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POLITICS

When nothing else inspires, History does ! (101)
We can be staunch in our convictions, but we have no control over those of others.

Ten Thousand NGOs asked to file returns
The Ministry of Home Affairs has served notices to about ten thousand NGOs in the country to file income tax returns. Is this move to curb AAP ?

BUREAUCRACY

Election Commission - GoI and Haryana Chief Secretary ?
If insiders are to be believed, the Government of India had declined to give extension in service to Haryana Chief SecretaryMs Shakuntala Jakhu. The Election Commission however approved the proposal of the Hooda Government for extension to the Chief Secretary. Now 1978 batch IAS officer Ms Jakhu has been given two months extension in service till November 30.

Senior IRS (IT) officer Sunil Gupta takes voluntary retirement
Sunil Gupta, senior IRS (IT) officer, has taken Voluntary retirement . The 1987 batch officer served with CBDT as TPL-1 in the rank of Joint Secretary. Yesterday he concluded his three months notice period and marked as last working day in the service.

Ms t Mishra to be Consultant in DG AIR ?
The latest whisper is that Ms Surat Misra , Sociologist & Media Analyst and Former Dy Director(PR) & Chief Protocol Officer ,Directorate General:Doordarshan is being appointed as a Media & PR Consultant in the Directorate General:All India Radio . Ms Misra will handle Social Media & Public Relations . Ms Misra has vast experience in the field of Media/Press/Advertising & Publicity/Public Relations and Protocol.

Chaudhary takes charge as Secretary, Chemicals & Petrochem
Surjit Kumar Chaudhary has taken charge as Secretary, Dept of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers. The 1980 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre previously served as Secretary, National Commission for Minorities.

Takru takes charge as Secy, NCM
Rajiv Takru has taken charge as new Secretary, National Commission for Minorities. The 1979 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre previously served as Revenue Secretary and further as Secretary, DONER.

Subburaj takes charge as Secretary, Pharmaceuticals
V K Subburaj has taken charge today in the morning as new Secretary, Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers. The 1980 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre previously served as Secretary, NACO and further as Secretary, National Commission for Scheduled Castes.

Mrs Johri takes charge as Secretary, Disinvestment
Mrs Aradhana Johri has reportedly taken charge as new Secretary, Department of Disinvestment . The 1980 batch IAS officer of UP cadre previously served as Secretary, Dept of Pharmaceuticals.

Kapil Dev Tripathi is also Secretary, CVC
Kapil Dev Tripathi has been assigned an additional charge of Secretary, Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) for a period of three months. Tripathi has already taken over charge as new Secretary, Department of Public Enterprises He is a 1980 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

Sidhu takes charge as Secretary, Justice
Ms Kusumjit Sidhu has taken charge as new Secretary, Department of Justice. Punjab cadre 1979 batch IAS officer has previously served as Secretary, Public Enterprises.

Madhu Sharma is CVO, HMT Ltd
Ms Madhu Sharma has been appointed CVO of the HMT Ltd, Bangalore. She is a 1986 batch IFS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Deepak Srivastava gets two years extension
CVO Mahanadi Coalfields Sambalpur Deepak Srivastava has been given two years extension in central deputation tenure till 27 August 2016.

Rajinder Kumar appointed Deputy Secretary, Defence
Rajinder Kumar has been appointed as Deputy Secretary under the Ministry of Defence for a period of four years. He is a 2003 batch IES officer of Delhi cadre.

Gupta selected for Director, Water Resources
Rakhee Gupta Bhandari has been appointed as Director under the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation in Government of India. She is a 1997 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre.

Suresh Chandra gets full charge of MD, TSMSIDC
Suresh Chandra has been given full additional charge to the post of Managing Director, Telangana State Medical Services Infrastructure Development Corporation (TSMSIDC). He is a 1985 batch IAS officer of Telanagana cadre.

Orders for R D Chahar as PS to Bhagat soon
As the grapevine has it, the orders for R D Chahar are expected soon as PS to S Bhagat the Union Minister of State for Social Justice. Chahar is 2000 batch officer of DANICS cadre.

Chakraborty re-appointed Chief Secretary of Jharkhand
Sajal Chakraborty has been re-appointed Chief Secretary of Jharkhand.He is 1980 batch IAS officer.

