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This is History (244)
Napoleon's life story was full of intense activity and a hunger for more and more power.

Even Indira Gandhi appointed Secretaries from outside ?
Narendra Modi is not the first PM who is bringing Secretaries from outside the Government. Even late Indira Gandhi appointed six Secretaries in her Government from outside. They were Wahdud Khan (Secretary - Steel), Lavraj Kumar (Secretary - Petroleum), D V Kapoor (Secretary - Power), Mohammad Fazal (Secretary - Industrial Development), Mantosh Sondhi (Secretary - Heavy Industries ) and P K Basu (Secretary - Mines) .

First time operating profit in Air India
Credit must go to Modi Government. For the first time Air India will see operating profit after a very long period. The Air India has been running in heavy losses for the last several years.

BUREAUCRACY

Will Adhia return to Gujarat as Chief Secretary ?
There are strong rumours that in case Gujarat Chief Secretary G R Aloria doesn't gets extension, Dr Hasmukh Adhia may return to the state to succeed him. Both are 1981 batch IAS officers of Gujarat cadre. Presently Dr Adhia is Secretary Revenue in the Government of India. Sources close to Adhia however, said that this is unlikely since he is a powerful contender for the post of Cabinet Secretary in the near future.

Who will head NIIF ?
Who will head the National Infrastructure Investment Fund (NIIF) ? The Government has set up a search cum selection committee . Selection is expected to be made in the last week of this month.

Elevation of High Court CJs put on hold ?
According to insiders elevation of a couple of Chief Justice of High Court to the Supreme Court has been put on hold till June.

Large scale transfers in ED
67 Astt. Enforcement Officers (AEO) have been promoted and transferred to various regions. It is said most of the AEOs have been transferred under the new transfer policy. If sources are to be believed more transfers will follow under the new transfer policy.

Bhargava empanelled in GoI
S K Bhargava has been empanelled to the rank of Additional Secretary equivalent in the Government of India. He is 1984 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre.

Amita Prasad empanelled in GoI
Amita Prasad has been empanelled to the rank of Additional Secretary equivalent in the Government of India. Prasad is 1984 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Ajaya Kallam empanelled in GoI
Ajaya Kallam has been empanelled to the rank of Additional Secretary equivalent in the Government of India. He is 1983 batch IAS officer of AP cadre.

Prasad empanelled in GoI
Shekhar Prasad has been empanelled to the rank of Additional Secretary equivalent in the Government of India. He is 1983 batch IAS officer of Telengana cadre.

Biresh Kumar empanelled in GoI
Biresh Kumar has been empanelled to the rank of Additional Secretary equivalent in the Government of India. He is 1983 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.

14 short-listed for CMD Oil India
Altogether 14 candidates have been short-listed for the post of CMD Oil India. Search-cum-Selection Committee is expected to meet by this month end to select candidate.


Three CMD designated persons facing the axe
Three persons, who were selected for the posts of Chairman-cum-Managing Director in various Public Sector Undertakings, are facing the axe to their panels.

Syed Muhammad Ashraf quits IRS-IT
Syed Muhammad Ashraf presently CCIT-3, Kolkata, has resigned from the Indian Revenue Service of Income Tax cadre upon his selection as Member of Income Tax Settlement Commission, Kolkata.

AIS officers can serve maximum nine years in North East cadres
It is proposed that the maximum term of deputation including home deputation will be nine years instead of five years subject to availability of deficit in the cadre. The inter cadre deputation may be availed in two or more spells in North East cadres.

CSS officers get postings in GoI
Three officers of Central Secretariat Service (CSS) have been given postings in Government of India. Accordingly, T Nandan Kumar has been appointed as Under Secretary, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship while Satyawan was posted to Woman & Child Development in the same capacity and Pramod Kumar Jaiswal is Under Secretary, Personnel & Training.

Arvind Modi also looks after as OSD, TPRU
Arvind Modi, Chief Commissioner of Income Tax-9, Delhi, will also function as OSD and Head, TPRU. He is an IRS-IT officer.

Choudhary is new Principal Secretary to J & K CM
Navin Kumar Choudhary has been appointed new Principal Secretary to J & K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti. He is 1994 batch IAS officer.

