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POLITICS

Who is Vijay?
On March 14 whispersinthecorridors.com had done a piece- One Vijay is managing the affairs of a Ministry in the Government of India? This is being asked in the corridors of power and the CBI is believed to have taken a clue from it.

Uttarakhand CM in panic ?
Congress in Uttarakhand is in a bad shape. This is evident from the civic body poll results in the state. Now Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna is not in a position to show his face to the party-high command. Just to divert the attention, he has replaced Chief Secretary Alok Kumar Jain with ex-Chief Secretary Subhash Kumar. He was the chief Minister who had changed Subhash Kumar.

President Pranab Mukherjee praises IIFT
The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), a national institute of excellence, celebrated its Golden Jubilee on 2nd May, 2013 to commemorate its achievements and contribution towards development of knowledge and growth of international trade. Pranab Mukherjee, President of India graced the ceremony as the Chief Guest along with Anand Sharma, Minister of Commerce, Industry and Textiles and Dr D Purandeswari, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry as guests of honour. The President mentioned that Institution like IIFT is playing a pivotal role in shaping India's external sector and producing a team of professionals who contribute immensely to the growth India's economy. World economy has faced several challenges in last four to five years, but India's economy has shown resilience and tackled the challenges thrown by globalization and financial crisis. He further mentioned that IIFT is producing a team of professionals who have taken role of corporate leaders. Over the years, IIFT has broadened its academic framework by providing management education. Its endeavour should not only be to produce successful managers, business leaders and academic thinkers but also to prepare them as socially conscious citizens who have the capacity and willingness to respond and contribute to our society's needs. Anand Sharma, while appreciating the contribution made by IIFT remarked IIFT has always contributed to the policy inputs in designing country's' trade policy and locating external sector markets. Dr. D. Purandeswari in her speech mentioned IIFT is fast emerging as a knowledge centre. Dr. Surajit Mitra, Director, IIFT in his speech unfolded the future Vision for IIFT in coming decades and mentioned that IIFT will strive to become a Knowledge Centre for the country in the near future. He also mentioned that apart from Centre for WTO Studies, Centre for SME Studies and Centre for International Trade & Technology, IIFT will shortly have a Centre for China Studies, Centre for Energy and Centre for Investments. Anand Sharma, Minister of Commerce, Industry and Textiles released the commemorative volume of Foreign Trade Review at the function. The commemorative volume contains one article each from the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee (July-Dec 1982) and Manmohan Singh (Jan-March, 1971).The glittering function at IIFT was attended by a large number of dignitaries including the senior bureaucrats, representative of industry and ex-Directors of IIFT apart from members of academia.

BUREAUCRACY

Two Secretary level vacancies this month
Vacancies of Secretary, Ayush and Secretary, Social Justice are to be filled up in the Government of India this month.

Umesh Kumar to join ADB ?
Grapevine has it that Joint Secretary, Banking, Umesh Kumar is going to Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Manila. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Will Gupta succeed Umesh Kumar?
In the event of Umesh Kumar's joining the ADB in Manila, L K Gupta is likely to succeed him as Joint Secretary, Banking. He is a 1987 batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.

Ms Vasudha Mishra to head NCDC ?
Vasudha Mishra is all set to join the Government of India as MD of the National Cooperation Development Corporation (NCDC). She is a 1987 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Will a dark-horse be Chief Secretary of Maharashtra ?
Maharashtra Chief Secretary J K Banthia is scheduled to retire on June 30. Will he retire or get three months extension in service?. Rumours are rife that he may get extension. Meanwhile, next senior to him, a 1978 batch IAS officer J S Saharia is also making every possible effort to become the Chief Secretary. There is also a dark-horse for the post who has no god-father and he is a 1979 batch IAS officer. Who will make it?

Justice Kohli to be Chairman, SAT?
Justice Permod Kohli, a former judge of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court is likely to be appointed Chairman of the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT).

