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POLITICS
When nothing else inspires History does! (121)
I have no sympathy with the professional economists who insist that
things must run their course and the human agencies can have no influence
on economic ills.
Now entire pressure on Karnataka!
After the defeat of Congress in Maharashtra and Haryana, there
is financial crisis in the AICC. Now, the entire pressure of funding
is on Congress ruled Karnataka.
BUREAUCRACY
32, 1984 batch IPS officers empanelled
As many as 32 officers belonging
to Indian Police Service (IPS) of 1984 batch have officially been empanelled
for the post of Additional Director General of Police or equivalent
in Government of India. Officers include: Vinson M Paul of Kerala cadre;
Gurbachan Singh of Odisha; Dharmendra Kuamr of AGMUT; Rajni Kant Misra
of UP; Sudeep Lakhtakia of AP; S Javeed Ahmed of UP; Mukesh Sahay of
AM; Dr A P Maheshwar; K Rajendra Kumar of J&K; Samant Kumar Goel
of Punjab; Somesh Goel of Himachal; V K Johri of MP; Arvind Kumar of
AM; Maithili Sharan Gupta of MP; Santosh Macheria of MT; Rakesh Asthana
of Gujarat; Pradeep Kumar of AM; S S Deswal of Haryana; Anil Kumar Sharma
of Punjab; Nand Kishore of Rajasthan; Prit Pal Singh and Y C Modi of
AM; D K Pandey of Jharkhand; Dr Krishna Swaroop Dwivedi and Rajesh Ranjan
of Bihar; Arun Kumar Sinha of Kerala; Subesh Kumar Singh of UP; Ramesh
P Singh of Odisha; P Mallan Goud of MT; Mrs Sutapa Sanyal of UP; Prem
Shankar Meena of Karnataka and Amar Kanti Sarkar of West Bengal cadre.
(We said this on Oct 20, 2014)
Postings of 17 CCITs in a day or two
New postings of 17 Chief Commissioners of Income Tax is likely to take
place in a day or two.
Kulbir Krishan is senior most serving IPS officer
Now Kulbir Krishan appears to be the senior most serving IPS officer
in the country. He is a 1976 batch IPS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
Abhay appointed as IG, BPR&D
Abhay has been appointed as Inspector General in Bureau of Police Research
& Development (BPR&D) in Government of India. He is a 1986 batch
IPS officer of Odisha cadre.
Dubey to continue as Chairman of CIL
A K Dubey, Additional Secretary in the Coal Ministry, will continue
till a fulltime Chairman is appointed.
Sarkar takes over as CEO, NSPCL
Manash Sarkar has taken over the charge as CEO, NSPCL, a Joint Venture
of NTPC and SAIL. A Mechanical Engineer from Jadavpur University Sarkar
joined NTPC as 3rd batch of ETs. He has around 35 years of rich experience
in NTPC in various capacities including that of BUH- Auraiya , BUH-
Rihand , MD-RGPPL and ED(Corporate Communication) and ED to CMD -NTPC.
75 posts of Judges vacant in Allahabad HC
Even with the oath freshly administered to its 85th Judge, Allahabad
High Court has 75 posts of Judges to offer.
2 posts of Inspector General in BSF vacant
Two posts of Inspector General, Border Security Force (BSF), have been
lying vacant.
Jain likely to join as CVO, CPSE
Sanjay Jain is expected to join central deputation at Director level
as a Chief Vigilance Officer(CVO), Central Public Sector Enterprises(CPSE).
He is a PSE Officer.
Bashal likely to join central deputation !
Manmohan Kumar Bashal is expected to join Central deputation at Inspector
General level post. He is a 1990 batch IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh
cadre.
Dinesh Kumar Gupta likely to join central deputation
Dinesh Kumar Gupta is expected to join central deputation at Deputy
Secretary/Director level in Government of India. He is a 2000 batch
Indian Telecom Service officer.
Six AIS officers get additional charges in Rajasthan
One IFS officer and five IAS officers have been given additional charges
in Rajasthan. Accordingly, Savita Anand (IFS) has been given additional
charge as Controller of Properties, Office of Resident Commissioner,
New Delhi while Gurjot Kaur gets charge of Principal Secretary, Department
of Minority Affairs and Wakf Board, Jaipur and Deepak Upreti got charge
of Principal Secretary, Medical Education Department, Jaipur. Similarly,
D B Gupta is assigned Additional charge of Principal Secretary, Sports
and Youth Affairs Department, Jaipur; Ajitabh Sharma of Chairman, Indira
Gandhi Canal Board, Jaipur and Ravi Shankar Shrivastava of Commissioner,
Departmental Enquiries, Jaipur.
5 IAS officers of Rajasthan to attend Mid Career Training Program
Five IAS officers of Rajasthan cadre have been deputed to undergo Phase-V
of the Mid Career Training Program being held fromOctober 27 to November
28, 2014. The officers are: Rashmi Priyadarshni, Khemraj Chaudhary,
Jagdish Chandra Mohanty, Madhukar Gupta and Sanjay Dixit.
Orders of Tripathi as Member (Tech), DVC issued
The orders of R P Tripathi, AGM, NTPC, for the appointment as Member
(Technical) in the Board of Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) have been
issued by the Government of India.
(We said this on February 12, 2014)
M Ravi Chandra appointed as MD, AP Foods
M Ravi Chandra has been appointed as Managing Director, AP Foods in
Andhra Pradesh. He is a 1996 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.
Mrs Manisha Kinnu promoted as JCIT
Indian Revenue Service officer of Income Tax cadre, Mrs Manisha Kinnu
has been promoted to the grade of Joint Commissioner of Income Tax.
