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POLITICS

Will Rajiv Loyalists switch-over to AAP ?
Whispers have doing the round about some Rajiv Gandhi loyalists switching over to the AAP . Interesting development.

UPA to try hard for appointment of Lok Pal !
The UPA Government will try very hard for the appointment of Lok Pal before the Code of Conduct is imposed.

1.43 lakh companies classified as dormant
As many as 1.43 lakh companies registered with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs have not filed their Annual Returns/ Balance Sheets for more than 3 consecutive years, and are thus classified as 'dormant'.

BUREAUCRACY

M P Cadre IPS officer to be DGP of Chhattisgarh (UPDATED)
Madhya Pradesh cadre 1981 batch IPS officer Dr Anand Kumar will be new DGP of Chhattisgarh. Dr Anand Kumar is presently with in Intelligence Bureau.

Will P K Malhotra be Vigilance Commissioner ?
Secretary, Law and Legislative Affairs, P K Malhotra, is believed to have been short-listed for the post of Vigilance Commissioner in the CVC. One can wait and watch.

Will Mustafa Md be given to succeed Alok Nigam as JS, DFS?
As the grapevine has it, Mustafa Mohammad may succeed Alok Nigam as JS, Dept of Financial Services. The 1995 batch IAS officer of UP cadre is serving as Director, Banking with the department.

Sanath Kumar to be next CMD of National Insurance Corp Ltd!
Latest information says that K Sanath Kumar, General Manager and Whole-Time Director in The New India Assurance Co. Ltd. is now the front runner for the post of the Chairman-cum-Managing Director of the National Insurance Corporation Limited (NICL). The present incumbent NSR Chandraprasad is retiring on February 28, 2014.

Rajeev Chandra Joshi empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
Rajeev Chandra Joshi has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. He is a 1994 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

Ms Sonia Sethi Bali empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
Ms Sonia Sethi Bali has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. She is a 1994 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

H Kumar selected as MD, MRPL
H Kumar, ED, HPCL, has been selected for the post of Managing Director, Mangalore Refineries & Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on January 22, 2014. As many as 11 persons were interviewed for the same.

Punjab & Haryana HC gets three Judges
Justice Rajiv Narayan Raina, Justice Tejinder Singh Dindsa and Justice Gurmit Singh Sandhwalia have been appointed as Judges of Punjab & Haryana High Court.

Extension to N K Nanda to end in February 2014?
N K Nanda, Director (Technical) NMDC, had been given three months extension beyond his term ending November 30, 2013. The provisional extension would end on 28 February this year. Some crucial development, reportedly, is slated in regard to his further extension. Interestingly, Nanda has more than five years in hand as residual service. Whispers in the corridors of power give momentum to the speculation whether Nanda's extension would get CVC clearance? One can wait and watch.

Post of Additional Secretary, CPV is all set to be vacant
The crucially important post of Additional Secretary, Counsellor Passport Visa & Haj is all set to be vacant. Presently A R Ghanshyam, a 1982 batch IFS officer, is serving the slot who has recently been given extension till 2016 beyond his superannuation in June 2014.

Dr Karnatak appointed as OSD before Director, GAIL
Dr Ashutosh Karnatak, ED, GAIL, has been appointed as OSD prior to joining as Director (Projects), Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL).

CIC never had full-strength of members, two posts still vacant
Central Information Commission never had the full-strength of its bench of 10 members. At present seats of two CIC Members are lying vacant; one vacancy vice Deepak Sandhu and the other one which never saw its member.

PESB to recommend suitable candidate for Dir (P&BD) IOCL on January 24
Selection meetings for the post of Director (P&BD), Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) would take place on January 24. PESB would hold interviews and come up with its recommendation to ACC. A M K Sinha, the incumbent Director (P&BD) IOCL is retiring on July 31, 2014.

Sushil Raosaheb Gaikwad deputed as Director in Textiles Ministry
Sushil Raosaheb Gaikwad has been appointed Director in the Ministry of Textiles in Government of India for a period of five years. He is an IRTS officer of 1998 batch.

Shortage of 90 IAS officers in Bihar
There is a shortage of 90 officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in Bihar.

