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A wise doctor would not consult on his own case

Who is spying the Ministers ?
Now Ministers in the Modi Government are afraid of spying on them by unknown persons. Are they from parallel intelligence outfit of PM Narendra Modi ?

BUREAUCRACY

Dr Somanathan to be Chairman of FMC ?
Dr T V Somanthan is likely to succeed Ramesh Abhishek as Chairman of the Forward Markets Commission (FMC). He is 1987 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

12 IPS officers retiring in December
As many as 12 officers belonging to Indian Police Service (IPS) of various cadres and batches are retiring in December, 2014. They are: Subash Goswami and P J P Hanaman of AM cadre; Ashok Kumar Singh of Bihar cadre; Shiv Pal Singh Verma of Himachal Pradesh cadre; Umesh Kumar Singh and Mohd Nihal of Jharkhand cadre; Dr B E Umapathi and G Ramesh of Karnataka cadre; V B Lokhande of Maharashtra cadre; Anand Lal Banerjee of Uttar Pradesh cadre; Chitrangad of Uttarakhand cadre and Deelip Mitra of West Bengal cadre.

Gujarat cadre officers comfortable in GoI
Gujarat cadre officers joining the GoI on deputation are really comfortable . They are quite happy with the functioning of the Modi Government. Infact, the Gujarat cadre officers are quite comfortable because they are accustomed to the function of Narendra Modi.

MEA wakes up to Latin America
After decades of negligence, MEA is waking up to the far off continent. Now MEA website is available in Spanish, the only European language other than English. There is thinking on allotting Spanish as Compulsory Foreign Language (CFL) to more IFS officer trainees instead of allotting single-country languages as CFL. India Inc. however feels that it is too little too late as the Chinese companies helped by their diplomats have already secured monopoly contracts especially in mining all over Latin America.

Ms Surbhi Sinha appointed CBDT Member
Ms Surabhi Sinha has been appointed as Member of the Central Board of Director Taxes (CBDT) in the Department of Revenue.
(We said this on Nov 28, 2014)

Ms Rani Singh Nair appointed CBDT Member
Ms Rani Singh Nair has been appointed as Member of the Central Bord of Direct Taxes (CBDt) in the Department of Revenue.
(We said this May 12, Nov 28, 2014)

S M Nigam appointed CBDT Member
S M Nigam has been appointed as Member of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) in the Department of Revenue.
(We said this on Nov 28, 2014)

Atulesh Jindal appointed CBDT Member
Atulesh Jindal has been appointed as Member of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) in the Department of Revenue.
(We said this on February 28 )

List of CBEC Members yet to be cleared
List of the Members of the CBEC is yet to be cleared .

Rinawma to succeed Jindal ?
R C Rinawma is likely to succeed Akhilesh Jindal as DG HRD in the CBDT. Rinawma is 1978 batch IRS officer.

Ashish Vachhani appointed Adviser to ED, ADB
Ashish Vachhani has been appointed as Adviser to Executive Director, Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines for a period of three years. He is a 1997 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

IAS and IPS reshuffle in Maharashtra soon
A major IAS and IPS reshuffle is expected to take place in Maharashtra after the current session of the Vidhan Sabha.

125 application for Medical Colleges
The Ministry of Health in the Government of India has received about 125 applications for new Medical Colleges in the country.

Meeting to select Chairman and Vice Chairman of ports soon
Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari is reported to have convened the meeting to select Chairman and Vice Chairman of various ports this month end.

Udit Prakash appointed APS to Narendra Singh Tomar
Udit Prakash, on central deputation, has been appointed Additional Private Secretary to Minister for Steel and Mines Narendra Singh Tomar, at Under Secretary level for a period of four years. He is a 2007 batch IAS officer of AGMUT cadre.

