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POLITICS

Who will be biggest loser in UP and Bihar ?
Who is going to be biggest loser in UP and Bihar in the Lok Sabha polls ? Most of the people say " Mulayam Singh Yadav in UP and Nitish Kumar in Bihar ".One can only wait and watch.

Official tours or "Ayyashi"?
Do Secretary level officers in the Government of India travel by train between Delhi and Chennai during official tours? Yes in railways they do for the family is to travel free in opulence and large gifts given by worthy subordinates can only be carried in the maharajah style saloons nominated for each board member/CRB. It is heard that the CBI/CVC is investigating the movement of all such saloons for the last one year and saloon movements are being monitored at the saloon siding at New Delhi station. Will this culture of loot till the end ever end in railways?

BUREAUCRACY

GoI ensures two years postings of IAS, IPS, IFS at one place
The Government of India (GoI) has made mandatory at least two years postings of officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Forest Service (IFS) in their respective cadres and at centre at one place. As result, the officers will be able to render their services minimum two years at one place and will not face transfers in shortest period.

D C Sharma may soon be appointed as Chairperson, CPCB
As the grapevine has it D C Sharma may soon be appointed as the new Chairperson of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), MoEF, Government of India. Reportedly, Sharma is the single close contestant from private sector.

Malhotra to be appointed full-time Secretary, Legal Affairs
P K Malhotra, the incumbent Secretary, Department of Legislative Affairs, is tipped to be appointed as full-time Secretary of Dept of Legal Affairs. Malhotra is being seen as the most likely candidate for the slot.

Orders of R Gandhi as Deputy Governor, RBI issued
The orders of R Gandhi for the appointment as Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have been issued by the Government of India.
(We said this on March 26, 2014)

A S Mitra selected as Director (Shipbuilding), HSL
A S Mitra presently in the Ministry of Defense, has been selected for the post of Director (Shipbuilding), Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on April 3, 2014. As many as 10 persons were interviewed for the same.

Suresh Arora appointed DGP of Punjab
The Election Commission of India has appointed Suresh Arora as the Punjab Director General of Police (DGP). He is a 1982 batch IPS officer.

M D Singh is given the charge of DG, Vigilance, CBEC
After Shivendra Singh Rana II found his way to "Authority for Advance Ruling" the charge of DG, Vigilance (CBEC) has been given to Mukut Dhari Singh, an IRS (C&CE) officer of 1979 batch presently serving as DG, CEI, Delhi.

Panel for DG, Vigilance (CBEC) reaches to CVC?
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that the panel for DG, Vigilance (CBEC) has reached to CVC. The panel comprises as many as three IRS (C&CE) officers belonging to 1980 & 1981 batch. The crucially important slot is being filled up vice S S Rana. Guessing game goes on among the insiders and outsiders as well.

Ramasami to hold addl charge of Secy, Scientific & Industrial Research
The additional charge term of T Ramasami as Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research has been extended for one month more. He is presently Secretary, Department of Science and Technology.

Nivedita Shukla Verma gets one year extension
Joint Secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat ,Nivedita Shukla Verma, has been given one year extension in her central deputation tenure.

Countdown starts for Member (Engineering), Railway Board
The fast approaching date of Subodh Jain's retirement has raised the curiosity bars among the spectators in Railway Board as who would get to succeed him as the new Member (Engineering). He is scheduled for superannuation on April 30.

Post of GM, Kolkata Metro lying vacant since months
The crucially important slot of GM, Kolkata Metro has been lying vacant. Presently Rajeev Bhargava (IRSCE) has been carrying out the additional charge. Bhargava, a 1974 batch IRSCE officer, is serving as General Manager, Rail Wheel Factory at Yelhanka since 05th December 2011.

Pandey is new WB's Additional CEO
Rajesh Pandey has been appointed as West Bengal's Additional Chief Electoral Officer (CEO). He is a 1995 batch IAS officer.

Post of Zonal Dir (Jodhpur), NCB all set to fall vacant
As the grapevine has it, the post of Zonal Director (Jodhpur), Narcotics Control Bureau, is poised to be vacant soon. Presently Neha Chanpawat, a 2004 batch IPS officer of Chhattisgarh cadre, is serving in Jodhpur as Zonal Director, NCB.

