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What bureaucracy feels about Manmohan Singh's regime ?
There has been a lot of hue and cry over the (mis)rule of the UPA under Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. The alarming defeat of the Congress party in the recently held state Assembly polls has only added fuel to the fire. We invited the decision makers to make their own assessment regarding the above notion about Dr Singh's tenure and found that the majority of them rate his performance as below average.

If RC Pant, a surfer, felt that we do have an Economist in our Prime Minister Dr. Man Mohan Singh but he lacks certain leadership qualities which are very much essential in political arena, another surfer Rajkumar Bajpai said that Manmohan Singh's lack luster performance which resulted in Congress's disgraceful defeats in State Assembly polls has been below average.

Another surfer Ramesh Chhabra however said, "I do not know the economic policies of Dr. Man Mohan Singh. But I will honor him as a great politician who runs the government very smoothly, efficiently & completed his tenure as PM twice".

Yet another surfer RP Pande said, " I would rate Dr ManMohan Singh the worst ever P.M, of India. He has failed miserably in all areas".

By and large the main reasons behind his below average performance, as pointed out by the decision makers who wished anonymity, were

Manmohan Singh, the unelected PM, failed to lead the political and permanent Executive from the front. Unconnected with the masses and usually reticent, he never engaged with the grassroots. Bureaucracy looks forward to an assertive CEO, which he is not.

Dual centres of power. Sonia Gandhi retained charge of politics while leaving governance to Manmohan Singh

As ministers owe allegiance to Sonia Gandhi and their parties' Supremo, the PM is divested of all authority. The PMO is ruled by the Congress High Command. A "bureaucratic caucus" in the PMO transformed all Congress's orders into Cabinet decisions.

Backseat driving by extra-Constitutional authorities subverted legitimate, competent authorities in central government. All top appointments were made, on quid pro quo basis, on recommendations of business houses, builders mafia. Mediocrity is encouraged at the cost of Merit. Honest civil servants are either marginalized or punished.

The PM embroiled in scams, has lost moral authority to question his ministers who have direct access to "high command".

The Congress is a Past master in making compromises with UPA allies in the name of electoral adjustments in exchange of protection from its caged parrot.

Supreme arrogance, insensitivity and incapability of the Congress and its economist PM to check inflation also contributed to his below average performance..

Secretaries and Ministers in GoI
The wind has started blowing and the result is visible. Secretaries in the Government have now started ignoring the calls of the Ministers in the Government of India.

Drop in profit of Coal India
There has been 11.4 per cent drop in net profit of the Coal India ltd for the third quarter ended December at Rs 3,894.09 crore.Net profit was at Rs 4,395.11 crore during the same period a year ago. What a performance ?

BUREAUCRACY

Meeting to select Vigilance Commissioner today
A meeting to select new Vigilance Commissioner in the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) is going to take place on Monday.

Siddharth to be new Chairman of Tea Board !
Siddharth is being tipped to be new Chairman of the Tea Board of India. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Will Sameer Sharma be JS, Fertilizers?
Amid the countdown for Satish Chandra's repatriation, whispers have started doing rounds that Dr Sameer Sharma would replace him in April. The 1985 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre is presently serving as Commissioner, Prohibition & Excise, Government of Andhra Pradesh.

MHA currently has five slots of Spl DG to offer
As many as five slots of Special DG are available for the takers at present; two posts of Spl DG are lying vacant with CRPF, vice Aruna Bahuguna and D K Pathak; one Spl DG post is vacant with CISF, vice R R Verma; one Spl DG post is lying vacant with CBI, vice Salim Ali and a Spl Secretary Internal Security post is already vacant. With the time for the empanelment of 1980 batch officers approaching fast, the calculations have gain momentum again as how many slots MHA has to offer to its officers.

Empanelment of 1995 batch IFS officers soon
Empanelment of 1995 batch Indian Foreign Service officers is expected to take place in a week or two.

