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POLITICS

When nothing else inspires, history does ! (4)
Fresh air is as necessary for political parties, as for individuals.

Glamorous women politicians only in BJP ?
Heard at a get-together that mostly glamorous women politicians are only in the BJP. Any logic ?.

BUREAUCRACY

S Jayshankar tipped for Foreign Security Adviser to PM
As the grapevine has it, Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar may soon be taken on board as Foreign Security Adviser to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The 1977 batch IFS officer is serving as Ambassador of India to the United States since December 2013. Prior to the present assignment, he served in China as Indian Ambassador. It is learnt that he will report directly to the Prime Minister while advising him on foreign policy issues.

Modi to rope in tenchocrats ?
If insiders are to be believed, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to rope in some technocrats from different sectors to advise him.

Orders of Thankachen as MD, CRWC issued
The orders of K U Thankachen, Chief Manager, CONCOR, for the appointment as Managing Director, Central Railside Warehouse Company Limited (CRWC) have been issued by the Government of India.
(We said this on Dec 11, 2013)

Anuj Aggarwal selected as Member (HR), AAI
Anuj Aggarwal, ED, AAI, has been selected for the post of Member (HR), Airport Authority of India (AAI) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on June 4, 2014. As many as 13 persons were interviewed for the same.

Shukla likely to repatriate prematurely to West Bengal ?
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that R S Shukla may soon repatriate to West Bengal, his cadre state. His tenure on central deputation is completing by April 2015. The 1986 batch IAS officer is presently serving as Deputy Director Administration, AIIMS, Delhi.

Bhanu also PS Home and Politics in Assam
M G V K Bhanu, presently serving as Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister of Assam, is also given charge of PS Home and Politics.He is a 1985 batch IAS officer of Assam Meghalaya cadre.

Vishal Gagan poised to be PS to Union Tribal Affairs Minister
As the grapevine has it, Vishal Gagan is all set to be appointed as PS to Union Minister for Tribal Affairs, Juyal Oraon,. The 1998 batch IAS officer of Orissa cadre has previously served as PS to Union MoS for MSME K H Muniyappa.

Singh poised to be PS to Union Health Minister
As the grapevine has it, D N Singh is all set to be appointed as PS to Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Dr Harshvardhan. Singh is 1987 batch officer of DANICS cadre.

Chandra poised to get additional charge of PRC, Andhra Pradesh in Delhi
As the grapevine has it, Satish Chandra is all set to repatriate prematurely as Principal Secretary to Andhra CM, is tipped to get the additional charge of Principal Resident Commissioner, Andhra Pradesh in Delhi. The 1986 batch IAS officer of AP cadre has been serving as Joint Secretary, Dept of Fertilizers, GoI.

A K Sawhni also in the fray of PS to the new CM of Andhra Pradesh
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that Ajay Prakash Sawhney is also in the race for Principal Secretary to the new Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh who is likely to take oath on June 8. The 1984 batch IAS officer is presently Principal Secretary, Government of Andhra Pradesh.

Ashish Chatterjee is new PS to Commerce Minister

Ashish Chatterjee will be Private Secretary to the new Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. He is a 1999 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Sunil Kumar Singh looking after as PS to Heavy Industries Minister
Sunil Kumar Singh, Director, Heavy Industries, has been entrusted with the responsibility of Private Secretary to Heavy Industries Minister. He is an officer of Indian Statistical Service (ISS).

Karan Singh is AG (A&E), Haryana
Karan Singh, Principal Director (Exam) in the office of Accountant General, on relief from his present duties by PK Verma, Principal Director (Rajbhasha), who will hold additional charge of the post until further orders has been transferred and posted as Accountant General (A&E), Haryana, Chandigarh against the vacancy on the superannuation of Mohinder Singh.

1986 batch IAS is ACS in Sikkim
S C Gupta on repatriation from the GoI has taken over as Addl Chief Secy, Home, Govt. of Sikkim. He is a 1986 batch IAS officer.

Aparna S Sharma posted as Director, Higher Education in GoI
CSS officer Aparna S Sharma has been transferred and posted as Director, Higher Education Ministry.