Suresh Kumar deputed as PS to Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti
Suresh Kumar has been appointed as Private Secretary, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Minister of State for Food Processing Industries at Deputy Secretary level. He is a CSS officer.

CRPF IG transferred from Mumbai
Sanjay Singh has been transferred from western sector Mumbai to SDG, NE office, CRPF, Guwahati. He is a cadre officer.

Will BSF cadre review get approval ?
Will pending cadre review proposal of BSF be cleared by the govt? The proposal contain 300 2ICs posts, 100 Commanders, more than 30 DIGs and 5 IGs posts. It is said that the proposal is pending before the MHA. When it will be through no body has information.

T T S Kripavenkatesan is new Member of OFB
T T S Kripavenkatesan has joined as Member of the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB). He joined IOFS on 10-10-1981

Subhash Tripathi - highly experienced IPS officer
Subhash Tripathi, retired 1963 batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh, is believed to be one of the highest experienced IPS officer who has worked in a variety of organizations on different positions. These include SP in CBI, Dy. Commandant in J&K, DG in Madhya Pradesh, DG in Nagaland, Commissioner (Security) in Civil Aviation Bureau, DG - Civil Defence, Secretary (Security) in GoI besides a various senior positions in IB, RPF, BSF and RAW.

V S Kaumudi likely to join central deputation at IG level
V S Kaumudi is expected to join central deputation at Inspector General (IG) level post. He is a 1986 batch IPS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

10 posts of Judges lying vacant in Gauhati High Court
As many as 10 posts of Judges have been lying vacant in Gauhati High Court against the approved strength of 24. Total posts of 11 permanent Judges against the approved strength of 18 are vacant.

Ms Madhumita Mondal appointed as Sr Deputy Accountant General, Mumbai
Ms Madhumita Mondal has been posted as Senior Deputy Accountant General (Admn) in the office of Principal Accountant General (Audit)-I, Maharashtra, Mumbai.

Navdeep Singh Virk empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
Navdeep Singh Virk has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary in Government of India. He is a 1994 batch IPS officer of Haryana cadre.

Puneet Agarwal empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
Puneet Agarwal has been empanelled for the Joint Secretary level posts in Government of India. He is a 1998 batch IAS officer of MT cadre.

Tenure of Ms Radha Chauhan as President & CEO, Ne-GD extended
The central deputation tenure of Ms S Radha Chauhan as President & CEO at JS level in National e-Governance Division (Ne-GD). She is a 1988 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.

Dr Ajay Tyagi appointed as Deputy Financial Adviser, BSF, Chandigarh
Dr Ajay Tyagi has been appointed as Deputy Financial Adviser at Director level in the Border Security Force, Chandigarh. He is a 1991 batch IOFS officer.

Ms Devaraj appointed as Director, MHA
Ms Rajalakshmi Devaraj has been appointed as Director in the Ministry of Home Affairs in the Government of India. She is a 1998 batch IDAS officer.

Anurag Sahai Bhatnagar appointed as Deputy Financial Adviser, BSF
Anurag Sahai Bhatnagar has been appointed as Deputy Financial Adviser at Director level in the Border Security Force, Kolkata. He is a 1990 batch IOFS officer.

Upadhyay is new IG Jammu Frontier BSF
Dinesh Kumar Upadhyay has taken over as new IG Jammu Frontier of the Border Security Force (BSF).

Major reshuffle of IAS officers in J&K
As many as 20 IAS officers have been transferred and posted to different places in Jammu & Kashmir cadre. Accordingly, Sundeep Kumar Nayak has been appointed as Principal Secretary, Agriculture Production while Bipul Pathak was made Chairman, J&K Special Tribunal and Ashok Kumar Parmar is Commissioner, Information Technology. Similarly, Navin kumar Choudhary has been appointed as Principal Secretary to Chief Minister with additional charge of Finance; Hirdesh Kumar as Commissioner, Housing & Uban Development; Ms Sarita Chauhan as Commissioner, Social Welfare; Ms Vineeta Gupta as Commissioner, Commercial Taxes; Sanjeev Verma as Secretary, PHE and Irrigation & Food Control; Saurabh Bhagat as Secretary, Tribal Affairs; Hemant Kumar Sharma as Secretary, Higher Education; Hilal Ahmad Parray as Managing Director, Jammu & Kashmir Housing Board; Ms Dilshad Khan as Secretry, Culture; Shafiq Ahmed Raina as Secretary, Consumer Affairs & Public Distribution; Sajjad Ahmad Khan as Commissioner of Inquiries; ms Tasneem Maajid as Commissioner for persons with Disablities; Farooq Ahmad Shah will hold additional charge of Administrative Secretary, Tourism; Ms Sushma Chauhan as Additoinal Secretary in the Chief Minister's Secretariat; Syed Abid Rasheed Shah as Deputy Commissioner, Anantnag; Ravinder Kumar as Deputy Commissioner, Reasi and Mohammad Aijaz was posted as Deputy Commissioner, Ramban.