Bhanu gets promotion as IG in SSB
Bhanu Upadhyay has been promoted to the rank of Inspector General. The SSB cadre officer served as DIG with Sashastra Seema Bal.

Ms Nandana Munshi deputed as DDG, UIDAI
Ms Nandana Munshi has been appointed as Deputy Director General (DDG) in Regional Office, Ranchi, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) in Government of India. She is an IA&AS officer of 1991 batch.

DoPT refuses to entertain direct applications for cadre change
The applications directly sent by all India Service officers requesting for the change of cadre on the ground of marriage or extreme hardship will not be entertained by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT).

Saleem Ali is new Member of NDMA
Outgoing Special Director CBI K Saleem Ali has been appointed Member of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). He is retired 1978 batch IPS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre

Maj Gen Chandel promoted as Lt Gen
Major General Chandel has been promoted to the rank of Lt General in the Indian Army.

Empanelment meeting for 1984 batch IPS officers not held
Empanelment meeting for 1984 batch IPS for ADG did not take place on February 10. Now no date has been fixed.

Popli to succeed Majumdar as CMD, IREDA on Mar 1
K S Popli, Director, IREDA, will be joining as CMD, Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited (IREDA) on March 1, 2014. He will succeed Debashish Majumdar retiring on February 28, 2014.
(We said this on Sept 5, 2013)

Chandra withdrew repatriation request, continues as Member (Finance) of NHAI?
Satish Chandra has been continuing as Member (Finance) NHAI after he withdrew his request for premature repatriation. He is 1985 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre.

Sadhna Prasad tipped to be PS to MoS for Tribal Affairs
As the grapevine has it, Sadhna Prasad is all set to be appointed as PS to Rani Narah, Union MoS for tribal Affairs. He is a former IPS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre. He would further succeed Prashanth Kumar, a 1991 batch officer of Indian telecom Services, who is now PS to Sarve Sathyanarayana, Union MoS for MoRTH.

Applications for three posts of ADG invited
Competition Commission of India (CCI) has invited applications for three posts of Additional Director General. Those willing to apply can send their applications to the CCI before March 14, 2014.

S K Sadangi appointed as CVO, SER
S K Sadangi presently working as Deputy CVO(S), South Eastern Railway (SER), has been appointed as CVO (G), SER. He is an IRSS officer of 1988 batch.

Physically handicapped IAS officers can change cadre
The officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) appointed against the vacancies reserved for Physically Handicapped (PH) category can apply for the change of their cadres within three months from the date of notification of the cadre allocation to the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) through the parent cadre/LBSNAA.

Rakesh Maria is new Mumbai Police Commissioner
Rakesh Maria has been appointed new Mumbai Police Commissioner. He is a 1981 batch IPS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

PESB to hold interviews for Director (Pers), STCIL on Feb 25
Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has scheduled a selection meeting for the post of Director (Personnel), State Trading Corporation of India Limited (STCIL) on February 25, 2014. Around 15 persons are reportedly being called for the interview.

New office-bearers of UP IAS Association
Amrit Abhijat has been elected President of the Uttar Pradesh IAS Association. Ajay Shukla was appointed treasurer. Mayur Maheshwari and Kamini Ratan Chauhan, among others, were appointed joint secretaries of the association.

Krishna appointed as OSD to Chairperson, CBEC
Indian Revenue Service officer of Customs and Central Excise cadre, Muppalla Murali Krishna has been posted as OSD to Chairperson, Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC).

R C Joshi posted as Director, DAVP, New Delhi
R C Joshi has been appointed as Director, DAVP, New Delhi. He is an officer of Indian Information Service (IIS).

Dr Suresh Kumar Mekala to join central deputation !
Dr Suresh Kumar Mekala is likely to join central deputation at Deputy Inspector General level. He is a 1997 batch IPS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

Pankaj is no more
The 1979 batch retired IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre Pankaj has passed away in Jaipur. He was 61.

61 IAS officers of 1995 batch empanelled 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.

B Vijaya Bhaskar transferred to South Central Railway (UPDATED)
B Vijaya Bhaskar of, SAG/IRTS/Southern Railway has been transferred to South Central Railway.

