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Sunil Kumar

With whom are the Corporates ?
Internal assessments say -60 percent Corporate Houses are these days with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.


Kejriwal is a bigger dictator than Modi !
The buzz is that Arvind Kejriwal is a bigger dictator than the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Those in the know of the things say that Kejriwal will one day 'dwarf' Modi and emerge as the first and only dictator in the country.


Is an IAS officer entitled to speak against the govt ?
Given the recent incidents in some states, wherein the IAS officers have been found to be raising their voice against the government, the question that arises is - Is an IAS officer entitled to speak against the government?

BUREAUCRACY

OROP likely to be issued by next week?
Orders for One Rank One Pension to ex-servicemen (OROP) are expected to be issued next week? In all probability, it could be either on May 25 or 26.


Appointments in Information Commission next week?
Appointments of the Chief Information Commissioner and three Information Commissioners is expected within ten days.

V Nagi Reddy quits IAS
Telangana cadre IAS officer of 1984 batch, V Nagi Reddy has quit. He was due to retire on August 31, 2015.


R K Mittal selected for Director (CM), BSNL
R K Mittal, GM, MTNL, has been selected for the post of Director (Consumer Mobility), Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) at a Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) meeting held on May 20, 2015. As many as 13 persons were interviewed for the same.

Satyender Kumar to be GM, SECR ?
Satyender Kumar is being tipped as the General Manager of South East Central Railway (SECR) Bilaspur. He is from the Signal and Telecommunications services.

Dr. Pandey denied inter-cadre deputation to her home state
Dr Nidhi Pandey, who is already on inter-cadre deputation from Maharashtra to Uttarakhand, has been denied yet another deputation to her home state (Uttar Pradesh) for the remaining permissible deputation period i.e till June 17, 2016. She is a 2001 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.


Senkumar to be new DGP of Kerala
T P Senkumar will be the next DGP in Kerala. 1983 batch IPS officer will succeed K.S. Balasubramanian who will retire on May 31.

(We said this on April 27, 2015)

Praveen Mal Khanooja posted as PD, Govt Accounts in CAG office
Praveen Mal Khanooja, on return from leave, has been posted as Principal Director (Government Accounts) in CAG office, Delhi. He is a 1994 batch IA&AS officer.


Why delay in orders of Manoj Mishra for CMD of NFL ?
Why have orders for appointment of Manoj Mishra, Director (Finance), STC, as Chairman and Managing Director, National Fertilizers Limited (NFL) is getting delayed as the post has been lying vacant since March 1, 2015?


SCCL seeks IRS officer for Director, Finance
The Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) is seeking an officer from Indian Revenue Service (IRS) for the post of Director Finance initially for a period of two years.


Orders of V K Rama for Director (P&S), CONCOR yet to come
The orders for appointment of V K Rama, ED, CONCOR, as Director (Project & Services), Container Corporation of India Limited (CONCOR) are yet to be issued by the Government of India as the post has been lying vacant since October 1, 2014.


Major IPS changes in the offing after Jayalalitha returns
The bureaucratic circles in Tamil Nadu are abuzz with rumours that there would be a major IPS reshuffle after Ms. Jayalalitha returns as Chief Minister. IAS would, however, not be affected to that extent.


Diptiman Das yet to get orders for CMD, EdCIL Ltd
Why are the orders for appointment of Diptiman Das as Chairman and Managing Director of Educational Consultants India Limited (Ed.CIL) getting delayed? The post has been lying vacant since October 8, 2014. Das is an IRAS officer.


Is it true?
It is surprising that a technical Vice Admiral is using his influence with Nitin Gadkari to stop his legitimate transfer on promotion? Military circle questioning the move of this senior officer.

