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POLITICS

Will Pranab Mukherjee be PM ?

It is widely believed in political circles that Pranab Mukherjee may emerge as consensus candidate for the Prime Ministership. Can President become PM ? Question was discussed at a gathering of intellectuals. One significant remark came "There is no bar. When President Putin can become PM in Russia why not Pranab Mukherjee in India".

BUREAUCRACY

Five new Members of CIC
Top level committee consisting of the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition has selected five new Members of the Central Information Commission (CIC) on Sunday. They are Secretary, Security in GoI Yashovardhan Azad (IPS), former Indian Ambassador to Pakistan , Sharat Sabharwal (IFS), Former Secretary Posts Manjula Prasher (IPoS), Journalist Dr M Sridhar Acharyulu and M A Khan Yusufi retired Joint Secretary and Legal Advisor Ministry of Law and Justice.

Are they going to be new CMDs of six banks ?
If reliable sources are to be believed, six EDs are being elevated as CMDs in the nationalized banks next year. While Arun Tiwari - ED - Allahabad Bank may go as CMD - Dena Bank, S K Kalra - ED - Andhra Bank as CMD - Canara Bank , B B Joshi - ED - Bank of Baroda as CMD - Oriental Bank of Commerce, Arun Srivastava - ED - Bank of India as CMD - Indian Overseas Bank, R K Goyal - ED - Central Bank of India as CMD - Vijya Bank and M K Jain - ED - Punjab & Sindh Bank as CMD - United Bank. Interviews for the post took place in the last week of October. There are going to be six vacancies during 2014.

Somasundaram poised for Secretary, Pharmaceuticals
V Somasundaran is all set to move to GoI as Secretary, Department of Pharmaceuticals. Currently he is Additional Chief Secretary, Finance & IT, Govt of Kerala. In his previous stint in GoI, he served as Additional secretary - Dept of Defence Production. The 1979 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre repatriated to his home state in September last year.

Will Agnihotri be new Secretary of Dept of Renewable Energy ?
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that Satish Balram Agnihotri may be given as the new Secretary, Renewable Energy. The slot has become vacant after Ratan Vattal was appointed as OSD, Dept of Expenditure. The 1980 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre is currently serving as DG, Acquisition, Department of Defence.

Will Rajan be new Prl Secy, Finance in Kerala?
As the grapevine has it, Satyajeet Rajan may be picked up for the crucially important slot of Finance in the Government of Kerala. Presently V Somasundaran is heading the Dept of Finance as Additional Chief Secretary. Rajan is 1987 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.

Three new Judges for Delhi High Court likely
Names of Additional Solicitor General Rajeeve Mehra and Advocates - Sanjay Poddar and Jyoti Singh - have started doing the round for the posts of Judges in the Delhi High Court.

Will Mishra be appointed as Member, OFB by March ?
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that Aditya Mishra may be appointed as the Member, Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) sooner or later. The 1977 batch IOFS officer has just moved to Ministry of Defence after completing his stint as Joint Secretary in National Commission for Scheduled Tribals.

Will an IFS officer be appointed as JS, NCST?
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that an Indian Forest Service officer may soon be sent as the successor of Aditya Mishra as Joint Secretary in National Commission for Scheduled Tribals (NCST).

Davar may soon be appointed as Hindu Member in NCM?
As the grapevine has it, Capt. Praveen Davar may soon be appointed as the Hindu Member in National Commission for Minorities (NCM). The retired Army Officer is presently holding the post of Secretary, AICC Ex-serviceman Department.

Kumari re-employed as NCST Member
A little after a month, K Kamla Kumari has been re-employed as the Member of National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) for the second term. She had completed her term as Member, NCST on September 30 this year.

Post of Director (Tech) in MFL falls vacant
The vacancy of Director (Technical) has arisen in Madras Fertilizers Limited (MFL) with the joining of M S Mathews as Director, National Fertilizers Limited (NFL).

PESB invites applications for Director (Tech), RITES Ltd
The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has sought applications for the post of Director (Technical), RITES Ltd falling vacant next year on November 1, 2014. Those willing to apply can send their applications before January 1, 2014.

Ghodke empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
S K Ghodke has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary in the Government of India. He is a 1985 batch IoFS officer.

