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When nothing else inspires, History does ! (187)
Wars are fought by diplomacy first and then if need be on the field !

Will RSS interference damage Modi Government ?
People say that RSS interference will led to the fall of the Modi Government. They feel that the BJP will lose elections if the interference of the Sangh Parivar is not checked.

BUREAUCRACY

Ashutosh Jindal appointed as Joint Secretary, Petroleum & Natural Gas
Ashutosh Jindal has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Petroleum and Natural Gas. He is a 1995 batch IAS officer of MT cadre.

Rajesh Aggarwal posted as Joint Secretary, Financial Services
Rajesh Aggarwal has been appointed as Join Secretary, Financial Services in Government of India. He is a 1989 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

(We said this on Jan 8, 2015)

Rajiv Sadanandan appointed as Joint Secretary, Rural Development
Rajiv Sadanandan has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Rural Development in Government of India. He is a 1985 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.

Arun Kumar Mehta appointed as Joint Secretary, Environment, Forests
Arun Kumar Mehta has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Environment, Forests and Climate Change. He is a 1988 batch IAS officer of J&K cadre.

Anurag Srivastava appointed as Joint Secretary, AYUSH
Anurag Srivastava has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of AYUSH. He is a 1992 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.

Mihir Kumar Singh appointed as Joint Secretary, Information & Broadcasting
Mihir Kumar Singh has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. He is a 1993 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

(We said this on Dec 16, 2014)

Dr Bipin Bihar Mallick appointed as Joint Secretary, Labour & Employment
Dr Bipin Bihari Mallick has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment. He is a 1986 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

(We said this on Jan 6,2015)

Aindri Anurag appointed as Joint Secretary, Social Justice
Aindri Anurag has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Social Justice and Empowerment. He is a 1988 batch IPoS officer.

Bhupinder Singh Bhalla appointed as Joint Secretary, Commerce
Bhupinder Singh Bhalla has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of Commerce. He is a 1990 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Dr Sameer Sharma deputed as Joint Secretary, Urban Development
Dr Sameer Sharma has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development. He is a 1985 batch IAS officer of AP cadre.

C K Khetan appointed as Joint Secretary, Disability Affairs
C K Khetan has been appointed as Joint Secretary & Chief Executive Officer, National Trust for the Welfare of Persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation & Multiple Disabilities under Department of Disability Affairs. He is a 1987 batch IAS officer of Chhattisgarh cadre.



V Anandrajan appointed as Joint Secretary, Revenue, CBDT
V Anandrajan has been appointed as Joint Secretary (TPL-II) in Department of Revenue, CBDT, New Delhi, on deputation basis. He is an IRS-IT officer.

DP Agarwal is Chair Professor, RGPV
The former Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) DP Agarwal will work as Chair Professor in the Rajiv Gandhi Praudhyogiki Vishvavidyalaya (RGPV) Bhopal.

Gauhati HC gets five Additional Judges
Manojit Bhuyan, Michael Zothankhuma, Suman Shyam, Paran Kumar Phukan, and Mrs Rumi Kumari Phukan have been appointed as Additional Judges of the Gauhati High Court.

Rajasthan High Court gets nine Judges
Justice Jainendra Kumar Ranka, Justice Pratap Krishna Lohra, Justice Veerendra Singh Siradhana, Justice Vijay Bishnoi, Justice Arun Bhansali, Justice Atul Kumar Jain, Justice Mahendra Kumar Maheshwari, Justice Vishnu Kumar Mathur and Justice Banwari Lal Sharma have been appointed as Judges of Rajasthan High Court.



H N Prasad nominated as Part Director on DICGC Board
H N Prasad has been nominated as Part Time Non Official Director on the Board of Directors of Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) for a period of three years.

Gyanendra Dev Tripathi posted as PS to Birender Singh
Gyanendra Dev Tripathi has been appointed as Private Secretary to Chaudhary Birender Singh, Minister for Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water & Sanitation at Director level. He is a 1998 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

R N Misra gets charge of CMD, SJVN Ltd
R N Misra, Director (Civil), SJVNL, has been given an additional charge of Chairman and Managing Director, SJVN Limited after the retirement of incumbent R P Singh. However, the orders of Misra for full-time CMD of the same are awaited.

Neeeraj Kumar Mouriya deputed as AGM, DFCCIL
Neeraj Kumar Mouriya has been deputed as Assistant General Manager (Operations), Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL) for a period of five years. He is an IRTS officer.

Dhirendra Mehrotra deputed as DGM, RVNL, Delhi
Dhirendra Mehrotra has been deputed as Deputy General Manager (Projects), Rail Vikas Nigam Limited, Delhi for a period of three years.

