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POLITICS

Cabinet reshuffle in second week of June ?
Cabinet expansion cum reshuffle of the Manmohan Singh Government is expected to take place in the second week of June.

Railway Minister to be PMs man ?
New Railway Minister is expected to be PMs man. Presently C P Joshi is holding additional charge of the Railway Ministry.

A rich PSU in GoI
The Power Finance Corporation is so rich that it wants to buy a "substantial" stake in a public sector bank and plans to set up a private equity fund jointly with Tata Capital. According to dynamic CMD Satnam Singh PFC's fourth-quarter profits has risen 58 per cent to Rs 1,294 crore.

BUREAUCRACY

Ranjan Mathai not getting extension
If top sources are to be believed, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai is not getting extension in service beyond July end.

Who will be new Secretary, Defence Production ?
Now the PM is back from Japan visit. Appointment of new Secretary Defence Production is expected to be made in a day or two. Name of Vijay Chhiber has also started doing the round.

Prakash to be Secretary, CBSE ?
Praveen Prakash, is likely to be appointed Secretary, CBSE in the Ministry of Human Resource Development. He is a 1994 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

S K Roy appointed MD of LIC of India
It is learned that S K Roy who had recently taken over as Executive Director International Operations of LIC, has been appointed as MD of LIC of India. Roy's orders as Managing Director of LIC of India have been issued and he may take charge today. however other aspirants like S B Mainak orders are still waited.

Announcement of new LIC Chief awaited
Who will succeed D K Mehrotra as CMD of the LIC on June 1.Official announcement is still awaited.

Justice Kaul to take oath as CJ of P & H HC on June 1
Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul is all set to take oath on June 1 as the new Chief Justice of Punjab & Haryana High Court. He would mark the offices as the successor of Justice A K Sikri recently elevated as new Judge of Supreme Court. He is the senior most Judge of Delhi High Court.
(We said this on May 2 and again on May 13, 2013)

Who to mark as first, among equals of 83 batch, to be posted as Addl. Secy.?
It seems a bit tricky to locate the privileged officer who would mark as the first to be transferred and posted to the post of Additional Secretary, GoI, though by default. Going by the list of freshly empanelled IAS officers of 1983 batch S C Garg is JS in Cabinet secretariat who may be laterally posted in the same department; the next two officers Rajiv Kapoor and Sudhir Kumar Rakesh are posted in U P & Bihar respectively. Not too tricky to locate the name?

Sinha selected as Director (Tech), CMPDIL
V K Sinha, CGM, BCCL, has been selected as Director (Technical), CMPDIL at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on May 30, 2013. As many as 18 persons were interviewed for the same.

Two candidates selected for CMD, NMDC Ltd
The Search Committee of Ministry of Steel has found two candidates Narendra Kothari and Tapas Kumar Lahiry for the post of CMD, National Mineral Development Corporation Limited (NMDC). As many as 15 persons were interviewed by the Committee held on May 30, 2013. Narendra Kothari is presently CEO in Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) while Tapas Kumar Lahiry is CMD of Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL).

Bhatia is new JS in Finance Commission
Mukhmeet Singh Bhatia has been appointed Joint Secretary in the Finance Commission. He is 1990 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre.
(We said this on April 12, 2013)

Two IPS officers to join NPA
Two 1995 batch IPS officers of Bihar cadre R Malar Vizhi and S Raveendran are going to take over as the Deputy Directors at National Police Academy (NPA), Hyderabad.

(We said this on May 16, 2013)

24 posts of Judges vacant in Bombay HC
As many as 24 posts of Judges have been lying vacant in Bombay High Court against 75 approved strength including four posts of Permanent Judges against 48 approved strength and 20 of Additional Judges against 27 approved strength.

Auradker likely to join central deputation
R H Auradker is likely to join central deputation at Inspector General level post. He is a 1987 batch IPS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Why this favour ?
Seems that Government departments have not learnt from Railgate, else why should a high profile officer continue in Enforcement Directorate, Mumbai, inspite of his deputation being over and CVC not giving its approval for extension.

Dr Dholakia to be Director on Air India Board
PVSM VM Dr Ravindra H Dholakia has been appointed as non-official part-time Director on the Board of Air India.

