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Adweetiya Sinha
POLITICS
Rahul Gandhi is favourite of young girls
Rahul Gandhi is a great favourite of young girls in the country. Thisis
evident from the fact that his photograph can be found in bedroom of
several girls. It means young girls will vote for Rahul Gandhi.
Sushma Swaraj not to join Modi Cabinet
Sources close to Sushma Swaraj have indicated that she would not join
Cabinet of Narendra Modi.
MP Cong nightmare - 'Lotus'
With the dates for the Assembly elections in five states approaching
fast, the Congress seems to be so scared of the BJP that it is now reported
to have asked the Election Commission "to hide all ponds of lotus
flowers' which fully bloom in water bodies at several places specially
in Mahakaushal, Malwa and Bundelkhand regions of Madhya Pradesh. What
if the BJP also now urges the Commission to ask people to cover their
hands ? It is the symbol of the Congress party.
BUREAUCRACY
A couple of Secretary level posting in a day
or two
A couple of Secretary level postings are expected to take place in the
Government of India in a day or two.
Nandan poised for JS, Defence (Air)
Jivesh Nandan, a 1987 batch IAS officer of UP cadre, is now poised for
the post of Joint Secretary, Ministry of Defence (Air). In his new instint
he would be the one to handle the crucially important file of Augusta
Wasteland helicopter deals.
Four 1980 batch IAS officers will retire only
in 2017
Four 1980 batch empanelled IAS officers will retire as Secretary in
the Government of India only in 2017. They are K D Tripathi (Assam-Meghalaya
), Ashok Lavasa (Haryana),V K Pepersenia (AM) and P D Meena (MP).
Air Marshal Raha appointed next CAS
Air Marshal Arup Raha, PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC, at present the Vice Chief
of Air Staff, has been appointed as the next Chief of the Air Staff
(CAS) after the retirement of Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne, PVSM,AVSM,
VM, ADC on December 31, 2013. Air Marshal Raha was commissioned into
the IAF on December 14, 1974 in the Fighter Stream of the Flying Branch.
(We said this on July 1 and July 23, 2013 )
Mukherjee appointed Chief Secretary of Karnataka
Kaushik Mukherjee has been appointed new Chief Secretary of Karnataka.
He is a 1978 batch IAS officer.
(We said this on October 24, 2013 )
Meeting to select Information Commissioners on Nov 9
Scheduled meeting for October 30 to select Members of the Central Information
Commissioners has been postponed. Now it will take place on November
9. As many as 15 applicants have been short-listed for the posts of
CIC Members.
Nayar appointed MD and CEO of IFCI
Finally Santosh Nayar has been appointed as Managing Director (MD) and
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of IFCI. Earlier, he was Deputy Managing
Director and Group Executive (Corporate Banking Group) in the State
Bank of India.
(We said this on October 9, 2013)
101 posts of IPS officers vacant in Maharashtra
As many as 101 posts of IPS officers have been lying vacant against
302 sanctioned posts in Maharashtra. Presently, 201 officers are working
in the State.
Hectic lobbying going on for the post of Chairman,
JNPT
Being the biggest port of India, having maximum traffic & turnover,
Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) seems to be struggling hard for getting
its new Chairman. Even as, the process of selection for the same goes
on, hectic lobbying has, reportedly, slowed down the pace of appointment.
The top slot in JNPT has been lying vacant since April after the repatriation
of L Radhakrishnan to Kerala as ACS. Presently, N N Kumar, a 1984 batch
IRS officer, is holding the charge of Chairman, JNPT.
Now 27 Secretary rank posts for IRS (IT)
Altogether 27 Secretary rank posts have been created for the IRS (IT)
officers in the country.
Seven Journalists apply for Information Commissioner in MP
Seven Journalists are reported to have applied for the post of Information
Commissioner in Madhya Pradesh.
Orders of Chaturvedi for Director (Mktg),
PEC Ltd delayed
The appointment orders of Rajiv Chaturvedi, CGM, PECIL, as Director
(Marketing), PEC Limited are getting delayed, due to some technical
reasons.
Orders of Sankaranarayanan in second week
of Nov
The orders of V Sankaranarayanan, Dy GM, SJVNL, for the appointment
as Chairman and Managing Director of Tyre Corporation of India Limited
(TCIL) are expected to be issued in second week of November this year.
Five Odisha State officers get IAS cadre
As many as five officers of Odisha State Civil Service have been accorded
Indian Administrative Service (IAS) cadre against vacancies of 2012
year. They are Updendranath Mallick-2, Soumya Narayan Panigrahi, Manoranjan
Patnaik-2, Dhiren Kumar Patnaik and Purusottam Sahoo.
