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POLITICS

This is History (110)
He took the title of emperor himself, as he considered himself the representative of the Eastern Byzantine Caesars.


Cong comeback hinges on Modi's failure !
If Congress will come to power in near future, it will be only due to Modi's failure. Modi, it may be pointed out here, also came to power only due to the failure of the Congress.

Prashant Kishore to get importance in Bihar ?
JD(U) strategist Prashant Kishore is an important figure in Bihar these days. During election campaign his strategies paved the way for formation of new Government. If sources are to be believed, he may get some ministerial berth.

Congrats to Mahaghatbandhan
Na padhayee na kamayee na dawai!
Biharis funnily opted for ..hai duhayee!

Return of Jungle Raj.... Nitish will soon realize the price he will have to pay for allying with RJD. In a year or so Goons will do the policing ... and there will be gangs distributing electricity... and taxes will be collected by them too...and of course will be pocketed by them ! Numerically RJD is the Senior Partner. ... you will get an idea once the portfolios are distributed...Laloo will fight tooth and nail for Malai portfolios!

It was like BJP versus the rest!
Was from the very start a difficult contest!

For JD (U) ,Congress and RJD was battle of survival.... why do you think they bonded ...despite being at odds on most issues. ... Congress was so desperate that it kept voters exposure to Rahul at bare minimum. Then sometimes apne tacitly apno ko trip karte hai...you know why! Another issue .... the star Orator of BJP spoke in Hindi ...while Star Orators of JD (U) and RJD spoke in the local dialect ... to understand the impact of this phenomena you need to visit rural Bihar! Modi's intelligent analogies (I-way etc) went over their heads ...Laloo's crass illogical comical analogies were understood and oddly accepted!

BJP's poor power condition chant did it in!
It's on power supply that JD (U) did win!

Do not know who gave Modi the feedback that in Bihar power is 'a guest'...... fact is Bihar has power for 15-18 hrs.. the real problem is Transmission and Distribution losses...so when Modi said ...how bad is the power situation in Bihar ..he got a muted response. Modi should have let Laloo and gang hit him... above belt ..below belt ..and stuck to development and maintained a stoic silence on the 'hits'!!! Public loves the guy who takes 'crap' in his stride and sticks to what is good for them.

What will happen now !!
Now that anti BJP lot feel they have the 'know how'!!

Their worry is now ..delivery of Modi's promises will start reaching Ground Zero.. so now the only way is to form an alliance that covers all stratas of Society...this Bihar experience has got them hopeful....they feel now they have the knowhow to take on BJP! Nitish's swearing in will be a grand show of strength by anti Modi lot. They'll show off this new found strength in Parliament too. Media that's in their corner too is going to become very vociferous. So for some time ..unless BJP has some ace up its sleeve ...fortitude in the Mantra !

VJS

BUREAUCRACY

Will Annie Moraes be Member of TRAI ?
Name of Member, Telecom Commission Annie Moraes is doing the rounds for the post of Member, TRAI. Interview for the post is to take place this week. As many as 10 persons have been shortlisted for the post.


Anjani Kumar Singh to continue as CS in Bihar
Anjani Kumar Singh is going to continue as Chief Secretary of Bihar. He is a 1981 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.


Sudhir Kumar to return to Bihar
Sudhir Kumar is all set to return to Bihar. 1982 batch IAS officer Sudhir Kumar had been key advisor of Laloo Yadav when the latter was Railway Minister. On return, Kumar is expected to get good assignment.


Thakur to continue as DGP of Bihar
PK Thakur will continue as DGP of Bihar. 1980 batch IPS officer Thakur had been trusted police officer of Nitish Kumar.


Gangwar to emerge more powerful
Principal Secretary to CM Nitish Kumar, Dr. Dharmendra Singh Gangwar will emerge more powerful in the new term. He is a 1988 batch IAS officer.


Chanchal Kumar to be more powerful in Bihar
Secretary to the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Chanchal Kumar will be a powerful bureaucrat in the new set up. He is a 1992 batch IAS officer.

Arun Kumar Singh to be important bureaucrat in Bihar
Arun Kumar Singh is going to be a more important bureaucrat in Bihar. He is 1985 batch IAS officer.


Pratyaya Amrit is now blue eyed boy of Nitish Kumar
1991 batch IAS officer Pratyaya Amrit is going to be more trusted man of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. He is a 1991 batch IAS officer.

Amir Suhani to be more powerful !
PS, Home Amir Suhani is going to be a more powerful bureaucrat in the new set up. He is a 1987 batch IAS officer.


Atish Chandra to remain important in Bihar
Atish Chandra is going to be an important bureaucrat in the new regime. He is a 1994 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.


1985 batch IPS officer KB Singh is DGP in Odisha
1985 batch IPS officer K B Singh has been appointed new DGP of Odisha. He has succeeded Sanjeev Marik who has proceeded on leave.


Dayal to succeed Ghosh as Director (Tech), CMPDIL on Dec 1
Binay Dayal, GM, SECL, will be joining as Director (Technical), Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Limited (CMPDIL) on December 1, 2015. He will succeed incumbent D K Ghosh retiring on November 30, 2015.


