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If Modi becomes PM, India Inc to be treated at par

Given the fact that the BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is assumed to be largely supported by the Corporate Houses across the country, whispersinthecorridors.com tried to find out from its surfers that which business house will be the top most gainer incase Modi assumes the high office.

And the opinions of all the respondents clubbed together indicate that no single business house will be favoured. "All will be treated at par". However, some of the surfers felt that Ambanis and Adanis will be at an added advantage.

"No business house will be number One if Modi becomes PM. All business houses will be happy because the atmosphere in the administration will no longer be anti-business. Modi will not tolerate nonsense from anybody and will not promote any one unduly", said Arjun Mallik
Another surfer N V K Prabhakar also said, "Narendra Modi is a clever administrator with a foresight. Hence instead of supporting a business house or two, he will create competition among the business houses to multiply his developmental index".

Similarly, Aarti Khosla also opines that no single corporate house is going to gain from Modi if he becomes the Prime Minister of the country. "His 'closeness' to Adani and Ambani has been made much use of in criticising him during this campaign. The critics however forget that these two corporate houses have contributed much to the growth of Gujarat and to the national growth as well", she says.
Yet another prominent contributor to our columns, A K Saxena who is a retired civil servant has opined that none of the business house will have any advantage of Modi becoming the PM because, in his view, such blatant favouritism or crony capitalism has been rampant during UPA's regime, due to systematic subversion of all investigative agencies.

Another surfer, Harish Kumar said, "Consider the flip side, if Modi becomes the PM, no direct or indirect help to any corporate house would be possible. This is a competitive world. No industrialist will have an edge over other, the prospective Modi Government will be cautious in years to come especially due to recent happenings"..
R K Nagpal who claims to have worked in Gujarat in Banking & Finance field with H Q at Ahmedabad from 1995 to 2007 asserts, "It is an admitted fact that NAMO is pro development, man of tremendous administrative capacity & capability and has changed the face of Gujarat in every field - be it infrastructure ( roads, ports power generation ( including solar power ) & distributions, it may be Tourism, may be agriculture".
Only one surfer, Sagar Chawla feels that Adani Group and Ambani group would further prosper if Modi becomes Prime Minister.

For details - See May issue of Whispers In The Corridors.

Either Modi or none ?
It is widely believed in political circles that either Narendra Modi or no one from BJP will be Prime Minister. These circles rule out possibility of compromise candidate in case NDA comes to power.

Who is better politician ?
Now a comparison has started between Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. People are discussing who is better politician.

BUREAUCRACY

16 IAS officers retiring in May
As many as 16 IAS officers are retiring in May 2014. They are N Mukateswara Rao and V Durga Das of Andhra Pradesh cadre; J G Hingrajia of Gujarat cadre; Mahendra Gyani of Madhya Pradesh cadre; M K Thombre of Maharashtra cadre; Krishna Gopal Mohapatra, Raj Kishore Choudhury and Bishnu Prasad Panda of Orissa cadre; Dr. Sarwan Singh Channy of Punjab cadre; Thanga Kaliyaperumal and Dr M Sheela Priya of Tamil Nadu cadre; Dr Jagan Nath Chamber and Sanjiv Nair of Uttar Pradesh cadre and Amrendra Kumar Singh, Ram Das Meena, Kalipada Das of West Bengal cadre.

Javed Usmani all set to move to the centre?
If some political sources are to be believed Javed Usmani, the incumbent Chief Secretary, Government of UP, is all set to move from the state. He is 1978 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.

Shakil Ahamed appointed Joint Secretary in Agriculture
Shakil P Ahamed has been appointed Joint Secretary Agriculture in the Government of India. He is a 1995 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

Meena is new JS, Social Justice
Babu Lal Meena has been appointed Joint Secretary in the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment .He is a 1991 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Tuhin Kant Pandey to return to Odisha
Advisor in the Planning Commission, Tuhir Kant Pandey, is expected to return to the parent cadre Odisha. He is a 1987 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre.

Dheeraj Gupta gets one year extension
Adviser in the Planning Commission Dheeraj Gupta has been given extension in deputation tenure till July next year. He is a 1993 batch IAS officer of Jammu &Kashmir cadre.

