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Jagdish Chandra Pant

POLITICS

When nothing else inspires, History does ! (96)
The wild elephant must walk with two tame elephants

Who is most influential businessman in India ?
Who is the most influential businessman in India ? At a high profile party one bureaucrat remarked, "One who controls maximum number of MPs".

BUREAUCRACY

Dr R Chidambaram to retire ?
Dr R Chidambaram , Principal Scientific Advisor to GoI, is expected to retire on September 30. He has been holding this post for the last 10 year .

Jain appointed as Secretary, NDMA
Ravinder Kumar Jain has been appointed as Secretary, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) under the Ministry of Home Affairs in the rank of Additional Secretary. He is a 1981 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.

R K Srivastava selected as CMD, AAI
R K Srivastava has been selected for the post of Chairman, Airports Authority of India (AAI) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on September 25, 2014. As many as ten persons were interviewed for the same. He is a 1984 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre.

Why Rajiv Takru transferred after 100 days?
The transfer of Rajiv Takru in a short period of 100 days has become the talk of the corridors in Government of India. Takru was firstly transferred as Secretary, DoNER on June 14 from the post of Secretary, Revenue. Now, he has been transferred from this post as Secretary, National Commission for Minorities on September 24. Does PM bear any grudge against this 1979 batch Gujarat cadre IAS officer ?

Orders for appointment of three MP High Court Judges in a day or two !
The President is expected to clear the appointment of three new High Court Judges in a couple of days. They are Madhya Pradesh Law Secretary - C V Sirpurkar, DJ - Mandsaur R K Mahajan and leading lawyer of Indore Vandana Kasrekar.
(We said this on July 15, 2014 )

Harpreet Singh to succeed Pattanaik as MD, CWC on Oct 1
Harpreet Singh, Director (P&S), CONCOR, will be joining as Managing Director, Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) on October 1, 2014. He will succeed B B Pattanaik retiring on September 30, 2014.
(We said this on March 18, 2014)

Proposal of Ahluwalia moves to ACC
Proposal of the appointment of D S Ahluwalia to the post of Director (Finance) NMDC has been sent to the ACC for appointment.

Mukhopadhyay to join as Member, DVC on Sept 29 !
P K Mukhopadhyay, Director (Production), Braithwaite, is expected to take over the charge as Member (Secretary) on the Board of Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) on September 29, 2014.

Rajeshwar Singh now slated for promotion as Jt Dir, ED
After getting favourable verdict from Supreme Court, Dr Rajeshwar Singh is now slated for promotion to the rank of Jt Dir with ED. He has been absorbed permanently with Enforcement Directorate. Insiders say that having entered the sixth year of his service with ED he is now slated for promotion from Dy Director to Joint Director. He has been probing the money laundering cases in country's top-profile case in 2G scam. He was dragged and troubled by the concerned parties involved in the cases.


Post of ED in Bangalore to be re-advertised !
Post of the Joint Director ED in Bangalore is likely to be re-advertised. Selection for Bangalore could not be made.

D K Pandey likely for ADG empanelment
As the grapevine has it, D K Pandey may soon be empanelled to be posted as ADG in Govt of India. He is 1984 batch IPS officer of Jharkhand cadre.
(We said this on July 15, 2014 )

Arvind Kathuria yet to get orders for MD, NBCFDC
The orders of Arvind Kathuria, GM, NBCFDC, for the appointment as Managing Director, National Backward Classes Finance & Development Corporation (NBCFDC) are yet to be issued by the Government of India.

DoPT seeks applications for Counsellor in Washington
The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has invited applications for the post of Counsellor (Economic) in the Economic Wing of Embassy of India, Washington, DC. Those willing to apply for this Deputy Secretary/ Director level can send their applications to the DoPT within one month of issuing this circular.

Gotmare joins as PS to Piyush Goyal
Shantanu Gotmare has joined as PS to Union Minister of State with Independent Charge for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy, Piyush Goyal, Minister for. He is 2004 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
(We said this on September 5, 2014 )

Gaurav Dwidevi is now Director NeGD
Gaurav Dwivedi has taken over as Director, NeGD in JS scale, Dept of IT, GoI. He is 1995 batch IAS officer of Chhattisgarh cadre.

Sondhi yet to get CVC clearance for Director (Mkgt), STC
Ashwani Sondhi, CGM, MMTC, is reported not to have got CVC clearance for the appointment as Director (Marketing), State Trading Corporation of India Limited (STCIL).

Tenure of Mehta as Joint Secretary, Commerce extended
The deputation tenure of Arvind Mehtra as Joint Secretary, Department of Commerce has been extended for a period of three months effect from September 29, 2014. He is a 1984 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.

File of D S Rana for Director, DFCCIL moved to ACC
The file of D S Rana, CPM, DFCCIL, for the post of Director (Infrastructure), Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL) has reportedly been sent to the Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) for its final approval.