Deori posted as Director, Heavy Industries in GoI
CSS officer A K Deori has been transferred and posted as Director, Heavy Industries Ministry.

T R Singal posted as Director, Statistics & Programme Implementation in GoI
T R Singal has been transferred and posted as Director, Statistics & Programme Implementation Ministry. He is a CSS officer.

CJ of Uttarakhand High Court retires
Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court Justice Barin Ghosh has retired on Wednesday.

G C Yadav promoted as DS, MHA
G C Yadav has been promoted as Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs. He is a CSS officer.

3 IRS-IT officers get postings after return from deputation
Three officers belonging to Indian Revenue Service of Income Tax cadre have been given postings after return from deputation. Parwinder Kaur, Sunil Chander Sharma and Dr Shalini Verma have been appointed as OSD in the office of Principal CCIT, Delhi.

PESB invites applications for MD, OMDC Ltd
The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has sought applications for the post of Managing Director, OMDC Limited lying vacant since July 15, 2013. Those willing to apply can send their applications to the PESB before July 21, 2014.

Jain shifted as Member, ITAT, Amritsar Benches
A D Jain, Member of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, Delhi, has been transferred in the same capacity, ITAT, Amritsar benches.

19 IAS officers of 2001 batch get Selection Grade in J&K
As many as 19 officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) of 2001 batch have been promoted to the Selection Grade in Jammu and Kashmir. The officers are: Sanjeev Verma, Dr Mandeep Kumar Bhandari, Mohammad Afzal Bhat, Mohammad Shafi Rather, Sudershan sharma, Mehraj Ahmad Kakroo, Satesh Nehru, Parvez Ahmad Malik, Anal Kumar Gupta, Raj Kumar Bhagat, Abdul Majid Mir, Nirmal Sharma, Shafat Noor Barlas, Abdul Latief Deva, Ramesh Kumar Koul, Khurshid Ahmad Shah, Mohammad Sharif Sood, Zaffar Ahmad Bhat and Abdul Maajid Ganai.

8 IAS officers get Junior Time Scale in Bihar
As many as eight Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers have been promoted to Junior Time Scale in Bihar. They are: Dinesh Kumar, OSD, Department of Industry; Giriwar Dayal Singh, Deputy Secretary, General Administration Department; Rajiv Roshan, Deputy Development Commissioner & Chief Executive Officer, Saran, Chhapra; Animesh Kumar Parashar, Deputy Development Commissioner & Chief Executive Officer, Bhojpur, Aara; Kaushal Kishore, Deputy Development Commissioner & Chief Executive Officer, Begusarai; Rachna Patil, Deputy Development Commissioner & Chief Executive Officer, Nalanda, Bihar Sharif; Chandrashekhar Singh, Deputy Development Commissioner & Chief Executive Officer, Bhagalpur and Rajkumar, Deputy Development Commissioner & Chief Executive Officer, Madhubani.

Pawan Hans inks MOU with MoCA (UPDATED)
Pawan Hans Limited (PHL) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) for its performance evaluation parameters and targets for the year 2014-15. The MOU was signed on March 28, 2014 by Anil Srivastav, CMD , PHL and Ashok Lavasa, Secretary, MoCA at Delhi in the presence of Ms Sathiyavathy Mani, AS&FA, V.Kannan, Economic Advisor,MoCA and other senior officials of Pawan Hans and MoCA.

The MOU 2014-15 has specific targets of fully utilization of Human Resources in order to achieve improved serviceability, higher deployment, higher revenue, higher profitability, implement cost control measures, expeditious settlement of pending issues, expeditious recovery of outstanding from customers, dedicated efforts for seaplane/fixed wing services, explore new business initiatives for growth, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Sustainability Development and Corporate Governance compliance.
The MOU also commits PHL on parameters like Project Management, Energy and Safety Management for sustaining.