Sanjiv Chopra is back to Odisha
Sanjiv Chopra is back to the parent Odisha cadre from central deputation. He is 1990 batch IAS officer of odisha cadre.

1985 batch IPS to get DG rank in Odisha
1985 batch IPS officer K B Singh is all set to be promoted to the rank of DG in Odisha.

Kukatlapalli posted as Director, Agriculture & Cooperation
Srinivas Shashidhr Kukatlapalli has been appointed as Director in the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation under the Ministry of Agriculture, Delhi. He is a 1997 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.

22 IPS officers promoted to DIG grade in
As many as 22 officers belonging to Indian Police Service mostly 2001 batch have been promoted to the grade of Deputy Inspector General of Police in Uttar Pradesh. Accordingly, Dava Sherpa, Vijay Yadav, Ashutosh Kumar, Pravin Kumar, Prem Narayan, Virendra Kumar Shekhar, Ajay Mohan Sharma, Arun Kumar singh, Vijay Kumar Dixit, Gyaneshwar Tiwari, Shiv Sagar Singh, Birendra Bahadur Singh, Ratan Kumar Shrivastaa, Anil Kumar Jain, Syed Wasim Ahemad, Sunil chandra Bajpayee, Yogeshwar singh, Dr Tehsildar Singh, Omkar Singh, Ashok Kumar Shukla, Govind Agrawal and Tarun Gaba.

14 IPS officers get Selection Grade in UP
As many as 14 officers belonging to Indian Police Service (IPS) have been accorded Selection Grade in Uttar Pradesh. The officers are: Dava Sherpa, Mrs Shachi Ghildiyal, Mrs Aparna Kumar, Dharmvir, Vajiha Ahemad, Ram Bahadur Yadav, Udaya Shankar Jaiswal, Sharad Sachan, Rakesh Chandra Sahu, Jitendra Kumar Shahi, Jawahar, Dr Shiv Narayan Bhardwaj, Dr Umesh Chandra Shrivastava and Dinesh Chandra.

14 IPS officers 1997 batch promoted to IG grade in UP
As many as 14 officers belonging to Indian Police Service of 1997 batch have been promoted to the grade of Inspector General of Police in Uttar Pradesh. The officers are: Asit kumar Panda, Dava Sherpa, Mohit Agrawal, Bhajani Ram Meena, Deepak Ratan, Raghuvir Lal, Deepak Sharma, Rajesh Kumar Shrivastava, Durga Charan Mishra, Satyendra Vir Singh, Abhinav Kumar, Nilesh Kumr, Navin Arora, Dr Rajendra Kumar Goswami.


Promotion orders of 2 CSS officers cancelled
The promotion orders of two CSS officers, Latha Yadav and Rakesh Kumar to the grade of Under Secretary have been cancelled after they failed to assume new assignments.

No vacancy of DIG in Armed Forces in GoI
There is no vacancy against the posts of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) in Armed Forces under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in the month of January 2015.

PESB invites applications for CMD, JCIL
The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has invited applications for the post of Chairman and Managing Director (CMD), Jute Corporation of India Limited (JCIL) falling vacant on January 1, 2016. Those willing to apply can send their applications to the PESB before March 9, 2015.

Rajasthan Government to appoint IAS in Power Companies ?
The Rajasthan Government is considering to appoint IAS officers in the Power Companies.

39 IRST officers accorded JAG
As many as 39 officers of Indian Railway Traffic Service have been accorded Junior Administrative Grade (JAG). The officers are Neelima Singh, Gaurav Gaur, Anurag Pateria, Madhusmita Patra, M Yelvende Yadav, Swarna Ramesh Babu, JN Sabat, Somnath Roy, Phillip Verghese, L K Vyas, S D Saxena, George Eapen, Sanjeeva Varaprasad, T P Ganesha, A Sunder, D N Yadav, Nair G Mohan, Ravindra Srivastava, Revat Singh, R S Chatwal, Anil Kumar Singh, Ajay Kumar Sahu, Biswajit Chakraborty, Uday Shankar Mondal, S S Agarwal, Yogesh Kumar, S K Mishra, Nirmal Singh Mann, S Ravichandran, K P Krishnan, Govindapparaj, S N Mukherjee, N G Borikar, Champa Lal Chitara, Sharat Kumar, Jawahar Ram, Jagdish Prasad, A K Tiwari and E G Sadavarte.

Dr Purnima Chauhan posted as Secretary, RPG in HP
Dr Purnima Chauhan has been appointed as Secretary, RPG with additional charge of Commissioner Department Enquiry. Dr Chauhan is a 2000 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.

