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POLITICS

Meeting to select Lok Pal today ?
Search Committee to select Lok Pal 1 + 8 is expected to meet in Delhi on Tuesday. It is believed that the Search Committee will short-list atleast 27 persons.

Will an eminent person be Chief Lok Pal ?
It is now believed that an eminent person may head the Lok Pal instead of any former Chief Justice of India.

Will employees get 50% DA merger with basic pay?
Will Central Government employees get 50% DA merger in7th Pay Commission? Presently, the employees are getting 90% DA and they will get another 10% DA increase soon. It will take their total DA to 100% of pay. Merger of 50% DA with basic pay was done by the 5th Pay Commission while the 6th Pay Commission had refused to do so. The Commission has to recommend wage revision for the 50 lakh Central Government employees and pension revision for 30 lakh pensioners.

BUREAUCRACY

Secretary level appointments in a couple of days
Secretary level appointments are expected to take place in the Government of India in a couple of days.

Who will be new Enforcement Director ?
Who will be new Director Enforcement? Search Committee headed by CVC Pradeep Kumar is meeting on Tuesday to select the new ED. A panel consisting of Praveer Kumar 1982 batch UP cadre IAS officer of 1982 batch, Rajiv Gauba 1982 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre and Ms Anjuly Chib Duggal 1981 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre is going to be tabled before the Search Committee.

Who will be LBSNAA Director ?
Who will succeed 1977 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer Padamvir Singh as Director of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) in Mussorie. The GoI is reported to have not come to any conclusion on this appointment.

File of D K Sarraf reaches to PM !
File pertaining to the appointment of D K Sarraf as new Chairman of the ONGC has reached to the Prime Minister. He is expected to clear the file in a day or two.

Dr T R K Rao selected as Director (Comm), NMDC
Dr T R K Rao has been selected for the post of Director (Commercial) in National Mineral Development Corporation Limited (NMDC) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on February 24, 2014. As many as 11 persons were interviewed for the same. Dr Rao, who belongs to an Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS), is presently Vice-Chairman & Managing Director, Andhra Pradesh Mineral Development Corporation Limited (APMDC).

Panel for DG BSF today
A fresh panel for the post of DG BSF is being made. Meeting for panel is expected to take place on Tuesday.

Ruchi Ghanshyam to be High Commissioner South Africa
Ruchi Ghanshyam is being appointed Indian High Commissioner to South Africa. Ruchi is 1982 batch IFS officer.

Justice Rohini to be CJ of Delhi High Court !
Senior most Judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court Justice G Rohini is being tipped to be new Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court.

Gupta to succeed Rizwan Ahmad as DGP UP ?
Arun Kumar Gupta is likely to succeed Rizwan Ahmad as DGP of Uttar Pradesh on March 1. He is a 1977 batch IPS officer of UP cadre.

Lt Gen Amit Sharma to move to Jaipur
Lt Gen Amit Sharma is moving to Jaipur as Chief of Staff South Western Command. He is presently posted in Bhopal.

File of new CBEC Chief goes to ACC
After a long wait, the CVC clearance for Ms Jane Shanti Sundaram came and the file for her appointment as Chairperon in CBEC is finally on its way to ACC. The delay has put a question mark on the likely Member, SB Singh. Ms Sundaram must join as Chairperson before Feb 28 to facilitate Singh's joining as Member. The slow wheels of progress in Department of Revenue always impact the IRS officers of CBDT/CBEC.

Puneet Rastogi to join ITBP
Puneet Rastogi is joining the ITBP as IG. He is 1995 batch IPS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.

Dr D Chandrasekharam ceases to be Director, MRPL on Mar 10
Dr D Chandrasekharam will be ceasing as non-official part-time Director, Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) on March 10, 2014.

S K Ray poised for Member, CBDT
S K Ray has brighter prospects for position of Member, CBDT. The 1978 batch IRS officer is serving as Chief Cimmissioner, Ahmedabad. Two positions of Member, CBDT are set to be filled up.

Rajiv Jain poised for DG empanelment in GoI
As the grapevine has it, Rajiv Jain is all set to hit the chart of 1980 batch IPS officers who are soon to be empanelled as Director General, Govt of India. Presently he is serving with IB in GoI.

Vidya Sagar repatriated to parent cadre
K Vidya Sagar has been repatriated to his parent cadre after completion of term of inter-cadre deputation to Andhra Pradesh. He is a 1996 batch IFS officer of UT cadre.

