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Next Tamil Nadu Chief Minister !

Grapewine has it that in the event of Supreme Court verdict going against her in the DA case, Ms Jayalalitha's choice for the post of Chief Minster seems to have narrowed down to R. Natraj, IPS, former DGP, who is being fielded from Mylapore Assembly Constituency. After getting fed up Sasikala and O Panneerselvam (both of whom belong to Mukkulathur community), Ms Jayalalitha now prefers a Brahmin to occupy the post of Chief Minister.
During the last five years, a Deputy Collector promoted Brahmin K N Venkataramanan, IAS (Retired), has been her most trusted Private Secretary who has been responsible for all major decisions. It is quite likely that the two Brahmins will run the show for the next couple of years in Tamil Nadu as AIADMK's return to power is a foregone conclusion. Both are known for their integrity and honesty and there has been no major scandal during the last five years.


BUREAUCRACY

Ms Meeran C Borwankar appointed as DG, BPR&D
Ms Meeran C Borwankar, who is presently in the cadre, has been appointed as Director General, BPR&D (Bureau of Police Research & Development). She is a 1981 batch IPS officer of Maharashtra cadre.
(We said this on March 20, 2016)

Justice Jha and N C Padhi to inquire Haryana disturbances
The Haryana Governor has under the Commission of Enquiry consisting of Justice S N Jha (Retd) as Chairman and Former Secretary Security N C Padhi IPS (Retd) 1968 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre as Member to inquire into the recent disturnbances in Haryana in the first half of February.

1985 batch IAS officers get apex-scale in UT
Parimal Rai and Anindo Majumdar both of 1985 batch UT cadre have been given apex scale .M M Kutty on central deputation got proforma promotion.

Dr S Swarna empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
Dr S Swarna has been empanelled for holding Joint Secretary level posts in Government of India. Dr Swarna is a 1997 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Bipul Pathak empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
Bipul Pathak has been empanelled for holding Joint Secretary level posts in Government of India. He is a 1992 batch IAS officer of Jammu & Kashmir cadre.

Sushil Pal appointed as PS to Hansraj

Sushil Pal has been apointed as Private Secretary to Hansraj Gangaram Ahir, Minister of State for Chemicals & Fertilizers. He is a 1999 batch ICAS officer.

Peeyush Agarwal continues as Member Technology, Telecom Commission
Peeyush Agarwal will continue holding an additional charge of Member Technology in the Telecom Commission till the appointment of a regular incumbent.

Yellapantula Mallikarjun appointed as OSD to Naidu
Yellapantula Mallikarjun has been appointed as Officer on Special Duty to M Venkaiah Naidu, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs. He is a private person.

Kapur is new Member Electrical, Railway Board
Ashwani Kumar Kapur has taken over charge of Member Electrical , Railway Board . He is an IRSEE cadre 1978 batch officer.

Meghalaya Govt refuses inter cadre deputation of Dr Pooja Pandey
The Government of Meghalaya has refused the inter cadre deputation proposal of Dr Pooja Pandey from Assam-Meghalaya to Uttar Pradesh, due to shortage of the officers. She is a 2008 batch IAS officer.

Tejinder Singh is also APCCF, Regional Office, Ranchi
Tejinder Singh has been given additional charge of Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (APCCF), Regional Office, Ranchi. He is a 1985 batch IFS Officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre.

Central deputation tenure of Subash Chandra as Joint Secretary Mines restricted
The central deputation tenure of Subhash Chandra as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Mines has been restricted upto March 16, 2016 instead of five years. He is a 1988 batch IFS officer of UT cadre.

Bharti to be relieved on Monday
Chandrakar Bharti is being relieved from Pondicherry Government on Monday.1996 batch IAS officer Bharti will join the Delhi Government.

Angu Jockey relieved to join Arunachal Pradesh Government
2002 batch UT cadre IAS officer Angu Jockey has been relieved by the Delhi Government to join the Arunachal Pradesh Government.

