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Who is going to be dropped ?
If some sources are to be believed, the performance of ministers in one year is being watched by PM Narendra Modi and at the party level. It is said that one or two senior ministers are likely to be dropped from the cabinet. Till then wait and watch.

LBA with B'desh proves Modi's decisiveness
Experts say that the way the NDA government has paved way for 41-year-old boundary dispute's execution with Bangladesh has proved Modi's power of strong political will. They also accuse Congress who could expedite it much earlier but due to weak political will the party missed the bus. Experts are confident that Modi will certainly expedite long pending Teesta accord with Bangladesh.

Work in Delhi badly hit
Due to fight between Delhi and LG, work in Delhi state has come to a halt. Many departments are headless because of transfer posting feud between two power centers. North and East municipal corporations has no funds to distribute salary to staff. Sanitary workers have stopped doing work for the last one week resulting in heaps of garbage an stink everywhere. Blame game between Delhi government and Corporations are going on. Both are accusing each other for mismanagement. Will GoI intervene to give relief to public?

BUREAUCRACY

RS Sharma to be TRAI chief ?
Latest grapevine says that R S Sharma is being appointed new Chairman of TRAI. He is a 1978 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre. Name of Harshvardhan is also in circulation.

KV Chowdhary is new CVC
Former CBDT Chairman KV Chowdhary has been appointed new Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC). He is 1978 batch IRS (IT) officer.
(We said this on June 2)

Vijai Sharma is new CIC
Seniormost Information Commissioner, Vijai Sharma has been appointed new Chief Information Commissioner (CIC). He is former 1974 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.
(We said this on June 2)

Sudhir Bhargava appointed IC
Sudhir Bhargava has been appointed Information Commissioner (IC) in the CIC. He is 1979 batch retired IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.
(We said this on June 3 and June 8)

Tayal is new DG, NSG
RC Tayal has been appointed Director General, National Security Guard (NSG). Tayal, who is serving as Special DG, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is 1980 batch IPS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
(We said this on May 19)

Sahadev Khatua selected as CMD, JCIL
Sahadev Khatua, Chief Engineer, NHPC, has been selected for the post of Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Jute Corporation of India Limited (JCIL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on June 8, 2015. As many as eight persons were interviewed for the same.

Kurup is new Ambassador to Guatemala
Sanjeev Babu Kurup has been appointed next Ambassador of India to Guatemala.

Cadre of Ms Afsana Perween transferred to Kerala
The cadre of Ms Afsana Perween has been transferred from Jammu & Kashmir to Kerala cadre on grounds of marriage to Jafar Malik, a 2013 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.

Navneet Soni joins as Member Secretary, NMA
Navneet Soni has joined as Member Secretary (JS level), National Monuments Authority (NMA) under Ministry of Culture. He is a 1988 batch IRS-IT officer.

Akash Deep goes on inter-cadre deputation to UP
An inter cadre deputation of Akash Deep from Assam-Meghalaya to Uttar Pradesh has been approved for a period of five years on the personal grounds. He is a 2005 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

Adusumilli Rajamouli goes on inter-cadre deputation to AP cadre
An inter-cadre deputation of Adusumilli V Rajamouli from Uttar Pradesh to Andhra Pradesh has been approved for a period of three years on personal grounds. He is a 2003 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.

10 IRSSE officers empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
As many as 10 Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineers (IRSSE) officers of 1985 batch have been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. The officers are: Mohan Dudeja, Shaminder Singh, Rahul Kumar Goel, P Venkata Ramana, S Mokhopadhyay, Puneet Chawla, Mrs S Manga Visweswariah, A K Srivastava, M K Yadav and Mrs Navita Singh Gangwar.

UTS division told to relieve Mrs Chhaya Sharma to join as DIG, NHRC
The UTS division has been asked to relieve Mrs Chhaya Sharma of cadre responsibility after she was deputed as DIG, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). She is a 1999 batch IPS officer of AGMUT cadre.

Changes in IB in near future
If sources are to be believed zonal level transfers are on the card in IB. More than a dozen officers are likely to be affected in this reshuffle.

Whose personal staff is target?
In the power gallery, rumour is that after the complaint of alleged bribery, one APS of a lady minister is under close watch. Guess the name of the minister?

Tenure of Niraj Gupta ending in July
The tenure of Niraj Gupta as Director (Service Business), Balmer Lawrie & Company Limited (BLC) is coming to an end on July 31, 2015.

