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Machiavelli had said "Religion is necessary for government, and that it may be the duty of a ruler to support a religion which he believes to be false."

Decision on Delhi CM fate on August 4?
As per information six charge sheets have been filed against Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in various cases by the Delhi Police under various sections of IPC. It is said that the court will hear first charge sheet on August 4, 2015. Till then keep fingers crossed.

44 FIRs and 22 chargesheets against AAP MLAs?
If sources are to be believed 44 FIRs and 22 charge sheets have been registered against 21 AAP MLAs till now, including Delhi CM, some ministers and others.

Ticket distribution will decide alliances' survival in Bihar?
Political climate in Bihar is not conducive to any party. Observers say that distribution of tickets will play a major role in Bihar's ensuing assembly elections. If dissidents form a new alliance then both grand alliances are bound to face a tough situation, especially JDU- RJD alliance which is already facing dissidents' threat.

BUREAUCRACY

18 IPS officers to retire in July
As many as 18 IPS officers are to retire in July 2015. The officers are: P Umapathi of Andhra Pradesh cadre; RC Sinha and Ziaul Hasan Khan of Bihar cadre; BS Maravi of Chhattisgarh cadre; Bipin Gopalakrishanan of Karnataka cadre; M S Kanwar of Madhya Pradesh cadre; C S Ughade of Marashtra cadre; R N Behura of Manipur-Tripura cadre; P Kannappan of Tamil Nadu cadre; Suvrat Tripathi, Yogendra Pal Singh, Kanhaiya Lal Meena, Laljit Shukla, Satyendra Vir Singh, and Om Prakash Sagar of Uttar Pradesh cadre; Satish Kuamr Shukla of Uttarakhand cadre; Kundan Lal Tamta and Subrata Bandopadhyay of West Bengal cadre.

RS Sharma to be new Chairman, TRAI ?
Secretary, IT in the Government of India, R S Sharma, seems to be frontrunner for the post of Chairman, TRAI. He is a 1978 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre.

Govt in no hurry to appoint EC ?
Bihar assembly elections are due in September and Election Commission of India, ECI is likely to announce elections programme by the end of this month. One post of Election Commissioner is vacant for the last few months. If sources are to be believed government seems to be in no hurry to appoint one more EC.

Will Sobti go the Prakash Chandra way?
The PESB has selected Atul Sobti for the post of Chairman, BHEL. Rumours are -will Sobti go the Prakash Chandra way even after being selected by the PESB last time.

B R Reddy selected for CMD, SECL
B R Reddy, Director (Technical), ECL, has been selected for the post of Chairman and Managing Director of South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on July 16, 2015. As many as seven persons were interviewed for the same.

GoI yet to appoint CMD, FCI
The post of Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Food Corporation of India (FCI) has been lying vacant since incumbent C Viswanath joined as Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs. Dr Maninder Kaur Dwivedi, Executive Director, Personnel holding an additional charge of CMD.

ONGC's Director Shashi Shankar re-instated
Director (technology and field services) in the ONGC Shashi Shankar has been re-instated by the Petroleum Ministry.

Ms S T Ray joins as Director (HRD), BSNL
Ms S T Ray, ED, BSNL, has recently taken over the charge as Director (HRD), Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL).
(We said this on February 27, 2015)

Tenure of K B Surwade as CVO, HAL extended
The tenure of K B Surwade as Chief Vigilance Officer, Hindustan Antibiotics Limited (HAL), Pune has been extended uptoMarch 13, 2017. He is a 1994 batch ISS officer.

Surinder Kumar Datta appointed Ambassador to Republic of Zimbabwe
Surinder Kumar Datta, presently Deputy High Commissioner, HCl, Canberra, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Zimbabwe.

Pankaj Saxena appointed Ambassador to Republic of Belarus
Pankaj Saxena, presently Director has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Belarus.

Major reorganization of Jharkhand government
In a major reorganization aimed at bringing convergence between functioning of different departments and downsize government, Jharkhand government has reduced the number of departments from 43 to 31. Some of the major changes include merger of Planning Development & Institutional Finance with Finance Department; Animal Husbandry & Cooperatives with Agriculture; REO, Rural Works with Rural Development Department; and Housing with Urban Development. This exercise was led by Chief Secretary Rajiv Gauba assisted by Amit Khare, Principal Secretary Finance and Arun Kumar Singh Principal Secretary Planning.

Three IAS officers facing inquiry in Kerala
As many as four IAS officers belonging to Kerala cadre are facing inquiry.

Manoj Kumar Gupta appointed ADG, RTI, Lucknow
Manoj Kumar Gupta, Commissioner of Income Tax (OSD), Lucknow, has been appointed ADG (RTI), Lucknow.

R Laxman relieved to join Telangana govt
R Laxman has been relieved to join the Government of Telangana on deputation for a period of three years. He is an IRS-IT officer.