Panda is Director, Petroleum
Subhashish Panda has been appointed Director, Petroleum Ministry in the Government of India. He is 1997 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.

Madhukar is new Director, DoPT
Anand Madhukar has been appointed Director, Department of Personnel and Training. He is 1997 batch IRPS officer.

List of Bank promotion is ready
List of Promotion of 14 GMs to ED in the nationalized banks is now finalized. The delay in the finalization was due to interview of five GMs again.

Why orders of Plawat as Director, NTC delayed?
Why the orders of Vivek Plawat, ED, NTC, for the appointment as Director (Technical), National Textiles Corporation Limited (NTC) are getting delayed? Meanwhile, vacancy has arisen with the retirement of R K Sharma in November, 2013.

Sanjay Kumar refuses to join as Director (Fin), SIL
Sanjay Kumar, DGM, SAIL, who was selected for the post of Director (Finance), Scooters India Limited (SIL) on September 3, 2013, is reported to have refused joining this PSU.

Will Sharma get extension as Director (Pers), STC?
Will M M Sharma, Director Personal, State Trading Corporation (STC), whose second extended tenure coming to an end in January, get third extension?

O P Singh takes charge as ADG, CISF
Om Prakash Singh has taken the charge in CISF as ADG vice R R Verma vice former Spl DG, CISF. The 1983 batch IPS officer of UP cadre served as ADG (Telecom), Govt of Uttar Pradesh.
(We said it on November 28, 2013)

STC CGM, B K Tuli retiring in March
B K Tuli - Chief General Manager (Insurance & Branch Operation), State Trading Corporation (STC), is retiring in March 2014.

Two posts of CGM lying vacant in STC
Two posts of Chief General Managers (Law and Marketing) have been lying vacant in State Trading Corporation (STC) for a long time and there is no process of filling these posts either.

February 28 sets the race for DG, BSF
Subhash Joshi, Director General, BSF, is all set to superannuate on February 28, 2014. The 1976 batch IPS officer of Uttarakhand cadre had taken over the charge of DG, BSF on December 19, 2012.

R K Mishra likely to join central deputation
R K Mishra is likely to join central deputation at Inspector General level. He is a 1986 batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre.

10 posts of Judges vacant in Patna HC
As many as 10 posts of Judges are lying vacant in Patna High Court against approved strength of 43. These include two posts of permanent Judges and eight posts of Additional Judges are vacant.

Will Delhi Excise Commissioner be put on wait ?
Delhi Excise Commissioner A K Singh may be put on compulsory wait. The 1996 batch IAS officer of UT cadre Singh is scheduled to retire on January 31.

Will J B Singh be Excise Commissioner of Delhi ?
J B Singh is expected to replace A K Singh as Excise Commissioner of Delhi. He is a 2000 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Lalmalswama to be Secretary, GAD in Delhi ?
Lalmalsawma is being tipped to be Secretary, GAD and Vigilance, in the Delhi Government. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Jitendra Narayan to be Labour Commissioner in Delhi Government
Jitendra Narayan is likely to be appointed Labour Commissioner in Delhi Government. He is a 1990 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Rinku Dhugga to be Secretary, Arts and Culture in Delhi Government ?
Ranku Dhugga is being tipped to be Secretary, Arts and Culture and MD of the DCHFL in the Delhi Government. She is a 1994 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Will A B Shukla be Member, DSSSB ?
A B Shukla is likely to be appointed Member of the Delhi State Subordinate Services Board (DSSSB). He is a 1996 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

PESB seeks applications for Director (Fin), NMDC Ltd
Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has invited applications for the post of Director (Finance), NMDC Limited, falling vacant on January 1, 2015. Those willing to apply can send their applications to the PESB before February 27, 2014.

Transfers & postings of senior IRTS officers
Several senior Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) officers have been transferred. Accordingly, J N Jha, CCM/SER, has been transferred to SCR and posted as COM, South Central Railway, Sunil Kumar Agarwal of South Central Railway (SCR) has been posted as Additional General Manager, K L Pandey, AGM, South Central Railway has been transferred to Railway Board and posted as Adviser (T&C), Naveen Shukla - on being relieved from the post of DRM/BRC, has been posted as CSO, Northern Railway in place of CBK Singh who has been promoted and posted as CAO/FOIS/NR and N Madhusudan Rao, after return from DRM/Kota, has been made Executive Director, TC (Rates), Railway Board.