D Thara is new Commissioner Municipal Corporation
D Thara has been appointed Commissioner Municipal Corporation, Ahemdabad. He is 1995 batch IAS officer.


Sunil Kumar Gupta deputed to IRCON as CPM, Delhi
Sunil Kumar Gupta, Director, Research Design and Standard Organisation (RDSO), has been deputed to the post of Chief Project Manager, IRCON International Ltd, Delhi for a period of 3 years. He is an IRSE officer.

DoPT invites applications for CEO (JS), KVIC
The Department of Personnel & Training has invited applications for the post of Chief Executive Officer (Joint Secretary Level), Khadi & Village Industries Commission (KVIC), Mumbai under the Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises. Those willing to apply for this post can send their applications to the DoPT within one month of issuing this circular.

Surrender Singh deputed to IRCON as CPM, Delhi
Surender Singh, Dy/CE, Northern Railways has been deputed to IRCON International Ltd as a Chief Project Manager, Delhi for a period of 3 years. He is an IRSE officer.

IGNFA Director R K Goel retires
R K Goel has retired from the post of Director, Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy (IGNFA), Dehradun. He is an IFS officer of 1977 batch of AGMU Cadre. He headed the Academy for more than two years in the Apex Grade.

Kumaraswamy relieved to join as Joint Secretary, Space
The Government of Delhi has relieved S Kumaraswamy of cadre responsibility enabling him to join the post of Joint Secretary (Administration) in the Department of Space, Bangalore. He is a 1991 batch IAS officer of AGMUT cadre.

Manish Gupta is also Commissioner EDMC, Delhi Govt
Manish Gupta has been assigned an additional charge of Commissioner, East Delhi Municipal Corporation in Delhi Government. He is a 1991 batch IAS officer of AGMU cadre.

Rajeev Chandra Joshi confirmed in IAS
Rajeev Chandra Joshi has been confirmed as Member of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) with effect from September 1996. He is a 1994 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

Mrs Sharandeep Kaur Brar appointed as Administrator, HUDA, Panchkula (UPDATED)
Mrs Sharandeep Kaur Brar has been appointed as Administrator, HUDA, Panchkula in Haryana. She is a 2009 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

IPS Probationers get postings in Rajasthan (UPDATED)
As many as 7 IPS Probationers have been given postings after the completion of training in Rajasthan. Accordingly, Pooja Awana has been posted as Circle Officer, Bharatpur while Rashi Dogra will be Circle Officer, Sriganganagar and Mamta Gupta was made Circle officer Bikaner. Similarly, Adarsh Sidhu has been posted as Assistant Commissioner of Police, Jodhpur; Bhuvan Bhushan Yadav as Circle Officer, Kota; Kiran Kang as Circle Officer, Boranada, Jodhpur and Jay Yadav as Circle Officer, Beawar, Ajmer.

Reshuffle of IAS officers in Andhra Pradesh (UPDATED)
As many as 4 IAS officers have been transferred in Andhra Pradesh. Accordingly, L Prem Chandra Reddy has been posted as Secretary, General Administration (SR) Department while C Sridhar will be now Joint Collector, Guntur and Vivek Yadav was made Joint Collector, Srikakulam. Similarly G Veeranpandhan is posted as Additional Chief Executive Officer, Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP).

Pawan Kumar Agarwal is also Joint Secretary, Skill Development (UPDATED)
Pawan Kumar Agarwal has been assigned an additional charge of Joint Secretary, Department of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship for a period of three months. He is a 1985 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Ravinder Kumar Jain gets additional charges (UPDATED)
Ravinder Kumar Jain has been assigned an additional charge of Additional Secretary and Director General, Central Government Employees and Pensioners Health Schemes and Department of Health & Family Welfare. He is a 1981 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.