Atanu Purkayastha gets three months extension
Atanu Purkayastha has been given three months extension in deputation tenure ,till August. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Two 1984 batch IAS officers to retire in 2017
Two empanelled 1984 batch IAS officers will retire only in 2017.

Rahul Kulshreshth is new Ambassador to Turkey
Rahul Kulshreshth currently Joint Secretary at MEA Headquarters, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Turkey .He is a 1985 batch Indian Foreign Service officer.

Who will be CMD of UBI ?
Who will be new CMD of the United Bank of India ? Latest information says that the tie is between N K Maini and Mukesh Jain of the Punjab and Sindh Bank.

IA&AS officer posted in London
Kulwant Singh, Director (Personnel) in CAG office has been posted as Director in the O/o Principal Director of Audit, London vice Shri Amitabh Prasad.

M Surya Prakash appointed CVO of ECIL
M Surya Prakash has been appointed as Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) in the Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), New Delhi under the Department of Atomic Energy for a period upto February 3, 2016.

Three vacancies in CIC
Currently there are three vacancies of Member in the Central Information Commission (CIC). Will the UPA Government fill the vacancies ?

Shailesh Pathak appointed Director, Srei group companies
'Shailesh Pathak, ex investment banker- IAS, now infrastructure professional has been appointed to the Board of Directors of two Srei group companies viz. Srei Mutual Fund and Srei Insurance Brokers. He has been with the Srei group since 2010. He has also joined the Board of Directors of a Chennai based microfinance institution, registered with RBI. Pathak was an IAS officer of the 1990 batch in Madhya Pradesh cadre who quit in 2006.'

Panel of E S Rao to be validated for another six months
The panel of E S Rao, DGM HFL, for the post of Director (Finance), Hindustan Photo Film Manufacturing Corporation Limited (HFPCL) expiring on May 6, is expected to be validated for another six months.

Working Group to implement OROP constituted
A Working Group has been constituted to finalise the modalities of implementation of 'One Rank One Pension' (OROP). The principal of OROP implies that uniform pension be paid to the Armed Forces personnel retiring in the same rank with the same length of service irrespective of their date of retirement and any future enhancement in the rates of pension to be automatically passed on to the past pensioners.

Deshpande to move to Dhaka
Ninad S Deshpande, First Secretary in Indian Embassy at Beijing, has been moved to Dhaka in Indian High Commission.

83 CSS officers promoted as Section officers in GoI
As many as 83 officers of Assistants Grade have been promoted to the Section Officers Grade of Central Secretariat Service (CSS) in Government of India. They are: Satyabrata Sinha; Rajinder Prasad; Virender Singh, Parshati Das Gupta; Manphool; Ram Kumar Brar; Mudrika Shah; Subroto K Biswas; Jai Shree; Ravi Shankar; Prem Singh Rana; S Kumar; Ratan Kumar Sharma; Dinesh Chandra Gupta; P K Dhamija; Girdhari Lal; J Subramonia Iyer; Ramesh Kumar; Kajal Kumar; Vipin Kishore Beck; Ram Kumar; Savita Dixit; B D Dobriyal; P C Pandit; Usha Bhangu; Madhu Champi; Daya Nand Sharma; N K Sehgal; R C Pandey; Ramani; Durga Prasad; Madhukar S Kohade; Olivia Tirkey; Ria Sinha; Ramesh Chand; Usha Mathai; Bijoy Menon; Chanchal Mathur; A K Sharma; Raj Kumar; A K Das; Shobha Mohanan; Padam Singh; Lakshmi Amar; Surender Pal; Narinder Singh; S Agastian; Ajit Singh Saini; Kailash Chander; R L P Ram; D S Raghav; Khem Chand Sharma; Kuldip Singh; V Druapathy Antharjanam; Philomina Joy; Saurav Pradhan; Rakesh Kumar Khirwal; T C Kannojia; Bhagwan Das; Jaipal Singh; Jagdish Chandra; Manju Gulati; Anil Kumar Gupta; M K Vasisht; Shashi Dhar; G Ramesh; Anup K Das; Sapan Kumar Dey; Abhijit Malakar; Kshownish Das; Priyamvada Satyanarayanan; Rekha Bhiwapurkar; Om Dutt Sharma; Ram Dutt; P K Mathur; Kaushal Kumar Mathur; Chanchal Sharma; M S Rawat; B T Gopal and Khem Chand.