Lamba is new Member, SAT
A S Lamba has taken over as Member of the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT). He is a former 1977 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.
(We said this on March 18, 2013)

Subodh Jain gets additional charge of Member (Staff)
Member (Engineering) in the Railway Board, Subodh Jain has been given additional charge of Member (Staff) in the Railway Board.

Agrawal is also GM, Western Railway
General Manager, NWR, R C Agrawal has been given additional charge of General Manager Western Railway.

Indira Ghosh gets dual charge
GM, East Coast Railways, Indira Ghosh has also been given additional charge of GM, South Eastern Central Railway.

IRS-IT officer Laxman Singh quits service
Indian Revenue Service-Income Tax (IRS-IT) officer, Laxman Singh has resigned from the service.

OSD to CBDT Member quits service
Indian Revenue Service-Income Tax (IRS-IT) officer, Deepak Mittal, presently OSD to Member (A&J), Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), has tendered his resignation from the service.

Ashok Pai posted as Joint Secretary, Tribal in GoI
Ashok Pai, Secretary to Governor, Uttarakhand, has been appointed as Joint Secretary in Tribal Department in Government of India. He is a 1983 batch IFS officer of Uttarakhand cadre.

Orders of P K Purwar as Director (Fin), MTNL issued
The orders of P K Purwar for the appointment as Director (Finance), Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) have been issued by Government of India. Presently, he is Adviser (FA), Competition Commission of India.
(We said this on November 23, 2012)

M Ravindran to join as Director (HR), GAIL on June 1
M Ravindran, ED, GAIL, will be joining as Director (Human Resources), Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) on June 1, 2013.
(We said this on November 29, 2012)

Will Poonam Kishore be Chairman of Adjudicating Authority of India ?
CBDT, Chairperson, Poonam Kishore is likely to be appointed Chairman of the Adjudicating Authority of India . The post was earlier held by former CBDT, Chairman, P K Mishra.

G Srinivas Rao is Member, Sales Tax Appellate Tribunal, Hyderabad
Indian Revenue Service-Income Tax (IRS-IT) officer, G Srinivas Rao, presently Commissioner of Income Tax (CIT), Mumbai, has been deputed as Member, Sales Tax Appellate Tribunal, Hyderabad to the Government of Andhra Pradesh for a period of two years.

Inter-cadre deputation of Vaiphei to Manipur extended
The inter-cadre deputation of K T Vaiphei from Madhya Pradesh to Manipur has been extended for a further period of three years beyond June 6, 2013. He is a 1990 batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Tenure of CMDs to be fixed !
There is a move in the Government of India to fix a minimum tenure of three years and maximum of five years of the CMDs.

Decks cleared for Kalita to join IRCTC
Decks have been cleared for R N Kalita, ED, RVNL to join as Director (Catering Services), Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC). The post of has been lying vacant since February, 2012 after Vinod Asthana vacated it.

Maj Gen Chakravorty to be promoted ?
Maj Gen Chakravorty is likely to be promoted to the rank of Lt Gen in the Indian Army.

Sanjay Kumar-I posted as AG (A&E), Patna
Sanjay Kumar-I, Principal Director of Audit, East Central Railway, Hajipur, has been transferred and posted as Accountant General (A&E), Bihar, Patna.

13 posts of SP vacant in NPA
As many as 13 posts of Superintendent of Police (SP) are lying vacant in National Police Academy (NPA).

Kumar is likely to join central deputation at DIG level
L V Antony Dev Kumar is likely to join Central deputation at Deputy Inspector General level in Government of India. He is a 1994 batch IPS officer of Uttarakhand cadre.

It happens only in India!
An ED in PSU Bank was busy interacting with few of his guests in his office suddenly he received a phone call and the caller who seems to be PS of some politician or minister put ED through his boss. During the telephonic conversation the caller were asking for a favour from Bank's ED in order to promote one of his Bank's Assistant General Manager (AGM) who seems to be close to the caller as a Regional Manager. However ED were trying to make the caller understand in polite and subordinative language by repeatedly calling him "the caller" Sir, Sir, Sir………as per rule an AGM in Bank cannot be made Regional Manager unless he is Dy General Manager (DGM). Observing the ED not getting influenced, the Caller disconnected the phone, ED too felt embarrassed in-front his guests who were interestingly listening to the conversation of both of them.