Ms Joshi yet to get CVC clearance for Director, SCI
The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) is yet to give its clearance to Ms. Harjeet Joshi, GM, ONGC, for her appointment as Director (Finance), Shipping Corporation India Limited (SCI). Her name was proposed after V K Jain, GM, HPCL, declined the offer.

Why orders of Charles for Director, DCIL delayed?
Why the orders of S Charles, Vice President, SCIL, for the appointment as Director (Finance), Dredging Corporation of India Limited (DCIL) are getting delayed? The sources said that the file has been lying stuck to the Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) for its final approval. He was selected for this post on January 27, 2014.

Three 1978 batch Secretary level IAS officers retiring in Dec
Three Secretary level IAS officers working with the Government of India are retiring in December, 2014. They are: R Bhattacharya, Secretary, Human Resources Development of 1978 batch of Andhra Pradesh cadre while Prem Narain, Secretary, Overseas Indian Affairs of 1978 batch of Uttar Pradesh cadre and Ms Stuti Narain Kacker, Secretary, Social Justice & Empowerment of 1978 batch of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Ahluwalia to join as Director (Fin), NMDC Ltd on Jan 1
D S Ahluwalia, ED REC, will be taking over the charge as Director (Finance), NMDC Limited on January 1, 2015. He will succeed incumbent S Thiagarajan retiring in December, 2014.
(We said this on June 12, 2014)

Orders of R N Misra for CMD, SJVN Ltd yet to come
The orders of R N Misra, Director (Civil), SJVNL, for the appointment as Chairman and Managing Director, SJVN Limited are yet to be issued by the Government of India as vacancy is arising on January 1, 2015.

Sambasiva Rao is new EO of TTD
Sambasiva Rao has been appointed new Executive Officer of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) in place of M G Gopal. He is 1986 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Sachida Nand Singh appointed as Joint Advisor, NDMA (UPDATED)
Sachida Nand Singh has been appointed as Joint Advisor (Mitigation Project & Procurement) at Director level in National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Delhi for a period of five years. He is a 1984 batch IDSE officer.


7 IAS officers get additional charges in Gujarat (UPDATED)
As many as seven officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been given additional charges of District Development Officers of newly created districts. Accordingly, R J Mankadia has been assigned an additional charge of District Development officer of Devbhumi Dwarka while Dr Dhaval Patel gets charge of Morbi and Kuldeep Arya is also District Development Officer of Chhotaudepur. Similarly, Nagarajan M has been given charge of Arvalli; H R Suthar of Botad; Mrs Ratankanvar H Gadhvi of Mahisgar and R G Trivedi was given the charge of District Development Officer of Gir Somnath.

7 IRS-IT officers transferred at Additional/Joint Commissioner level (UPDATED)
Seven Indian Revenue Service officers of Income Tax cadre have been transferred and posted at Additional/Joint Commissioner level. Accordingly, Praveen Kishore has been posted to CCA, Bihar & Jharkhand while Kusum to CCA, NWA and P Dam Kanunjna to CCA, Delhi. Similarly, D Songate, S T Bidari and Sandeep Dahiya have been posted to CCA, Mumbai and R K Jha posted to PrCCIT office, Delhi.

Mohanish Verma posted as CIT in Delhi region (UPDATED)
Indian Revenue Service officer of Income Tax cadre, Mohanish Verma has been appointed as Commissioner of Income Tax (CIT) in the office of Principal CCIT, Delhi region.

Elusing Meru appointed as MD, APMDC in Telangana (UPDATED)
Elusing Meru has been appointed as Managing Director of Andhra Pradesh Mineral Development Corporation (APMDC) in place of T R K Rao who joined as Director, NMDC. Meru is a 1990 batch IFS officer of Telangana cadre.

Justice Vijai Bist to perform as Chief Justice, Uttarakhand HC (UPDATED)
Justice Vijai Bist, senior most Judge of Uttarakhand High Court, has been assigned to perform as Chief Justice of the same till the Justice Joseph resumes his duty.