HAL conferred with 'SCOPE Excellence Award'
HAL has been conferred with 'SCOPE Excellence Award' for outstanding contribution to the Public Sector Management. Pranab Mukherjee, President of India, presented the prestigious award to T Suvarna Raju, CMD, HAL on Public Sector Day celebrations held at Delhi yesterday. On receiving the award, Raju said, "Bestowal of SCOPE Excellence Award validates the work we are doing at HAL with passion. The award further motivates us to excel and deliver on our promises". 'Focus on execution', is one single factor, which has yielded excellent returns both in terms of boosting the profitability and also strengthening the brand image of HAL, CMD added. The coveted award was presented to HAL under institutional category for the year 2011-12. Significantly, HAL's turnover has surged to Rs 16524 crores for the financial year 2015-16 with PBT standing at Rs 3210 crores for the year. HAL made a contribution of Rs 4284 crores to the government as buyback of 25 percent of the share capital and free reserves apart from paying a dividend of Rs 510 crores for the FY 2015-16. Anant G. Geete, Minister for Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises, G M Siddeshwara, Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, A Luikham, Secretary DPE, R G Rajan, Chairman SCOPE and CMD RCFL were present on the occasion.

NSPCL receives SCOPE Excellence Awards (UPDATED)
NSPCL, a joint venture of NTPC Ltd. & SAIL has won the Commendation Certificate “SCOPE Award for Excellence and Outstanding Contribution to the Public Sector Management- Institutional Category III (Other Profit Making PSEs)” 2013-14. NSPCL has also been awarded Gold Trophy & a Citation in Institutional Category III (Other Profit Making PSEs) for the year 2011-12. K K Sharma, Chairman, NSPCL and Director (Operations), NTPC and Manash Sarkar, CEO NSPCL received the awards from President of India on April 11, 2016 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi These awards aim at promoting excellence, all round growth and development in organizations while recognizing outstanding contributions made by enterprises. Areas like Financial Performance, Corporate Strategy and Governance, HRM, CSR, Customers & Operations are evaluated based on a stringent criteria and a distinguished panel of eminent persons for the selection of this award.

NPCI presents Unified Payments Interface (UPI) system (UPDATED)
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the umbrella organisation for all retail payments system in the country launched next generation online payments solution - Unified Payments Interface (UPI) which will leverage trends such as increasing smartphone adoption and deeper penetration of mobile data. UPI will empower users to perform instant push and pull transactions seamlessly which will transform the way people make payments today. Dr. Raghuram Rajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) launched UPI along with Nandan Nilekani, Advisor to NPCI, Balachandran, Chairman, A P Hota, MD & CEO and Dilip Asbe, COO, NPCI in Mumbai. "Today a few banks have gone live with UPI out of 29 banks that had concurred to provide UPI service to their customers. We are confident that several banks will join UPI this year and the number will multiply further. Our focus is in line with RBI's vision of migrating towards a 'less-cash' and more digital society. NPCI has always been at the forefront to innovate and introduce new products and services at par with global standards," said A P Hota, MD & CEO, NPCI. Nandan Nilekani, Advisor to NPCI explained a few UPI use cases and addressed the forum to showcase 'How UPI shall change the landscape of Payments in the country'. At the event, winners of UPI Hackathon were also felicitated. It was a platform provided for start-up/developer community to accelerate innovation in payments arena in association with Indian Software Product Industry Round Table (iSPIRT). Vsoft Nerds, CPay, Fundu, Ultra Cash, Enablers emerged as top five winners of UPI Hackathon.

