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What people say about us!
For new year 2014. We can foresee that Dr. Mehrotra shall further improve
and add value to this excellent website in the year ahead.
Meena Vikram MMTC
POLITICS
Will Sushma Swaraj be next Speaker ?
It is widely believed in the BJP circles that Sushma Swaraj will not
be inducted in the Narendra Modi Cabinet and instead be made Lok Sabha
Speaker.
Next AAP Sarkar in Haryana and Yadav to be
CM
It is now believed that next Government of Aap will be formed in Haryana
with Yogendra Yadav as its CM. People are now fed up with Chautala's
and Hoodas.
BUREAUCRACY
R K Tewari being seen as next CBDT Chairman
R K Tewari, Member CBDT (IT), is being seen as the future Chairperson
of CBDT as the prosman successor of Sudha Sharma, the present Chairperson
of CBDT. In all probability he will take over on March 1.
Will IOCL CMD R S Butola get extension ?
The latest precedence of extension to CMD, BHEL and latest move proposing
extension to CMD, ONGC have together accelerated the speculations over
R S Butola's fate. R S Butola's term as CMD, Indian Oil Corporation
Ltd is coming to an end in May this year. Reportedly, PMO has started
giving thoughts to override the selection of B Ashok (ED, IOCL), a PESB's
pick as the next CMD of IOCL. One can wait and watch only?
Nilekani sets the race for Chairman, UIDAI
Nandan Nilekani's latest affirmation about contesting Lok Sabha elections
from Bengaluru has triggered the guessing game again as who would grab
the slot as new Chairman of UIDAI. Reportedly, Nilekani is all set to
pu in his papers saying bye to UIDAI.
Who will be CMD of National Insurance Corporation ?
Who will be new CMD of the National Insurance Corporation. Fate of six
candidates has been sealed on January 7.
Allahabad Bank CMD Ms Panse to retire
Shubhalakshmi Panse, CMD of the Allahabad Bank is superannuating on
February 1.
Subramanian likely to join as MD, BCPL on Feb 5
E A Subramanian, Senior VP, HLL, is expected to take over the charge
as Managing Director, Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Limited
(BCPL) on February 5, 2014. Presently, Finance Director, Sanjib Lal
Barua is looking after the additional charge of MD after the retirement
of Suprakash Kundu.
(We said this on Sept 18, 2013)
PESB's recommendation for Director (Tech) ECL on January 20
Selection meetings for the post of Director (Tech) Eastern Coalfields
Ltd would take place on January 20. PESB would hold the interview and
recommend the suitable candidate for ACC's ratification.
Who would be the new CMD, NCL?
The slot of CMD, Northern Coalfield Limited has been running vacant
for months. Presently Shantilata Sahu is carrying out the additional
charge of CMD, NCL. PESB is going to held selection meeting soon.
Shri Kumar Rahul appointed
GM of FCI
Shri Kumar Rahul has been appointed General Manager Food Corporation
of India (FCI) Punjab region. He is 2000 batch IAS officer of Punjab
cadre.
(We said this on January 9 )
Ministry dissuaded from overlooking a PESB selection
A Ministry, which was trying to overlook the selection of a person at
CMD level by PESB and considering to open an envelope of second positioned
candidate at the interview, has been dissuaded by the Department of
Personnel and Training (DoPT) guide-lining that a PESB recommended panel
can be scrapped only with the approval of the ACC not by the Ministry
itself.
Will Justice Verma head Commission ?
Former Supreme Court Judge Justice (Retd) Deepak Verma is likely to
head Commission of Inquiry pertaining to Gujarat case.
Arvind Sharma to be CGM in RBI
Arvind Sharma has been promoted to the rank of Chief General Manager
(CGM) in the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
Shikhar Agrawal is all to repatriate to Rajasthan
Shikhar Agrawal is all set to repatriate to Rajasthan as he charts on
the wish-list of Rajasthan Chief Minister, Vasundhara Raje Scindia.
The 1993 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre is currently serving as
Joint Secretary, Department of Labour & Employment, GoI. Two senior
most officers, Rajeev Mehrishi & Subhas Garg, have already repatriated
whereas another four officers are waiting in the wings including Agrawal.
Promotion of Suresh Chandra as Dy Secretary in GoI cancelled
The promotion of Suresh Chandra to the grade of Deputy Secretary of
Central Secretariat Service has been cancelled on his personal request.
