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When nothing else inspires History does ! (32)
Every man alone is sincere at the entrance of a second person hypocrisy begins.

Are they paper tigers ?
One of the unintended beneficiaries of more "Governance" Mantra of the NDA Govt. is the reduced visits of Corporate Honchos to the so called Corridors of Power. Said a Magnate- If things happen, why should we spend Time, Money and Effort to Molly Coddle the now Paper Tigers.

BUREAUCRACY

Dubey is poised to be taken on board with PMO as AS
If some highly placed sources are to be believed Dr A K Dubey may soon be appointed as Additional Secretary with PMO as the successor of Shatrughan Singh. The 1982 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre is presently serving as Additional Secretary, Coal.

11 IPS officers retiring in July
As many as 11 officers belonging to India Police Service (IPS) of various cadres and batches are retiring in July 2014. The officers include: P Muni Swamy of Andhra Pradesh cadre; T D Khar of Assam & Meghalaya cadre; Balbir Singh of Haryana cadre; Kastoori Lal Bhagwat of Jammu and Kashmir cadre; Iswarachandra Vidyasagar of Karnataka cadre; S A Kakkar of Maharashtra cadre; Khinya Ram of Manipur-Tripura cadre; Gurdev Singh of Punjab cadre; Vipul Chaturvedi and Praveen Sharma of Rajasthan cadre and D K Rai of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Sanjay Kothari to get additional charge of DoPT ?
Sanjay Kothari is expected to get additional charge of the Department of Personnel on August 1. He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

Appointments for CPMFs put on hold for time being?
Reportedly all appointments for Central Paramilitary Forces have been put on hold for the time being.

Gauba appointed as Additional Secretary, MHA
Rajiv Gauba has been appointed as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre.

Khulbe posted as Additional Secretary, DoPT
Bhaskar Chandra Khulbe has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT). He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Mishra appointed as Additional Secretary, Urban Development
Durga Shankar Mishra has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development in Government of India. He is a 1984 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Panda appointed as Additional Secretary, Health & Family Welfare
Arun Kumar Panda has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Health and Family Welfare. He is a 1984 batch IAS officer of Orissa cadre.

Ravi Kant appointed as Additional Secretary, Defence
Ravi Kant has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Defence. He is a 1984 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Tarun Bajaj appointed as Joint Secretary, Economic Affairs
Tarun Bajaj has been appointed as Joint Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs in Government of India. He is a 1988 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

PS to former MoS HRD is now DM, Moradabad
Deepak Agrawal has been appointed as DM, Moradabad. The 2000 btach IAS officer of U P cadre previously served as PS to Jitin Prasad, Union Minister of State for HRD.

P K Mishra repatriated to parent cadre
P K Mishra, Joint Secretary in the Defence Production, has been accorded premature repatriation to his parent cadre. He is a 1984 batch IA&AS officer.


Deputation tenure of Vyas extended
The central deputation tenure for Madhup Vyas, IAS (AGMU, 2000) has been extended upto 02.08.2016, along with redesignation as Director in Ministry of Commerce .