Tenure of Sanjay Lohiya as Joint Secretary, Agriculture extended
The central deputation tenure of Sanjay Lohiya as Joint Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Cooperative & Farmers Welfare has been extended for a period of three months beyond July 19, 2016. He is a 1994 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

Why promotion of Railway PROs withheld ?
Why is the promotion of Public Relations Officers (PROs) of Indian Railways to the Grade-A Status is being withheld despite their 19 years of service?

Vinod Singh Chauhan deputed as GM, CRIS
Vinod Singh Chauhan presently in Northern Railway has been deputed to Centre for Railway Information System (CRIS) as Manager (Electrical Project) at New Delhi. He is an IRSEE officer.

16 officers promoted to Foreign Trade Development officer grade
As many as 16 officers have been promoted to the post of Foreign Trade Development Officer. They are: Biswanath Kabiraj, Mrs Shibani Banerjee, Jiban Krishna Biswas, Anil Kumar Brahma, N Krishnamurthy, P S Dileepkumar, R Rafiq Ahmed, P S B Satry, G V Kolekar Mrs G Rani Bai, Mrs L S Karpe, Anil Sawhney, Mrs V Renuka, N L Sikriwal, Bansi Lal and Sukumar Roy.

Basanth Kumar appointed as Joint Secretary to Governor
P Basanth Kumar has been appointed as Joint Secretary to Governor of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. He is a 2007 batch IAS officer of AP cadre.

20 IRS-IT officers promoted to JCIT grade
As many as 20 officers belonging to Indian Revenue Service of Income Tax cadre have been promoted to the grade of Joint Commissioner of Income Tax. The officers are: Ajay Kumar Mishra, S Seeni, Virender Kumar, Sanjay Mallick, Devabratta Baidya, S K Mitra, D V Gohil, Abhijit Dutta, Abhijit Ghosh, K S Deshpande, A Venu Gopal, T A Khan, P Nagendra Kumar, R K Agarwal, Shinde Sudhakar Namdeo, P V Subba Raju, Sanjay Kumar Yadav, Satish Kumar Singh N, sumathy Venkataraman and Kanv Bali.

Air Marshal Shera joins as SMSO, Maintenance Command, Nagpur
Air Marshal RKS Shera AVSM VSM has taken over the charge as Senior Maintenance Staff Officer at HQ Maintenance Command, Nagpur. Air Marshal Shera was commissioned in Aeronautical Engineering Electronics Branch of Indian Air Force on January 5, 1981.

Kulshrestha is IG, CRPF
After promotion Anupama Kulshrestha has joined as IG, Provisioning at CRPF hqs. She is a 1995 batch UP cadre IPS officer.

Singh is now IG Intelligence in CRPF
P K Singh has been posted as IG Intelligence, CRPF. He is a cadre officer.

Latkar joins IG Jharkhand Sector CRPF
Sanjay Latkar will be new IG, CRPF, Jharkhand Sector, Ranchi. He is a Jharkhand cadre 1995 IPS officer.

Raj Kumar is IG, CRPF Western Sector
Raj Kumar, a UP cadre 1995 batch IPS officer has been appointed as IG,CRPF Western sector, Mumbai.

Anand is now IG (Works), CRPF
Piyush Anand has been appointed as IG, works CRPF hqs. He is an IPS officer of UP cadre who belongs to 1991 batch.

Madras High Court gets Judges
V Bharathidasan, D Krishnakumar, S S Sundar, M V Muralidaran, Ponnusamy Kalaiyarasan and B Gokuldas, have been appointed as Judges of the Madras High Court.

Rajasthan High Court gets Additional Judges
Ganga Ram Moolchandani, Deepak Maheshwari, Vijay Kumar Vyas, Kailash Chandra Sharma, Goverdhan Bardhar, Pankaj Bhandari, and Dinesh Chandra Somani have been appointed as Additional Judges of the Rajasthan High Court.