Omendra Bhardwaj is also DGP in Rajasthan
Omendra Bhardwaj has been assigned additional charge of Director General
of Police (DGP) in Rajasthan till the return of H C Meena from leave.
Bhardwaj is a 1977 batch IPS officer.
Gondanale empanelled as Joint Secretary in
GoI
Dilip V Gondanale has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary
or equivalent in Government of India. He is a 1982 batch officer of
Indian Ordnance Factory Service.
Rao moves to Delhi
V P Rao has been transferred as Director, TTE in Delhi Government against
S N Jha who is retiring on November 1. He is a 1999 batch IAS officer
of UT cadre.
16 IAS officers shifted in Haryana (UPDATED)
As many as 16 senior officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service
(IAS) have been given fresh assignments in Haryana. Accordingly, S C
Choudhary has been appointed as ACS, Home, Jails, Criminal Investigation
& Administration of Justice while Dhanpat Singh will now be Principal
Secretary, Technical Education and R R Jowel is Principal Secretary,
Transport & Civil Aviation. Similarly, Devender Singh has been made
Principal Secretary, Power; Amit Jha as Principal Secretary, Welfare
of Scheduled Castes and OBCs; S N Roy as Principal Secretary, Renewal
Energy; T V S N Prasad as Principal Secretary, Food & Supplies;
Mahavir Singh as Principal Secretary, Environment; Arun Kumar as Principal
Secretary, Medical Education & Research; Shiv Raman Gaur as Principal
Secretary, Sports & Youth Affairs; Anand Mohan Sharan as Chief Administrator,
Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board, Panchkula and Adviser, Civil
Aviation and Secretary, Civil Aviation; Arun Kumar Gupta as DG, Food
& Supplies and Secretary, Food & Supplies and MD, CONFED; Mrs
Suprabha Dahiya as Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Faridabad; Rajeev
Ranjan as Director, Environment, Haryana and Special Secretary, Environment;
Abhe Singh Yadav as Director, State Transport and Special Secretary,
Transport and Ashok Sangwan was made CEO, Haryana Khadi & Village
Industries Board.
NBCC wins prestigious Real Estate Awards 2013
(UPDATED)
National Buildings Construction Corporation Limited's (NBCC) R K Dhawan,
Chief General Manager, OP Vyas, Chief General Manager and V K Goel,
General Manager have jointly received popular Real Estate Awards 2013
under section "Outstanding Contribution For Infrastructure"
from Oscar Fernandes, Cabinet Minister of Road Transport and Highways
(Govt. of India), Harish Rawat, Minister of Water Resources (Govt. of
India) and Amar Singh, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha). The Award
recognizes, encourages and promotes excellence in the Real Estate profession
and highlights important elements of real estate practice such as commitment
to service, client satisfaction, innovation, professional development,
community involvement and contribution to the profession. The awards
were based on a comprehensive market research study and opinion surveys
conducted by Worldwide Achievers. The event was held in New Delhi on
October 26, 2013.
Two IRS-IT officers shifted (UPDATED)
Indian Revenue Service officer of Income Tax cadre, Farhat Khan has
been posted as OSD, FT &TR-I while Ajay Kumar Arora was shifted
to CCA North-west region
Ramachandran posted as Director, CBDT (UPDATED)
Indian Revenue Service officer of Income Tax cadre, K Ravi Ramachandran
has been deputed as Director (Investigation-II) in Central Board of
Direct Taxes (CBDT) under Department of Revenue in Government of India.
CCIT-I, Bhopal A K Jain to retire on Oct 31
(UPDATED)
Indian Revenue Service officer of Income Tax cadre presently CCIT-1,Bhopal,
A K Jain is retiring on October 31, 2013.
V K Mishra is also CCIT-1, Bhopal (UPDATED)
Indian Revenue Service officer of Income Tax cadre, presently CCIT,
Indore, V K Mishra has been assigned an additional charge of CCIT-I,
Bhopal.
Dr D Samasiva Rao posted as PS, Social Welfare
in AP (UPDATED)
Dr D Samasiva Rao has been appointed as Principal Secretary, Social
Welfare Department in Andhra Pradesh. He is a 1986 batch IAS officer.
Subhas Goswami appointed as Director General,
ITBP (UPDATED)
Subhas Goswami, presently working as Director, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
National Police Academy, Hyderbad has been appointed as Director General
in Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). He is a 1977 batch IPS officer
of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
(We said this on October 7 and 23)
Dr D Y Chandrachud appointed as CJ, High Court,
Allahabad (UPDATED)
Dr Justice Dhananjaya Yashwant Chandrachud , Judge of the High Court
of Bombay, has been appointed as the Chief Justice of the High Court
of Judicature at Allahabad.