He will remain as Under Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development in
Government of India.
Kuruvilla to succeed Mehla as Director (O&M), BECIL on Feb 1
George Kuruvilla, GM, BECIL, will be taking over the charge as Director
(Operations & Marketing), Broadcasting Engineering Consultants India
Limited (BECIL) on February 1, 2014. He will succeed Mehla who is retiring
on January 31, 2014.
(We said this July 16, 2014)
Anil Palta moves from CBI, joins NDC course
Anil Palta has moved from CBI to join national Defence College for a
eleven months course. The 1990 batch IPS officer of Jharkhand cadre
served as Joint Director, CBI.
Skandan repatriated to Tamil Nadu
K Skandan has been repatriated to Tamil Nadu after completing seven
years term on central deputation. The 1982 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IAS
officer had joined GoI on central deputation in January 2007 as Joint
Secretary, MHA. The charge of Additional Secretary (Centre & State)
has now been given to Rajiv Sharma.
PESB seeks applications for CMD, BDL
Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has invited applications for
the post of Chairman & Managing Director, Bharat Dynamics Limited
(BDL) falling vacant next year on January 1, 2015. Those willing to
apply can send their applications to the PESB before February 27, 2014.
P R Deo likely to join central deputation
P R Deo is likely to join central deputation at Inspector General level.
He is a 1986 batch IPS officer of Haryana cadre.
12 posts of Judges vacant in Karnataka HC
As many as 12 posts of Judges have been lying vacant against approved
strength of 50 in Karnataka High Court. One post of permanent Judge
while 11 posts of Additional Judges are vacant.
A K Singh empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
A K Singh has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent
in Government of India. He is an IRSME officer of 1984 batch.
Retired IPS officer, R P Mishra dies
A retired IPS officer, R P Mishra passed away in New Delhi and was cremated
in Bhopal.
Dr Anmol Kumar is new DG FSC
(UPDATED)
Dr Anmol Kumar, IFS, Maharashtra Cadre 1982 batch, presently working
as APCCF Personnel in State of Maharashtra has been appointed as Director
General, Forest Survey of India, Dehradun, on Central Deputation.
5 IAS officers shifted in Himachal Pradesh
(UPDATED)
As many as five officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service
(IAS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Himachal
Pradesh. Accordingly, Vineet Chawdhry has been assigned an additional
charge of ACS, I &PH and Horticulture while Ali Raza Rizvi will
be Principal Secretary, Home & vigilance and Information Technology
and Onkar Chand Sharma gets additional charge of MD, HP Agro Packaging
India Ltd. Besides, Joginder Singh Rana has been appointed as MD, HP
Minorities Development Corporation Ltd and S S Guleria is Special Secretary,
Training & Foreign Assignment.
16 IAS officers transferred in Jharkhand
(UPDATED)
As many as 16 officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service (IAS)
have been transferred and posted at different places in Jharkhand. Accordingly,
Sudhir Prasad has been appointed as Development Commissioner with additional
charge of DWSD while Sajal Chakravarty will now be Additional Chief
Secretary of Transport department and Vishnu Kumar gets additional charge
of Principal Secretary Tourism. Similarly, Mast Ram Meena has been given
the additional charge of Secretary IPRD and Secretary Energy department;
S K Satpathy gets additional charge of Principal Secretary Road Construction;
Raj Bala Verma as PS, Rural Development department with additional charge
of Building Construction; Arun gets additional charge of Secretary Mines
& Geology department; Aradhana Patanaik as Secretary Housing with
additional charge of Additional Finance Commissioner; K K Soan as Secretary
Cooperative; Himani Pandey as Secretary Industry department with additional
charge of Commissioner Transport; Praveen Shankar as Director SKIPA;
Ekhteshamul Haq as Divisional Commissioner Santhal Pargana; Ashok Kumar
Sharma was promoted on the post of Joint Election Commissioner; Sunil
Kumar Singh as Additional Member of Finance Commission; Ratan Kumar
as Secretary Civil Security with additional charge of Additional Chief
Executive Officer JAP IT and R P Sinha was made as Secretary Excise
& Prohibition department with additional charge of Excise Commissioner
and MD Beverage Corporation of Jharkhand.