Muktesh Chander takes charge as DGP, Goa (UPDATED)
Dr. Muktash Chander has taken over as DGP , Goa. He is a 1988 batch AGMUT cadre IPS officer. He has been transferred from Delhi.

BEML gets SCOPE Award (UPDATED)
BEML LIMITED, a public sector undertaking under the Ministry of Defence, has won the “SCOPE Award for Excellence and Outstand Contribution to the Public Sector Management – Special Institutional Category (Turnaround)” for the year 2013-14. At a function held today at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi, Pranab Mukherjee, President of India has presented the prestigious award and P Dwarakanath, CMD, BEML received the award on behalf of the Company. SCOPE Excellence Awards have been instituted by the Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE) and conceptualized to recognize the contribution of Public Enterprises. Selection of these prestigious awards have been made on stringent criteria devised/evaluated by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Pvt. Ltd., and a distinguished panel of Jury comprising Justice RC Lahoti, former Chief Justice of India, Moosa Raza, former Secretary to the Government of India, C Phunsog, former Chairman, PESB and other eminent Management Consultants and former Chairman of various PSUs. BEML, as a Public Sector, has been contributing in building the Nation by manufacturing and supplying equipment to the Defence & Aerospace, Mining & Construction and Rail & Metro sectors since over 50 years.

Manoj Kumar Tripathi deputed as PS to Sudarshan Bhagat (UPDATED)
Manoj Kumar Tripathi, who is presently on compulsory wait in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA), has been appointed as Private Secretary to Sudarshan Bhagat, Minister of State for Rural Development for his balance period of five years central deputation. He is a 2000 batch IFS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Interviews for CMDs of three Insurance companies postponed (UPDATED)
Interviews for CMDs of three Insurance companies viz. viz Agriculture Insurance Company, Oriental Insurance Co. ltd. and United India Insurance Co. that were to be conducted on April 12 and April 13 have been postponed. While the post of CMD in Agriculture Insurance Company is already lying vacant, in Oriental Insurance Co. ltd. it will be falling vacant in June and and in United India Insurance Co. in May.

Lokesh M goes on inter cadre deputation to Karnataka (UPDATED)
An inter cadre deputation of Lokesh M from Uttar Pradesh to Karnataka cadre for a period of three years has been approved by the Government of India. He is a 2005 batch IAS officer of UP cadre.

Anoop Kumar Agrawal appointed as MD, PRCL (UPDATED)
Anoop Kumar Agrawal has been appointed as Managing Director, Indian Port Rail Corporation Limited (IPRCL) on immediate absorption basis. He is an IRSE officer.

E A Subramanian appointed as Director, (T&O), HLL Lifecare Ltd (UPDATED)
E A Subramanian, Managing Director, Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Limited, has been appointed as Director (Technical & Operations) HLL Lifecare Limited.

Manohar Kumar appointed as Director (Engg), NPCC (UPDATED)
Manohar Kumar, GGM, (Engineering), NPCC, has been appointed as Director (Engineering), National Projects Construction Corporation (NPCC) Limited.

P K Mukhopadhyay is also Member (Fin), DVC (UPDATED)
P K Mukhopadhyay, Member Secretary, has been assigned an additional charge of Member (Finance), Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) till October 27, 2016.

U P Pani gets charge of Director (Commercial), NTPCC (UPDATED)
U P Pani, Director (HR), NTPC Limited, has been assigned an additional charge of Director (Commercial), National Thermal Power Corporation Limited till June 1, 2016.

Pradeep Kumar holds charge of Member Electrical, Railway Board (UPDATED)
Pradeep Kumar, Member Staff, has been assigned an additional charge of Member Electrical, Railway Board till A K Kapoor assumed the charge.

Rajeev Gupta appointed as DG, NAIR (UPDATED)
Rajeev Gupta has been appointed as Director General, National Academy of Indian Railways (NAIR). He is an IRSME officer.

P K Gupta continues as CMD, ITI till May (UPDATED)
P K Gupta, Director Marketing, has been further assigned an additional charge of CMD, Indian Telephone Industries (ITI) with effect from May 1, 2016.