GSI to deploy HAL Dhruv for Heliborne surveys, mineral exploration (UPDATED)
Dinsha Patel, Minister of Mines, dedicated custom-made ALH-Dhruv, Garuda Vasudha to the nation by unveiling a plaque during a video conference from New Delhi at a function. Speaking on the occasion, Patel hailed efforts of HAL in making this possible and said the copter should be used to get maximum benefits in larger economic interests of the country. "With the best and modern equipment fitted, this helicopter will help in exploration and mapping of mineral wealth in India", he added. Senior officials from Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Mines, Geological Survey of India (GSI) and HAL were present on the occasion. "It is a dream given to GSI as the copter is equipped with geophysical survey system", said Dr R K Tyagi, Chairman, HAL. The GSI and HAL have now come together to deploy Garuda Vasudha in a specialized role of 'heliborne surveys' and 'mineral exploration' with the integration of the geo-physical multi-sensor survey systems, he added. India has now become the seventh country in the world to have heliborne survey system. The ALH is integrated with geo-systems and would be utilized mainly for geological and geophysical exploration and mapping, environmental and nuclear surveillance, mineral, oil and gas exploration. The presence of rear earth minerals such as gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, nickel, cobalt, uranium, thorium, diamond, coal, petroleum, water, platinum, chromate, manganese and iron can be surveyed. Presently India is dependent on manual surveying or ground based vehicle surveying or by fast moving aircraft. The use of ALH will result in geo-survey benefits by accessing remote areas achieving self-reliance in this field. For instance India's net petroleum products import for 2012-13 was Rs. 5, 33, 907 crores (137.35 mmt) and if geo-survey benefits by 1% it would amount to reduction of import by Rs. 5,000 crores. India also imported raw material, ores and minerals for industrial use to the tune of Rs 6,71,008 crores for the year 2012-13, with the new findings and exploration by using ALH, substantial amount could be saved in the import bill.

Major reshuffle of IPS officers in Bihar (UPDATED)
A number of officers belonging to Indian Police Service (IPS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Bihar. Accordingly, Varun Kumar Sinha has been appointed as SP, Munger while Md Akhtar Hussain will now be Assistant (Inspection) to IG and Sudhir Kumar Singh is SP, Saran. Similarly, Sunil Kumar has been appointed as SP, Shivhar; Ashok Kumar as SP, Lakhisrai; Ranjit Kumar Mishra as SP, Security, Special Branch; Shafiul Haq as SP, Arwal; Pranav Kumar Pravin as SP, Special Work Force (Training) and Campaign; Navin Chandra Jha as SP, Madhubani; Rajiv Mishra as SP, Traffic; Himanshu Shankar Trivedi shifted to Bihar Armed Police-12; Ravindra Kuamr as SP (B), Special Branch; Vikas Kumar as SP, Special Security Force, Special Branch; Satya Prakash as Assistant SP, Balia; Rakesh Kumar as Assistant SP, East Muzaffarpur and Ashish Bharti was made Assistant SP, Sadar, Ara.

Anup K Pujari empanelled as Secretary in GoI (UPDATED)
Anup K Pujari has been empanelled for the post of Secretary or Secretary equivalent in Government of India. He is a 1980 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Shyam S Agarwal empanelled as Secretary in GoI (UPDATED)
Shyam S Agarwal has been empanelled for the post of Secretary or Secretary equivalent in Government of India. He is a 1980 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Shankar Agarwal empanelled as Secretary in GoI (UPDATED)
Shankar Agarwal has been empanelled for the post of Secretary or Secretary equivalent in Government of India. He is a 1980 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Vijay Laxmi Joshi empanelled as Secretary in GoI (UPDATED)
Vijay Laxmi Joshi has been empanelled for the post of Secretary or Secretary equivalent in Government of India. Joshi is a 1980 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.