Tiwari posted as DDG (FEB), DOT
S K Tiwari is all set to succeed Dr Shikha Mathur Kumar as DDG (FEB) DOT HQ. Until now he served as DDG (LF-II), HQ Department of Telecommunication. He belongs to Indian P&T Accounts and Finance Service.

Agrawal joins as Dy. Registrar, Appellate Tribunal of Electricity
Harsh Agarwal takes charge as Deputy Registrar in Appellate Tribunal for Electricity, also known as Power Tribunal. Agrawal was an Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate at Allahabad District Court.
(We said this on May 21, 2013)

Surjit to be last 1980 batch IAS officer to be posted as Addl Secy, GoI
As the grapevine has it, Surjit Kumar Chaudhary would be the last among 1980 batch IAS officers to be posted as Additional Secretary, Government of India.

Mishra joins GoI
Rajiv Rajan Mishra has joined as Joint Secretary and Ex-officio Mission Director, National Mission for Clean Ganga, in the Ministry of Environment and Forests. He is a 1987 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Mrs Mishra is new MD, NCDC
Mrs Vasudha Mishra has joined as Managing Director at Joint Secretary level in the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) under the department of Agriculture and Cooperation in Government of India. She is a 1987 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

(We said on May 16, 2013)

Singh is also PS, Infrastructure, Investment in AP
Binod Kumar Singh has been assigned an additional charge of Principal Secretary, Infrastructure and Investment. He is a 1990 batch IFS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Sinha to participate in international course at Los Angeles
S K Sinha, Principal Secretary and Director General Centre for Good Governance, is scheduled to visit Los Angeles, USA, to participate in a course in the World Bank-Annenberg Schools Summer Institute in 'Communication and Governance Reform' being held from May 28 to June 7, 2013 at University of Southern California. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Lakra to move to Niamey
Consul in Edinburg P Lakra has been transferred to Niamey.

Dr Munde empanelled in GoI
Dr P N Munde has been empanelled to the rank of Joint Secretary in the Government of India. He is a 1984 batch IFS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

Deo likely to join central deputation
P R Deo is likely to join central deputation at Inspector General level post. He is a 1986 batch IPS officer of Haryana cadre.

Orissa HC Judge Mishra to retire in June
Orissa High Court Judge Justice Bira Kishore Misra is retiring on June 2, 2013.

Applications for JS (Admin/ Fin) in Independent Evaluation office invited
Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has invited applications for the post of Joint Secretary (Admin / Finance) in the Independent Evaluation office. Those willing to apply can send their applications to the DoPT at the earliest.

Applications for Director, South Central Zone Centre invited
Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has invited applications for the post of Director, South Central Zone Centre, Nagpur. Those willing to apply can send their applications to the DoPT at the earliest.

Three IAS officers shifted in Karnataka
Three officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Karnataka. Accordingly, T M Vijay Bhaskar (1983) has been posted as Principal Secretary, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department while Dr E V Ramana Reddy (1988) will now be Principal Secretary, Housing Department and P N Sreenivasachary (1988) gets additional charge of Principal Secretary, Urban Development.

Lakshimnarayana is Commissioner, Bangalore Mahanagar
M Lakshimnarayana has been appointed as Commissioner, Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagar Palike (BBMP), Bangalore. He is a 1987 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Dr Mohammad posted as Mission Director, NRHM
Dr Suresh Kunhi Mohammad has been appointed as Mission Director, National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Bangalore. He is a 1992 batch IPS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Baadkar is new Coast Guard Goa
Deputy Inspector General Manoj Vasant Baadkar has over as Commander Coast Guard Goa. He has succeeded S D Bhanot.