Who will be new Chief Secretary of Pondicherry ?
Who will be new Chief Secretary of Pondicherry? Either of the three IAS officers of UT cadre Ramesh Negi, Dharam Pal and Chetan B Sanghi will move.

6 IPS probationers allocated Bihar cadre
As many as six Probationers of Indian Police Service (IPS) of 2011 batch have been allocated Bihar cadre. They are: Anand Kumar, Awakash Kumar, Harsh Dikshit, Kumar Ashish, Ravi Ranjan Singh and Dipak Ranjan.

Arun Aggarwal empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
Arun Aggarwal has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. He is an Indian Telecommunication Service officer of 1982 batch.

6 IRAS officers shifted in Railways
As many as six officers of Indian Railway Account Service (IRAS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Railways. Accordingly, Ms Tanu Chandra, on return from deputation to CRIS, has been posted to Central Railway in the cadre while Mrs Reena Ranjan was transferred to Western Railway and Ms Purna M Chera is shifted to South Central Railway. Similarly, G S Meena has been posted to Western Railway; D L Balai to North Western Railway and Rohit Kumar Niranjan was transferred to West Central Railway

8 IRTS officers transferred in Railways
As many as eight officers of Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) P L Haranadh, presently working as Dy. COM(I&S) SER, has been transferred to SCR in the cadre while Anurag has been transferred to WCR from SWR and posted as COM(CHOD) and Mrs Rajni Hasija, is posted in the cadre of NR itself. Similarly, C B K Singh has been posted as Chief Safety Officer on the Northern Railway; Badri Lal Meena transferred to NCR and posted as CCM(CHOD); C S Chauhan shifted from NCR to NR and posted as CAO(PIS); Devesh Kumar Mishra is posted to Northern Railway in the cadre; Pradeep Kumar Ojha transferred from NCR to WCR and posted in the cadre.

Dimri moves to Beijing
Counselor PMI in New York, Alok Dimri is moving to Beijing as Counselor.

Air Commodore Arun Kumar Barik gets new assignment
Air Commodore Arun Kumar Barik has been appointed as the new Air Officer Commanding, No. 3 Base Repair Depot (BRD). Presently he is posted in Shillong.

Supreme Court orders Bihar Government
Apex Scale has been ordered to be sanctioned by the Supreme Court of India to the retired 1974 batch IPS officer , DGP, Bihar J K Khanna within eight weeks.

Chetan B Sanghi bereaved
Mother of 1988 batch UT cadre IAS officer Chetan B Sanghi has passed away in Hyderabad. She was 74.

Reddy is now head of MLRC
Eminent scientist, G Satheesh Reddy has taken over as director of the missile laboratory research centre in Hyderabad.

FM to clear CCIT file today or tomorrow ? (UPDATED)
Latest information says that the file pertaining to transfer and posting of CCITs is lying on the table of the Finance Minister P Chidambaram.He is expected to clear the file in a couple of days.

E S Rao selected as Director (Fin), HFPCL (UPDATED)
E S Rao, DGM HFL, has been selected for the post of Director (Finance), Hindustan Photo Film Manufacturing Corporation Limited (HFPCL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on May 6, 2013.

NBCC inks MoU with MECON (UPDATED)
NBCC has recently signed an MoU with MECON to mutually cooperate with each other in terms of new business,. The MoU provides for mutual association between the two Companies in respect of participation in tenders, bids and contracts related to Engineering / EPC / Turnkey basis for Infrastructure Projects. NBCC and MECON, through the MoU, have agreed to work together to identify prospective clients, potential tenders or projects, with the aim to submit proposals, offers and business plans on a case to case basis.