Despite being ignored by Kejariwal, Srivastava gets bad treatment
Sanjay Srivastava who was to be rewarded by the Modi Government was given an insignificant post of Secretary Official Languages. Successful Chief Secretary in Goa Srivastava had joined the Government of India as Additional Secretary in an important Ministry. Arvind Kejriwal soon after becoming Chief Minister asked for his services as Chief Secretary. A reluctant Srivastava remained CS for 45 days during first tenure of Kejriwal. When Kejriwal resigned, Srivastava was shunted to an insignificant post in the Delhi Government. It was expected that Kejriwal would make him Chief Secretary after returning to power. But to everybody's surprise, K K Sharma, who is three years junior to Srivastava was made the Chief Secretary. Reason is simple- Srivastava had refused to toe the line of Kejriwal during his first tenure.


Mrs Sunaina Tomar is also Member Secretary, Central Silk Board
Mrs Sunaina Tomar, Joint Secretary, Textiles, has been assigned an additional charge of Member Secretary, Central Silk Board. She is a 1989 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.

Ravi Shankar Aisola appointed as Ambassador to Lao People's Democratic
Ravi Shankar Aisola has been appointed as next Ambassador of India to Lao People's Democratic Republic. He is a 1986 batch IFS officer.

CBDT Member, S K Ray yet to get room to sit in
S K Ray, who was appointed as Member of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), has no room to sit in. He is an IRS-IT officer.

Three senior IRS-IT officers get postings
Three IRS-IT officers have been transferred at senior level. Accordingly, Krishna Saini has been posted as CCIT (OSD), Delhi with additional charge of Principal DGIT (L&R), Delhi while Kailash Chandra Jain will now be CCIT (OSD), Delhi with additional charge of Principal DGIT (Logistics) and Principal DGIT (HRD), Delhi and Anand Deep was given an additional charge of DGIT (Investigation), Lucknow.

104 IRS-IT officers transferred
As many as 104 officers of Indian Revenue Service (IRS) of Income Tax cadre have been transferred in the grade of Assistant/Deputy Commissioner.

Haridas Saha deputed as Joint Commissioner, Competent Authority
Indian Revenue Service officer of Income Tax, Haridas Saha has been appointed Joint Commissioner in the office of Competent Authority & Administration under Ministry of Finance, Government of India.


Surendra Singh is new Secretary to Jharkhand Governor
Surendra Singh has been appointed the new Principal Secretary of the Jharkhand Governor. He is 1993 batch IAS officer.


Post of Chairman, CBSE vacant since Nov 14
The post of Chairman, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), has been lying vacant since November 28, 2014.


IRS officers seek pay parity with IAS officers
Officers Association of Indian Revenue Service (IRS) aired their grievances before 7th Pay Commission demanding pay parity with IAS officers with Joint Secretary level posts as well as adequate representation in the Government of India.

DVN Rao transferred to The Hague
Indian Foreign Service officer, D V N Rao has been transferred to The Hague in place of Shasheendra Jain.


Sailaja Ray Baruah empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
Sailaja Ray Baruah has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1987 batch IRS-C&CE officer.

Reshuffle of IPS officers in UP
As many as 15 IPS officers have been transferred and posted at different places in Uttar Pradesh. Accordingly, Vijay Kumar Garg has been appointed as DIG Faizabad range while Sanjay Kakkar was shifted to Anti-Corruption Organisation, Lucknow and Deepak Ratan is transferred to Economic Offences Wing. Similarly, Deepak Sharma has been shifted as IG, Human Rights in Lucknow; Deepak Kumar as Commandant 32 PAC in Lucknow; Subhash Chandra Dubey as SSP ATS; Anees Ahmad Ansari as SP Fatehpur; Salik Ram shifted to Police Training School; Babloo Kumar as SP Shahjahanpur; Rajendra Prasad Singh Yadav as SP, Pratapgarh; Balikaran Singh Yadav transferred to intelligence headquarters; Shrikant Singh as SP CB-CID; Uday Shanker Jaiswal SP Mainpuri; Neha Pandey as SP Bahraich and Ram Lal Verma was transferred to EOW.

