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When nothing else inspires, History does ! (66)
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror and sabotage. This is the war of the future.


Cabinet reshuffle in the offing
A Cabinet reshuffle at the Centre is in the offing. If the sources are to be believed, it can be effected anytime in a week or so.

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

Will Sharma succeed Mathur as CIC ?
If the new Government goes by seniority, Vijay Sharma should succeed Rajiv Mathur as Chief Information Commissioner on August 22. So far no one is sure that the Government would go by convention.

Will Dubey succeed Garg ?
Will CMD of the Canara Bank R K Dubey succeed J M Garg as Vigilance Commissioner in the CVC. One can wait and watch.

Will Ms Karwal succeed Balakrishnan as DEC?
It is reliably learnt that Anita Karwal would succeed R Balakrishnan as Deputy Election Commissioner (DEC) in Election Commission of India. Balakrishnan, 1984 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre, has proceeded on leave. Ms Karwal, 1988 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre, is presently serving as CEO, Gujarat.

Will Ms Singh to return to HP ?
Joint Secretary in the Department of Urban Development , Ms Nisha Singh , is expected to return to the parent Himachal Pradesh cadre. She is a 1987 batch IAS officer.

Prakash to replace Ms Singh ?
Praveen Prakash is expected to replace Ms Nisha Singh as Joint Secretary, Urban Development. He is a 1994 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Tenure of Bishnoi extended
The central deputation tenure of Anuj Kumar Bishnoi as Additional Secretary in the Department of Defence has been extended for a period of three months beyond September 24, 2014. He is a 1981 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

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

Sundareshan quits ?
S Sundareshan, who retired as Heave Industries Secretary and joined as Mission Director (DBT) in the rank and pay of Secretary to the GoI has reportedly resigned He is a retired 1976 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.

Khetan to look after Smart City project
Secretary, Urban Development, Shankar Agrawal, has assigned the job of Smart City, the flagship programme of the Modi Government, to join Secretary C K Khetan. He is a 1987 batch IAS officer of Chhattisgarh cadre.

ACC clears file of Langstieh for Chairman, DVC
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)

Ms Sharma gets six months extension
Joint Secretary, Panchayati Raj in the Government of India , Ms Rashmi Shukla Sharma has been given six months extension in deputation tenure beginning August 14. She is a 1984 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Kesavan succeeds H Kumar as ED, HPCL
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).

M Nagaraj selected for Director (Fin & Com), HSL
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.

Tenure of Mishra as JS, Finance ending in Aug
The central deputation tenure of Prabhat Kumar Mishra as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Finance is reportedly coming to an end in August, 2014. He is a 1993 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Tenure of Sahay as CVO, HAL ending in Aug
The tenure of Anurag Sahay as Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO), Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), is reportedly coming to an end in August, 2014. He is a 1991 batch IRS-IT officer.

Will Sinha repatriate to the state?
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that Amrendra Sinha may repatriate to the state, but only as Chief Secretary. The 1981 batch IAS officer of Uttarakhand cadre is presently serving as Additional Secretary, MSME. Will he?

Gautam Chatterjee moves to Kolkata
General Manager of the ITDC run Hotel Ashoka Delhi, Gautam Chatterjee has been moved to Kolkata to head ITDC Regional Office (East).

First woman GM of Hotel Ashoka
The ITDC has appointed first woman Ms Sudha Chandra as General Manger of the Hotel Ashoka in Delhi. She is presently GM, HRD.

79 Deputy/Assistant Commissioners of Income Tax transferred
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.

65 IRS-IT officers of Addl/Joint Commissioners level shifted

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.

Khan deputed as Finance Officer, AMU
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.

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

Verma poised to be JS empanelment
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that Ashish Kumar Verma may soon be empanelled to be posted as Joint Secretary or equivalent with Govt of India. He is 1992 batch Indian Forest Service officer of MP cadre.

Prakash may be a contender for Director (HR) IOCL
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that Vijay Prakash may also be interviewed for the post of Director (HR), Indian Oil Corporation. He is Executive Director, PR, in the Corporation.

Meena empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
Ram Dayal Meena has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1991 batch IP&TA&FS officer.

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

MHA seeks names for Adviser (Security), GAIL (India) Ltd
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has invited nominations of the IPS officers in the rank of Deputy Inspector General of Police for the post of Adviser (Security) in GAIL (India) Limited on deputation basis at an early date.

Reshuffle of IAS officers in Orissa (UPDATED)
Around one dozen officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Orissa. Accordingly, Mrs Chithra Arumugam has been assigned an additional charge Special Secretary, Water Resources Department and Managing Director, OLIC, Bhubaneswar while Srikantha Kabi will now be Additional Secretary, Finance Department and Debaraj Mishra is Director, OBc, ST & SC Development. Similarly, Anupam Saha has been appointed as Sub-Collector, Baliguda; Nikhil Pavan Kalyan as Sub-Collector, Titlagarh; Manish Agrawal as Sub-Collector, Champua; Vineeth Bhardwaj as Sub-Collector, Dharmagarh; Surendra Kumar Meena as Sub-Collector, Bonei in Sundargarh district; Ms Poma Tudu as Sub-Collector, Jeypore; Gopalbandhu Satpathy as Joint Secretary, Finance department.

7 IAS Probationers get postings in Rajasthan (UPDATED)
As many as seven IAS Probationers have been given postings as Sub Divisional officers after completing training in Rajasthan. Accordingly, Avichal Chaturvedi has been posted to Bhilwara; Himanshu Gupta to Dhaulpur; Namit Mehta to Bikaner (North); Omprakash Kasera to
Baran; Rukmani Riar to Banswada; Siddharth Sihag to Dungarpur and Vikram Jindal to Sawaimadhopur.