Capt Kelath Devadas joins as Director (T&OS), SCI
Capt Kelath Devadas, Sr VP, SCIL, has taken over the charge as Director (Technical & Offshore Services), Shipping Corporation of India Limited (SCI).
(We said this on April 25, 2014)

Venkatanathan is new Director NAAA, Shimla
VS Venkatanathan, Director, Central Receipt, New Delhi, on relief from his present duties by Damodar has been transferred and posted as Director, National Academy of Audit and Accounts, Shimla against an existing vacancy.

Arbind Modi posted as CCIT in Principal CCIT office, Delhi
Indian Revenue Service of Income Tax cadre, Arbind Modi has been appointed as Chief Commissioner of Income Tax in the office of Principal CCIT (CCA), Delhi region after return from deputation.

Ramachandran nominated as non Official Director, DICGC
Rajaraman Ramachandran has been nominated as Part Time Non Official Director on the Board of Directors of Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) for a period of three years.

Services of 11 IAS officers affected in UP
As many as 11 IAS officers have been transferred in Uttar Pradesh. Accordingly, Sudhir Kumar Shrivastava will remain Divisional Commissioner, Basti while Sadakant also remains as Principal Secretary, Housing and Urban Planning, Child Development and R P Arora was retain in the same place as Divisional Commissioner, Devipatan, Gonda. Besides, the transfer orders of Sanjiv Saran and Jivesh Nandan were cancelled. Kumar Kamlesh has been appointed as Principal Secretary, Rural Engineering Department; Mahesh Kumar Gupta was given additional charge of Principal Secretary, Small Scale Industries Development; Yogesh Kumar will remain as Chief Development Officer, Lucknow; Pushyapati Saxena as Special Secretary, National Integrating Department; Mrs Pushpa Singh as Special Secretary, GAD and Arun Vir Singh was made Additional Commissioner, Commercial, Gautam Buddh Nagar.

Alliance Air signs MoU with North-East Council
Alliance Air, the wholly owned subsidiary of Air India, signed an MoU with the North East Council (NEC) for flight operations in the North East under Viability Gap Funding (VGF). The MoU was signed in the Ministry of Civil Aviation, New Delhi, by Anil Mehta, COO, Alliance Air and V B Pathak, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) in the presence of Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati the Minister for Civil Aviation, and Gen. VK Singh (Retd), Minister for DoNER. Also present at the signing were Rohit Nandan, CMD, Air India, V Somasundaram, Secretary, Civil Aviation, Rajiv Takru, Secretary, DoNER and other senior officials. Alliance Air has been operating flights to the North East since January 2003. under Viability Gap Funding (VGF) i.e., Cost minus Revenue formula, to cover losses on the operations in the North East. Alliance Air continued services in the North East upto 31st December 2012 when it was operating 65 flights per week to the North East. From January 2013, due to outstanding VGF, the airline restructured its ATR operations in the North East and consequently ATR services were discontinued on some routes. However, in public interest, Alliance Air continued operations between Kolkata-Silchar, Kolkata-Guwahati and Silchar-Imphal with ATR aircraft. In July 2013, it also restored five times weekly flights on the Kolkata-Shillong route. Besides the ATR operations, Air India has also been operating flights in the North East region with its Airbus family aircraft between Kolkata and Silchar,Dimapur, Dibrugarh,Aizawl, Imphal, Agartala and Guwahati apart from Delhi- Guwahati routes. Under this MoU Alliance Air will provide air services to Shillong, Tezpur, Lilabari, Silchar and Guwahati with ATR 42 type of aircraft till March 31, 2016. The operation is under Viability Gap Funding (VGF) arrangement. North East Council (NEC) will assist Alliance Air in obtaining concessions on ATF, Landing, RNFC rates etc. The actual cost of operations shall be reviewed every three months based on the proposed cost and VGF amount will be fixed accordingly.

Reshuffle of IAS officers in MP
As many as seven officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Madhya Pradesh. Accordingly, Abhijit Agrawal has been posted as CEO, Zilla Panchayat, Hoshangabad while Harjinder Singh will now be CEO, Zilla Panchayat, Ratlam and Mohit Bundas is CEO, Zilla Panchayat, Sidhi. Similarly, Mrs Neha Marvya has been appointed as CEO, Jabalpur; Mrs Ruchika Chauhan as CEO, Zilla Panchayat, Anuppur; V S Chaudhary Kaulsani as CEO, Zilla Panchayat, Satna and Ashok Kumar Verma was made Additional Collector, Agar-Malwa.

Sinha is new Deputy Election Commissioner (UPDATED)
Umesh Kumar Sinha is new Deputy Election Commissioner in the Election Commissioner of India. He is 1986 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Navneet Rajan Wasan promoted to Special DG, NIA (UPDATED)
Navneet Rajan Wasan, ADG, NIA, has been granted the rank of Special Director General. He is a 1980 batch IPS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Binoy Behera promoted to DG grade in Odisha (UPDATED)
Binoy kumar Behera has been promoted to the DG grade and posted as a DG (Training) and Director, BPSPA, Bhubaneshwar. He is a 1982 batch IPS officer of Odisha cadre.