This is how officers are suspended in Railways
This is how railways suspends its best officers for none of their fault. Swapnil Garg is in Joint Secretary Grade and received National Award for outstanding service in April 2013. A perfect example of a feudal and sycophantic organization living in British raj. Do the GM, Northern Railway, V K Gupta and DRM, Lucknow, Jagdip Rai have any answers. Both of them are on the backfoot and looking for face savers.

Tenure of Sahay Commission to be extended !
Uttar Pradesh government will, in all likelihood, extend the term of One man Sahay Commission appointed to probe the recent Muzaffar Nagar riots. The term of the state government appointed (Retired Justice Vishnu) Sahay Commission is coming to an end today i.e. on November 11 and it has sought more time to complete the task.

Nine IPS officers in Uttar Pradesh transferred
As many as nine IPS officers in Uttar Pradesh have been transferred. While Vijay Kumar Garg - Commandant 32 PAC - has been posted as DIG Jhansi; Surya Nath Singh - DIG Jhansi - has been shifted to vigilance establishment in Lucknow in the same capacity; Dinesh Chandra - SP in Anti-Corruption Organisation in Lucknow - has been posted as SP of Hamirpur replacing Ratan Kumar Srivastava who has been shifted to CB CID in Lucknow. Similarly, Additional SP Kanpur, Bharat Singh has been shifted as SP of Maharajganj in place of Dileep Kumar who has been now attached with DGP office while Additional SP (STF) Anant Deo has been
posted as SP of Siddarthnagar replacing Shreepurna Ganguly who will be now SSP of Jhansi in place of Dr K Eziliyarasna, who has been attached with DGP office.

T.P. Seetharam appointed Ambassador to UAE (UPDATED)
T.P. Seetharam, (IFS: 1980) currently High Commissioner of India to Mauritius, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the United Arab Emirates

7 IPS officers of 1988 batch empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI (UPDATED)
As many as seven officers belonging to Indian Police Service of 1988 batch have been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. The officers include: Manoj Kumar Lal of UT cadre; Ravi Sinha of Chhattisgarh cadre; Sanjay Chandra Meena of West Bengal cadre; Arvind Deep of UT cadre; S K Pandey of Madhya Pradesh cadre and Balaji Srivastava of UT cadre.

Subhas Goswami joins as Director General, ITBP (UPDATED)
Subhas Goswami has joined as Director General in Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) on Monday. He is a 1977 batch IPS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
(We said this on October 7 and 23)

Major reshuffle of IAS officers in Himachal (UPDATED)
As many as 11 officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Himachal Pradesh. Accordingly, Ali Raza Rizvi has been appointed as PS, Health and Family Welfare while Sanjay Gupta will now be PS, Rural development and Panchayati Raj and R D Dhiman is PS, INdustries and Labour Employment. Similarly, K Sanjay Murthy has been appointed as PS, Transport, Technical Education and Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs; Subhasish Panda as Secretary, SAD, GAD, Sainik Welfare and Parliamentary Affairs; Mohan Chauhan as Director, Tourism & Civil Aviation; Rajender Singh as Director, Industries; Kanshi Ram Bharti as MD, HP SC/ST development Corporatio and Mahila Vikas Nigam; Dr Sandep Bhatnagar as Director, Ayurveda; Sharabh Chhopal Negi as Deputy Commissioner, Hamirpur and Ashish Singhmar was posted as Special Secretary, Finance.

Mrs Rashmi Kapoor posted as Adviser, Railway Board (UPDATED)
Mrs Rashmi Kapoor (HAG/IRAS), Northern Railway, has been appointed as Adviser (Budget), Railway Board.

Sunil Kumar Singh appointed as CVO, CCI (UPDATED)
Sunil Kumar Singh has been appointed as Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) in Cement Corporation of India (CCI), Delhi under the Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises. He is a 1991 batch IRS-IT officer.

Watal posted as OSD before joining Expenditure as Secretary (UPDATED)
Ratan P Watal, Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, has been appointed as Officer on Special Duty in the Department of Expenditure before joining as Secretary in the same department succeeding R S Gujaral, due to retire on November 30, 2013. Watal is a 1978 batch IAS officer of
Andhra Pradesh cadre.
(We said this on Nov 6 and 7, 2013)

Orders of Somasundaran as Secretary, Pharmaceuticals issued (UPDATED)
Orders of V Somasundaran for the appointment as Secretary, Department of Pharmaceutical, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers have been issued by the Government of India. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.
( We said this only this morning)

Sudhir Mital is also Secretary, Pharmaceuticals till Nov 30 (UPDATED)
Sudhir Mital Secretary, Department of Fertilizers, has been assigned an additional charge of Secretary, Department of Pharmaceuticals till November 30, 2013.