Kewal Kumar Sharma empanelled as Additional Secretary in GoI (UPDATED)
Kewal Kumar Sharma has been empanelled for the posts of Additional Secretary or Additional Secretary equivalent in Government of India. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Tara Dutt empanelled for Addl Secretary equivalent in GoI (UPDATED)
Tara Dutt has been empanelled for the post of Additional Secretary equivalent in Government of India. Dutt is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Orissa cadre.

Vajpayee appointed as Additional Judge, CG HC (UPDATED)
C B Vajpayee, District Additional Judge of Durg, has been appointed as Judge of Chhattisgarh High Court.
(We said this on January 17, 2014)

Uboweja appointed as Additional Judge, CG HC (UPDATED)
I S Uboweja, District Judge of Dhamdatri, has been appointed as Additional Judge of Chhattisgarh High Court.
(We said this on January 17, 2014)

Jugal Kishore Gilda appointed as Advocate General to CG Govt (UPDATED)
Jugal Kishore Gilda has been appointed as new Advocate General of Chhattisgarh Government.

Praveer Ranjan to head Anti-Corruption Bureau in Delhi Govt (UPDATED)
Praveer Ranjan has been appointed as Chief of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Delhi government. He is a 1993 batch IPS officer of AGMUT cadre.

Tenure of Tejveer Singh as Jt Director, LBSNAA extended (UPDATED)
The deputation tenure of Tejveer Singh as Joint Director in Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration(LBSNAA) has been extended for a period of two and half years. He is a 1994 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre.

Misra is now full time MD of Chhattisgarh Tourism Board (UPDATED)
Chhattisgarh government has appointed Santosh K Misra as full time Managing Director (MD) of Chhattisgarh Tourism Board. Till now Misra had an additional charge of Chhattisgarh Tourism Board. He is a 2000 batch IAS officer.In order to accelerate tourism promotion and markting of Chhattisgarh Tourism Misra is credited with having started the Sirpur National Dance and Music Festival. This festival is said to have reached the level of Konark and Khajuraho festival in a short span of two years. The festival has catapulted Sirpur the 6th CE Buddhist site at international platform with HH Dalai Lama visiting Sirpur twice in last one year. Ambassador of Republic of Korea graced the inaugural this year.

Om Prakash Choudhary is full time Director, IPR, CG (UPDATED)
Chhattisgarh government has given full time charge to Om Prakash Choudhary, as Director, Information and Public Relations (IPR) Department. Till now he had an additional charge of this post. He is a 2005 batch IAS Offcer. Previously he has held the post of Collector, Dantewada.

Sundar Banerjee selected as Director (Proj), BBJCCL (UPDATED)
Sundar Banerjee, DGM, BBJCL, has been selected for the post of Director (Projects), Braithwaite, Burn & Jessop Construction Company Limited (BBJCCL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) held on January 23, 2014. As many as 13 persons were interviewed for the same.

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

Sharma appointed Independent Director, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd
Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd has appointed Prof. Sunil Sharma as an Independent Director of the company.

Kumar appointed Exec. Vice Chairman, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd
Subodh Kumar, lAS (retd) has been appointed as Executive Vice-Chairman of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd w.e.f. February 1, 2014

Reddy to resign as Whole-Time Director , Pennar Industries Limited ?
Anantha Reddy is to resign as Whole-Time Director of Pennar Industries Limited.

Sheth appointed Company Secy., Creative Eye Limited
Creative Eye Limited has appointed Jinal Sheth as Company Secretary of the company.

Solanki resigns as Independent Director, Blue Pearl Texspin Ltd
Narendra C Solanki has resigned as Non Executive Independent Director of Blue Pearl Texspin Ltd.

Mistry appointed Addl. Director, Cupid Trades & Finance Ltd
Cupid Trades & Finance Ltd has appointed Anil Chandulal Mistry as Additional Director of the company.

Patel resigns as Director, Cupid Trades & Finance Ltd
Dharmesh Kurjibhai Patel has resigned as Director of Cupid Trades & Finance Ltd.

Datta resigns as Director, Shelter Infra Projects Ltd
Abhijit Datta has resigned as Director of Shelter Infra Projects Ltd due to his other personal commitments.