12 IRS-IT officers locally shifted (UPDATED)
As many as 12 Indian Revenue Service officers of Income Tax cadre have locally been shifted at Additional/Joint Commissioner level. Accordingly, Chandra Shekhar Angolkar, Hitendra Ninawe and Amitava Bhattacharya have been shifted to CCA, Nagpur while Rajeev Benjwal and Anjala Sahu were transferred to CCA, Andhra Pradesh & Telangana and Gaurav Dudeja was appointed to CCA, Delhi. Besides, Chandrajit Singh has been posted to CCA, Mumbai; K Haritha to PCCIT (IT & TP), Bangalore; S Chennugari Reddy to PCCIT (IT & TP), Mumbai; Shalini Verma to PDGIT (HRD), Delhi; C V Pavan Kumar to PDGIT (IT & TP), Chennai and Ritu Singh Sharma has been shifted to PDGIT(Vigilance), Delhi.

ONGC launches Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in all work centres (UPDATED)
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), has launched a massive cleanliness campaign in its all work centres under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, the largest sanitation initiative, taken up by the Government of India. D K Sarraf, CMD, ONGC has kicked off the mission at Rajahmundry, which is one of its large operational areas in Andhra Pradesh. Sarraf paid floral tribute to the statue of Bapuji Mahatma Gandhi before administering the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan pledge to all the employees. While exhorting the employees to participate in the mission wholeheartedly, Sarraf said clean citizen is a good citizen. "External cleanliness is not sufficient. One should be clean from within," he added. Under the mission, ONGC has plans to take up various initiatives including construction of toilet blocks in 2500 government schools in 26 districts spread over 13 states during the current financial year at a cost of Rs 100 crore. CMD ONGC has launched this novel initiative at MPP School in Pedapalla village in Alamuru Mandal in East Godavari District. The project, named as Swachh Vidyalaya Abhiyan has been taken up in 20 schools by ONGC today. The project has been launched in 2 schools in Ganjam and 8 schools in Gajapati districts of Odisha and in 10 schools near ONGC work centres in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Assam and Tripura. The mission is to achieve total sanitation in India over a period of next five years. A K Banerjee, Director (Finance), Shashi Shanker Director (T&FS), T K Sengupta, Director (Offshore), Ashok Verma, Director (Onshore) and Desh Deepak Misra, Director (HR) spearheaded the Cleaning movement at Delhi, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Rajahmundry and Dehradun respectively. In order to create awareness, ONGC, in its work centres across the country has organized various programmes including Walkathons, slogan writing, press conference etc. to highlight the importance of cleanliness towards improving overall health and environment. Incidentally, ONGC has already signed a tripartite MoU with Archaeological Survey of India and Ministry of Tourism, Government of India for cleanliness and conservation of the iconic historical monument of India Taj Mahal at a cost of 20.75 Crores.

CORPORATE

Two Independent Directors appointed on Board of Ganesha Ecosphere Ltd
Ganesha Ecosphere Ltd has appointed Abhilash Lal and Narayanan Subramaniam as Independent Directors of the company.

Lahoti appointed CS, Balmer Lawrie Investments Ltd
Balmer Lawrie Investments Ltd has appointed Abhishek Lahoti as Company Secretary of the company.

Natarajan ceases to be CFO, Procter & Gamble Hygiene and Health Care Ltd
Karthik Natarajan has ceased to be the Chief Financial Officer of Procter & Gamble Hygiene and Health Care Ltd.

Bhatnagar appointed CFO, Procter & Gamble Hygiene and Health Care Ltd
Prashant Bhatnagar has been appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of Procter & Gamble Hygiene and Health Care Ltd.

Pandey appointed Addl. Director, Virtual Global Education Ltd
Virtual Global Education Ltd has appointed Ms Dipti Pandey as an Additional Director of the company.

Mittal resigns as CS, Blue Coast Hotels Ltd
Ms Neha Mittal has resigned as Company Secretary of Blue Coast Hotels Ltd.

Harish resigns as Non Exec. Director, Valecha Engineering Ltd
Anil Harish has resigned as Non Executive Independent Director of Valecha Engineering Ltd.

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Miss-use of lutynes Delhi is of highest degree

So many Bungalows occupied unauthorisedly and also allotted too. Why political parties, NGOs, trusts, memorials made after Independence which have no historical value have been allotted. To me it seems due to political weights of politicians where civil servant is hand in glove.

Harish Kumar

Is there a conspiracy to kill RTI ?

