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When nothing else inspires, History does ! (65)
I trust no one, not even myself.

Perfect "Political romance " !
There seems to be perfect "Political romance" between President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Opponents of both have not been able to digest this relationship.

DEBATE

What is the character of Narendra Modi ?

With Prime Minister Narendra Modi becoming the third most followed world leader on Twitter, next only to US President Barack Obama and the Pope, he is being discussed everywhere so much so that people have started comparing him with world leaders of the past. "Is Modi Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Roosevelt or Churchill" ?

What is your opinion ? Mail it to mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com or suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com

BUREAUCRACY

Major bureaucratic reshuffle at Centre on the cards
Grapevine has it that there is going to be a major bureaucratic reshuffle at the centre in the days to come.

More than a dozen Secretaries to be changed
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that more than a dozen Secretaries are going to be reshuffled soon.

Sameer Sharma to be JS in DEA !
Sameer Sharma is likely to move to the Department of Economic Affairs as Joint Secretary. He is a 1985 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Sanjeev Kaushik to be ED in IIFCL ?
Sanjeev Kaushik is being tipped to be ED IIFCL. He is a 1992 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.

250 applications for PS post!
About 250 applications have been received for post of PS to Union Minister for Power and Coal. Short listing is going on now.

Changes in Judiciary this week ?
Appointment orders of the High Court Judges are expected to be issued this week.

Railway Minister and his Ministry ?
Grapevine has it that Railway Ministry is trying to stall Railway Minister's initiatives for reforms and justice from favors, corruption, lobbying, vindictiveness, and arbitrariness in dealing with officers transfers and working. Minister has directed Railway Board to form policy for guidance and decisions in transfers and postings in Railways big set up of officers but Board is delaying the same to keep earlier decisions under the carpet. And to continue Boards' supremacy for power! Let's see who prevails?

Tenure of Sinha-II as JS, Civil Aviation ending in Aug
The central deputation tenure of Alok Sinha-II as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Civil Aviation is reportedly coming to an end in August, 2014. He is a 1986 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Both coveted seats of BRPSE are vacant
Many in the corridors of power mark the fact that both the important positions of BPRSE (Board for Reconstruction of Public Sector Enterprises) have been lying vacant. The post of Chairman had fallen vacant after the demise of Dr Nitish Sengupta whereas the post of Secretary fell vacant last month after Swarnmala Rawla repatriated to the state (MP) as Special Commissioner, Coordination.

Orders of R G Rao as Director (Fin), ILK issued
The orders of R G Rao, Sr MGR, RINL, for the post of Director (Finance), Instrumentation Ltd, Kota (ILK) have been issued by the Government of India.
(We said this on Dec 3, 2013)

Atheeq likely to return to parent cadre
L K Atheeq, who is on central deputation since 2007 and presently working as Joint Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs, is expected to return to his parent cadre in August. He is a 1991 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Orders of Rao as Director (Ope), ONGC OVL expected soon
The orders of P K Rao, GGM, ONGC, for the post of Director (Operations), ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) are expected to be issued soon.

Mann deputed as DIG, CISF
Vikram Singh Mann, who is present working as DIG, Greyhounds in Telangana, has been deputed as DIG in Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) under the Ministry of Home Affairs. He is a 1998 batch IPS officer of Andhra Pradesh/Telangana cadre.

Will Singh repatriate to Uttarakhand?
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that Shatrughan Singh may repatriate to Uttarakhand. Having served with PMO as Additional Secretary the 1983 batch IAS officer is said to have fair chances for the coveted slot of Chief Secretary in Harish Rawat Govt.

Rai poised for JS empanelment
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that Anil Kumar Rai may soon be empanelled to be posted to the rank of Joint Secretary or equivalent with Govt of India. He is 1990 batch Indian Forest Service officer of Chhattisgarh cadre.

Executive Dir, IIPM in the pursuit of Director (HR) IOCL
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that Verghese Cherian is in the pursuit of Director (HR), Indian Oil Corporation. Presently Verghese is serving as Executive Director, Indian Institute of Petroleum Management (IIPM). Reportedly, PESB has started its bit to bring the prospective candidates on board soon for selection interview. Guessing would go on as who would win the race.

Dr Krishna empanelled as JS in GoI
Dr Janki Anantha Krishna has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary in Government of India. Dr Krishna is a 1991 batch IP&TA&FS officer.

JS level post falling vacant in Ministry of Mines
A post of Joint Secretary level is falling vacant in the Ministry of Mines in Government of India up to September 2014.

Garg likely to join central deputation
Roopam Garg is expected to join central deputation at Deputy Secretary/Director level in Government of India. He is a 1995 batch Indian Telecom Service officer.

