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What people say about us!
Whispers can change the market.
Ajitabh Jain
POLITICS
This is History (140)
As a soldier, Akbar was brave to the point of recklessness.
Kejriwal's odd-even system bound to fail
People say -Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's odd-even system (also
known as Beijing system) is unlikely to be successful because he is
at loggerheads with the GoI under whose control is Delhi police which
has to get it implemented.
Varun Gandhi likely to get some responsibility
?
Varun Gandhi is likely to be given some important responsibility in
UP. If sources are to be believed that party wants to promote young
leader Varun against Akhilesh Yadav. Gandhi is BJP MP from Sultanpur
in UP.
Chat with respected retired Bureaucrat
Icy day in Shimla .... meeting my respected friend at a ex Chinese
Shoe Shop ...now a Chinese Eatery. .over hot bowls of soup and spring
rolls we get talking..
M: So seems this Parliament session is also going to be a washout..
B: My years in service taught me one thing ..never predict what politicians
are going to do....looks like a washout ..but.....if I were Sonia I'd
keep an eye on Public perception ..today even her hardcore supporters
are lamenting ..why fight outside Court.... but what worries me more
is the rural distress ...and you know India lives in the villages..
M: Incomes and jobs I think..
B: See today Onions in Nasik are being sold for 5/Kg... in Cities Onions
are retailed for 30/ kg....doesn't this shock.....Farmer is bring shortchanged
and consumer rooked ....why the hell can't they bring the Farmer and
Consumer closer ..... now floor price for export of Onions has been
reduced ....the cycle has started ... next man made or nature created
shortfall again and prices will rocket... and some Middlemen will pocket
huge amounts....
more crop per drop will improve Farmers incomes..... but its the Middleman
who will make a killing.....if Modi is thinking out of the box for Industry
...why not Farm Sector ...he forgets ..previous NDA campaigned with
India Shining ..but it lost because rural India was whining...
M: And Jobs...
B: LAB would have done a lot ...though results would show up in 5 years
...Marginal Farmers need alternative jobs for family members and in
case of Crop failure for himself too ...what needs to be put in the
balance is Rural upliftment... now the LAB has been converted into an
electoral LAB ... Congress is aware the revolution Modi's LAB will bring
about...
M: What's your take on this Odd and Even tamaasha in Delhi. ...
B: Biggest cause ....old and overloaded Trucks....Car pollution is miniscule
... ban entry of Trucks into Delhi ... let CNG Vehicles do the distribution
in Delhi ...they will be able to control a lot more than only pollution
....
M: At this stage what would be your advice to Modi ....
B: Hindi song of my time.... Aaghe bhi jaane na tuh ....peeche bhi jaane
na tuh .... buss joh bhi hai yehi ek pall...
VJS
BUREAUCRACY
Who will be Chairman of SEBI ?
Who will be new Chairman of the SEBI ? Informed
sources say that four persons have been short-listed for the prestigious
post. They are Arundhati Bhattacharya, Ramesh Abhisekh, Thomas Mathews
and Rajiv Agrawal. Another source said that present Chairman U K Sinha
is being given one year extension in February. One can only wait and
watch.
Top appointments in Indian Army soon
Top appointments in Indian Army are expected to take place soon. Infact,several
army commanders are retiring in the coming months.
Nita Chowdhury to be Member CAT ?
Nita Chowdhury is likely to be appointed Member of the Central Administrative
Tribunal (CAT). She is former 1977 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.
Will Mehta be ED BoB ?
Mayank Mehta GM in the Union Bank is likely to be appointed ED in the
Bank of Baroda.
Interview for CMD of NTPC on December 21
Altogeter 9 persons are appearing for interview for the prestigious
post of Chairman NTPC on December 21.2 IAS officers 3 insiders from
the organization and four others are to be interviewed .
Interview for Chairman of Mumbai Port Trust on December 16
Interview for the post of Chairman Mumbai Port Trust are scheduled to
take place on December 16.
Meeting for CIC on December 16
Meeting to select new Chief Information Commissioner slated for December11
did not take place. Now the meeting is expected to take place on December
16.