Om Prakash Kant relieved to join as Member, ITAT, Delhi
Om Prakash Kant has been relieved to join as Member in the Income tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), New Delhi. He is an IRS-IT officer.

P K Agarwal posted as Adviser (ME), Railway Board
P K Agarwal has been appointed Adviser (Mechanical Engineering), Railway Board. He is an IRSME officer.

RS Kochak appointed Adviser (Prod), Railway Board
R S Kochak has been appointed Adviser (Production unit), Railway Board. He is an IRSME officer.

R S Verma appointed ED, RDSO
R S Verma has been appointed Executive Director (Admin & EMS), RDSO. He is an IRSEE officer.

Sanjiv deputed to Rajasthan Govt as DG, Revenue Intelligence
An Indian Revenue Service officer of Income Tax cadre, Sanjiv has been deputed to the Government of Rajasthan and posted as Director General, State Directorate of Revenue Intelligence. He has been relieved for taking up his assignment.

Mrs Khoda deputed to Rajasthan govt as Commissioner, Women Empowerment
An Indian Revenue Service officer of Income Tax cadre, Mrs Richa Khoda has been deputed to the Government of Rajasthan and posted as Commissioner, Women Empowerment department. She has been relieved for taking up her assignment.

Four IAS officers transferred in UP
Mukesh Kumar Meshram has been posted as Commissioner of Commercial Taxes while Mrityunjay Kumar Narayan will now be MD, UPSRTC and N K S Chauhan is Director, Social Welfare Department. Besides, Satyendra Kumar Singh was made DM Farrukhabad in Uttar Pradesh.

Minor reshuffle of IAS officers in Punjab (UPDATED)
As many as six IAS officers have been transferred and posted at different places in Punjab. Accordingly, Roshan Shunkariya has been appointed as Finance Commissioner, Rural Development and Panchayat while Kripa Shankar Saroj will be Secretary, Printing and Stationery and A Venu Prasad is Secretary, Higher Education and Langauges. Similarly, C Sibban has been made Executive Director, Punjab State Scheduled Caste Land Development and Finance Corporation; Sukhjit Singh Bains as Director, Rural Development and Panchayat; Amit Dhaka as Managing Director, Punjab Laghu Udyog and Niryat Nigam with additional charge of Secretary, Industries and Commerce.

P Ramjee appointed as DIG, BSF (UPDATED)
P Ramjee, CVO, Kandla Port Trust, has been appointed as Deputy Inspector General (DIG), Border Security Force (BSF) upto his balanced period of central deputation. He is a 1998 batch IPS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Ms Usha Padhee placed on compulsory wait until incumbent moves (UPDATED)
Ms Usha Padhee, who was deputed as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Civil Aviation, has been placed on compulsory wait until the tenure of incumbent G Ashok Kumar ends on August 12, 2015. Meanwhile, the Government of Odisha has relieved her of cadre responsibility. She is a 1996 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre.

Nirmal Sinha to remain as CMD, HHEC till ACC decision (UPDATED)
Nirmal Sinha, whose tenure as Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Handicraft & Handlooms Exports Corporation of India Limited (HHEC) is coming to an end on July 18, 2015, will remain on the post till further decision of Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC).

72 IRTS officers get JAG (UPDATED)
As many as 72 officers belonging to Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) have been granted Junior Administrative Grade (JAG). Ajay Prakash, Harish Billore, Nawal Kishore Singh, R K Sahu, Rakesh Kr Srivastava, Rajesh Kr Srivastava, Chandrika Prasad, Amardeep Singh, Jitendra Varshney, Chhote Lal Meena, K Satyanarayana, K R Parate, Vinay Kumar, D K Raina, J I Jena, Saibal Kr Bose, R K Sharma, Babul Lal Meena, K Madhusudhan, Sajal Kuamr Sinha, B N Mandal, P V N Ravikumar, Sanjiv Chhattopadhaya, L B Chaudhary, Parminder Singh, Rupesh Nandy, J Hembram, B M Prasad, Birendra Nath Lal, Shiv Shankar Pandey, K S Sonel, B K Gupta, J P Gaur, Suveer Shrivastava, A K Agarwal, K Jaishankar, B K Sharma, Suresh Saxena, R Y Joshi, Bhavtendra K Singh, Satyaveer Singh, Sunita (Matta), N V Satyanarayana, C R Kumawat, V K Shukla, P A Dhananjeyan, Kamlesh Kr Tripathy, O N Verma, M Sami Naik, D K Bhowmik, Ashotosh Upadhayay, Partha Sarthi Mondalo, Amit Kr Maitra, Gouranga Ch Pradhan, Chittaranjan Jha, Subir Batabyal, Hemanta Basak, P K Sinha, Shantanu Chkaraborty, S K Lal, M N Rai, Dalbir Singh, Dhurmal, A P Barad, K Rajendra Kumar, Ch Venkateswarlu, P Vallinayagi, Sukumar Das, Dhirendra Kumar, P C Madhukar, P K Sinha and N Marandi.

