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POLITICS

BJP to get 55 Lok Sabha seats in UP and Bihar?
If informal discussion with bureaucrats of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar is to be believed, Narendra Modi effect will give BJP about 55 seats in the ensuing Lok Sabha polls in these two states.

BUREAUCRACY

Sumit Bose to be Secretary, Finance
Secretary, Revenue, Sumit Bose is expected to be named as Finance Secretary in the Government of India on December 1, 2013. He is a 1976 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

As many as 8 departments may see new Secretaries this month?
If some top sources in the GoI are to be believed as many eight departments may find new Secretaries this month namely; Dept of Expenditure, Dept of Fertilizers, Dept of Boarder Management, Dept of Coordination, Dept of Pharmaceuticals, Dept of Land resources, Dept of MoIA and more interestingly the Dept of Women & Child Welfare as well. It would unveil an interesting picture in the appointment and deployment of top officials in the Government of India?

V P Agrawal to get extension
Chairman of the Airports Authority of India, V P Agrawal, is all set to get extension till mid 2015. Tenure of Agrawal was to come to an end in December.

Lokesh soon to succeed Narayanan in Switzerland
As the grapevine has it Mysore Kapanaiah Lokesh is all set to succeed Chitra Narayanan as the next Indian Ambassador to Switzerland. The 1977 batch IFS officer is currently serving as Indian Ambassador to United Arab Emirates. Chitra has been running on extension since November 30, 2012.

Empanelment of 1995 batch IAS officers in December?
Empanelment of 1995 batch IAS officers to the rank of Joint Secretary in the Government of India is expected to take place in December.

Couple of 1978 batch IAS officers yet to get posting in GoI
A couple of 1978 batch IAS officers are still waiting in the wings to get posting as Secretary in the Government of India.

K D Tripathi is youngest IAS officer in 1980 batch
After empanelment to the rank of Secretary in the Government of India, K D Tripathi, will be youngest IAS officer in 1980 batch. Assam Meghalaya cadre IAS officer, Tripathi, who is presently Secretary in CVC will retire only on July 1, 2018.

Manish Singh is Director, DEA
Manish Singh is joining the Government of India as Director, Department of Economic Affairs (DEA). He is a 1997 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Mohapatra joins as Director (Projects), RINL
P C Mohapatra, ED, RINL, has taken over as Director (Projects), Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL). He succeeded N S Rao who retired in October, 2013.
(We said this on March 19, 2013)

SECL ,Technical Director, P K Roy to retire in November
P K Roy, Director (Technical), South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL) is retiring in November, 2013. R P Thakur, CGM, CCL is expected to succeed him in December.

Will MHA sanction the posts of ADG for ITBP?
Amid the speculations and apprehensions the ITBP is keenly awaiting MHA's decision to sanction the posts of ADG. Reportedly, two new posts of ADG are in consideration; one post is meant for the officer of ITBP cadre and one for IPS officer. Ironically ITBP does not have any post of ADG. ITBP is considered as the most preferred CPMF in combating internal insurgency having competence in high altitude & jungle warfare and rescue operations.

Behera poised to move to BPRD as IG
Loknath Behera is all set to move to BPRD as IG. The 1985 batch IPS officer of Kerala cadre is currently serving in NIA.

Neeraj Agarwal to be new Corp. Comm chief of LIC
Neeraj Agarwal will be appointed as new ED, Corporate Communication Dept. of LIC of India. Presently Neeraj Agarwal is ED, Corporate Planning, Dept. of LIC. He will succeed Ms Usha Sanghwan, who has taken over as MD of LIC of India.

70 posts of IPS officers vacant in Karnataka
As many as 70 posts of IPS officers have been lying vacant against 205 sanctioned posts in Karnataka.

Roy Mathrani to hold additional charge
Roy Mathrani, Director General of Audit, Central Expenditure, New Delhi who will hold additional charge of the post until AWK Langstieh joins the post has been transferred and posted as Director General, iCISA, Noida. He will relieve Ms K Ganga.

V P Munghate empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
V P Munghate has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1985 batch IOFS officer.

Lt Gen Rai to be GoC-in-C, Eastern Command
The buzz around is that Lt Gen MMS Rai is being appointed Army Commander (GoC-in-C), Eastern Command.

