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This is History (6)
When Plato was getting old, another Greek, who had become famous, was coming to the front. His name was Aristotle.

Who made Kejriwal hero?
Both BJP and the Congress are on the same page at least on one count and that is making Kejriwal, the simple showman a hero. Both the parties have made Kejriwal hero by criticizing him every now and then.

BUREAUCRACY

CR circulation of 1986 batch IAS starts
Circulation of CRs of 1986 batch IAS for empanelment to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India has started.

Four IRS officers appointed JD, ED
Four IRS -C-E officers have been appointed Joint Directors at Delhi, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Bangalore in the zonal offices of Enforcement Directorate.

See IAS sanctioned posts
In India at present 4,455 IAS officers are working against the sanctioned strength of 6,217 posts. It is said that the gap has increased during last ten years.

Prashant Narayan Sukul likely to return to parent cadre
Prashant Narayan Sukul, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Civil Aviation, is expected to return to parent cadre. He is a 1982 batch officer of Indian Defence Accounts Service.

Ms Mamta Kundra likely to return to parent cadre
Ms Mamta Kundra, Joint Secretary in the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), is expected to return to parent cadre. She is a 1985 batch officer of Indian Audit and Accounts Service.

Govind Mohan, Joint Secretary, Finance likely to return to parent cadre
Govind Mohan, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, is expected to return to parent cadre. He is a 1989 batch IAS officer of Sikkim cadre.

Who will become NHRC head?
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is headless since more than two months now. Government seems to be in no hurry to fill up the post of Chairman, NHRC. The post would reportedly remain vacant till November.

Dr Sanjay Kumar yet to get orders for post of Director (Pers), WCL
Dr Sanjay Kumar, GM, CIL, who was selected for the post of Director (Personnel), Western Coalfields Limited (WCL), has not received orders for joining as this post has become vacant on July 1, 2015 with the retirement of incumbent Rupak Dayal on June 30, 2015.

Experts to replace IES officers in NITI Aayog
Now experts according to recommendation of the re-structuring committee will replace Indian Economic Service officers in the NITI Aayog.

DPC of UT cadre IPS officers on July 8 ?
DPC of UT cadre IPS officers will be held on July 8, 2015. It is said that after DPC, 1997 batch IPS officers are likely to become IG and 2001 batch IPS officials could be promoted as DIG.

Frame & put RTP in public domain; DoPT
All ministries, departments and cadre authorities of Govt of India have been asked to frame Rotational Transfer Policy (RTP) and put up in public domain. The policy should include identification of sensitive posts and rotation of officers from sensitive posts. They have been asked to communicate action taken report (ATR) in this regard to DoPT latest by July 10, 2015.

KN Chaube joins BSF as IG
Kamal Nayan Chaube has joined BSF as IG. He is an IPS officer of 1987 batch and belongs to Jharkhand cadre.

Four IAS officers of 1984 batch get Apex Scale in AGMUT cadre
Four IAS officers belonging to 1984 batch of AGMUT cadre have been promoted to Apex Scale (Chief Secretary rank). The officers are: Ramesh Negi, Sanjay Pratap Singh, Arvind Ray and Mrs Reena Ray.

Seven AGMUT cadre IAS officers of 1989, 1990 batch promoted to PS rank
As many as seven AGMUT cadre IAS officers of 1989 and 1990 batch have been accorded Higher Administrative Grade (HAG). The officers are: Rajendra Kumar, Praveen Kumar Gupta, Jitendra Narayan, Arun Baroka, G Narendra Kuamr, Dharmendra, Bhupinder Singh Bhalla.

18 IAS officers of AGMUT cadre get Selection Grade
As many as 18 AGMUT cadre IAS officers - one of 2000 batch, three of 2001 batch and others of 2002 batch - have been accorded Selection Grade. The officers are: K K Jindal, Gamli Padu, V Shapchhunga, Sanjay Kumar Saxena, Ms Padmini Singla, Nikhil Kumar, Lalhmingthanga, Jaydev Sarangi, Mohan Lal, Akash Mahapatra, F O Hashmi, P R Meena, D P Dwivedi, Ashutosh Kumar, V K Jain, Manoj Kumar Z U Siddiqui and Vikas Anand.

