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POLITICS

This is History (87)
Intrigues and fighting are parts of the dissolving empire.

Many business houses on agency radar
According to sources, at least a dozen business houses, including some PSU banks, are on various investigating agency's radar for financial frauds. It is said that the government has given clear signal to these agencies to take action against the guilty. Sources say that such frauds are responsible for banks NPA also, to some extent.

7th CPC- increment month to be changed ?
It is said that the 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC) is likely to recommend date of increment from January 1 in place of July 1w.e.f. January 1, 2016.

Bandh karro yeh idiocy....

When Tasleem was hounded,
By Islamists on her war bugle was sounded!

Where were these Sahitya Awardees!!
For her did they stand and step out of the crease!!

Now they are returning their awards in protest!
But have failed the 'pro freedom' test!!

Had they stood up for Nasreen! !
Then as fighters of freedom of speech they'd be seen!

Fate works in a mysterious way!!
Makes the undeserving themselves pay!

You think Nayantara was that good??
No ..only Rajiv was in a family upliftment mood!

What she undeservedly got fate took back!
Apne aap ko from awardees list she did sack!

Now take Kasuri who is here to release his book!
As a Minister tyrannical he made India look!

Yes pull out his sound bytes!!
Selling his book here is idiocy ki height of heights!

Sena has taken a vow!
On Maha soil Pakis they will not allow!

Be it Cricket or Shows Sena will do everything to stop!
And on this they do not flip flop!

Kulkarni was warned ...cease and desist!
But Kulkarni chose to persist!

So they decided to 'fire in the hawaa'!
Blackened his face like a tawaa!

In the past when Sena has done such things!
Hasn't Advani stood quietly in the wings?

Why today has he changed his poise!
And against this step by Sena is making noise!

BJP has nothing to do with this attack!!
And Sena on this it does not back!!

But seems Pseudos want to give impression!
That secularism faces tension!

Fact it's pseudo secularism that's being taken on!
Enough of damage it's done!

And we know Advani's hatred for Narendra Bhai!
Would love to create anti Modi hai - dhuhayee!

Test. .. can Thackrey launch book in Pakistan!
Should we allow a proven Indian baiter to do it in Hindustan?

Advani and his gang can go to Pakistan to say sorry!!
Go and say sorry jaha Jinnah ko kiya burry!

VJS

BUREAUCRACY

NIA Chief Sharad Kumar to get extension ?
NIA Chief Sharad Kumar is expected to get extension in service. 1979 batch IPS officer of Haryana cadre Sharad Kumar is scheduled to retire on October 31.

Proposal of appointment of Railway GMs moved !
Proposal of appointment of five Railway General Managers is reported to have been moved.

Yash Sinha to continue in Colombo
Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka Yash Sinha will continue on his present post.

Chairman of NHRC to be appointed only in November
Post of NHRC Chairman is likely to be filled only in November. The post has been lying vacant for quite some time.

Indian Postal Service officer Dr. M Venkateswarlu joins AP Government on deputation
Dr. M Venkateswarlu, Postmaster General Kochi in Kerala, has joined the Government of Andhra Pradesh on deputation and posted as Managing Director, Bhogapuram International Airport Company Limited. He is a 1992 batch officer of Indian Postal Service.

Alkesh Sharma is new CEO, Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation Ltd.
Alkesh Kumar Sharma will be new Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation Ltd. He is a 1990 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre. He has been appointed for three years.

Farooqui is now Broadband India Forum Chairman
Former Secretary, Telecom MF Farooqui has been appointed Chairman of Broadband India Forum (BIF). 1978 batch former Tamil Nadu cadre IAS officer Farooqui would succeed Shyamal Ghosh.

Rajiv Kher is Member, CAT
Outgoing Secretary, Commerce Rajeev Kher has been appointed as a member at the Competition Appellate Tribunal. He is a 1980 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Tapan Ray on SEBI Board
Secretary, Corporate Affairs Tapan Ray has been appointed on the Board of capital market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.