79 Deputy/Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax transferred (UPDATED)
As many as 79 officers in the grade of Deputy/Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax have been transferred and posted at different places. Accordingly, Sudhanshu Dhar Mishra has been posted to Delhi; Y Sesha Srinivas to Andhra Pradesh; Sumit Kumar Varma to OSD, CBDT; Raman Garg to West Bengal; Renuga Devi P to Karnataka; Raghunath and Sanjay Kumar Yadav to Delhi; Pooja Swaroop to Mumbai; Raja Sengupta to West Bengal; K T Vijay Lakshmi to Karnataka; R S Ambedkar to Delhi; Arvind Sudarshan to North West Region (NWR); Dinesh Chourasia to Mumbai; Priyadarshi Misra to Orissa; Rakheenisha Oraon to Bihar & Jharkhand; Rohini D to Tamil Nadu; Rohit Raj to Bihar & Jharkhand; Saratha G to Kerela; V K Chaturvedi to Gujarat; Naresh Kumar Bansal and Ram Kishan Meena to Delhi; Pratap Narayan Sharma to Bihar & Jharkhand; Swati Agarwal to MP & Chhatisgarh; Neeju Gupta to Andhra Pradesh; ABS Shalini to North-West Region (NWR); Kanika Aggarwal to Andhra Pradesh; Sema Dhankar to North-West Region (NWR); Sonal L Sonkavde to Mumbai; Raja Ghosh to North-West Region (NWR); Manoj Kumar Singh and Avijit Mishra to West Bengal; R H Sharma, V N Trivedi, A D Wadhwan, Y R Rawal and N J Vyas to Gujarat; Arun Kumar to UP (East); D Prasada Rao to Andhra Pradesh; A K Dubey to UP (East); Ram Pyare Ram to West Bengal; G B Mehta and R B Gohil to Gujarat; Shrinarayan Meena to Delhi; R K Jain and Gurbachan Singh to North-West Region (NWR); S K Iusup Ali to West Bengal; Rajashwari R Menon and Sevaram Sharma to Mumbai; Jayanta Khanra and Utpal Barai to West Bengal; Naresh Kumar Goyal to UP (West); Suhas J Mistry and G J Ninawe to Mumbai; Anil Kabiraj, Sankar Naskar, Debadutta Raut, Phanus Sada, Nima Tshering Sherpa and Norbu Bhutia to West Bengal; Debabrata Dutta to Rajasthan; Vijay Kumar Kataria to North-West Region (NWR); Deenbandhu Pandey to West Bengal; Jagdesh Singh Dahiya to North West Region; Farrukh Shehzad to Nagpur; Bhawna Gulati to Bihar and Jharkhand; Vinod Pawar to Mumbai; Harpal Singh Kharab to North West Region, Suresh R to Karnataka; Vedprakash, Yogesh Kumar Nayar and Bhoop Dev to UP (West); Adarsh Kumar to Delhi; Jaidev Shandilya to Andhra Pradesh; Subhash K and Siddappa to Karnataka; Balibhai J Solanki to Gujarat; Kismat K Budhiraja to Mumbai; M Narsimha Raju to Delhi and T Ayyam Perumal to Odisha.

M Nagaraj selected as Director (Fin & Com), HSL (UPDATED)
M Nagaraj, AGM, ITIL, has been selected for the post of Director (Finance & Commercial), Hindustan shipyard Limited (HSL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on August 19, 2014. As many as five persons were interviewed for the same.

65 IRS-IT officers at Addl/Joint Commissioners of Income Tax level shifted (UPDATED)
As many as 65 officers in the grade of Additional/Joint Commissioner of Income Tax have been transferred and posted at different places. Accordingly, K C Das has been posted to CPC, Bangalore, Ankush Kapoor was appointed to DBC, CBDT, Delhi and Navnet Manohar is moved to Delhi CCA. Similarly, Vinod Johri, S K Jain, Rinku Singh, Rajeev Ranka, Vivek Sharma, P K Banerjee have been shifted to Delhi CCA; Shobhan Kar to CBDT, Delhi; Riddhi Dassani to JCIT, CBDT; Kiran Kumar P and Sr Satyasai Rath to Karnataka & Goa; Jitendra Madhav Rao Yadav, Peeyush Sonkar, M Salman Khan to Mumbai CCA; Dr Narendar Rebelly to Pr CCIT (ITTP), Bangalore; Praveen S to Pr CCIT (ITTP), Bangalore; Gargi Sharma, Anusha Khurana, Gaurav Dudeja, Anurag Sharma, Dayainder Sidhu and Anshuman Sharma to Pr CCIT (ITTP), Delhi; Anjala Sahu and Nikhil Kumar Govila to Pr CCIT (ITTP), Hyderabad; Sujit Kumar to Pr CCIT (ITTP), Kolkata; Ashish K Heliwal, Dr Manju Nath Karkihalli, Chandra Jit singh, Sanjeev Jain, Rampriya Raghavan, Dr S Pandian and T Roumuan Paite to Pri CCIT (ITTP), Mumbai; Rajib Jain and Shelja Rai to Pune; Namita S Pandey, KVK Singh, Anant Prakash, Gudrun Nehar, Sunil Kumar Yadav, Ritu Singh Sharma, Mahesh Thakur to Pr DGIT, Delhi; Shumana Sen, Saroj Kumar Dubey, Arun Kumar Gurjar to Pr DGIT (Legal& Research), Delhi; Vijay Kumar Jiwani, Jaishree Sharma, Mrityunjoy Barnwal, Vipul Agarwal, Arun Kumar Yadav, Yamini Rajesh Chandra to Pr DGIT (System), Delhi; A Sundrarajan to Pr DGIT (Vig), Chennai; Banita Devi Naorem, Salil Mishra, Padam Singh, Balvinder Kaur, Rakesh Kumar to Pr DGIT (Vig), Delhi; Arun Kumar, Tushar Dhawal singh and Manish Kanojia to Pr DGIT (Vig), Mumbai and Hemant Kumar Chimanlal Leuva and Badrinath Yamaji Chavan were posted to Pune CCA.