Rajiv Gupta returns from deputation
Rajiv Gupta has been posted in the cadre of Northern railway after he returns from deputation to IRCTC. He is an IRTS officer.

5 IRTS officers of 2003 batch get JAG
As many as five officers of Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) of 2003 batch have been accorded Junior Administrative Grade (JAG) in Railways. The officers are: Aadhar Raj, ECR; D Vijaymala, SR; Narender Panwar, WCR; G Gayatri, SR and K Anil Kumar, SWR.

Yogesh Deshmukh gets pro-forma promotion
Yogesh Deshmukh has been given pro-forma promotion to the rank of IG by the Madhya Pradesh Government. He is a 1995 batch IPS officer.

Applications for Chairman, Bramhaputra Board invited
Applications have been invited for the post of Chairman in Bramhaputra Board, Guwahati under the Ministry of Water Resources. Those interested to apply for the same can send their applications to the Ministry of Water Resources at the earliest.

Applications for Vice Chairman, Bramhaputra Board invited
Applications have been invited for the post of Vice Chairman Bramhaputra Board, Guwahati under the Ministry of Water Resources. Those interested to apply for the same can send their applications to the Ministry of Water Resources at the earliest.

Applications for Financial Adviser, Bramhaputra Board invited
Applications have been invited for the post of Financial Adviser in Bramhaputra Board, Guwahati under the Ministry of Water Resources. Those interested to apply for the same can send their applications to the Ministry of Water Resources at the earliest.

Air Marshal S R K Nair takes charge in Bangalore
Air Marshal S R K. Nair has taken over as the Senior Air Staff Officer, Headquarters Training Command, in Bangalore.

Posting of 1992 batch IRS in a day or two (UPDATED)
Posting of 1992 batch IRS (IT) officers to the rank of Commissioner is expected to take place in a day or two.

Ravishankar Srivastav deputed as CGM, SEBI (UPDATED)
Indian Revenue Service officer of Income Tax cadre, Ravishankar Srivastav has been deputed as Chief General Manager in the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Mumbai for a period of three years.

Amitabh Shukla deputed as Additional Director, Prasar Bharti (UPDATED)
Indian Revenue Service officer of Income Tax cadre, Amitabh Shukla has been deputed as Additional Director General (Programme) in the Prasar Bharti Secretariat, New Delhi for a period of three years.

Rakesh Kumar Bhargava shifted to Northern Railway (UPDATED)
Rakesh Kumar Bhargava has been transferred to Northern Railway and posted in the cadre. He is an IRAS officer.

Gautam Mandal appointed as CVO, GRSE (UPDATED)
Indian Revenue Service officer of Income Tax cadre, Gautam Mandal has been deputed as Chief Vigilance Officer in Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited (GRSE) for a period of two years.

Pandey appointed as AS&FA, Commerce & Industry (UPDATED)
Bhagwati Prasad Pandey has been appointed as Additional Secretary and Financial Adviser, Department of Commerce under the Ministry of Commerce & Industry. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Uttarakhand cadre.

Yadav appointed as AS&FA, Chemicals & Fertilizers (UPDATED)
Rajiv Yadav has been appointed as Additional Secretary and Financial Adviser, Department of Fertilizers under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers. He is a 1981 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

Rashmi appointed as Additional Secretary, Commerce & Industry (UPDATED)
Rajani Ranjan Rashmi has been appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Commerce under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.

Himachal Pradesh HC gets two Additional Judges (UPDATED)
Justice Piar Singh Rana and Sureshwar Thakur have been appointed as Additional Judges of the Himachal Pradesh High Court.

5 IRS-C&CE officers get postings after return from deputation (UPDATED)
As many as five officers of Indian Revenue Service of Customs & Central Excise working at the grade of Additional Commissioner/Joint Commissioner have been given postings after return from deputation. Pankaja Ashish Thakur has been posted to DG, Audit, Mumbai while Ramavath Srinivasa Naik was appointed to ADG, Audit, Kolkata and Sanjay Sharan is being moved to DG, NACEN, Faridabad and Sanjeev Bhatnagar was posted to Jaipur CX. Besides, V K Khole has been posted to Cochin CX on promotion.