IPS postings in Odisha
1989 batch IPS officer B Radhika has been appointed ADG State Armed Force.1998 batch IPS officer Rajesh Kumar has been made Director SCRB.

Vinay Kumar promoted to DGP grade in Bihar
Vinay Kumar has been promoted to the grade of Director General of Police (DGP) in Bihar. He is a 1991 batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre.

Mrs Prita Verma promoted to DGP grade in Bihar
Mrs Prita Verma has been promoted to the grade of Director General of Police (DGP) in Bihar. She is a 1991 batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre.


Major reshuffle of IPS officers in Bihar

More than two dozen IPS officers have been transferred and posted to different places in Bihar. Accordingly, Kumar Rajesh Chandra has been appointed as ADGP, Modernization while Vinay Kumar was made ADG, CID and Mrs Prita Verma is ADG, Weaker Section with aditional charge of Crimbe Record Bureau. Similarly, Kundan Krishnan has been appointed as IG, Campaign, Bihar with additional charge of Anti-Terrorism Squad; Sushil Mansingh Khopade as IG, Bhagapur; Dr Amit Kumar Jain as IG, Modernisation; Nayyar Hasnain Khan as IG Patna; Sunil Kumar as IG, Muzaffarpur; Parsas Nath as IG, PHQ and Legal Affairs with additional charge of IG, Budget, Appeal and Welfare; Bachchu Singh Meena as IG, Security Special Branch; Avadesh Kumar Sharma as IG, Bihar Human Rights Commission; Umashankar Sudhanshu as IG, Darbhanga; Sukan Paswan as DIG, Darbhanga; Vinod Kumar as DIG, Security, Patna; Suresh Prasad Chaudhary as SP, Vigilance Investigation Bureau; Kshatranil Singh as SP, Bhojpur; Nawal Kishor Singh as SP, Samastipur; Jitendra Mishra as SP, Rail; Prakash Nath Mishra as SP, Shivhar; Rajiv Ranjan as Sp, Banka; Umashankar Prasad as SP, Rail, Katihar; Ranjit Kumar Mishra as SP, Begusrai; Vivek Kumar as Senior SP, Muzaffarpur with additional charge of Commandant, Bihar Armed Police-6, Muzaffarpur; Manoj Kumar as Senior SP, Bhagalpur; Navin Chandra as Commandant, Bihar Armed Police-10 with additional charge of Bihar Armed Police-14, Patna; Deepak Varnwal was given an additional charge of Commandnat, Bihar Armed Police-1; Rajiv Mishra as SP, Kishanganj; Harkishor Rai as ADC to Governor; Satya Prakash as CSP, West, Patna; Mrs Swapna Meshram G as SP, Rail Jamalpur; Avakash Kumar as CSP, Gaya with additional charge of Commandant, Bihar Armed Police-3, Bodh Gaya; Mrs Nitasha Gudia as Commandant, Bihar Armed Police-13, Darbhanga and Ravi Ranjan Kumar was made SP, Gopalganj.

10 IAS officers transferred in Bihar
As many as 10 officers belonging to Indian Administrative Services (IAS) have been transferred and posted at different places in Bihar. Accordingly, Balamurugan D has been posted as Chief Executive Officer, Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society (Jeevika) with additional charge of Upper Secretary, Department of Rural Development while Sunil Kumar was made Collector, Lakhisarai with additional charge of Bandobast Officer, Lakhisarai and Jai Singh was appointed as Collector, Khagaria with additional charge of Bandobast Officer, Khagaria. Similarly, Dinesh Kumar was appointed as Collector, Sheikhpura with additional charge of Bandobast Officer, Sheikhpura; Amrendra Prasad Singh as Managing Director, Bihar Urban Basic Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited, Patna with additional charge of Managing Director, Bihar State Housing Board; Uday Kumar Singh as Collector, Munger; Saket Kumar as Director, Handicrafts and Sericulture Directorate with additional charge of Joint Secretary, Industries; Chandrashekhar Singh as Collector, Darbhanga; Himanshu Kumar Rai as Joint secretary, Department of Health with additional charge of Upper Additional Director, State Health Committee and Shrishat Kapil Ashok was posted as Chief Executive Officer, Municipal Corporation, Patna.