Reshuffle of IPS officers in Bihar (UPDATED)
As many as eight IPS officers have been transferred and posted at different places in Bihar. Accordingly, Ajitabh Kumar has been appointed as IG, Bihar Armed Force while Vinod Kumar will now be IG, Security, Special Branch, Patna and Z H Khan is IG, Modernization. Similarly, Arvind Kumar has been appointed as IG, Technical Services and Communication, Patna; Upendra Kumar Sinha as DIG, Bihar Armed Force central division, Patna; Sudhir Kumar as DIG, Vigilance Investigation Bureau; Ajit Kumar Roy as DIG, Saran range, Chhapra and Himanshu Shankar Trivedi is made Commandant, Bihar Armed Force-13, Darbhanga.

Minor reshuffle of IAS officers in Bihar (UPDATED)
Rameshwar Singh has been appointed as DG-cum-ED as well as Advisor, Good Governance Society while Ravi Mittal will now be Principal Secretary Finance and Robert L C and Mrs N Vijaylaxmi gets charge of MD, Bihar State Women Development Corporation in Bihar.

HAL completes noise measurement flight trials (UPDATED)
As part of a process to acquire certification from the European Space Agency (ESA) for Advance Light Helicopter-Dhruv, HAL carried out noise measurement flight trials at Mysuru airport recently in compliance with the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). "The EASA representatives witnessed the entire flight test and preliminary analysis of the recorded noise data, weather parameters and the aircraft parameters shows that the noise levels are within the acceptable limits specified by ICAO for ALH", said T Suvarna Raju, CMD, HAL. The trials involved advance acoustic programming and compensation of atmospheric variables against measured noise levels. A Spanish company Anotec Consulting was contracted to provide hardware, software and technical support for the programme. The objective of this process is to measure the external aircraft noise levels in three flight conditions: take-off, approach and flyover. The noise measurement test programme starts with the identification of low acoustic profile test site and meeting the geometrical size of runway and cross runway distances. Earlier, a survey was conducted by HAL in coordination with EASA and the Spanish firm for assessment of test sites at Kolar, Hosur and Mysuru. The EASA finally approved Mysuru airfield as the test site suitable for noise measurement which met the ICAO requirements. During noise measurement flight testing, eight flights constituting of 96 noise runs were carried out as part of practice and certification runs. Validity of the runs was considered based on satisfactory weather and flight parameters during the run.

Orders of Naresh Kumar for NDMC soon (UPDATED)
JS Mines in the Government of India Naresh Kumar is back to the UT cadre. On return 1987 batch IAS officer Naresh Kumar is being appointed Administrator NDMC in a couple of days.

Shlok Bhardwaj appointed as Director, Agriculture (UPDATED)
Shlok Bhardwaj has been appointed as Director in the Department of Agriculture & Cooperation in Government of India. He is a 1995 batch officer of Indian Inspection Service.

Prakash Nevatia posted as Director, Health (UPDATED)
Prakash Nevatia has been appointed as Director in the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare in Government of India. He is a CSS officer.

Cadre of Parth Gupta transferred to Haryana (UPDATED)
The cadre of Parth Gupta has been transferred from AGMUT cadre to Haryana on the grounds of marriage to Ms Astha Modi, a 2013 batch IPS officer of Haryana cadre. He is a 2013 batch IAS officer of AGMUT cadre.

Asheesh Saxena deputed to RVNL as GM (S&T), Pune (UPDATED)
Asheesh Kumar Saxena, Deputy CSTE, North Central Railway, has been deputed to Rail Vikas Nigam Limited as General Manager (S&T) at Pune for a period of three years. He is an IRSSE officer.

Railway Board on official tour abroad (UPDATED)
A K Mittal, Chairman of Railway Board, Mrs Rajalakshmi Ravikumar, Financial Commissioner of Railways, Navin Tandon, Member Electrical, Railway Board and Pradeep Kumar, Member Staff, Railway Board will be on official tour aboard fromMay 21 to May 30, 2015.

Abhinav Jeph transferred to Western Railway (UPDATED)
Abhinav Jeph, DOM, Jabalpur, West Central Railway, has been transferred to Western Railway and posted in the cadre. He is an IRTS officer.