Padsalgikar unlikey to return to Maharashtra !
D D Padsalgikar is now unlikely to return to the parent Maharashtra
cadre as Police Commissioner Mumbai.1982 batch IPS officer Padsalgikar
will be Special Director IB next month end.
Barve to be new Police Commissioner, Mumbai ?
Grapevine has it that S S Barve is being appointed new Police Commissioner
Mumbai. He is 1987 batch IPS officer of Maharashtra cadre.
Ahmad Javed to join in Saudi Arabia soon
Mumbai Police Commissioner Ahmad Javed is expected to take charge as
Ambassador Saudi Arabia in a a couple of weeks. 1980 batch IPS officer
of Maharashtra cadre is scheduled to retire on January 31.
Life as Usual in Revenue
Insiders are aghast at the brazen chicanery in CBEC's order allocating
Zones to Members. Defying precedence, Chandigarh Chief Commissionerate
has been carved out of North Zone and merged with a new NORTH WESTERN
ZONE. That there is geographical boundary of Jaipur and Haryana and
therefore Punjab could explain away the contiguity issues; yet the order
has more meaning, in as much as the order has obviously been issued
to accommodate/continue the new Member's hold over his old charge. The
charge of KK Sharma reads as TaxPayers Sevices. Wonder what happened
to charge of Service Tax, unless, CBEC is already tuned into GST, notwithstanding
Parliamentary logjam.
ACC yet to approve appointment of Khare as CMD of MFL
The file of A B Khare, Chief General Manager, RCF, for the appointment
as Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Madaras Fertilizers Limited (MFL)
has been lying with the Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) for
its final approval. The post has been lying vacant since November 1,
2015.
Madhu S Nair to join as CMD of CSL in January
Madhu S Nair, CGM, CSL, will be joining as Chairman-cum-Managing Director,
Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) on January 1, 2016.
Applications invited for Administrative Officers in Central Excise Settlement
Commission
The Department of Revenue is seeking applications for the Administrative
Officer in the Customs & Central Excise Settlement Commission, Principal
Bench Delhi and Additional Benches at Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata on
deputation basis.
Ojha promoted as CIT
Veerendra Ojha who is presently Additional Director ED in the Headquarters
,has been promoted as Commissioner - IT. 1993 batch IRS (IT) officer
Ojha is returning to the parent cadre .
Himanshu Lal moves from ED
Himanshu Lal Joint Director, Enforcement Directorate has moved as Deputy
Secretary, UIDAI, Government of India. He is 2003 batch IPS officer
of Odisha cadre.
(We said this on December 5 )
Vijay Kumar to join Southern State ?
A.K. Vijay Kumar, Special Commissioner for Investment Promotion, and,
Director G.S.P.L., Government of Gujarat, first non-IAS Officer to be
handpicked by Gove of Gujarat for this post from a Corporation which
was otherwise held by Senior IAS Officers at Delhi may be appointed
by some State Government for their high-level coordination/Investment
Promotion with the Central Government and other Agencies at Delhi on
his superannuation.A.K. Vijay Kumar also served as Executive Director,
Corporate Affairs GAIL India for five years.
Abhay Kumar appointed Deputy Secretary, Atomic Energy
Abhay Kumar has been appointed as Deputy Secretary in the Department
of Atomic Energy, Mumbai for a period of four years. He is a 2004 batch
IRS-C&CE officer.
V Srikanth appointed Deputy Director, Labour
V Srikanth has been appointed as Deputy Director, Ministry of Labour
& Employment. He is a 2008 batch IES officer.
Former Ut cadre IFS officer joins BJP
Dr.Avinash Kumar
Mishra, former Arunachal pradesh cadre IFS officer of 1979 batch, former
Chief Resident Commissioner & former Principal Advisor to Chief
Minister Arunachal Pradesh has joined the BJP in Lucknow.
Post of CVO falling vacant in OIL
A vacancy of Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) at Joint Secretary level
is arising in Oil India Limited (OIL), NOIDA June 1, 2016. Those willing
to apply for this post can send their applications before January 8,
2016.