Union Minister inaugurates SDR system at HAL
Minister of State for Defence, Jitendra Singh inaugurated Software Defined Radio (SDR) system at HAL's Strategic Electronic Research Design Centre (SLRDC) at Hyderabad on May 30, 2013. He experienced the communication between SDRs. Speaking on the occasion, Singh welcomed HAL initiated indigenous development of Softnet Radio for Airborne Communication and Net Centric Warfare and congratulated the company for manufacturing high-end tech-instruments. The SDR is the future of communication technologies and would largely shape the net centric warfare in the years ahead of us. The development of the system will reduce our dependency on foreign suppliers in the critical technology needs of the country ", said Dr R K Tyagi, Chairman, HAL. SDR is based on open architecture with fully configurable software waveforms in L band and V/UHF band. The Radio development has been completed with legacy waveforms and being integrated on airborne platforms. HAL's SLRDC is a primary design centre of excellence for the development of state of the art, indigenous avionics which are installed on fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft like MiG 21, MiG 27, LCA, Jaguar, SU-30, MiG- 29, Dornier, Cheetah, Chetak, ALH operated by the Indian Defence Forces. The type of avionics developed at SLRDC are Radio Communication systems, Navigation systems, Identification systems, Radar systems and Computers.

ITI reduces losses to all time low level (UPDATED)
As per the financial results for the year 2012-13 recently approved by its Board of Directors chaired by K L Dhingra, CMD, the ITI has recorded lowest ever losses during the last 11 years. The company has registered a loss of Rs. 182 cr. for the year 2012-13 against a loss of Rs. 370 cr for the previous year 2011-12, i.e. a reduction of around 50%. Not only this, the Company has recorded a profit of Rs. 110 Cr. in the last quarter of 2012-13. This is in-spite of the fact that their major two customers, i.e. BSNL and MTNL, are now into losses for the last four years continuously and their losses have been going up. This reduction in the losses is before the sanction of the Draft Rehabilitation Scheme (DRS). The Company is hopeful that after the approval of Draft Rehabilitation Scheme (DRS), which is now under the consideration of Dept. of Telecommunications as well as Board for Reconstruction of Public Sector Enterprises (BRPSE), the Company will be back to profit from the year 2014-15 onwards. Coupled with the reduction in the losses, rating of ITI on the MoU signed by the PSU with the Administrative Ministry, i.e. Dept. of Telecommunications, also has been improvingduring the last four years consecutively. The Management of the Company is pinning its hopes of reviving this chronically sick company on the strength of recently announced National Telecom Policy-2012 by the Govt. of India and National Policy of Electronics as well as diversification into newer areas. Though the order book of the Company from BSNL/MTNL (its traditional customers)has been shrinking, but the new initiatives of the Company have helped ITI to earn higher margins as compared to its traditional businesss with BSNL/MTNL. The reduction in the losses of ITI Ltd. consecutively for the last four years and its reduction of losses in 2012-13 to all time low during the last 11 years and improvement of its MoU score to all time high score during the last 11 years is seen as a positive development in the telecom sectors and also in Dept. of Telecommunications.

Major reshuffle in Income Tax; 29 officers at CCIT/DGIT level transferred (UPDATED)
As many as 29 Chief Commissioners of Income Tax/Directors General of Income Tax have been transferred. Accordingly, Dileep Shivpuri has been posted as DGIT (Sys), Delhi CCA while Arun Kumar Jain was shifted as DGIT (L&R), Delhi CCA and Navin Chandra Joshi is transferred as DGIT (Intl Tax), Delhi CCA. Similarly, Subrata Kumar Ray has been shifted as CCIT-I, Ahmedabad CCA; Deeptasshree Kumar Das Sharma as CCIT, Cochin CCA; Kiran Oberio Vasudev as DGIT, NADT, Nagpur CCA; T Jena as DG (HRD), Delhi CCA; Bibhab Dutta as CCIT-V, Mumbai; Virendra Kumar Mishra as CCIT, Indore (Bhopal) CCA MP & CG; Promila Bhardwaj as CCIT, Shimla (Chandigarh CCA); Shashikant Pathak as CCIT-II Kolkata CCA; Rani Singh Nair as CCIT-II, Ahmedabad CCA; Ramesh Chandra Mishra as DGIT (Inv) PUne CCA; Anil Kumar Agrawal as CCIT-III, Ahmedabad CCA; Deepali Bahadur as CCIT, Dehradun (Kanpur CCA); Devendra Prasad Sharma as CCIT, Vishakhapatnam (Hyderabad CCA); D S Saksena as CCIT (C), Delhi CCA; Ujjwal Kumar Choudhary as DGIT (Inv) Patna CCA; ARchana Ranjan as CCIT, Jodhpur CCA; Indla Suresh Babu as CCIT-II, Hyderabad CCA; Rajeev Nayan Prasad as CCIT-IV, Delhi CCA; Gurpreet Singh as CCIT, Amritsar (Chandigarh CCA); Sushil Kumar Sahai as CCIT-II Bangalore CCA; Nishi Singh as CCIT, Ludhiana CCA; C L Dengzongpa as CCIT-IV, Kolkata CCA; Anita Gupta as CCIT-V, Chennai CCA; Dinesh Verma as CCIT (Cent)-II, Mumbai CCA; Ajit Kumar Srivastava as CCIT, Nagpur CCA and S Mahapatra has been transferred as CCIT, Raipur (Bhopal), CCA MP & CG.