IRS-IT officers at Commissioner level transferred
(UPDATED)
As many as nine officers belonging to Indian Revenue Service of Income
Tax cadre have been transferred and posted at different places. Accordingly,
R K Choubey has been posted as ADG, NADT, Nagpur while Adhir Jha will
be CIT (A)-1, Patna and Vidhu Shekher Singh is CIT, Meerut. Besides,
Pramod Nangia has been given an additional charge of CIT, Aligarh; Renu
Jauhri shifted as DIT (Recovery), Delhi; M S Meena gets addtional charge
of CIT (A), Jodhpur; H V Gujjar as CIT (OSD), CBDT; D K Mishra as CIT
(Judiciary), Delhi and S M J Abidi was given an additional charge of
CIT (A), Meerut.
IAS officer seeks VRS in Bihar (UPDATED)
1986 batch Bihar cadre IAS officer K P Ramaiah has sought VRS from March
31. He is expected to join politics.
DEBATE - What bureaucracy of the country feel
?
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 invite the decision makers to make their own assessment
regarding the above notion about Dr Singh's tenure and feel free to
post us that How do they rate performance of the economist Prime Minister
as a head of the government? Please be short, to the point and objective
in your assessment which should not be more than 200 words or so since
too long statements and opinions don't attract much audience.
Mail to -mehrotra.suresh@gmail .com Or suresh.mehrotra@yahoo mail.com
CORPORATE
Dr Aarti Vij re-appointed Director on HLL Ltd Board
Dr Aarti Vij has been re-apponted as non-official part time Director
on the Board of HLL Lifecare Limited for one more tenure of three years.
Two directors cease to be on Board of CRISIL
Ltd
B V Bhargava and Ms. Rama Bijapurkar have resigned as directors of CRISIL
Ltd
Two Independent directors cease to be on Board
of SAIL
P K Sengupta.and P C Jha have resigned as Independent directors of Steel
Authority of India Limited (SAIL) on completion of their tenure on the
Board of Directors of the company.
Jani ceases to be Company Secy. Khandwala Securities Limited
Ms Bhumika Jani has ceased to be Company Secretary Khandwala Securities
Limited w.e.f. January 10, 2014
Two directors appointed on Board of Atlas
Cycles (Haryana) Limited
Atlas Cycles (Haryana) Limited appointed Kartik Roop Rai, Vikram Khosla
and Surendra Mohan Mehra as directors of the company.
Jindal appointed ED, Jindal Stainless Ltd
Jindal Stainless Ltd has appointed Rajinder Parkash Jindal as Executive
Director of the company w.e.f. January 6, 2014
Reddy resigns as Whole-time Director, Pennar
Industries Ltd
Anantha Reddy has resigned as Whole-Time Director of Pennar Industries
Ltd
Arora appointed Country Manager (Projects),
Tiger Logistics (India) Ltd
Tiger Logistics (India) Ltd has appointed Tarundeep Arora as Country
Manager (Projects) of the company.
Ajmera appointed Independent Director, Rajath
Finance Ltd
Rajath Finance Ltd has appointed Janish Navinchandra Ajmera as Indepndent
Director of the company w.e.f. December 30, 2013
Prasad appointed Member, Coffee Board, Bangalore?
Challa Rajendra Prasad who is Chairman and Managing Director of CCL
Products (India) Ltd has also been appointed as a member of the Coffee
Board, Bangalore, w.e.f. January 6, 2014
FORUM
(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)
I would rate Dr ManMohan Singh the worstever P.M, of India.He has failed
miserably on all area.
H Lal
Aam Aadmi Party
AAP has started with blot in their face for taking support from Congress.
It was presumed that AAP will stand its own to proof his honesty and
dedication towards common man but failed to do so. There was no need
to take support from Congress in Delhi whether Govt. is formed or not.
This will give an idea, in future AAP will also work in the same way
like other parties and more so inclined towards Congress against which
they started their movement. Public is completely disgusted with such
move and AAP will be affected in long term.
N Prakash
" Seven Sisters' demand for a common Time Zone, is misplaced ?"
Tarun Gogoi 's recent demand for another time zone for Assam and other
North-eastern states of India, is fallacious. Creating more time zones
will rob the country of its psychological sense of identity. Having
another time zone for North and North-east India, will result in chaos.