(We said this on October 4 and 14, 2013)
Anil Dhaka appointed as OSD to Sis Ram Ola
(UPDATED)
Indian Revenue Service officer of Income Tax cadre, Anil Dhaka has been
appointed as OSD to Sis Ram Ola, Minister for Labour & Employment
in Government of India.
CORPORATE
Raman appointed Independent Director, Brigade
Enterprises Ltd
Brigade Enterprises Ltd has appointed Aroon Raman as an Independent
Director of the company.
White appointed Independent Director, OnMobile
Global Ltd
OnMobile Global Ltd has appointed Barry B White as an Independent Non-executive
Additional Director of the company.
Narendran resigns as Director, Tinplate Company
of India Ltd
T V Narendran has resigned as Director of Tinplate Company of India
Ltd.
Ranganathan to resign from the Board of Torrent
Power Ltd?
Murli Ranganathan has decided to resign as Whole-time Director and Director
of Torrent Power Ltd.
Singh resigns as Company Secretary, Impex
Ferro Tech Ltd
Ritesh Kumar Singh has resigned as Company Secretary of Impex Ferro
Tech Ltd with immediate effect.
Charaborty appointed Company Secretary, Impex
Ferro Tech Ltd
Ms Mamata Chakraborty has been appointed as Company Secretary of Impex
Ferro Tech Ltd.
Babbar ceases to be Director, Aruna Hotels
Ltd
Kamal Babbar has ceased to be a Director of Aruna Hotels Ltd.
Goyal resigns as Director, Gabriel India
Ltd
Mahendra Kumar Goyal has resigned as Director of Gabriel India Ltd.
Sharma appointed Independent Director, EICL
Ltd
EICL Ltd has appointed Vijay Kishore Sharma as an Independent Director
of the company .
Sivasubramannian appointed as Independent
Director, OTCO International Ltd
OTCO International Ltd has appointed Ramamoorthy Sivasubramannian as
Non-executive Independent Director of the company.
APRTC, CMD, Khan visiting Hyundai Motors in
Seoul
A K Khan, Chairman & Managing Director, Andhra Pradesh Road Transport
Corporation (APRTC) is visiting Seoul, Korea to have a firsthand experience
on the product of M/s Hyundai Motors Company, Seoul from October 29,
2013 to November 7, 2013. He is a 1981 batch IPS officer of Andhra Pradesh
cadre.
FORUM
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Coalgate is not new !
Coalgate is making lot of news. But it was always on the card. Post
nationalisation of coal mines, erstwhile owners filed forged and inflated
balance sheets to claim more compensation and they succeeded with the
help of their political friends. Coal mafia thereafter started looting
coal from the mines. In eastern sector areas like Dhanbad, Asansol etc
lorries loaded with coals belonging to these mafias passed through security
without any check. Proceeds from this loot was shared between mafias
and politicians. We did not learn any lesson.
Arun Kumar
Vigilance Awareness Week
Vigilance Awareness Week is being celebrated every year by the Government
of India as a ritual only. Therefore, a school boy has observed that
Vigilance Awareness Week is nothing but wastage of resources to create
a pessimistic picture of the society. A teacher has observed that it
is a tool used by the seniors to fix the juniors and to create an illusion
about the justice. There are reasons to agree with the above observations.
For example, in the ministry of Statistics and programme implementation,
in spite of serious charges one senior officer has been promoted to
the post of DG and another is also likely to be promoted to the post
of DG because investigations in both the cases have been compromised.
If Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) is really serious about the awareness,
it should take the following steps:
1. Direct all CVOs to provide a copy of the preliminary investigation
reports to the complainant without any delay so that cover-up in the
case, if any, can be exposed.
2. Make provisions for inspection of file (dealing with the complaint)
by the complainant at any time he so desires.
3. Like Central Information Commission, CVC should make arrangement
for appeal in CVC against CVOs based on the preliminary reports and
other documents.
4. It should make provisions for preliminary investigation by CVC nominee
in complaint against senior officers (Joint Secretary and above) to
ensure independent investigation.
5. CVC should develop an effective mechanism to deal with the harassment
of complainant.
Anil
CGHS - no clarification from authorities
After a lot of hue and cry, no CGHS authority has come forward to clear
the allegations against the poor service. Can't the National Human Rights
Commission or the Hon'ble Court take suo motto cognizance of such matters
where majority of elderly persons are involved. To start with Age Well
NGO should make a survey report of the functioning of CGHS dispensaries
at random. Right to (healthy) Life is predominant in the National Constitution
as well as in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Whispersinthecorridors.com
is part and parcel of the Fourth Estate of the Country (The Press --
in addition to the Legislature, the Executive and the Judiciary).