Two Addl. Directors appointed on Board of Shelter Infra Projects Ltd
Kamal Kishore Chowdhury and Kajal Chatterjee have been appointed as additional directors of Shelter Infra Projects Ltd.

Joseph appointed Company Secy. , Uniroyal Marine Exports Ltd
Uniroyal Marine Exports Ltd has appointed Joseph P. G, as the Company Secretary of the company.

Balachandran ceases to be Company Secretary, Uniroyal Marine Exports Ltd
V Balachandran, has ceased to be the Company Secretary of Uniroyal Marine Exports Ltd.

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False claims

A number of working Government employees have included their parents as dependent on them by hiding the fact that their parents are getting Pension. In the case of female employees, where their husbands are employed in private sector companies who pay their employee a lump sum of money for medical purposes or their husband are doing in business and showing medical expenses in the accounts of the business, they have also declared their husband as dependent. This in turn enables the female employees to include their in-laws as dependent. Such cases are making a huge dent into the medical expenditure and LTC expenditure of the Government on its employees. A thorough inquiry needs to be carried out to unearth the fake cases and rectifications carried out. This will reduce the Government expenditure to some extent. Further, those employees who are shirkers and do not do their job should be identified based on some testing parameters and the facility of LTC, Honorarium etc. should be withdrawn from them. This will not only reduce expenditure but will act as a deterrent for the employees who do not perform.

BBS

Also raid Kothas in Delhi?

Why didn't Bharti of AAP try to raid the Kothas of G.B.Road in Delhi? Because there he might have got roughed up by the pimps and besides as is well known, the patrons of child sex cut across party lines and reach the very top. The children of the hills of Uttrakhand are regularly trafficked to supply the brothels of Delhi, Agra, Lucknow and Saharanpur. How come AAP does not know this and is doing nothing about it? Raids like charity begins at home.

D Choudhury

Kejriwal's Theatre of Absurdity

Kejriwal's dharna violating prohibitory orders in Delhi went unpunished by the MHA. Is Aam aadmi now a privileged specie? He staged a dharna only to legitimize his ministers' vigilantism. Besides causing hardships to the common man, Kejriwal's antics had diplomatic implications. The External Affairs Ministry had to intervene to assure diplomats from African countries that the incident was an aberration, and that it should not be viewed as an instance of how the country treats African nationals. Delhi Chief minister holding Cabinet meeting inside car and his ministers' clearing official files on dharna site, do not constitute Good Governance. Is this called leading by examples?

A K Saxena (A retired civil servant)

Kejriwal should grow up and lead.

Arvind Kejriwal did raise the expectations of all of us who yearn for probity in public life. We were thrilled when he broke the bastion of established political crooks and formed the government in Delhi. But his latest antics, dharna and chaos and refusal of security with utter disregard for the dignity of the office he holds has disappointed his admirers too. Governance cannot be done from streets. This is at the most mobocracy and will be setting dangerous precedents for people taking to the streets to compel the authorities to meet their genuine or not so genuine demands. He has also shocked us by his hints to disrupt the Republic Day. This is unpatriotic, Kejriwal. Please grow up and lead.

Aarti Khosla

Kejriwal playing the media

What else could Kejriwal do other than what he did to awaken the Delhi Police. A chief minister asking for removal of three police junior officers to facilitate a enquiry is of concern to some where scores are suspended just on a drop of a hat when HM security is involved. Number of people have died because ambulances cannot move due to vvip movement. All this is acceptabme to some. Numerous forced Bandhs are organised by Political parties. Unruly scenes are seen at Parliament with members tearing documents and many such methods are resorted by mainstream political parties. A dharna by Delhi CM is a much better and legal way to protest. In spite of this why people should object to it is surprising espically Cong and BJP who have lost all moral authority to criticise. Ask the common man 90% approve of kejriwals actions which is also reflected in all media surveys.

Bharat

Excellent choice

In any case, G Sai Prasad is an excellent choice for heading the NHPC; he did an excellent job about 7-8 years back as CMD of the largest power Discom (APCPDCL)of Andhra Pradesh.

Surinder Pal

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