Pravin Davar is Hindu Member in NCM
Capt. Praveen Davar is now Hindu Member in National Commission for Minorities (NCM) . The retired Army Officer was holding the post of Secretary, AICC Ex-serviceman Department.

Three IRS-IT officers get postings after promotion to CCIT
Three officers belonging to Indian Revenue Service of Income Tax cadre have been given postings after promotion to the grade of Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (CCIT). Accordingly, Syed Muhammad Ashraf has been posted as CCIT-II, Kolkata while Abhaya Charan Naik will be CCIT, Mumbai and B D Gupta is CCIT, Shimla.

Two posts of Principal Director lying vacant in GASAB
Two posts of Principal Director are reported to have been lying vacant in the Government Accounting Standard Advisory Board (GASAB). Three officers are working on the post out of total five posts.

Promila Bhardwaj shifted as DGIT, Delhi
Indian Revenue Service officer of Income Tax cadre, Promila Bhardwaj has been shifted as DGIT (Sys), Delhi.

Milind V Patil promoted to ACIT grade
Indian Revenue Service officer of Income Tax cadre, Milind V Patil has been promoted to the grade of Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax (ACIT).

Post of Presiding Officer in DRT, Coimbatore vacant
The post of Presiding Officer in Debts Recovery Tribunal (DRT), Coimbatore, is lying vacant.

N C Juyal posted as Asst Director, PIB, Delhi
N C Juyal has been appointed as Assistant Director (M&C), PIB, New Delhi. He is an officer of Indian Information Service (IIS).

29 CSS officers promoted as Under Secretary
As many as 29 Section Officers of Central Secretariat Service (CSS) have been transferred after promotion to the grade of Under Secretary. Accordingly, R Venkatesan has been transferred to Personnel and Training (CS.I Division) while V Ramaswamy was posted to Posts and Santosh Kumar to Home Affairs. Similarly, Pradip Kumar has been shifted to Defense; Vivek Narayan to Supply; Manoj Kumar to Pension and Pensioners' Welfare; Ravi Kumar Choudhary to Defense; Prem Sagar to Health and Family Welfare; A C Trivedi to Water Resources; Pankaj Kumar Prabhat to Agriculture and Cooperation; Mahesh Kumar Chahar to Home Affairs; R S Kunwar to Commerce; S Narayanaswamy to Steel; U C Pandey to Petroleum and Natural Gas; Sanjay Rawat to Defense; Paramjit Singh Kalra to Home Affairs; G Saravanan to Agriculture and Cooperation; Rajesh Kumar Pandeer to Food and Public Distribution; Manjula Daniel to Earth Services; Ranjay Kumar Sinha to Higher Education; Ramesh Kumar Mishra to NDMA; C L Gautam to Higher Education; A K Aggarwal to Financial Services; Kaikam Doungel to DONER; G D Parate to Food and Public Distribution; Arnab Dhaki to Higher Education; Roop Lal to Urban Development; Satya Pal Singh to Environment and Forests and Subhendu Das was transferred to Higher Education.

Major reshuffle of IAS officers in Uttarakhand
As many as 22 officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Uttarakhand. Accordingly, D Dr Nidhi Pandey is being appointed as Additional Secretary to the Governor while D Senthail Pandian will now be DM Haridwar and Niraj khairwal was made as Secretary In-charge Health Education. Besides, Harish Chand Semwal will be new DM Pithoragarh and others.

Lt Gen Jagbir Singh takes Command of Southern area
Lt General Jagbir Singh has taken over the command of Andhra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka & Kerala Area .

Anita Agnihotri is Secretary, HUPA (UPDATED)
1980 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre, Ms Anita Agnihotri will join as new Secretary of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA).
(We said this on February 24 )

Mohanty appointed Secretary, NDMA (UPDATED)
S N Mohanty will be new Secretary NDMA in the Ministry of Home Affairs. He is 1980 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Lov Verma is new Health Secretary (UPDATED)
Lov Verma has been appointed new Secretary Health in the Government of India. He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
(We said this only this morning)

V K Subburaj is new Secretary , Aids Control (UPDATED)
V K Subburaj has been appointed new Secretary Aids Control in place of Lov Verma. He is 1980 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Sujata Mehta is new Secretary, Eastern Region in MEA (UPDATED)
Sujata Mehta has been appointed Secretary Eastern Region in the Ministry of External Affairs.She is 1980 batch IFS officer.