4 IAS officers of Telanagana attending MCTP at LBSNNA (UPDATED)
Four officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) of Telangana cadre have been deputed for the participation in the Mid Career Training Programme (Phase III) (MCTP) being conducted at LBSNAA, Mussoorie from August 18 to October 10, 2014. The officers include: E Sridhar, I Samuel Anand Kumar, A Sreenivas and Goreela Suvarna Panda Das.

Jawwad Ahmad Khan deputed as Finance Officer, AMU (UPDATED)
Jawwad Ahmad Khan has been appointed as Finance Officer in the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh on deputation for a period of five years. He is an IRS-IT officer.

Sandeep Kumar Mishra posted as DCIT, CBDT (UPDATED)
Sandeep Kumar Mishra has been posted as DCIT (OSD) in the TPL-IV Division in CBDT. He is an IRS-IT officer.

R Kesavan succeeds H Kumar as ED, HPCL (UPDATED)
R Kesavan has been appointed as Executive Director(ED), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) in place of H Kumar who joined as Managing Director, Mangalore Refineries & Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL).

Joint IoFS and IDAS officers training programme begins at Nagpur academy (UPDATED)
A first joint training programme of Group 'A' Officers of Indian Ordnance Factories Service (IOFS) and Indian Defence Accounts Service (IDAS) for 34 days was inaugurated at National Academy of Defence Production, Ambajhari, Nagpur. Arunava Dutt, Financial Advisor (Defence Services) was the Chief Guest on the occasion. P Mishra, Senior Principal Director, NADP welcomed Chief Guest. S Yamdagni, Member/ Personnel, Ordnance Factory Board, Kolkata, M Anjaneyulu, Pr. Controller of Accounts (Factories), Kolkata graced the occasion among other dignitaries who were present. In his welcome address P Mishra, Sr. Principal Director, NADP lauded the vision of MC Bansal, Chairman & Director General Ordnance Factories and Arunava Dutt, Financial Advisor (Defence Services) for giving thought and shape to the programme. He exhorted the probationary Officers to strive for mutual understanding and appreciating the need for jointly putting efforts to achieve the targets. M Anjaneyulu, Pr. Controller of Accounts (Factories), Kolkata shared his thoughts about the existence of two important establishments and the need for synergy of efforts.

ACC clears file of Langstieh for Chairman, DVC (UPDATED)
The Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) is reported to have cleared the file of A W K Langstieh for the post of Chairman, Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC). The post has been lying vacant since December 1, 2013. Langstieh is an IA&AS officer.
(We said this on September 11, 2013)

Cadre of Girish Dayalan transferred to Punjab (UPDATED)
The cadre of Girish Dayalan from J&K to Punjab has been transferred. He is a 2011 batch IAS officer of J&K cadre

Madhukar Sinha posted as ED, Railway Board (UPDATED)
Madhukar Sinha, who is presently in Eastern Railway, has been posted as Executive Director (Innovation), Railway Board. He is an IRAS officer.

S B Singh to remain as Bhopal Divisional Commissioner (UPDATED)
The transfer orders of S B Singh from Bhopal Commissioner to Secretary, Home department in Madhya Pradesh have been cancelled. He is a 1993 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

R K Mathur posted as Secretary, Home in MP (UPDATED)
R K Mathur, who was earlier posted as Bhopal Divisional Commissioner from Sagar Division, is now being appointed as Secretary, Home in Madhya Pradesh. He is a 1995 batch IAS officer.