Director Tourism Goa shifted
Director Tourism in Goa Ameya Abhyankar, IAS has been transferred as
Director of Information Technology.
Madhav Prasad Verma appointed as SP, Pratapgarh
in UP (UPDATED)
Madhav Prasad Verma has been appointed as Superintendent of Police,
Pratapgarh in Uttar Pradesh. He is a 2008 batch IPS officer of UP cadre.
A K Choudhury selected as MD, IRFC (UPDATED)
A K Choudhury, ED, RVNL, has been selected for the post of Managing
Director, Indian Railway Finance Corporation Limited (IRFC) at a Public
Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on December 14, 2015.
As many as seven persons were interviewed for the same.
Justice L Narasimha Reddy to Head Judicial
Committee on OROP (UPDATED)
The Government of India has appointed Justice L Narasimha Reddy, retired
Chief Justice of Patna High Court to head the Judicial Committee which
will look into the implementation of One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme
for the Ex-Servicemen.
Chhattisgarh HC gets Additional Judges for
three months (UPDATED)
Manindra Mohan Shrivastava, Goutam Bhaduri, Sanjay Kumar Agrawal, Puthichira
Sam Koshy, Inder Singh Uboweja and Chandra Bhushan Bajpai have been
appointed as Additional Judges of Chhattisgarh High Court, for a period
of three months.
Major reshuffle of IAS officers in Haryana
(UPDATED)
As many as 16 IAS officers have been transferred and posted at different
places in Haryana. Accordingly, Sudhir Rajpal has been appointed as
MD, Industrial & Infrastructure Development, Financial Corporation
while Anurag Rastogi will now be Principal Secretary, Cooperation and
Vineet Garg is MD, Vidyut Prasaran Nigam. Similarly, Sandeep Garg has
been appointed as Secretary, Home-II Department and Joint Commissioner,
Gurdwara Elections Commission; Arun Kumar Gupta as Advisor, Civil Aviation
and Secretary Civil Aviation; Pankaj Agarwal as Registrar, Cooperative
Socieities; Vikas Gupta as Director, Urban Local Bodies, Livelihood
Mission; Vijay Singh Dahiya as MD, Agro Industries Corporation, Director,
Sports & Youth Affairs; Mrs Amneet P Kumar as Chief Executive, Khadi
& Village Industries Board; T L Satyaprakash as Commissioner, Municipal
Corporation, Gurgaon; Mrs Ashima Brar as Director, Women & Child
Development; Phool Chand Meena as MD, Federation of Cooperative Sugar
Mills Limited; Vivek Attray as Director, Industries & Commerce and
Special Secretary, Industries & Commerce; Anshaj Singh as Director,
Science Technology; Ms Garima Mittal as Administrator, HUDA, Faridabad
and Additional Director, Urban Estates and Vijaykumar Siddappa Bhaviktti
was made ADC-cum-CEO, DRDA, Fatehabad.
CORPORATE
13 NSS under operation
Presently thirteen National Saving Schemes (NSS) viz Post Office Savings
Accounts, Time Deposits, Monthly Income Scheme, Post Office Recurring
Deposit Scheme, National Savings Certificate , National Savings Certificate
[to be discontinued with effect from 20.12.2015], Kisan Vikas Patra
Scheme, Public Provident Fund Scheme, Sukanya Samriddhi Account Scheme
and Senior Citizens Savings Schemes are under operation.
Pandey resigns as Independent Director of
Sanwaria Agro Oils Ltd
Arun Kumar Pandey has resigned as Independent Director of Sanwaria Agro
Oils Ltd
Garg resigns as Director of STI India Ltd
K N Garg has resigned as Director of STI India Ltd
Khanna resigns as CFO of Delta Leasing &
Finance Ltd
Ms Swati Khanna has resigned as Chief Financial Officer of Delta Leasing
& Finance Ltd
Somani appointed MD & CFO of Prem Somani
Financial Services Ltd
Prem Somani Financial Services Ltd has appointed Nawneet Somani as Managing
Director and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the company.