This is the state of affairs in Judiciary !
Gauhati High Court has no permanent Chief Justice since August 2014. Present acting Chief Justice K Sreedhar Rao is also retiring on Ocober 20. It means another Acting CJ will be in the HC.

Orders of Binay Dayal for Director (Tech), CMPDIL issued
The orders of Binay Dayal, GM, SECL, for the appointment as Director (Technical), Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Limited (CMPDIL) have been issued by the Government of India.
(We said this on May 11, 2015)

No candidate turns up for Director (Fin), BSCL
No candidate has turned up for the post of Director (Finance), Burn Standard Company Limited (BSCL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on October 12, 2015. The Board has recommended to the Ministry of Railways to approach the Competent Authority for filling of the post through Search-cum-Selection mode.

Orders of RAdm L V S Babu for CMD, HSL issued
The orders for the appointment of RAdm L V S Babu, ACNS, MoD, as Chairman and Managing Director, Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL) have been issued by the Government of India.
(We said this on May 12, 2015)

Ravneet Singh assumes Command of Western Fleet
Rear Admiral Ravneet Singh, NM has assumed command of the 'Sword Arm' of Indian Navy as the Flag Officer Commanding Western Fleet (FOCWF), at sea on board INS Viraat. The Flag Officer hails from Jalandhar, Punjab and was commissioned in the Indian Navy on July 1, 1983.

Metta Rama Rao appointed OSD, Andhra Pradesh Bhawan, Delhi
Metta Rama Rao has joined the Government of Andhra Pradesh on deputation as Officer on Special Duty, Andhra Pradesh Bhavan, New Delhi. He is an IRS-C&CE officer.

Will Ponnuraj return to Karnataka ?
Grapevine has it that V. Ponnuraj (IAS, 2000, KTK) currently PS to Law Minister is returning to parent Karnataka cadre. On return he is likely to be posted as MD, KUIDFC.

Atulya Mishra is back to TamilNadu
Chairman of the Chennai Port Trust Atulya Mishra is back to the parent TamilNadu cadre after completion of central deputation tenure. On return 1988 batch IAS officer Mishra has been posted as principal secretary / commissioner, Revenue Administration.

Post of CMD, UCIL advertised
The post of Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Uranium Corporation of India Limited has been advertised with the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) seeking applications before December 15, 2015. A vacancy of this post is arising next year onSeptember 1, 2016.

Farooqui is now IG BSF Tripura Frontier
On promotion M F Farooqui BSF DIG Amritsar Frontier has been posted as IG BSF Tripura Frontier. Sumer Singh will succeed Farooqui in Amritsar.

Post of CMD, PFC advertised
The post of Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Power Finance Corporation (PFC) has been advertised with the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) seeking applications before December 9, 2015. A vacancy of this post is arising next year on October 1, 2016.

Minor reshuffle of IAS officers in Haryana
Five IAS officers have been transferred in Haryana. Accordingly, Mrs. Keshni Anand Arora has been appointed as ACS, School Education and Electronics and Information & Technology while Trilok Chand Gupta was made Principal Secretary, Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes Department and Siddhi Nath Roy is Principal Secretary, Printing Energy Department. Besides, Mrs. Ankur Gupta was made Principal Secretary, Renewal Energy Department and Mrs. Sukriti Likhi was made Managing Director, HAFED.

Sulochna Kumari posted as Jt. CP Gurgaon (UPDATED)
A 2010 batch IPS officer Sulochna Kumari has been posted as DCP Gurgaon.

D K S Chauhan is also CPMG, Gujarat circle (UPDATED)
D K S Chauhan, CPMG, Rajasthan circle, has been assigned an additional charge of CPMG, Gujarat circle. He is a 1982 batch officer of Indian Postal Service.

Mrs V Santha appointed as Director, Sericulture in TN (UPDATED)
Mrs V Santha has been appointed as Director of Sericulture in Tamil Nadu. She is an IAS officer.