12 officers at CCIT/DGIT level locally shifted (UPDATED)
As many as 12 Chief Commissioners of Income Tax (CCIT) and Director Generals of Income Tax (DGIT) have locally been shifted. Accordingly, Mahesh Kumar Mirani has been transferred to Delhi CCA as CCIT-I while Pramod Chandra Srivastava was posted to Mumbai CCA CCIT-III and Debasish Dasgupta was made CCIT-I,Kolkata CCA. Similarly, Ashutosh Mangsang Sangma has been appointed as CCIT-II, Kolkata CCA; Suresh Jandhyala as CCIT-I, Hyderabad CCA; Vivek Varun Prasad as CCIT-IX, Mumbai CCA; Anil Kumar Singh as CCIT-VI, Mumbai CCA; Fakir Mohan Mohanty as CCIT LTU+ CCIT-X, Mumbai CCA; Narendra Kumar Sangwan as CCIT XIII, Delhi CCA; Balbir Verma as CCIT-XIII, Mumbai CCA; Aswini Kumar Behera as CCIT-III, Hyderabad CCA and Abrar Ahmed has been shifted as CCIT-XI, Mumbai CCA.

27 Dy/Asst Commissioners of Income Tax transferred (UPDATED)
As many as 27 officers of Indian Revenue Service of Income Tax cadre and working in the grade of Deputy/Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax have been transferred. Accordingly, Kailash D Ratnoo, Mahesh Kumar, Jai Singh, Gudrun Nehar and Gaurav Dudeja have been shifted to CCA, Delhi while C Vatchala was transferred to Tamil Nadu and Ashok Kamble is posted to DGIT (FT & TP), Mumbai. Similarly, S S Negi has been transferred to DGIT (IT & TP), Delhi; Priyanka Singh to Delhi CCA; Madanappa Gari Erappra to DGIT (IT & TP), Mumbai; Krishna Reddy to DGIT (IT&TP), Mumbai; S Venkatesh to DGIT (IT & TP), Bangalore; K C Gupta to Rajasthan; Mohd Javed to DGIT (IT & TP), Mumbai; Dipi Agrawal to DGIT (IT & TP), Bhubaneshwar; Bipin C N to Kerala; Amit Kumar Jain to Delhi; Shabana Praveen to DGIT (IT&TP), Mumbai; Sanjay Paul to DGIT (IT&TP), Delhi; Sudha Rani to DGIT (IT & TP), Delhi; N Ashok Babu to Mumbai; Rajneesh Yadav to Gujarat; Vikram Singh Sharma to DGIT (IT &TP)m Delhi; Bilas Singh to DGIT (IT & TP), Mumbai; Mayank Kumar to UP West and Bhupinder Jit Kumar has been shifted to Delhi.

Four CCsIT retire today (UPDATED)
As many as four Chief Commissioners of Income Tax (CCsIT) have retired on May 31, 2013. The officers include: Arvind Shankar CCIT-II, Ahmedabad; Rajiv Kumar Lal, CCIT, Baroda; Chitra Srinvasan, CCIT-II, Bangalore and Shebha Bhattacharya, CCIT, Jodhpur.

Dash is now DG in Election Commission (UPDATED)
PK Dash has been appointed as Director General(Election Expenditure) in the Election Commission of India . He is 1982 batch IRS (IT) officer.