Neha Champawat to be repatriate to Chhattisgarh
As the grapevine has it, Neha Champawat is all set for repatriation to Chhattisgarh. The 2004 batch IPS officer of Chhattisgarh is presently serving Jodhpur as Zonal Director, Narcotics Control Bureau.

Why appointment of CMD, MMTC delayed ?
Why the appointment of Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD), Mineral & Metals Trading Corporation Ltd (MMTC) is being delayed despite the vacancy since October 1, 2010? However, two persons were short-listed for the post, but the concerned Ministry is yet to take final decision on the same.

Dr Ravi Kanth likely to join as CMD, HUDCO on Apr 11
Dr M Ravi Kanth, CMD, PDIL, is expected to take over the charge as Chairman and Managing Director, Housing & Urban Development Corporation Limited (HUDCO) on April 11, 2014. He is a 1986 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.

(We said this Oct 17, 2013)

Prasad to join as Director (Pers), RINL on May 1
G B S Prasad, ED, RINL, will be joining as Director (Personnel), Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL) on May 1, 2014. He will succeed Y R Reddy retiring April 30, 2014.
(We said this on Oct 11, 2013)

Orders of Ranjan as Director (Fin), CSL expected soon
The orders of D P Ranjan, CGM, CSL, for the appointment as Director (Finance), Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) are expected to be issued by the Government of India in this month.

Post of Director (Tech), NTC lying vacant since Dec 2013
The post of Director (Technical), National Textiles Corporation Limited (NTC) has been lying vacant since December 1, 2013. However, Vivek Plawat, ED, NTC, who was selected for the post, is still waiting for the orders.

Five posts of DS/Dir lying vacant with Dept of Rural Dev, GoI
As against the sanctioned strength of 27 DS/Dir as many as five posts have been lying vacant since months with the Department of Rural Development, GoI. Out of the five posts; 3 posts are for central staffing scheme, one post is for Indian Statistical Services and a post of Jt Director, Official Languages.

Two posts of DS/Dir vacant with Dept of Land resources, MoRD, GoI
As many as two posts have been lying vacant since months with the Department of Land Resources, Ministry of Rural Development, GoI. Out of these two vacant slots one is earmarked for Central Secretariat Service, one post is earmarked for Central Staffing Scheme

Three ADG rank slots lying vacant with CRPF
As many as three slots of ADG have been lying vacant with CRPF. Spl DG J&K sector had fallen vacant afte D K Pathak made it as Spl DG BSF. Spl DG North Zone got vacant after Aruna Bahuguna's appointment as Director, SBPNPA, Hyderabad. And Spl DG North-East Zone has been vacant since June 2013 after C Baslasubramanian made it as the DGP of Tripura.

Nine posts of Judges vacant in Gauhati HC
As many as eight posts of Judges have been lying vacant against approved strength of 24 in Gauhati High Court. Five posts of permanent Judges while four posts of Additional Judges are vacant.

20 posts of Add SP lying vacant in CBI
As many as 20 posts of Additional Superintendent of Police have been lying vacant in Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)

Nine posts of DIG lying vacant in SSB
Nine posts of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) have been lying vacant in Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).

Natrajan to move Jaffna
A Natrajan AHC Kandy has been moved to Jaffna as CG in place of V Mahalingam.

Ms Vidisha Kalra deputed as Joint Director, Admn Staff College, Hyderabad
Indian Revenue Service officer of Income Tax cadre, Ms Vidisha Kalra has been appointed as Joint Director in the Centre for Innovation in Public System at Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad on deputation basis.

PESB seeks applications for Chairman, AAI
Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has invited applications for the post of Chairman, Airports Authority of India (AAI) lying vacant since January 24, 2014. Those willing to apply can send their applications for the post before May 21, 2014.