Four Railway officers transferred (UPDATED)
Vinod Kumar Dubey has been posted as SIO-I, RDSO, Kolkata while A Q Khan was repatriated to his parent Railway Eastern Railway on completion of his tenure and M Kishore was also posted as SIO, Hyderabad and N R K Raju was repatriated to his parent Railway South Central Railway on completion of his tenure in RDSO.

Jyoti Narayan deputed as Addl Commissioner, Security, BCAS (UPDATED)
Jyoti Narayan has been deputed as Additional Commissioner of Security (Civil Aviation) in Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS). He is a 1986 batch IPS officer of UP cadre.

CBI books CPWD ED for amassing assets (UPDATED)
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against an Executive Engineer, CPWD, NIT Project Division, Jamshedpur amassing assets in his name and in the name of his family members to the tune of Rs.1. 36 crores (approx) which are disproportionate to his known sources of income.

Tapan Ray is also Secretary, I&B (UPDATED)
Tapan Ray has been assigned an additional charge of Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.

CORPORATE

Varma ceases to be Independent Director of Essar Oil Ltd
D K Varma has ceased to be Independent Director of Essar Oil Limited

Mehrotra appointed CEO of Telenor India
Telenor India has appointed Sharad Mehrotra as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) w.e.f. November 1, 2015

Popli appointed CFO of Simbhaoli Sugars Ltd
Simbhaoli Sugars Limited has appointed Dayal Chand Popli as Chief Financial Officer of the Company.

Jhala resigns as CS of Adlabs Entertainment Ltd
Ghanshyam Jhala has resigned as Company Secretary of Adlabs Entertainment Limited

Agrawal appointed COO of Ujaas Energy Ltd
Ujaas Energy Limited has appointed Manish Agrawal as the Chief Operating Officer of the company.

Ms Mukherjee appointed CS of Zandu Realty Limited
Zandu Realty Limited has appointed Ms Swetha Mukherjee as the Company Secretary of the company

Ms Boorugu ceases to be Director of Metkore Alloys & Industries Ltd
Ms Sarita Boorugu has ceased to be Director of Metkore Alloys & Industries Limited

Jain designated Independent Director of Infomedia Press Ltd
Infomedia Press Ltd has designated Lalit Kumar Jain as Independent Director of the company

Savaliya resigns as CS of JMC Projects (India) Ltd
Suresh Savaliya has resigned as Company Secretary of JMC Projects (India) Limited

Yadav ceases to be CS of Coral India Finance & Housing Ltd
Ms Manorama A Yadav has ceased to be Company Secretary of Coral India Finance & Housing Limited

Gollapali appointed as Chief Business Officer ( Holidays) of Yatra.com
Chakrapani Gollapali has been appointed as Chief Business Officer ( Holidays) of Yatra.com

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Appeals in CIC

The number of appeals in the Central Information Commission in the recent past has reduced by 75%. Read the 'Saptahik Hindustan' of 9.10.2015. The reason could be on account of the following reasons:-

(i) The art of Government officials to give reply to RTI applications is one of the reasons, which has led to this.
(ii) The problem arises if you falter in giving reply either in yes or no/complete or incomplete.
(iii) The important reason for this could also be lack of coruption during the last one year.
(iv)Curb on black money and fall in real estate prices.
(v)Not to forget that spectrum scam and Coalgate was only on account of RTI applications. This may have made government employees cautious.
(vi)One more could be Attendance Machine.
(vii)However, still there are black sheep and they need to be brought to book.
(With the number of applications reducing, the task of dealing with public grievance applications could be given to CIC.
Nivedita

Stuck in the same seat
I agree with the comments of Mr. B.K. A PPS Secretary to Government of India MoEF & CC is sitting in the same position since more than 10 years.
L Kutty

RTP misused more by CSS officers
RTP has been misused more by CSS than CSSS officers because CS Div. is managed by CSS Officers. CSS Officers continue to work in the same Ministry even after getting promoted or completing the tenure. Fresh date (of promotion) is mentioned against their name in that Ministry. Many CSS officers manage shifting to another Ministry within one year if they do not get department of their choice. One officer has managed to return to MHA and got posting in the same Division. What Secretary (P) can do if concerned JS and his team do not work in an impartial manner or flout the rules/guidelines. The situation was much better when the promotion orders used tobe issued by EO Div.alongwth posting to a new Deptt RTP therefore has done more harm than good in the organisation.
Chander Prakash, Director (Retd.)