Two IPS officers shifted in Rajasthan (UPDATED)
Two officers of Indian Police Service (IPS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Rajasthan. Accordingly, S N Jain has been posted as Special Officer, PHQ, Rajasthan, Jaipur while Nand Kishore will now be ADGP, SCRB, Rajasthan, Jaipur.

Gujarat HC gets three addl Judges (UPDATED)
Abdullah Gulamahmed Uraizee, Kaushal Jayendra Thaker and Ratilal Parshottambhai Dholaria have been appointed as Additional Judges of the High Court of Gujarat.

Subhendra Nanda joins as Director (Ope), HCL today (UPDATED)
Subhendra Nanda, GM, NALCO, has taken over as Director (Operations), Hindustan Copper Limited (HCL), Kolkata on May 6, 2013.
(We said this on January 31, 2013)

Tolani and Bedi get additional charge (UPDATED)
The Central Government has entrusted the additional charge of the post of Member of the Appellate Tribunal for Foreign Exchange to R.P. Tolani, Judicial Member, Income Tax Appellate Tribunal and U.B.S. Bedi, also Judicial Member, Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, with effect
from 4th May 2013 for a further period of 3 months or till the post is filled up on regular basis, whichever is earlier.

IPS officer Mrs Anuradha to attend international course in Denmark (UPDATED)
Mrs A R Anuradha, Additional Director General of Police (Personnel), Hyderabad, is scheduled to participate in U N Senior Mission Leader Course being held in Copenhagen, Denmark from May 27 to June 7, 2013. She is a 1987 batch IPS officer of Andhra Pradesh.

CORPORATE

Will Shipping Corporation of India go Air India way?
Will the Shipping Corporation of India go the Air India way? This is what a parliamentary panel feel.

Ingle appointed Nominee Director, Jindal Steel & Power Ltd
Ajit Ingle has been appointed as Nominee Director of IDBI Bank Ltd on the board of directors of Jindal Steel & Power Ltd

Kalra ceases to be Nominee Director, Jindal Steel & Power Ltd
Inder Pal Singh Kalra has ceased to be Nominee Director of IDBI Bank on the board of directors of Jindal Steel & Power Ltd.

Gupta resigns as Independent Director, Mangalam Cement Ltd
O P Gupta has resigned as Independent Non-executive Director of Mangalam Cement Ltd due to health reasons.

Lalvani appointed MD, Blackberry, India
Blackberry has appointed Sunil Lalvani as Managing Director for India

Makwana resigns as Whole-time Director, Chartered Logistics Ltd
Ms Nisha Makwana has resigned as Whole-time Director of CharteredLogistics Ltd.

Bhushan resigns as Govt Nominee Director, NMDC
E K Bharat Bhushan has resigned as Government Nominee Director of NMDC Ltd following his appointment as Chief Secretary of Government of Kerala.

Chauhan resigns as Director, KDL Biotech Ltd
Yogendra Chauhan has resigned as Director of KDL Biotech Ltd.

Bojwani resigns as Company Secy., KDL Biotech Ltd
Manish Bojwani has resigned as Company Secretary of KDL Biotech Ltd.

Lakkar resigns as Company Secy., Keynote Corporate Services Ltd
Sangeet Rajesh Lakkar has resigned as Company Secretary of Keynote Corporate Services Ltd

Bhargava appointed Chairman GlaxoSmithkline Consumer Healthcare Ltd
GlaxoSmithkline Consumer Healthcare Ltd has appointed Subodh Bhargava as Chairman of the company.

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True Golden period of Indian history

Since the later part of 50's till ending 60's after the independence, I consider a true golden period of Indian history, in terms of following; A qualitative and rapid construction of Border Roads in Northern India bordering Tibet, by BRO, Min of Defence! PSUs attaining commanding heights! Enchanting musical Hindi Films having eternal effect even surpassing blockbusters like Sholay ! I heard, many say, there were qualitative and landmark Judicial Decisions ! Environment friendly India in absence of cut throat unbridled private sectors. All round respect for Guru (teacher) from (Shishya) and vice-versa dedication and selflessness. There may be many more worth mentioning by other contributors here.