Post of Director (Mktg), IOCL vacant since January 2015
The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) is expected to conduct interviews for the post of Director (Marketing), Indian Oil Corporation in the month of July, 2015. The post further went vacant after the panel of U V Mannur, ED, IOCL, who was selected by PESB on May 26, 2014, has been rejected by ACC. As many as 11 persons were interviewed for this post. The PESB again sought fresh applications from the suitable candidates for the same before June 11, 2015. This post has been lying vacant since January 1, 2015.

Harish Pokhriyal appointed Under Secretary, Shipping
After repatriation from deputation, Harish Pokhriyal has been appointed as Under Secretary, Ministry of Shipping.

Meena is new ACB Chief in Delhi Government
Lt Governor, Najeeb Jung has appointed a 1989 batch Indian Police Service officer, Mukesh Kumar Meena, as the head of the Delhi Government's Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB).

Naveen Srivastava appointed Ambassador Kambodia (UPDATED)
Naveen Srivastava (lFS: 1993), presently Consul General of India in Shanghai, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Kingdom of Cambodia.

Mrs Jaspreet Talwar appointed as Joint Director, LBSNAA (UPDATED)
Mrs Jaspreet Talwar has been appointed as Joint Director at Joint Secretary level in Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie. She is a 1995 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre.

DPC for Principal CCIT tomorrow ? (UPDATED)
DPC for Principal Chief Commissioner Income Tax is likely to meet on Wednesday.Several posts are currently lying vacant.

S P Bansal joins as CMD, HSL (UPDATED)
S P Bansal, Additional GM, SJVNL, has recently taken over the charge as Chairman & Managing Director (CMD), Hindustan Salts Limited (HSL).
(We said this on Mar 2, 2015)

K V Chowdary to be sworn-in as CVC on June 10 (UPDATED)
K V Chowdary will be sworn-in as Central Vigilance Commissioner on June 10, 2015. He is an IRS-IT officer and retired Chairman, CBDT.

Vijay Sharma to be sworn-in as CIC on June 10 (UPDATED)
Vijai Sharma will be sworn-in as Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) on June 10, 2015.

Shishir Sinha is also Additional Commissioner, Departmental Inquiry in Bihar (UPDATED)
Shishir Sinha has been assigned an additional charge of Additional Commissioner, Departmental Inquiry in Bihar. He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Chhabra is new Secretary SAI (UPDATED)
S. S. Chhabra, an IFS Officer of Manipur Cadre has been selected as Secretary, Sports Authority of India (SAI) .Chhabra had earlier also served as Director (International Sports Division) and Secretary, SAI under Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports during 2006-2010 and had been Sports Development Adviser at the Commonwealth Secretariat, London (UK) for three years during 2010-2013.

Subir Chandra takes over as Director (Tech), CCL (UPDATED)
Subir Chandra, GM, MCL, CIL, has taken over the charge as Director (Technical P&P) Central Coalfields Limited (CCL).
(We said this on February 9, 2015)

Tenure of Amitabh Agnihotri as Director, NZP extended (UPDATED)
The deputation tenure of Amitabh Agnihotri as Director, National Zoological Park (NZP), New Delhi, has been extended upto June 2017. He is a 1988 batch IFS officer of MP cadre.

R S Mahapatro joins as Director (Pers), CCL (UPDATED)
R S Mahapatro, GM, CCL/CIL, has taken over the charge as Director (Personnel), Central Coalfields Limited (CCL).
(We said this on December 29, 2014)

M N Vijay Kumar selected as MD, IMPCL (UPDATED)
M N Vijay Kumar, GM, KAPL, has been selected for the post of Managing Director, Indian Medicines Pharmaceuticals Corporation Limited (IMPCL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on June 9, 2015. As many as nine persons were interviewed for the same.

Delhi Home Secretary shunted out (UPDATED)
The Kejariwal Government has shunted out Home Secretary Dharam Pal. He is 1988 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Dr Anup K Pujari gets additional charge of Secretary, Steel (UPDATED)
Dr Anup K Pujari has been assigned an additional charge of Secretary, Steel during the absence on leave of Rakesh Singh till June 28, 2015. Dr Pujari is a 1980 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

M K Sharma appointed as non-Executive Chairman, ICICI (UPDATED)
M K Sharma, a former Vice Chairman of Hindustan Unilever Limited, as non-executive Chairman of ICICI Bank for a period of five years, in place of K V Kamath.


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

Bali appointed Woman Director of Mount Shivalik Industries Ltd
Mount Shivalik Industries Ltd has appointed Ms Kavita Bali as Woman Director of the company.

Subramanian appointed Non Exec. Director of The India Cements Ltd
The India Cements Limited has appointed P L Subramanian as a Non Executive Director of the company

Tripathi appointed CEO of Birla Shloka Edutech Ltd
Birla Shloka Edutech Ltd has appointed Vineet Tripathi as Chief Executive Officer of the company.