More staff than entitlement
One more fact is to be noted that Ministers, Secretaries, Additional Secretaries & Joint Secretaries in the Ministries/Departments are entitled to some number of Staff. But when you will see through a transparent lens all of them have got with them Staff much more that their entitlement. This is done forcibly. PSU men and the hired Data Entry Operators is also posted with them, who attend to personal chores of both the Minister/Officer and the Private Secretaries. This over employment and loss to exchequer, can be treated as form of corruption. In a Department there is no PSU but the Director(Admn) and junior officials of the administration are forced to attend to their household work. There massive excess use of vehicle at Government cost for personal purposes. Where are you Mr."Na khaunga na khane doonga". Even god is not going to forgive such acts in the background where we have so many poor people in the country.
Satya Prakash

On grievance redressal in GoI
The comment in WIC on 12.10.2015 by BBS, an insider in the Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances on my earlier submission indicates the cynicism with which a grievance is viewed by him and his friends. He presumes it to be false and illegal which is pathetic.
When a complaint is sent to CVC, it forwards it to the CVO of the concerned department who is working under the persons against whom the complaint is made. The investigation is covered-up and CVC, in general, do not examine it. The complaint is given no chance to counter the findings of the CVO. In some cases, he is harassed too. Similarly, DARPG forwards the grievances to the concerned ministries and when the same is closed without proper redressal with the remarks that the complainant was not responding to the Ministry, it neither verifies the claim nor apply its mind to see the absurdity of the claim of the Ministry. Why a genuine complainant will not respond to the Ministry! It is in this context that I categorised, DARPG as a mere post office which passes on the message without examining the content.
There may be cases where persons are misusing the grievance mechanism, but the duty of the system is to ensure justice to genuine persons and in the process it has also to deal with false cases too.
Bharatee Jee