Gautam Guha to be AS, Health (UPDATED)
Gautam Guha will be new Additional Secretary Health in the Government of India. He is IA&AS officer.

3 IAS officers shifted in J&K (UPDATED)
As many as three officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Jammu and Kashmir. Accordingly, Khurshid Ahmad Ganai will now be Financial Commissioner, Industries and Commerce Department while Basharat Saleem has been posted as Registrar, Cooperative Societies, J&K and M S Choudhary was made Director, Social Welfare, Jammu.

Reshuffle of IAS officers in Delhi (UPDATED)
As many as seven officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Delhi. Accordingly, Arun Goyal has been appointed as Principal Secretary, Power, CMD DTL/DPCL and Chairman PPCL/IPGCL while Rajendra Kumar will now be Secretary, UD/Director Local Boadies and S S Yadav is Secreary-cum-Commissioner, Food & Supplies and CMD,DSCS. Besides, Amit Yadav has been assigned an additional charge of Secretary-cum-Commissioner Labour while Ms A Monah Sreenivas will now be Deputy Commissioner, North and Amit Satija is Additional Director, Education. Besides, Mrs Neha Bansal was appointed as Director, Finance, Delhi Jal Board.

6 IPS officers promoted as IGP in J&K (UPDATED)
As many as six officers belonging to Indian Police Service (IPS) of 1996 batch have been promoted to the grade of Inspector General of Police (IGP). The officers are: Avtar Singh Bali, Sham Lal Sharma, Jagjit Kumar, Shafqat Ali Watali, Mubarik Ahmed Ganie and J P Singh.

Reshuffle of IPS officers in J&K (UPDATED)
A number of officers belonging to Indian Police Service (IPS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Jammu and Kashmir. Accordingly, K Rajendra Kumar was made Special Director General, Police Headquarters while, Hemant Kumar Lohia will now be IGP, Technical Services and Mukesh Singh is IGP, Human Rights. Similarly, Sunil Kumar has been appointed as IGP Armed/IR, Kashmir; Danesh Rana as Director, SKPA, Udhampur; Ashok Kumar Atri as DIG Rajouri/Poonch Range; Parminder Singh as Director, SSG, J&K; Basant Rath as DIG, Homeguards, Jammu; Ghulam Hassan Bhat as DIG NKR, Baramulla; Syed Kifayat Haider as DIG, CID, Kashmir; Zubair Ahmad Khan as Commandant, IR, 6th Bn. and Suhail Munawar Mir as SP, Baramulla.

HAL bags SODET Gold Award for innovation in successive years (UPDATED)
G C Pati, Secretary, Defence Production, has said it is important to value outstanding contributions made by individuals and the organizations in technology driven sectors such as defence. He was speaking at the awards ceremony of Society of Defence Technologists (SODET) held at Mumbai today in presence of HAL Chairman Dr R K Tyagi and heads of other organizations. Pati called for handholding of Government and private organization to give more thrust on innovation to strengthen India's indigenisation and self-reliance drive. He urged the innovators to involve all the players from worker to the highest officer in the organization and inculcate the team spirit in innovative efforts. SODET awarded engineers and technologists from various organizations for their efforts in technology development and innovation. HAL's Nilesh Chaudhari, Sr. Manager and his team from Nasik Division, won the Gold for technology innovation for the year 2011-12, and the team led by Dheeraj Kumar, Dy. Manager, Korwa Division won the Gold award in the same category for 2012-13. The award carries a certificate and cash prize.

Dr Singhvi returns to parent cadre; posted as PS, DMIC in Rajasthan (UPDATED)
Dr Ashok Singhvi, on return from central deputation to Government of India, has been appointed as Principal Secretary, Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) and Special Officer, Bhiwadi Industrial Development Corporation, Jaipur in Rajasthan. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Mrs Hansa Singhdev posted as Secretary, Election Commission in Rajasthan (UPDATED)
Mrs Hansa Singhdev has been appointed as Secretary, State Election Commission, Jaipur in Rajasthan. She is an IAS officer.

Appointment of Gupta and Jain as Judges, MP HC cleared (UPDATED)
The appointment of two judicial officials S K Gupta and J K Jain as Judges of Madhya Pradesh High Court has been cleared by the President of India. Gupta is presently posted as Commissioner, Inquiries in Bhopal while Jain is District Judge, Chhhindwara.
(We said this on January 1, 2014)

Indra Sinha appointed as Permanent Judge, Assam HC (UPDATED)
Justice Indra Sinha has been appointed as Permanent Judge of Assam High Court.