File of IG empanelment (1994 batch IPS) reaches to PMO for approval
It is reliably learnt that the file of 1994 batch IPS officers regarding IG empanelment has reached the PMO last week. After PM's approval as many as 84 IPS officers would get empanelled to be posted as Inspector General or equivalent with Government of India. The probable names who may find place on the list are; Vineet Kumar Goyal WB, Niraj Kumar Singh WB, Man Singh WB, Rajesh Khurana UT, Anurag Kumar UT, Anand Mohan UT, Garima Bhatnagar UT, Neeraj Thakur UT, Gurjinder Pal Singh CH, Himanshu Gupta CH, K Sivarama Prasad Kalluri CH, Manoj Shashidhar GJ, Kundan Krishnan BH, Amit Kumar BH, Nirmal Kumar Azad BH, Anupama Nilekar Chandra BH, Deepak Kumar AM, Hemonlang Nongpluh AM, Apte Vin ayak Prabhakar AP, Abilasha Bisht AP, Soumya Mishra AP, Shikha Goel AP, Kumar Vishwajeet AP, Kothakota Srinivasa Reddy AP, A Ravi Shankar AP, B Shiva Dhar Reddy AP, Rakesh Aggarwal HP, S Zahur Haidar Zaidi HP, Navdeep Singh Virk HY, Shrikant Jadhav HY, Anil Kumar HY, Kala Ramachandran HY, Tadasha Mishra Jh, Sampat Meena JH, Syed Javaid Mujtaba Gilani JK, Abdul Gani Mir JK, M Sulaiman Salaria JK, Alok Puri JK, Muneer Ahmad Khan Jk, Manoj Abraham KL, Pronab Mohanty KN, Alok Kumar KN, B Dayananda KN, Rajesh Kumar Arya RJ, Anil Paliwal RJ, Anand Kumar Srivastava RJ, Ashok Kumar Rathore RJ, Malini Agarwal RJ, N Sridhar Rao SK, Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal TN, G Venkataraman TN, Vinit Dev Wankhede TN, Sanjay Mathur TN, Anant Kumar Singh MP, Manmeet Singh Narang MP, Ashutosh Roy MP, Raja Babu Singh MP, Deo Prakash Gupta MP, Anurag MT, Lupheng Kailun MT, Sanjib Panda OR, Yoshwant Kumar Jethwa OR, Sukhwinder Singh MH, Anup Kumar Singh MH, Vineet Agarwal MH, Ramanand Sunil Bharma MH, Deven Bharati MH, Anita Punj PB, Naresh Kumar PB, Ram Singh PB, Sudhanshu S Srivastava PB, Praveen Kumar Sinha PB, B Chandra Sekhar PB, Amardeep Singh Rai PB, Neeraja Voruvuru PB, L V Aantony Dev Kumar UL, Binod Kumar Singh UP, Akhil Kumar UP, Raja Srivastava UP, Dhruva Kant Thakur UP, Sujeet Pandey UP, Prakash D UP, Asim Kumar Arun UP, Jai Narayana Singh UP.

Ms Sarna soon to move to Delhi Chief Commissioner, TAR
Ms Vanaja Narayan Sarna is all set to move to Delhi as Chief Commissioner, TAR. The 1980 batch IRS (C&CE) officer is presently serving in Bangalore as Chief Commissioner, Customs & Central Excise.

Ms Subramanian soon to move to Bangalore as Chief Commissioner
Ms Kameswari Subramanian is all set to move to Bangalore as as Chief Commissioner, Customs & Central Excise. The 1980 batch IRS (C&CE) officer is presently serving in Kolkata as Chief Commissioner, Customs & Excise. In her new stint she will succeed Ms Vanaja N Sarna in Bangalore.

Gupta will soon to move to Ahmedabad as Chief Commissioner
Indrajit Das Gupta is all set to move to Ahmedabad as Chief Commissioner, Customs & Excise. The 1981 batch IRS (C&CE) officer is presently serving in Mysore as Chief Commissioner, Customs & Central Excise.

Sinha poised for Jt Director, Aviation Research Centre
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that Praveen Sinha may be appointed as Joint Director, Aviation Research Centre under the Ministry of Civil Aviation. The 1988 cadre IPS officer of Gujarat cadre is presently serving in the state.

ACC may soon ratify the selection of T K Nag as CMD, NCL
As the grapevine has it ACC may soon approve the selection of Dr T K Nag as CMD, Northern Coalfields Limited. PESB had selected T K Nag from among 12 candidates on February 19, 2014 which is yet awaiting ACC's approval. Nag is presently serving CCL as Director (Technical). Till last week the file was under submission with the new Union Minister for Coal.

Three IPS officers get fresh postings in MP
Three officers belonging to Indian Police Service (IPS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Madhya Pradesh. Accordingly, A K Pandey has been appointed as SP, Rail, Jabalpur while Jaidevan A was made Assistant IG, PHQ, Bhopal and Siddharath Bahuguna is now SP, Damoh.

Yogeshwar Varma is also Ambassador to Somalia
Yogeshwar Varma, presently High commissioner of India to Kenya, has been concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to the Federal Republic of Somalia, with residence in Nairobi (Kenya). He is a 1980 batch IFS officer.

Misra accredited as Ambassador to Montenegro
Rajiva Misra, presently Ambassador of India to Austria, has been concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to Montenegro, with residence in Vienna. He is a 1980 batch IFS officer.