V R Vaish, former CMD, NBCC & first DG of CPWD passes away (UPDATED)
Vidya Ram Vaish passes away on May 31st May at the age of 94. The former CMD of NBCC had retired in 1979. The first Director General of CPWD was and IIT Roorkee alumnus and was the batch topper of 1941, IIT Roorkee. He was a life time member of Delhi Public School Society and a Working Committee Member of the DPS Society. A prayer meeting would be held at 4.00 pm at Sri Sathya Sai International Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi today.

22 IAS officers get additional charges in AP (UPDATED)
As many as 22 officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been given additional charges in Andhra Pradesh. Accordingly, Chandana Khan has been given an additional charge of Principal Secretary, Youth Advancement, and Tourism & Culture Department while S P Tucker will now be holding the additional charge of Principal Secretary, Rural Development Department and Shekhar Prasad Singh is also Principal Secretary, (Registration & Stamps), Revenue Department. Similarly, Anil Chandra Punetha will also act as Commissioner, Commercial Taxes; Nilam Sawhney as Commissioner, Women, Child Welfare, Disabled & Senior Citizens Department; Jagdish Chander Sharma as Principal Secretary, Revenue Department, Commissioner, Disaster Management & Ex-officio Principal Secretary to Government; D Sambasiva Rao as Principal Secretary, Municipal Administration & Urban Development Department; Rajeswar Tiwari as Principal Secretary, Primary Education & SSA; J S Venkateswara Prasad as Principal Secretary, Industries & CIP, Principal Secretary, Higher Education Department; Dr D Sreenivasulu, Principal Secretary (Endowments), Revenue Department; Dr K S Jawahar Reddy as Secretary to (RWS), Panchayat Raj & Rural Development Department; L Premchandra Reddy as Secretary to (W & P), Finance Department; K Vijayanand as Managing Director, A P TRANSCO; Budithi Rajsekhar as Commissioner & Inspector General, Registration & Stamps, Hyderabad; Shamsher Singh Rawat as Commissioner, Excise; Y V Anuradha as Commissioner, Endowments; V Usha Rani as Commissioner, School Education; A Vani Prasad as Secretary, Backward Classes Welfare Department; B Ramanjaneyulu as Commissioner, Labour; D Vara Prasad as Commissioner and Director, Municipal Administration; Sandeep Kumar Sultania as Commissioner, Food, and Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs and A Surya Kumari as Commissioner, Appeals, Chief Commissioner of Land Administration.

10 IAS Probationers of 2013 batch get postings (UPDATED)
As many as 10 Probationers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) of 2013 batch have been given postings as Assistant Collector in Bihar. Accordingly, Raghvendra Singh has been posted to East Champaran, Motihari while Dharmendra Kumar was appointed to West Champaran, Betia and Yogendra Singh is being posted to Gaya. Similarly, Ms Shailja Sharma has been posted to Patna, Girish Kumar Mishra as Rohtas Sasaram; Navdeep Shukla, Purnia; Subrat Kumr Sen as Nalda, Bihar Sharif, Naval Kishore Chaudhary, Madhubani, Jitendra Gupta as Muzzarpur and Ms Ranjita was posted to Sitamarhi.

Three IAS officers shifted in Haryana (UPDATED)
D Suresh has been posted as MD, Haryana Minerals Ltd and Secretary, Revenue & Disaster Management while Pankaj Agarwal was posted as Director, Elementary Education Haryana and Special Secretary, School Education and Vinay Partap Singh was made SDO (Civil), Thanesar in Haryana.

CORPORATE

Ramakrishnan appointed Director, TVS Srichakra Ltd
TVS Srichakra Ltd has appointed V Ramakrishnan as Director of the company w.e.f. May 24, 2014

Chavan appointed CEO, Autoline Industries Ltd
Autoline Industries Ltd has appointed Umesh Chavan as Chief Executive Officer of the company w.e.f. June 6, 2014

Jaiswal appointed CFO, Shilpi Cable Technologies Ltd
Shilpi Cable Technologies Ltd has appointed Vikas Jaiswal as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the company, w.e.f. May 26, 2014

Prakash appointed Non Exec. Director, Intec Capital Ltd
Intec Capital Ltd has appointed Dhruv Prakash as Non - Executive Independent Director of the company.