Four IRS officers retain postings (UPDATED)
Four officers in the grade of Additional/Joint Commissioner of Income Tax have been retained in their respective regions. They are: M V Panikar, Chaturbhujdas Chatnani and Baban D Patil of Mumbai CCA and P C Pancholy of Delhi CCA.

Ajay Chadha is also DG, NDRF & CD (UPDATED)
Ajay Chadha, Director General, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), has been assigned an additional charge of Director General, National Disaster Response Force & Civil Defence (NDRF&CD). He is a 1977 batch IPS officer of AGMU cadre.

Ms Bhavana Sharma deputed to CRIS (UPDATED)
Ms Bhavana Sharma presently posted in Northern Railway has been deputed to Centre for Railway Information System (CRIS) for a period of three years. She is an IRAS officer.

CORPORATE

Jain is number two in Birla hierarchy?
If insiders are to be believed Shailendra Jain is number two these days in the Kumarmangalam Birla Group of Industries.

Jayakumar re-appointed MD & CEO, Dhanlaxmi Bank Ltd
Dhanlaxmi Bank Limited has re-appointed Jayakumar P G as Managing Director and CEO of the Bank for a further period of 1 year.

Two Directors appointed on Board of Dhanlaxmi Bank Ltd
K Jayakumar and Chella K Srinivasan, have been appointed as Directors of Dhanlaxmi Bank Ltd.

Shah appointed Company Secy., Cinemax Properties Ltd
Cinemax Properties Limited has appointed Jatin J Shah as Company Secretary of the company.

Biyani appointed MD, Future Market Networks Ltd
Future Market Networks Limited has appointed Sunil Biyani as the Managing Director of the company.

Two Directors cease to be on Board of Timbor Home Ltd
Manan Patel and Rakesh Puri have resigned as Directors of Timbor Home Ltd.

Rao resigns as Director, Natco Pharma Ltd
Dr Jasti Sambasiva Rao, Director of Natco Pharma Ltd has resigned due to his personal commitments.

Shah appointed Director, Sadbhav Engineering Ltd
Sadbhav Engineering Limited has appointed Hemendrakumar C Shah as a Director on Board of Directors of the company.

Chadha resigns as Director, Surya Roshni Ltd
BB Chadha has resigned as Director of Surya Roshni Ltd.

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Feigning ignorance

Many Dalits have come forward to help Gayatri. A misconception is deliberately being spread that so called elite Dalits don't care about their lesser brethren. We do care but as usual everybody deliberately want to feign ignorance about the reality.

S Rao

Caste system - origin of all ills in society

One of the contributors has said that pro reservation people want to abolish caste system before the abolition of reservation and that the reservations are perpetuating the caste system. Yes, be the caste system abolished first because the caste system is the origin of all the ills in the society. Reservation system is one of the steps to fight this evil. And why do the upper castes want to continue and perpetuate the caste system; simply they have a vested interest in continuing it. They want the abolition of reservations so that they can appropriate all the opportunities to them. This is like putting cart before the horse. If they are so concerned about the welfare of the poor among the upper castes they should leave some part of the general quota for their poor people. Why should they eye the share of the Dalits for looking after the poor among the upper castes. With the availability of some opportunities to Dalits they have started proving themselves and show the merit. It is because of this step alone the poor Dalits have been able to gain some respect which is not liked by the upper castes. By depriving slightly better off among the Dalit of the opportunities would mean that they will always remain always low in merit and the upper castes will continue to argue that Dalits areuseless. As pointed out by one other contributor, one of the Dalit medical student scored 197/200 which shows are not less meritorious given the opportunities. Nobody can deny the Dalits their proportionate share in the resources and the other opportunities. And somebody should tell me the logic of keeping the caste or religion based regiments in the army. This was one reason that foreigners attacked the places like Somnath temple and fled with the booty. If the Dalits were also allowed to fight like the so called 'martial' races, this country never would have gone in foreign hands.

Partap Singh

Calibre and efficiency of an officer

This shows the caliber and efficiency of an officer. His unstintful hard work and sincerity helped him to remain at that post for so many years. He exemplified that given an opportunity even IFS officers can do very good work.

Hemanth

Policy to protect functioning of the organisation

I fully agree with the comments of 1:1 policy to protect the smooth/systemic and correct functioning of the organisation.

Dr Vijaya Kumar