Chongthu appointed as Bhagalpur Divisional Commissioner in Bihar
Robert Lalchungnunga Chongthu has been appointed as Commissioner, Bhagalpur division with additional charge of Commissioner, Munger division in Bihar. He is a 1997 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Sanjiv Hans relieved to join as PS to Ram Vilas Paswan
The Government of Bihar has relieved Sanjiv Hans of cadre responsibility enabling him to join as Private Secretary to Ramvilas Paswan, Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. He is a 1997 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Ms Garima Gupta appointed as Director, Social Welfare in Delhi Govt
Ms Garima Gupta has been appointed as Director, Social Welfare in Delhi Government. She is a 2004 batch IAS officer of AGMUT cadre.

A C Singh appointed as ASG, Western Zone
A senior advocate, Anil Chandrabali Singh has been appointed as Additional Solicitor General (ASG) of India (Western Zone) in the Bombay High Court.

Union budget: a roadmap for resurgence, says Verma, SAIL Chairman
Reacting to the union budget, SAIL Chairman, C S Verma says that against a challenging and often conflicting set of objectives for the current fiscal, the FM has done an excellent balancing act. The renewed focus on infrastructure viz. development of smart cities, ports, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna, power plants, plan for doubling pipeline grid, metro for tier 2 cities, industrial corridor, incentives for housing, and revival of SEZ etc. will go a long way to further consolidate growth and giving fillip to steel sector which has faced stagnant demand of late. The increase in customs duty for stainless steel will provide the requisite protection at a time when the demand has slackened. Other measures such as reduction in customs duty for steel grade limestone and dolomite, as well as ships for breaking should also help the industry. However, the industry particularly the integrated steel sector will be impacted by customs duty increase on coking coal to 2.5%.

AP CM urges NTPC CMD to expedite Pudimadaka project (UPDATED)
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has requested CMD, NTPC to expedite work on setting up of 4000 MW at Pudimadaka. Principal Sec. Industries was directed to finalize a suitable site within 15 days, so that NTPC can go ahead with setting up power project. CMD/NTPC informed that about 200 MW from NTPC Jhajjar & 100 MW from NTPC Barh can be provided to AP immediately. CM directed Energy Dept to avail power from the above projects by entering PPAs with the above projects. It was also decided to avail power from NTPC Farakka on long term basis. NTPC also agreed to set up a 300 MW solar park in Guntur Dist., through competitive bidding, so that AP can get solar energy at lowest tariff. This will add green energy to AP's power portfolio. Arup Roy Choudhury, Chairman & Managing Director/NTPC along with N N Mishra, Dir. (Operations) and A K Jha, Dir. (Technical) met N Chandrababu Naidu, Chief Minister of AP. Sri JSV Prasad (Principal Sec. Industries, GoAP), G Sai Prasad (Sec. to CM, GoAP), Ajay Jain (Sec. Energy, GoAP), Vijayanand (MD, APGENCO & CMD APTRANSCO) were also present at the meeting held recently.

Tenure of Ramesh Abhishek as Chairman, FMC extended (UPDATED)
The tenure of Ramesh Abhishek as Chairman, Forward Markets Commission (FMC) has been extended for a period of three months with effect from July 8, 2014. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Tenure of Mrs Ramaiyer as MD, HDCL extended (UPDATED)
Deputation tenure of Mrs Shailaja Ramaiyer as Managing Director, Handicrafts Development Corporation Limited (HDCL), has been extended for a period of one year upto July 2015 in Telangana. She is a 1997 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Mohanty is also Chairman, RSSC in Rajasthan (UPDATED)
Jagdish Chandra Mohanty has been given an additional charge of Chairman, Rajasthan State Sports Council (RSSC), Jaipur. He is a 1985 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Dinesh Maheshwari is Judge, Allahabad High Court (UPDATED)
Justice Dinesh Maheshwari, Judge of the High Court of Rajasthan, has been transferred to the Allahabad High Court in the same capacity.

Dr Chaudhary appointed as Spl Secretary, Language Art & Culture in HP (UPDATED)
Dr Sunil Kumar Chaudhary has been appointed as Special Secretary, Language Art & Culture and Sainik Welfare Department in Himachal Pradesh besides additional charge of Chief Executive Officer, HIMUDA, Shimla. He is a 2002 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh.

Gujarat High Court three Judges (UPDATED)
Justice Subodhkumar Gunvantlal Shah, Justice Satish Hemchandra Vora and Justice Ghanshyam Raghumani Udhwani have been appointed as Judges of Gujarat High Court.

Rajendra Dhirajlal Kothari is Additional Judge, Gujarat HC (UPDATED)
Justice Rajendra Dhirajlal Kothari has been appointed as Additional Judge of Gujarat High Court.