It is sad to note that the system of RTI has degraded rapidly. What can be more serious than the fact that our learned Information Commissioners are pronouncing judgements under second appeal even without going through the facts and as a result, the judgements become ridiculous. In two recent cases, where RTI applicants were show caused by their disciplinary authorities under Rule 20 of CCS (Conduct Rules), 1964 and Rule 3 (1) (iii) of CCS (Conduct Rules), 1964 treating RTI application as a misconduct, the IC has pronounced as follows:

"The CPIO's action in issuing a memo under CCS (Conduct) Rules (20), 1964 to the appellant for alleged seeking information under RTI is not appropriate. The Competent Authority may look into the matter for taking action against the CPIO concerned as deemed fit."

[References: Appeal No. CIC/DS/A/2013/002115/MP & CIC/DS/A/2013/002160/MP].

Here the fact that the memo was issued by the public authority and not the CPIO and the supervisory officer of the public authority who was also FAA in the case had supported the act of the public authority has been fully ignored. Moreover, in the deliberation the false claim of the public authority that the memo was not issued for making the RTI application has been left un-scrutinised. A mere reading of the memo and its reply makes it clear that the shoe cause was for making the RTI application. Furthermore, the fact that many officials withdrew their RTI application to avoid such show cause was also left unattended. This clearly raises the doubt if there is a conspiracy to kill the RTI.

Anil Oraon

Why loan basis employees of PSUs in Ministries?

They get excess salaries in PSUs for showing performance/growth of department, but posting on loan basis here and there. Every Secretary of each Ministry has to take strict steps against these posting.

Simmi Jain

Dear Sir, Kindly share your views on the upcoming appointments of CMDs in various Public sector banks .e.g. -Who will be take over as CMD of Bank Of Baroda after SS Mundra and by when.?

T C Sharma

It is a matter of pride for all CSS officers that their ex-colleague has risen to such position.

Hearty congrats Mr. Rajesh!

God bless You

Subhash Chander

CGHS Grievance Forum ?

Problems faced by CGHS beneficiaries is a serious issue especially for pensioners. The grievances must be allowed at least to be aired.

Surinder Pal

Cancel all allotments

All bungalows in New Delhi allotted to departed political leaders, their widows, ghosts and sons should be cancelled immediately. One great memorial ,like India Gate can be built (if at all), to commemorate departed Prime Ministers, their widows ,ghosts and sons. Nehrus old house now a museum should become the Prime Ministers Residence in perpetuity. I am sure Nehru would not have approved of turning his official residence into a museum in his name. Nor would Shastri or Indira Gandhi. It is the fearful lackeys who do this, so afraid are they of their leaders vengeful ghosts or should we say holograms?

B S Lamba

"Minimum Government, Maximum Governance ; Its impact on Bureaucracy ".

PM Modi's slogan refers to the need to limit the size of bureaucracy , implying that shrinking the size will lead to better governance. The digital age calls for a slimmer bureaucracy for effective governance? All organized Service in the UOI are undertaking "Cadre restructuring" to improve promotional prospects,not governance. The erstwhile pyramidal structure of government bureaucracy after developing a 'bulging middle' , is now an " inverted pyramid". Consider specifics. Posts are created in IES at higher echelons by DOP&T (Cadre review division) by abolishing posts at junior level to ensure budget-neutrality. Absolute farce. Same logic applies to its sister Service, the Indian Statistical Service (ISS), whose structure has become top heavy over the years without matching workload. Both Services represent the best and the brightest brains in respective domains. But, their talents remain largely untapped. How officers survive without workload,is mystery. Disbanding the Planning Commission has impacted the fate of some 100 serving IES officers.Not easy to absorb them elsewhere on principle of 'Right person for Right job' and absence of requirement . These are not exceptions.The malaise affects all organized Services. A large numbers of posts have been created in IAS, IPS, IRS(Custom & Income tax),the Railways, CPWD and so on, at higher levels, by abolishing posts at lower echelons. It is high time independent studies are carried out ,not by Cadre review Dn of DOP&T, but, by professional agencies like the Price Water House, E&Y etc to fix the optimum strength in all organized Services. The existing practice of filling vacancies in organized Services , year after year,on the basis of threshold analyses , statistical profiles, natural wastage, leave reserves etc , is irrelevant in the context of PM Modi's slogan.

May I urge PM Modi , through this website , to please take the call ,as Minister of DoP&T ?

A K Saxena (A retd civil servant)

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