7 IAS officers transferred in MP
As many as seven officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Madhya Pradesh. Accordingly, Mrs Jayshree Kiyawat has been shifted as MD, Madhya Pradesh State Co-operative Dairy Federation Limited while Neeraj Dubey was also transferred as Additional Secretary, Secretariat, Bhopal and B Chandrashekhar was made Collector, Jhabua. Similarly, Dr Sanjay Goyal has been appointed as Collector, Ratlam; Rajiv Chandra Dubey as Director, Public Health and Family Welfare and ex-officio Deputy Secretary of same department and Director, Practices of Indian Medicines with additional charge Homeopathy; Mrs Shilpa Gupta as Collector, Khandwa and Ms Neha Marvya was posted as SDO, Revenue, Jabalpur.

HAL crosses Rs. 15,000 cr milestone; wins most efficient Navratna award (UPDATED)
HAL has notched-up the highest ever turnover of Rs. 15,180 crores for the FY 2013-14 surpassing the previous year's figure of Rs. 14,324 crores. "We crossed the psychological barrier of Rs. 15,000 crores and the production has been pretty good as we produced 60 aircraft and helicopters, achieved the initial operational clearance (II) of LCA and filed record 209 patents during the year", said Dr R K Tyagi, Chairman, HAL. "We are preparing the company for 2020 and beyond", he added. HAL's Value of Production (VOP) for FY 2013-14, stood at Rs. 15,296 crores as against the figure of Rs. 14,202 crores of the previous year. The operating profit went up to Rs. 1,651 crores in the FY 2013-14 as against Rs. 1,194 crores in 2012-13.In the meantime, HAL received the "Most Efficient Navratna 2013" award at the fifth Dalal Street Investment Journal Awards night held in New Delhi yesterday. HAL Chairman, Dr Tyagi received the award from the jury. The awards were presented to the various PSUs in different categories in recognition of their performance and contribution to the Indian economy. Some of the HAL highlights for the FY 2013-14 included Initial Operational Clearance (IOC) received for Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), sea level, night level and high altitude trials successfully done for IJT, induction of first completely Indian manufactured Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer by INS Dega, Visakhapatnam, dedication of ALH-Dhruv, Garuda Vasudha to the nation for exploration of mineral wealth, contribution of structures for Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) and Crew Module structure assembly for the Human Spaceflight Programme (HSP) to ISRO. Besides the prudent financial management, the company took several initiatives on R&D front, indigenisation, quality, customer support, IT, HR and CSR. HAL played a vital role during the Uttarakhand flood relief operation during July 2013 as its ALH-Dhruv performed effectively in a massive rescue and relief operation, clocking more than 600 hrs of flying.

SAIL registers growth of 7 % in sales in 2013-14 (UPDATED)
SAIL has achieved 7 % growth in sales volume with 12.1 million tonnes (MT) sales in FY'14, as compared to 11.3 MT sales in FY'13. Growth in domestic sales was supported by impressive growth in exports which registered a growth of 28 % at 0.47 MT compared to 0.36 MT in FY'13. Production of saleable steel at 12.9 MT in FY'14 was 4 % higher than FY'13. Continued emphasis on value-added steel production resulted in growth of 6 % with 5.3 MT special quality steel produced in FY'14 as against 5.02 MT in FY'13. Chairman, SAIL C S Verma congratulated the SAIL collective for the remarkable improvement in performance and exhorted them to make 2014-15 an inflection year with operationalising and stabilising majority of the facilities coming up under MODEX for the company during the year. The accomplishment coming at a time when steel industry worldwide is facing stiff challenges, has emboldened the company to plan for a double digit growth in the new fiscal. Projects worth Rs. 10,000 crore have been operationalised by Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) in the financial year 2013-14, thus setting an all-time record for the company. This takes the total operationailsed projects under the ongoing Modernisation & Expansion Plan (MEP) to around Rs. 23,000 crore till date. 2.5 million tonnes (MT) hot metal capacity has been added in 2013-14 and coke-making & sinter-making capacity of SAIL has also been enhanced during the year.

K K Sharma selected as Director (Ope), NTPC Ltd (UPDATED)
K K Sharma, ED, NTPC, has been selected for the post of Director (Operations), NTPC Limited at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on April 4, 2014. As many as 12 persons were interviewed for the same.

D Venkatesarlu appointed as Spl Commissioner, Rural Development in AP (UPDATED)
D Venkatesarlu has been appointed as Special Commissioner, Rural Development (DPAP and Wage Employment) in Andhra Pradesh. He is a 1996 batch IFS officer of Jharkhand cadre and is on inter-cadre deputation to Andhra Pradesh.

