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POLITICS

Who is real brain of AAP ?
Who is the real brain of AAP ? Insiders say that real brain and key person in the AAP is Prashant Bhushan.

BUREAUCRACY

61 IAS officers of 1995 batch empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
As many as 61 officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) of 1995 batch and various cadres have been empanelled for the posts of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. The officers are: Archana Varma, M Ariz Ahammed, Rajesh Prasad, Shakil P Ahamed and B Kalyan Chakravarthy of Assam-Meghalaya cadre; B Venkatesham, Benhur Mahesh Dutt Ekka and Sanjay Kumar of Andhra Pradesh cadre; Arvind Kumar Chaudhary, N Vijaya Lakshmi Nadendla, B Rajender of Bihar cadre; Gaurav Dwivedi and Maninder Kaur of Chhattisgarh cadre; Vatsala Vasudeva, D Thara of Gujarat cadre;Bharat Harbanslal Khera, Rawther Dawood Nazeem of Himachal Pradesh cadre; Vijayendra Kumar and Chander Parkash of Haryana cadre; Ajoy Kumar Singh, Satendra Singh of Jharkhand cadre; Rohit Kanswal, Shailendra Kumar of Jammu & Kashmir cadre; M Sivasankar of Kerala cadre; M Maheshwar Rao, T K Anil KUmar of Karnataka cadre; Ashwini Satish Bhide, Vikas Chandra Rastogi, R L Mopalwar, K H Gvindaraj of Maharashtra cadre; Sachin Sinha of Madhya Pradesh; Ashutosh Jindal of Manipur-Tripura; Abhishek Singh of Nagaland; Hemant Sharma, Sushil Kumar Lohani of Orissa; Jaspreet Talwar, Dilip Kumar, Hussan Lal of Punjab cadre; Praveen Gupta, Sawant Bhaskar Atmaram, Rajeev Singh Thakur, Kunji Lal Meena of Rajasthan; M A Siddique, R Jaya, Sandhya V Sharma, P Senthil Kumar, Hitesh Kumar S Makwana of Tamil Nadu; Ashish Kumar Goel, Bhuvnesh Kumar, Sanjay Prasad, Mritunjay Kumar Narayan, Khatravath Ravinder Naik, Mustafa Mohammad, Amrit Abhijat, R Ramesh Kumar, Santosh Kumar Yadav,Mukesh Kumar Mesharam of Uttar Pradesh cadre; Varsha Joshi, Sajjan Singh Yadav, Anil Kumar Singh of UT cadre and Rajesh Pandey of West Bengal cadre.

Prashant Kumar Mishra appointed as Dy Director, Enforcement
Indian Revenue Service officer of Income Tax cadre, Prashant Kumar Mishra has been appointed as Deputy Director of Enforcement in the Directorate of Enforcement at Goa.

Ashwani Soni selected as Director (Proj), EIL
Ashwani Soni, ED, EIL, has been selected for the post of Director (Project), Engineers India Limited (EIL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on February 14, 2014. As many as 12 persons were interviewed for the same.

Ramakrishna joins as CEO, HLL Life Ltd
Rama Ramakrishna has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of HLL Lifecare Limited in place of E A Subramanian, who joined as Managing Director, Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Limited (BCPL).

Ms Ratna Prabha to return to Karnataka
Additional Secretary Women and Child Welfare, Ms K Ratna Prabha , is returning to the parent Karnataka cadre. She is 1981 batch IAS officer.

Pradeep Shoury Arya gets Best Electoral Practices award
Indian Revenue Service officer, Capt. Pradeep Shoury Arya, presently posted as Joint Commissioner Income Tax, Karnataka, has been conferred with the Prestigious National Award of "Best Electoral Practices" by the Election Commission of India.

Prasad re-designated as Director
Jai Nath Prasad has been redesignated as Director in the Department of Public Enterprises .He is 1998 batch CPES officer.

Rastogi appointed Dy. FA BSF
Rahul Rastogi has been appointed as Deputy Financial Adviser (Director level) in Border Security Force (BSF), Chandigarh. He is 1990 batch ITS officer.