HAL hands-over first overhauled Su-30 MKI; Defence Minister lauds unique feat
HAL handed the first overhauled Su-30 MKI (SB 027) aircraft to the India Air Force through the Defence Minister, Manohar Parrikar at a ceremony held at HAL Nashik. Su-30MKI is currently the backbone of fighter fleet with IAF. Speaking on the occasion, the Defence Minister lauded the efforts made by HAL in absorbing technology and described the Nashik employees as “excellent and motivated workforce”. He said India would continue to need fighter planes such as Su-30s due to not so friendly neighbourhood. He urged the employees to keep-up the good work towards increasing the production capacity. “We are one family and let us work together”, he said. The Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha, Chief of the Air Staff said the Indian Air Force would continue to depend on HAL heavily in future too. “We both are inter-dependent”, he added. Dr R K Tyagi, Chairman, HAL said the second aircraft is ready for delivery. “HAL will also act as a single window OEM for supporting Su-30MKI fleet. We are confident of improving the serviceability and ramp up capacity”, he added. He pointed out that five participating divisions (Nasik, Koraput, Lucknow, Korwa, and Hyderabad) of MiG and Accessories complexes of HAL are involved in the mega program. The Su-30 overhaul facility at HAL Nashik is only of its kind in the world and has export prospect since nearly 10 countries have Su-30 fleet. The Defence Minister handed over acceptance certificates of the first overhauled Su-30 MkI, SB 027 and 150th Su-30 MkI (SB 190, manufactured by HAL) to the CAS. S Subrahmayan, Managing Director of MiG Complex welcomed the gathering. K K Pant, Joint Secretary (Aero), Harishchandra Chavan, (MP), Hemant Godse (MP), Anil Kadam (MLA, Niphad) and large number of HAL employees were present the occasion. Ten new shops and existing facilities like pipeline overhaul, plating/process and shops of Aircraft Manufacturing Divisions are extensively used during the overhaul (ROH). Tentative Repair Technical Documents (RTD) were received from Russia. During the overhaul process, the technologies have been finalised with the help of Russian and HAL experts. There are 2478 number of tasks/technology process to execute the complete overhaul of aircraft. Online system for tracking/monitoring of parts are also established. After overhaul (ROH), the first Su-30MKI aircraft - SB 027 is ready for the service of the nation and as a result of the establishment of ROH facilities, the serviceability levels of Su-30 MKI fleet will enhance greatly resulting in strengthening of the Indian Air Defence capabilities. The twin-seater, long range, multi-role, air superiority Su-30 MKI aircraft are being overhauled at HAL Nashik for the first time in the world on completion of the specified TBO (Time between Overhaul) life, given to it after manufacturing. During overhaul, an aircraft undergoes stripping to skeleton level, checking and reconditioning of each and every repairable component, incorporating more than 600 modifications, replacing the non-repairable defective/life expired components and finally rebuilding it to original configuration of latest standard of Su 30 MKI aircraft. During overhaul more than 10000 lines of unique part numbers, amounting to nearly 75000 quantities are processed, reconditioned, repaired, overhauled and assembled back on the aircraft.

Orders of Mrs Sindhushree Khullar as CEO, NITI Ayog issued (UPDATED)
The orders of Mrs Sindhushree Khullar as CEO, NITI Ayog have been issued on contract basis for a period of one year. She is a 1975 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.
(We said on December 23 and again on January 7, 2015)

SBI launches 'SBI Quick' (UPDATED)
Mrs Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairman, State Bank of India launched "SBI Quick", a simple and quick way to get balance or mini statement of account through mobile phone. It involves a onetime registration through SMS. Thereafter, a customer can send SMS or give a missed call on a mobile number to get balance in the account or mini statement containing last 5 transactions. Information is sent by the bank through SMS. For one time registration of the service, a customer will need to send SMS, REG<space>account number to 9223488888 from mobile number of the customer available in bank's records for SB/CA/OD/CC accounts. Instant confirmation is sent through SMS. Customer may call 9223766666 or send SMS 'BAL' for balance inquiry. Call can be made to 9223866666 or send SMS 'MSTMT' to get the mini statement. Instant reply is sent through SMS. In addition to this, a customer can also block ATM Card by sending a SMS to 567676 as BLOCK<space>xxxx (xxxx represents last 4 digit of the card number). The enquiry for Home loan, Car loan and SBI Quick can also be enquired by sending SMS as HOME, CAR and HELP respectively to 9223588888. The customer will receive instant SMS advising the features of the service followed by call from Bank's team in case of Home or Car loan. State Bank of India has always been a pioneer in providing various customer convenience facilities through technological initiatives and 'SBI Quick' is one more service in this direction. The spokesperson for this Press Release is Shri Arvind Rastogi, DGM (Development Channels) who can be contacted over 07738581666.