CORPORATE

Shoaib Sequeira appointed Independent Director, Tribhuvan Housing Ltd
Tribhuvan Housing Ltd has appointed Shoaib Sequeira an Independent, Non-Executive Additional Director of the company.

Kaul resigns as COO, Skyline Millars Ltd
Nilesh M Kaul has resigned as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Skyline Millars Ltd.

Sreenivas appointed Company Secy. BEL
Bharat Electronics Limited has appointed S Sreenivas as Company Secretary of the company .

Elavia resigns as Director, Insilco Ltd
Keki M Elavia has resigned as Director of Insilco Ltd with immediate effect.

Soni resigns as Company Secy. SRG Securities Finance Ltd
Hitesh Soni has resigned as Company Secretary of S R G Securities Finance Ltd.

Lakhotia resigns as Ditrector, Minda Industries Ltd
Subhash Chandra Lakhotia has resigned as Director of Minda Industries Ltd.

Punja resigns as Director, Apollo Tyres Ltd
M R B Punja has resigned as Director of Apollo Tyres Limited with immediate effect

Roy designated MD, Phillips Carbon Black Limited
Kaushik Roy who is Managing Director, Carbon Black Business of Phillips Carbon Black Limited was designated as Managing Director of the company

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IRS (C&CE) RECRUITMENT
It is unfortunate that M R Sivaraman who was Revenue Secretary more than a decade ago questions the wisdom of Finance minister in ordering new intake of 247 IRS (C & CE) officers in 2014 and 350 in 2015. As RS he always harassed Customs officers as corrupt and displayed dictatorial tendencies and he interfered in to working of officers with grave consequences. He should understand the phenomenal rise of tax revenue, duty foregone, refunds, rebates, seizures and cadre restructuring. He should come out of hate the Non-IAS Syndrome and give his good ideas to TARC established by Government.

Bhatia R K

Election Commission & CBDT
Welcome step taken by CBDT along with EC to scrutinize the IT return of successful candidate in general election. But CBDT should compulsorily scrutinize the IT return of all candidates who are fighting election and ask for the information of last five years compulsorily . Then find out how their wealth has increased in last five years. CBDT being Govt. body and FM may not permit this but with help of EC which is constitutional body may help in this matter for clean politics. It should not be merely to make money and enjoy power. A Govt. servant who enters in Gr"A" service may not earn even one crore in whole service but see these political people earn in crores and crore in less than five years. CBDT to learn the process of earning money and find out the loop holes in tax system, if any. CBDT should spare small tax payers from scrutiny and sending notices but concentrate more in this area. IT department has DRI and research wing to support the activities. Let CPC should complete the ITR returns without referring to local IT fellow. CBDT should also learn how some people started from 200 rupees and made more than 600 crore (media report). Some started business with 2000 rupees and made more than 60,000 crores (media report). How? Whether they have paid due tax or our tax system is failing to tax them as per existing law. These loop holes can be plugged and tax system will be more efficient. This is just submission for EC and CBDT.

N Prakash

CAT's Cause list
Another reason for burgeoning list of cases in CAT is the apathy shown by Information Commissioners on appeals made in RTI matters. At the initial stage of RTI, penalty for non responsiveness was imposed in a number of cases. RTI worked as a tool for grievance redressal and many issues did not need appeal before CAT. CIC has now been rendered toothless and there exists no fear in flouting RTI rules by the PIO. In fact, Public Information Offers openly defy the RTI rules and when approached, CIC decisions on the net would reveal, CIC merely warns the PIO to furnish the information to the applicant.

R Dayal

CAT Decisions

One should agree that decisions decided in favor of Govt. Employees are not implemented and the Govt. instead of solving the problem moves to High Court/Supreme Court. If some one goes to court the departments think otherwise and he is simply made a scape goat by his officers. No body bothers about his mental trauma one goes through. It is high time the superiors in various government departments should be made responsible and the High Court/ Supreme Court should not entertain cases if they are not of fundamental nature. The responsible officers should be fined heavily including entry in their ACR to teach a lesson to Head of the offices.

Majhauli

DATE WITH RTI

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