S. S. Prasad gets additional charges (UPDATED)
Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer S. S. Prasad has been given additional charge of Principal Secretary,Government of Haryana,Archives Department and Rajya Sainik Board. He is a 1984 batch officer of Haryana cadre.

Veenu Gupta gets additional charge (UPDATED)
Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer Ms. Veenu Gupta has been given the additional charge of Managing Director, Finance Commission, Rajasthan. She is 1987 batch officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Dr. Girija Vyas confers HUDCO Design Awards (UPDATED)
Dr. Girja Vyas, Minister for Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) conferred HUDCO Design Awards-2013 to winning participants at a function organized by HUDCO at IHC, New Delhi. The award was instituted in 2012 to give recognition and felicitate innovative ideas and initiatives that contribute to make our cites inclusive, livable and environmentally sustainable. It has five categories and includes HUDCO DESIGN AWARD trophy, certificate and prize money of Rs. 4.00 lacs (four lacs) and Rs. 2.00 lacs each for First and Second Prize winners respectively in each category. Commendation Prize contains prize money of Rs. 50,000 each (fifty thousand) each. Those present on the occasion were Secretary, Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, A.K. Misra, HUDCO CMD V.P. Baligar, HUDCO DCP N L Manjoka and HUDCO DF A K Kaushik. The entries were judged by a three-member jury consisting of eminent architect, planners and landscape specialists. The Jury chose 15 winning entries in total, which included 1st, 2nd and Commendation prize in five categories. There were two winners of second prize in the category "Conservation of Heritage" while in the Category Landscape Planning & Architecture the Jury abstained from recommending second prize.

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

Ashwani Soni selected for Director (Proj) in 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.

Nair is new MD of FOMIL
A Vikraman Nair has been appointed Managing Director (MD) of Public Sector Undertaking Foam Mattings India Ltd (FOMIL).

Panchal to be appointed Addl. Director, Confidence Trading Company Ltd
Confidence Trading Company Ltd is to appoint Ms Swati Panchal as an Additional Director of the company.

Sharma appointed Independent Director, Balurghat Technologies Ltd
Balurghat Technologies Ltd has appointed Ms Gita Sharma as an Independent Director of the company.

Sethia appointed CFO, Balurghat Technologies Ltd
Apurv Sethia had been appointed as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Balurghat Technologies Ltd.

Sethi resigns as Director, ISMT Ltd
Vinod Sethi has resigned as Director of ISMT Ltd with immediate effect.

Surana resigns as Company Secy. , 7Seas Technologies Ltd
Vivek Surana has resigned as Company Secretary of 7Seas Technologies Ltd.

Subramanian appointed Director, Zylog Systems Ltd
Zylog Systems Ltd has appointed K S Subramanian as a Director of the company with the immediate effect

Pai promoted as Deputy MD, Hindalco Industries Ltd
Satish Pai had been promoted as Deputy Managing Director of Hindalco Industries Ltd.

(The views expressed in this column are of the contributors. We do not owe any responsibility, whatsoever, of the views of our surfers as they are their personal opinion. However, we would also request our contributors not to be personal, directly or 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)

DEBATE (1)

Arvind Kejriwal has probably got good intentions. But his methods are questionable. He is apt to call every one opposing him names. He relapses into wild allegations (without proof)against every body who is not from his party. He keeps denigrating every institution. He has no respect for anybody. He is a practitioner of the art of doublespeak. In a democratic polity, one has to display restraint which he apparently does not possess (or maybe he likes sensationalizing which gives him media coverage). As Mahatma Gandhi said, the ends do not justify the means. He seems to have lost focus (or maybe he never had any). He is also given to making shallow, vacuous promises (does he never study issues or think before making promises). A master of the art of taking U-turns, he keeps changing his colours (and promises). The Congress has done a great disservice to the nation since it is corruption by their coalition partners and government which has brought things to such a pass that mavericks like Arvind Kejriwal are being taken seriously by the country. Now, Arvind Kejriwal is trying to create a situation where he can resign from the Delhi Chief Ministership because he is not finding time to attend to his party matters for the upcoming elections for which he is creating a drama over the "janlokpal" issue. If he can do that, he kills two birds with one stone- he goes in a blaze of glory, simultaneously, he gets time before the parliamentary polls to organise his party nationwide. Being Chief Minister of Delhi is now simply tying him down.