Bawja appointed as Director, PIB in New Delhi
Y K Bawja has been appointed as Director (M&C), PIB, New Delhi. He is an officer of Indian Information Service (IIS).

Dr Kamal Kishore Singh may join central deputation
Dr Kamal Kishore Singh is likely to join central deputation at Deputy Inspector General level. He is a 1996 batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre.

SCI Director, J N Das retiring in April
J N Das, Director (Liner & Passenger Services), Shipping Corporation of India Limited (SCI), is due to retire on April 30, 2014. Capt. Sarveen Narula, SVP, SCI, is expected to succeed him in May, 2014.

100 IAS and IPS transfers in UP
There have been over one hundred IAS and IPS transfers in Uttar Pradesh during the past one month.

Former Jharkhand DGP to contest election
Former Jharkhand DGP V D Ram is likely to join the BJP to contest Lok Sabha polls from Palamu constituency.

Uttar Pradesh DGP to retire
Uttar Pradesh DGP Rizwan Ahmad is retiring by this month end. He is a 1978 batch IPS officer.

Applications for ED, FCI Kolkata invited
The Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions has invited applications for the post of Executive Director (East), Food Corporation of India (FCI), Kolkata under the Department of Food & Public Distribution. Those willing to apply for this joint secretary level post can send their applications to the Ministry within one month.

Three Andhra Pradesh officers to attend world meet at Toronto in March
Two officers K Pradeep Chandra, Sabyasachi and Dr T Rama Krishna Rao belonging to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) of Andhra Pradesh cadre and Dr T Rama Krishna Rao of IRTS posted in AP Government are scheduled to attend a Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC)-2014 being held in Toronto in order to study best practices in mining industry worldwide from March 2 to 5, 2014.

C-TRAM to hold national seminar on March 3
Centre for Transportation Research & Management (C-TRAM), an autonomous body of transport professionals - recognized by the Ministry of Railways, is organising its next National Seminar on 'Role of Information-Technology in Rail Services-Present and Future' on March 3, 2014 at National Rail Museum, New Delhi.

Vivek Wadekar appointed as CIT (ITAT)-7, Delhi
Indian Revenue Service officer of Income Tax cadre, Vivek Raghunath Wadekar, on return from deputation, has been appointed as CIT (ITAT)-7, Delhi.

Two IRS-IT officers get additional charges
Two officers of Indian Revenue Service of Income Tax cadre have been given additional charges. Accordingly, M Tirumal Kumar has been assigned an additional charge of CIT, Mysore (CCA Bangalore) while Arun C Bharat gets the charge of CIT (Audit)-I, Chennai.

Reshuffle of IAS officers in Orissa
Some officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Orissa. Accordingly, Vishal Dev has been appointed as Commissioner-cum- Secretary, Industries with continuing as CMD of IDCO and IDCOL while Parag Gupta will now be Principal Secretary, Public Enterprises and Dr Krishan Kumar is Vice-Chairman of Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) and Commissioner of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC). Besides, Prem Chandra Choudhury has been appointed as the Collector of Ganjam district.

Bhadru Maloth posted as Cane Commissioner in AP
Bhadru Maloth has been appointed as Director, Sugar and Cane Commissioner, Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh. He is an ITS officer.

Transfer orders of Dr Prakash as Spl Commissioner GHMC canceled in AP
The transfer orders of Dr Jyoti Buddha Prakash as Special Commissioner, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), Hyderabad, have been cancelled and he will retain in the post of Mission Director, National Rural Health Mission. He is a 2002 batch IAS officer of AP cadre.

DEBATE

WILL AAP Party get fractured ?
There is a saying "If you want to start a journey of 1000 miles begin with a single step ". Will the AAP Party get fractured by running very fast ?
Mail your views to + mehrotra.suresh @gmail.com or suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com

CORPORATE

Mathur appointed CMD of EXIM Bank
Yaduvendra Mathur has been appointed new CMD of the Export-Import Bank of India (EXIM Bank). He is a 1986 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.
(We said this on Dec 19, 2013 and Feb 12, 2014)

Mishra appointed Addl. Director, Melstar Information Technologies Limited
Melstar Information Technologies Limited has appointed Ramprakash Murlidhar Mishra as an Additional Director of the company.