Jutice Vazifdar shifted to P&H High Court as Judge with charge of Chief Justice (UPDATED)
Justice Shiavax Jal Vazifdar, Judge of Bombay High Court, has been assigned to perform as Chief Justice of Punjab & Haryana High Court after his transferred to this High Court as Judge.

Himachal Pradesh High Court gets three Judges (UPDATED)
Justice Tarlok Singh Chauhan, Justice Piar Singh Rana, Justice Sureshwar Thakur, all Additional Judges, have been appointed as Judges of the Himachal Pradesh High Court.

CBI files case against GM, Sr Manager of SECL in pilferage of coal (UPDATED)
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against then General Manager, South Eastern Coalfield Limited (SECL), Bishrampur (Chhattisgarh); then Senior Manager(Mining) & Sub Area Manager, both of Amgaon OCP, SECL, Bishrampur and Director of private firm based at Hyderabad for allegedly causing loss of Rs.9,63,29,156/-(approx) to SECL, Bilaspur due to collusion among the accused in pilferage of coal from Amgaon OCP, SECL, Bishrampur area (Chhattishgarh).

Satish Kumar Kaushik posted as CVO, NTCL (UPDATED)
Satish Kumar Kaushik has been appointed as Chief Vigilance Officer in National Textiles Corporation Limited (NTCL), Delhi at the Joint Secretary level. He is a 1986 batch IFS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Anshuli Arya empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI (UPDATED)
Ms Anshuli Arya has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Governmen of India in second review. She is a 1989 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

A M Limaye empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI (UPDATED)
A M Limaye has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Governmen of India in second review. He is a 1989 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

Attri Bhattacharya empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI (UPDATED)
Attri Bhattacharya has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Governmen of India in second review. He is a 1989 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Ms Vandana Kini empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI (UPDATED)
Ms Vandana Kini has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Governmen of India in second review. She is a 1989 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

37 IPS officers of 1992 batch empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI (UPDATED)
As many as 37 officers belonging to Indian Police Service (IPS) have been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. The officers include: Adarsh Katiyar and D Shrinivas Rao of Madhya Pradesh cadre; Harpreet Singh Sidhu of Punjab cadre; Rajesh Nirwan and Sanjay Kumar Agrawal of Rajasthan; Siddh Nath Gupta of West Bengal; Idashisha Nongrang of AM; Arvind Kumar of MT; Arundevo Gautam of CG; P Sitharama Anjaneulu and Nalin Prabhat of AP; D C Sagar of MP; Sunil Garg of UT; Pankaj Kumar Shrivastava of MP; S G Bhati of Gujarat; Ajay Anand of UP; Pawan Deo of Chhattisgarh; Sanjay Singh of West Bengal; Hemant Kumar Lohia of Jammu and Kashmir; Satish Golcha of UT; Dipesh Juneja of UK; Jitender of AP; Pankaj Saxena of Jammu& Kashmir; Rupin Sharma of Nagaland; Ritesh Kumar of Maharashtra; B Srinvisan of Bihar cadre; Rajeev Kumar of Tamil Nadu; Ajay singhal of Haryana; R P Shrivastava of MP; Abhay Kumar Singh of Tamil Nadu; Guite Thangkhanlal of Rajasthan; K Vanniaperumal of Tamil Nadu; Harish Kumar Gupta of AP; Sandeep Rai Rathore of Tamil Nadu; Sanjeev Kumar Singhal and Dhananjay D Kamalkar of Maharashtra cadre; and R K Rai of Gujarat cadre.