Nirwal
CGHS is not that bad
It has become a fashion nowadays to criticise CGHS for no fault of
theirs. I am a resident of Dwarka and at no time, I had to wait for
more than 45 minutes to see the Doctor and get my medicines though I
am a heart patient and undergone -by-pass surgery. Being a senior citizen,
I appeal to my fellow Government servants to be calm and composed instead
of levelling charges. The Private Doctors in Dwarka are ruthless and
formed a big cartel to fleece gullible customers. They simply charge
Rs. 500 for a visit and prescribe a dozen medicines and get commission
from the Pharmacist too. The Delhi Government has not built even a single
Government Hospital in Dwarka much to the chagrin of Government servants.
Why can't we join together and throw away the Present Government in
Delhi for not constructing a 200 bed hospitals for the citizens of Dwarka.
We should abstain from votive and show our solidarity instead of indulging
in mudslinging.
Raghuraman
Learn from mistake of CGHS Doctors
Government employees should now learn from mistake of CGHS Doctors
and try to improve the services they are providing to others. A government
employee thinks he is 'damad' (son in law) of the government and he
only has perks and privileges; NO responsibilities. In fact these employees
should be happy that govt is paying salaries to them without any work.
Anil
Punctuality in CGHS
As in other Govt. of Ministries/Departments, biometric system should
be installed in each CGHS Dispensary for monitoring their punctuality.
Generally, staff in CGHS, as well as, doctors do not care for patients
in the morning and mostly come late. Same is the case with other staff
members who are engaged in registration, dispensing medicines etc. By
installing this system, punctuality and attendance can be monitored
and better services could be provided to the patients coming to dispensaries.
Amarjeet
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Provide the basis for demanding the further fee
The appellant wanted to the know reasons for the repeated violation
of damaging the daks, reasons for not delivering "Protect
Cover", copy of delivery sheet and other related information.
The appellant stated that the postal authorities are not giving
proper service and his letters are delivered late and sometimes
in a torn condition due to which he is facing great hardship.
He added that the respondent vide their letter dated 23/04/2012
had demanded a fee of Rs.70/- for supply of copy of the enquiry
report but without giving the calculations as provided under Section
7(3) of the RTI Act and the balance information was also not provided.
The CIC directed the public information officer (PIO) to provide
a copy of the enquiry report, free of cost, to the
appellant within 7 days from the date of receipt of the order.
Further, a compensation by an amount of Rs.750/- was provided
for the inconvenience and detriment caused to him under section
19(8)(b) of the RTI Act.
Comments
As per rules, whenever an envelope is damaged/torn the postal
authorities are required to put the contents in a separate envelop
and also record the damaged condition but most of the post office
are not complying with the regulations. The PIO is expected to
provide the basis of demanding fee in the letter asking the applicant
to deposit the fee.
Functioning of CGHS has improved
CGHS functioning on this forum. I still feel it has considerably
improved in the recent past. The following more improvements are
required. The doctors available in each dispensary are normally
4 including CMO, one more needed i.e. strength should be 5 in
each dispensary. All doctors be housed in one big hall with red
light outside which becomes green if any of the doctors is free,
so that patient can move in for consultation. CMO should also
see the patients. This way you would never find rush/waiting in
any dispensary. All others/supporting staff be housed in one big
hall. Open counter for the staff with medicines stored on the
back, whosoever is free can attend to the patients requirement
like registration of patients, giving of medicines available in
the dispensary, giving indented medicines. There will never be
rush here too. Tea time and lunch time be fixed in staggered way
both for doctors/staff. All administrative work of CMO be done
in the last one hour before the close of dispensary, I find there
are no patients in the dispensary during the last hour. Above
all better infrastructure i.e. computers/fast internet etc. CMO
should be liberal and given more powers for referring patients
to panel hospitals. In the absence of these improvements CGHS,
whatever has been done so far is insignificant. Hope DGHS is listening.
Harish Kumar
Don't outsource CGHS
Even though, CGHS is a system providing service to the employees.
If it is out sourced, employees will get nothing.
Sudhir Kumar
Insensitive CGHS doctors
The CGHS doctors these days are not feeling the pulse, touching
etc. their patients. As if some 'choot' ki bimari na lag jaye'.
These doctors went in their feelings of the obnoxious atmosphere
at home on the patients. Government has given them education,
provided them job, paying them salary and provided residential
accommodation. Medical being a noble profession, the CGHS doctors
are expected to be more courteous towards their patients.
Anurag Srivastava
Citation: Shri Ravi Kumar Gupta v. Oriental
Insurance Company Ltd. In Appeal: No. CIC/DS/A/2012/000925
Weekly article by Dr (Mrs ) Anuradha
Verma
(dranuradhaverma@yahoo.co.in), RTI Consultant
to IIM, Indore. Her other articles regarding RTI can be read at
http://www.rtifoundationofindia.com/
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