CORPORATE
Poundrik appointed Director, HPCL
Sandeep Poundrik Joint Secretary (Refineries) has been appointed as
a Director on the Board of Directors of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation
Limited.
Singh ceases to be Director, HPCL
R K Singh has ceased to be a Director on the Board of Directors of Hindustan
Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL).
Shroff appointed Independent Director, GGCL
Gujarat Gas Company Limited has appointed Ms Manjula Shroff as an Independent
Director of the company.
Joshipura re-appointed MD, SKF India Ltd
SKF India Limited has re-appointed Shishir Joshipura as Managing Director
of the company
Mishra appointed MD, Worth Investment &
Trading Co Ltd
Worth Investment & Trading Co Ltd has appointed Rakesh Kumar Mishra
as Managing Director of the company
Alphonso resigns as Director, OTCO International
Ltd
Francis I Alphonso has resigned as Director of OTCO International Ltd
Ms Kesari resigns as Director, Schneider Electric
Infrastructure Ltd
Ms Rajani Kesari has resigned as Director of Schneider Electric Infrastructure
Limited
FORUM
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views of our surfers as they are their personal opinion. However, we
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indirectly, in presenting their views. Instead of countering the views
which ‘X’ has already expressed, our contributors are advised
to present their own views. Also be brief, say about 200 words at the
most since any views longer than that if eliminated at our end would
carry the risk of the contrbutor’s item losing its original essence)
Politics in education sector a serious threat
It is the ultimate disgrace for our education system a VC getting arrested!
That is also one in of the most progressive states in India, Karnataka.
The cancer of politics has spread everywhere not sparing even our education
system thus ruining the future of our nation. It is not long back the
VC of Mahatma Gandhi(be peace up on him) University in Kottayam in the
so called most literate state in the country, Kerala, was dismissed
for tampering with his biodata. There was a time when universities used
to plead with outstanding persons to honour them by accepting VCships.
But now a days people with bio-datas some even fraudulent and with political
support are running after VCships, In Kerala Vcships and syndicate memberships
are divided between political parties. Only a Christian nominee of a
communal outfit can only be the VC of MG University. Calicut University
is earmarked only for Muslims nominated by Muslim League. Recently an
outstanding lady who has a doctorate from IIT and was a former Principal
of College of Engineering in Trivandrum and also a former Director of
Technical educations was appointed(perhaps by oversight) as VC of Kochi
University. The local Congress MLA is on fast against this appointment.
Unless our education system is cleaned of political interference, future
of our students is at stake.
N Krishnan
Ban purchasing of calendars
Purchasing Government Calendars and Diaries should be banned by Statutory/PSUs/Autonomous
Bodies.
Sunil
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DATE WITH RTI
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First Appellate Authority should give a hearing to the appellant
if asked
The Appellant had filed two separate RTI applications. In one
of these applications, he had wanted the details of all the files
in the possession of the Department on the subject of RTI, appointment
of the CIC and Information Commissioners, sanction of staff for
the CIC including an independent Pay and Accounts Officer, the
amount of money collected in all these years by way of RTI fees
and penalty imposed and recovered. In the other application, he
requested for the copy of the order/notification by which the
Search Committee was constituted for shortlisting candidates for
appointment as Information Commissioners in the CIC, the next
date of the meeting of the Search Committee etc.. In both these
applications, he had requested for permission to inspect all the
relevant files. In respect of his first application, the PIO offered
the copies of the correspondence part of two of the relevant files
on payment of photocopying charges. However, in respect of the
remaining information, he had not provided any information on
the ground that the collection of the information would disproportionately
divert their resources. In regard to second application, the PIO
observed that since the Search Committee had been constituted
by the Cabinet Secretariat, his RTI application was being transferred
u/s 6(3) of the RTI Act. The First Appellate Authority endorsed
the response of the PIO in both the cases. The Appellant argued
before the CIC that the information regarding the constitution
of the Search Committee for shortlisting of candidates for the
post of Information Commissioners in the CIC was available in
the DoPT at the time of his RTI application but, even then, the
PIO had chosen to transfer the RTI application to the Cabinet
Secretariat for the latter only to send it back. He also complained
the PIO did not produce all the relevant files before him for
his inspection and did not even facilitate the inspection of whatever
files he had himself placed before him. He also alleged that the
First Appellate Authority had disposed of the appeals without
much application of mind and by merely endorsing the response
of the PIO. The PIO and the First Appellate Authority disagreed
with the appellant's version and said that the sheer number of
RTI applications and appeals handled in their division was so
voluminous and huge that it was almost impossible to manage it
within the time lines prescribed under the RTI Act. The CIC disapproved
the approach of the PIO and observed that the PIO could have given
a more detailed response justifying his conclusion that providing
such information would disproportionately divert the resources
of the Department by stating the exact number of files in question
and likely man-hours required to assemble them. The CIC further
held that the PIO was totally wrong in transferring the RTI application
regarding search committee to the Cabinet Secretariat as the entire
information was available in the Department itself. The First
Appellate Authority was cautioned to be more careful in future
in dealing with appeals.
Comments
It is not enough for the First Appellate Authority (FAA) to reproduce
the contents of the RTI application and the reply of the PIO.
The FAA must pass a speaking order justifying her decision in
each case. Wherever the Appellant wants personal hearing, he should
be given that opportunity.
Citation: Shri R K Jain v. PIO, Cabinet
Secretariat, Rashtrapati Bhawan in File No.CIC/SM/A/2012/000784
& 786
Weekly article by Dr 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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