84 IRS-C&CE Probationers get postings (UPDATED)
As many as 84 Probationers of 64 batch of Indian Revenue Service of Customs & Central Excise have been given postings. Accordingly, N Mohammed Ali has been posted to Hyderabad while Ms Anupam Pant was appointed to Ahmedabad CX and Gaurav Mittal is being posted to Meerut. Similarly, Amitkumar Nikalje has been appointed to Ahmedabad CX; V D S S Nagarjun Grandhi to Bangalore CX; Ms Komila Punia to Meerut CX; Madhur Devender Singh to Ahemadabad CX; Gautam Kumar Pandey to Ahemadabad CX; Jitendra Patel to Mumbai CX-1; Sachin Kumar Singh to Vadodara CX; Ms Spurthy Reddy to Bangalore CX; Ms Deepti I P to Chennai CX; Ms Charul Lata Singh to Meerut CX; Nitin Agrawal to Bhopal CX; Bandaru Ratna Kishore to Bangalore CX; Saurabh Dabas to Ahemadabad CX; Jitendra Kumar Tiwari to Mumbai CX-1; Rupak Kumar to Mumbai CX-1; Shravan Ram to Vadodara CX, Salunkhe Shiv Kumar Popat to Kolkata CX; Chandravanshi Y Manikanhaiya to Mumbai CX-1; Rasaal Dwivedi to Mumbai CX-1; Thampalu Rajiv to Chennai CX; Bhaskara Rao Yenneti to Vizag CX; Ms P A L Mahita to Mysore CX; Ms Vanashree Hullannanavar to Mysore CX; Prashant Kumar to Mumbai CX-1; Buddhi Prakash to Bhopal CX; Nadig Vishwas HS to Hyderabad CX; Karthikeyan P to Bangalore CX; Lakshmi Narayan Bokka to Chennai CX; Prashant Chauhan to Bhuwaneshwar CX; Rajiv S Kittur to Pune CX; Roopesh s to Coimbatore CX; Pavan CS to Mumbai CX-1; Ms Xelene Dabas to Mumbai CX-1; Aditya Fotedar to Mumbai CX-1; Mudit Rai to Nagpur CX; Telgote Mukul Vishwasrao to Kolkata CX; Kunal Anuj to Mumbai CX-1; Sanjay Tiwari to Lucknow CX; Yudhast Kumar to Mumbai CX-2; Ms Parinati Sunkar to Pune CX; Tagadi Manjunath to Meerat CX; Ms Anamika Singh to Nagpur CX; Ms Monika Yadav to Mumbai CX-2; Govindaraj A to Coimbatore CX; Rahil Gupta to Chandigarh CX; Ajay GAutam to Mumbai CX-2; Satish G to Coi,batore CX; Shyamsunder SP to Cochin CX; Ms Pallavi Gupta to Mumbai CX-2; Arunodaya to Mysore CX; Nilesh Kumar Rai to Kolkata CX; MAnish Vijay to Ranchi CX; Amit Bharadwaj to Chandigarh CX; Ms Mohsina Tabassum to Kolkata CX; Abhishek Agrawal to Bhuwaneshwar CX; Omprakash Singh to Ranchi CX; Ms Adivarekar Ashwini Purushottam to Kolkata CX; Anish Kumar Upadhyay to Chennai CX; G Rama Krishnaraju Yadav to Chennai CX; Pankaj Kumar Dwivedi to Chennai CX; Arun Prasath k to Mumbai CX-2; Manish Kumar Meena to Mumbai CX-2; Abhishek Kumar Dwivedi to Lucknow CX; Rahul K Yadava to Mumbai CX-2; Ms; Shweta Yadav to Mumbai CX-2; Varun Rangaswamy to Trichy Cus (P); Amit Kumar to Ranchi CX; Upendra Kumar Dhruv to Kolkata CX; Amit Kumar to Chennai CX; Ajit Kumar Nirala to Vizag CX; Mahipal Singh Patna Cus (P); Gawande Prashant Pralhadrao to Shillong CX; Dipakbhai Chimanbhai ZALA to Vizag CX; Ravi Kant to Trichy Cus (P); Gaikhonlung Panmei to Shil;long Cus (P); Nitin Chand Negi to Shillong (P); Sudarshan Meena to Mumbai CX-2; L Prabhunanda Singh to Kolkata CXMahendeeravarmaa RA to Cochin CX; Manmeet Singh Ahluwalia to Patna Cus(P) and Sunil Kumar Gautam was posted to Ranchi CX.