Jindal resigns as Non Exec. Independent Director, Intec Capital Ltd
Subhash Jindal has resigned as Non-Executive Independent Director of Intec Capital Ltd

Three Independent directors cease to be on Board of Titagarh Wagons Ltd
Aloke Mookherjea, Nandan Bhattacharya, Abhas Sen have resigned as Independent directors of Titagarh Wagons Ltd w.e.f. May 29, 2014

Bang appointed Addl. Director, Thomas Scott (India) Ltd
Thomas Scott (India) Ltd has appointed Raghvendra Bang as Additional Director of the company.

Murali resigns as CFO, Thomas Scott (India) Ltd?
V Raju Murali has resigned as Chief Financial Officer of Thomas Scott (India) Ltd

Bankda resigns as Director, Syncom Healthcare Ltd
Pratik Bankda has resigned as Director of Syncom Healthcare Ltd

Dorji re-designated Whole-time Director, TAI Industries Ltd
Dasho Wangchuk Dorji has been re-designated as Whole -time Director of TAI Industries Ltd w.e.f. May 19, 2014

Ghosh appointed MD, TAI Industries Ltd?
Rohan Ghosh has been appointed as Managing Director of TAI Industries Ltd w.e.f. May 19, 2014

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How it became a pilot scheme ?

A full-fledged Centrally Sponsored Scheme was drafted by MOSPI during the 11th Plan 2007-12 to develop basic statistics for local level development (BSLLD). It had a noble purpose - to prepare / augment existing data bases for micro level planning at Village / Panchayat levels. It has taken Statistics Ministry 6 years to bring out a report of the pilot survey. How and when a full-fledged plan scheme became a pilot scheme is not known. The Economist turned Bureaucrats of the Ministry, political appointees of the previous government, conducted pilot surveys over the pilot surveys (three phases of 2 years each), and formed Committees one after another to deal with the scheme. Huge funds kept at the disposal of the scheme were surrendered at the fag end of each fiscal. The recommendations made of the 6 years pilot are nothing but trash. The New Minister of Statistics has a huge task before him to set this Ministry in order and result oriented, particularly when we have a PM who has a liking for statistics -- facts and figures.


Surendra Mohan

Stop cross subsidization in Railways

Cross subsidization in Railways should stop. There is a need to increase the rates of passenger fares. Now some may say that I am stopping poor people from travelling. But I want to say people are ready to pay for Rs.75/ for one 'paoaa, and a 'dosa' but they get agitated when fares are raised by R.50/-. Secondly people in this country are fond of doing unnecessary travels like for 'mundan', 'nakchedan' and 'kanchedan'. Finally in trains people should not be allowed to travel for less than 50 kilometers. They should travel either by bus or EMU trains only.

Anurag Srivastava


It was long overdue

The news regarding disbanding GoMs and EGoMs was long overdue. The Government should also put strictures on Committee of Secretaries (CoS) meetings which is again a bureaucratic method of avoiding taking decisions. In this case CoS meeting should take place within 3 days of receipt of a CoS Note and decision conveyed immediately. The other long winding format is the Cabinet Committees for various agenda points which also take months and years to take decisions. These are the basic instruments for policies and undue delay in these meetings has been the root cause for policy paralysis.

K S Palachandran

Other staff should also be sent back to their parent office

As mentioned regarding HRD Minister's staff, staff of Urban Development Minister, Health Minister etc. should also be directed to go back to their parent office. Private staff of ministers drawing salaries from PSUs, attached and subordinate offices appointed by ministers be discontinued. All vehicles, mobiles, furniture etc. given by these offices also be taken back.

Kumar R

Not necessary to have high qualification for HRD Ministry

It is agreed that it is not necessary to have high qualifications for Min of HRD but it is difficult to be convinced what else qualification she has to hold this high post. She is inexperienced in government administration. She lost from Amethi. She has not proved her extra ordinary skills in any other field. May be she will prove an excellent Minister but right now it is a wild guess only.

Nandan

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