Lt Gen Aniruddha Chakravarty to be DG, NCC
Whispers has it that Lt Gen Aniruddha Chakravarty may soon be appointed Director General (DG) of National Cadet Corpse ( NCC ).

Mahajan to retire on Jan 31, who will be the next Chairman, CBEC?
Whispers in the corridors of power indicate that the insiders and spectators have started placing the new Chairman of CBEC; though in anticipation. Praveen Mahajan, the incumbent Chairman of Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC), is scheduled to retire on January 31, 2014. Not too tough to guess as who would be the Chairman of CBEC on February 1, 2014?

Randhawa is new Income Tax Ombudsman , MP and CG
G S Randhawa has joined as Income Tax Ombudsman of MP and CG, at Bhopal Office. Randhaw is a 1977 batch officer of Indian Revenue Services (Income Tax), Randhawa was Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, Ludhiana. Till February 2013. Randhawa has worked in various capacities at different places, including Delhi, Chandigarh, Chennai, Madurai and Mumbai.

Six IAS officers to go for training in Harvard University
Half a dozen IAS officers have been nominated by DoPT for mandatory one week training of IAS Officers in Harvard University . They are Ashok Gupta, IAS 1981,G C Murmu IAS 1985, Rajiv Bora IAS 1985,Rajendra Shukla IAS 1986,Manoj Parida IAS 1986 and Suresh Gupta IAS 1986.

Dr Kalsi to address Ground Zero Summit 2013
Dr Nirmaljeet Singh Kalsi, Joint Secretary, Police-II, will address the GroundZero Summit 2013 organised by ASSOCHAM on Nov 7 in New Delhi. The summit would share the experience and have the guidance so as to create credible Information Security Professionals within the country. All it would opportune the participants to have overall policy directives of the government in cyber domain and national security.

Post of CMD, SIL vacant since April 2013
The post of CMD, Scooters India Limited (SIL) has been lying vacant since April 23, 2013. However, Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has sought applications for the post before December 4, 2013.

PESB seeks applications for Director (Fin), Braithwaite & Co Ltd
Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has sought applications for the post of Director (Finance), Braithwaite & Co. Ltd lying vacant since September 11, 2013. Those willing to apply can send their applications to the PESB before December 20, 2013.

BRPSE chairman, Dr Sengupta is no more
Dr Nitish Sengupta, Chairman, BRPSE (Board for Reconstruction of Public Sector Enterprises), has passed away in New Delhi. He was cremated here at Lodhi Road crematorium. Dr. Sengupta, 81, had died of heart attack at his residence. He was Chairman of BRPSE since 2007 and played a stellar role in the turnaround and financial upkeep of a number of Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) in the recent years; and had given away the 'BRPSE Turnaround Award 2013' to 4 CPSEs only the last Thursday.

7 IRSE officers shifted after promotion to HAG (UPDATED)
A number of officers belonging to IRSE have been transferred after promotion to Higher Administrative Grade (HAG) in Railways. Accordingly, Alok Ranjan, SAG/IRSE, Executive Director, Civil Engineering (Bridges & Structure)-I, Railway Board, has been promoted to the grade of HAG and posted as Adviser (Land & Amenities), Railway Board while Nand Kishore, SAG/IRSE, Executive Director (Works), RDSO was posted as Senior Executive Director (Works), RDSO after promotion to the same grade and J S Gupta is appointed as PCE/East Coast Railway. Similarly, M S Lakha has been posted as PCE, Northeast Frontier Railway; S Balakrishna is posted as CAO (C-II), Northern Railway; R Venkadasamy as PCE in East Coast Railway and Lallo Singh was posted as CAO (C), North Central Railway.

Ratan watal will be new Secretary Expenditure (UPDATED)
Secretary New and Renewable Energy Ratan Watal is taking over as OSD Expenditure in a couple of days. 1978 batch IAS officer Ratan Watal will succeed R S Gujral on December 1 as Secretary Expenditure. Gujral is retiring on November 30.
(We said this only yesterday)

Will Agnihotri be Secretary New and Renewable Energy ? (UPDATED)
Satish Balram Agnihotri is likely to succeed Ratan Watal as Secretary New and Renewable Energy in the Government of India. He is 1980 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre.