NDMA' Member Secretary Ravinder Kumar Jain retiring in Nov
Ravinder Kumar Jain, Member Secretary, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is retiring in November 2015. He is a 1981 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.


35 IIS Gr-B officers get ad-hoc promotion
35 Gr-B IIS officers have been promoted on ad hoc basis to the post of JTS of group-A and posted as Assistant Directors in various units in India. They are- Multan Singh Yadav, M. Tauheed Khan, Sudip Banerjee, Kulshrestha Kamal, Sapna, S Salman Haider, Naresh Vijay Vig, N.C. Jayachandran, Madhukar Pawar, Issac Eppan, Yogesh Kumar Pandya, Ramakrishna Pillai, Raja Mohan R., Aswani Kumar Sharma , Sanjay Ghosh, Arindam Bora, Pratush Kumar Ghosh, Dayawanti Srivastava, V.Ratnam, Gagandeep Kaur, A.Venkatppiah, Rakesh Mehta, Sanjay Pratap Singh,Prakash Das, SN Pattanaik, Subhash Kumar Chanda, Anurag Vajpayee, Jaydevi Shantitirath Swami, Nagendra Singh Kishore, Hemant Kumar, N. Thenappan, P. Surendranath, BD Devmani, Rameshwar Naik and Dharmesh Bharti.
(We said this on Oct 6)


IPS changes in Odisha
Y B Khurania will now be DG (Vigilance). Binay Behera has been moved as DG (Home Guards and Fire Services). SM Narvani has been posted as Director of Biju Patnaik State Police Academy.


Pradeep R Sethi is Member, Settlement Commission, Mumbai-II
Pradeep R Sethi has been appointed Member, Income Tax Settlement Commission at Mumbai Additional Bench-II.


Dilip Kumar to be JS, UT in MHA
Joint Secretary in the MHA Dilip Kumar has been moved on the desk of UT. He is a 1995 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre.


Ms Rakhee Gupta Bhandari to look after BM-II Division in MHA
Joint Secretary in the MHA, Ms. Rakhee Gupta Bhandari looking after HR Division has been moved as Joint Secretary ( BM- II Division, International Cooperation and VIP Security). She is 1997 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre She will also hold additional charge of IC Division.


Ms Bina Prasad goes to HR Division in MHA
Mrs Bina Prasad, Joint Secretary in the MHA has been transferred to HR division. She is a CSS officer.


P K Gupta returns from Rashtrapati Bhawan as JS in MHA
Pradeep Gupta has been posted as Joint Secretary IS-II Division in the Ministry of Home Affairs. He is a 1985 batch IoFS officer. He was posted in the Rashtrapati Bhawan.

Garg to look after NE in MHA
Satyendra Garg has been appointed as Joint Secretary, NE Division in the Ministry of Home Affairs(MHA). He is a 1987 batch IPS officer of UT cadre.


Prasad to be JS, PM Division in MHA
New Joint Secretary, TVSN Prasad has been made Joint Secretary, PM Division in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). He is a 1988 batch IPS officer of Haryana cadre.


Vumlunmang is now JS II Division in MHA
Joint Secretary V.Vumlunmang looking after PM Division has been moved as Joint Secretary -II Division. He is a 1992 batch IAS officer of MT cadre.

Makwana is now JS, BM I Division in MHA
Hitesh Kumar Makwana, JS, BM I Divison, MHA has been transferred as JS -I Division. He is a 1995 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.


Ms Sushma Kindo posted as Deputy Director, IES Division, Economic Affairs
Ms Sushma Kindo has been appointed as Deputy Director, IES Division, Department of Economic Affairs. She is a 2010 batch IES officer.

Gupta is now Special Secretary DPE (UPDATED)
Neeraj Kumar Gupta has been appointed Special Secretary Department of Public Enterprises (DPE). He is 1982 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Additional charge period of ED, Krnail Singh extended by three months (UPDATED)
The period of additional charge of Enforcement Director, Krnail Singh has been extended by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) for three months beyond November 19, 2015 or till appointment of a regular incumbent. Singh, Special Director, Central Region, Enforcement Directorate, is a UT cadre IPS officer of 1984 batch.

CORPORATE

Ms Rastogi designated as CS of Gillette India Ltd
Ms Jessica Rastogi has been designated as Company Secretary of Gillette India Limited

Banerjee appointed Addl. Director of Industrial Investment Trust Ltd
Industrial Investment Trust Limited has appointed Deb Kumar Banerjee who is a Nominee of Life Insurance Corporation of India as an Additional Director of the company.

Athawale appointed Independent Director of The Ugar Sugar Works Ltd
Hari Y Athawale has been appointed as an Independent Director of The Ugar Sugar Works Limited

Sathyamoorthy resigns as CS of Megasoft Ltd
A Sathyamoorthy has resigned as Company Secretary of Megasoft Limited

Ms Kale appointed CS of Goldstone Technologies Ltd
Goldstone Technologies Limited has appointed Ms Roopali Kale as Company Secretary of the company.

