec. Chairman SRS Ltd
SRS Limited has re-appointed Dr. Anil Jindal as Executive Chairman of the company for a further period of five years.

Maloo resigns as MD, MW Unitexx Ltd
V K Maloo has resigned as Managing Director of MW Unitexx Ltd.

Kannan resigns as Company Secy., Celebrity Fashions Ltd
Ms Ramya Kannan has resigned as Company Secretary of Celebrity Fashions Ltd.

Kothari appointed Company Secy., Anukaran Commercial Enterprises Ltd
Anukaran Commercial Enterprises Ltd has appointed Ms Vidhi Kothari as Company Secretary of the company.

Shah resigns as Company Secy., Anukaran Commercial Enterprises Ltd
Aditi Shah has resigned as Company Secretary of Anukaran Commercial Enterprises Ltd.

Arcot appointed Independent Director, Shree Digvijay Cement Company Ltd
Shree Digvijay Cement Company Ltd has appointed Kumaresan Arcot as an Independent Director of the company.

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"Communicate ACRs within a reasonable period"
Supreme Court (a three Judges bench) vide judgment dated April 23, 2013 in Civil Appeal No. 5892 of 2006: Sukhdev Singh Vs Union of India has upheld the judgment of two Judges bench of Supreme Court in the matter of "Dev Dutt Vs Union of India" that every entry in ACR- poor, fair, average, good or very good should be communicated within a reasonable period. The Hon'ble Supreme Court held that-"In our opinion, the view taken in Dev Dutt that every entry in ACR of a public servant must be communicated to him/her within a reasonable period is legally sound and helps in achieving threefold objectives. First, the communication of every entry in the ACR to a public servant helps him/her to work harder and achieve more that helps him in improving his work and give better results. Second and equally important, on being made aware of the entry in the ACR, the public servant may feel dissatisfied with the same. Communication of the entry enables him/her to make representation for upgradation of the remarks entered in the ACR. Third, communication of every entry in the ACR brings transparency in recording the remarks relating to a public servant and the system becomes more conforming to the principles of natural justice. We, accordingly, hold that every entry in ACR- poor, fair, average, good or very good-must be communicated to him/her within a reasonable period." So the reasonable period for the purpose of communication of ACR may be three months or at the max six months. DoPT may issue suitable guidelines to the Ministries/ Departments to promote such officers on the date when they became eligible for promotion but could not be promoted due to non-communication of their ACRs within a reasonable period. In the matter of Swadeshi Cotton Mills Vs. Union of India, reported as (1981) 1 SCC 664, Justice R S Sarkaria lucidly explained the meaning and scope of the concept of 'Natural Justice' and concluded that..."the person affected must have reasonable opportunity of being heard and the hearing must be a genuine hearing and not an empty public relations exercise."

V Kumar

CBDT playing games with own officers
It is frustrating that CBDT is playing games with its own officers. How does the FM expect his officers to deliver revenue targets with the growth rate at an all time low with such a disgruntled work force ? Probably the task of making fair and transparent transfer orders should be given to the Joint Secretary Administration rather than the Board.
Kartikaye Sharma

Will someone in North Block listen?
In these pages everyday some person is writing about the unhappiness in CBDT by the dictatorial, arbitrary ways of functioning of the ex-Chairperson. The orders brought out so far have tainted the good name of the FM who is not being given full facts and data. The entire orders brought out should be scrapped. The morale of the entire service is very low, no policy has been followed and sheer pick and choose has been done.

Pratap Singh

CBDT misdirection
CBDT is concentrating man power and energy in mid income group salaried people. There is no data mining about the number of people who have Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Porsche, Bentley and many other luxurious cars, people buying real state more than 50 lakhs, people charging One crore for one night show, buying jewellery more than two lakhs, stayed in five stars hotels etc. but concentrating who have bought MF more than 2 lakhs, shares of a company more than 1 lakh. It will not serve the basic purpose of increasing the numbers from 42,800 to 42 lakhs having taxable income more than One crore. Think and issue direction in concentrating energy in innovating the new methods utilizing modern technology.

N Prakash

A revolutionary idea
Suggestion to have creamy layer, both in reserved and unreserved categories, for exclusion from reservation/concessions in studies, jobs or in any other field is a revolutionary idea. It may go a long way in upliftment of deprived in both of these categories. Debate on any subject is never useless and should always continue in democracy.

Vashishta

Two wrongs do not make a right
I disagree as two wrongs do not make one correct. If something is going on wrong in USA why we should follow the same in India. We should rather improve our system as whole so far as reservation is
concerned in India.

Harish Kumar

Panacea for upward social mobility
Reservation is not a panacea for upward social mobility. Rather it gives a social stigma to the beneficiary. As long as the present day reservation policy continues, the social stigma will prevail. It cannot be washed away by laws. That is why 60 years of reservation has not made a dent among the majority of the depressed classes. The protagonists of the reservation wants to continue with the policy so that a few like them can corner all the benefits at the cost of their poor cousins. The reserved classes should fight for financial benefits and incentives and compete with others on equal grounds. Gayatry has proved how erroneous the present day reservation policy is.

N K Nair

Poverty has no caste
It is the Dalits and OBCs who now wish to perpetuate casteism to continue to avail of the benefits of reservation. Poverty has no caste and there are poor people in every caste who deserve state support. It is the poverty criteria rather than caste which should determine the level of state support.

Suman Swarup

Our Upper Castes more criminal in nature
Someone on this forum has proudly drawn comparisons between Dalits and Blacks of America in term of inequality. He is wrong in concluding that upper castes were less cruel. White men were racist because of colour and because blacks were of African origin. But our Upper Castes hated their own same colour fellow Indians so they were more criminal in nature. History is full of examples apartheid towards Blacks by Whites, and apartheid towards Dalits by upper castes. Your quote on Blacks and Dalits reminds me that any upper caste or white race who observed apartheid at any point of time in history, will never enjoy
respect in history books, like any other criminal.

R K Singh

Promotional avenues for PAs/Stenos ?
One of the writer suggested that the posts of PS/PPS/Sr.PPS/PSO have to be abolished. If the posts of of PS/PPS/Sr.PPS/PSO are removed from the hierarchy what are the promotional avenues for PAs/Stenos. He also forgets that it is the PAs/Stenos who wanted to be posted with senior officers so that they get the prestige of working with senior officers and get greater benefits like OTA/conveyance/ honorarium etc..

Krishnan

Mrs. Ravi Kumar and FC's post
The fact is that Mrs. Ravi Kumar is the most senior officer having two years balance service, but she is not holding GMs post. Moreover she will supersede four senior person if so promoted. Out of these two
have more than 1 years balance and one of these is working as AM equivalent to GMs post. Incidentally, GM post requirement is not mandatory for FC's post.

S K Bansal

Rajeev Bhargava most suitable for CRB's post
I strongly once again support Rajeev Bhargava for the post of CRB. I don't know how long the system will continue to do injustice with him ignoring his claims.

Asha

What Rajeev Bhargava lacks is Godfather ?
Rajeev Bhargava is honest and one of the rarest breed of officers having been awarded PM award for his excellence in track laying , he is the one who has to his credit rewriting RAIL MANUAL, Further he was adjudged as best DRM at Jhansi Division. He has to his credit almost 33 to 34 outstanding CRS which is rare in the history of Indian Railways. What he lacks is Godfather ?

Kunal

Retirement age - 65 years !
Top Post of Chairman & Director, IIFCL Asset Management Company (A subsidiary Of IIFCL) advertised retirement age at 65 years.

Chintu