CORPORATE

Rajkumar appointed Independent Director, Lambodhara Textile Ltd
Lambodhara Textile Ltd has appointed Meenakshi Sundaram Rajkumar as Independent Director of the company.

Radia resigns as Director, Lambodhara Textile Ltd
Girish Gordhandas Radia has resigned as Director of Lambodhara Textile Ltd.

Bachaalani appointed MD, Colgate Palmolive (India) Limited
Colgate Palmolive (India) Limited has appointed Issam Bachaalani as the Managing Director of the company w.e.f. October 1, 2014

Ms Parameswaran promoted as President Colgate Palmolive (India) Ltd
Ms Prabha Parameswaran, the current Managing Director of Colgate Palmolive (India) Limited has been promoted as the President of company's Africa and Eurasia Division.

Reddy assigned addl. charges as Director (Operations) & Director (Finance), HMT Ltd
P Sivarami Reddy, Managing Director of HMT Bearings Ltd has been assigned additional charge as Director (Operations) and Director (Finance) of HMT Ltd.

Challu appointed Independent Director, NCC Limited
NCC Limited has appointed Ms Renu Challu as Independent Director of the company.

Kanodia resigns as Independent Director, SPML Infra Limited
Amit Kanodia has resigned as Independent Director of SPML Infra Limited.

Narasimham resigns as Independent Director, CORE Education & Technologies Limited
Pundi L Narasimham has resigned as Independent Director of CORE Education & Technologies Limited

Ramanathan ceases to be Independent Director, SCIL
Arun Ramanathan has ceased to be Independent Director of , Shipping Corporation of India Ltd.

Yadav resigns as Director, Mukand Ltd
Amit Yadav has resigned as Director of Mukand Ltd.

Kothary appointed ED, Quest Softech (India) Ltd
Quest Softech (India) Ltd has appointed Dhiren Kothary as an Executive Director of the company.

Two Addl. Directors appointed on Board of Paragon Finance Ltd
Paragon Finance Ltd has appointed Ms Shreya Gupta and Ms Parul Rajgaria as Additional Directors of the company.

Agrawal appointed CS, Metropoli Overseas Ltd
Metropoli Overseas Ltd has appointed Ms Ruhi Agrawal as Company Secretary of the company.

BEML launches Versatile Excavator BE220G
BEML has launched a robust and high performance excavator BE220G recently. This equipment is fitted with ergonomically designed cabin for operator comfort and excellent all-round visibility. The console is provided with state-of-the-art LCD display which constantly monitors all the vital parameters which prevents the minor problems becoming major ones. The operating weight of the excavator is 22800 Kg, powered by 4-stroke, turbo charged, water cooled, direct injection engine with gross power of 110 KW @2100 rpm. BE220G excavator is provided with positive control hydraulics for smooth & effective combined operations, resulting in higher profitability and low operating costs. The features such as least swing radius, travel drive with built-in counter balance valve, swing drive with shock less valve and parking brake results in smooth swing and travel functions, thus improving the operator efficiency. To meet various applications, this model of excavator is offered with FOPS, super 40 ft. and 60 ft. super long front attachments of different arm bucket combinations, Clamp Shell, Rock Breaker, Grappler, Auto Lubrication System and Auto-Fire Detection & suppression system as optional. AC is also offered as optional for improved operator comfort. These attachments and systems make BE220G excavator a versatile machine to handle tough working conditions.

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What is the character of Narendra Modi ? (DEBATE 1)

Modi's strength is that he is a leader, unlike reluctant princes who abhor leadership. He is honest, unlike the scamsters who keep making fast bucks in the name of backwards and dalits. He has a vision unlike the so called secularists whose vision is blurred by vote banks. Unlike those in politics who keep furthering their corporate interests, he has national interest in mind. He talks of development, not of caste and religion. He may have shortcomings, he may not be perfect. But he has a track record of governing and delivering which others do not have.

A K Singh

What is the character of Narendra Modi ? (DEBATE 2)

My views are: "A MAN WITH VISION, SPIRIT, POSITIVE THINKING, WILL POWER AND NATIONAL SPIRIT".

Ved Prakash Rustagi

My phone rang as soon as the Prime minister finished his address from the red Fort"Did you hear Mr. Modi's Speech?"The caller asked.

"Yes ,I have"
"Was it not simply Superb, grand and fantastic"?
" What did you like about it?'I asked the caller.

'Everything, the way he spoke, the things he spoke about, the toilet in schools, cleanliness, Made in India tag, model villages. These are very important and yes of course, I liked his turban too." This was my 13-year old grandson who was excited after listening to Modi. I thought his was a better take on Modi's first independence day speech than many of the Congress-wallahs and leftists who found it pedestrian. Why cannot our politicians be graceful in praising where praise is due even if the person is a staunch opponent.

Aarti Khosla

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