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This is History (11)
It is strange that anyone should be so foolish as to think that religion and faith can be thrust down a person's throat at the point of the sword or a bayonet.

IAS officers no more scared
IAS officers were too much scared when Narendra Modi came to power but later they heaved a sigh of relief on seeing that Modi's advent, infact, lead to slashing of the perquisites of the senior civil servants.

BUREAUCRACY

Secretary, Railway Board to retire this month end
Secretary, Railway Board P C Gajbhiye, is retiring by this month end. So far no successor of Gajbhiye has been named.

D Gangopadhyay selected for Director (Tech), BCCL
D Gangopadhyay, GM, ECL, has been selected for the post of Director (Technical), Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on July 10, 2015. As many as 11 persons were interviewed for the same.

Five IAS officers facing inquiry in Punjab
As many as five officers belonging to Punjab cadre are facing inquiry.

S N Sahai appointed Secretary, Home in Delhi Govt
S N Sahai has been appointed Home Secretary in Delhi Government. He is a 1986 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.
(We said this on July 8, 2015)

Saravanan Pathakkam Mannai deputed as ADG, UIDAI
Saravanan Pathakkam Mannai has been deputed as Assistant Director General at Director level in the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), Bangalore under the NITI Aayog. He is a 2000 batch officer of Indian Postal Service.

Brohmo Choudhary is in-charge Secretary, NEC
S N Brohmo Choudhary has taken over as Secretary in-charge, North Eastern Council (NEC) in place of Ameising Luikham who joined as Secretary, Public Enterprises. Choudhary is a 1981 batch IES officer.

BLC's CMD and Director to retire in July
Balmer Lawrie & Company Limited (BLC), Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Virendra Sinha and Director Services Business, Niraj Gupta are retiring in July, 2015.

Sushant Sharma is Deputy Director, Forest Survey of India, Shimla
Sushant Sharma has been deputed to the post of Deputy Director, Forest Survey of India, Shimla for a period of five years. He is a 1995 batch IFS officer of UP cadre.

Reshuffle of IPS officers in UP
As many as 21 IPS officers have been transferred in Uttar Pradesh. Accordingly, G P Sharma has been appointed ADGP, Fire Service while Gopal Lal Meena will remain as ADG, Power Corporation and Mukul Goyal is ADGP, Railway. Similarly, B P Jogadand has been postes as IG, Personnel; Dawa Sherpa as IG and Assistant to DGP; Ratan Kant Pandey as Commandant, 12th Battalion, PAC, Fatehpur; Subhash Singh Baghel as SP, Anti-Corruption Organisation; Vinay Kumar Yadav as Commandant, 8th Bt, PaC, Bareilly; Deepak Kumar Bhatta, SP, Santkabirnagar; Suresh Rao Anand as SP, Gajipur; Ramesh as Commandant, 48th Bt PAC; Keshav Kumar Chaudhary attached to DGP office; Ajay Kumar Sahni as SP, Siddharthnagar; Akhilesh Kumar Chaurasia as SP, Pratapgarh; Vaibhav Krishna as SP, Kasganj; Satyardh Anirudh Pankaj as SP, Kaushambhi; D P Kumar as Commandant, 42nd Bt, PAC, Allahabad; Dev Ranjan Verma as SP, Kanpur city East and Dilip Kumar was made Commandant, 15th Bt, PAC Agra.

Additional charge of PS, Vigilance to Chetan B Sanghi
Chetan B Sanghi has been assigned an additional charge of Principal Secretary, Vigilance in Delhi Government. He is a 1988 batch IAS officer of AGMUT cadre.

IAS officer in Odisha re-instated
1989 batch IAS officer Vinod Kumar has been re-instated by the Odisha Government after nine years.

Majumdar is no more
Golok Majumdar, a 1950 batch IPS officer of West Bengal cadre, died in Kolkata earlier this week. He retired as Chief of West Bengal police. He was 89 years old. Thus far, he remains the only civilian officer to have been awarded the top Military honour, the Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM) for his role in the Bangladesh operations while serving in the BSF on deputation.

Bijiu Prabhakar is new collector Thiruvanantpuram
Bijiu Prabhakar is new Collector of Thiruvanantpuram. He is 2004 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.