23 IRTS officers get JAG (UPDATED)
As many as 23 officers belonging to Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) have been promoted to Junior Administrative Grade (JAG). The officers include: K Yesurathnam, KVR Murthy, Jagriti Dugar, Geeta Mohapatra, Ashutosh Shrivastava, Anshoo Pandey. Aarti Singh Parihar. Maitreyee Charan, Promila Gupta, Satyam Prakash, Birendra Kumar, Rashmi Baghel, Vivek Kumar, Krishan Kumar Pareek, Durgesh Kumar Dubey. Harvinder Singh, shridhara Murthy N S, Sarah Jayalsawkmei, Sunil Beniwal, Rajesh Sharma, Shashi Bhushan, J Allwyn and Vivek Rawat.

Two IPS officers get Senior Time Scale in J&K (UPDATED)
Two IPS officers of 2011 batch, Ambarkar Shriram Dinkar and Vinod Kumar have been accorded Senior Time Scale in Jammu and Kashmir.

Orders of Manoj Mishra for CMD, NFL issued (UPDATED)
The orders of Manoj Mishra, Director (Finance), STC, for the appointment as Chairman and Managing Director, National Fertilizers Limited (NFL) have been issued by the Government of India.
(We said this on Sept 23, 2014)

DEBATE - Who uses whom ?

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CORPORATE

Committee on MAT
The GoI has set up a Committee headed by Justice AP Shah to look into the issue of Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) on Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs). Apart from Justice Shah, Girish Ahuja and Ashok Lahiri are members of the panel.

Tak resigns as CS of Archies Limited
Vikas Kumar Tak has resigned as Company Secretary of Archies Limited

Kamra appointed CS of Archies Limited
Pankaj Kamra has been appointed as Company Secretary of Archies Limited

Choudhary appointed Independent Director, iStreet Network Ltd
iStreet Network Ltd has appointed Naval Choudhary as Independent Director of the company.

Rao appointed Addl. Director of Pioneer Distilleries Ltd
Pioneer Distilleries Limited has appointed Vinod Rao as an Additional Director of the company.

Iyengar resigns as Director of Pioneer Distilleries Ltd
M R Doraiswamy Iyengar has resigned as a Director of Pioneer Distilleries Limited

Solis appointed Non Exec. Director, WABCO India Ltd
WABCO India Limited has appointed Jorge Solis as Non-Executive and Non Independent Director of the company

Vora resigns as Dy. GM (Finance) & CS of Skyline Millars Ltd
Dhawal J Vora has resigned as Deputy General Manager (Finance) and Company Secretary of Skyline Millars Ltd due to personal reasons

Ghumara appointed Independent Director, Infra Industries Ltd
Infra Industries Ltd has appointed Jagdishchandra H Ghumara as an Independent Director of the company

Shah designated as CFO, Drillco Metal Carbides Ltd
Drillco Metal Carbides Ltd has designated Vikram Shah as the Chief Financial Officer of the company w.e.f. March 31, 2015

Goel appointed President, (Solar) and Head ( New Businesses) of ReNew Power Ventures
Ajay K Goel has been appointed President, (Solar) and Head ( New Businesses) of ReNew Power Ventures

(The views expressed in this column are of the contributors. We do not owe any responsibility, whatsoever, of the views of our surfers as they are their personal opinion. However, we would also request our contributors not to be personal, directly or indirectly, in presenting their views. Instead of countering the views which ‘X’ has already expressed, our contributors are advised to present their own views. Also be brief, say about 200 words at the most since any views longer than that if eliminated at our end would carry the risk of the contrbutor’s item losing its original essence)

DEBATE (1) Who uses whom ?

The wily uses the weak; when both are wily, the greater bully prevails. Few, however, realise that rectitude has the strength that can humble the most vile.

Thanks for continuing your mission. Keep the Great Debate on. That is a way to serve our country.