Chandrakant B Kamble posted as Commissioner, Govt Data Centre (UPDATED)
Chandrakant B Kamble has been posted as Commissioner, Government Data Centre. He is a 1991 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

4 IAS officers gets additional charges in Bihar (UPDATED)
Four IAS officers have been assigned additional charges in Bihar. Accordingly, Ravi Mittal has been given additional charge as Chief Executive Officer, Bihar Foundation while Sudhir Kumar gets charge as Examination Controller, Bihar State Joint Entrance Examination Council. Similarly, Dharmendra Singh Gangwar gets additional charge as Secretary, Bihar State Planning Council and Pradeep Kumar as Managing Director, Bihar State Finance Corporation.

Arun Tomar of MP awarded IAS cadre(UPDATED)
Arun Kumar Tomar of Madhya Pradesh State Civil Service has been awarded Indian Administrative Service (IAS) cadre.

J Shyamala Rao posted as Commissioner, Commercial Taxes (UPDATED)
J Shyamala Rao has been posted as Commissioner, Commercial Taxes. He is a 1997 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Rajiv Mehta is new DGP Meghalaya
Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Rajiv Mehta will be new DGP Meghalaya. He is 1981 batch IPS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

(We said this on Dec 24, 2014)

CORPORATE

Kanchinadham quitting as Chief Risk & Compliance Officer & CS, Infosys Limited
Parvatheesam Kanchinadham, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer and Company Secretary of Infosys Limited will be leaving the company w.e.f. January 10, 2015.

Kanchinadham joining Tata Steel as CS?
Tata Steel Limited has appointed Parvatheesam Kanchinadham as the Company Secretary of the company w.e.f. January 12, 2015.

John resigns as Independent Director, KSE Ltd
K P John has resigned as Independent Director of KSE Ltd due to personal reasons.

Prasad assumes charge as Director (Finance), CPCL
S Krishna Prasad Executive Director, Indian Oil Corporation Limited has been appointed as Director (Finance), of Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited (CPCL). He assumed charge as Director (Finance) on January 9, 2015.

Johansen resigns as Non-Exec. Independent Director, Mysore Petro Chemicals Ltd
Jan Johansen has resigned as Non-Executive Independent Director of Mysore Petro Chemicals Ltd due to his other commitments.

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Strength of Planning commission doesn't matters

Strength of Planning Commission doesn't matter much. It is the sincerity with which the proposals of commission are implemented at each and every level keeping in mind the central idea with which the proposals are formed.

N V K Prabhakar

RETIREMENT AGE


It will ruin many families but newer generation will not get commensurate job.

Kamlesh Jha

No re-appointments

Whether it is 60 or 62 or 58 (it should preferably be 58), none of the retired persons be appointed as consultants or on contract either using GoI funds or funded by PSU or UN and other international bodies. This would be good governance. Can Modi government do this ?

Prasad

" Smart bureaucracy needed to tap India's demographic dividend "

Prof. N C Saxena's views on "Why are Indian diplomats ineffectual'( Jan 5,2015) are thought provoking.His views are,however, IFS specific. Let us consider all civil services, across the board.Compare the vintage civil services : the ICS and Indian Police with their distant cousins ,the present civil service. All old-time bureaucrats privately agree that there has been a gradual decline in quality of civil services ,over the decades leading to poor governance .Whom to blame? UPSC and DOP&T. Change in UPSC format is necessary. Laidback bureaucracy will fail to tap India's demographic dividend phase ( 2020- 2045) .

One suggestion. As in the past, appearing in interviews after CS (Mains)must be made compulsory with minimum cut-off prescribed for qualifying.The argument that this will adversely impact candidates from rural sector ,is fallacious and misleading.Interviews can be taken in any scheduled Indian language. Having served in UPSC, I recall cases when some candidates got high ranks in final merit order lists despite their abysmally low performance in interviews.How could India boast of an assertive and unpliable bureaucracy in 21st century with poor oral communication skill ? Weightage for interviews must be raised.

May I urge the Prime Minister to consider the suggestion ?

A K Saxena (A retd civil servant)

CGHS has also discarded good reputed hospitals

CGHS in Kolkata has also drastically discarded various good reputed hospitals and kept only 3 hospitals for indoor patient. Here also some good hospitals like Medica Superspecialty hospital, Ruby Hospotal, Apollo Hospitals which have been discarded should be empanelled as they provide good medical treatment.

Dipak Kumar Dasgupta

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