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Face of newly constituted Cabinet Committee on Security
The newly constituted Cabinet Committee on Security includes PM Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Finance & Defence Minister Arun Jaitley.

Newly constituted Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
Apart from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the newly constituted Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs includes Rajnath Singh (Home Minister), Sushma Swaraj (External Affairs Minister), Arun Jaitley (Union Minister for Finance & Defence), Nitin Gadkari (Union Minister for Road Transport & Infrastructure), Venkaiah Naidu (Urban Development Minister), D V Sadanand Gowda (Railway Minister), Ravi Shankar Prasad (Union Minister for Law & Justice), Radha Mohan Singh (Agriculture Minister), Ashok Gajapathi Raju (Civil Aviation Minister), Harsimrat Kaur Badal (Minister for Food Processing Industries). The CCEA includes few more faces as special invittee; Dharmendra Pradhan (Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas), Nirmala Sitharaman (Commerce Minister), Piyush Goyal (Union Minister for Power & Coal).

BUREAUCRACY

Orders of Srivastava as PS to Tomar issued
The orders of Nikunj Kumar Srivastava for the appointment as Private Secretary to Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of Labour & Employment, Steel and Mines have been issued by the Government of India. He is a 1998 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.
(We said this on June 2, 2014)

Navnit appointed Director in PMO
Brajendra Navnit has been appointed as Director in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). He is a 1999 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

13 IA&AS officers 1993 batch empanelled as JS in GoI
As many as 13 officers belonging to Indian Audit and Accounts Service (IA&AS) of 1993 batch have been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. The officers are: S Alok, Deeapk Narain, Ms E parameswaran Nivedita, Himanshu Kashyap dharmadarshi, Chintamani Manohar Sane, Biren Dineshchandra Parmar, Samar Kant Thakur, Vishal Bansal, Sanjay Kumar Jhan, Bijay Kumar Mohanty, Ravindra Pattar, Athikho Chalai and Ms Yatinder Prasad.

12 IA&AS officers 1992 batch empanelled as JS in GoI
As many as 12 officers belonging to Indian Audit and Accounts Service (IA&AS) of 1992 batch have been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. The officers are: Nilotpal Goswami, Pravir Pandey, Pramod Kumar, Ms Geeta Menon, Ms Aman Deep Chatha, Inder Deep Singh Dhariwal, Saurav Kumar Jaipuriyar, Stephen Hongray, Sushil Kumar, Bhanu Pratap Yadav, Guljari Lal and Praveen Kumar Singh.

Lt Gen Hooda is Northern Army Commander
Lt General DS Hooda will take over on July 1 as the Northern Army Commander.

Lt Gen Saha to head 15 Crops
Lt General Subrata Saha will now head Srinagar-based 15 Crops. He will succeed Lt Gen Gurmit Singh.

Lt Gen Negi to head 14 Crops
Lt General BS Negi will now head Leh-based 14 Crops . He will succeed Lt Gen Rakesh Sharma.

Dutt appointed as PS to Indrajit Singh
Brahm Dutt, who retired as Joint Secretary in Lok Sabha Secretariat, has been appointed as Private Secretary to Inderjit Singh, Minister of State (Independent charge) for Planning, Statistics and Programme Implementation.

Prakash waiting for ACS rank in Bihar
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that Vijay Prakash may soon be elevated to the rank of Additional Chief Secretary in Bihar. He is 1981 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Negi also waiting for ACS rank in Bihar
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that Shakti Kumar Negi may soon be elevated to the rank of Additional Chief Secretary in Bihar. He is 1981 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Lt Gen Gill to be Chairman Punjab PSC !
Lt Gen T S Gill is likely to be appointed Chairman of the Punjab Public Service Commission .

Mishra to be Administrator TFA Haryana
Shyamal Misra has been appointed Administrator, Trade Fair Authority, Haryana Bhawan, New Delhi. He is a 1996 batch IAS officer.

Singh promoted as Superintending Engineer in GoI
M Riten Kumar Singh has been promoted to the grade of Superintending Engineer (Civil) in Government of India. He is a Central Engineering Service officer.

Suparna Deb posted as PD (Audit), Ordinance Factories, New Delhi
Suparna Deb, Principal Director of Audit, Ordnance Factories, Kolkata, has been transferred and posted as Principal Director of Commercial Audit and Ex- Officio Member Audit Board-II, New Delhi.