PK Mishra, former Coal Secretary, GoI


Empanellments

The 1992 batch of the Indian Economic Service is getting empanelled as Joint Secretaries to Government of India, 1990 batch of Indian Forest Service is not yet empanelled. The IRS is far behind, 1988 batch is getting empanelled. Is this a move by the IAS to discourage brother officers in the IRS recruited through the same examination (with 50% IRS officers having higher ranks than 50% officers in the IAS, post 1995 batch)? Remember, neither the Indian Economic Service nor the Indian Forest Service are recruited through the Civil Services Examination.

AK Singh


Preconception on transfer orders

We are some of the senior level officers of Airport Authority of India (AAI). We want to bring to notice of the Chairman, AAI through this website that transfer orders issued in respect of the various officers by the competent authority, are not being complied with properly. There are many junior level officers of our office who are posted in main ministry and its subordinate offices since their joining in AAI. They have not been transferred even a single time so far. Is it because they are posted with senior level officers in the Ministry? Why this preconception? Why pick-and-choose policy is being adopted by AAI. After all, we all are of the same office. Hope Chairman, AAI will think over this and do the justice once and for all.

Ajith


How successful Swachcha Bharat Campaign ?

Literacy has nothing to do with cleanliness Mr. Kalyan. We Indians by habit do not believe in keeping public places clean. We throw litter on the roads, parks and wherever we like. It is too much to expect people to walk up to the dustbins to dispose their waste. You should see a park (I watch it every day and argue with people in Lodi Garden) specially on a holiday. People are picnicking and the lawns get littered with empty water bottles, icecream wrappers, chips packets etc. There has been hardly any impact of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan started by our Prime Minister on October 2 last year except in some Government offices. It can succeed only if some deterrent measures like fine or even jail are used. Actually in India we need a special safai force.

Aarti Khosla


Pensioners' woes

As pensioners we are facing lot of problems. First report to dispensary and after one hour your turn comes to meet the doctor. If you want to consult the penal doctor get the recommendation of the CM after consultation again report the dispensary for approval for treatment. By that time, dispenser snort is closed. It is very horrible. The Health Minister should take note of the problem of pensioners.

SR Dahiya


Plan to widen tax base

There is a plan to widen tax base targeting Tier-II cities but without any roadmap or scheme how to go about? This is just asking field officers to target low income group. There is no plan or CBDT is unable to come out with a innovative plan to widen tax base of those people whose taxable income is more than 1 crore or 50 lakhs. IT department always start the exercise from lowest taxable income group. Though there is pressure to increase tax base due to fall in collection from direct tax category. CBDT is not able to make data base of the people whose taxable income is more than 50 lakhs. It should not be based on returns based. There should be intelligence gathering for preparation of such data base. IRS officers are doing routine things like clerks. Now ITR filing is on line and it can simply be finalised by CPC without involving local field units unless it is required. Let IRS officers be more utilised for some creative work to figure out the numbers of people having taxable income more than 50 lakhs and more than 1 crore whether salaried or self employed/business professionals. This exercise may be completed in time bound manner without harassing small
tax payers who are soft target of IT officials.

N Prakash


PPS Posting

Class I Officers of the rank of PPS/SPPS/PSO in Ministry of External Affairs are saving precious foreign exchange of Government by performing multifarious tasks, encompassing the wide range of Administration, Consular, Protocol, Commercial, Political, Press/Information/Culture etc., apart from Secretarial work. Thus, Minimum Government and Maximum Governance envisioned by Modi Government is implemented in letter and spirit. Such a wide ranging reach in work profile of Officers of Stenographers Cadre has made the life of middle level officers of Clerical Cadre insecure, as, barring a few, mostly this lot is interested only in enjoying the spoils of foreign posting without bringing any value to the system. Further, lately, the divisive activities of clerical cadre of IFS (B), undercutting the Administration in MEA, has the invited the ire of many in the system.

B Sundaram


Power of money

Power of money is being used in IRS transfers?

Akhilesh Srivastava


NDA choice

NDA government may be thinking otherwise as we see their selection of lacklustre officers without career track records to vital ministries.