CORPORATE

Former IAS officer appointed President of IESA
Former Karnataka cadre IAS officer M N Vidyashankar has been appointed President of the India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA), which represents the Indian electronic system design and manufacturing (ESDM) industry.

Khanna designated Chairman, Electrosteel Steels Ltd
Electrosteel Steels Ltd has designated Rajkumar Khanna as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company.

Mainak nominated as Addl. Non Exec. Director on Board of ITC Ltd
S B Mainak, Managing Director, Life Insurance Corporation of India has been nominated as an Additional Non-Executive Director on the Board of Directors of ITC Ltd.

Singh appointed CFO, Advance Metering Technology Ltd
Advance Metering Technology Ltd has appointed Ravinder Singh ,General Manager (Finance & Accounts) of the company as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the company.

Dalal resigns as Director, MCS Ltd
Ajay Dalal has resigned as Director of MCS Ltd.

Waila appointed Director, MCS Ltd
Priya Darshan Waila has been appointed as Director of MCS Ltd.

Two Additional Directors inducted on Board of Oregon Commercials Ltd
Oregon Commercials Ltd has appointed Amol Atmaram Walkar and Pandurang Damodar Jathar as additional directors of the company.

Kava resigns as Director, Oregon Commercials Ltd
Nileshkumar Tribhovandas Kava has resigned as Director of Oregon Commercials Ltd.

Chellakrishna appointed Independent Director, Elnet Technologies Ltd
Elnet Technologies Ltd has appointed G Chellakrishna as Independent Director of the company.

Two Directors cease to be on Board of Kartik Investments Trust Ltd
Suresh Krishnan and V Suryanarayanan have resigned as Directors of Kartik Investments Trust Ltd.

Nerurkar appointed Independent Director, Tube Investments of India Ltd
Tube Investments of India Ltd has appointed Hemant M Nerurkar as Independent Director of the company.

Two Directors cease to be on Board of Ganesh Housing Corporation Ltd
Arvindbhai R Nanavati and Sanjay M Kothari have resigned as directors of Ganesh Housing Corporation Ltd.

(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)

Prevent unnecessary filing of applications

There are many cases where a disgruntled employee uses the RTI Act to file a number of applications which spoils the atmosphere and also leads to wastage of time. The whole office ends up replying to the applications rather than doing any productive work. There should be some way to prevent unnecessary filing of applications.

Udai Bhaskar


New govt should annul it !

Apropos to the reports that Government is filling up all important posts in IMF, World Bank, WTO or non-IFS posts in embassies like Minister (Economic) etc with their favourite bureaucrats who have been crawling before them, the new Government should annul all those postings and call them back.

N Krishnan

Renewal of CGHS cards

Renewal of CGHS cards is still not streamlined. My card has expired and applied two months in advance for renewal. To enquire about the status in Bikaner House, it is very painful to describe. Officers/officials are thinking it is burden on them even to tell the status of the card. They are not ready to share the information and help. It is beyond my understanding how to get the card with life time validity when I have paid the full amount at the first instance but CGHS has issued only for five years validity. Wellness Centres are recognizing the card for issue of medicines but empanelled hospitals and diagnostic centres a big NO. When approached CGHS, they want emergency prescription to look into the case and issue the card. Things are going in loop without any exit route. DG, CGHS is not able to issue directives for clearing of pending cases in time bound manner say 10 days or 15 days. All information about renewal of cards should be put up in CGHS web-site which will be very transparent working and beneficiaries can know the present status of the card. It will also be known, how much time being taken to renew the card?

N Prakash

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