Central deputation tenure of Rajeev Gangal ending on July 2
The central deputation tenure of Rajeev Gangal as Director in the Ministry of Communications & Info Tech is coming to an end on July 2, 2014. He is a 1991 batch IRTS officer.

Dr Mittal returns to MEA Hqs
CG in Ho Chi Minha City Dr Deepak Mittal has been moved to the MEA Headquarters.

Richa Gaharwar likely to join central deputation
Richa Gaharwar is expected to join central deputation at Deputy Secretary/Director level. Richa is a 2002 batch IRS-IT officer.

Justice Naidu appointed as Addl Judge, Kerala HC
Justice Dama Seshadri Naidu, Additional Judge of the High Court of Telangana & Andhra Pradesh, has been appointed as the Additional Judge of the Kerala High Court.

Justice Mohunta appointed as Judge, Punjab& Haryana
Justice Ashutosh Mohunta, Judge of the High Court of Telangana and Aandhra Pradesh, has been transferred to the High Court of Punjab & Haryana in the same capacity.

Punjab & Haryana HC gets two Additional Judges
Mrs Rekha Mittal and Inderjit Singh have been appointed as Additional Judges of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana for a period of two years.

HSL Director passes away
Hindustan Shipyard Limited Director (Corporate Planning and Personnel) Commodore KLN Prasad has passed away in Mumbai. He was 59.

Delhi Govt rewards Satbir Silas, gets the charge of Delhi Transport Commissioner
In a sudden move Delhi Govt has assigned Satbir Silas Bedi with the additional charge of Delhi Transport Commissioner. The 1986 batch IAS officer of UT cadre is also heading the Social Welfare Dept, Govt of Delhi, as Principal Secretary.

Union Minister for S&T presents innovation award to HAL (UPDATED)
Dr. Jitendra Singh, the Union Minister of State for Science & Technology, has presented the ‘Best PSU Excellence Award’ to HAL under innovation category at a program in Delhi recently. The awards were given by The Bureaucracy Today in various categories. The event attracted MPs, senior bureaucrats and top executives of the Public Sector Undertakings. Mrugendra Kumar, Regional Manager, HAL (Delhi) received the award on behalf of the company. R&D is one of HAL’s focus areas. In last two years alone, HAL filed over 280 patents and being a strategic defence organization, the Company intends to file more patents to protect its intellectual property developed with large investments. HAL Board also has decided to create an R&D corpus by earmarking 1/10th of the annual profits of the Company for taking up advanced and applied research in aerospace domain. Besides encouraging cutting-edge research work in the area of aerospace engineering, both within HAL and at various other levels, HAL has established chairs at four IITs, Mumbai, Roorkee, Kanpur and Kharagpur. The company has signed MoUs with IIT (Chennai), DRDO laboratories and private industries to initiate new programs; identify research areas and provide technical consultancy to the Company. Recently, HAL constituted Committee of Institutions Network (COIN) under the chairmanship of Director (D&D), T Suvarna Raju consisting of Head of all R&D Centres to bring in synergy among the all R&D Centres of HAL and boost the Company’s indigenization drive. The Government of India has set up Design & Development Management Board (DDMB) under the chairmanship of Chairman, HAL, Dr R K Tyagi, which includes representation from DRDO labs, officials of Department of Defence Production and customers. The DDMB is mandated suggest ways and means to strengthen design and development in aerospace and promote self-reliance in critical areas of India’s defence preparedness.