27 IPS officers of 1993 batch empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI (UPDATED)
As many as 27 officers belonging to Indian Police Service (IPS) of 1993 batch have been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. The officers include: Praveen Rajan of UT cadre; Jitendra Kumar of Bihar; Gyanendra Singh Malik of Gujarat cadre; Mahesh Dixit of AP cadre; Alok Kumar Mittal of Haryana cadre; Sanjeev Shami of MP cadre; Arpit Shukla of Punjab; Sanjay Singhal and S B Shiradkar of UP cadre;Peeush Pande of West Bengal cadre; Varinder Kumar of Punjab; Ashutosh Kumar Sinha of MT; R P Rao Koche of Orissa cadre; S Arunachalam of Tamil Nadu; Ashok Tiwari of HP cadre; Rajiv Singh of MT; Robin Hibu of UT; Anil Kumar of MP; Amrit Kalash of Rajasthan; Yogesh Gupta of Kerala; Sandeep Shandilya of AP; Sanjay Saxena of Maharashtra; Ravi Kumar Gupta of MP; Deepak Kumar of Jammu and Kashmir cadre; Ashok Kumar Das of Tamil Nadu cadre; R Prasad Meena of AM and Shashikant Pujari of West Bengal cadre.

8 IRSEE officers of 1983 batch empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI (UPDATED)
As many as eight officers belonging to Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers (IRSEE) of 1983 batch have been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. The officers include: V K Tripathi, G V Reddy, Raj Narayan, Satish K Kashap, A Mohapatra, V P N Tiwari and R B Gupta.


8 IRSEE officers of 1984 batch empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI (UPDATED)
As many as eight officers belonging to Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers (IRSEE) of 1984 batch have been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. The officers include: Sanjiv Bhutani; Navin Kumar Sinha, Radhey Raman, Sudhir Kumar Saxena, Pramod Kumar, Ram Prakash, Prem Chand and S N Dubey.

12 IRAS officers of 1986 batch empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI (UPDATED)
As many as 12 officers belonging to Indian Railway Account Service (IRAS) of 1986 batch have been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. The officers include: Sanjay Lavania, Ranjanesh Sahai, Jag Mohan Gupta, K Vinayak Rao, A K Vajpayee, Sumita Sarkar Mukherjee, S K Pandey, Dhruv Singh, Tanuja Pandey, Om Prakash, Akhil Kumar Singh, Soumitra Bhattacharjee.

8 IRS-IT officers of 1987 batch empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI (UPDATED)
As many as eight officers belonging to Indian Revenue Service of Income Tax cadre and 1987 batch have been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. The officers include: Sunil Gupta, Sadhna Shankar, Bhanumathi Melattur Vishwanathan, Yogesh Pande, R S V S Pavan Kumar, Vipin Chandra, Sukhvinder Khanna, K Gnana Prakash.

DEBATE- RETIREMENT AGE
With the BJP government in Haryana lowering the retirement age of state government employees from 60 to 58 years, it is being rumoured that the next in line will be Delhi government (after the polls) before being implemented by the central government in the months to come. How far is it fair ?

Send your views to mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com or suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com…………

CORPORATE

Haldia Petrochemicals MD resigns
Uttam Kumar Basu MD of Haldia Petrochemicals is reported to have resigned.

Reddy resigns as Promoter Director, GVK Power & Infrastructure Ltd
Ms G Indira Krishna Reddy has resigned as Promoter Director of GVK Power & Infrastructure Limited

Soni appointed CFO, Maharashtra Seamless Ltd
Maharashtra Seamless Limited has appointed Ashok Soni as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the company

Ramaswamy resigns as CFO, Kothari Petrochemicals Ltd
Ms Jayalakshmi Ramaswamy has resigned as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Kothari Petrochemicals Limited w.e.f. November 30, 2014

Srinivas appointed CS, Surana Telecom and Power Ltd
Surana Telecom and Power Limited has appointed Dudam Srinivas as Company Secretary of the company.