Pratap Singh Chholak promoted to PCCF grade in Rajasthan
Pratap Singh Chholak has been promoted to the grade of Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) in Rajasthan. He is a 1982 batch IFS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

4 IPS Officers get additional charges in Bihar
Four IPS officers have been given additional charges in Bihar. Accordingly, Gopal Prasad has been assigned an additional charge of DIG, Tirhut range, Muzaffarpur while Akhtar Hussain gets additional charge of Assistant (Inspection) to IG, Patna and Manu Maharaj is given an additional charge of Commandant, BAF-3, Bodh Gaya. Besides, Umashankar Prasad has been given an additional charge of Commandant, BAF-9, Jamalpur.

Randeep Sudan quits IAS
Randeep Sudan has resigned from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

K S K Kumar promoted as Additional Member (Telecomm), Railway Board
K S K Kumar, presently working as CSTE in Central Railway, has been promoted to Rs 75,500-80,000 and posted as Additional Member (Telecommunication), Railway Board. He is an IRSSE officer.


DEBATE

Bureaucracy in UPA regime and under NDA government

Is functioning of bureaucracy better under the present NDA rule or in the UPA regime.
Send your brief specific views to mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com or suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com

CORPORATE

Chandra Shekhar Ghosh to look after operations in Bandhan Bank
Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, Managing Director and CEO, has been assigned operational aspects of the Bandhan bank.

Tayal appointed Independent Director of Jindal Saw Ltd
Jindal Saw Limited has appointed Abhiram Tayal as an Independent Director of the company

Jaiswal resigns as MD of Integrated Capital Services Ltd
Rajiv Jaiswal has resigned as Managing Director of Integrated Capital Services Ltd

Reddy appointed MD of MSR India Ltd
MSR India Ltd has appointed Rajasekhar Reddy as Managing Director of the company

Dhagat appointed Addl. Director of S&S Power Switchgears Ltd
S&S Power Switchgears Limited has appointed Ajay Kumar Dhagat as an Additional Director of the company.

Chandrasekaran resigns as CS of IG Petrochemicals Ltd
R Chandrasekaran has resigned as Company Secretary of IG Petrochemicals Limited

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DEBATE (1)
No Change Sir. No punishment or award makes this cadre as Zero Mistake. best color changer in all cadres.
P K Chaturvedi

Revolutionary Act
Ten years have passed since this revolutionary Act came into being. Many attempts have been made in this period to bring about some amendments in the Act, but under the pressure of the ever vigilant RTI activists, no amendment has been possible so far. With the passage of time, all legislations have to come to terms with the changing circumstances. So this legislation has to evolve itself by taking into account experiences of various stake-holders particularly activists.I have experienced that the Centre and the State governments are still moving at snail's pace to make its offices/public authorities RTI compliant. There is no power with the information commissions to review its orders, the commission also cannot take suo-motu notice of any lapse, non-compliance of the provisions of the Act, meaning that powers of revision have also not been vested in the Information Commissions. The Central Information Commission has jurisdiction of all India, there are small and big states, but the Act says that there can be 10 Information Commissioners besides Chief Information Commission in each Commission. The Central Information Commission should have 24 Information commissioners and regional benches also need to be set up, if the normal norms and geographical areas are taken into account. In many states only 2 Information Commissioners are required as per the pendency of cases, but keeping in view the political compulsions all the 10 posts are filled. The Centre govt should fix the norms for each post of Information Commissioner with the proviso that the post of I.C. will be filled as per the norms enshrined in the Act itself. Many NGOs, private bodies and authorities created by the Acts of the government are penalised for delay or are ordered to pay compensation. But ,there is no provision in the RTI Act to coercively recover the penalty/compensation if that authority refuses to comply with the order of the respective Information Commissions. These are some instances only. In my view, the Act needs to be suitably amended to make it more purposeful and effective
Surinderjit Singh Sandhu

Colours of bureaucracy
The article in Economic Times of July 10, 2015 "No to Delhi? 56 IAS officers opt for states" shows the real colours of IAS bureaucracy - something which has always been suspected by the people. It is true that few of them might have gone back for better posts, but most of them clearly wanted to shirk real responsibilities and find cosy jobs in the States where political leadership is not as sharp and where they can easily indulge in vyapam like scams, placing blame on politicians.
We should feel ashamed of the IAS class where sincerity, competence, honesty and integrity seem to be at a premium. Only power, perks and making money (Joshis of MP are live examples) are the real goals.
Manu Ashar

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