Sanjay Kumar posted as Resident Commissioner, Telangana Bhawan, New Delhi (UPDATED)
Sanjay Kumar has been appointed as Resident Commissioner, Telangana Bhawan to New Delhi. He is a 1995 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh (Telangana) cadre.

S B Singh is also Member (P&V), CBEC (UPDATED)
S B Singh, (CX) CBEC has been given an additional charge of Member (P&V), CBEC during the period of her absence on leave.

CORPORATE

Ms Buch resigns as Director, NIIT Limited
Ms Madhabi Puri Buch has resigned as Director of NIIT Limited.

Handa appointed Independent Director, Mukta Arts Ltd
Keval Handa has been appointed as Independent Director of Mukta Arts Ltd.

Jain appointed CFO, Pioneer Embroideries Ltd
Pioneer Embroideries Ltd has appointed Shriprakash Jain as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the company.

Sarin ceases to be Director, Nucleus Software Exports Ltd
Sanjiv Sarin has ceased to be Director of Nucleus Software Exports Ltd.

Raheja resigns as Director, EIH Ltd
Rajan Raheja has resigned as Director of EIH Ltd

Agarwal resigns as Director, Cosmo Films Ltd
Badri Agarwal has resigned as Director of Cosmo Films Ltd.

Shah appointed Independent Director, Kemrock Industries and Exports Ltd
Kemrock Industries and Exports Ltd has appointed Pinakin Shah as an Independent Director of the company.

Tambe appointed CS, Hardcastle & Waud Manufacturing Company Ltd
Hardcastle & Waud Manufacturing Company Ltd has appointed Ms Smita Anant Tambe as Company Secretary of the company.

Jayadevan appointed GM, Courtyard by Marriott, Chennai
Prakash Jayadevan has been appointed as General Manager of Courtyard by Marriott, Chennai

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Need for Solid Civil service

I feel to create a solid Civil Service which should act as "steel frame" for the Government. India must create a structure of Civil Service where pay parity is 1:7. The pay structure should be uniform throughout India. This should also be followed by States too in similar lines i.e. pay parity 1:7 and similar pay scales. Accountability, performance, delivery and merit should be the motto for continuance in the job. The civil service should be officer oriented, responsibility and performance oriented, & finally creativity must find special place in the civil service. If this is really followed in letter and spirits, India can create a best "steel frame" which can fly India's civil service flight at a supersonic speed.

Harish Kumar

Difficult to identify hoarders?

They do their business openly. They are audacious. They are called by several names such as hoarders, middlemen, black-marketer etc. They are the czars of black money. They hoard tons of cash in the country and abroad. They finance elections of most parties. They contest on tickets of most parties. They do business benami as they invest in real estate benami. The government, irrespective of composition, blames them but fails to identify them. The TV crews film them and discuss in studios with guest from the elite community. Whistleblowers smell an opportunity for revenge on their tormentors and give all required information for the law and/or order agencies to implement the law and restore a semblance of some kind of order. We are assured of action. We are promised tougher laws. We must promise in return to return them to power again. Doing business in India was never easy. Now even working in public service is not easy. So, when the middlemen etc hoard essential commodities teasing the brains out of civil supplies & consumer affairs agencies, the only conclusion is that they might be everywhere but they can't be identified. When asked how it was so, a wiseman cracked: can you identify God? Or for that matter the Devil? Why the hell you are after that Paul?

M L Gupta

Trap to fall in crony capitalism in the disguise of reforms for business / industry policies

Businessman / Industry forum is asking new NDA Govt for more benefits / reforms and act soft on them and tough on General Public in the July budget. They want FM to tell the general public (Aam Admi) that Acche din for them can come with a lag of one or two years. Business / Industry need Acche din immediately they are not ready / willing at all to share the tough decisions with the public. Will the new Govt also come under the trap of crony capitalism?

V K SHAH

Opening-up Bureaucracy for Outside Experts

Modi Government's move to open up Bureaucracy to outside experts is fraught with dangers of favoritism and arbitrariness. Previous Government also started this trend but with favorites being picked-up by Selection / Search Committees without involvement of UPSC, the agency responsible for selection to higher civil services of the country. The mess-up in MOSPI and other Departments where experiment was made is for all to see, where due to lack of experience and caliber of the so called experts, the Ministry is being run by junior level bureaucrats having vested interests.

Surendra Mohan

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