Alagh steps down as Non Exec. Director, Tata Chemicals Limited
Dr Yoginder K Alagh has stepped down as Non-Executive Director of Tata Chemicals Limited on attaining the age of 75 years .

Bali appointed Independent Non Exec. Director, CRISIL Limited
CRISIL Limited has appointed Ms Vinita Bali as an Independent Non Executive Director of the company.

Ahluwalia resigns as Director, Ahluwalia Contracts (India) Limited
Vikaas Ahluwalia has resigned as Director of Ahluwalia Contracts (India) Limited with immediate effect.

Rasheed re-appointed Whole-time Director, Alpine Housing Development Corporation Limited
Alpine Housing Development Corporation Limited has re-appointed Syed Abdul Rasheed as Whole-Time Director of the company w.e.f. March 1, 2014 .

Ramanna ceases to be MD, Crest Animation Studios Limited
Ms Seemha Ramanna has ceased to be the Managing Director of Crest Animation Studios Limited.

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DEBATE (1)
I don't know why reach to reach reasoning. AAP has just formed a govt. Give them some time to understand the functioning of Govt.

Capt Pratap Singh

Meira Kumar as PM?
Will it happen? If yes, Congress will be a gainer, which has, otherwise, failed on this front since its existence and lost considerable amount faith of secular minded people and also of Dalits in particular. That is one of the reasons, several Dalit political students left Congress and formed their own parties so that they rise to Chief Minister's position at their own and try to reach the top political position of PM one day. Meira Kumar's first positive, in the present political scenario, is being from a non-Gandhi family, then, a woman, a civil servant, diplomat, politician, social worker, and now Speaker, LS, is a superb combination for Prime Minister's post, given her excellent credentials.

Singh R K

Modi should take all safety precautions before meeting foreigners
When the US Ambassador Ms Nancy Powell called on Narendra Modi recently, there was speculation whether she was subjected to strip and cavity searches or not, as Modi belongs to the Z category of security. This would have been quite in order and a strictly reciprocal gesture. We must not forget that David Headley was a US agent and the brain behind the Mumbai terrorist attack. It is also now accepted that Ishrat Jehan was a terrorist and there were plans to eliminate Modi. Keeping these facts in view, it would be better for Modi to take all safety precautions before meeting foreigners.

D Choudhury

FM failed to increase number of tax payers

True that the Finance Minister is going to present vote on account on Feb 17, 2014 without much emphasis on tax collection as it is not full budget. FM failed to increase number of tax payers significantly whose taxable income is more than 1 crore, the figure could not go to 42 lakhs. It is not that FM cannot do it but he never wanted to do it as still IT department chases the cases like if some one is in receipt of interest more than 50,000/-. It is not clear by which logic it is taxable income for a non-working elderly people who have deposited their savings in FD only for their survival. It is just harassment. For such people notices are being sent. It means there is deliberate move not to touch high income group people. Why data for people having cars costing more than 20 lakhs have not been compiled and notices sent for their real income. If some one spends more than 2 lakhs in a year thru credit card, a notice is sent but not those earning more than 1 crore for a single show or single stage performance. List of people driving Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Land cruiser, Bentley, Porsche, Maserati, Aston Martin, Jaguar etc. still not available with IT department. People stayed in five star hotels in last two years still not being compiled but some one has shares of 1 lakh of a company is being chased. Where we are moving? Is FM aware how much loss of revenue due to low invoicing during imports. Recent media report has shown item costing 2000 is being shown as 20 rupee item. Submission to FM re-orient officials in more meaningful work for collection of taxes. The remedy to all the ills in tax collection is collection of the information/Data on higher spending, stay in five star hotels, higher bank transactions in cash as well through cheques and bank transfers, purchase of high value cars, list of people getting high value amounts for shows etc. If this Data is compiled sincerely and correctly, I am sure IT Department can trace and fine lot of tax evaders and get revenues too.

Harish Kumar

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