Cryan is CEO of Deutsche Bank?
Deutsche Bank has appointed John Cryan as its new Chief Executive Officer of the Bank

More appointed Independent Director of Uttam Sugar Mills Ltd
Uttam Sugar Mills Limited has appointed Ms Rutuja Rajendra More as Independent Director of the company.

Mahadevan resigns as CS of Lancor Holdings Ltd
P Mahadevan has resigned as Company Secretary of Lancor Holdings Ltd

Kannan appointed CMD of VTM Ltd
VTM Ltd has appointed T Kannan as the Chairman and Managing Director of the company.

Chhabra appointed CFO of Unimode Overseas Ltd
Unimode Overseas Ltd has appointed Ms Sheetal Chhabra as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the company

Ms Satija resigns as CS of Modi Naturals Ltd
Ms Purva Satija has resigned as Company Secretary of Modi Naturals Ltd

Bodani appointed Addl. Director of Camphor & Allied Products Ltd
Camphor & Allied Products Ltd has appointed Ms Chandrika A Bodani as the Additional Director of the company

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DEBATE (1)

Cheap governance

It is cheap governance. They are taking decisions after taking into account the religion of bureaucrats. KBS Sidhu from Punjab was shifted from Urban & Housing development to Trifed and same thing happened in finance. GS Sandhu from Rajasthan was shifted from financial services department to some chairman of chemical weapon authority. Both these officers are best officers of the state. Sandhu is credited with changing the urban face of Rajasthan. Jaipur metro and many other projects were completed under his supervision. It was his vision, which brought the financial inclusion scheme of UPA as Jan Dhan Yojna by incorporating best features into it. He worked 24x7 to for this scheme. When the scheme got recognition among the public, he was shifted. In his place a yoga expert was brought from Gujarat whereas Sandhu, PhD in banking. This is one example of the Modi regime governance, many more are there ....

Amrit Pal Singh


ACC - A big farce

ACC is a big farce. Promotions from Joint Secretary to Secretary level are done on the basis of summary of ACRs sent to ACC which are manipulated by the corridors of power. ACRs/annual appraisals should be known to the officer which gives them a chance to improve and also a clear picture to the officer concerned. Promotional system from Joint Secretary and above needs revolutionary reforms so that real gems are promoted and not people with political clout.

Harish Kumar

Like one rank one pay, there should be one batch (group A) one pay irrespective of service they belong to. For instance, 6th pay recommended NFU by adding two-year riders to IAS without any logic and discrimination.

If a person, joins the service on a particular year usually called batch, say 1990, all officers of Group A service should be getting same scale and grade up automatically upgrading the post like IAS. In IAS, if additional Secretary becomes special secretary, the post gets upgraded automatically they why not to others. Only riders should be performance or basic required fitness of APAR.

Also if husband and wife are working, only one HRA should be deducted, as they are not given higher or confirmed houses.
7th pay commission should create one service in the country and create a merit commission instead of UPSC. Do away with all discriminations based on caste, politics etc. Let only merit count. Then we may see a progress and development. Else it will only be an eyewash.

Yadav


CSSS officers

The main dream of CSSS officers is that they should get free from the entanglement of their bosses and themselves become bosses so that at a later date they could have CSSS staff with them. The moot question is that as to why did they not compete initially and became CSS officers. In the system CSSS officers have to exist. There can be no merger. The Committees/Commissions make a number of recommendations. It is not necessary that the government will accept all of them. Today a step may be considered a great reform but later it will become stale and new reforms can come.

BBS


Asif - well deserved posting

Asif is a very competent police officer who has made name in every posting. Well deserved posting. He will bring in his expertise on the subject on this long and difficult problem which defies solution. Best of luck.

S C Agrawal DGP (Retd)


Buch demise

It is shocking to hear the sad news. MN Buch has been one of the ablest administrators, town planners and country expert in urban development. A most upright person, I have ever met, a human being par excellence, he had been kind to all of us in our family. May God rest his soul in peace.

Y S Jain


Buch - True civil servant

Regret to learn about sad demise of MN Buch, who was a true civil servant. He always maintained dignity of service and never compromised on ethics in governance.

Suresh Kumar


RIP MN Buch

One of the most honest and efficient officers (IAS- 1957, MP), Buch was gutsy, unpliable and had the courage to call a spade a spade. A rare species in bureaucracy.

A K Saxena (A retd civil servant)


Rest in peace

My heartfelt condolences. May his soul rest in peace!

Vinod Sachdeva

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