Bhagwan P Das


Simplification of ITR forms

ITR forms are likely to be simplified as promised by Finance Minister. The details which government is looking like foreign travels and all bank details can be obtained from people having business income more than 25 lakhs as their account is auditable as per 44AB. The same limit can be taken for others also ex- salaried and other categories so no new invention is needed in this respect. These details are not needed from people having taxable income less than 25 lakhs. Let CBDT to work in more scientific way to widen tax base. There should be quality not quantity claiming than more than 4 crores are filing returns but not much tax get collected. There will more expenditure than collection and wastage of time and man power. There will be un-necessary harassment of small tax payers by income tax department as these will not be tax friendly.

N Prakash

System requires efficient top brass

The Indian bureaucracy is running short of committed, honest and transparent officers. The system requires efficient top brass with ability to get the job done, leave alone innovative and aggressive. Similarly, its all about effective programme delivery through commitment and integrity. When the CEO is a go- getter, the subordinates would eventually follow suit.

Sivakumar


Posting of PPS

Ministry of External Affairs is ignoring all established norms. There is no sanctioned posts of PPS, Sr. PPS and PSO in Missions. Only Steno D, PA and PS can be posted abroad. Still there are 171 stenographers of above ranks, majority of whom are posted on Indian Missions. This is clearly wastage of government money. They are doing the work which can be done by a stenographer [UDC rank]. On the top of that they are also given representational grant which is given to IFS[A] and IFS[B] officers to discharge their diplomatic functions effectively. Why Representation Grant is required for a steno? This is not only irregular, but attract audit objections. IFS[B] is being given step-motherly treatment by IFS[A] also. There is statutory rule that IFS[B] officers will be given 3-years ante-dated batch and the rule is in practice since the inception of IFS Rules and also in other services viz. IAS, IPS, IRS everywhere promotes are inducted in their services. It is not understood why a handful of MEA officers are objecting to this rule. Similarly in all over the Government of India qualifying service for the post of US is six years but MEA is taking eight years service as qualifying service. There are hundreds of vacancies available at US rank but MEA is waiting for eight years' service for promotion to US. This is actually maximum government and minimum governance.

S Yadav

Joshi couple case denotes prevailing casualty of system

Two IAS officers, Tinoo Joshi and Arvind Joshi, were dismissed from service only a few months before their retirement in 2014, four years after an income-tax search on their house led to the detection of disproportionate assets worth Rs 350 crore and recovery of Rs Three crores in cash. This month, one of them--- Tinoo Joshi --- surrendered before a court in Bhopal after evading arrest for over four months. The husband is reportedly absconding. Both figure in a disproportionate assets case.
One of them had served as a Joint Secretary in Ministry of Defence while the other served as the Secretary General of Federation of Indian Export Organisation (FIEO). In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Joshi couple held some important posts in the Centre. While Tinoo Joshi served in PMO, Arvind Joshi served in Ministry of Railways and in the Ministry of Coal.
The case throws up a number of important issues relating to the state of affairs in bureaucracy. The couple surely could not have accumulated overnight the amount of wealth as it reportedly did. That it took the Income Tax Department and not the Administrative Department and not even the state Vigilance or the CBI to keep the couple under scanner speaks of the prevailing casualty of the system over the activities of the officers. Central postings, even in key assignments, seem to have been made without desirable check on the antecedents of the officials. One of them even had a stint in the Ministry of Defence and the other in the PMO.

It cannot be said that the case of the couple was an exception or theirs was the rarest of rare cases. There is a widespread feeling that with wealth, officials are moving up in status and respect and the ones with integrity are acquiring a bechaaradisposition. Increasing public perception is that the bechaaras are edged out in selection for crucial assignments. ---- CORRUPTION

PK Mishra former Secretary, Coal


Rumours about Delhi govt

Are rumors that many high level officials are unhappy with the way things are being conducted in Delhi govt true? What exactly are the problems can anyone tell? Secondly, is it true that the MLAs of the party in power are causing interference in the smooth working? If so, how?

N Ramu


News credibility

Who will decide that an IAS has defeated an IRS? Is it a battle of IAS & IRS? Such an opinion will decrease the credibility of your news base. Really !

A visitor

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