HAL joins ISRO's Mars Mission by Satellite Structure, Propellant Tankages (UPDATED)
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has contributed in its way in today's launch of the Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft. "We delivered seven types of riveted structural assemblies and four types of welded propellant tankages for the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C25)", said Dr RK Tyagi, Chairman, HAL. The Company had also delivered bare satellite structure and deck panel to ISRO. The satellite structure is an assembly of composite and metallic honeycomb sandwich panels with a central composite cylinder. The honeycomb panels and the composite cylinder were supplied by HAL's Composite Manufacturing Division and the structural assembly work was carried out at HAL's Aerospace Division. The payload, propellant systems, solar panels etc were integrated into the bare structure by ISRO.

CORPORATE

Profit of IRCON up by 59%
Ircon International Limited, a Public Sector Undertaking in construction sector under the Ministry of Railways, has recorded a turnover of Rs. 1591.47 crore and Profit Before Tax of Rs. 435.31 crore during half of the current financial year 2013-14 i.e from April 1, 2013 to September 30, 2013, an increase of 6 per cent and 59 per cent respectively over the corresponding period last year. The above results were taken on record in 209th meeting of the Board of Directors chaired by Mohan Tiwari, Chairman & Managing Director, IRCON.

Sharma appointed ED, LIC Housing Finance Limited
LIC Housing Finance Limited has appointed Sunita Sharma as Executive Director of the company w,e.f. November 5, 2013.

Kumar appointed MD, Vijay Growth Financial Services Ltd
Vijay Growth Financial Services Ltd has appointed V K Sunil Kumar as Managing Director of the company.

Jain appointed Nominee Director, The Oudh Sugar Mills Limited
The Oudh Sugar Mills Limited has appointed Umesh Jain as a Nominee Director of IDBI Bank Ltd on the Board of Directors of the company.

Nopany appointed Chairperson, Upper Ganges Sugar & Industries Limited
Upper Ganges Sugar & Industries Limited has appointed Nandini Nopany as the Chairperson and Non- Executive Director of the company

Malpani appointed Whole-time Director, Upper Ganges Sugar & Industries Limited
Bal Kishore Malpani has been appointed as the Whole-time Director of Upper Ganges Sugar & Industries Limited.

Alapatt appointed Addl. Director, The South Indian Bank Limited
The South Indian Bank Limited has appointed Francis Alapatt as Additional Director of the Bank.

Prabhu resigns as Non Exec. Director, The South Indian Bank Limited
Suresh Prabhu has resigned as Non Executive Director of The South Indian Bank Limited.

Two Directors cease to be on Board of Euro Finmart Ltd
Sunil Kumar Gupta and Rajbir Singh Makhni have resigned as Directors of Euro Finmart Ltd with immediate effect.

Agrawal ceases to be Addl. Director, Euro Finmart Ltd
Mukesh Chandra Agrawal has resigned as Additional Director of Euro Finmart Ltd with immediate effect.

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Lethargic working in Government

Why government officer should work? Question is if he does some work there is every possibility that somebody will be affected and series of RTI queries will come up or if person affected may bring political pressure or some type of enquiry can be set up. There is no system he can be awarded , unlike private concern where benefit to organization is recognized or some benefit can be passed on , in worst case he may lose job , but in govt not only he will lose job , criminal liability etc are repercussion. Hence no work is most safe approach and hence lethargic working in government.

Rajiv Bhai

Mess of govt machinery, due to negligence of manual

The Manual provides several procedures to keep the office in order. The mess of the govt. machinery is only due to negligence of the manual. It is painful to point out that even the high offices of the country do not bother to acknowledge the receipt of public grievances. But for the personal reasons only, the functioning in the offices has come to a standstill. There are examples that a letter from the Speaker of the Delhi Vidhan Sabha to Lt. Governor is not acknowledged. Illegal activities are rampant under the eyes of the keepers of the Manual of Office Procedure. The bitter truth is that senior officers have not even seen the Manual in their life time. Jai Hind!

Nirwal

Mukherjee Competent officer

Kaushik Mukherjee is really a strong and decision making IAS officer.

Sudhir Kumar

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