10 IPS officers of 1987 batch empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI (UPDATED)
As many as 10 officers belonging to Indian Police Service (IPS) of 1987 batch have been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary level in Government of India. The officers include: Sanjay Srivastva of Gujarat cadre; Virendra Kumar-II of Uttar Pradesh cadre; Pradeep V Philip of Tamil Nadu cadre; Mohan Lal Lather of Rajasthan cadre; Raghavendra Auradkar of Karnataka cadre; Vijay Kumar of Tamil Nadu cadre; S Srinivas Prasad of Manipur-Tripura cadre; Rajendera Kumar Mishra and C V Muniraju of Madhya Pradesh cadre and S S Barve of Maharashtra cadre.

Kacker brothers bereaved (UPDATED)
Mrs Indrabala Kacker, mother of former 1979 batch IAS officer, Mukesh Kacker and former IRS officer Ashok Kacker, has passed away in Delhi on November 11, 2013. She was mother in-law of former 1979 batch IAS Lavleen Kacker and former 1974 batch IRS officer, Manjari Kacker. The last rites of her will be performed at Lodhi Road crematorium at 3 PM in Delhi. She was 89.

Services of six IAS officers affected in Himachal Pradesh (UPDATED)
The services of six officers belonging to Indian Administrative officers have been affected with their transfers and postings in Himachal Pradesh. Accordingly, Mrs Upma Chowdhry will continue holding the charge of PS, Rural Development & Panchayat Raj while Sanjay Gupta is continuing as Principal Secretary, Ayurved and Kamal Sharma will also be continuing holding an additional charge of YSS. Besides, Ashish Singhmar has appointed as Director, SC, OBC and Minority Affairs. On other hand, the transfers orders of Kanshi Ram Bharti and S S Gulerai.

Ajay Kumar Gupta posted as Joint Project Director, RABP in Rajasthan (UPDATED)
Ajay Kuamr Gupta has been appointed as Joint Project Director (Administration), Rajasthan Forestry Bio-diversity Project (RABP). He is a 1999 batch IFS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

CORPORATE

Bhosale appointed Company Secy. Crompton Greaves Limited
Crompton Greaves Limited has appointed Ms Minal Bhosale as Company Secretary of the company with immediate effect.

Kumar appointed CEO, Yash Papers Ltd
Yash Papers Ltd has appointed Girish Kumar as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company.

Kamra appointed CFO, Yash Papers Ltd
Arun Kamra has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Yash Papers Ltd.

Babu resigns as Company Secy. KSK Energy Ventures Ltd
D Suresh Babu has resigned as Company Secretary of KSK Energy Ventures Ltd.

Kalpavriksha appointed Addl. Director, Katwa Udyog Ltd
Katwa Udyog Ltd has appointed Satish D Kalpavriksha as an Additional Director of the company.

Udadar resigns as Director, Katwa Udyog Ltd
Mahesh M Udadar has resigned as Director of Katwa Udyog Ltd.

Raje resigns as Company Secy. Ecoboard Industries Ltd
Asmita Raje has resigned as Company Secretary of Ecoboard Industries Ltd

Khandelwal appointed Addl. Director, Bengal Tea & Fabrics Ltd
Bengal Tea & Fabrics Ltd has appointed Kailash Prasad Khandelwal as an Additional Director of the company.

Gogawat resigns as Director, Splash Media & Infra Ltd
Vishal Singh Gogawat has resigned as Director of Splash Media & Infra Ltd.

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CBI itself declared illegal !