Arjun Mallik

DEBATE (2)
The debate is very apt. AAP is slowly taking the shape of a political party. Once it spells out its Economic & other policies, some people are bound to be disappointed.

Deo Kumar Ghatak

Implementation of existing Income Tax laws
What is needed to improve IT Budget collection is the implementation of existing Income Tax laws starting from potential tax evaders. It can only possible by having rational transfer posting/Training opportunity/ deputations policy for IRS officer with the each level of seniority on the line of IAS cadre. Compilation or creation of high value service/ consumer sector transaction data base to chase evaders and encourage voluntary tax compliance.

Rahul Meena

Stop chasing the existing tax payers
Instead of chasing people who are exhibiting their high income, through high value cars, premium star apts, houses, five star hotel stay / entertainment, etc the department of chasing only the people who pay tax regularly because they earn legal income; and the poor senior citizens and pensioners. It is very easy to track high cost car owners, high cost foreign travellers, owners of real estate which will increase the percentage of tax payers in India and increase the revenue collection. Just stop chasing the existing tax payers and target the dept people to bring to net atleast 1 crore additional new people in the tax net every year for the next five years.
Subramanian

Lopsided Direct Taxation !
The argument placed in these columns that the Income Tax Administration chases the low Income groups allowing HIGs to make merry of the loopholes. In the name of containing CAD, the unscrupulous companies who are bringing in the Dollars are left out of tax net. The burden falls on the poor low salaried class. The Tamil Nadu state Budget on 13/2/2014 proposing no hike in Tax rates should become a model at National level. The future lies in making each treasury rupee give more. In other words the focus must be on efficient spending not over spending. For once the Budget makers may apply common sense instead of economic jargons.

Shari

Meira Kumar as PM ?
I beg to differ on Meira Kumar as PM. Once a Speaker, President, Vice President or Governor/Lt Governor, his her role being neutral, should never be allowed to join political set up or any political party or a Government, it is certainly against the true spirit of the Constitution, also when do Indians come out of caste, religion and divisive politics.

Harish Kumar

Meira Kumar - as PM?
Alas! It Happens. Things apparent and things real are two different things. It will not be the first time, if it happens, that someone will be from outside the Gandhi family. Manmohan Singh is an example. Democracy does not bar any clan or caste to be out of politics. It is an open field for all. The fact, invariably, is: when any one from the so-called weaker section is in power he/she changes colour from what when not in power. Unless you are serving the interest of any political party, nobody is going to listen to you. You can invoke the offices of Vice President of Congress Party, Home Minister, Social Justice Minister, Chairman of National SC Commission, LG of Delhi, Home Secretary, Police Commissioner etc. without any useful results. Even acknowledgement of your grievance letter is a far cry. It is not just jugglery of words but the Real Facts. One can't even meet them even if one is a retired Ambassador, without any political base. I heartily pray that a former diplomat becomes the next PM of India.

Z S Nirwal

Arbitrary decisions
Totally irrational, uncalled for and arbitrary decisions. Why should CIT-Judicial hold the post of CIT-Audit-1. It is like rubbing salt into the wounds. Both posts have no value and everybody tries to avoid them

Raghurane

Search and selection committee has no meaning
If Vinod Ranjan is in the race of DG, ICFRE and selected as DG, ICFRE, then there is no meaning to have search and selection committee under the renowned person like Dr. Kasturirangan, Dr. Ramaswami, Dr. V.Rajagopalan etc. The qualification and criteria for the post is already manipulated by MoEF to provide entry to few in -eligible officers.

Nagrajan S

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