Vinay Kumar Singh appointed as MD, NCRTC (UPDATED)
Vinay Kumar Singh has been appointed as Managing Director, National Capital Region Transport Corporation Limited (NCRTC) on immediate absorption basis.

Deepak Kumar appointed as CVO, HEC (UPDATED)
Deepak Kumar has been appointed as Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) in Heavy Engineering Corporation Limited (HEC), Ranchi. He is a 1993 batch IPS officer of J&K cadre.

Deepak Kashyap appointed as CVO, BSNL (UPDATED)
Deepak Kashyap has been appointed as Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) in Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL). He is 1985 batch IRTS officer.

Ms Sushma Singh appointed as CVO, NIFT (UPDATED)
Ms Sushma Singh has been appointed as Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) in National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Delhi. He is a 1990 batch IRS-IT officer.

Central deputation of Mrs Soma Roy Burman curtailed (UPDATED)
The central deputation tenure of Mrs Soma Roy Burman as Financial Adviser, NATGRID, has been curtailed. She is a 1986 batch ICAS officer.

Manoj Kumar appointed as CVO, DDA (UPDATED)
Manoj Kumar has been appointed as Chief Vigilance Officer in Delhi Development Authority (DDA) under the Ministry of Urban Development. He is a 1988 batch IAS officer of HP cadre.

CORPORATE

Misra ceases to be Part-time Non Official Director of Union Bank of India
Shri Kant Misra has ceased to be Part-time Non Official Director of Union Bank of India.

Verma appointed Non Exec. Independent Director of Hilton Metal Forging Ltd
Hilton Metal Forging Limited has appointed Rajiv Sushil Verma as Non Executive Independent Director of the company.

Ms Sridhar appointed Head of Corporate Communications of Turner India?
Ms Deepa Sridhar has been appointed as Head of Turner Corporate Communications of Turner India.

Magunta resigns as Independent Director of MCFL
Srinivasulu Reddy Magunta has resigned as Independent Director of Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers Limited.

Ms Shankar appointed Independent Non Exec. Director of Hexaware Technologies Ltd
Hexaware Technologies Limited has appointed Ms Meera Shankar as Independent Non Executive Director of the company.

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"PoK's re-unification with Mother India"

Pak's JIT post- India visit has the audacity of accusing India of staging the Pathankot attack. China invoked Veto to block banning of Masood Azhar as a global terrorist. Ruling out reciprocity, Pakistan's high commissioner has unilaterally declared suspension of peace talks with India. NIT, Srinagar is on boil. The scenario should compel India to re-visit its Pak policy.
Pakistan in its magnificent obsession with K- word , has a "Ministry for Kashmir affairs ".India responds by creating a composite division called : "PAI division "[Pakistan, Afghanistan & Iran) to handle three neighbours. Skewed priorities are out of sync with ground realities. POK is the hub of terror infra-structure from where terrorists sneak into J&K 24x7. India's foreign policy should be Kashmir-centric or, better still, PoK-centric due to following reasons.
( i) In order to control simmering discontentment in PoK, Pakistan has raised the constitutional status of PoK (Gilgit-Baltistan) as its fifth province (a part gifted to China).
(ii) Replace PAI division by "PoK Division" , will send strong signals to Pakistan about our shifting focus implying that the LOC is no longer considered sacrosanct by India in the changed security scenario ?
( iii) Let us recall that 24 seats had been kept in vacant by India in J&K Assembly to represent people of PoK after its liberation from Pakistan and merger with J&K. There is a need to take pro-active steps by encashing on PoK internal crisis and implement India's commitment to expanding J&K assembly. The tortured people of PoK support merger with India.
( iv) India should also consider reserving five or six vacancies to represent people of free PoK in Indian Parliament. This could be possible by adding a new Article, 370-A into the Constitution for "Providing additional five seats in the House of the People (Lok Sabha ) for the territory of State of Jammu and Kashmir partially under illegal occupation of Pakistan and keep these vacant until the occupied territory is reunited with its mother State of Jammu and Kashmir".
An aggressive foreign policy and use of military power would act as a bulwark against China-Pakistan's unholy alliance. No use remaining a docile neighbour and continue to suffer stoically at the hands of a rogue neighbour.

A K Saxena (A retd civil servant)

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