How fortunate for so many that the CBI itself has been declared illegal. This will open a pandoras box of demands and claims by accused persons in various pending cases. For starters, the accused can sue the CBI for defamation and hefty compensations. Sajjan Kumar, Dr. Manmohan Singh, Dr. Naresh Talwar, Raja and all those in various scams can all sue the CBI for defamation and claim compensation in lakhs of cores of rupees. The litigation will go on for decades as it normally does when there are so many lawyers, hearings and vacations of the court in nice places like Simla etc. Is it a coincidence that the high court which gave the verdict is in Gauhati, Assam and a certain gentleman who ordinarily sports a blue turban is ordinarily a resident of Gauhati, Assam? This reminds me of the incident in the Ramayana where Hanuman was asked to bring a herb from the Himalayas instead he brought the whole mountain itself!

D Choudhury

Should we not honour an honest politician ?

Sardar Patel was the most honest politician who had as assets only four pairs of dhotis whereas Nehru Dynasty have billions of dollars of assets both in India and abroad and hundreds of institutions or foundations in their names funded by the Government. Should we not honour a honest politician who deserved to be PM but due to blackmailing by Nehru he accepted the verdict of Mahatma Gandhi?

Shashi Desai

Debate for the sake of debate!

Those raising the debate of whether Patel would have made India a different country had he become the first PM appear to think better of themselves than the only Leader in real sense that India has been able to produce in more than 200 years. Have faith and trust in the judgement of Mahatma Gandhi who rightly calculated the pros and cons of the choice between the two leaders and gave Nehru the responsibility. It was Nehru's weakness that he allowed capitalist courtiers to overwhelm him in the name of socialism. Had Nehru been a staunch Hindu, the same set of people would have made him in to a true Hindu. Research scholars can't allow superficial sentiments to replace cool in-depth analysis. Nehru had no reference point, but Nehru is the reference point for Modi or Congress or all shades of opinion. It required great character for the first PM of India to handle the confounding multitude of complex problems crying for instant solutions. It would be absurd to expect Nehru to handle so much work at a time in the initial years of our independence. We must thank God that the country had a stable government for 17 years, put up big public sector industries and went in to planning for future systematically. There was segment of society, which nursed hatred against the rich or businessmen and still do so but socialism was not needed to justify such silly attitude. However it is doubtful if Patel would have achieved success to satisfy all those disgruntled with the achievements of Nehru. We always think in our personal life that we would have done better had we done that at school/college/ early employment (spouse/house/job/ America!), but after sometime think otherwise. The past being unknown looks attractive. Mahatma Gandhi was right. Nehru also proved right. Only the courtiers, dissemblers, self-seekers, sycophants, hangers on, crooks and politicians have proved wrong but refuse to acknowledge it. Who are all those hate mongers who are answering Narendra Modi ? They are as wrong as Narendra Modi- neither was witness to the evolving scenario and decision making at that critical juncture. It was not like the ticket seekers of today- threatening to leave the party or commit suicide. Had the Mahatma decided on Patel, Nehru would have accepted it as gracefully as Patel did. So the hate-mongering Hindu-bashers must shut their trap and let the Congress survive for some more time till a viable alternate emerges on the national plane.

M L Gupta

Support' price - just three bungalows ?

Why the party in power treats all Govt. assets as its private property to be given away for support to keep itself in power. What else can you conclude from the information obtained by RTI activist Subhash Aggarwal that BSP supremo has been allotted three adjacent bungalows in Lutyen's Delhi and she has also been allowed to amalgamate the same into one with a total area six times that of Parliament circular building in its neighbourhood. She got the entire three bungalows in the name of her trust. This trust or foundation is another racket. Meira Kumar could not succeed in converting Krishna Menon Marg residence of her father which in any case she has not vacated, into a memorial because of ban by Supreme Court. She got it allotted in the name of A Foundation in her father's name. Grabbing of prime bungalows in this coveted part of the city in the name of little known political outfits has reached scandalous proportion. Supreme court must intervene and get these vacated.

Aarti Khosla

CGHS working

Government is failing to run CGHS services in the manner it should run. It is not clear why dispensary reference is required to go to empanelled hospitals for consultation. There is discrimination in Noida, Gurgaon and Delhi in OPD consultation in private empanelled hospitals. All fall in NCR. In Noida and Gurgaon one can go for OPD consultation in empanelled hospitals but in Delhi it is NO. Pensioners are going to be worst effected when cashless facility is withdrawn by empanelled hospitals from January 2014. So far no initiative is taken by Ministry of Health & FW to sort out the issue. Do not make it Central Government Harassment Scheme for pensioners.

N Prakash

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