Quiet flows the Verinaag
Three decades back, I had the chance to witness the awe-inspiring, breathtaking charm and pristine beauty of the king of springs Verinaag in Kashmir valley. River Jhelum flows from it with the same stream and same amount of water since centuries irrespective of periodic droughts. I had been witnessing for about five decades, reading in news-papers, watching TV, hearing on radio broadcasts, the similar stream of our countrymen living abroad, coming to their native places with unbridled gusto and enthusiasm. The countryside seemed to be vibrating and happy in their presence. They organised sports melas, circle-style kabbadi matches, constructed stadiums, dispensaries, schools, dharamsalas, got sewerage laid and drains constructed for sullage water disposal, brick- lined the streets and internal drains and ponds, planted trees, brought specialists from abroad for holding health check-up camps and providing free medicines and requisite treatment. Gates were used to be constructed and hundreds of other charitable activities were undertaken in the memory of their ancestors. Government also contributed matching grants for development works.
During the arrival of NRIs, the poor of the villages were the most satisfied beneficiaries as they were the recipients of their largesse and charity. Small towns also felt the economic upsurge during such visits. Unfortunately the rural population of the state had not been economically vibrant for more than a century. For this reason, the peasantry in spite of having large chunks of agricultural lands had to opt for army or other government jobs for living honorably. Luckily for them there were no quota restrictions in the army to which Punjab remained major contributor more than 35 years back. However reduction in land holdings because of division, failing law and order, almost complete unavailability of job opportunities on merit, criminalization and money -minting trends in politics, and better economic and work environment in foreign lands, led to exodus of the population to foreign lands in significant numbers led by Doaba and followed by Malwa and Majha. The prosperity brought about by them was visible in their palatial houses in the countryside. However leaving the country in poor economic conditions with old parents having no one to look after them had never been an easy job. They had to sell their lands, suffer humiliation of relatives in case of intended borrowings, suffer frauds of travel agents with still uncertain and unsafe future.
ajority of the population has migrated in unhappy circumstances and this is the reason their love for their land doubled up when by dint of their hard work and commitment, they earned honorable living not only for themselves but also for their families. By the mid 1990s,the government had become fully conscious of the economic and political clout of the NRIs, as many amongst them had become Ministers, MPs, and top industrialists and the richest in the world .So efforts started to accord them special treatment formally and informally and schemes were chalked out to entice them to invest in the state. NRI sabhas, NRI Commission, NRI police stations, NRI Revenue courts and NRI Nambardars were some institutions which came into being. Some legislative changes in the Punjab Tenancy Act and Urban Rent control Act were also brought about for their benefit. NRI sammelans became big annual events.
Since early 1990s the problem of drugs had started spreading its wings in the rural areas. The successive governments failed to see the gravity of the situation. Resultantly vote seeking politics succumbed to the economic power of drug mafias and left the people at their mercy. The other mafias supported by lose implementation of law and order also helped the rot to speed up. The discerning eyes of the NRIs with constant feedback from the relatives, dissuaded them to invest in the state. So the annual sammelans of NRIs have been discarded and replaced by NRI sangat darshans professedly to sort out their pending issues. The message was clear and the NRIs who fought for the freedom of the country and sacrificed their lives have taken up the challenge and have also expressed their anguish during the tours of ruling politicians of the state in foreign countries. For more than 2 years visibly the vibrancy of the NRIs in the state seems to have substantially dwindled. But the agony of the NRIs is unbearable.
How nostalgic our brethren in foreign lands are about their places of birth, the streets in which they played, the schools in which they studied, the village ponds, the water-channels, the big old peepal and boharh trees, this narrative will tell. In the year 2003,when I was heading the Nawanshehar district, about fifty years old turbaned, very well dressed man accompanied by about 23 years old tall girl from London came to see me. The man was visiting his native place after 27 years and the girl, who was a doctor, had come to Punjab for the first time. They belonged to a nearby village. After usual courtsies, the man said, ''Sir, I have come here after such a long gap, but my brothers have not allowed me to enter my own house, where I was born and where my parents had been living. ''Tears had started swelling in his eyes as he was speaking. The girl interrupted, ''Actually my father was not coming as he was aware of the nature of his brothers. But I insisted to see the place of his birth and the place where my forefathers lived. Look, my uncles did not allow us to enter the house, my father still has share in the joint property and he never even claimed profits from the land''. The gentleman was now in tears. It seemed he did not want his daughter to be witness to this embarrassing and humiliating scenario.. But he respected her emotions for her ancestors. He said, ''sir, we want your help to go inside the house to just see each and every nook and corner and pay respects to our ancestors. My one brother is a Thanedar, he has already threatened me. ''I was just wondering at the purity of the sentiments and also weighing the legal trail of the issue. I called up the SSP and told her the entire situation with my own views to help them. Incidentally she was also a young girl from Hyderabad. As usual overcoming her initial diffidence, assured she would get it done without hassles. Within 10 minutes DSP of the concerned area came. I had already called the SDM. After about four hours, I was informed that they had seen the house to their heart's fill. The brothers also seemed to be in their awe in the presence of the officers. SDM was a God fearing man. He had also asked the person if he wanted partition of the land. But the gentleman still refused as he insisted that he had for long left the claim on it in his heart of hearts.
I was very happy at the outcome. Next morning they came and profusely expressed their gratitude. The tears rolled down uncontrollably. The pen they gifted me still adorns my precious belongings. The spring of emotions of NRIs for their native places and for their ancestors will never dry up like the Verinaag. The governments must understand and the politics should take a detour.
Surinderjit Singh Sandhu, Amritsar

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