51 IPS officers transferred in Bihar (UPDATED)
As many as 51 officers belonging to Indian Police Service (IPS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Bihar. Accordingly, S K Bhardwaj has been posted as ADG, Wireless with additional charge of ADG, Training while K S Diwivedi was made ADG, Rail and Kumar Rajesh Chandra is ADG, Bihar State Sports Authority with additional charge of ADG, Modernization. Similarly, Vinay Kumar has been appointed as IG, Provisioning with additional charge of Home Guard; Pravin Vashisht as IG, Wireless and Technical Services; J S Gangwar as IG, Special Branch with additional charge of Economic Offence; Jitendra Kumar as IG, CID; Kundan Krishnan as ig, Patna range; Amit Kumar as IG, Training; Paresh Saxean as IG, ATS with charge of IG, Security, Special Branch; Nirmal Kumar Azad as IG, Railway; Sushil M Khopade as IG, Muzaffarpur range; Pankah Kumar Darad as IG, Civil Security; Rajesh Kumar as IG, Bhojpur with charge of Commandant of MMP, Aara; Jitendra Rana as SSP, Muzaffarpur; Nishant Kumar Tiwari as SP, Samastipur; M Sunil Kumar Naik as Commandant Battalion 5 BAF, Patna; P Kannan as SSP, Gaya; Vivek Kumar as SP, Bhagalpur; Anand Kumar Singh as Principal CTS, Nathnagar; Deepak Barnwal as SP, Kishanganj; Ms Kim as SP, Khagadiya; Mrs Harprit Kaur as SP, Weaker Section, CID; Manoj Kumar as SP, Begusrai; Ms Minu Kumar as Assistant to IG, Welfare; Manavjeet Singh Dhillo as Assistant to IG (Q), Patna; Jayant Kant as SP, Jamuai; Himanshu Shankar Trivedi as SP, Navada; Chandan Kumar Kushwaha as SP, Rohtas; Ashish Bharti as SP, Nagar, Patna; Rajendra Kumar Bhil as Commandant, BAF 7 Battalion, Katihar; Satyavir Singh as SP, Shekhpura; Mrs Natasha Gudiya as SP, Rail, Jamalpur; Amitabh Kumar Das as SP, Human Rights Commision, Patna; Anil Kumar Singh as SP, Sahrasa; Upendra Kumar Sinha as SP, Madhepura; Rakesh Kumar as SP, Nagar, Gaya; Chandrika Prasad as SP, SCRB, Patna; Moh. Shafiul Haq as Commandant BAF Battalion 1, Patna; Dr Parvez Akhtar as SP, Arval; Pushkar Anand as Assistant Director, Bihar Police Academy; Satya Prakash as SP, Banka; Har kishor Roy as SP, Gopalganj; Asgar Imam as SP, Nigrani, Patna; Binod Kumar Chaudhary as SP, CID; Vikas Verman as SP, Siwan; Kshtranil Singh as SP, Katihar; Naval Kishore Singh as SP, Sitamarhi; Pankaj Sinha as SP, EOW, Patna and B N Jha was appointed as Commandant, BAF Battalion 14, Patna.

CORPORATE

Parikh re-appointed MD, Ocean Agro India Ltd
Ocean Agro India Ltd has re-appointed Kaushikbhai Parikh as Managing Director of the company.

Patel re-appointed Joint MD, Ocean Agro India Ltd
Manharbhai Patel has been re-appointed as Joint Managing Director of Ocean Agro India Ltd

Kapoor to be appointed MD, Winsome Diamonds and Jewellery Ltd?
The Board of Winsome Diamonds and Jewellery Ltd is to appoint Jaikumar Kapoor as Managing Director of the company.

Mohanraj re-designated CFO & CS, Caplin Point Laboratories Ltd
Caplin Point Laboratories Ltd has re-designated S Mohanraj as the Chief Financial Officer & Company Secretary of the company.

Rateria appointed CS, Mapro Industries Ltd
Mapro Industries Ltd has appointed Ms Nidhi Rateria as Company Secretary of the company.

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Suggestions to prevent corruption and misuse

All allowances should be fixed at various levels and should be added to salary only. No reimbursements like for Newspapers, telephones, LTC etc.

Nandan

PM should clear the Augean stables at home first.
It should not be forgotten that 'Modi wave' that brought NDA to power took inspiration from Anna Hazare's anti-corruption and accountability drive. Several allegations have been made prior to the election against the present CBI Director, ED and several other officers that they were functioning as stooges of the Congress High Command. It is surprising that even after so many days, Modi has not taken any action against such officers nor replaced them. A moot case is that of the disparaging affidavit given by defence ministry officials in the SC against their own minister V K Singh. It gave such a bad name to NDA and no head rolled in the Ministry. Why no enquiry has been ordered about Gandhi family's assets in Swiss Banks about which Subramania Swamy has been vociferous about for so many years? The victory should not go into the head of Modi as a personal victory for him, for people can easily be disheartened. Instead of going abroad to become a second Nehru, he should clear the Augean stables at home first.

N Krishnan

Canteens be checked for their food quality

The Canteens working in different Ministries/Buildings should be checked periodically for their food quality. They are using water, space, electricity, gas etc. free of cost still they charge high for the products which are carry-forward ones. Example : Bikano in Nirman Bhavan.

Vijay Menon

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