Sawant is also CMD, JCTSL in Rajasthan (UPDATED)
Bhaskar A Sawant has been given an additional charge of Chairman and Managing Director, Jaipur City Transport Services Limited (JCTSL), Jaipur in Rajasthan. He is a 1995 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Ex-DGP Karnataka Bidari joins BJP (UPDATED)
Shankar Mahadev Bidari, who served as Bangalore Police Commissioner and DGP, is reported to have joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Karnataka. He is a 1978 batch IPS officer of Karnataka cadre.

CORPORATE

Kumar appointed Director, GSFC
Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited has appointed Raj Kumar, IAS as Director of the company w.e.f. August 8, 2014

Mishra appointed CS, Vindhya Telelinks Ltd
Vindhya Telelinks Limited has appointed Ashok Mishra as Company Secretary of the company.

Ramanathan resigns as Independent Director, SCI
Arun Ramanathan has resigned as Independent Director of Shipping Corporation of India Limited

Sharma resigns as Nominee Director, Paramount Communications Ltd
Ram Kumar Sharma has resigned as Non-rotational Nominee Director of State Bank of India on the Board of Directors of Paramount Communications Limited.

Thakkar resigns as Independent Director, The Ruby Mills Ltd
Dilip J Thakkar has resigned as an Independent Director of The Ruby Mills Limited.

Mandhana appointed CFO, DPSC Limited
DPSC Limited has appointed Laxmi Narayan Mandhana as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the company.

Shah appointed CFO, Onelife Capital Advisors Ltd
Onelife Capital Advisors Limited has appointed Mulraj Shah as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the company

Sharma appointed CS, Gufic Biosciences Ltd
Gufic Biosciences Limited has appointed Santosh Kumar Sharma as the Company Secretary of the company.

Three Independent Directors appointed on Board of DCM Shriram Ltd
DCM Shriram Limited has appointed Dr S S Baijal, Arun Bharat Ram and D Sengupta as Independent Directors of the company.

Babu resigns as Director, Sree Rayalaseema Hi-Strength Hypo Limited
D V Narendra Babu had resigned as Director of Sree Rayalaseema Hi-Strength Hypo Limited.

Hansson ceases to be Director, Birla Ericsson Optical Ltd
Mats O Hansson has ceased to be Director of Birla Ericsson Optical Ltd following his retirement from the company.

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WHAT IS THE CHARACTER OF NARENDRA MODI (DEBATE 1)

Kshetra, Kshetragya, Kurukshetra, Dharmakshetra

Modi is neither Hitler nor Mussolini nor Stalin nor any other such being that Modi haters might imagine. In fact, all these leaders would have failed miserably had they been born in India, for they would have been greeted by gangs stronger than Modi haters. If Modi has to be deciphered, he has to be subjected to Indian idiom and style of governing. Modi so far has been a "Nayak". He is leading by example. He is not exploiting his success for personal aggrandizement. He is in the service of the people. His priority is the underserved sections of the country. He has a vision to take the country to great heights and prosperity, integrity and unity, fraternity and affection, and a strong sovereign nation that inspires the respect of the members of the comity of nations. To understand his being thoroughly, a few hours are required to be spent on the four words mentioned. Dynamism is a constant in India whether one subscribes to it or tries to maintain indifference. Conflicts at several levels are a sign of a vibrant society like India and managing them successfully a sign of good governance. Life in India is a greater conflict than other geographies and that is why it is Mahabharat. In the Mahabharat we are focussed on Lord Krishna and his disciple Arjun more than the best man among the Pandava group: Dharmaraj Yudhisthar. He is the one who answered satisfactorily all the complex questions asked of him by Yaksha. He is the King. His opponent is none other than Dhritarastra- his uncle. The war is between the two groups, one standing for the ethical governance or dharmarajya and the other simply power to govern. One is in the Dharmakhetra, while the other is in the Kurukshetra. All others are individually in their own kshetra (physical being, that is the arena of all human activity, good or bad, ethical or demonic) and everyone has someone to guide in the form of the kshetragya (conscience/soul/God). It looks like Prime Minister Narendra Modi is inspired by Dharmaraj Yudhister, for Dharmarajya is the only way of governing India. It is the fabled Ram Rajya.

M L Gupta

Fall in basic human values

Suresh Kumar's opinion is to be supplemented with insistence on value-education in the Country from primary level. Root cause of corruption is "Fall in basic human values"; that basic human values do not form part of our curricula which has resulted in fall in values in society among one and all. Unless there is denting discernible effect of adverse publicity on the corrupt officer, the punitive anti-corruption laws will not have the desired effect. Let the HRD Ministry note and make efforts to infuse human values at elementary education level.

Vaidyanathan

Minister for Health & FW

Minister for H&FW is failing in their duties to look after the medical problems of CGHS beneficiaries specially pensioners. Article 21 completely puts the onus of providing Medical help to the State but here is the case of CGHS beneficiaries who are unable to get any medical help from the Minister. It was requested long back that Pensioners should be permitted for direct consultation and diagnostic tests in CGHS empanelled hospitals. 2nd that empanelled centers will charge CGHS rates from beneficiaries as long as he holds valid CGHS cards ir-respective of permission. But Minister being doctor is still taking time to decide the matter. Both the issue is pending with the Ministry. If nothing moves we can request PM for a solution.

N Prakash

Post technical people on all technical posts

There should be technical people on all the technical post which are occupied by IAS.

Rahul

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