Chandrasekharan resigns as Director, Technojet Consultants Ltd
R Chandrasekharan has resigned as Director of Technojet Consultants Ltd w.e.f. December 8, 2014

Johari to be appointed Addl. Director, Sarda Papers Ltd
Sarda Papers Ltd is to appoint Kamini Kamal Johari as an Additional Director of the company

Patel appointed Addl. Independent Director, GMM Pfaudler Ltd
GMM Pfaudler Ltd has appointed Dr Amrita Patel as an Additional Independent Director of the company w.e.f. December 11, 2014

Bhargava appointed CS, Master Chemicals Ltd
Master Chemicals Ltd has appointed Pawan Bhargava as Company Secretary of the company w.e.f. November 11, 2014

Tripathy appointed CFO, Master Chemicals Ltd
P C Tripathy has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Master Chemicals Ltd w.e.f. November 11, 2014

Shervni resigns as Non Exec. Independent Director, Elder Pharmaceuticals Ltd
Saleem Shervni has resigned as Non-Executive Independent Director of Elder Pharmaceuticals Limited w.e.f December 11, 2014

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DEBATE (1)Don't reduce retirement age

"Retirement age of government servants should not be reduced. In fact, it should be increased suitably. Reasons for this have been discussed in detail by many of us- increase in life expectancy, delayed marriages and consequent unsettled children, optimum utilization of the experience gained by government servants over the years etc. etc. It is more important that jobs are created in the private sector which is much more lucrative now. BJP government should take a decision on this issue with great care. "

Naveen Kumar

DEBATE (2) Idea is far fetched

The notion that reduction of retirement age in civil services will usher in more efficiency is far fetched as long as the system remains the same. Caste and religion based recruitment for more than 50% of the vacancies and the ministers' quest for coreligionists and co castes in their departments are playing havoc with efficiency and creating cesspools of corruption. An example is that of the Kerala IAS officer with lots of allegations of corruption pending against him and a blue eyed boy of ruling UPA partner, Muslim League was caught by the vigilance for DPA(till now it is 50 crores).In almost all most states, CS has no powers in nominating IAS officers to various departments, such powers resting on ministers. The allegedly corrupt officers do not even want their ACR to be initiated by CS.

N Krishnan

DEBATE (3)Weed out dead wood instead

Retirement age at 58 from the existing 60 years when it was in force for last 16 years is a knee jerk stuff. Instead, they should weed out dead wood; can they bring in objective reviews from 55 years on and only the effective ones survive. Rest should get back to home. As it was mentioned if it is for babus…it is high time we change from "Indian Administrative Services" to "India Development Services" or "India Management Services"

Suresh

Good caption

I like the caption "the credibility of Modi government is established" in respect to Anil Sinha, CBI chief. The credibility of Modi Government is established in other case also when the big Education Mafia and CBSE Chairman Vineet Joshi extension is denied and repatriation is made. The touts and dalals were ready to pay any amount in case for his extension but the integrity is ensured by denying his extension even after the approval of Mrs. Smriti Irani HRD Minister. Hats Off...

Rajesh

When Chief secretary himself is corrupt !

Things have now come to such a pass that the chief secretary of the state himself is corrupt, power-crazy, holding malice against individual officers, and acts as a cheap lackey of the ruling politicians. No wonder that the officers have no respect or faith in such a babu and do not want their ACRs to be written and spoilt by such a chief secretary.

K P Singh

Ban needed in CBEC also

Similar ban is badly needed in CBEC. Sepoys for luggage and inspectors for protocol for IRS officers on tour. This does not stop here. Even family members get facility.

Prof I R Aggarwal

Look into discontent within cadres of group A services

The Government needs to look into the deep discontent brewing within the cadres of group A services like the IRAS ,IRPS .IRTS where officers ofeven 1986 batch have not been empanelled for posting as Joint Secretaries in the Central Government !

vox populi

Don't abolish RTI

RTI should not be abolished. If there is case of extortion then somebody in the Government has done wrong and he/she is heeding to the request. IPC has several provisions relating to extortion. If the Government servant feels that he is being extorted, then he has the freedom to invoke IPC.

BBS

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