Negi S

CPOs officers - a suppressed lot

The CPOs officers are a suppressed lot. They are being commanded by the IPS officers who come on deputation to avoid uncomfortable political climate. They do not have the good of the force at their heart so they come out with funny ideas. One of the DG of these CPOs thinks that he is the messiah of Jawans and projects all the welfare activities done in the force so far as his own brainchild. The only things being discussed these days in the force is welfare and the better half of the DG also has started taking video conferences talks only of welfare focusing only.

Akhilesh

Genuine demand

The Force's fight to get NFFU scheme benefits is genuine demand and not a sedition or mutiny. CRPF has Additional Director General from among its Cadre officers and it's only a myth that they rise only upto the IG level. So until the matter is sub-judice, don't use shabby pressure tactics here.

Pawan Sharma

Pakistan's diabolical plan

Pakistan government would never have released martyr Sarbajit Singh because of their scare of Islamic terrorists, fundamentalists and Pakistan Army who are blatantly Anti-India. If it hanged him it would have jeopardized their relations with India (though many in India doubt the courage of the present rudderless and cowardly MMS government to retaliate).So they decided on this diabolical plan to murder him.

N Krishnan

Abolish casteism

I support the views that society should take positive steps to abolish casteism. No concrete step has been suggested. Anyway this should and will happen, but it will take time. Attitudes are changing. But I doubt whether politicians whether in or out of power would like to see this happening. This is one of the main issues they use in befooling the public. Regarding reservations, I would request the site manager consider closing this chapter.

Bishan Sharma

Excellence of Finance Minister

Present Finance Minister has already presented union budget eight times and is well aware in and out of income of all the categories of people. Now it is time for him to do something for country. When he presented budget this time he gave figure of 42,800 people having taxable income more than 1 crore. Does he believe by heart this is correct figure,if not please take steps to increase this number not less than to 42 lakhs by concentrating your man power to track the income of these people not target people having income of 10 lakhs or less. Most of the notices for tax have gone as per media report to middle income group. Please list the people having car costing more than 10 lakhs, people buying jewellery more than 10 lakhs (difficult to track as people pay cash and do not take even receipt), people staying in hotels rated more than 4 stars, buying properties more than 1 crore, foreign visits etc. Finance Minister of course is aware about these things but he may direct his ministry takes positive steps to track these transactions not such as MF buying of 1 lakh. It will not serve the basic purpose of tracking super rich people.

N Prakash

Heartiest congratulations

Heartiest congratulations to Mrs Sudha Sharma. Know her from our Chandigarh days as a dedicated and upright officer. Wish her all the best.

Satya Singal

Only far more needy be given reservation benefit !

Why is it that the rich among SCs/STs are creating brouhaha about not being allowed reservations, so that third generation IAS officers are not granted reservations? All talk of general category giving up posts for poorer general category etc is eyewash. The simple thing is, the rich and third generation among SCs/ STs should compete for seats in the general category just as the entire general category, rich or poor does. Nobody is saying that the benefits should be stopped, merely that the far more needy be given the benefit and the third generation should compete as the rest of the world. What is wrong with that? Why should the rich grab the benefits of reservation? What is wrong with poor Dalits getting some benefits after hundred years of reservations and rich Dalits third generation being put into general category?

Vijay Kumar

Donot hanker for news

The media in India tries to be very expedient and tries to draw conclusions at its own will. It should be so as long as if the matter concerns India. When the bombing incident which happened in Boston recently, all Indian channels were competing to bring the news live. But neither CNN nor BBC showed anything about the Sarabjit incident. We should also learn to cold shoulder the West sometimes. We should not hanker for news as it shows the weakness of the country.

Anurag Srivastava

Cadre structuring of CSSS

Yes, cadre structuring of CSSS should also take place like that of CSS. DoPT is requested to please consider the request of CSSS to form a committee for restructuring of CSSS.

Lal Gulab