Barvadiya appointed CS of Pratibha Industries Ltd
Pratibha Industries Limited has appointed Mayur C Barvadiya as Company Secretary of the company.

Sharma designated as CFO of ECE Industries Ltd
ECE Industries Limited has designated Rajat Sharma, who is Vice President (Corporate Finance & Taxation) of the company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the company

Kolli resigns as Director of D-Link (India) Ltd
Vinai Kolli has resigned as Director of D-Link (India) Limited

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Competition drives Performance: Urgent Need for Civil Service Reforms

After 68 years of independence, India as a nation is still 'developing'. Though successive governments adopted various policies to provide Good Governance for the people of our country, it miserably failed in reality. The results are grass-root level corruption, indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources, unabated pollution, poor law enforcement, uncontrolled population, poverty, illiteracy, ill health and so on. The primary reason for this mess is poor governance and lack of non-partisan Civil Services. Could anyone dispute this fact?

People's confidence on the Government machinery is completely lost as the public services delivery system particularly in States failed miserably in all respects. Who should be held responsible for this mess? Could we blame only the politicians? Certainly, the Civil Administration driven by IAS officers need to take responsibility.

Interestingly IAS Association wants to maintain 'supremacy' over other services and demand higher pay in the 7th Pay Commission. IAS could definitely claim to be 'supreme' in case the Governance is provided as per law, public service delivery is efficient and the development is equally distributed and effective. Also if tahsildars and the BDOs execute the schemes of the Government without any discrimination, pilferage, wastage and corruption. One cannot understand how such a demand for 'supremacy' could be made in an open market economy where competition drives performance.

Every aspirant of civil services puts IAS as priority only for the main reason that it provides an opportunity to serve the people directly and get the recognition for good work, whereas the performance of other Central services do not directly impact the public lives and therefore do not get the recognition.

We can certainly say that there are many upright IAS officers whose contribution to Governance has been outstanding. But, at the same time we also find many mediocre IAS officers who occupy very critical positions and do nothing or only self serving. Many PSUs/ Autonomous bodies were ruined and became charities for self-serving employees because of such officers. Just because someone secured better rank in civil services examination does not mean that he/she enjoys the best of opportunity in occupying important posts in Govt. (without optimum performance) which the civil services provide throughout his/her career. In the present circumstances, even the good IAS/ IPS officers are not given important position in many States as they do not go hand in hand with the political bosses. In fact, many of posts of District Collectors and other important postings are given to the officers recruited through State PSCs. In many states, bureaucrat-politician nexus has already damaged the neutrality of functioning of the Govt. Thus the leadership provided by IAS for the delivery of public services has failed to perform as it is completely outdated and needs urgent reforms.

As an urgent measure de-cadre at least 30% posts (including DC) of IAS both in State and Central Govt. and fill up these posts by the officers of other Central Services or Experts. This will promote healthy competition for improving the performance and neutrality. Unless there is a competition to perform, the country will never have good governance in near future. Equal opportunity should be given for all the services in GoI as well as in State level postings. Keeping the national interest in mind, the decision makers at the top should dispassionately view the existing caste system in civil services and decimate the same once for all to give Good Governance.

Ambalavanan R

Conclave on Higher Education

The current deliberations in Rashtrapati Bhawan ought to consider and compare the facilities for study and research in humanities and social sciences with those in IITs/IISc etc. Many ills afflicting society in the country currently emanate from lack of attention to social science and humanities studies and research.Do teachers in these two streams not require computers for official work with broadband facility? How many enjoy it? Even private schools (misnomer Public Schools) provide these facilities to their teachers and students whereas many universities and most colleges don't provide it to their teachers, much less to the students. How can higher studies be possible in such a restrictive environment? Even creative writers will produce literature worthy of national awards, unlike the poor quality for award wapsi.

M L Gupta

Suggestion regarding Pension - 7th Pay Commission

The present system of pension to existing pensioners needs revision. At present the pension is 50% of last pay drawn. As per Department of Pension OM No. 38/37/08-P&PW(A) dated 2.9.2008 when the pensioner attains the age of 80 years, 20% of revised basic pension is provided as additional quantum of pension. Similarly, when the pensioner attains the age of 85 years, 90 years, 95 years and 100 years, 30%, 40%, 50%, 100% of revised basic pension is provided as additional quantum of pension.

It is suggested that the following rates of pension should be followed: At the time of retirement on superannuation: 60% (instead of existing 50%). After every 10 years, i.e. 70 years, 80 years, 90 years and 100 years, the pension should be 70%, 80%, 90% and 100% of last pay drawn. This will not only simplify the procedure, but will also help superannuated Government servants financially.

Pradeep Ratnaparkhi

Privatisation of IDBI Bank

If FM and PM can't even manage the best Public Sector Bank, which has highest employee productivity then how will they manage the country. Any fool can privatise a profit making PSU. Government should realize that such endeavours will not go well with the public. If they want to privatize, there are many loss making PSU's which need management change and where tax payers money is being wasted. They should start from AIR-INDIA.

Neeraj Bhatt

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