Ms Jain appointed CS of Prem Somani Financial
Services Ltd
Ms Nidhi Jain has been appointed as Company Secretary of Prem Somani
Financial Services Ltd
FORUM
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Implement similar exercise
In the year 2010 the Government approved a proposal for the Cadre Restructuring
of the Central Secretariat Service (CSS). This proposal included earmarking
40 posts as Directors in the PB-4 scale of pay as Join Secretary (in-situ)
with Grade Pay of Rs.10000/-. The essential pre-requisite for the proposal
was that they would be no additional financial expenditure (paragraph
No.6.1 of the Chapter 6 of the Cadre Restructuring of the Report). However,
subsequent to the implementation the Join Secretary (in-situ) although
posted against the post of Director are taking Transport Allowance of
Rs.7000/- as against Rs.3200/- and the others are taking Staff Car facility.
The officials are initially recruited in Group 'B' post.
The officials of Group 'A' organized services are recruited at Group
'A' level. In that service also Director level officers got non-functional
up gradation of grade pay of Rs.10000/-. At many places they were also
drawing Transport Allowance of Rs.7000/-. The Department of Expenditure
noted this and has issued that only regular JS level officers are entitled
for Staff Car (1994 instructions) and they can only get Transport allowance
of Rs.7000/-. The High Court has backed the Government. Large scale
recovery is taking place all over as per Supreme Court Orders. Similar
exercise should also be carried out it in the Central Secretariat Service
in respect of JS (in-situ).
Bimal Bahadur
Delhi MLA's salaries
Granted that law makers for whom politics is the only profession deserved
better treatment as far as their pay and perks are concerned. What are
the reasonable parameters to adjudge the adequacy of decent living for
the legislators? These should be uniform across the nation and Speaker's
forum should take a call on it. First you make dozens of legislators
as Parliamentary Secretaries and Chairmen of various organisations and
then the salaries are enhanced four-fold in one go. Is Delhi Government
managing the public affairs or only the MLA's affairs. None among the
so many Aam aadmis, who have already got the means to live comfortably,
has come forward to part with some portion of his salaries or spoken
against the wasteful posts of Parliamentary Secretaries.
Surinderjit Singh Sandhu, Amritsar
Excellent choice
An excellent choice for the post of JS&FA, Ms Meera swarup IAAS'88
has 25 years of unfaltering experience in Audit. In addition she will
have good coordination with JS(Pers) in Expenditure Deptt, Ms Annie
Mathew, IA&AS '88 for effective policy implementation.
Anand M B
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DATE WITH RTI
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Duration of inspection of the documents
The complainant submitted that the PIO had allowed the inspection
of the records in question for 15 minutes only and that too with
the condition that the entry to the building for the purpose of
inspection shall be at the discretion of the security agencies.
The FAA directed the PIO to provide access to the records to the
appellant in such a manner that the purpose of the application
is fulfilled. The complainant alleged that the PIO has been persistently
causing obstruction to supply of the information to the complainant
despite the orders of the FAA. The PIO contended that he made
effort to get file located which was more than ten year old and
had given prior intimation for inspection of documents. The complainant
admitted that he has been provided the requisite information though
there has been a delay and demanded to be compensated. The CIC
held that due to communication gap, there was a delay in the inspection
of the file by the complainant and no further action is required.
Comments
The duration of inspection and convenience of the applicant to
inspect the documents was the issue under consideration in the
case. Under RTI Rules, an applicant is entitled to one hour inspection
free of any charge and thereafter, on payment of fees. A PIO should
not restrict the timings of an applicant arbitrarily which may
lead to a charge of obstruction to free flow of information.
Citation: Shri R.K. Jain v. Under Secretary, (CXI), Department
of Revenue in Appeal No.CIC/DS/C/2013/00625/SB
Weekly article by Dr. (Mrs.) Anuradha
Verma (dranuradhaverma@yahoo.co.in), RTI Consultant to IIM, Indore.
Her other articles can be read at http://www.rtifoundationofindia.com/
(dranuradhaverma@yahoo.co.in), RTI Consultant
to IIM, Indore and Co-author of the books: RIGHT TO INFORMATION
- LAW AND PRACTICE and PIO's Guide to RTI by Taxmann. (The views
are Personal)
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