No wonder, Jammu & Kashmir could also revive its demand for an exclusive
time zone. This could open a pandora's box of demands from other regions.
India's neighbours: Pakistan, Myanmar, Bangla Desh have all got single
time zone. China, much larger geographically than India, follows a uniform
standard time. Srilanka follows the IST as its standard time.
In this nuclear age of supersonic ballistic missiles, having more than
one time zone in India, could adversely impact military operations by
hampering receiving unified commands at same point of time during war.
A standard time for the armed forces across the country, is of the essence
for strategic and efficiency reasons. Against this backdrop, the existing
practice of 'advancing the clock', synchronizing with IST indicated
by the Akashwani and Doordarshan, must continue. One hopes the Central
government takes a holistic view in the matter by keeping the Indian
Armed Forces, MOD, defence strategists , DoNER, DST,MEA in the loop.
A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)
Abolishing IT
If Jose, retd. Additional Secretary wishes I-T be abolished, he should
be prepared for working to earn livelihood.
RK
Abolishing IT
Jose, a retired Additional Secretary made a comment that there are 10
countries in the world which have no Income Tax. Can he name one significant
country in it? He need not be worried about what the IRS Officers do
if they lose their jobs. But he should first think about himself. What
he will do if he loses his pension. Without Income Tax, how the government
will pay pension for him?
Devadasan
TAIL-PIECE
If:
A B C D E F G H I J K LM N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Is equal to;
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Then
H+A+R+D+W+O+R+K ;
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11=98%
K+N+O+W+L+E+D+G+E ;
11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5=96%
L+O+V+E;
12+15+22+5 = 54%
L+U+C+K ;
12+21+3+11 = 47%
None of them makes 100%.
Then what makes 100% ???
Is it Money?
NO !!!
M+O+N+E+Y= 13+15+14+5+25=72%
Leadership?
NO !!!
L+E+A+D+E+R+S+H+I+P= 12+5+1+4+5+18+19+8+9+16=97%
Every problem has a solution, only if we perhaps change our "ATTITUDE".
A+T+T+I+T+U+D+E ;
1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%
It is therefore OUR ATTITUDE towards COLLEAGUES, FRIENDS, Life and Work
that makes
OUR Life 100% Successful..
Amazing Mathematics ? and that's why I love it because it's like our
life.
By -A contributor
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Delay caused without any malafide intention is not liable
for penalty
Information about evasion of Customs duty and of fraudulent obtaining
by NITCO Tiles was denied by the PIO after checking from the deemed
PIO that the ECA II section of DGFT does not hold the information.
The FAA responded that the information sought required sincere
extensive search of the old records and consultation with other
sections which caused delay and hence, the reply could not be
given by the PIO within the stipulated time period of 30 days.
The appellant argued that if the information was not held by ECAII
Section, the PIO could have obtained it from the concerned section
of the DGFT u/s 5(4) of the RTI Act instead of denying the same.
The PIO clarified that he had sought the assistance of the concerned
section i.e. EPC section of the DGFT and that the reply received
from them was communicated to the Appellant. The CIC observed
that the PIO should have made it clear in his reply that the information
(being communicated to the Appellant) has been obtained from the
concerned section of the public authority (DGFT) and that the
same may be treated the information on behalf of the public authority.
The PIO's statement that information is not available with ECAII
Section gives impression that reply is being provided only on
behalf of ECAII section and not on behalf of DGFT. The PIO was
cautioned to be more careful in future in this regard. The CIC
directed the PIO to file an affidavit affirming his statement
that the letters mentioned in the RTI application are not available
with DGFT. Further, holding that the delay has already been explained
by the Appellate Authority in his order, no penalty was imposed
on the PIO.
Comments
If there is any inadvertent delay, the PIO should write to the
applicant informing him of the circumstances and provide the information
free of cost subsequently.
Citation: Shri R.K. Jain v. Directorate
General of Foreign Trade in Case No.CIC/SS/A/2013/001068 &
001131
Weekly article by Dr (Mrs.) Anuradha Verma, (dranuradhaverma@yahoo.co.in),
RTI Consultant to IIM, Indore.
(dranuradhaverma@yahoo.co.in), RTI Consultant
to IIM, Indore. Her other articles regarding RTI can be read at
http://www.rtifoundationofindia.com/
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