CRPF & BSF chiefs will retire in Feb 2016
DGs of the country's two big paramilitary forces - CRPF and BSF - will retire in February 2016. Prakash Mishra, DG, CRPF is an IPS officer of 1977 batch Odisha cadre while 1979 batch IPS officer DK Pathak belongs to Assam- Meghalaya cadre is presently working as DG, BSF.

Rly will get full-fledged Member Traffic next year
According to sources, after retirement of the present Member Traffic Ajay Shukla, Railways is likely to get new full-fledged member traffic next year in February only. The 1978 IRTS batch officer Shukla is superannuating this month and Kundan Sinha is likely to be posted as Additional Member Traffic. Sinha is a 1979 batch IRTS officer.

Major empanelment of IAS officers as Secretary in GoI from UP
As many as seven IAS officers belonging to 1982 batch of Uttar Pradesh cadre have been empanelled for the posts of Secretary in Government of India.

J S Mathur tops out of ten in Secretary Empanelment in MP
The empanelment list issued for the posts of Secretary in Government of India came as a surprise when only one name J S Mathur from a big state Madhya Pradesh turned up out of total 10 IAS officers of 1982 batch. There are presently ten IAS officers: Dr Aruna Sharma, Pravesh Sharma, Rakesh Agrawal, Ajay Nath, Jitendera Shankar Mathur, Sudhir Ranjan Mohanty, Raghav Chandra, Ms Suranjana Ray, Ms Snehalata Shrivastava, K Suresh. Dr Dev Raj Birdi has already retired and got another assignment. K Suresh is due to retire in August while Ajay Nath was empanelled for Secretary equivalent will be retiring in September this year.

Commodore CD Balaji (retd) is Director, ADA
Commodore CD Balaji (retd) has taken over as Director of Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) and Programme Director, LCA (light combat aircraft). He has succeeded P S Subramanyam.

Pradeep Shukla re-instated
Pradeep Shukla has been re-instated by UP government. 1981 batch IAS officer Shukla has been posted as Member of Revenue Board.

Vinod Pal relieved to join as Director, Defence
Vinod Pal has been relieved to join as Director in the Ministry of Defence for a period of five years. He is a 1994 batch IRSME officer.

Justice Tahaliyani to be new Lokayukta, Maharashtra !
Justice M L Tahaliyani is being tipped as new Lokayukta of Maharashtra. He will succeed Justice P B Gaikwad who retired on July 1.

IES officer is now RPO
2007 batch Indian Economic Service officer Prasanth Chandran has assumed charge as Regional Passport Officer in Cochin.

3 IPS officers transferred in AP (UPDATED)
D Gautam Sawang has been posted as Police Commissioner, Vijayawada City while A B Venkateswara Rao will now be ADGP, Intelligence and Mrs A R Anuradha is posted as DG, Vigilance & Enforcement and ex-officio Principal Secretary.

Minor reshuffle of IAS officer in AP (UPDATED)
R Karikal Valaven has been appointed as Principal Secretary, Youth Advancement, Sports & Culture while Lav Agarwal will now be Secretary, Housing Department and Mrs Poonam Malakondaiah is Commissioner, Health & Family Welfar, Mission Director, NRHM and Project Director, AP AIDS Control Society. Besides, Dr D Srinivasulu has been given full charge of Commissioner, Civil Supplies and ex-officio, Secretary, CAF&CS Department in Andhra Pradesh.

Post of Rajneesh as PS to President upgraded to Joint Secretary level (UPDATED)
The post of Rajneesh as Private Secretary to the President at Director level has been upgraded to the rank of Joint Secretary level. He is a 1997 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.

Rupak Kumar Dutta joins as Special Director, CBI (UPDATED)
Rupak Kumar Dutta has taken over the charge as Special Director in the Central Bureau of Investigation in New Delhi. Prior to his appointment as a Special Director, he was holding the post of Additional Director in CBI and looking after Anti Corruption(HQ) Zone, Patna Zone, Hyderabad Zone, Chennai Zone, Economic Offences Zone-I, Bank Securities & Frauds Zone and Delhi Zone. He is a 1981 batch IPS officer of Karnataka cadre.

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

Three promoted as GM in Federal Bank
Varghese K I, Mohanachandran K R and Sampath D have been promoted by the Federal Bank as Chief General Managers.

Dave appointed Independent Director of Binani Industries Ltd
Binani Industries Limited has appointed Ms Jayantika Dave as Independent Director of the company.