Mrs Madhu Sharma appointed as CVO, HMT (UPDATED)
Mrs Madhu Sharma has been appointed as Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) in the Hindustan Machine Tools Limited, Bengaluru and the Heavy Industry Ministry. She is a 1986 batch IFS officer of Karnataka cadre.

B B Mishra promoted as ADG, NCB (UPDATED)
B B Mishra has been promoted to the grade of Additional Director General (ADG), Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). He is a 1983 batch IPS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

Siddharth is also CEO, PFST (UPDATED)
Siddharth has been assigned an additional charge of Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Price Stabalization Fund Trust (PFST) under the Commerce Ministry for a period of three months. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Anirudh Gautam deputed to RITES as GM (UPDATED)
Anirudh Gautam has been deputed as General Manager, RITES, RSD Division, Lucknow for a period of 3 years. He is an IRSME officer.

Ravindra Verma deputed as GM, BMRCL (UPDATED)
Ravindra Kumar Verma has been deputed to the post of General Manager (Rolling Stock & Inspection), Banglore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) for a period of 3 years. He is an IRSME officer.

Dr P Hanumanthu selected as CMD, NRDC (UPDATED)
Dr P Hanumanthu, Scientist, has been selected for the post of Chairman and Managing Director (CMD), National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on September 26, 2014. As many as 11 persons were interviewed for the same. The post arose vacant after incumbent Dr Rajendra Dobhal joined back as DG, Science Technology of Government Uttarakhand as he opted to join his own state.

CORPORATE

Bhatt appointed MD, Devika Proteins Ltd
Devika Proteins Ltd has appointed Kishorkumar P Bhatt as Managing Director of the company.

Mehar nominated Nominee Director, Punjab & Sind Bank
The Central government has nominated S R Mehar, Deputy Secretary, Department of Financial Services as Government Nominee Director on the Board of Directors of Punjab & Sind Bank with immediate effect.

Sreeram resigns as Director, Pidilite Industries Ltd
R Sreeram has resigned as Director of Pidilite Industries Limited w.e.f .November 7, 2014.

Subramanian appointed Addl. Director, Suzlon Energy Limited
Suzlon Energy Limited has appointed Venkataraman Subramanian as an Additional Director of the company.

Thakkar resigns as Independent Director, PAE Limited
Dilip J Thakkar has resigned as Independent Director of PAE Limited.

Agrawal appointed CS, Tanfac Industries Ltd
Tanfac Industries Limited has appointed Ms Punita Agrawal as Company Secretary of the company.

Sundarambal appointed Addl. Director, Panasonic Appliances India Company Ltd
Panasonic Appliances India Company Limited has appointed T S Sundarambal as an Additional Director of the company w.e.f October 1, 2014.

Godbole resigns as Director, Zuari Global Ltd
J N Godbole has resigned as Director of Zuari Global Ltd.

Rastogi ceases to be Nominee Director, Rain Industries Ltd
ICICI Bank has withdrawn Yogesh Rastogi as its Nominee Director on the Board of Directors of Rain Industries Limited September.

Agarwal appointed CS, Prakash Woollen Mills Ltd
Prakash Woollen Mills Ltd has appointed Ms Shivangi Agarwal as Company Secretary of the company w.e.f October 1, 2014.

Singh appointed CS, Oscar Investments Ltd
Oscar Investments Ltd has appointed Pankaj Kumar Singh as Company Secretary of the company.

Ranga resigns as CCCO, ZEEL
Bharat Ranga has resigned as Chief Content and Creative Officer (CCCO) of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL).

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100 days report card !!!

Modi Government is apparently less sensitive. Not a single issue raised has been taken seriously by the present Government. The corruption at higher level may have declined, but at lower level it has increased. Therefore, not only in Delhi but also in Haryana and Maharashtra BJP will fail to motivate its voters for reaching to the poll centres.

Bharatee Jee

Funny views !

I found recent views against other services very funny! Even after 67 years of Independence, if India is having one of the most inefficient bureaucracy, IAS is mainly responsible for it. Hardly 20% of the IAS Officers are competent and others survive only due to the help of IAS tribal mentality. This fool believes that all the IRAS Officers and IFS Officers are fools like him. Central Govt. departments which are mainly controlled by the Central Services are much more efficient than that of the State Govt.'s which are mainly controlled by the IAS.

Devadasan

CGHS

Dr. Harsh Vardhan has utterly failed to address the pathos of CGHS beneficiaries especially pensioners. Is he not aspiring for next election? PM must take a call.

Rana S S

Even generic medicines not available at CGHS Dispensaries

Even the generic medicines that are being changed by the Specialists are not available at CGHS Dispensaries on the plea that such generic medicines are not in the approved list of CGHS and hence cannot be issued. Health Minister should find out some solution to this problem also besides the other problems being faced by pensioners now a days.

G.C. Duggal

Why discrimination with Ajit Singh ?

When central Govt can evict Ajit Singh , then why same yardstick is not being applied to Lalu Prasad Yadav, on bail, why Z+ security is being provided to a convict. Are rules different for everyone. Govt should implement these policies in a transparent manner.

Ravi

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