S K Sharma selected as Director (Pers), STCIL (UPDATED)
S K Sharma, CGM, STCIL, has been selected for the post of Director (Personnel), State Trading Corporation of India Limited (STCIL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on February 25, 2014. As many as 12 persons were interviewed for the same.

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

CPSEs improve performance during 2012-13 year
An overall performance of Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) during 2012-13 has shown an improvement over the previous years by increasing total turnover/ gross revenue from operation 6.79 %.

Nair promoted as CEO, Shoppers Stop Ltd
Shoppers Stop Ltd has promoted Salil Nair who is currently the Chief Operating Officer of the company as Chief Executive Officer of the company w.e.f. March 1, 2014

Sequeria appointed Chairman, Thakral Services India Ltd
Thakral Services India Ltd has appointed Joseph Sequeria as Chairman of the company.

Cochrane resigns as Director, Jindal Stainless Ltd
James Alistair Kirkland Cochrane has resigned as Director of Jindal Stainless Ltd.

Rao appointed Whole-time Director, Jindal Poly Films Ltd
Jindal Poly Films Ltd has appointed I Chandrakantha Rao as Whole-time Director of the company w.e.f. March 1, 2014.

Sharma resigns as Director, Jindal Poly Films Ltd
Hemant Sharma has resigned as Director of Jindal Poly Films Ltd w.e.f.March 1, 2014

Kapur appointed Non Exec. Director, Akzo Nobel India Ltd
Akzo Nobel India Ltd has appointed Raj S Kapur as a Non-Executive Director of the company w.e.f. March 1, 2014

Singh re-appointed MD, Dolphin Offshore Enterprises (India) Ltd
Dolphin Offshore Enterprises (India) Ltd has re-appointed Satpal Singh as Managing Director of the company.

Singh appointed Joint MD, Dolphin Offshore Enterprises (India) Ltd
Navpreet Singh has been appointed as Joint Managing Director of Dolphin Offshore Enterprises (India) Ltd

Raizada resigns as Director, Zenotech Laboratories Ltd
Bimal Kishore Raizada has resigned as Director of Zenotech Laboratories Ltd with immediate effect.

Devarajan resigns as Company Secy. Cethar Industries Ltd
R Devarajan has resigned as Company Secretary of Cethar Industries Ltd

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DEBATE (1)

No, I think the Aam Admi Party is getting stronger day by day.

Sudhanshu Majupuria

DEBATE(2)

A passerby is always fast against the person who is always sitting ideal. The passerby cannot be termed as he/ she will get fractured.

Ankit Chhabra

Is there a gain in increasing retirement age to those who matter?

All who are blue eyed in UPA and also blue eyed in NDA and will always get good post retirement jobs and will never retire. Most of these fellows create their coteries who help each other - come UPA or NDA. Best strategy is to keep the opponents busy either by giving some favours or by creating trouble for them. I find this strategy works well. The beneficiary has to have no spines of his/her own. It is good if he does not have local base. A Brahmin who has potential but is docile enough not to stand up will foot the bill. A pathan with his roots in Afghanistan, an Ansari from Momin Ansars of Medina, a Qureshi from the clan of Quresh in Mecca or a Zaidi from the tribe in Yemen are seen as Muslim representatives. You have to be a Sikh to succeed in any field though. I heard people talking like this. I don't have arguments to confront them. Any one who can guide me how to contest such statements? Who so ever comes to power in 2014 will be a silent spectator except that he/she will/ may add a few more to the list of beneficiaries. I don't think there is a case for increase in retirement age. A professor PM was convinced to make retirement age of teachers 70. We know the quality of university products which hardly sells else where but professors are the pampered lot. I don't know any industry/ venture that creates such a low quality product rewards its workers but workers who can get the ears of the PM can definitely defy this logic.

Prakash

Ineptitude at higher levels

I am pained to see the ineptitude at the higher levels which is the prime reason for all lapses. If the top most level office is honest and disciplined, then only the lower level employees would have some fear and do their work properly. I am sure, this attitude would find no place in China where wrongdoers get the boot right away. Mr. Anurag, please convey my salutations to your dad also.

Sivakumar

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