Deoras appointed CMO of Colgate-Palmolive Ltd?
Mukul Deoras has been appointed as Chief Marketing Officer of Colgate-Palmolive Ltd

Gaggar ceases to be ED (Finance) of Clariant Chemicals (India) Ltd
B L Gaggar has ceased to be Executive Director (Finance) of Clariant Chemicals (India) Ltd on reaching the age of retirement.

Gandhi appointed Sddl. Director of SM Dyechem Ltd
SM Dyechem Ltd has appointed Ms Priti Nilesh Gandhi as Additional Director of the company.

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DEBATE (1)

The ongoing Debate :'The same bureaucracy delivers with absolute perfection when it comes to elections' Why does it suffer criticism otherwise?

S D Sharma




PM- 'All 37 Services Officers to be empanelled as JS in GoI'
A revolutionary decision by a hard task master PM Modiji. It will now break the monopoly of one British era service. Now, they will have to compete with other class-1 officers of Organised Services to prove their worth. creation of one All India technical service- Indian Engg Service (IES) is also the need of the hour. PM may be apprised of this.

Er S Bharadwaj



Competent heads- need of the hour

Finance is a very ticklish and complex subject for which a financial wizard must be selected, whether he is from the IAS or from Banking service or from industry. In fact the time has come when each Ministry should have competent and knowledgeable heads in their subjects rather than depending entirely upon the All India services.

S C Agrawal DGP (Retd)


Finally justice to all

Narendrabhai Modi has given instructions for empanelment of all Services which participate in the central staffing scheme in Government of India. This will ensure that justice is done to all services and the unjustified hegemony of one particular service to the undeserved detriment of all others will finally end.

Vijay Kumar



Bank of Ideas

PMO should consider opening a Bank of Ideas where all ideas can be gathered and used according to requirements.

Pradeep Ratnaparkhi



What is wrong in talking?



The justification of A Srivastava is immature.The Editor is not editing the posts.

Kulwant Kaur, IRTS (Retd)


More transparent process needed
Why is this hue and cry by IAS officers who have not been empanelled for Secretary level posts? Just because they qualified an exam 35 years back, they have the right to become Secretary? All services has pyramidical structure and only few can go up, eg in Armed Forces every officer does not become General !!! Instead of asking for moderation in evaluation of ACR they should ask for more transparent process in empanelment and subsequent posting by DOP&T.

S Gopal



Pay commissions recommendations

I tend to disagree with A. Srivastava that Pay Commission's recommendations are without going into the practicality of the situations. On the contrary, Pay Commission is actually an expert body who studies the system of GoI in great details and after due deliberations/consultations give its recommendations. These recommendations are further scrutinized minutely item by item by Committee of Secretaries [wherein, Secretary Expenditure and DoPT Secretary etc. are also members] and then approved by Cabinet. Cabinet in India is supreme and anything approved by Cabinet is binding on all GoI Departments. Once a recommendation is approved by Cabinet it is not open for DoPT to study the practicality but to implement the Cabinet decisions. It is another matter that DoPT played with the system and high-ups also ignored DoPT's hypocrisy and tax-payers money is wasted by taking work of stenographer [UDC equivalent] from a PSO [director equivalent]. 6th Pay Commission had recommended PSOs' post as a temporary measure to give relief to stagnating officials until merger is effected. Now even take the case of practicality why 3-4 officials ranging from PS to PSO are required in a Secretary's office when there are only two telephones in his office? How many persons are required for dictation from one Secretary? How many persons are required for keeping engagements of one Secretary??? Pay Commission's recommendations, once approved by Cabinet, are binding and no department is excluded from implementing these.



M Sood


RTI being misused

Completely agree with a comment that RTI is being misused by some to seek frivolous information. Recently, someone went up to SC to seek information of medical bills of judges. Fortunately, the supreme Court rejected the appeal otherwise it would have opened floodgates of similar trivial requests. Medical expenses of an individual are his private matter and just because the person works in government, does not mean that details of medical bills submitted by the person for reimbursment under the rules can be asked for by any tom, dick and harry.

It is possible that some individuals may be submitting inflated bills but that can be for any government servant not necessarily singling out judges.

I am sure government must be having a reasonable system of checking and audit and if need be the same can be strengthened. There is no need for the common man to get involved in purely administrative matter. In any case, assuming information is provided, there is nothing the person getting it can do, except write to appropriate govt. dept. He has no means to judge anything one way or the other.

Ashwini K Singh

DATE WITH RTI

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