IIS officer Vekateshwar appointed Commissioner PR, AP
S. Venkteshwar, a SAG level Indian Information Service ( IIS) officer is going on deputation to Andhra Pradesh for two years. He has been posted as Commissioner, Information and PR, AP. Presently he is posted as ADG PIB, Bengaluru.


CORPORATE

First meeting of BBB held
First meeting of the newly constituted Banks Board Bureau (BBB), headed by former CAG Vinod Rai was held in Mumbai on Friday .
Vachhrajani appointed Nominee Director of GIPCL
Gujarat Industries Power Company Limited has appointed V V Vachhrajani as Nominee Director on the Board of Directors of the company.

Kaura appointed Director (Finance) of Integrated Capital Services Ltd
Integrated Capital Services Ltd has appointed Ram Lubhaya Kaura as Director (Finance) of the company

Kasmalkar resigns as Director of SQS India BFSI Limited
Gireendra Kasmalkar has resigned as a Director of SQS India BFSI Limited

Arora appointed Addl. Director of Ritesh International Ltd
Ritesh International Ltd has appointed Rijul Arora as an Additional Director of the Company


FORUM

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Big Bank defaulters care two hoots

Recently Arun Jaitley and Raghuram Rajan have talked about tough times ahead for loan defaulters. Perhaps they are not aware the times for the small loan seekers and defaulters have always been tough. The flak received by the government from the public at large in the recent Mallya case has prompted the Finance minister Jaitley to coin some terms to make these into sweet slogans for hoodwinking the gullible public. Otherwise, the big business houses, who have financed the political parties and leaders to win elections with the same borrowed money from the banks, and who have cultivated friendship with the ministers and Bankers, and have on their boards big political guns, know better about these imbecile and beguiling threats. The system as at present is meant to cheat the banks and will continue as such till the political system becomes moral and ethical.
Surinderjit Singh Sandhu, Amritsar

DATE WITH RTI

Copies of documents held after the completion of retention period

The appellant filed the RTI application seeking attested copies of external examination question papers of B. Arch. for a certain period, some answer sheets etc. The Respondent informed that according to rules of the University, the students are supposed to apply for copies of answer sheets, within 15 days from the date of declaration of the result. As per the University's retention policy, answer sheets are retained for three months, from the date of declaration of result. But, if the student fails to apply within the prescribed period of 15 days, the answer sheets cannot be given to the student, though the same are held by the public authority upto three months. The CIC ruled that the above retention policy of the University is not a correct practice. If they have retained the answer sheets, even after the prescribed retention period for any reason, they cannot deny if it is not destroyed as on the date of RTI application

Comments

No public authority can impose additional restrictions over and above those prescribed under Section 8 of the RTI Act to deny any information to the applicant. A Public Authority is expected to make its own record retention policy and provide information to any RTI applicant as per the same as long as the records are not weeded out. If the records have been retained even after the prescribed retention period, copies of the same cannot be denied if it is not destroyed as on the date of RTI application. Further, a Public Authority is required to hold the records, if an RTI application is pending before the authorities.

Citation: Swati Babber v. Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University, GNCTD in Case No.CIC/SA/A/2015/001407

Weekly article by Dr. (Mrs.) Anuradha Verma (dranuradhaverma@yahoo.co.in), RTI Consultant to IIM, Indore. Her other articles can be read at http://www.rtifoundationofindia.com/

(dranuradhaverma@yahoo.co.in), RTI Consultant to IIM, Indore and Co-author of the books: RIGHT TO INFORMATION - LAW AND PRACTICE and PIO's Guide to RTI by Taxmann. (The views are Personal)

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