2 IRS-IT officers shifted (UPDATED)
Two IRS-IT officers shifted at Additional/Joint Commissioner level. Vidya Ramachandran has been transferred to Pr DGIT (Vigilance), at Chennai while R Ilavarasi was posted to Pr CCIT, Tamil Nadu.

Ms Aparna U joins AP cadre on inter-cadre deputation (UPDATED)
Ms Aparna U has joined the Government of Andhra Pradesh on inter cadre deputation and been posted as Deputy Chief Executive Officer, AP State Skill Development Corporation, Hyderabad. She is a 2001 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.

Prashant Pathrabe is Director FTII (UPDATED)
Prashant Pathrabe director of Press Information Bureau (PIB), has been given additional charge as the director of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII).

3 IPS officers get postings in MP (UPDATED)
Three IPS officers have been given postings in Madhya Pradesh. Upon return from deputation, Mrs Rina Mitra has been appointed as Special DG, Crime Against Women and Ajak, PHQ while Pramod Phalnikar, upon return from study leave, is posted as ADG, Selection and Recruitment, PHQ and Vivek Agrawal was made Assistant SP, Sagar.

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

Bhaskar Sen appointed Director, Bandhan Bank
Bhaskar Sen, former chairman and managing director of United Bank of India, has been appointed Director on the Board of Bandhan Bank.

Singh appointed Independent Director of Bharti Infratel Ltd
Bharti Infratel Limited has appointed Rajinder Pal Singh as an Independent Director of the company

Garg appointed Acting MD & CEO of Petronet LNG Limited
Petronet LNG Limited has appointed R K Garg, Director (Finance) of the company as Acting Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the company.

Mathias appointed Head (Marketing), Japan & Asia Pacific region of Hewlett Packard?
Hewlett Packard has appointed Lloyd Mathias as Head (Marketing), Japan & Asia Pacific region.

Nagar appointed CS of STL Global Ltd
STL Global Limited has appointed Manil Kumar Nagar as Company Secretary of the company.

Sahni appointed VP (( New Initiatives) of Ola
Sundeep Sahni had been appointed as its Vice-President ( New Initiatives) of Ola- the personal transportation firm

Ms Sharma appointed Independent Director of Modern Steels Ltd
Modern Steels Ltd has appointed Dr Meena Sharma as Independent Non-Executive Director of the company.

Ms Rani appointed CFO of Northlink Fiscal and Capital Services Ltd
Northlink Fiscal and Capital Services Ltd has appointed Anuradha Rani as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the company.

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DEBATE (1)

Mess is being cleared in the NDA government. IAS supremacy seems to be over since other services have started getting prominence.

Anjali

Govt employees

Most of the government employees do not give their best performances. There is no need for any liberal recommendations for them even if some of the competent may lose in the background. But the government has also to spend the hard earned tax payers money on the other citizens of the country even if it meant directly. Government should go in for speedy e-Governance methods and reduce its strength. Modernize offices on the lines of private sector. Improved office means an improved output. After say a decade most of the employees are going to be e-savvy and work will be executed easily. One also has to think that these days in the private sector the salary is not that good and there are many case wherein qualified engineers (including from IIT) who are joining Government Service at Assistant and Supervisor levels because of a guarantee, a fixed salary and they are not required to face the wrath of the lalas wherein the latter abuse also.

BBS

Talent in all services

Will the pay commission also look into adequate work for talent available? Talent is available in all services and it gets sharper in accordance with the responsibility entrusted.

D P Sharma

Rude officials in post offices

The Post offices in India are manned by the rudest officials of all. They do not come on time, they refuse to work even when the timings they themselves have given for public is not over yet, they invariably leave their tables at least ten minutes before slotted time, the hapless public has to go back even when the official hours are not over. It is high time the high handedness of Post office officials is addressed. Most often, the server link is down in most post offices, the public is made to wait endlessly. Jumping the queue by the friends of officials in post offices is the norm. Post office officials never even provide forms required. They give excuses that there are no forms, there are few forms etc, go get photocopies made of forms etc. Corruption is equally rampant in the post offices. Is Secretary (Posts) aware of what is happening under their noses? The work culture in Post offices has to improve, so does their provisioning and technological support. Will it ever provide world class services? Sadly, the answer appears to be no, not in another hundred years.

A K Singh

Merging CSSS with CSS

I would like to draw the attention of Srivastava that the government has accepted the recommendations of Sixth Pay Commission merging CSSS with CSS vide Resolution of the Cabinet accepting the recommendations. Thereafter, the question of going back does not arise.

V P Sharma

Vyapam eye wash

Vyapam 2500 accused (1000) in jail. This is pure eye wash! 99.99% are victims. Where are the culprits, main conspirators, agents?

Babu

DATE WITH RTI

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